Commencement was just yesterday, and Summer Research for 2011 has started already today. In the Department, we have a few students starting this week and next week; the majority of students will be starting research on May 23. We look forward to an exciting and fruitful summer.
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Regional Chemistry REU Symposium
The Regional Chemistry REU Symposium was hosted at Hope College on Friday July 30, with students from University of Notre Dame’s and University of Michigan’s REU programs in attendance. Hope’s Physics research students participated in the symposium and presented their research posters at the afternoon poster session. Here are some pictures from the Symposium.
Summer Undergraduate Research Function
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.
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.