Interesting Projects

• Mostly Instrumentation
  • Imaging X-ray spectrometers
  • UV/EUV imaging spectrometers / interferometers H and / or Ca-II K capability at MWO
  •  High resolution magnetogram capability at MWO
  •  high resolution imaging and tracking of active regions in various wavelengths.
• Mostly Electronics
  • Very high efficiency DC/DC converters
  • VLSI multi-channel ultra-low input-bias current amplifiers
  • Flash DAQ systems (for rocket experiments)
• Mostly Computing
• Applications of AI techniques to helioseismology: genetic and neural-network type algorithms. Especially would they make better minimizers for fitting routines. What about better `standard' methods?
•  What can we learn or teach in terms of algorithms and interpretation from similar work done in medical imaging and ocean seismo-acoustics?
•  Change data acquisition code at MWO to create .fits images and tape using tar.
•  Automatic and pipelined data reduction and analysis.
•  Port the image restoration techniques to USC and modify them for use with MWO image. (produces MTF info too).
•  Methods to combine time-series from different instruments.
•  Test images and testing rotational correlation, and better r-corr methods (effects of resampling etc.).
•  Better ways to make sub-pixel image registration.
•  Investigate the use of wavelet transforms, especially their use in Local Helioseismology (T-D).
• Mostly Physics and Applied Theory
  • Maps of `local' velocity-intensity phase-shifts, and what can they tell us about the solar atmosphere.
  •  Model of flow propagation in a p-mode wave field to generate blind data to test local analysis.
  •  Calculation of formation heights for lines and continua in the solar atmosphere and the interaction with p-modes: what are we really observing? Can observational data provide more precise input than theory: ie. can we learn more about the physics?
  •  Why doesn't geometric mapping get rid of `distortion' in tracked ring diagrams? Is it change in effective depth?
  •  local helioseismology: what does it tell us, and what are its limitations.
  •  Magnetogram calibration !
• HPV
  • Efficiency improvements for HPVs
  • Rail-based trikes for land speed record
  • DAQ systems for HPVs