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Undergraduate Research
in
Astronomy
Talk and
Refreshments, 7:00 – 8:30 PM, Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Kennedy
Library, Room 510B, California
Polytechnic State
University
Russell M. Genet,
Research Scholar in Residence
Smaller observatories,
thanks to affordable high-tech computerized telescopes
and sensitive electronic cameras, have morphed into
powerful scientific research facilities. Every clear
night undergraduate and even high school students around
the planet conduct astronomical research across a broad
spectrum: tumbling asteroids, pulsating stars, eclipsing
binaries, planets transiting across remote stars, and
sputtering matter as it spirals onto white dwarfs and
neutron stars. Their research is published in
astronomical journals. They inspire other students, and
are welcomed by graduate schools.
Astronomer Russ Genet describes undergraduate research
at smaller observatories, and two unique opportunities
for local undergraduates, high school students,
educators, and amateur astronomers:
● A Cal Poly conference June 22-24, Time-Series
Astronomical Photometry
● A Cuesta College research class this fall, Physics
Research Seminar, PHYS 93A
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