2011 REU Participants and Projects - Please click a project title to download a PDF.

Presenter Name	Project	Mentor
Charlie Bevis	Second Harmonic Generation in the Cuprate Family of High Temperature Superconductors	Steven Cundiff
Emily Chavez	Studying the Ultrafast Dynamics of the Insulator-Metal Transition in Single Crystal VO2	Markus Raschke
Emily Gehrels	Building a Potassium MOT	Deborah Jin
Max Grossnickle	Study of the Anomalous Hall Effect in MnSi Under Pressure	Minhyea Lee
Takako Hirokawa	Optical Cavity for the Strontium Lattice Atomic Clock	Jun Ye
Danny Rehn	Heuristics for Creating Assignments to Incorporate Simulations	Noah Finkelstein
Shannon Roberts	Saturated absorption spectroscopy of 87Rb: Toward a magnetic trap for cold collision studies	Heather Lewandowski
Asher Thoeming	The Setup, Design, and Implementation of a Photoluminescence Experiment on Quantum Wells	Steven Cundiff

2010 REU Participants and Projects

Presenter Name	Project	Mentor
Travis Autry	Optical Phase Cycling for the JILA Monster	Steven Cundiff
Ian Caldwell	Towards Studies of Tension Dependence of Quality Factors in Metallic Nanostrings	Cindy Regal
Kevin Cox	Stable lasers	Jun Ye
Kevin Fiedler	Supersymmetric Signal Analysis and Mass Measurement at the Parameter Point D	Uriel Nauenberg
Laura Gaskins	Polymerized Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Network for Nanoporous Membrane Applications	Douglas Gin
Eric Geier	Fourier Transform Spectrometer for Usein Observational Cosmology	Nils Halverson
Andrew Horvath	Reorientation of Liquid Crystals due to Photoisomerization of Azo-SAMs	Joseph Maclennan
Natalie Krzyzanowski	Developing Algorithms for Data Analysis and Sorting in Single Molecule Optical Trap Experiments	Thomas Perkins
Amelia Plunk	Inkjet printing onto liquid crystal thin films	Joseph Maclennan
Sabrina Thompson	Fabrication, Surface Modification, and Self-Alignment of Gold Nanorods in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals	Ivan Smalyukh
Vladimir Toussaint	Matter-based Sagnac Gyroscope	Dana Anderson
Rachel Umbel	Manipulation of Laser Beam Waist and Homodyne Systems	Deborah Jin
Vladimir Zhdankin	A Statistical Analysis of Current Sheets in Turbulent MHD Plasma Simulations	Dmitri Uzdensky and Dan Dessau

2009 REU Participants and Projects

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Presenter Name	Project	Mentor
Paul Ackerman	Integrated 3D imaging, trapping, and dynamic particle tracking	Ivan Smalyukh
Aaron Allen	Towards microwave modulation in a wavelength-tuned magneto-optical trap	Dana Anderson
Corinne Beier	The Assembly and Alignment of Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals	Ivan Smalyukh
Andrew Davis	Dynamic Instability	Matt Glaser
James Deininger	Click for paper	David Walba
Alex Fout	The Role of Contextual Framing: Assessments, Classroom Practice, and Student Perceptions	Noah Finkelstein
Diana Gaviria	Absorption Imaging of an Ultracold Gas	Deborah Jin
Dina Genkina	Exploration of a Method to Image an N2 Molecular Orbital Using the ATI Spectrum	Andreas Becker
Amit Halevi	Construction of a diamond anvil based spectroscopy system for investigation of aromatic interactions under high pressure	Mathias Weber
Sharla Hopkins	Electro-optic Control of Platelet Colloids in Nematic Liquid Crystals	Ivan Smalyukh
Molly Krogstad	Doppler-Free Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy of Rubidium Using a Tunable Diode Laser	Heather Lewandowski
Joseph Lanska	Design of a Prototype Low-Grade Heat Engine	Eric Cornell
Angel Martinez	Non-Contact Optical Control of Colloidal Architectures Using Molecular Monolayers	Ivan Smalyukh
Erin Stranford	Tapered Fiber Fabrication	Thomas Schibli
Evan Thomas	Construction of a Dust Detector for the Colorado Dust Accelerator	Tobin Munsat

2008 REU Participants and Projects

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Presenter Name	Project	Mentor
Heather Bankowski	Under Represented Middle School Students Learning about States of Matter in Informal Science Summer Camp	Noah Finkelstein
David Carlson	Lasers & Photons on Demand: Exploring the Atomic Applications of Strontium	Murray Holland
Thomas Dorn	Liquid Crystal Electromechanical Elastomer: A Strong Future for Smectic A* Molecules	David Walba
Eric Eason	Shot Noise in Tunneling Junctions	Kyle McElroy
Justin Lawson	Acoustic Waveguide Measurements	John Price
Angel Martinez	Alignment of Liquid Crystal Director Fields Using Monolayers	Ivan Smalyukh
Steven Moses	Building a Microwave Antenna for a Quantum Microscope	James Thompson
Zach Newman	Construction of a Far-Off Resonance Optical Dipole Trap	Eric Cornell and Deborah Jin
Liam O'Sullivan	Modelling molecular recognition and aggregation in nano-DNA mesophases	Matt Glaser
Adam Pieterick	Phase Transition of Liquid Crystals Confined in Sub-Micron Scale Wells	Noel Clark
Matt Reagor	Phase Transition of Liquid Crystals Confined in Sub-Micron Scale Wells	Peter Bender
Taiquitha Robins	Centrifugal Separation of dsDNA from an ssDNA Oligomer Mixture	Noel Clark
Gabriel Stockdale	Orbital Dynamics of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna	Ivan Smalyukh
Carrie Weidner	The Swing Spring: A Search for Classical Monodromy	Heather Lewandowski

2007 REU Participants and Projects

Presenter Name	Project	Mentor
Sarah Anderson	Realization of classical monodromy; i.e. swinging springs	Heather Lewandowski
Daniel Barker	AOM Drivers for Atomic Spin Squeezing
Octavia Crompton	Designing a Transformer for Velocity Modulation Spectroscopy	Eric Cornell
Nicole Duncan	Noise Minimization in Electronic Circuitry	Scott Robertson
Jacob Gilman	A Search for B0 → ωπ0	William Ford and James Smith
William Johnston	Construction and Initial Measurements of an Acoustic Reflectometer	John Price
Alex Kitt	Graphene Exfoliation Techniques
Zach Kozick	Investigating the Mechanisms Behind Spindle Assembly	Zach Smith and Matt Glaser
Andrew Laszlo	Thin-Film High Tc Superconductors for Photoemission Studies
Galan Moody	Second Harmonic Generation in Solid-State Materials	Alan Bristow and Steven Cundiff
Lauren Nicolaisen	Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting	Ralph Jimenez
Taiquitha Robins	Methodology in Liquid Crystal Extraction from Long DNA via Sonication & Capillary Centrifugation
Robert Snider	Direct Current Quantum Interference Control	Steven Cundiff and Jared Wahlstrand
Ben Spaun	Robust tunable laser implementing volume holographic grating for atom traps	Dana Anderson
Steven Spurgeon	Engineering Anisotropic Lyotripic Liquid Crystal Nanoarchitectures

2006 REU Participants and Projects

Student	Project	Mentor
Katrina Bossert	Cytochrome P450 3A4: The Impossible Protein	Ralph Jimenez
Benjamin Brown		Charles Rogers
Turhan Carroll	A Study of the Effectiveness of Using P ER-Based Reforms in a Summer Setting	Noah Finkelstein
Kyle Douglass	Ultrafast Optics: Tools and Techniques	Margaret Murnane
Joan Dreiling	Construction of a Tunable External Cavity Diode Laser and a Far Off-Resonant Optical Dipole Trap for Ultracold Atoms	Carl Wieman
Chris Fink	Computational Condensed Matter Physics	Matthew Glaser
Onnie Luk	A Laser Scattering Diagnostic to Study the Anomalous Flux Dissipation of an FRC	Tobin Munsat
Douglas Mason	Turning Light Bulbs into Lasers: Photonic Bose-Einstein Condensation	Murray Holland
Robert McRae	Solitary Waves: A Study of Atomic-Molecular BECs	Victor Gurarie
Margot Phelps	Laser Frequency Stabilization	Deborah Jin
Layra Reza	Laser Frequency Stabilization	Deborah Jin
Carlos Romero	Optical Pumping of NH	Heather Lewandowski
Brandon Smith	Shot Noise Suppression in an Atomic Point Contact, Part 1	Konrad Lehnert
Rebecca Tucker	Many Body Decays Involving Ks: A “Charming” Presentation	John Cumalat
Benjamin Zimmerman	Shot Noise Suppression in an Atomic Point Contact	Konrad Lehnert