UAT Workshop 2017
The tenth NSF-sponsored Undergraduate ALFALFA Workshop was held at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia on June 13 - 16, 2017. The Workshop is part of the NSF-sponsored Undergraduate ALFALFA Team program to promote undergraduate research within the ALFALFA project. Attendees work together on group projects, and are given tours of the radio telescopes at the observatory, including the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the world's largest fully steerable single aperture antenna. The workshop was attended by 18 students and their faculty mentors from 13 undergraduate institutions.
SLU astronomers Dr. Aileen O'Donoghue and Jeffrey Miller attended the workshop, where they met SLU alum Evan Smith '16. Evan has been employed at the observatory since graduation, and will enter the Ph.D. program in Physics at West Virginia University in the fall.
Photo Gallery
Aileen, Evan & Jeff, with the Green Bank Telescope in the background, 1-mile away!
Jeff Miller and Evan Smith '16 by the computers for data reduction
Evan shows Dr. O'Donoghue how to reduce the data that has just been observed
Jeff takes his turn operating the Green Bank Telescope (GBT)
Jeff in front of the the reflector dish
Jeff in front of the GBT