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Undergraduate Research in Computational Astrophysics
| Primary Institution: | North Carolina State University |
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| City: | Raleigh |
| State: | NC |
| Class Requirement: | Completed Freshman Year |
| Citizenship Requirement: | U.S. Citizen |
| Position Type: | Research |
| Discipline(s): | Astronomy; Astrophysics; Gravitation Computational science Nuclear Physics |
| Description: | URCA is an integrated 10-week summer program designed to introduce students to computational physics through original research projects in the field of high-energy astrophysics. Applications include supernovae and supernova remnants, interacting binary stars and accreting compact objects, gamma-ray bursts, accretion disks, stellar winds and jets, r-process nucleosynthesis, and neutrino astrophysics. The computational tools taught to and applied by the students include hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic simulations, nuclear reaction networks, Monte-Carlo methods, spectral synthesis codes, and various data analysis techniques applied to both simulation and observational data. |
| Stipend: | $5000 |
| Benefits: | Housing Travel Reimbursement |
| Application Deadline: | 03/01/2013 |
| Job Website: | http://astro.physics.ncsu.edu/urca/ |
Research/Internship Opportunity Contact Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
John Blondin 2401 Stinson Drive Dept. of Physics, NCSU Raleigh, NC 27695 Email: urca-physics@ncsu.edu Phone: 919-515-2522 |
