Lecture 5

Looking Ahead: Astronomy Awards

Looking Ahead: Internships

AAS

• Summer Opportuntities

NASA

• one stop shopping
• searchable internship database

NSF

• REU=Reseach Experience for Undergrads
• searchable database
• REU programs in Astronomical Sciences
• REU programs in Illinois Physics

Other

• iLink campus-wide recruiting platform
• Illinois Space Grant

The Art of Astronomy: Orders of Magnitude and Estimation

• Why estimate?
• The spirit of order-of-magnitude calculations
• Sample Problem
• Dimensional Analysis