Hi all, Please find below details of the upcoming Breakthrough Listen internship program, which would be a great opportunity for a CASPERite to get research experience at one of the project's many collaborating institutions.
Happy holidays! Jack ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Steve Croft <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021, 22:05 Subject: Breakthrough Listen summer undergraduate research internships To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Dear colleagues, Applications are invited for paid undergraduate summer research internships at Berkeley SETI Research Center for summer 2022. BSRC is a world-leader in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence – the quest for a scientific answer to one of humanity’s oldest questions: Are we alone in the Universe? With a core team based at the University of California, Berkeley, and additional team members and collaborators around the globe, the team at BSRC leads the science program for the $100-million Breakthrough Listen project. Our scientists and engineers are pioneers in the development of software, instrumentation, and science strategy for the search for intelligent life on other worlds. We have access to substantial amounts of time on the planet’s largest telescopes, connections to leading players in industry, and we’re based in one of the world’s premiere research universities. We’re also psyched that we get to wake up each day and hunt for aliens. Past students have been involved in a diverse range of projects including technosignature searches at optical and radio wavelengths, developing machine learning approaches to identify anomalies in data, studying fast radio bursts, deploying new scalable algorithms on cloud computing platforms, and working hands-on with the GNU Radio platform to develop new data acquisition and processing methods. Many of our students have gone on to PhDs in astronomy and computer science; others are working in industry including at some of the major tech firms. This year, in addition to 10 - 12 positions in the US, we are recruiting 1 - 2 students at each of three international partner institutions - Jodrell Bank / University of Manchester, I-LOFAR / Trinity College Dublin, and the Sardinia Radio Telescope / INAF. For the positions in the US, current sophomore, junior, and senior undergraduates (including non-US citizens studying at a degree-granting institution in the US) are eligible to apply. A stipend of $8873, plus support for travel to and from the internship site, will be provided. Positions are funded by the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates program and by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. Women, underrepresented minorities, transfer students, and others traditionally underrepresented in science are strongly encouraged to apply. At this time, we anticipate that the US program will mainly take place in-person in the UC Berkeley area. In the event that pandemic restrictions make this impractical, we expect, as we did successfully in summer 2020, to pivot to an online program. We may also be able to offer remote participation, or participation at partner institutions or telescopes (e.g. Hat Creek Radio Observatory), to a limited number of applicants. Since the situation is rapidly evolving, we are not asking applicants to commit to a particular method of participation at this stage; final details will be confirmed at the offer stage. Details and links to the application form (deadline February 11) are at https://seti.berkeley.edu/Internship.html where you can also find details of the application procedure and stipend amounts for the positions in the UK, Ireland, and Italy. Please circulate to colleagues and students who may be interested. Feel free to forward this email, and / or to share our social media posts from @BerkeleySETI on Facebook and Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleySETI/posts/2012176068963537 https://twitter.com/BerkeleySETI/status/1474103347263148032 thanks, Steve -- Learn more about the Berkeley SETI Research Center at http://seti.berkeley.edu --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " [email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/seti/2c9df1f7-aba3-8e09-9750-7318a36886cb%40astro.berkeley.edu . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAG1GKS%3Ds95y3PdevY3qvpAwquHiGpypD6Q6DBNnscNrSYEfyNg%40mail.gmail.com.
