Overview of the Program
The 2009 Arizona Summer Program was an exciting 4-week research
experience
for undergraduates in Computational Photonics. There were lectures
given by
experts covering computational, mathematical, physical and engineering
aspects
of the subject accompanied by hands-on computational research
experience. The
educational and cultural part of the program included discussions of
graduate
programs, opportunities in industry and national labs, and visits to
Students worked on their projects related to the ongoing research at
the
- Optimization of the thermally pumped terahertz emission from a family of photonic crystals
- A fast implementation of Post’s formula for optical pulse propagation in dispersive media
- Preconditioners for frequency domain edge FEM Maxwell solver
- Induced infrared ultrashort pulse generation in guided media
- Nonlinear Drude plasma model for ultra-short pulse simulation
The program was directed by Dr. Brio and co-directed by Dr. Dostert. Each project had a project manager and larger research groups had a team leader. The project managers had different styles of managing. For example, Paul Dostert was a hands-on manager, he has developed, installed and verified each piece of the software students used or developed, and he interacted with students continuously on a daily basis making his “office” in the computer lab, while the others chose a more “industrial” approach to meet with the students at regular times over the week or whenever problems arose. All project managers wrote most of the software for the projects they had managed.
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