PHYSICS DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES - 1995 Projects
Supported by the NATIONAL SCIENCE
FOUNDATION PROGRAM
The list below gives the names, home institution, and titles of final
reports for the 1995 participants.
- Christopher Bouchard, U. Missouri-Rolla,
A Least Squares
Calibration of H(e,e'p)
- Christopher Cueman, College of W&M,
Design and Construction of a
Pulsed NMR Spectrometer
- Timothy Finegan, W&M,
Development of a Molecular Dynamics
Simulation
- Michael Groenert, W&M,
A Vacuum-Compatible Kelvin Probe for
Contact Potential Difference Studies
- Eliot Moore, Moravian,
Development of a Positron Lifetime System
- Allison Newton, W&M,
Development of a Computer Model for Lamb
Wave Scattering
- Eric Phipps, Miami of Ohio,
Lamb Wave Measurements for the
Nondestructive Evaluation of Disbonds
- Sean Reidy, St. Bonaventure,
Thermal Diffusivity Measurement for the
Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials
- Mari-Anne Rosario, Harvey Mudd College,
Collision Induced
Dissociatin of H3+ and D3+
- Kevin L. Silverman, Bucknell,
A Method of Gas Purity Detection in
a Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber
- M. A. Singer, U. Kentucky,
Calculating Molecular
Forces in
BaTiO_3 to be used in a Molecular Dynamics Simulation which Models
Phase Transitions
- Matthew Stone, Moravian,
Optimization of a Position
Sensitive PMT for use in Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
- Joe Thomes, W&M,
Measuring Plasma Characteristics using
a Gridded Energy Analyzer
- Jarreas Underwood, Guilford,
The Creation and Testing of High
Temperature Superconducting Materials
- Eric Wertz, Bucknell,
Absorption and Detection of Photons
in a Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber
EXAMPLES OF PUBLICATIONS with REU Participants
- Radiowave Emission from the Stress and Fracture of Materials ,
D. Manos, M. Hinders, B. Smith, Adam Friedman and Tom Venhaus, in
Reviews of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, Vol
14, pp 83-90, D.O. Thompson and D.E. Chimenti, eds. (Plenum
Publishing, NY, 1995).
- Electron Detachment and Charge Transfer for Collisions
of X- with Ozone J. A. Fedchak, B. L. Peko, L. K. Keyte
and R. L. Champion, Bull.Am.Phys.Soc. 39 1474 (1994)
- Reconstruction of Chaotic Signals using Symbolic Data
X. Z. Tang, E. R. Tracy, A. D. Boozer, A. deBrauw
Phys. Lett. A 190(1994)393
- Symbol Sequence Statistics in Noisy Chaotic Signal
Reconstruction X. Z. Tang, E. R. Tracy, A. D. Boozer,
A. deBrauw, R. Brown, Phys. Rev. E 51(1995)3871
College of William and Mary, Dept. of Physics
last updated: May 9 1996
armd@physics.wm.edu