2006 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
The KSU Physics Department brought 10 undergraduates together in the summer of 2006 to do research as part of the NSF REU program.

Pictured above, front row: Leah Van Nahmen, Rakshya Khatiwada, Dana Cristea, Prof. Kristan Corwin, Chelsea Wieland. Back row: Eric Schultz, Ashley Wheeler, Prof. Larry Weaver, Scott Palmiter, Daniel Nickel, Jim Black. Not pictured is Eli Parke. The KSU REU program is funded by and a part of the larger National Science Foundation REU program. The final reports of our students are presented below as both web pages and as Powerpoint presentations. Each student's name is linked to his or her personal web page, as well.
| 2006 REU Student Talks | ||
| Jim
Black; mentored by
Glenn Horton-Smith "How not to fry a thermometer: monitoring for Double Chooz" |
HTML | PPT (2.5 MB) |
| Dana
Cristea; mentored by
Kristan Corwin "CO2 laser fusion splicing between PBGF and SMF" |
HTML | PPT (2.5 MB) |
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Rakshya Khatiwada; mentored by
Chris
Sorenson "Gel time of different volume fractions of polystyrene particles" |
HTML | PPT (7.8 MB) |
| Daniel
Nickel; mentored by
Brian Washburn "An optical fiber mode-locked figure eight laser" |
HTML | PPT (3.0 MB) |
| Scott
Palmiter; mentored by
Zenghu Chang "The Kansas Light Source upgrade" |
HTML | PPT (4.9 MB) |
| Eli
Parke; mentored by
Itzik Ben-Itzhak "Construction of the EBIS-C beamline" |
HTML | PPT (2.3 MB) |
| Eric
Schultz; mentored by
Brett DePaola "Electromagnetically induced transparency" |
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| Leah
Van Nahmen; mentored by
Itzik Ben-Itzhak "Characterizing the EBIS-C spectrometer" |
HTML | PPT (130 kB) |
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Ashley Wheeler; mentored by
Tim Bolton "The KSU SRT project" |
HTML | PPT (7.0 MB) |
| Chelsi
Wieland; mentored by
Chris
Sorenson "The hydrophobic characteristics of aerosol gel" |
HTML | PPT (4.7 MB |