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Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street, Troy, New York 12180-3590 USA

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E-mail: physics@rpi.edu

Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (REU)

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Below is a list of the participating faculty members, their research subfields and examples of projects available for the undergraduates in previous years.

Astrophysics

• Wayne Roberge: Physics of Interstellar Matter Magnetohydrodynamics
• Douglas Whittet: Infrared Studies of Interstellar Dust
• Heidi Newberg: Structure and Formation of the Galaxy

Biological Physics

• Angel García: Biocomputation and Bioinformatics

• György Korniss: Computational and Analytical Studies of Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions
• Kim Lewis: Single Electron Devices
• Toh-Ming Lu: Materials for Microelectronic Interconnect
• Vincent Meunier: Computational Nanoscience, Nanolectronics and Energy Storage Device
• Saroj Nayak: Enzyme Reaction: Electronic Structure and Reaction Mechanism
• Gwo-Ching Wang: Growth and Characterization of Nanostructures
• Christian Wetzel: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors
• Shengbai Zhang: First-Principles Theory, Electronic Structures, and Renewable Energy

Optical Physics

• Shawn Lin: Photonic Crystals and Wave Guides
• Peter Persans: Optics of Quantum Dots
• John Schroeder: Semiconductor Nano-Crystal-Composite Materials
• Ingrid Wilke: THz Emitters and THz Interactions with Cells
• Masashi Yamaguchi: Ultrafast Optics and THz Spectroscopy

Particle Physics

• Paul Stoler: Installation and Testing of the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) Cerenkov Detector
• James Napolitano: Installation and Testing of the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) Cerenkov Detector
• Joel Giedt: Supersymmetry Theory and Lattice Field Theory