NSF-REU Snapshot of Summer 2021
A summer of successful Outcomes for the Physics & Astronomy REU Program!
REU Cohort of 2021:
Left to right: Patrick Knowles, Aman Kapoor, Robert Snuggs, Ernesto Flores, Rachel Paulin, Sarah Tucker, Prof. Adolf Witt, Zion Thomas, Shannon Costello.
Not shown above REU Rebecca Nelson :
August 4th End of the Summer Program Presentations:
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| REU Student | Home Institution | Talk Title | Mentor(s) |
| Aman Kapoor | Case Western Reserve University | Improving Low-Cost Microscopy Images with Deconvolution | Assist. Prof. Aniruddha Ray |
| Patrick Knowles | Bowling Green State University | Activation barriers for the diffusion of Se interstitials in CdTe and CdSe | Prof. Jacques Amar |
| Ernesto Flores | The University of Texas at San Antonio | Performance of Substrate-Typer Sb2(S, Se3) Solar Cells | Prof. Yanfa Yan |
| Sarah Tucker | Ohio Northern University | Finding ERE in the Horsehead Nebula | Prof. Emeritus Adolf Witt |
August 5th End of the Summer Program Presentations:
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| REU Student | Home Institution | Talk Title | Mentor(s) |
| Rebecca Nelson | Southern Utah University |
Characterizing Opto-electronic Properties of MgxZn1-xSnN2 (0 ≤ x≤ 1) |
Professor Sanjay Khare |
| Shannon Costello | Monroe Community College | Segmentation: An analysis of automatic versus manual segmentation in radiation therapy | Assoc. Prof. Shvydka, Assoc. Prof. Pearson |
| Rachel Pauline | University of Michigan-Dearborn | Creating Globular Cluster Catalogs | Prof. Rupali Chandar |
| Zion Thomas | Case Western Reserve University | Creating Globular Cluster Catalogs | Prof. Rupali Chandar |
| Robert Snuggs | University of Toledo | Transitions in S II Including Diagnostic Techniques in Atomic Physics | Dr. Richard Irving |
A group photo of one of the excellent Research Groups led by Prof. Rupali Chandar participating in the REU program:
Left to right: Local High School Student, Matthew Floyd (Grad Student), Mandy Caputo (Grad Student), Rachel Pauline (REU), Prof. Rupali Chandar, Zion Thomas (REU)
The Summer's Bag Lunch Seminars were as informative and interesting as ever! Check out the table below for details.
| Date | Guest Speaker | Talk Title |
| 8-Jun | Prof. Scott Lee | Using physics to learn about dinosaurs |
| 17-Jun | Prof. Lawrence Anderson-Huang | How We Construct Visual Experience |
| 22-Jun | Prof. David Pearson | Medical Physics as a career including Some Research Examples Conducted In This Profession |
| 29-Jun | Prof. Michael Cushing | How To Give A Talk |
| 1-Jul | REUs | Progress Reports |
| 8-Jul | Prof. Sanjay Khare | A Sustainable Energy Future |
| 15-Jul | Dr. Juillian Bornak | Careers in Physics And Astronomy Overview |
| 20-Jul | Assoc. Prof. of University Libraries Wade Lee | Research as a Conversation: Making the Library-Lab connection |
| 20-Jul | Dr. Adam Phillips | Tour of Research1 |
| 29-Jul | Assist. Prof. Aniruddha Ray | A Career As A BioPhysicist |
| 30-Jul | Dr. Richard Irving |
Introductory Python Workshop: Exploring various coding environments and their setup along with introductory Python programming examples. |
| 1-Aug | Dr. Thomas Lai, Dr. Riwaj Pokhrel, Sam Federman (Grad), Victor Jonston (Grad) | PyVis Workshop:
-Creating quality plots and why it matters -Working with fits images using a variety of python libraries -Creating and viewing interactive plots -Basics of working with spectral data and simple fits |
| 4-Aug | REUs | Final REU Presentations (See Table Above) |
| 5-Aug | REUs | Final REU Presentations (See Table Above) |
Images of REU Fun:
Zooing it:
LN2 Icecream & Superconductors:
Movie Night:
