Faculty and Student Team (FAST) Initiative
The FAST program deliberately targets faculty and their students at US institutions with strong track records of serving underrepresented minority students. Each year, a cohort of three FAST scholar teams will be matched with established SDSS partner/collaborator to tackle a research project together. This can be a new project or one that's already defined.
The FAST program provides teams with specialized training, data rights, and financial support to help them begin working with SDSS data. Ultimately the goal is that FAST teams will build long-term research relationships with SDSS collaborators and be a lasting and productive part of the collaboration.
If you have any questions, please contact the directors of the SDSS FAST Program, Jason Ybarra and Dhanesh Krishnarao, at fast@sdss.org.
The FAST teams
LaGuardia Community College
Using SDSS-IV data to study the structure and formation of the Milky Way using M-Giants and RR Lyrae Stars
FAST at South Carolina State University
Cross-correlation of variable stars in recent photometric surveys with available SDSS spectra to create a value added catalog.
FAST at California Polytechnic State University
Evolution and formation of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) focusing on chemical and dynamical properties of stars within BCGs
FAST at University of Texas Rio Grande
Fast localization of electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events using SDSS archival images as references
FAST at CUNY (2018)
Stellar population distributions and star formation histories of post-starburst (or "E+A") galaxies in the MaNGA survey.
FAST at New Mexico State University (2018)
Characterizing Kepler Eclipsing Binaries Observed with SDSS/APOGEE
FAST at CUNY, Hunter College (2018)
Using TDSS to Examine the Magnetic Variability on the Coolest Stars.
