Sunday, July 5, 2020
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We are about at the halfway mark of this summer internship and it is hard to fathom, it seems like we only just started. From time to time I think about what it would have been like to have this internship in DC, but I am just happy that we were able to have the opportunity to still participate in this internship in some form. This past week, there were not any internship events to attend so there is not much to report on in that regard. Looking forward to this coming week we will have a colloquium as well as the virtual picnic to be excited about.
As far as research related activities go, I have officially downloaded COMSOL and have run some test simulations as practice. I started off by modeling the potential surface of a quadrupole in a box with appropriate boundary conditions. My mentor has also sent me some example scripts to look at modeling the vibrating cantilever over a silicon dioxide thin surface covering a silicon bulk surface. This week, I hope that we can meet to discuss the script and results from the script so I can hopefully take my own direction and add onto what he has already modeled.
Billy "Trey" Cole