Information for Spitzer Visiting Graduate Students

2008

Hanea Inami (JAXA, Japan) - with Lee Armus on "Luminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs)."

Carolyn Moore (U. Wyoming) - with Lin Yan on "High redshift, IR luminous galaxies and optical spectroscopy"

Matthew Thomson (U. Sussex, UK) - with Ranga-Ram Chary on "Type Ia Supernovae at High Redshift"

Yipeng Wang (Nanjing University, China) - with Mark Lacy on "Characterizing type-1 and type-2 quasar host galaxies."

2007

Ms. Amelia Bayo-Aran (University of Madrid) - working with John Stauffer on "Studies of low mass stars and brown dwarfs in young open clusters" .

Mr. Mark Frost (University of Sussex) - working with Jason Surace on "Search for high-z Supernovae and other Transients in the IRAC Dark Field".

Mr. Jack Hewitt (Northwestern University) - working with Jeonghee Rho on "Spectroscopy Survey of Supernova Remnants in the Inner Galaxy: Interactions with Molecular Clouds and Shock Processing of Dust."

Ms. Jillian Meyer (University of Washington) - working with Patrick Ogle on "The nature of the quasar central engines".

Ms. Hyunjin Shim (University of Korea) - working with Harry Teplitz on "Multi-wavelength study of galaxy evolution in GOODS and other deep fields"

• Mr. Benjamin Magnelli (CEA-Saclay, France)
• Ms. Audrey Galametz (ESO, Garching)

2006

Ms. Sonali Shukla (Vanderbilt Uni) - with Patrick Lowrance on Disks around Brown Dwarfs

Ms. Agnes Kospal (Konkoly Observatory, Hungary) - with David Ardila on Circumstellar Disks

Mr. Greg Brunner (Rice Uni) - with Kartik Sheth on IRS Spectral Maps of M51

Mr. Nicolas Flagey (IAS, Orsay, France) - with Alberto Noriega-Crespo/Sean Carey on the Eagle Nebula

• Mr. Pedro Beirao (Leiden Univ., Netherlands) - with Phil Appleton on understanding Arp 143, the Taffy and M82 with Spitzer(+/GALEX)
  
• Mr. Benjamin Bertincourt (France) - with George Helou on Emission Line Galaxies in a Deep IRS Spectral Map of GOODS-N
  

2005

Ms. Carrie Bridge (Univ. of Toronto, Canada) - to be a postdoc at the SSC

Ms. Andreea Petric (Columbia Univ, NY) - to be a postdoc at the SSC

Ms. Maria Morales-Calderon (LAEFF-INTA, Spain)

Ms. Basmah Riaz (Delaware)

Mr. David Salaman (Sussex)

Ms. Ivana Damjanov (Belgrade)

2004

Mr. Adam Muzzin (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)

Mr. Eric Murphy (Yale) - to be a postdoc at the SSC

Mr. Ian McNabb (Denver)

• Odysseus Dionatos (Rome Observatory)
• Roberta Johnson (Cal State Uni, Long Beach)

2003

Ms. Carolyn Brinkworth - Now a staff scientist at the SSC

Ms. Anna Sajina - Now a postdoc at the SSC

Mr. Mike Kelley - Now a postdoc at the University of Central Florida

Local Resources

Arrival

Caltech is located at 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125. The Spitzer Science Center is on the South-East Corner of California Blvd and Wilson Blvd on the Caltech campus. The scientists are on the second and third floor of the Keith-Spalding Building. Mary Ellen Barba is in the Morrisroe Astrophysics Lab on the East side of Wilson, about 300 yards south of the California-Wilson intersection. She will help you with employment related paperwork. If you arrive after work hours, you should probably go directly to your hotel or make prior arrangements with your apartment complex.

To and From the Airport

From Burbank Airport, you can either taken the Supershuttle or a cab to Caltech.

Local Activities

• Pasadena Area Science Talks: The listing of science talks are on the right side of this page. You are strongly encouraged to go to the Astronomy Colloquium and IPAC Lunch Talk.
• Bagels and Coffee, Tuesday morning 10am in the Keith Spalding 2nd floor lounge
• Donuts and Coffee, Thursday morning 10am in the IPAC/Morrisroe Coffee Lounge

Taxes

You are required to file tax returns in the U.S. for every calendar year (Jan-Dec) you are here - irrespective of whether you are a U.S. citizen or an International visitor. These are due April 15. This is particularly important for you because in general, you will get money back from the government.

For foreign visitors, you will be required to file form 1040NR-EZ for the Federal Taxes and 540NR-EZ for the CA State Taxes. The "EZ" is supposed to indicate the "Easy" version of these forms while "NR" indicates that you are a non-resident of CA. There are more extended versions which are called 1040NR and 540NR which might be more applicable to you.

U.S. Citizens of course will file 1040 and 540NR for the Federal and State Taxes respectively. Note that U.S. Citizens might have to file state tax returns in more than one state if they are visiting CA from out of state.

In general, for U.S. Citizens, electronic filing using software like H&R Block or Turbotax are the quickest and most painless way of filing a return. Foreign visitors unfortunately will have to do this by hand.

• Federal Tax Forms
• State Tax Forms