Below are Announcements of Opportunity posted by Caltech faculty and JPL technical staff for all programs administered by the Student-Faculty Programs office. This list also appears on SFP's main website, while AO lists on the SURF, Amgen Scholars, NASA Space Grant, and NASA USRP sites show just AOs applicable to their respective programs.

Project Title Disciplines Mentor  Posted  Science Coverage Analysis    Applied and Computational Mathematics, Aerospace Engineering William Taber (JPL)  27-Jan-12 ClassLess: Python software development for an astronomical database (2nd of 2 positions available)    Computer Science, Software Development, Astrophysics Lynne Hillenbrand  25-Jan-12 ClassLess: Populating and Exploiting a Young Star Database (1st of 2 positions available)    Astrophysics, Data-mining Lynne Hillenbrand  25-Jan-12 Automated Image Processing System for Cell Biology    Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering Changhuei Yang  25-Jan-12 Automated Tactical Intelligence    Computer Science, ACM, CNS, CDS Michael Burl (JPL)  25-Jan-12 How much information about visual stimuli does the brain process in the absence of consciousness?    Computation and Neural Systems Christof Koch  24-Jan-12 Active Composite Reflector Design and Testing    Aeronautics, Optics, Controls, Mathematics Samuel Bradford (JPL)  23-Jan-12 Virtual Caltech: Immersive 3D Scientific Data Visualization and Collaboration     Computer Science, Data Visualization George Djorgovski  23-Jan-12 Characterizing and Classifying the Variability of Cosmic Objects     Computer Science, Astrophysics George Djorgovski  23-Jan-12 Follow-up and Classification of Transient Events on the Sky     Astrophysics, Computer Science George Djorgovski  23-Jan-12 Exploring the Variable Sky     Astrophysics George Djorgovski  23-Jan-12 Blazars: The Cosmic Accelerators     Astrophysics S. George Djorgovski  23-Jan-12 Gravitational Wave Physics and Astrophysics with LIGO    Physics, Precision measurement science Alan Weinstein  23-Jan-12 "Teachers Touch the Sky": Research and Teaching with Dawn Mission Data    Astrophysics, Teaching Bonnie Buratti (JPL)  23-Jan-12 Modeling and Compensation of Topographic Effects on SAR Remote Sensing Imagery    Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering Maxim Neumann (JPL)  23-Jan-12 New Techniques for SAR Tomography of Vegetation    Electrical Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics Maxim Neumann (JPL)  23-Jan-12 Inversion of physical model for vegetation remote sensing    Mathematics, Applied Physics Marco Lavalle (JPL)  23-Jan-12 GPU based searches for giant pulses from Crab-like pulsars    Astrophysics, Computer Science Walid Majid (JPL)  23-Jan-12 Towards microstructured materials with tunable performance: design, fabrication and testing of a new experimental setup    Aeronautics, Experimental Solid/Structural Mechanics Dennis Kochmann  21-Jan-12 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polycrystalline Solids    Aeronautics, Computational Materials Science Dennis Kochmann  21-Jan-12 MSL Surface Operations V&V    , Systems Engineering Tracy van Houten (JPL)  20-Jan-12 Interferometric SAR processing and analysis for measuring Earths biomass    Electrical Engineering, Physics Marco Lavalle (JPL)  20-Jan-12 HumanRobot Control Interfaces Using Wearable Bio-Sensors    Electrical Engineering, Computer Science Michael Wolf (JPL)  19-Jan-12 4D Visualization of building response to shaking    Civil Engineering, Computer Science Monica Kohler  19-Jan-12 Evaluating damage detection measurements in a 17-story steel-frame building using a 3D model in computer simulations of shaking    Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Monica Kohler  19-Jan-12 Mission Operations and Ground System Process Modeling    Computer Science, Aerospace Engr, Math, other sciences Oleg Sindiy (JPL)  18-Jan-12 Research in Extraterrestrial Compounds    Chemistry, planetary science James Dalton (JPL)  18-Jan-12 Multi-dimensional Spectral Processing    Computer Science, Planetary Science James Dalton (JPL)  18-Jan-12 Outer Solar System Spectral Database    Chemistry, astronomy James Dalton (JPL)  18-Jan-12 Multi-Angle and Polarization Image processing    Mathematics, Computer Science Veljko Jovanovic (JPL)  18-Jan-12 Autonomous Texture Analysis for Robotic Astrobiology    Applied and Computational Mathematics, Computer Science David Thompson (JPL)  18-Jan-12 Microorganisms Residing on Mars-Based Spacecraft: Characterization and Understanding the Potential for Survival under Mars-Simulated Conditions     Biology, Biotechnology James Benardini (JPL)  18-Jan-12 Design Capture using Engineering Models    Computer Science, Software Engineering Calvin Miyazono (JPL)  17-Jan-12 SPRITE: Measuring the Mass Distribution of the Milky Way using Precision Astrometry from the South Pole    Astrophysics, Electrical Engineering Richard Dekany  17-Jan-12 Projects Involving the Use of NMR to Study Conformational Analysis    Chemistry John Roberts  17-Jan-12 CO2 jet cleaning of Mars Sample Return critical hardware surfaces    Chemistry, Microbiology Shirley Chung (JPL)  17-Jan-12 Reliability Designs for FPGAs    Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics Douglas Sheldon (JPL)  17-Jan-12 Investigation of analogues for serpentinizing hydrothermal mineralogy on Europa    Planetary Science, Geochemistry Steven Vance (JPL)  17-Jan-12 Electrochemistry of Iron Sulfides at Hydrothermal Vents    Chemistry, Astrobiology Michael Russell (JPL)  17-Jan-12 Modeling Fault Links and Quantifying Dependability    Computer Science, Psychology Allen Nikora (JPL)  17-Jan-12 Deployable Starshade for Exoplanet Imaging    Mechanical Engineering, Optical engineering Mark Thomson (JPL)  16-Jan-12 Earth science programming support     Computer Science, EE William Johnson (JPL)  15-Jan-12 Airborne Spectrophotopolarimeter Image Analysis and Data Processing    Applied Physics, Applied and Computational Mathematics Olga Kalashnikova (JPL)  15-Jan-12 Development and Testing for Aerial Survey of Alaskan Lakes    Mechanical Engineering, Robotics John Leichty (JPL)  13-Jan-12 Planetary Interiors Convection Modeling    , Mathematics Suzanne Smrekar (JPL)  13-Jan-12 Kinetic-isotope effects of key photochemical reactions on Mars     Mechanical Engineering, physics Pin Chen (JPL)  13-Jan-12 Laser Desorption- Infrared Spectroscopy of plantary surfaces.     Physics, Planetary Science Luther Beegle (JPL)  13-Jan-12 Analysis of drilled materail    Geology, Planetary Science Luther Beegle (JPL)  13-Jan-12 Control and mobility for extreme terrain rovers    Computer Science, Robotics Issa Nesnas (JPL)  12-Jan-12 Space Communications Protocol Testbed Development    Computer Science, Electrical Engineering Jordan Torgerson (JPL)  12-Jan-12 Micro Ground Vehicle Development    Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Aaron Parness (JPL)  12-Jan-12 Anchoring Prototypes for Unconsolidated Material    Mechanical Engineering Aaron Parness (JPL)  12-Jan-12 Digitizing plume height and motion with satellite multiangle images    Environmental Science and Engineering, computation Veljko Jovanovic (JPL)  12-Jan-12 Structural and function characterization of macromolecular complexes    Biochemistry, Structural Biology/X-ray crystallography Andre Hoelz  12-Jan-12 Center for the Predictive Modeling and Simulation of High-Energy Density Dynamic Response of Materials    Aeronautics, Computing & Mathematical Sciences Mark Stalzer  12-Jan-12 Modeling Earthquake Fault Systems    Geophysics, Earth science Andrea Donnellan (JPL)  12-Jan-12 Modeling and Simulation of Planetary Space Platforms    Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Abhinandan Jain (JPL)  12-Jan-12 Dynamics simulation of bio-molecular systems    Chemistry, Computer Science Abhinandan Jain (JPL)  12-Jan-12 Calibration of the GOSAT Japanese satellite at a Nevada desert    Applied Physics, Geophysics Carol Bruegge (JPL)  12-Jan-12 Autonomatic camera configuration for mobile vehicles.    Computer Science, Electrical Engineering Michael McHenry (JPL)  11-Jan-12 GPU-based image reprojection    Computer Science, Applied and Computational Mathematics Michael McHenry (JPL)  11-Jan-12 Radar and Lidar Remote Sensing of forests     Computer Science, ecology Marc Simard (JPL)  11-Jan-12 Radar and Lidar Remote Sensing of forests     Computer Science, ecology Marc Simard (JPL)  11-Jan-12 Convection and plate tectonics on terrestrial planets    Geophysics, Fluid mechanics Christophe Sotin (JPL)  11-Jan-12 Studies on Hydrogen-Oxygen Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers    Chemistry, Material Science, Electrochemistry Thomas Valdez (JPL)  10-Jan-12 ISS EarthKAM - Citizen Science    Computer Science, Electrical Engineering Paul Andres (JPL)  10-Jan-12 Visualization of Solar Storm Propagation from the Sun to Earth    Astrophysics, Solar physics Paulett Liewer (JPL)  10-Jan-12 Automated Image-based Change Detection for Instrument Planning    Computer Science, Planetary Science Kiri Wagstaff (JPL)  10-Jan-12 Policy-Based Networking Technology Development to enable fine-grained network security and efficient data distribution     Computer Science, Information Technology/Math Simon Woo (JPL)  10-Jan-12 Data analysis of Hurricane Size    Environmental Science and Engineering, Atmospheric Sciences Hui Su (JPL)  10-Jan-12 Effect of High-g impact on rock core integrity    Geology, Mechanical Engineering Charles Budney (JPL)  10-Jan-12 Engineering Research in Spacecraft Propulsion    Aeronautics, Physics Lee Johnson (JPL)  09-Jan-12 Geobiology of the World's deepest hydrothermal vents    Geobiology, Astrobiology Max Coleman (JPL)  09-Jan-12 ATHLETE Rover Electrical Design, Assembly and Testing Support    Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Matthew Frost (JPL)  09-Jan-12 Experimental neutrino physics    Physics Ryan Patterson  08-Jan-12 ATHLETE Rover Design, Assembly and Testing Support     Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Christopher McQuin (JPL)  07-Jan-12 ATHLETE Rover Design, Assembly and Testing Support    Mechanical Engineering, Geology Christopher McQuin (JPL)  07-Jan-12 Identification of the genes involved in the control of stem cell populations in plant shoot apical meristems.     Biology Elliot Meyerowitz  06-Jan-12 Modeling the chemical evolution of planetary atmospheres    Planetary Science Karen Willacy (JPL)  05-Jan-12 Acceleration of the Caltech/JPL integrated dynamical/chemical computational model using MPI    Planetary Science Karen Willacy (JPL)  05-Jan-12 Microbial Diversity and Survival in Space Conditions     Biology, Molecular Microbial Ecology Kasthuri Venkateswaran (JPL)  05-Jan-12 Development of novel molecular technique to understand Deep microbial diversity.     Biotechnology Parag Vaishampayan (JPL)  05-Jan-12 Advanced Technologies for Contamination Assessment of Mars Sample Return Mission    Biochemistry, Biology Fei Chen (JPL)  05-Jan-12 Microbial viability in extreme environments    Geobiology, Chemistry, microbiology, molecular biology Adrian Ponce (JPL)  04-Jan-12 Robotic System Modeling    Computer Science, Electrical engineering, Phycis, Mathematics Rudranarayan Mukherjee (JPL)  02-Jan-12 Research in theoretical computer science    Computer Science, Mathematics Leonard Schulman  29-Dec-11 Origin of the Mormon Peak allochthon, southern Nevada    Geology, Geophysics Brian Wernicke  23-Dec-11 Impact of optical crosstalk in high-order wavefront sensors for extra-solar planet discovery and characterization    Applied Physics, Astrophysics Christoph Baranec  23-Dec-11 Determination of device specific astrometric error sources in infrared arrays    Astrophysics, Applied Physics Christoph Baranec  23-Dec-11 Early Wildland Fire Detection: Estimate the Effectiveness in Reducing Fire Suppression Costs    Applied Physics, Forestery, Engineering Robert Staehle (JPL)  22-Dec-11 Science with NEOWISE    Astrophysics, Planetary Science Amanda Mainzer (JPL)  20-Dec-11 Controlling the magnetic field for human stimulation experiments.    Electrical Engineering, Actually, almost any field would work if the student has the skills. Joseph Kirschvink  19-Dec-11 Constructing a nonmagnetic XY stage for testing possible Martian magnetometers.    Mechanical Engineering, Ask me Joseph Kirschvink  19-Dec-11 Investigating true polar wobbles in the Cretaceous rocks of Italy    Geophysics, consent of investigator Joseph Kirschvink  19-Dec-11 Reduction and analysis of data on thermal emission from Saturn    Planetary Science, Computer Science Glenn Orton (JPL)  16-Dec-11 Development of efficient reduction and archiving of planetary astronomical data.    Computer Science, Astrophysics, Astronomy Glenn Orton (JPL)  16-Dec-11 Analysis of Mid-Infrared Observations of Jupiter    Planetary Science, Computer Science Glenn Orton (JPL)  16-Dec-11 Analysis of reflected sunlight from Jupiter    Planetary Science, Computer Science Glenn Orton (JPL)  16-Dec-11 Monte Carlo simulations for electronic transport    Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering Austin Minnich  16-Dec-11 Developing a balanced optical detector for ultrasensitive thermal measurements    Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering Austin Minnich  16-Dec-11 Advanced Health Monitoring of Steam Pipe Systems     Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Yoseph Bar-Cohen (JPL)  15-Dec-11 Modeling Sea Ice-Ocean Wave Interactions    Geophysics, Physics Victor Tsai  15-Dec-11 Mars Data Analysis    Planetary Science, Geology Matthew Golombek (JPL)  15-Dec-11 Understanding the Mechanisms of Nicotine Addiction    Neuroscience, Biology Henry Lester  12-Dec-11 Sea Urchin Genomics    Biology Andrew Cameron  12-Dec-11 Various Projects Concerned with Molecular Biology of Sea Urchin Development    Biology, Biotechnology Eric Davidson  12-Dec-11 Testing and improving theories of radiative transfer for determining the mineralogy of planetary surfaces    Planetary Science Bethany Ehlmann  10-Dec-11 Linking Orbital and Landed Martian datasets: Tests with ultramafic rocks from Oman and mafic Rocks from Iceland    Geology, Planetary Science Bethany Ehlmann  10-Dec-11 Aqueous Environments on Early Mars: insights using orbital near-infrared spectroscopy and geologic mapping    Planetary Science, Remote Sensing Bethany Ehlmann  10-Dec-11 Home Sensor Platforms for Environmental Hazard Detection and Response – a “Hazard Weather Station”    Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Julian Bunn  08-Dec-11 Cryogenic Chemistry Studies of Water Ice Mixtures Germane to Outer Planet Satellites    Chemistry, Physics Paul Johnson (JPL)  08-Dec-11 Archival and Analysis of Sea Ice Thickness in the Arctic Ocean Based on On-Ice In Situ Historical Measurements    Geophysics, Oceanography Benjamin Holt (JPL)  07-Dec-11 mathematical logic, set theory    Mathematics Alexander Kechris  06-Dec-11 Quantifying consciousness with information theory    Computation and Neural Systems, Computer Science Christof Koch  03-Dec-11 Computational analyses of face processing    Computation and Neural Systems, Bioengineering Ralph Adolphs  02-Dec-11 SURF Projects in British or American Literature    English Kevin Gilmartin  02-Dec-11 Mechanisms that regulate sleep, feeding and circadian rhythms in zebrafish larave.    Neuroscience, Genetics David Prober  30-Nov-11