Intern Blog Postings

Week 9: Published at Last, Thrifting, Black Bird and Discovery

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Gizem Dogan

My first Physics Today story is now published!

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Ben Johnson

Week 9: Winding Down

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

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Week 9: The Bathtub Heist

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. 

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Week 9: Almost Done

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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Week 9: NIST Photoshoot and Frontiers in Optics

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Valeria Viteri-Pflucker

This week was a little weird for me at work. The week before was time for rapid data collection, and Monday I had to figure out how to process all of it, create the plots, and put them into an abstract for Frontiers in Optics due on Tuesday. I got it done!

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Week 9: Talks, Jellyfish, The Wharf, and Data

Friday, July 29, 2022

Taylor Overcast

It is wild to think that we only have one week left. This summer has flown by and, while I am excited to return to my university, I wish that I could somehow do both.

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Week 9: Lunch and Learns!

Friday, July 29, 2022

Lucy Corthell

This week we had two Lunch and Learns! The first was with Dr. Renee Horton from NASA. Dr. Renee is an inspiring scientist who has worked at NASA for 13 years, has a kids book series called Dr.

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Saksham Prajapati

Week 8: Danger Aborted

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

So, there was some change of plans with our matching project. I had to update my coding to match this new idea and that’s all I did for this week’s work. After that, I have been working on the documentation of those programs and will continue working for the upcoming week.

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Week 8: The attack of the jellies

Monday, July 25, 2022

Valeria Viteri-Pflucker

 

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Week 8: The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion

Monday, July 25, 2022

Aidan Keaveney

Hi y’all! This week, I’m going to talk about constituent letters. When we get a correspondence from a constituent, be it phone call, email, fax, letter, or smoke signal, it is the policy of our office to respond to it. We get about 1500 incoming correspondence each week.

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