REU Site Program: Condensed Matter and Laser Physics

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REU Site Program Condensed Matter and Laser
Physics REU Program at Montana State
UniversityJohn Neumeier and Yves Idzerda,
Montana State University - Bozeman DMR0552458

• For ten weeks in the summer of 2006, we hosted
  12 REU participants (chosen from 38 applicants)
  and 4 RET participants (chosen from 9
  applicants).
• Demographics REU participants - 12 total - 8
  Male, 4 Female (1 Native American).
• RET participants - 4
  total - 1 Male, 3 Female (1 part-time).
• Activities Laboratory Research - begins on the
  first day of the program.
• Weekly Meeting - discussions of Nobel prize
  winning Condensed Matter and Laser Physics.
• End of Program Presentations - participants give
  a seminar or poster presenting their results.
• Social Activities - two picnics, hikes,
  stargazing trip to Yellowstone
• National Park, and a whitewater rafting trip.

REU participants from both the Solar and
Condensed Matter Programs at Yellowstone National
Park.
RET participant Suzie Flentie and her
electrolysis demonstration she constructed for
her Junior High class.
Kathleen Lask from Southern Illinois University
grinding quartz for her project.
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REU Site Program Condensed Matter and Laser
Physics REU Program at Montana State
UniversityJohn Neumeier and Yves Idzerda,
Montana State University - Bozeman DMR0552458

• Some of the students and their projects
• Jamy Moreno, Richard Stockton State College, New
  Jersey, Electrical Transport Properties of a
  One-Dimensional Compound
• Michael Sykora, University of Wisconsin River
  Falls, Surface Plasmons and Nanoparticles
• Marc Binney, Winona State University, Winona,
  Minnesota, Ion Beam Studies of CoMnO Coated Steel
• Kathleen Lask, Southern Illinois University -
  Carbondale, Construction of a Thermal Expansion
  Device for High Resolution Measurements at High
  Temperature
• Davis Taylor, Whitman College, Walla Walla,
  Washington, Improved Strength and Thermal
  Expansion Anode Compositions for use in Anode
  Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
• Chris Stocking, University of Utah and Matt
  Fletcher, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle,
  Washington, Photon Echoes and Optical Excitation
  of Two-level Systems
• Jamie Niesz, Michigan State University,
  Stimulated Receptor-Ligand Interaction
  Measurements Using Atomic Force Spectrometry
• Michael Carroll, University of Utah and Charles
  (Chaz) Miller, Muskingham College, New Concord,
  Ohio, Synthesis and Characterization of Proton
  Conducting Ceramic Materials
• Desirée Peone, Salish and Kootenai College,
  Pablo, Montana, Experimental Characterization of
  Two-Photon Materials for Fast Rewritable Optical
  Storage Data

• Some of the teachers and their projects
• Suzie Flentie, Lewistown Junior High School,
  Lewistown, Montana, Integrating Current Physics
  Technology into the
• 8th Grade Classroom
• Janet Jorgensen, Harlowton High School,
  Harlowton, Montana, Investigation of T-Rex
  Fossils Preserved in Sandstone
• and Mudstone using Chemical and Structural
  Analysis
• T. L. (Buck) Buchanan, Belgrade Middle School,
  Belgrade, Montana, Deposition of Platinum on
  Stainless Steel for use
• in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells