Student Research Mentoring




I have served as a research mentor to several talented undergraduate and graduate students, as summarized here. At present, I have two graduate student interns collaborating with me over the summer. If you are an undergraduate or graduate student interested in observational studies of circumstellar disks, feel free to contact me regarding available research opportunities.

1. Adam Kowalski

Adam, a graduate student at the University of Washington's Astronomy Dept, has been working on the first science data obtained with the new coronagraphic imaging polarimetry mode of UKIRT's UIST. I also had the good fortune of co-mentoring Adam for a summer when he was a University of Chicago undergraduate student, via the auspices of the U. Toledo Physics and Astronomy REU program, resulting in this nice ApJL paper on mappng structure in main sequence circumstellar disks.



Graduate student intern Adam Kowalski demonstrating an e-beam basis vector during a UKIRT observing run Graduate student intern Adam Kowalski demonstrating an o-beam basis vector during a UKIRT observing run
Poised to be a great polarimetrist?; Adam clearly trying to demonstrate the
e- (left picture) and o- (right picture) basis vectors which comprise polarized
light during our UKIRT observing run.



2. Brad Rush

Brad, a graduate student at the University of Toledo Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been analyzing HST ACS WFC images of young (3-5 Myr) stellar associations in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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