Applications are invited from undergraduates for the NSF-sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program and from graduate students for the NSO Summer Research Assistant (SRA) program. Selected students will be given the opportunity to work closely with one of the observatory scientific staff members on a specific research project of mutual interest, either at Tucson or at Sunspot. Research programs will emphasize data reduction and analysis, computer programming, instrumentation, or theoretical modeling. Current solar astrophysics research interests range from understanding and modeling solar activity processes, helioseismology and the interior, high resolution spectroscopy and imaging, polarimetry, physics of coronal heating and solar wind acceleration, to instrumentation techniques.
The positions are normally full-time for 10 to 12 weeks between May and September. The deadline for applications to participate in the NSO 1999 Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program is 15 January 1999. Interested individuals can obtain information and application packets by visiting our web site at: http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/INFO/MISC/SS_PROGRAM/index.html or by calling or sending email to Brenda Ramos (505-434-7003; bramos@sunspot.noao.edu) or Priscilla Piano (520-318-8294; ppiano@noao.edu).
K.S. Balasubramaniam