Calendar of LTC Events

Monday 30 June 2014
Welcome Lunch – Simons Center Café
(John Noé, Marty Cohen, Melia Bonomo, Libby Sutton, Ikaasa Suri, Alex Kelser, Jonathan Gill, Andrea O'Brisky)

       

Wednesday 2 July 2014
LTC Student Introductory Presentations – Pizza Lunch
(LTC students, mentors and friends, physics Simons fellows)

• List of student talks with abstracts

Wednesday 9 July 2014
Presentations from Leighton Zhao and Taylor Esformes – Pizza Lunch
(LTC students, mentors and friends, students from Hal's AMO group, students from Eden's quantum information lab, Simons fellows, other high school students and undergraduates)

• List of student talks with abstracts

       

Wednesday 16 July 2014
Presentation and BEC Lab Tour by Prof. Dominik Schneble – Pizza Lunch
(LTC students and mentors, students from Eden's quantum information lab, Simons fellows)

Wednesday 23 July 2014
Presentations and Quantum Info. Lab Tour by Prof. Eden Figueroa and his students
(LTC students, mentors and friends, students from Hal's AMO group, students from Eden's quantum information lab, Simons fellows, other SB students)

• List of student talks and more pictures

       

Wednesday 30 July 2014
LTC Student Research Update Presentations – Pizza Lunch
(LTC students and mentors, undergrads working with Hal and Eden)

• List of student talks

Monday 4 August 2014
Student Lunch with Stony Brook University's WISE Academic Advisor – Simons Center Café
(Doreen Aveni, John Noé, Libby Sutton, Andrea O'Brisky, Melia Bonomo)

Wednesday 6 August 2014
Presentation by Rachel Sampson '17 and LTC Student Research Updates – Pizza Lunch
(LTC students, mentors and friends, students from Tom Weinacht's group, students from Eden's quantum information lab, Simons fellows)

• List of student talks and more pictures

       

Group dinner with Rachel Sampson – Pentimento
(Rachel Sampson, Libby Sutton, Melia Bonomo, John Noe, Marty Cohen, Spencer Horton)

Thursday 7 August 2014
Presentation by Rachel Sampson on Spatial Light Modulators – Group Meeting
(LTC students and mentors, undergraduate from Eden's lab)

Monday 11 August 2014
Simons students tour the Laser Teaching Center

We started with general remarks about the LTC in the conference room. There were five main stations, each run by a different student, as well as optics demonstrations led by John in the conference room. Melia planned the station rotations and guided each group through the lab.

1. Jonathan - Interferometer and Airy beam project

2. Andrea - Single Bubble Sonoluminescence

3. Alex - Optical Tweezers

4. Ikaasa - Polarized light and the Spectrometer

5. Libby - Laser Light Show

           

• More pictures from the event

Tuesday 12 August 2014
Simons Summer Research Program Symposium and Closing Ceremony – Wang Center
(Simons students, their families and mentors, other SBU faculty and students)

           

• More pictures from the event

Farewell Lunch – Simons Center Café
(John Noé, Marty Cohen, Melia Bonomo, Libby Sutton, Andrea O'Brisky, Jonathan Gill and his mother, Alex Kelser and his parents, Ikaasa Suri and her parents and aunt, Hal Metcalf and Peter)