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Home / Undergraduate Research
IPST offers a variety of research projects that welcome undergradute participation. Interested students are encouraged to make
direct contact with sponsoring faculty.
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
Compensation
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
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Research Topics
- Dynamical systems and accelerator theory
Positions Available
Compensation
Course and Other Prerequisites
- Some knowledge of FORTRAN
Specific Projects Available
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Research Topics
- Freesing ultrafast dynamics with light
- Intense laser interaction with matter
- Atom optics and quantum information
Positions Available
Compensation
Course and other Prerequisites
- Ability to work with others and learn quickly
Specific Projects Available
- Computer simulations
- Hardware development: assembling optics, fabricating components
- Assisting with data collection and analysis
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Research Topics
- Intense laser-matter interactions
- Highly nonlinear optics
- Plasma and atomic physics
Positions Available
Compensation
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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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
Compensation
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
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Research Topics
- Cosmic ray physics; balloon-borne and space-based measurements of very high-energy particles from outer space
Positions Available
Compensation
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
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