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REU Research
Participants, Projects and Mentors

Front
Row, from Left to Right: Barry Long (Juniata College), Paul Canepa (Linfield College),
Tim Calver (Northern Arizona University), Colin Gurganus (Eastern Michigan University), Jerry He
(Williams College), Kelty Allen (Oberlin
College), Ajani Ross (Wright State University), Back Row, from Left to Right: Paula
Miller (Wright State University), Lindsey Perry (Sinclair Community
College), Cara Campbell (University of Mary Washington), Katherine Yeager (Wright
State University), Debbie Cox (Ohio Northern University), and Andrea
Herrick (Ohio Northern University).
An
Undergraduate Research in Physics Poster Session that was hosted by the
Department of Physics at Wright
State University
and the Center for Directed Energy at Air Force Institute of Technology was
held in the Wright State University Student Union Endeavor Room (E156) on
Wednesday, August 17, 2005 from 12:30 – 3:00 PM. The following posters were presented:
HELEEOS Lite
Kelty Allen (Oberlin
College) and Richard Bartell (AFIT Department of Engineering Physics)
Optical
Monitoring of Pulsed Laser Deposition of Super-Conducting YBa2Cu3O7-x Films
Timothy Ireland Calver (Northern Arizona University), Glen Perram and Carl Druffner (AFIT
Department of Engineering Physics)
Active
Terahertz Imaging
Cara A. Campbell (University
of Mary Washington)
and Doug Petkie (WSU Department of Physics)
Exploring the
Effects of Elixir (CeO2) on the Properties of YBCO Thin Film Superconductors
Paul Canepa (Linfield College),
Gregory Kozlowski (Wright State University),
S. Apt, R. Biggers, R. Kerns, I. Maartense and T. Peterson (U.S. Air Force Research
Laboratories)
Automated
Calibration and Control of Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulators
Julie Chapman (Case Western Reserve University),
Matthew Goda (AFIT Department of Electrical
Engineering) and Jason Schmidt (University
of Dayton)
Simulation of
Atmospheric Effects on Laser Light
Debra Cox (Ohio
Northern University) and LtCol Steven Fiorino (AFIT Department of Engineering Physics)
Optimization
and Modeling of Multimode Raman Fiber Laser
Kevin Engel (Case
Western Reserve University), Capt. Nathan Terry and
Dr. Won Roh (AFIT Department of Engineering
Physics)
Investigation
of Lower Atmosphere Propagation of a High Energy Laser Operating at 1.31525
μm Using the Atmospheric Compensation
Simulation Wave Optics Code
Amanda Fellows (Rose-Hulman Institute
of Technology), Dr. John O. Miller, Richard Bartell
and Maj Scott Long (AFIT Department of
Engineering Physics)
Atomic
Spectroscopy of Oxygen Emissions in the Visible Spectrum
Sara Golub (University of Missouri),
Matt Lange, Dr. Glen P. Perram and Greg Pitz (AFIT Department of Engineering Physics)
Organic
Solar Cells from Functionalized Donor-Acceptor Molecules
Colin W. Gurganus (Eastern Michigan
University), Michael F. Durstock, Rachel R. Smith,
Adam P. Smith, Barney E. Taylor and Long Y. Chiang (AFRL/MLBP)
Detailed
Stochastic Simulation of Transcription
Xiang Jerry He (Williams
College) and Brent
Foy (WSU Department of Physics)
Laser
Diagnostics of Energized Atmospheric Air
Andrea Herrick (Ohio
Northern University) and Steven F. Adams, (AFRL PRPE)
Fiber Optic
High Pressure Sensor
Barry Long (Juniata
College) and John
Ferguson (AFRL MLPB)
Mathematica Vs. FEMLAB
Paula Miller (Wright
State University)
and Lok C. Lew Yan Voon (WSU Department of
Physics)
Michelson
Interferometer and Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
Lindsey Perry (Sinclair
Community College) and Douglas T.
Petkie (Wright
State University)
Instrumentation
for obtaining Catodaluminescence Spectra
Ajani Ross (Wright
State University), Gary Farlow and
Jerry Clark (WSU Department of Physics)
Analysis of
the Mars Global Surveyor Radial Occultation Data
Katherine Yeager (Wright
State University)
and Jane Fox (WSU Department of Physics)
This material is based upon work supported
by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0353963 with funding
support from the Department of Defense. 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 (NSF).
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