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Educational Outreach

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program

Participants in the Summer 2009 Physics/MRSEC Research Experiences
for Undergraduates Program


Cyril (Tony) Allen
North Carolina State University
"Simulating Conditions for XIAN Light Curves "
York group
Trey Banani
Georgia Southern University
"Measuring of the Wavelength Dependence of an Integrating Shere"
 Privitera group


Stephen Broughton
University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff
"Studies of the Z Boson and a Search for Same Sign Di-Muon Decays at the Tevatron"
Kim group

 

Skyler Degenkolb
University of Chicago
"Surface modification with Diblock copolymers"
Chin group

Stephanie Fronk
University of Chicago
"Polymer Self-Healing"
Sibener group
Athena Frost
University of Chicago
"Energy Transfer of Molecular Systems with Ultra-Fast Laser Spectroscopy: the Dispersive Effects of High Powered Lasers on Nonlinear Optics”
Engel group


Stephanie Gallegos
University of New Mexico
"Gravitational Lensing in Clusters of Galaxies"
Gladders group


Stephanie Harmon
Illinois Institute of Technology
"Phosopholipid-Cholesterol Interactions in Monolayer Systems"
Lee group
Sean Johnson
University of Chicago
"Short Time-Scale Variability in High Equivalent Width [O III] Objects in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
York group


Suyeon Khim
University of Chicago
"in silico nutagenesis of the K+ channel from Streptomyces lividans (KcsA)"
Perozo group

 
Alison Koser
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
"Cluster Formation in a Freely-Falling Granular Stream"
Jaeger group
Joyce Lainé
New York University
"The Sedov-Taylor solutio and a comparison to the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant"
Dwarkadas group

Alejandro Lopez
MIT
"Brownian Dynamics in a 2D-Driven Colloidal System"
Dinner group
Uri Morone
Washington Universiy in St. Louis
"Analysis of the Dynamics of Myosin in Cytoskeleton Reassembly"
Gardel group
Edgar Palacios
Illinois Institute of Technology
"Microfluidics: A ovel 3D passive Micromixer"
Kang/Ocola groups

Helen Parks
University of Pittsburgh
"Jammed Fingers: Applying Granular Jamming to Robotic Gripping"
Jaeger group
Shivani Pathak
Union College
"Cellular Migration and Mechanosensing"
Gardel group


Ashley Perko
MIT
"Q/U Imaging Experiment Beam Systematics"
Winstein group

 

Samantha Stam
Michigan Technological University
"Microscipic Mechanics of Cytoskeletal Proteins"
Gardel group
Maria Tiongco
University of Michigan
"Testing Detectors for the South Pole Telescope "
Meyer group


Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin
Swarthmore College
"Suppressing Viscous Drop Splashing with Surface Roughness"
Nagel group

 

Nicole Vassh
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
"Identifying Nonequilibrium Systems Using the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem"
Mazenko group
Dili Wang
Columbia University
"Microwave Antenna Testing for Quantum Coherence Ezperiments"
Rosenbaum group


Rebecca Wilczak
University of Michigan, Dearborn
"Reducing the state-space of the Complex Lorenz flow"
Kadanoff/ Cvitanovic groups

 
 


Michael Zakrajsek
Rice University
"Studies of Z-->m-m+ and a Search for Z+m at the Tevatron"
Kim group