LIGO Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)
Caltech LIGO SURF
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
June 21 - August 25, 2023
Caltech · LIGO Hanford · LIGO Livingston
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Applications for the 2023 Caltech Summer Program are accepted from October 28, 2022 - January 13, 2023. The program will run June 21 - August 25, 2023.
If you are not a student in India, you can submit an application on the
SFP website as follows:
If you are a student applicant new to SFP's programs,
create an account with your email address and a password
(remember it!). Else, log in to your existing account.
Under "Create an SFP Program Application", select
"LIGO Application". Indicate if you are a Caltech student,
then click "Create Application". NOTE: There are multiple applications hosted
on this website that are not affiliated with LIGO. The link
to "SURF Application" is for the general Caltech SURF program,
not LIGO SURF; you should not prepare that application unless
you want to apply to that separate program as well.
In the application itself, you will input basic information
abount yourself, including contact information, citizenship and
demographic information, education, and work experience. Then
there are text boxes where you will list your prior research
experience, research interests, and a "Your interest in the LIGO
SURF Program and LIGO science" essay.
You will upload one or more (if appropriate) unofficial
transcripts of the courses you have taken at the college
level.
You will enter contact information for two letters of
recommendation. After you click "Submit", an email will go
out to them, requesting letters to be uploaded. Until you
click "Submit", your application will be incomplete and
"Awaiting Submission."
When you have completed your application, you must
click "Submit form to SFP". Make sure that, on your
Home page on SFP Online, it indicates that your application
is "Complete", your Transcripts say "Complete", and your
Recommendation requests say "Not yet received" or
"Received".