Volleyball at the lake

Larry and Kristan, fearless leaders

Eric at work

Rakshya in the lab

Ashley explains it all

NSF REU at K-State: Laser-matter Interactions at the Atomic and Nanoscales

The K-State REU program offers summer fellowships to do world-class research in our friendly physics department in the scenic Flinthills.  We are funded by the National Science Foundation.

2006 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

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

 

This program is funded by the National Science Foundation through grant number PHY- 0851599.  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.