Eduaction and outreach
The Reflectometry project has been engaged in two kinds of education and outreach activities.
K-12 grade students
For the past two years we have been giving presentations and helping to run the K-12 after school science program 4-H Adventures in Science.
Our presentation were:
Clean room activity
Cleanroom facilities are an integral part of modern materials research. Their functionality and versatility provide resources to not only create new materials systems but also to provide structures which can be used for the characterization and testing of new materials. Because of the crucial role these facilities play in modern research, providing young scientists with the opportunity to experience cleanroom work is a useful and educational endeavor.
We have provided an opportunity for four students at Tacoma Park Magnet School to tour the University of Maryland FabLab facility as well as a real world experience of how to create micron size features using lithography and wet etch techniques. The students were also able to experience the use of a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) in the University of Maryland NISP lab. The tour is outlined in the following attachment.
Scientific Outreach
Conference Posters
- Charactorization and Modeling of Off-specular Neutron Scattering for Analyisis of Two Dimensional Ordered Structures, Christopher Metting, Robert Briber, Julie Borchers, Brian Maranville, Joe Dura, Paul Kienzle, Chuck Majkrzak, International Conference on Neutron Scattering, Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 2010. ACNS 2010 Poster
- Charactorization and Modeling of Off-specular Neutron Scattering for Analyisis of Two Dimensional Ordered Structures, Christopher Metting, Robert Briber, Julie Borchers, Brian Maranville, Joe Dura, Paul Kienzle, Chuck Majkrzak, International Conference on Neutron Scattering, Knoxville, TN, May 2009.
- Charactorization and Modeling of Off-specular Neutron Scattering for Analyisis of Two Dimensional Ordered Structures, Christopher Metting, Robert Briber, Julie Borchers, Brian Maranville, Joe Dura, Paul Kienzle, Chuck Majkrzak, American Physical Society, Pittsburg, PA, March 2009.
Conference Presenatations
- Off-specular neutron reflectometry modeling and fitting software, Christopher Metting, Robert Briber, Brian Maranville, Paul Kienzle, Julie Borchers, Chuck Majkrzak, Joe Dura, Modeling and Data Analysis for Grazing Incidence and Off-Specular Scattering,Munchen-Feldafing, DE, Sept 2009.
- Parallel Kernels: An Architecture for Distributed Parallel Computing, Nikunj Patel, Paul Kienzle and Mike McKerns, Presented at the Python for Scientific Computing Conference (Scipy 2009) held August 18-23, 2009 at CalTech in Pasadena CA.
Awards
American Conference on Neutron Scattering (ACNS) 2010
Chris Metting receives 2nd prize at the ACNS student poster competition. Left to right: Professor Simon Billinge (Columbia University), Vice President of the Neutron Scattering Society of America; Dr. Ken Herwig (Oak Ridge National Lab), chair of the prize selection committee; and MSE graduate student Chris Metting.
Our reflectometry team memeber Christopher Metting recieved 2nd prize in the student poster competition at the Materials Research Society's 2010 American Conference on Neutron Scattering (ACNS) in Ottawa, Canada.
Metting's poster, "Characterization and modeling of off-specular neutron scattering for analysis of two dimensional ordered structures," demonstrated advances in the use of off-specular neutron reflectometry as a materials characterization technique. For more information click here.
