Calendar of LTC Events
Summer 2013
Week 1
Monday 10 June 2013
Welcome Lunch for undergraduates – Simons
Center Café
(John Noé, Hal Metcalf, Marty Cohen, Melia
Bonomo, Rachel Sampson, Casey McKenna, Seth Berl, James Dragan)
Wednesday 12 June 2013
Student Research Updates – Pizza
Lunch
(LTC undergraduates and mentors, Metcalf group undergraduate students)
Week 2
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Student Research Updates – Pizza Lunch
(LTC undergraduates and mentors, Metcalf group undergraduate students)
Week 3
Monday 24 June 2013
Welcome Lunch for Simons students – Simons
Center Café
(John Noé, Marty Cohen, Melia Bonomo, Rachel Sampson, Casey McKenna,
Kathy Camenzind, Kevin Zheng, William Meehan)
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Student Introductory Presentations – Pizza
Lunch
(LTC students and mentors, Metcalf group undergrad and graduate
students, faculty
of the Stony Brook physics department, math and physics Simons students)
Week 4
Wednesday 3 July 2013
LTC Group Meeting – Stony Brook Hospital
Cafeteria
(Melia Bonomo, Rachel Sampson, Casey McKenna, Kathy Camenzind, Kevin
Zheng, William Meehan, Stefan Evans)
Week 5
Monday 8 July 2013
Welcome Dinner for Samantha – Pentimento
(John Noé, Melia Bonomo, Rachel Sampson, Samantha Scibelli, Mrs.
Scibelli)
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Samantha Scibelli – Pizza Lunch
(LTC students and mentors, Metcalf group undergrad and graduate
students, faculty of the Stony Brook physics department, physics and math Simons students)
My Research Experiences Examining the Spectra of Blue Stars
I began my research journey with Professor Heidi Jo Newberg at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My role was to look at classification errors in a large online database called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). I looked at the spectra, or light signature, of specifically blue stars. I classed the stars myself and then compared them to the SDSS classification. I found that 10% of the over 12,000 blue stars I look through were misclassified. Because of my research I was able to experience presenting my findings at two state level professional conferences and at the national American Astronomical Society Meeting. I also had opportunities to discuss my research while competing in local science fairs and at the Intel Science Talent Science competition, after being named one of the forty finalists. My experiences researching have made me passionate about scientific research and asking questions about the world around me.
Week 6
Monday 15 July - Friday 19 July 2013
Laser Sam's Visit
Week 7
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Urszula Golebiewska - Simons Center Café
(Urszula, John Noé, Kathy Camenzind, Melia Bonomo, Rachel Sampson)
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Giovanni Milione - Pizza Lunch
(LTC students and mentors, Metcalf group undergrad and graduate
students, Phil
Allen)
Classical Entanglement with a Vector Light Beam
In this presentation I will discuss some of our recent work on an idea referred to as "classical entanglement." I will begin with a brief and basic overview of quantum entanglement and non-locality (spooky action at a distance) between two spatially separated photons. This will include a definition of a maximally entangled Bell states. Then, I will give a definition of a classical light beam, for example a laser pointer, that has a 'vector' state of polarization. It will be shown that a classical light beam with a vector state of polarization is mathematically identical to a maximally entangled Bell state. For the classical light beam the role of two spatially separated particles is played by the light's spin and orbital angular momentum degrees of freedom which can be considered to be classically entangled. Several practical applications of classical entanglement will be discussed.
Farewell Dinner – Luigi's
(Giovanni Milione, Hal Metcalf, Melia Bonomo, William
Meehan, John Noé, Stefan Evans)
Week 8
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Jenny Magnes and students Tewa Kpulun, Ramy Abbady,
Brian Deer - Pizza Lunch
(LTC students and mentors, Maurice
Kernan, undergraduate and graduate students in the Metcalf AMO group)
Live Species Light Diffraction
Diffraction has been of great interest to the scientific community since Young's double slit experiment. The interference phenomenon that are caused by light diffraction fascinate physicists because of their complex mathematical and physical nature. The applications for diffraction are far reaching from traditional crystallography to DNA studies. Here we apply light diffraction to the study of biologically interesting samples.
Farewell Dinner - Eastern Pavilion
(Jenny Magnes, Hal Metcalf, Marilyn, Brian Deer, Rachel Sampson, Ramy
Abbady, Kathy Camenzind, Samantha Scibelli, Melia Bonomo, John Noè, Tewa
Kpulun)
Week 9
Tuesday 6 August 2013
Simons students tour the Laser Teaching Center
After Dr. Noé gave a few opening remarks, the Simons group was broken up into three groups that rotated around five different stations.
Melia planned out the group rotations, took pictures, and made sure that the event ran on schedule in an organized fashion. Dr. Noé showed one group our typical LTC demonstrations for 20 minutes, Kathy and William talked for 10 minutes each about their projects in optical tweezers and cylindrical vector beams respectively, and Sam and Kevin talked for a combined 10 minutes about their respetive projects on caustics and a cavity-dumped HeNe. Finally, Rachel took 10 minutes to present both her diffraction pattern research and a laser light show in the back room.
The light show was created from stretching a latex glove over a speaker, with a small fragment of a CD glued to the front. She directed both a red HeNe and a blue HeCad at this CD piece (which acts as a diffraction grating) that reflected the beams onto the ceiling. When music was played through the speaker, the glove vibrated (especially from the lower notes), causing the laser to continuously dart around the ceiling and create a mesmorizing design.
Wednesday 7 August 2013
Closing meeting of the Laser Teaching Center's 15th Summer
Program – Pizza Lunch
(LTC students and mentors, Metcalf group
undergrad and graduate students)
Friday 9 August 2013
Simons Summer Research Program – Poster
Symposium and Closing Ceremony
(Simons students and their families,
mentors, faculty)
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Farewell Lunch – Simons Center
Café
(John Noé, Kevin Zheng, Melia Bonomo, Rachel Sampson, Dave Battin,
Samantha Scibelli and her father, Kathy Camenzind, William Meehan and his
parents and two siblings)
Week 10
Wednesday 14 August 2013
Student Research Updates – Pizza
Lunch
(LTC undergraduates and mentors, Metcalf group undergraduate and
graduate students)
Casey McKenna: Zeeman effects in a short HeNe laser
James Dragan, Seth Berl: Trials and tribulations of the ARP (adiabatic rapid passage) experiment
Seth Berl: Bichromatic force computer simulations
Rachel Sampson: Attempting to create optimized optical vorticies
Stefan Evans: Simulating atom cloud interactions with LG beams