Intern Blog Postings

Week 4: Orchestras, Data! and Picnics

Saturday, June 25, 2022

Taylor Overcast

As the weeks fly by I am beginning to realize none of them will feel like 7 days, and none of them will look the same. I was expecting to fall into a rhythm after being here for a little bit.

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Week 3: The One with Joey's Bag (of Snickers)

Monday, June 20, 2022

Aidan Keaveney

Hi y’all! For this blog, I thought I would cover one of the tried and true responsibilities of the intern in any field: The Favor.

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Week 3: Settling In as a Hilltern

Monday, June 20, 2022

Katie Futrowsky

It was during this past week when I finally felt confident as a hilltern. That is, confident in my work and in my ability to make mistakes and learn from them.

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Week 3: Exploration

Monday, June 20, 2022

Divyansh Chamria

There was quite a bit that happened this week, so I’m going to limit myself to some of the highlights in this post –

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Week 3: The ACP Balcony

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Matangi Melpakkam

For the past few weeks, I have been telling all my coworkers how cold I get in the ACP building. This week, I realized it may be a blessing in disguise. I spent all of Thursday working on the third floor balcony, and I love it! It has a great chair and is warm without being under the sun.

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Ben Johnson

Week 3: Neural Networks and Punk Rock

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Benjamin Johnson

This week, I continued my experiment on the various methods we can implement to train a Reservoir Computer (RC).  On Monday, I moved on from the first training technique (output matrix averaging) to the second technique: passing the mu value from the Van der Pol system directly into the RC as an

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Week 3: The Cast of Finding Nemo

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Janessa Slone

The DNCE concert at the Pride Festival was amazing! Seeing Joe Jonas in person (and for free) was so cool.

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Week 3: To Infinity and Beyond!

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Anthony Olguin

This week I spent most of my time at work recreating a graph from a paper assigned by my mentor. I spent many hours looking through 12 other papers and finding the data points the author used to make my own version of the figure. It was relatively successful, but a few points were not lining up.

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Week 3: Music & Data Collection

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Valeria Viteri-Pflucker

This week I was working in the lab collecting data. Last week I mentioned the new Hyper Spectral microscope, which is what I used for my data collection.

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