Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Research Projects
Each REU student is listed below, along with the title of the student's summer project and the name of the faculty research mentor. A link is provided to each student's final report.
Adam Bograd, University of Florida | |
| Non-Fermi liquid behavior in UCoAl (with Prof. Greg Stewart): report. | |
Daniel Carlson, Stetson University | |
| Development of variable path length acoustic cavity for high-resolution phase velocity measurement (with Prof. Yoonseok Lee): report. | |
Matthew Cornick, Colorado State University | |
| Infrared spectral enhancement of an electrochromic cell by water removal (with Prof. David Tanner): report. | |
Sean Echols, Hampshire College | |
| Thermal evaporative growth of high-quality bismuth films (with Prof. Art Hebard): report. | |
Stephen Hicks, University of Florida | |
| Fermi surfaces which produce large transverse magnetoresistance (with Prof. Selman Hershfield): report. | |
Taylor Hughes, University of Florida | |
| Simulation and analysis of pattern formation in 2-dimensional electron gas systems in the quantum Hall regime (with Prof. Alan Dorsey): report. | |
Jerrold Kielbasa (*), University of Florida | |
| Low-temperature measurements for detecting phase transitions in MnCl3-phen (with REU student Michael Walsh and Prof. Mark Meisel): report. | |
Jayeeta Kundu, Reed College | |
| Examining nonlinear properties of single-wall carbon nanotube films using the Z-scan method (with Prof. Dave Reitze): report. | |
Sara Maccagnano, Montana State University | |
| Quantum characterization of Ni4 magnetic clusters using electron paramagnetic resonance (with Prof. Steve Hill): report. | |
Althea Moorhead, University of Arizona | |
| Feasibility of detecting leptoquarks decaying to neutrinos plus jets in the mass range 100 to 200 GeV using the CDF detector (with Prof. Darin Acosta): report. | |
Joseph Munoz, Princeton University | |
| Scintillators as an external trigger for cathode strip chambers (with Prof. Andrey Korytov): report. | |
Mark O'Brien, Lycoming College | |
| Effects of randomness on ferromagnetism in a Ga1-xMnAs diluted magnetic semiconductor (with Prof. Kevin Ingersent): report. | |
Guido Reichstadter, University of Florida | |
| Mounting single-walled nanotube fibers on atomic force microscope probe tips (with Prof. Andrew Rinzler): report. | |
Michelle Snider, Smith College | |
| Investigation of adaptive optical components for high power mode matching in gravitational wave detectors (with Prof. Dave Reitze): report. | |
Andrew Steinberg (*), Duke University | |
| Biomagnetics: Effects on transcription associated with Adh/GUS and Adh/GFP promoter-reporter systems in Arabidopsis due to static magnetic fields up to 9 T (with Prof. Mark Meisel): report. | |
Michael Walsh, Creighton University | |
| Low-temperature measurements for detecting phase transitions in MnCl3-phen (with REU student Jerrold Kielbasa (*) and Prof. Mark Meisel): report. | |
Brian Wignall, University of Texas at Austin | |
| Non-equilibrium transitions in a tight-binding model simulation of a weakly coupled superlattice (with Prof. Selman Hershfield): report. | |
(*) These students participated in all activites of the UF Physics REU program. However, their financial support was provided by the National High Magnetic Field REU program.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants DMR-9820518 and DMR-0139579. 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. |