The application deadline was Friday, February 1, 2008.   We hope to notify all students of their status by the end of the month.

Please read the information below and follow the instructions.

Admission to the program is competitive. Students who have a strong interest in research in physics and who meet the following requirements are encouraged to apply:

• U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident 
• registered at an accredited four-year institution of higher education
• will have finished sophomore or junior year
• concentration in physics or engineering physics

A complete application will include:

• Online Application
• An official transcript from your undergraduate institution
• Two letters of recommendation

Deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, February 1, 2008. The review process will begin shortly after the deadline, so please be sure that we have all materials by that date.

Students selected for the program will be awarded stipends of $4,250 for the ten weeks of research activity. Housing will be provided for visiting students.  This year's program runs from Tuesday, May 27, to Friday, August 1, 2008. 

For further information, contact:

Matt Blank - Physics REU
2464 Randall Laboratory
450 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040
Phone: (734) 764-5539
Email: physics.reu@umich.edu

Past Research Projects

2007 Summer Research Projects

• "Monitoring Interferometer Strain and Modulated Waveforms", by Ramon Armen
• "Cluster Mass Function for Different Cosmologies", by Daniel Barkley
• "Neural Network Behavior as a Result of Type I and Type II Threshold Dynamics", by Andrew Bogaard
• "DES (Dark Energy Survey) Filter Testing and Calibration", by Junghun Cho
• "B-field Switching in Electron Imaging Systems", by Katie Crimmins
• "Lie Algebras and their Representations", by Sam Espahbodi
• "What is a galaxy cluster?", by Aaron Fenyes
• "Binary Quasar Systems", by Gary Foreman
• "And now, for more about DNA Looping courtesy of LacI", by Kristofer Gryte
• "Building a FROG" , by Randall Johnson
• "Testing DESTINY", by Jeffrey Kritzman
• , by Juwon Lee
• "Measuring the Hall Effect at High Temperatures", by Steven Moses
• "ILC Tracking and Alignment", by Alex Nitz
• "Illumination Field Uniformity for the Measurement of Quantum Efficiencies of SNAP’s Infrared Detectors", by Cesar Palma
• "DNA Constructs", by Loni Rogers
• "Minor Progress for TWINSOL; Major Edification for Aaron", by Aaron Rose
• "Dynamical Growth Using Preferential Attachment and Emergent Probability Dynamical Growth Using Preferential Attachment and Emergent Probability", by Rocio Ruelas
• "Biophysics: DNA Looping by Protein Interactions", by Adam Russman
• "Single Molecule Studies of Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenase B", by Elizabeth Shtrahman
• "Molecular Dynamics of Sugars in Lipid Bilayers", by Stephen Siciliano
• "Studies in Higgs and Z Decays", by Edward Timko
• "Gold Nanoparticle Chemosensors for Microscale Gas Chromatography System", by Richard Turner
• "A Guide to Guiding Rydberg Atoms", by Varun Vaidya
• "X-ray Observations of Optically Selected Galaxy Clusters", by Paige Warmker
• "Bulk PALS Measurements of P2VP/Silica Nanocomposites Bulk PALS Measurements of P2VP/Silica Nanocomposites", by David Welch
• "Explosions in the Sky, or: How I Learned to Use ROTSE and Study Variable Objects", by Robert Wharton
• "Ann Arbor Summer with the SNAP Lab", by Eric Woodward
• "Energy Transfer at the Single Molecule Level", by Katherine Wooley
• "Active Magnetic Shielding in an EDM Experiment Using Highly Polarized Radon", by Jan Zirnstein

2006 Summer Research Projects

• Artificial Neural Networks and You (and Arnold Schwarzenegger), by David Adams
• A Search for the Charged Higgs Boson in Top Quark Decays, by Jeffrey Ammon
• Ramon Armen
• Matt Becker
• Raman and Ultrafast Investigation of Optical Phonons in Sb2Te3, by David Benjamin
• SNAP, by Ken Beyerlein
• SNAP, by Meagan Carr
• Keegan Cooke
• Shadow Imaging Magneto-Optical Traps, by Katie Crimmins
• Effects of a Moderate Magnetic Field on the Induction of DNA Strand Breaks, by Matt Geramita
• Medical Physics - UV-C Radiation Analysis, by Matt Golobish
• Electrical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes, by Kate Green
  Dynamics of Single DNA Molecules, by Clinton Hansen
• SNAP: Cosmic Ray Detector, by Eugene Hwang
• LIGO: Algorithms for the Improvement of Signal to Noise Ratio, by Courtney Jarman
• SNAP, by Anastasia Karabina
• Primary Plane Orbits in Triaxial Mass Distributions, by Jacob Ketchum
• Construction of the Gas Monitoring Chamber, by Mike Kiesel
• Introductory Lab Development, by Michelle Love
• Ultra Cold Michigan Jet, by JJ Nelson
• Bulk Motions of the ICM with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, by Kristina Nyland
• Magnetic Scattering at Low Intensities in Organic Compounds, by Benjamin Schwartz
• FRET to Explore the Stability of Amyloid Beta Protein, by Elizabeth Shtrahman
• An Examination of AGN in Galaxy Clusters, by Laura Spencer
• Locking LIGO-like Interferometers Using Non-Resonant Amplitude Modulated Sidebands, by Pete Troyan
• Improvements to the Dipole Blockade, by Mallory Walker
• Slowing and Cooling an Atomic Beam, by Robert Van Wesep
  Galaxy Clusters: X-ray and Optical, by Paige Warmker
• Yuen Yiu

2003 Summer Research Projects

• SNAP, by Joseph Paul
• Stable Current Supply for a Solenoid Magnet in the Operation of a Dual Species Maser, by Jeffrey Germond
• The Precision Measurement of Rubidium Polarization, by Russell Bloomer
• Li-8 Scattering at 28 MeV, by Joseph Lucido
• Colliding Drops, by Bill Robinson
• A Pair Production-Based Positron Beam, by Steven Chapman
• Final Muon Detector Integration and Certification Test, by Jordan Horowitz and Curtis Weaverdyck
• Morphology Correlations of Large-Scale Structures, by Sara Kasun
• Continuous Gel Electrophoresis, by Jeff Wereszczynski
• Surface Luminescence in Rare Earth Doped Metals, by Stephen Johnson
• Computer Simulations of Positron Beams, by Matthew Golobish
• Molecular and Atomic Emissions, by Natalie Hinkel
• ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube Gas Test System, by Nanase Harada
• Hyperfine Re-pumping of a Magneto-Optic Trap (MOT) using a Littrow Extended-Cavity Diode Laser, by Anne Lewis