CASS Projects

These are all projects developed during the 2006 Computational Astrobiology Summer School. The participants will be working on these projects during 2006/2007, and will hopefully be presenting the results at Bioastronomy 2007.

Amanda Morrow	Directly determining the fundamental properties of low mass stars / brown Dwarfs
Dimitra Atri	Terrestrial effects of a nearby supernova explosion
Jane Curnutt	Cellular automata and the patchiness problem in arid regions
Pavel Senin	Modeling ices in star-forming clouds: the MCMC approach
Rich Warren	Evolution of intelligence: social vs. individual learning
Xin Chen	Telescope scheduling
Yannick Gingras	Protein stability analysis and hardware acceleration of bioinformatics tools
Yuna Yang	Habitable zones of binary stars