Bibi Hanselman at the SMA Interferometry School

Lab undergraduate Bibi Hanselman '27 spent the first ten days of January at the 2025 Submillimeter Array Interferometry School in Hilo, Hawaii, where he got hands-on training in millimeter and submillimeter interferometry — including a trip up to the SMA itself on Maunakea (above).

The Interferometry School is a competitive training program organized by the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. It brings together a small cohort of advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs for a week of lectures and a hands-on project actually using SMA data to image something the participant proposed. I

Bibi joined the lab as a SURF student in summer 2024 and hit the ground running. Going straight from the SMA school to AAS 245 (more on that in the next post) was a heck of a January for him.

Congratulations Bibi!