Adaptive or Active Optics in Astronomy (Adaptive and Active Optics compensate
for atmospheric refraction)
Modern Techniques in Large Telescope Construction
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Radio Astronomy (broad field with many possible research topics)
Interstellar Dust and its Effects on Light
Energy Transport in Stars
Planetary atmospheres, e.g. energy transport
Planetary cooling: Jupiter vs. Earth
Global warming
Comet Interaction with inner solar system
Interstellar gas phases and interactions
Meteors: interaction with Earth’s atmosphere
Thermal noise in semiconductor detectors (including CCD’s)
Thermal processes in nature
Stellar Remnants: Matter states; cooling of remnants
Weather systems, e.g. formation of hurricanes
Is weather predictable using thermodynamics?
(1) HTML editing in a text editor NCSA
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML Introduction
to HTML
HTML Goodies with Basic HTML: An Introduction
(2) Microsoft FrontPage: available in Olin 301 and probably at other
locations on campus. Microsoft
Frontpage Website
(3) Microsoft FrontPage Express, which is provided with many copies
of Internet Explorer later than version 4.0.
(4) Construct a Word Document and save in HTML format.
To place your page on the internet, you will need to have access to
idol or some other server (if you have a dial-up internet account, you
may have some disk space included for a web site). Instructions for placing
your page on idol will be given in class.
Last updated: February 18, 2005