2021 REU Results

UW–Madison Astrophysics REU Program Summer 2021

Savannah Woods (University of Memphis)
Star formation in and the environment around UM 461
Mentor: Ralf Kotulla

Esteban Ramirez (University of Texas San Antonio)
Using computer simulation data to analyze synchrotron emission from jets powered by supermassive black holes
Mentor: Sebastian Heinz

Sarra Hayoune (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Age-Dating Active Galactic Nuclei via Radio Emission
Mentor: Eric Hooper

Azia Robinson (Agnes Scott College)
Age-Dating Active Galactic Nuclei via Radio Emission
Mentor: Eric Hooper

Aidan Lewandowski (McGill University)
Analyzing the Diffuse X-Ray Background
Mentor: Dan McCammon

Kiana Whitfield (UC Irvine)
How common or unique are low-metallicity tadpole galaxies?
Mentor: Jay Gallagher

Riana Smith (Westminster College)
The Search for Pyruvic Acid in Molecule-Rich Interstellar Clouds
Mentor: Susanna Widicus Weaver

Annamarie Conly (University of Oklahoma)
Probing Proto-planetary Disks Through Chemical Tracers
Mentor: Coco Zhang

Michelle Marrero Garcia (U Puerto Rico-Mayaguez)
Anisotropic effects on the cosmic ray energy spectrum induced by the heliosphere
Mentor: Paolo Desiati & Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez

Erika Bartosiewicz (Michigan State University)
Using Spectrography and Velocity Gradient Technique to Study Astrophysical Magnetic Fields
Mentor: Alex Lazarian