1. F&M at NURO Spring 2007

2. Participants:Observational Astronomy Class (S07 Ast 240) • Prof. Froney Crawford • Prof. Beth Praton • Cori Quirk • Don McElheny • Louis Klapper

3. Our Team Louis Cori Don Froney Photo: Beth

4. March 13–15, 2007 • Joint run with Gettysburg, overlapping on 3/13 • Observing program: • Pleiades rapid rotators (Hii1883, 2244, 2927) • BE UMa • Clear weather all three nights

5. At NURO…observation skills

6. All Flights Canceled Trip Home…Crisis Management Skills

7. 5 am Detroit midnight Phoenix Arrived at noon. Finally got flight at

8. Detroit RentACar Lancaster, PA Home at Last!

9. Back Home…Learn IRAF ? ? *#@! ?? E-Z IRAF GUIDE We didn’t find this E-Z…

10. So…we wrote our own guide Next time: we’re ready!

11. Arecibo Program • ~2 students per year, all undergraduate, more than half women, typically start at Jr level, chosen from best students in astrophysics classes ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: • monthly data taking at the 100-m Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico via internet and on-site • improving timing models: Lommen, Kipphorn (F&M ‘06) et al., 2006, ApJ 642:1012. • developing algorithms to search for gravitational waves: Lommen, Bilikova (F&M ‘04) et al 2005, ASP Conf Series 328: 225.

12. F&M in Australia

15. NANO-Grav • North American Nano Hertz Observatory of Gravitational Waves • F&M, UCBerkeley, NRAO, McGill, University of British Coluumbia, UT Brownsville • NRAO Green Bank 100m Telescope and the Arecibo 300m Telescope

16. NANO-Grav limit Figure courtesy of George Hobbs

17. Putting Gravitational Wave Physics into High School and College Curricula Annual Workshop with Center for Gravitational Wave Physics at Penn State