2008 REU Participants and Projects - Please click project title to download a PDF or Powerpoint presentation.

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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 ReagorPhase Transition of Liquid Crystals Confined in Sub-Micron Scale Wells Peter Bender
Taiquitha RobinsCentrifugal 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