Welcome to the Lopez Research Group Wiki!

You can check out the organization of the Wiki here. Here it is, in brief:

• Schedule (Groups, individuals, conferences)
• Research Groups
• List of Project Pages
• Group Members
• Research Tools (CISM-DX, IDL, etc.)
• Data and Sources (CDAWeb, INTERMAGNET, etc.)
• Library and Links
• Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, Mac)
• Personalized Pages
• How to use the LRGWiki and TWiki
• Miscellaneous Stuff
• Earth's Dynamic Magnetosphere movie (~204 MB)

News and updates

• Betsey has won a GSRP fellowship! (No word yet on why she decided to become active in Indian politics.)
• 2008.06.11 - Pictures from the 2008 ACES Conference - go to the bottom of the page for links
• 2008.06.16 - Sandra Brogl successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation at FL Tech.!
• 2009.01.30 - Crystal won induction to the McNair Scholars Program!
• 2009.03.23 - the old new wiki (MoinMoin) is now permanently gone, and http://lrgwiki.uta.edu will lead directly to the new new wiki (TWiki) - so just type lrgwiki.uta.edu, and you'll end up right here
• New page with some mini-tutorials on doing certain things in CISM-DX (here), including "Stepping through an HDF file, including the first and last frames" and "Create a grid in a DX image"
• Cool and easy tool for taking screen captures in Linux: go to LinuxNotes and search for "ksnapshot"
• New instructions on HowToAddAnImageToTheWiki (please add anything you think is missing or would be helpful, or ask Robert about things you'd like to see added or think are unclear)
• New instructions on the HowToUse page about "Links within the wiki and to external pages" and "Limiting access to wiki pages"
• REU programs! Deadlines are usually in January or February, so apply now! They're usually a great experience, with great money! (Out-earn your graduate student advisor for 10 weeks this summer!)
  • http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_search.cfm
  • http://lasp.colorado.edu/reu
• 2009.03.26 - Debrup wins Honorable Mention at ACES!
• Here's a new guide from SACNAS on "Writing an Effective Abstract" - based on the previous SACNAS presentation: SACNAS presentation guidelines and tools (videos, downloads, links - good stuff!)
• Congratulations to Phyllis for winning the R. Jack Marquis Scholarship and to Crystal and Robert Allen for winning the Keith W. Tompkins Scholarship!!
• Congratulations to Sophia Cockrell and Robert Allen for getting the Astronomy TA positions for the fall!
• Congratulations to Debrup Hui, for successfully defending his master's thesis, and also for getting accepted into a well-known program at a Utah university, where he will be helping build spacecraft for escaping the coming dinosaur uprising (or something like that).
• Congratulations to Fajer Jaafari, for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation! That's now Dr. Jaafari, to you.
• Congratulations to Sam Jones for getting a faculty position in a university in Antigua! He will be moving mid-August.

Main Web Utilities