Sarah Prill, who is working with Paul DeYoung and Graham Peaslee this summer, represented the Physics Department at the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Function (SURF) dinner this past Thursday evening.
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Microwave Lab
Candace Goodson is assembling a superconducting sapphire microwave resonator for her research on the effects that carrier doping has on the superconducting thin films. She uses the resonator to determine the critical temperature of the superconductor and to look at how the surface resistance of the superconductor depends nonlinearly on current. Both of these properties …
Astrophysics Group
Caitlin Taylor and Caleb Billman are preparing to go to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where they will analyze data taken with space based instruments. They will spend their time working in close collaboration with Prof. Gonthier and his collaborators at Goddard.
Nuclear Group
Tim Nagi tests some acrylic bars used as neutron detectors in the LISA project. He is using the oscilloscope to watch for signals coming out of one of the the photomultiplier tubes attached to the ends of the bars. Tim and others from Prof. DeYoung’s group will use the “LISA bars” at the National Superconducting …
Ethics Workshop
On Thursday, the Physics, Engineering, Math, and Computer Science research students participated in the first of two Ethics Workshop sessions for the summer. Professor Mark Pearson, of the Math Department, facilitated. The workshop was based on case studies. Students formed groups to write their own case studies, which will be discussed in the second session …