Summer Research News -- 2010

Kate Arpino and Andrew Beyler (above), members of the class of 2010 and majors in Chemical Physics, presented their senior thesis research projects at a meeting titled "The 17th International Conference on Dynamic Processes in Excited States of Solids," held at Argonne National Laboratory from June 20-25. There were 130 attendees. Andrew presented a poster, "Effects of drying control chemical additives on rare-earth doped sol-gel glasses" and he has written a paper describing his work that has been reviewed and accepted by Physics Procedia. Kate presented a poster, "Post Annealing Immersion: a new technique for studying rare earth ions in porous materials,” and submitted a paper to the Journal of Luminescence. Kate's poster won second prize in the best-poster contest at the meeting. More information about these topics may be found by following this link to Professor Ann Silversmith's page.

Physics projects on campus this summer

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Laser Spectroscopy	Sarah Fobes '12 Zane Glauber '12 Kate Arpino '10
Astrophysics	Ileana Becerra '11 Will Egan '11 Anne Vilsoet '11 Jennie Willemsen (Clinton Central High School '11)
Polarized Neutrons	Jake Zappala '12 Ed Lamere '11
Nonlinear Mechanics	Leonard Teng '12