Performance Overview
Education
One PhD Thesis completed in 2010 (Andrés
Muñoz-Jaramillo)
1 Summer Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) student involved (Jonathan Constable).
Awards
Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo: 2011 Scarf Award and LWS Jack Eddy Fellowship: http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=9941
Piet Martens: 2011 MSU College of Letters and Science Award for Meritorious Research and Creativity.
Dibyendu Nandi: 2008 Ramanujan Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Presentations
Scarf Award Invited Talk (Muñoz)
Parker Lecture 2008 (Dibyendu Nandi)
17 Invited talks at conferences
10 Seminars
Publications
1 Paper in Nature
1 Paper in Scientific American, Spanish edition
1 PhD thesis
1 Conference proceedings edited
1 Invited book chapter
4 Invited reviews in conference
proceedings
13 papers in Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) and ApJ Letters
5 Papers in Space Science Reviews
2 Papers in Journal of Geophysical
Research
1 Paper in Solar Physics
3 Papers in American Institute of
Physics Conference Proceedings
Media Exposure
Nature paper (Nandy, Muñoz and Martens 2011) on the recent solar minimum has led to press releases by NASA, MSU, and CfA, and a NASA press teleconference.
Press Materials
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/solar-cycle23.html
Montana State University: http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=9526
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2011/pr201107.html
Spawning of Cross-Team Collaborations
Andrés
Muñoz-Jaramillo and Niel Sheeley have began a
collaboration in which they are using the SOHO-MDI continuum images to
calibrate Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) polar faculae estimates in terms of automated
digital measurements of faculae brightness with corresponding measurements of
magnetic flux. This substantiates the
use of the MWO numbers of polar faculae and provides a reliable data set for constraining
solar dynamo theories.