Mount David Summit 2016

Many Bates physics students presented their research at the Mount David Summit last week. The Mount David Summit is an annual celebration of student research, artistic work, and community-based scholarship at Bates College.

Nanopositioning Gold Nanoparticles for the Study of Plasmonics

Callum Douglass ’16 “Nanopositioning Gold Nanoparticles for the Study of Plasmonics”

Progress Toward Bose-Einstien Condensation on an Atom Chip as a Functional Testbed for Experiments aboard the Orbital NASA Cold Atom Laboratory

Daniel Paseltiner ’16 “Progress Toward Bose-Einstien Condensation on an Atom Chip as a Functional Testbed for Experiments aboard the Orbital NASA Cold Atom Laboratory”

Investigating the Properties of High-Power Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) Subject to Optical Feedback

Michaela Scanzillo ’16 “Investigating the Properties of High-Power Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) Subject to Optical Feedback”

Quadcopter Dynamics

Timothy Chamberlin ’16 “Quadcopter Dynamics”

Progress Toward Spatially resolved Single-Atom Imaging of 6Li in a Multi-well Potential

Tiago Correia ’17 “Progress Toward Spatially resolved Single-Atom Imaging of 6Li in a Multi-well Potential”

Characterizing Optical Aberrations in Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

Tuan Nguyen ’16 “Characterizing Optical Aberrations in Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy”

Modeling Freezing and Thawing of Arctic Permafrost

Wade Rosko ’17 “Modeling Freezing and Thawing of Arctic Permafrost”