------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the AEGIS dataset Student: Shifrah Aron-Dine (rising junior, Castilleja School) Mentors: Dale Kocevski (UCSC postdoctoral researcher), Sandy Faber (UCSC faculty), Isha Kotecha (Imperial College undergraduate, London, UK) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Analysis of the motion of stars in the disk of the Andromeda galaxy Student: Annie Cardinal (rising senior, Castilleja School) Mentors: Kirsten Howley (UCSC PhD student), Raja GuhaThakurta (UCSC faculty) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Calcium and magnesium content of Milky Way stars Student: Benjamin Chen (rising senior, Harker School) Mentors: Evan Kirby (Caltech postdoc), Raja GuhaThakurta (UCSC faculty) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Nanochemistry project Student: Richard Chiou (rising senior, Harker School) Mentor: Shaowei Chen (UCSC faculty) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Determining the chemical properties and physical conditions of stars from spectra Student: Michelle Deng (rising junior, Harker School) Mentors: Claire Dorman (UCSC PhD student), Raja GuhaThakurta (UCSC faculty), Evan Kirby (Caltech postdoc) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Demographics of dwarf elliptical galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database Student: Jenny Hong (rising senior, Palo Alto High School) Mentors: Raja GuhaThakurta (UCSC faculty), Marla Geha (Yale University faculty), Connie Rockosi (UCSC faculty) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Searching for Lyman alpha emitters at high redshift in the DEEP2 and DEEP3 redshift survey spectroscopic databases Student: Nina Jansen (rising sophomore, Castilleja School) Mentors: Katie McCormick (UCSC undergraduate), Raja GuhaThakurta (UCSC faculty) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. Motion of stars within Andromeda dwarf satellite galaxies Student: Claudia Kelley (rising senior, Castilleja School) Mentor: Raja GuhaThakurta (UCSC faculty) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. Interfacing Microbiology with Micro/Nanotechnology Student: Hana Khosla (rising junior, Castilleja School) Mentor: Yat Li (UCSC faculty) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10. Quantifying the false positive rate in the search for red giant stars in the sparse outer halo of the Andromeda galaxy Student: Teresa Krause (rising sophomore, Castilleja School) Mentors: Raja GuhaThakurta (UCSC faculty), Karrie Gilbert (University of Washington postdoc) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11. Designing telescopes using the SolidWorks mechanical design software Student: Anna Mirabella (rising junior, Castilleja School) Mentors: Dave Cowley & Deb Culmer (Lick Observatory Instrument Shops) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12. Understanding the outer structure of Lyman Break Galaxies at r > 1 kiloparsec Student: Nikhil Parthasarathy (rising senior, Harker School) Mentors: Kamson Lai (UCSC postdoc), Sara Ogaz (UCSC undergraduate), Sandy Faber (UCSC faculty) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13. Synthesis and Characterization of Semiconductor Metal Oxide Nanowires for Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Generation Student: Rohan Mahajan (rising senior, Harker School) Mentor: Yat Li (UCSC faculty) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14. Comparing state-of-the-art computer simulations of a forming galaxy to the Andromeda galaxy Student: Anirudh Suvarna (rising junior, Monte Vista High School) Mentors: Val Rashkov (UCSC PhD student), Raja GuhaThakurta (UCSC faculty) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15. Testing optical coatings Student: Susan Tu (rising senior, Harker School) Mentors: David Hilyard and Brian Dupraw (Lick Observatory Instrument Shops) ------------------------------------------------------------------------