Student Presentations of Off-Campus Researchduring the Summer of 2006

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Speaker(s): Various students

Greg Sandstrom and Steve Von der Porten,
Umachines – Pasadena, CA
Dr. Tom Tsao
Constructing a phase-shift interferometer to test MEMS deformable mirrors

Sam Skillman
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Brian O’Shea, T-06 Group, Theoretical Astrophysics
Computer simulations of star/galaxy formation

David Coats
U. of Minnesota REU Program
Dr. Jian Ping Wang
MEMS array of ferromagnetic islands for magnetic recording

Matt Reed
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. Rahul Prasad
Automating optical conditioning for the National Ignition Facility

Kevin Mistry
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Martin Taccetti
Temperature relaxation in strongly coupled plasmas

Kevin Zielnicki
UC San Diego REU Program
Dr. M. Brian Maple
Strongly correlated electron phenomena in filled skutterudite compounds

Colloquium

Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 p.m. in Shanahan B460. The talks are open to all students and to the public, and are frequently attended by scientists from the other Claremont Colleges, Cal Poly Pomona, and others. The series features speakers from a broad range of institutions and fields of physics.