Undergraduate Research Opportunities
IPST offers a variety of research projects
that welcome undergradute participation. Interested students are encouraged
to make direct contact with sponsoring facutly.
Professor Michael
A. Coplan
CSS Rm. 3239
301-405-4858
coplan@umd.edu
Research Topics:
- Development of instrumentation for the efficient detection of energetic
neutral atoms in space
- Solar wind turbulence
- Investigation of efficient cold neutron detectors
Positions Available:
- Summer
- Academic Year
Compensation:
- Course Credit
- Hourly pay
Course and other Prerequisites:
- Some experience with data analysis software
- Laboratory experience, electronics
Specific Projects Available:
Undergraduate students who have
worked in my laboratory over the last few years and their projects:
- Matthew Dantas-McCutcheon: Numerical models of spacecraft instrumentation
- Evan Ulrich: Development of high mass resolution spectrometers for space
applications
- Debjani Roy: Analysis of solar wind coherence using data from the SoHO
and Wind spacecraft
- Kelly Sittler: Properties of the solar wind at 1 a.u.
- Alex Gross: Design and construction of an ion spectrograph for investigation
of the polar cusp
- Elena Zeitsev: Calibration of an ion spectrograph for investigation
of the polar cusp
Professor James
F. Drake
A.V. Williams Rm. 3311
301-405-1471
drake@plasma.umd.edu
http://www.physics.umd.edu/dsat/
Research Topics:
- Dynamical systems and accelerator theory
Positions Available:
- Summer
- Academic Year
Compensation:
- Pay
-Course Credit
Course and other Prerequisites:
- Some knowledge of FORTRAN
Specific Projects Available:
Professor Wendell
T. Hill, III
IPST Rm. 2120
301-405-4813
wth@ipst.umd.edu
http://ipst.umd.edu/Hill_Lab/
Research Topics:
- Freesing ultrafast dynamics with light
- Intense laser interaction with matter
- Atom optics and quantum information
Positions Available:
- Summer
- Academic Year
Compensation:
- Pay
-Course Credit
Course and other Prerequisites:
- Ability to work with others and learn quickly
Specific Projects Available:
- Computer simulations
- Hardware development: assembling ptics, fabricating componets
- Assisting with data collection and analysis
Professor H. M.
Milchberg
IPST Rm. 2123
301-405-4816
milch@ipst.umd.edu
http://lasermatter.umd.edu
Research Topics:
• Intense
laser-matter interactions
• Highly
nonlinear optics
• plasma
and atomic physics
Positions Available:
• Summer
and academic year
Compensation:
• Pay
• Course
Credit
Course and other Prerequisites:
• energy
and enthusiasm, curiousity, love of tinkering
• Physics
and ECE undergraduates preferred
Specific Projects Available:
• designing
and machining parts for lasers and experiments
• computer
simulations
• data
acquisition hardware and programming
• operating
and maintaining lasers
• assisting
graduate students with experiments
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Professor Rajarshi
Roy
AV Williams #3347
301-405-1636
rroy@glue.umd.edu
http://www.ipst.umd.edu/People/Profiles/roy_r.html
Research Topics:
- Fiber Laser Dynamics and Communication with Chaotic Waveforms
- Spatial Light Modulators and Spatio-Temporal Chaos and Patterns
- Semiconductor lasers with external feedback
- Applications to laser ranging and sensing, delay differential equations.
Positions Available:
- Summer
- Academic Year
Compensation:
- Course Credit
Course and other Prerequisites:
- Must be willing to work 10 hours/week
- Some experience working with electronics and computers, interest in
data acquisition and analysis, numerical modelling
Specific Projects Available:
- Data analysis and processing
- Simulations
- Hardware development
Professor Eun-Suk
Seo
CSS Rm. 3203
301-405-4855
seo@umd.edu
http://cosmicray.umd.edu/homepage/
Research Topics:
- Cosmic ray physics; balloon-borne and space-based measurements of very
high-energy particles from outer space
Positions Available:
- Summer
- Academic Year
Compensation:
- Pay
-Course Credit
Course and other Prerequisites:
- Must be willing to work 20 hours/week
- Some experience working with adhesives and plastics, electronics; shop
equipment; computerized data analysis and presentation.
Specific Projects Available:
- Data analysis and processing
- Simulations
- Hardware development
Updated 9/22/06 |
