LTC Students - Summer 2016

The eight students in our 2016 summer group are all Stony Brook physics undergraduates or recent graduates. All have passed through Prof. Metcalf's sophomore-level Waves and Optics course (PHY-300) and have participated to some extent in his research group meetings. Three members of the group (Angela, Max and Jay) were introduced to optics-related research in the LTC in the spring semester of their freshman years.

Xiang Hua -  Xiang graduated Stony Brook May 2016 and will move to a graduate program in AMO physics at Columbia University this fall. He has been closely involved with the Metcalf group for the past two years, and has recently published a paper in Physical Review A with postdoc Chris Corder and Prof. Metcalf regarding a program to simulate the bichromatic force. This summer he is dividing his time between LTC research on polarized light (with Grant and Jessica) and continuing to work with the Metcalf group.

Grant Richmond - Grant will be a senior physics major in fall 2016. He has gotten some experience in the Metcalf group on an electronics project, but his team project this summer is his first hands-on optics experience.

Jessica Kurlander - Jessica will be a junior physics major in fall 2016. This summer's project with Grant and Xiang is her first experience with optics research.

Angela Pizzuto - Angela graduated May 2016 with a double degree in math and physics. She will enter a PhD physics program at Brown University in the fall, and hopes to specialize in AMO physics there.

Alex Gifford - Alex will be a senior physics major in fall 2016. He is working with Angela on a project to study diffraction by two adjacent cylinders.

Max Stanley - Max will be a junior physics major in fall 2016. This summer he is leading a team of three students in a study of ways to convert Hermite-Gauss modes from an open-cavity HeNe laser to other types of Gaussian modes.

Jay Rutledge - Jay will also be a junior physics major in fall 2016. He is working with Max and Marcus on the open-cavity laser modes project.

Marcus Lo - Marcus will be a senior physics major in fall 2016. His work this summer with Max and Jay is his first experience with hands-on optics research.