Month: September 2017
The VOLVO Rule: When troubleshooting, turn only ONE knob at a time!
Notes from the lecture: Advanced Knobs & Needles: Thinking About Experiments FAQ: Do we need to use Python and/or am I not allowed to use KGraph/Excel? No – but the quality and completeness of your data analysis should not be limited by your choice of tools not designed for the task at ...
Prime Directive of the Knob-Turner: The knob-turner must stare at the correct needle when turning the knob.
Notes from lecture: Colorado-Boulder Modeling Framework by the Lewandowski Group Failure is a gift. When I say that your only obligation is to be honest, I am not saying that you must not knowingly lie – that is of course a given. What I am saying is that you must be vigilant against letting ...
Roy Ready receives a DOE SCGSR Award!
Roy Ready has been selected to receive the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award for the proposed research project, “Towards a More Sensitive Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment of Radium-225”, to be conducted at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) with our collaborator Matt Dietrich. Roy was selected is ...
Six Undergrads Receive Support to Participate in CEU-DNP 2017
Six students were selected to participate in CEU-DNP this October in Pittsburgh and were offered support for lodging for their participation: Courtney Nelson (REU Student): Optical Thin Film Thickness Measurement for the Single Atom Microscope Daniel Coulter: Design of a Prototype Single Atom Microscope for Nuclear Astrophysics Evan Ryan (Honors College Seminar): Characterizing Optical Backgrounds ...
SPINLAB @ MSU 