Summer Research -- 2008
To better experience that physics research is not all play and involves a certain amount of hard work, these members of the 2008 physics summer contingent went on a day trip to the Adirondack mountains on a sunny day in late June. There they were first asked to paddle canoes across a part of Indian Lake (in the background), and then to climb to this beautiful spot. (Click here for high resolution version.)
Pictures of some of the researchers at work starting with the upper left image and proceding clockwise: Jessie Smith and Brian Collett examine a breadboard circuit in the nuclear physics lab, Glenn Smith devises computer code, Juan Hurtado adjusts an optical element in the laser spectroscopy lab, Natalia Connolly supervises a meeting on the supernova project. The meeting included, proceeding clockwise from left foreground, Andrew Portuguese, Tim Minella, Greg Fullman, Natalia, Will Eagan, and Brian Connolly. Here's some background on the supernova study project.
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Summer Research -- 2007 There were about a dozen students at work on projects in relativity, solid state, and nuclear physics. In late June, Professor Ann Silversmith and Nguyen T. T. Nguyen, '08, travelled to Segovia, Spain, to attend the 16th International Conference on Dynamical Processes in Excited States of Solids. They presented a poster on rare earth ion distribution in sol gel glasses (more) based on work done at Hamilton College and in collaboration with physicists at Davidson College and Whitman College.
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Summer Research -- 2007 (cont.)
Summer Research -- 2006 Students worked with faculty on a number of projects for about 10 weeks last summer: rare earth based solids (1, 2), and, separately, crater formation (1), with Ann Silversmith, quantum gravity with Seth Major, nuclear physics with Gordon Jones and Brian Collett, and astronomy (1), with Peter Millet. Follow the numbered links in parentheses above for more about these projects. Last summer some physics majors started a lunchtime review session to ready themselves for the physics GRE, coached by Professor Collett (below).
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Jonathan Wexler, '08, a double major in physics and math, worked under the guidance of Prof. Gordon Jones to update the computer code that enables monitoring of the neutron beam polarization at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory 
