Calendar of LTC Events
Summer 2014
Week 1
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)
Week 2
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)
Week 3
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)
Week 4
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)
Week 5
Wednesday 30 July 2014 LTC Student Research Update Presentations – Pizza
Lunch (LTC students and mentors, undergrads working with Hal and Eden)
Week 6
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)
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)
Week 7
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.
Jonathan - Interferometer and Airy beam project
Andrea - Single Bubble Sonoluminescence
Alex - Optical Tweezers
Ikaasa - Polarized light and the Spectrometer
Libby - Laser Light Show
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)
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)
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