Intern Blog Postings

Ben Johnson

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Benjamin Johnson

This week, my work at Potomac Research was mostly completed, so I focused more on finalizing my presentation.  I practiced presenting a few times for my mentors, and once they gave me the green light, I was ready to go for Friday.  They took me out to lunch at a German restaurant in Alexandria on

Monday, August 1, 2022

Aidan Keaveney

Hi y’all! For my second-to-last blog, I thought I would talk about my final presentation topic: nuclear non-proliferation.

Monday, August 1, 2022

Matangi Melpakkam

This week, I pulled numbers from the giant legislation released: The Manchin-Schumer Reconciliation bill and the Appropriations bill. These two bills had a lot of relevant science policy budget figures.

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Nicole Leung

This week, I redesigned the star camera mount again! I updated the dummy camera model in Solidworks to reflect the actual size of the camera, and added a part to represent the lens holder.

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

Almost end of our internship. My work at my internship was almost done as well. All I had left was some documentation. While I was writing all of those down, I realized I could make the program even easier for other people and therefore I updated my script.

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Gizem Dogan

My first Physics Today story is now published!

Ben Johnson

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Benjamin Johnson

This week at work I continued my efforts from last week to implement a hybrid reservoir computing scheme.  I added a function which passes Euler integration steps into the reservoir in addition to the previous states and input signal when the system is in feedback mode.  This serves as an additio

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Janessa Slone

Second to last blog post. 

On Monday, the SPS Interns met over zoom with Dr. Renee Horton. She has an amazing and motivational bright spirit and had great advice for all of us. I am super excited to meet her in person at Physcon later this year. 

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Anthony Olguin

This week was spent finalizing research and preparing for the presentations next week. I finished putting together another set of tables this week and now only need to do two more tables. Spent time putting my slides together which is taking more time than I thought it would.

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