Julia Tsitron Hunter College Julia   worked   on   the   CLEO-c   RICH   Detector   during the   Summer   of   2003.      This   detector   is   a   major part     of     the     CLEO     Experiment     at     the     CESR Electron-Positron         Accelerator         at         Cornell University.      She   worked   on   aspects   of   the   RICH electronics,     monitoring     and     calibration.          She made   useful   analyses   of   the   performance   of   the RICH   electronics,   as   the   experiment   gears   up   for   a new     phase     of     operation     called     CLEO-c.          In particular,   she   studied   the   time   development   of electronic      noise,      tried      a      new      calibration technique,      and      analyzed      the      pulse-height distributions    used    to    measure    gain    over    the entire RICH Detector.  Julia   got   a   lot   of   experience   in   programming   and hardware,   and   also   learned   the   kinds   of   things   we do   in   high   energy   physics   experiments.      You   can read   about   her   work   in   her   REU   Report,   and   also in   her   final   presentation.      Julia   was   stationed   at Cornell,    and    worked    with    Marina    Artuso    and Bayar    Dambasuren,    under    the    guidance    of    the Cornell NSF REU program.  Julia   went   on   to   graduate   school   in   biophysics   at Rutgers University.   

Michael Barnes University of Arkansas Mike   worked   on   the   CLEO-III   RICH   Detector   during the   Summer   of   2002.      This   detector   is   a   major part   of   the   CLEO   Experiment   at   the   CESR   Electron- Positron    Accelerator    at    Cornell    University.        He worked   on   the   optimization   of   RICH   electronics performance,   by   focusing   on   the   development   of monitoring   tools   to   localize   the   sources   of   noise in   the   RICH   Detector   electronics.      In   addition,   he set   up   a   test   stand   to   help   diagnose   behavior   of the    RICH    electronics    and    the    data    acquisition boards.  Mike   learned   a   lot   of   software   and   basic   analysis techniques,      as      well      as      gaining      hardware experience   with   data   acquisition.      You   can   read about    his    work    in    his    REU    Report.        Mike    was stationed    at    Cornell,    and    worked    with    Marina Artuso   and   Bayar   Dambasuren,   under   the   Cornell NSF REU program.  

Nick Bronn  Georgia Tech Nick   worked   on   the   CLEO-III   RICH   Detector   during the   Summer   of   2000.      This   detector   is   a   major part   of   the   recently-upgraded   CLEO   Experiment at     the     CESR     Electron-Positron     Accelerator     at Cornell    University.        He    worked    on    the    RICH monitoring     software,     providing     an     extremely valuable   component   for   the   diagnosis   of   a   major problem   in   the   performance   of   the   RICH   caused by a glitch in the data acquisition system.  Nick   gained   a   lot   of   experience   programming   in c++   and   java,   as   well   as   learning   about   the   real operations      of      a      big      high      energy      physics experiment.      You   can   read   about   his   efforts   in   his REU   Report,   and   also   in   his   presentations   at   the beginning   and   the   end   of   the   summer   semester.     Nick   was   stationed   at   Cornell,   and   worked   with Ray   Mountain   and   Georg   Viehhauser,   under   the auspices of the Cornell NSF REU program.    

Amanda Deisher  University of Montana Amanda   worked   on   the   CLEO-III   RICH   Detector during   the   Summer   of   2001.      The   RICH   is   one   of the    main    components    of    the    upgraded    CLEO Experiment      at      the      CESR      Electron-Positron Accelerator   at   Cornell   University.      She   worked   on three    separate    aspects    of    the    RICH    monitoring and     calibration     software,     making     extremely useful   analyses   for   the   optimization   of   the   RICH electronics.  Amanda   got   a   lot   of   experience,   quickly   learning several   programming   languages   (all   at   once),   and also   learned   about   the   operations   of   a   big   high energy   physics   experiment.      You   can   read   about her   work   in   her   REU   Report,   and   also   in   her   final presentation.      You   can   also   check   out   her   RICH Project    webpage.        Amanda    was    stationed    at Cornell,    and    worked    with    Ray    Mountain    and Bayar    Dambasuren,    under    the    auspices    of    the Cornell NSF REU program.  Amanda   went   on   to   graduate   school   in   Physics   at the University of California, Berkeley.