Does anyone have any information about summer workshops?

[Simfish]

Summer workshops/summer symposiums/etc?

Most of them are for graduate students. But do any allow people who are in between undergrad and grad school?

And how competitive are they?

I'm specifically interested about astronomy, but people can feel free to post details about any summer workshop here.

 

[eri]

The ones I've attended were geared towards grad students, but I can't see them turning away an advanced undergrad or someone in between. But since you're in between, you might have to pay for some of it yourself. A good one is the astrostatistics workshop at Penn State; here's the website. It's very useful since astronomers tend to only know some basic statistics.

http://www.astrostatistics.psu.edu/

I don't remember having to do more than just sign up for this one; it wasn't competitive, anyone could go.

 

[Simfish]

Wow, nice. :) Is it just lecture though? (no working with other professors?)

 

[eri]

It was lectures and computer labs. Workshops don't tend to be actual research; they're specialized topics that your school might not offer.

 

[Simfish]

Ah yes that's true. Was it mostly lecture, computer lab, or half-half?