Recent Student Research Projects

Recent on-campus student research and independent projects include:

Amila Hadziomerspahic '10	Effects of surfactants on the aging of silica-silicone oil suspensions (summer 2008)
Sunita Kannan '08	Variational Wavefunction Studies of Antiferromagnets (summer 2007; honors thesis, 2007-08)
Christina Miller '08	Measuring the temperature of laser cooled atoms (2008)
Ying Wang '09	Effects of surfactants on the aging of silica-silicone oil suspensions (summer 2007)
Amila Hadziomerspahic '10 and Rita Lam '09	Laser Cooling and Trapping of Rubidium Atoms (summer 2007)
Merideth Frey ’07	Time evolution of Bose-Einstein condensate, honors thesis (2006-07)
Mona Ali ’06	Ultracold Bosons in an optical lattice, honors thesis (2005-06)
Xinxin Du ’06	Groundstate wavefunction for cuprates, honors thesis (2005-06)
Christina Willis ’06	Open-cavity helium neon laser (2005-06)
Rachel Hock ’06	Occultation observations of Uranus, honors thesis (2005-06)
Rebekah Dawson ’09	Analysis of Cassini radio ring density (summer 2006)
Sarah Maynard ’08	Aging effects in silica gels (summer 2006)
Pamela Watts ’07	Computer models of visually responsive neurons (summer 2006)
Lalitya Sastrawinata ’07	Neuron models (summer 2005)
Susan Tse ’07	Neuron models (summer 2005)
Mona Ali ’06	Quantum phases of bosons (summer 2005)

Recent off-campus summer experiences include:

Jungwoo Lee '10	Brown University (NSF-REU 2008)
Ying Wang '09	MIT Media Lab (summer 2008)
Erika Navarro '09	The cyclotron institute at Texas A&M University (NSF-REU 2008)
Bilin Zhuang '09	Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany (German Academic Exchange Service 2008)
Rebekah Dawson ’09	SETI in Mountain View, California (NSF-REU 2007)
Amanda Zangari ’08	Lowell Observatory through the Northern Arizona University (NSF-REU 2007)
Christina Miller ’08	MIT Media Lab (LLK 2007)
Sarah Maynard ’08	Biology imaging lab at UC San Diego (summer 2007)
Bilin Zhuang '09	Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore (NSS-BS 2007)
Merideth Frey ’07	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (DOE 2006)
Katy Moyer ’07	Olin College (Vision Agrobotics 2006)
Liz Rivers ’07	National Institute for Nuclear Physics in INFN Pisa, Italy (DOE/INFN 2006)
Talia Sepersky ’08	Colgate University (Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium 2006)
Alessondra Springmann ’07	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (DOE 2006)
Susan Tse ’07	Medical device design - University of Minnesota (NSF-REU 2006)

Kelly Wallenstein ’07

Wesleyan University (Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium 2006)

Amanda Zangari ’08

Vassar College (Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium 2006)

Paulina Ponce de Leon Barido ’05

Optical fibre probe for early cancer detection (honors thesis, MIT 2004-05)

Xinxin Du ’06

University of Washington in Seattle (NSF-REU 2005)

Rachel A. Hock ’06

National Solar Observatory (NSF-REU 2005)

Christina Willis ’06

National Institute of Standards and Technology (SURF 2005)

Merideth Frey ’07

National Institute of Standards and Technology (SURF 2005)

Kelly Wallenstein ’07	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium 2005)
Rebecca Soule ’07	Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory (NSF-REU 2005)

Liz Rivers ’07

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (DOE 2005)