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Ben Johnson

Week 7: Road Trips and Power Spectral Densities

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Benjamin Johnson

During this week, I continued improving our reservoir computer training algorithm for the Lorenz system.  I carried on using the output weight matrix averaging technique to model the Lorenz equations based on a set of initial conditions and parameters, then producing a Power Spectral Density (PSD

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Week 7: Space Mail

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Matangi Melpakkam

I started this week off at home. After a strong return from Fourth of July at work, I picked up my mom from the airport. It was nice to see her after her long trip to India. I returned to DC on Tuesday and spent Wednesday recording a panel and working on the budget project.

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Week 7: Kayaking

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Valeria Carla Viteri-Pflucker

This week kicked off with a lot of math. To understand exactly how we extract the two-photon absorption and optical Kerr effect values out of the data taken, Jared helped walk me through all the math which took us several hours. It all makes sense now!

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Week 7: Crafting Tables

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Anthony Olguin

This week I worked on putting together data from multiple papers. I collected O/H and C/O ratio abundances for one table in a text file. Then I converted the table to a latex and fits format. It was relatively simple but there was a lot of papers to look at.

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Week 7: Another Checkmark on my Bucket List

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Janessa Slone

Welcome back!

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Week 7: Michigan!

Saturday, July 16, 2022

Taylor Overcast

There is no way for words on a screen to give this week justice. Not to be dramatic, but this week is one that I will remember for the rest of my life. This week I attended the AAPT Summer Meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I drove with Mark (my mentor) and arrived on Sunday night.

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Week 7: Group lunch hosted by the AIP Foundation team!

Friday, July 15, 2022

Lucy Corthell

This week my mentor and I got the code running which means I now have a large excel sheet of all the data I need! I manually checked 5 colleges/universities and it seems to have all the correct information.

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Week 6: Reconnections

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Divyansh Chamria

This week started off with 4th of July celebrations, so Monday was a day off from work. I have enjoyed the festivities quite a bit during the last couple of years at Colgate, but I was very excited to experience it in the middle of the political capital of the U.S.

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Week 6: The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS

Monday, July 11, 2022

Aidan Keaveney

Hi y’all! Last week’s blog was a real bummer, so as a palette cleanser, this week I’m going to talk about the phone calls we receive in Congressman Foster’s office.

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Week 6: Pupusas and Movies

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Emma Goulet

This week, I am writing this blog post from my new spot along the Potomac! Rock Creek park extends near our apartment building, and it has become one of my favorite spaces to come run or just hang out. The sunset here is beautiful, and the people-watching is even better.  

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