Intern Blog Postings

Week 8: Switches and Glitches

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Taylor Colaizzi

This week, Dr. Charles and I installed GNU Radio onto the laboratory computer to see if we can use the software-defined radio in conjunction with a physical experiment. We haven't yet gotten around to testing out a live experiment, but we are very close!

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Week 8: NIST and Other Events

Saturday, July 23, 2022

Taylor Overcast

This week it became very obvious that the end of this summer is right around the corner. Our final presentations are underway and we have been contemplating the last things that we want to experience in the city.

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Week 8: Touring NIST!

Friday, July 22, 2022

Lucy Corthell

This Thursday, most of the interns got to tour the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)!

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Week 7: The One with [Seven] Parts

Monday, July 18, 2022

Aidan Keaveney

Hi y’all! This week, I’m going to talk about bill memos.

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Week 7: Karaoke, festivals, and a thunderstorm

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Nicole Leung

Eric was out of the office this week, so Maryam (my office mate) stood in as my mentor this week! For work, I focused on the mechanical side of things with Tatsat.

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Week 7: A Busy Friday, Asian Street Festival, Egusi with Fufu, The Untitled

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Gizem Dogan

It was a busy Friday! 

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Long Time No See!

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Katie Futrowsky

Hello again, world! I unfortunately contracted covid after a long 2+ years of managing to evade it, and it very much sucked. But, now, I am back to work as normal - except that the Congressman currently has covid, so maybe not ~completely~ normal.

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Week 7: Running out of Time

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Divyansh Chamria

This has been a very productive week for me in terms of the internship. As the end of the summer draws closer, I am thinking about everything I need to wrap up in the next three weeks, and I know that there isn’t enough time.

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Ben Johnson

Week 7: Road Trips and Power Spectral Densities

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Benjamin Johnson

During this week, I continued improving our reservoir computer training algorithm for the Lorenz system.  I carried on using the output weight matrix averaging technique to model the Lorenz equations based on a set of initial conditions and parameters, then producing a Power Spectral Density (PSD

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Week 7: Space Mail

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Matangi Melpakkam

I started this week off at home. After a strong return from Fourth of July at work, I picked up my mom from the airport. It was nice to see her after her long trip to India. I returned to DC on Tuesday and spent Wednesday recording a panel and working on the budget project.

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