{"id":22,"date":"2008-06-30T15:16:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T20:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/2008\/06\/30\/matt-needs-more-research-students\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T09:48:57","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T14:48:57","slug":"matt-needs-more-research-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/2008\/06\/30\/matt-needs-more-research-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt needs more research students!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nice things about teaching is seeing my students graduate and go on to do cool things elsewhere.\u00a0 Of course, it&#8217;s not so nice when <em>my entire lab group graduates all at once<\/em>, as happened this spring!\u00a0 (Nate&#8230;Jill&#8230;Brian&#8230;David!\u00a0 Please come back!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I just want to put the word out there that I&#8217;m very actively looking for some students to join me in fall of 2008 and beyond.\u00a0 I have a handful of projects I&#8217;ll\u00a0be involved in; some projects will entail\u00a0using the cool and expensive atomic force microscope in our lab; others will involve more computer coding and analysis.\u00a0 I&#8217;m especially interested in finding a strong first or second year student.\u00a0 I&#8217;m imagining working for course credit initially,\u00a0 but I also have some grant money that could support a student over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>One project I&#8217;ve written about here recently involves writing software to correct for distortion in atomic force microscope images. \u00a0This is a neat project involving a real-life application of numerical computing and image analysis; the resulting software package will be shared with potentially hundreds of scientists and engineers using around the world who use scanning probe microscopes. \u00a0Requirements: must be comfortable programming in C\/C++, and must know some calculus.\u00a0 (Everything else is learn-as-you-go.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please contact me if you or anybody you know might be interested!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nice things about teaching is seeing my students graduate and go on to do cool things elsewhere.\u00a0 Of course, it&#8217;s not so nice when my entire lab group graduates all at once, as happened this spring!\u00a0 (Nate&#8230;Jill&#8230;Brian&#8230;David!\u00a0 Please come back!) Anyway, I just want to put the word out there that I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/2008\/06\/30\/matt-needs-more-research-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matt needs more research students!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[709,508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-propectives","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}