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This is the wiki page for Marla Geha's Dwarf Galaxy Research Group at Yale University.

Contents 1 Group Members 1.1 Faculty 1.2 Postdocs 1.3 Graduate Students 1.4 Undergraduates/Visiting Students 1.5 Collaborators 2 News and Updates 3 Help Pages and Other Resources 3.1 Getting Started with the Group 3.2 General Computing 3.3 IDL Help Pages 3.4 Telescope Help Pages 4 Research 4.1 Current Projects 4.2 List of Project Ideas 4.3 Papers and Presentations 5 Weekly Events

Group Members

Faculty

• Marla Geha webpage

Postdocs

• Nitya Kallivayalil (YCAA Fellow webpage)

Graduate Students

• Nhung Ho (PhD student) webpage
• Luis Vargas (PhD student) webpage
• Ana Bonaca (1st year project) webpage
• Joel Leja (1st year project) webpage
• Jeremy Bradford (Zeroth year project) webpage

Undergraduates/Visiting Students

• Po-Yi Ho (Yale freshman)

Collaborators

Ricardo Munoz Evan Kirby, Josh Simon, Louie Strigari, Beth Willman

News and Updates

• A detailed study on graduate student nutrition.

Help Pages and Other Resources

Getting Started with the Group

• Arriving on Campus
• Exercises and Problems for new students
• Background Reading
• Fellowship and Job Resources

General Computing

• General Tips/Tricks
• Notes on Mac Computer Setup
• How to use the Besancon Model of the Milky Way
• SDSS SQL searches

IDL Help Pages

• List of IDL webpages and commands
• Marla's IDL page
• List of IDL issues and their solutions

Telescope Help Pages

• Keck/DEIMOS Observing
• WIYN/HYDRA observing
• Accessing Data Archives

Research

Current Projects

List of Project Ideas

The pages below contain more details on possible research projects. If you are a student interested in working with the group and would like access to these pages, please email Prof. Geha.

• General information for new students
• Spectroscopy projects
• Photometry projects
• LSST-related projects

Papers and Presentations

• Papers from 2010
• Papers from 2009
• Slides from past presentations

Weekly Events

• Geha group meeting, Fridays 1pm
• YCAA seminar, Tuesdays 2pm
• Astronomy Colloquium, Thursdays 2pm
• Astro-ph Lunch, Wednesdays noon