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ALPhA’s 2018 Laboratory Immersions
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Learn a new advanced laboratory experiment well enough to teach it - with confidence!
See the ALPhA Laboratory Immersions wiki page for more information about these and past experiments.
Equipment grants are available to Immersion participants.
The Jonathan F. Reichert Foundation has established a grant program to help purchase apparatus used in Laboratory Immersions. Limitations and exclusions apply, but generally speaking the foundation may support up to 40% of the cost of the required equipment. Preference will be given to ALPhA members in good standing. See the Reichert Foundation website for more information.
May 28-30, 2018, at Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA
Quantum Mechanics Experiments with Individual PhotonsFULL! Please register to be placed on a waitlist
Mark Beck is your mentor for this session.
June 5–7, 2018, at Colgate University
Hamilton, NY
Experiments on Photon Quantum MechanicsFULL! Please register to be placed on a waitlist.
Enrique ‘Kiko’ Galvez mentors this session.
June 13–15, 2018, at the University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
- FPGA Exercises in the Advanced Lab
Low Cost Ultrafast Optics with a Mode-locked Erbium Fiber LaserCLOSEDNano-Plasmonics and Surface Enhanced SpectroscopyCLOSED
Kurt Wick and Kevin Booth are mentors for this Immersion.
June 20–22, 2018, at the California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Eric Black and Kenneth Libbrecht will mentor you on these new versions of timeless topics.
June 25–27, 2018, at the University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Practical Light Microscopy- FULL! Please register to be placed on a waitlist
Neil Switz and Dan Fletcher are your mentors for this set of experiments.
June 27–29, 2018, at the University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Optical Trapping for Biological PhysicsCLOSEDFluorescence Correlation SpectroscopyCLOSED
Bob DeSerio is the mentor for these two experiments.
July 6-8, 2018, at the University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Spectroscopy from the Familiar to the Novel:
David Pengra is mentoring these Immersions.
July 9–11, 2018, at Buffalo State College
Buffalo, NY
- Pulsed NMR and 1-D Imaging
- Modern Interferometry
- Fourier Methods
Earth’s Field NMR- CANCELLED- Diode Laser Spectroscopy
Condensed Matter Physics (full week! July 9-13)- FULL! Please register to be placed on a waitlist- High-TC Superconductivity
- Noise Fundamentals
Ram Rai, Jonathan Reichert, George Herold, and David Van Baak will mentor you on these experiments, almost all of which are available commercially.
July 13–15, 2018, at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Van Bistrow, Mark Chantell, and David McCowan mentor these experiments.
July 16–18, 2018, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
Cosmic Watch Muon Detectors- FULL! Please register to be placed on a waitlist
Your mentor for this experiment is Spencer Axani.
August 2–4, 2018, at Rose-Hulman College
Terre Haute, IN
Maarij Syed and Dominic Ludovici are mentors for these experiments.
August 8–10, 2018, at Willamette University
Salem, OR
Magneto-optical Traps- FULL! Please register to be placed on a waitlist- Inexpensive Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
- Flow Instabilities in Taylor-Couette Flow
Michaela Kleinert, David Altman, and Daniel Borrero will mentor you on these subjects.
Questions about ALPhA’s Laboratory Immersions Programs should be addressed to Lowell McCann by email at .
Links to ALPhA's previous Laboratory Immersion programs:
- ALPhA's 2017 Immersion Program
- ALPhA's 2016 Immersion Program
- ALPhA's 2015 Immersion Program
- ALPhA's 2014 Immersion Program
- ALPhA's 2013 Immersion Program
- ALPhA's 2012 Immersion Program
- ALPhA's 2011 Immersion Program
- ALPhA's 2010 Immersion Program