University of Arkansas

2008 Research Experience for Undergraduates Program

Research Project Descriptions

The project descriptions below will give you an idea of the type of project that you will work in the associated professor's lab. Actual projects may vary somewhat from these descriptions. To find out more about a project, click on it. To find out more about a professor, click on his or her name.

Project Title	Professor
Optical Determination of Pressure Effects in Glasses	William F. Oliver III
Properties of New Nitride Semiconductor Alloys	Laurent Bellaiche
Detection of Nanosize Biological Threats	Greg Salamo
Dynamical light scattering as a tool for studies of biopolymers	Surendra P. Singh
Interaction of Non-classical States With Simple Atomic Systems	Reeta Vyas
Optical Properties of Colloidal Quantum Structures	Min Xiao
Development of instructional java applets for quantum optics/quantum information	Julio Gea-Banacloche
Theory of optical properties in semiconductor nanostructures	Huaxiang Fu
Electronic properties of strongly correlated complex oxide nano-structures	Jacques Chakhalian