Amgen Scholars: Announcements of Opportunity

Below are Announcements of Opportunity posted by Caltech faculty for the Amgen Scholars program.

Announcements of Opportunity are posted as they are received. Please check back regularly for new AO submissions! Remember: This is just one way that you can go about identifying a suitable project and/or mentor. For additional tips on identifying a mentor click here.

Please remember:

Students pursuing Amgen must be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or students with DACA status.
Students pursuing Amgen must complete the 10-week program from June 21 - August 25, 2023. Students must commit to these dates. No exceptions will be made.
Accepted students must live in provided Caltech housing.

Project Title	Disciplines	Mentor	Posted
Estimation of computational models of the impact of attention on simple choice using Julia	Computer Science, Computation and Neural Systems	Antonio Rangel	02-Feb-23
GPU estimation of computational models of the impact of attention on simple choice	Computer Science	Antonio Rangel	02-Feb-23
Modeling Kilonova Light Curves	Astrophysics, Physics	Erika Holmbeck	02-Feb-23
Measuring the central black hole spin and inner disk density of dwarf AGN	Astronomy, Astrophysics	Labani Mallick	01-Feb-23
Developing basic readout and analysis tools for Quantum Capacitance Detectors	Physics, Applied Physics	Sunil Golwala	28-Jan-23
Big Data and Machine Learning in Economic History	Economics, Data Science	Pawel Janas	26-Jan-23
Alkali carbonate sorbents for efficient point source CO2 capture and separation	Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering	Leopold DOBELLE	25-Jan-23
Perturbations in swarming and collective behavior of brine shrimp (Artemia salina)	Bioengineering, Aeronautics, Environmental Engineering	John Dabiri	23-Jan-23
Investigation of hydrothermal alteration of the ocean crust and serpentinization in the upper mantle, and on other planetary bodies, through imaging spectroscopy	Geology, Geochemistry	Rebecca Greenberger	20-Jan-23
Engineering plant-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere for a more sustainable agriculture	Bioengineering, Biotechnology	Gözde Demirer	20-Jan-23
Engineering genetically-encoded nanoparticles for efficient protein delivery in plants	Chemical Engineering, Gene editing, Nanotechnology	Gözde Demirer	20-Jan-23
Optimization of plastic scinitillator bars for the LDMX experiment	Physics	DAVID HITLIN	19-Jan-23
A photosensor for the readout of barium fluoride scintillator	Physics	David Hitlin	18-Jan-23
General GPS Division SURF opportunities announcement	Multidisciplinary, Geology, Geochemistry, Geobiology, Geophysics, Planetary Science, Environmental Science & Engineering	Paul Asimow	18-Jan-23
Searching for Binary Stars in the Smallest Galaxies	Astronomy	Josh Simon	17-Jan-23
Investigating the marine biogeochemical response to climate change through a paired kerogen-pyrite sulfur isotope proxy	Geobiology, Geochemistry	Alex Sessions	17-Jan-23
Comparing gene variant detection methods - a Data Science Approach	Data Science, Biology	Ashish Mahabal	12-Jan-23
An interdisciplinary project aimed at developing effective solutions and implementations for future challenges and opportunities	Environmental Science and Engineering, Astronomy	Yuk Yung	11-Jan-23
Diurnal simulations of Venus atmospheric chemistry	Multidisciplinary, Chemistry	Yuk Yung	11-Jan-23
Using Machine Learning to extract novel information from large and complex astronomical datasets	Astrophysics, Applied and Computational Mathematics	Dalya Baron	11-Jan-23
Interrogating the vertical evolution of marine particulate organic matter via compound-specific isotope analysis	Geobiology	Alex Sessions	10-Jan-23
Characterization of hazardous asteroids with thermal infrared data.	Planetary Science, Astronomy	Joseph Masiero	05-Jan-23
Exploring the future of machine learning in astronomy	Astronomy, Data Science	Matthew Graham	05-Jan-23
Accelerating astrophysical transient classifiers with FPGAs	Astronomy, Data Science	Matthew Graham	03-Jan-23
A high resolution study of AGN variability with TESS	Astrophysics, Data Science	Matthew Graham	03-Jan-23
Liquid biopsy cell-free DNA detection of residual disease after cancer treatment	Biology, Computer Science	Aadel Chaudhuri	03-Jan-23
Simulating the Effect of 3-Dimensional Cloud Structure on High Resolution Spectroscopy of Young, Giant Planets	Astronomy, Physics	Heather Knutson	23-Dec-22
Effects of alpine terrain on diurnal and seasonally varying reservoir surface winds, water velocities and mixing in Lake Arrowhead, California as a case study	Engineering and Applied Science, Computational Methods, CS	David James	22-Dec-22
Dusty galaxies as seen by SPHEREx	Astronomy, Computer Science	Andreas Faisst	21-Dec-22
Understanding Misclassifications - a data Science Approach	Multidisciplinary, Data Science, Medical Science	Ashish Mahabal	20-Dec-22
How Subliminal Sensory Information Processing Influences Conscious Perception Across Human Senses	Neuroscience, Psychology	Shin Shimojo	16-Dec-22
Simultaneous velocity and thermal measurement applied to combustion processes	Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace	Joseph Shepherd	16-Dec-22
Revealing the companions of short-period giant planets with transit timing variations	Astronomy, Planetary Science	Heather Knutson	16-Dec-22
Coupled solid and fluid simulations of AP/HTPB propellant burn	Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautics	Brandon Runnels	16-Dec-22
Using Machine Learning to Explore Material Failure	Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science	Brandon Runnels	13-Dec-22
Novel MRI Methods	Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering	Shreyas Vasanawala	13-Dec-22
Theory of Electronic Fractals in Quantum Materials	Physics	Erica Carlson	12-Dec-22
Multiple Projects in Galaxy Evolution and Data Science	Astronomy, Computer Science, Physics	Charles Steinhardt	09-Dec-22
Stability of Periodic Traveling Waves	Mathematics, Computational and Mathematical Sciences	Jared Bronski	08-Dec-22
Machine learning assistant fracture mechanics and fracture resistant material design	Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Aerospace Engineering	Vinamra Agrawal	08-Dec-22
Stability of shock-induced separated flow	Aeronautics, Mechanical Engineering	Chih-Yung Wen	08-Dec-22
Observational Cosomology	Physics, Astrophysics, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	William Jones	08-Dec-22
When Digital Image Correlation Meets Machine Learning	Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Aerospace Engineering	Jin Yang	07-Dec-22
Venturing into the unseen	Neuroscience	Shinsuke Shimojo	06-Dec-22
Research in Computational Differential Geometry	Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics	Yakov Berchenko-Kogan	06-Dec-22
Einstein at Caltech	History, Physics, CS	Diana Kormos Buchwald	30-Nov-22
Multiscale Theory and Applications to Predictions on Structures of GPCRs coupled to GProtein and drugs candidates	Multidisciplinary, biochemistry	William Goddard	28-Nov-22
Deciphering dark proteome-mediated transcriptional control at single-molecule resolution	Biology, Biophysics, Chemistry, Biochemistry	Shasha Chong	26-Nov-22
2D Topological Superconductors	Physics, Applied Physics, Materials Science, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering	Suyang Xu	25-Nov-22
Transfer Learning Leveraging Large-Scale Transcriptomics to Model Diseases With Limited Data	Computer Science, Biology	Christina Theodoris	21-Nov-22
Role of nuclear migration in wrapping glia in Drosophia eye development	Biology	Y. Henry Sun	21-Nov-22
Using AI to Generate Efficient Stimuli for Neurons	Neuroscience, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering	Sung Soo Kim	21-Nov-22
Probabilistic Modeling of Genome Evolution	Biology, or any discipline with the right background	David Liberles	15-Nov-22
Interdisciplinary Research Projects to Solve Problems in Global Health	Multidisciplinary, Medical Engineering	Rustem Ismagilov	15-Nov-22
Quality control of mitochondria	Biology, Cell biology	David Chan	04-Nov-22
Structural and Function Characterization of Mega Assemblies	Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Cell Biology	Andre Hoelz	02-Nov-22