UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #972

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Submission Number: 972
Submission ID: 15491
Submission UUID: 2097927f-a883-4cbe-9ee0-f099c93a69f0

Created: Mon, 08/26/2024 - 05:44 PM
Completed: Mon, 08/26/2024 - 05:49 PM
Changed: Thu, 09/12/2024 - 12:05 PM

Remote IP address: 128.186.110.247
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English

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Primary Research Mentor Name Nao Suzuki
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Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) nao.suzuki@fsu.edu
Position Title Faculty
FSU College (if applicable) Arts and Sciences
FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation Physics
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Title of the Project Exploring the Universe where No One has seen before
Project Keywords astronomy, astrophysics, star, galaxy, telescope
Are you currently looking for research assistants? Yes
Number of Research Assistants Needed 6
Relevant Research Assistant Major(s) Physics, Physics and Astrophysics, Computer Science
Project Location: On FSU Main Campus
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Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s): In-person
Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work? 5
Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work? Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
Overall Research Project Description Our research team has access to the latest space telescope data, including the James Webb Space Telescope, the European Sattelite Euclid, and the Hubble Space Telescope.   We are looking for exploding stars, called supernovae, by comparing the new images against the images taken in the past.
It's tiny dots out of billions of pixels, and we need manpower to explore the Big Data from space to train AI.  We may encounter discoveries such as gravitational lenses, high proper motion stars, and something unknown to us!
Research Tasks We ask you to visually inspect the number of images taken by space telescopes and compare them against with each other. With your database skills, we would like to organize them and sort them out. If you have a computing background, we ask you to classify the data by categories. If you have a physics/astro background, we can work on spectral classifications. After the data collection, we would like to analyze the data and extract science from them.
Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Literacy in SQL and Python coding skills are recommended. The database oriented website-building skills are highly helpful.
Mentoring Philosophy We aim to develop the skills of how to read and extract the data and derive a scientific understanding of the universe. We live in the era of big data and its evaluation is an important skill to acquire. The real data includes defects in instrumentation, noise, and errors. The skill of finding 'the one' out of billions of pixels and extracting the science can be applicable to any area, and this is what we would like to achieve from this project. We will adjust the topic depending on the skills, and we respect the diversity and inclusion policies. Non-physics majors and Minors are encouraged to apply. This project is going to be a group effort, and we are seeking people who can be a great team player.
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Are you interested in participating in the UROP Research Mentor Roundtable? Yes
Roundtable times and Zoom links Wednesday, September 4th 1:00-1:30pm (https://us05web.zoom.us/j/88248601749?pwd=foYVoTEsAUWFuUkAIygkUwLJfdXppZ.1)
Roundtable Info
Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication Yes
UROP Performance Evaluation Yes
Materials Grant Yes
UROP Poster Presentation Yes
Year 2024
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