Volleyball at the lake

Larry and Kristan, fearless leaders

Eric at work

Rakshya in the lab

Ashley explains it all

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)
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"
   
Leah Van Nahmen; mentored by Itzik Ben-Itzhak
"Characterizing the EBIS-C spectrometer"
HTML PPT (130 kB)
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