Collaborators

 

Winfield Hill

Rowland Institute at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Robert Kimberk

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Charles Wilson

Consultant

 

 

 

Students

 

Samuel Johnson Stoever, Cornell undergraduate

Motion system ephemeris.

4 Jun 07 –

10 Aug 07

Jake Ellowitz, Clark U. undergraduate

Capacitance gauge calibration, Gen-I data acquisition software.

9 May 07 –

10 Aug 07

Richard Hickman, U. Southampton (UK) MS candidate

Capacitance gauges: sensitivity and systematic error calculations, software, implementation.

5 Sep 06 –

11 May 07

Daniel Jou, Harvard undergraduate

Motion system.

11 Jul 06 -

28 Sep 06

Tiffany Kataria, SUNY Stony Brook undergraduate

Embedded microcontroller for capacitance gauge

5 Jun 06 -

11 Aug 06

Beth Gould, WPI undergraduate

Real-time data acquisition software.

13 Jun 05 -

James Straus, high school student

3D mechanical drawing of modified bouncer and air slide.

June 03 -

Aug 04

Alexandru Ene, Harvard undergraduate

Algorithm and programming for new bouncer linkage; data structure and programming for data acquisition.

4 Jun 01 -

28 Aug 01

Kelzie Beebe, Harvard undergraduate

TFG extended range and hopping, coupling from TFG to POEM cavity.

12 Jun 01 -

24 Aug 01

Alex McCauley, high school student

Alignment sensitivity in stable and unstable cavities; algorithm for new bouncer linkage.

23 Jun 01 - 3 Aug 01

Glen Nixon, Purdue undergraduate, NSF REU intern

TFG extended range and hopping, on command and autonomous to follow large distance changes, loop response tests.

11 Jun 01 - 9 Aug 01

Jean Lee, Harvard undergraduate

Programming the linear slide.

22 Jan 01 -

1 June 01

Alejandro Jenkins, Harvard undergraduate

Adaptation of TFG for use at high speed with large distance changes, connection of TFG to freely-falling masses.

12 June 00 - 4 June 01

Brett Altschul, MIT math grad. student

Programming linear slide, commissioning bouncer, demonstrate vertical operation; programming data acquisition.

5 June 00 - Sept 00

Brandon McKenna, Harvard undergraduate

Adaptation of TFG for larger range of distances.

21 Mar 00 - 26 Jun 00

Dennis Feehan, Harvard undergraduate

Interface of linear motor to PC, begin programming motion, test horizontal motion.

6 Mar 00 - June 00

Giovanni DeSanti, Boston Univ. undergraduate

Used AutoCAD to prepare detailed 3D mechanical drawing of bouncer, comprising four separate interconnected weldments. Contributed to design.

24 May 99 - 14 Aug 99

Naibi Marinas, U. Florida undergraduate, NSF REU Intern

Measurement of properties of Tracking Frequency distance Gauge (TFG) for use as high speed precision servo.

14 Jun 99 - 9 Aug 99

Jennifer Hoffman, Harvard undergraduate

Polarization alignment in TFG, data acquisition software.

3 Feb 99 - 15 Apr 99