------------------------ ASTRONOMY: - Raja GuhaThakurta (Astro / galaxies): (total of 9 students) . Aurora Alvarez-Buylla - rising junior, Balboa HS, San Francisco Very distant emission-line galaxies in the DEEP2 database - Katie McCormick, Kamson Lai, Raja Guhathakurta . Lucy Cheng - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose Iron and alpha-element abundances of Andromeda dwarf satellites from coadded Keck/DEIMOS spectra - Anahi' Caldu-Primo, Lei Yang, Evan Kirby, Raja Guhathakurta . Abrar Choudhury - rising senior, Bellarmine College Prep, San Jose Comparing dwarf spheroidal satellites to the virialized halo of the Andromeda galaxy - Karrie Gilbert, Raja Guhathakurta . Victoria Dean - rising junior, Castilleja School, Palo Alto Search for high redshift Lyman-alpha emitters in the DEEP3 2D spectroscopic database - Kamson Lai, Marcin Sawicki, Raja Guhathakurta . Sumedh Guha - rising junior, Archbishop Mitty HS, San Jose Carbon stars in the Andromeda dwarf elliptical satellites NGC 147 and NGC 185 - Anahi' Caldu-Primo, Claire Dorman, Raja Guhathakurta . Nina Jansen - rising junior, Castilleja School, Palo Alto Measuring the metallicity of red giant stars in Andromeda's dwarf spheroidal satellites using the Ca triplet - Claire Dorman, Raja Guhathakurta . Teresa Krause - rising junior, Castilleja School, Palo Alto Hubble Space Telescope imaging and Keck spectroscopy of M giants in Andromeda's disk and spheroid - Anil Seth, Cliff Johnson, Anahi' Caldu-Primo, Raja Guhathakurta . Anirudh Suvarna - rising senior, Monta Vista High School, Cupertino Analysis of a computer simulation of the formation of a large spiral galaxy - Val Rashkov, Raja Guhathakurta . Ashvin Swaminathan - rising junior, Harker School, San Jose A new method of measuring the Mg and Ca abundance in red giant branch stars in dwarf spheroidal satellites of the Milky Way and Andromeda - Evan Kirby, Raja Guhathakurta - Sandy Faber (Astro / distant galaxies): 1 student . Alex Hsu - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose The Death of Active Galactic Nuclei - Sandy Faber, Jon Trump, DEEP project postdocs + graduate students - Greg Laughlin (Astro / exoplanets): (total of 3 students) . Govinda Dasu - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose Searching for Planet "X" - Greg Laughlin . Sankalp Raju - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose Statistically determining the interior composition of a population of exoplanets - Angie Wolfgang, Greg Laughlin . Zara Saraon - rising senior, Castilleja School, Palo Alto Searching for transiting extrasolar planets using data obtained by the Kepler satellite - Jennifer Burt, Greg Laughlin ------------------------ ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION: - Jerry Nelson (Thirty Meter Telescope): 1 student . Chaitanya Malladi - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose Effect of sky brightness on observations with the Thirty-Meter Telescope - Drew Phillips, Jerry Nelson - Dave Cowley (Telescope engineering) 1 student . Shival Dasu - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose Restoration of Lick Observatory's 12-inch Alvan Clark telescope - Dave Cowley, Drew Phillips ------------------------ PHYSICS: - Sasha Sher (Biophysics / vision): 1 student . Ananth Subramaniam - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose Neural visual processing - Sasha Sher - Dave Belanger (Physics / condensed matter): 1 student . Meghana Bhat, rising junior, Castilleja School, Palo Alto Cobaltite nanoparticles - Alice Durand, Dave Belanger - Sriram Shastry, Gey-Hong Gweon (Physics): 1 student . Rishi Bhandia - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose Angle resolved photo emission - Gey-Hong Gweon ------------------------ CHEMISTRY: - Shaowei Chen (Chemistry / nanochemistry): 1 student . Paulomi Bhattacharya - rising junior, Harker School, San Jose Chemical functionalization and electrocatalysis of carbon nanostructures - Yat Li (Chemistry / nanochemistry): 2 students . Marion Lepert - rising junior, Castilleja School, Palo Alto . Jay Reddy - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose Synthesis and characterization of semiconductor metal oxide nanowires for photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation - Dave Deamer (Chemistry / ): 1 student . Saige Manier - rising junior, Harbor HS, Santa Cruz - Dave Kliger (Chemistry / biophysics): 1 student . Aneesha Gupta - rising junior, Castilleja School, Palo Alto ------------------------ BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: - David Haussler (BME / genetics): 1 student . Divya Bhat - college bound (Rice Univ), Castilleja School, Palo Alto Organizing and comparing genome sequences of cancer patients - Haussler lab - Ed Green (BME / genetics): 1 student . Nikhil Narayen - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose Comparing the genomes of currently living humans to those of Neanderthals - Green lab - Marcos Woehrmann/Josh Stuart (BME / genetics): 2 students . Kushal Ranjan - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose . Katie Siegel - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose - Marcos Woehrmann, Josh Stuart, Stuart lab ------------------------ MARINE SCIENCES: - Baldo Marinovic (Marine Biology / ): 2 students . Kylie Jue - rising junior, Castilleja School, Palo Alto . Priyanka Sharma - rising senior, Harker School, San Jose Zooplankton ecology: krill population dynamics and community interactions - Baldo Marinovic ------------------------ *** not placed: . Lisa Hong - rising senior, Aptos HS, Aptos (one of the students who has applied to Yat Li) . Eesha Khare - rising junior, Lynbrook HS, San Jose (interesed in chemistry/biochemistry) ------------------------