University of Rochester
Summer 2007 undergraduate research in Physics, Optics, and Astronomy
Manuel Alves, class of '09 at the University of Rochester, worked with Prof. John Howell on a high precision measurement of the gravitational red shift of light using a sagnac interferometer. He plans to apply to graduate school.
Zachary Brown, Class of '07 at SUNY Fredonia, worked with Prof. Mark Bocko measuring and modeling the acoustic impedance of the bassoon. He plans to apply to graduate school for physics or acoustics.
Adam Bublitz, class of '08 at University of Rochester, worked on measuring the position resolution, timing resolution, and light-yield of cosmic muons with professor Kevin McFarland under the MINERvA experiment.
Patrick Buchinski, class of Õ08 at Utica College, studied the effects of cell thresholds on calorimeter noise in CMS at Fermilab with Prof. Regina Demina and Dr. Marek Zielinski. He plans to apply to graduate school for physics.
Michael Chernicoff, class of '09 at Amherst College, worked with Prof. Kevin McFarland on refurbishing veto wall panels for the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab, and testing the panels by making observations of cosmic ray muon showers. He plans on applying to graduate school in physics.
Sarah Eibin class of '09 at Elon University studied the magnetic field created in order to trap atoms and create a Bose-Einstein Condensate with the group of Prof. N. Bigelow. She plans to apply to graduate school in physics.
Peter Faber, class of '08 at the University of Rochester, studied gap opening scenarios in dusty disks via planetary instability with Prof. Alice Quillen. He plans to apply to graduate school for astrophysics.
Nathan Farwell class of '08 at the University of Rochester, worked with Dr. Olga Korotkova on analysis of data in comparison with the conventional model for optical turbulence. He plans on applying to graduate school in physics.
Gregory Feiden, class of '08 at SUNY Oswego, worked with Prof. Bill Forrest, on the detection and characterization of extremely small silicates. He plans on attending graduateschool in physics/astronomy.
John Golden, class of '10 at the University of Rochester, worked with Prof. N. Bigelow
manufacturing a thin wire electrostatic trap (TWIST) for ultracold molecules. He plans to apply to graduate school for physics.
David Grayson, class of
'08 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, contributed to an
experiment in Prof. John Howell's laboratory by building several balance
detectors, each of which can measure the difference in the intensity of two
laser beams. He plans on applying
to graduate school in experimental quantum physics.
Matthew Laurent, class of '09at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, worked with Prof. Lukas Novotny on examining optical field enhancement and localization with gold nanorod antennas.
Alexander Moore, class of '07, University of Rochester, worked withProf. Alice Quillen and Dr. Richard Edgar setting limits to the size of objects involved in collisional cascade models. Also setting limits on ALMA's sensitivity and determining whether it would be able to see features in dusty disks caused by embeded planets and benchmarking the compute power of a Graphics Processing Unit vs a Central Processing Unit. He plans to pursue graduate study in astrophysics.
Erin Mondloch, class of Õ08 at the University of Montana, worked with Professor Robert Boyd on measuring the generalized Hartman effect in an air-spaced Fabry-Perot interferometer. She plans to apply to graduate school in physics.
Andrew Nadeau class of '10 at Clarkson University, worked with Yongli Gao studying the band gap of the organic semiconductor PTCDA. He has yet to decide what to do after he graduates.
Kishore Padmaraju, class of '09 at the University of Rochester, worked with Prof. Roman Sobolewski on the EO sampling of a LT-GaAs MSM photoswitch and the computer modeling of MSM photoswitches. He plans on applying to graduate school for electrical engineering.
Melanie Pelcher, class of '09
at the University of Rochester, worked to introduce a group of young women to
possible careers in physics and other sciences by co-instructing the PREP
program (Pre-college Experience in Physics) under the supervision of Prof. Steve
Manly. She plans to apply to pursue graduate study in medical physics.
Ryan Pettibone, class of '08 at the University of Rochester, worked with Prof. Eric Blackman on obtaining an expression for the diffusion coefficient of accretion disc jets performing two dimensional Brownian motion. He plans to apply to graduate school for physics.
Elizabeth Pollock, class of 08Õ at University of Rochester, worked with Prof. Udo Schršder on constructing scintillator detectors in order to measure cosmic ray muon decay and capture products. She is planning graduate study in physics.
Eve Privman class of '09 at the University of Rochester, worked to introduce a group of young women to possible careers in physics and other sciences by co-instructing the PREP program (Pre-college Experience in Physics) under the supervision of Prof. Steven Manly. She plans to apply to medical and/or graduate school for neuroscience.
Zhengqing Qi, class of Õ09, University of Rochester, worked with Marek Zielinski and Regina Demina on calorimeter cell energy thresholds and its effect on reconstructed jet energy in CMS. He plans to attend graduate school for physics.
David Slocum, class of Õ09 at St. John Fisher College, studied muons and cosmic ray showers with Professor Kevin McFarland. He plans on applying to graduate schools in physics.
Cyprian Tayrien, class of '08 at University of Rochester, worked with Prof. Bill
Forrest and Ben Sargent on fitting silicate features to spectra from objects in
the Taurus region. He plans to apply to graduate school for astrophysics.
Brian Turkett, class of '08 at the University of Rochester,
worked with Dr. Judith Pipher and Tom Allen on Flamingos spectroscopy of Young
Stellar Clusters to determine the ages of the clusters, and to compare the mass
functions and accretion properties between young clusters, as well as within
individual clusters.
Gennady Voronov, class of '08 at University of Rochester, with the group of Prof. N. Bigelow, worked on calculations of the depths of magnetic traps for Bose Einstein condensate studies.
Julia Voronov, class of '08 at University of Rochester, studied magnetic directions recorded in the Cretaceous Chatham Island Basalts with Prof. John Tarduno and Rory Cottrell. She plans to apply to graduate school in geology.
Lauren Weiss, class of 2010 at Harvard University, worked with Prof. Eric Blackman to show that the gas around post-AGB objects lies in a disc. She plans to pursue a PhD in physics.
Alexandra Witthoft, class of '08 at Mt. Holyoke College, studied protostellar envelopes and protoplanetary disks with Prof. Dan Watson. She plans to attend graduate school.
Nicholas Zufelt, class of '09 at SUNY Potsdam, worked with Prof. Alice Quillen on an Infrared Survey of Brightest Clluster Galaxies using Spitzer. He plans on applying to graduate school in physics, astronomy, or cosmology.
Rainer Benz, a physics teacher at Fairport High School in Fairport, NY, worked with Prof. Lucas NovotnyÕs group building an atomic force microscopy (AFF) head as part of a scattering-type scanning near field optical microscope.
Lawanda Brown, a science teacher at Northwest College Preparatory HS, Rochester, NY worked with Prof. Lewis RothbergÕs group on DNA sequence detection. The title of her research paper is "Can a Colormetric Dipstick be Made to Work".
Matthew Greene, a physics teacher at Rush Henrietta High Schoo, in Henrietta, NY worked with Prof. Kevin McFarlandÕs group on developing classroom activities to incorporate portable muon detecto.
Doug Hollinger, a physics teacher at Pavillion High School in Pavillion, NY worked with Prof. Kevin McFarlandÕs group on enhancing classroom activities to incorporate portable muon detectors.