PFC & JQI Summer Students

The Physics Frontier Center at JQI takes an active role in encouraging high-school students and college undergraduates to participate in various aspects of PFC research projects during the summer months. Each year many students gain invaluable, hands-on experience at laboratories and other research facilities at the University of Maryland (UMD) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). They are typically supervised by graduate students and/or postdoctoral researchers, but also interact with numerous group members, including JQI Fellows and senior scientists. With the completion of the Physical Sciences Complex, students now have the opportunity to work in this state-of-the-art facility. In some cases, the summer students are local and are able to work throughout the academic year. 

Here are some example publications of the research undergraduates: 

Intermodal energy transfer in a tapered optical fiber: optimizing transmission, S. Ravets, J. E. Hoffman, P.R. Kordell (undergraduate), J. D. Wong-Campos, S. L. Rolston, and L. A. Orozco , J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 30, 2361–2371 (2013)

Emergence and Frustration of Magnetism with Variable-Range Interactions in a Quantum Simulator,R. Islam, C. Senko, W. C. Campbell, S. Korenblit, J.. Smith, A.. Lee, E. E. Edwards, J. C. C. Wang, J. K. Freericks, and C. Monroe , Science, 340, 583 (2013)