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It's a very collaborative project. I know that you have received a grant to develop global scientists.
That's part of what you're doing there.
Your specific goal is to organize a telescope so that we can operate it from campus
and look at pulsating stars.
Can you tell us a little bit about how that's going?
The specific goal is to finish the software for the telescope
so that any telescope can be operated from anywhere.
This particular telescope is two main projects.
There's the white dwarf observation.
Some of these require long periods of time for professional observers that's hard to get.
A good solution is to operate a small telescope like this.
So there will be many places around the globe that can use this telescope once the software is developed?
If we give them the software.
Tell me what you're doing specifically and maybe why you wanted this experience.
What I'm doing is helping to design interfaces.
That definitely interests me, and I think it ought to show that I'm diverse enough to be able to work and function.
Even though I am a computer science major, and my language skills aren't as strong for Porteguese
I can still get the job done.
How is your Porteguese?
Awful.
Is there anything that you can share with us about the value
of approacing this research in such a broad and collaborative fashion?
I think the collaborations are important to exchange.
Different people do things differently.
Now with all the students, we can exchange even more.
What's also important is that the technical part that we get from people.
So everybody is collaborating.
The other part is that we have different ways of doing things.
That's, I think, good for us, and it's good for the students that they come here
and see how people work here.
They may like some things and not like others, and that's their experience.
Seeing the way that the different cultures work obviously integrates nicely
but it's definitely two different attitudes towards life in general
They're more laid back than the hustle and bustle of New York that we're used to.
Yet, things still get done, and it's a nice, even pace.
She says thank you to everybody that's here.
You're very welcome.