Research+Fair+Proposal

In the last two weeks in the lab, while I have been continueing to scan I have been gathering my data that I have attained thus far. I have selected those scans which I intend to include in my project, however I have not put them on a flash drive because I found out that I have to process them. Becky and I decided that this wednesday in the lab I was going to spend my entire time processing these images, printing my cross section graphs that show the expansion of the gold (last friday we couldn't figure out how to print them, but Annette knows how to), and getting my comsol calculations and models. I will have to have Matt log me on to comsol this wednesday in order to get my calculations and if he is not there we will have to call him to get his log in and X11 comands to acquire the program.

When I was in the lab on Friday I got data that I will use in my presentation which is a single line scan of the laser being shot at a 1000 angstrom scan area with a line time of 300 ms. I will be putting the cross section graph on my board and the image.

I have selected or am considering putting these images on my board:

08110900BJ- 2000A 08110900BK- 1000A 08110900BL- 2000A 08110900BM- 1000A 08110900BN- 2000A 08110900BO- 2000A- single line scan shot with laser 08110900BP- 2000A 08120900BG- 1000A 08120900BH- 1000A 09230900BI- 2000A- single line scan shot with laser 6000 A expansion 09250900AE-2000A 09250900AH- 3000A- shot with laser 10210900AC- 2000A -may have accidentally scanned an octanethiol sample 10210900AD- 1000A 10210900AJ- 1000A 10210900AK- 500A- partial 10210900AL- 500A- partial 10210900AM- 1000A 02051000BP-1000A- line time 300 single line scan shot with laser 6000A expansion (better cross section than 09230900BI)

I was wondering if the contest rules would permit me mounting a digital picture frame in my display board that will scroll through all of the images that I have taken thus far (seeing that it would be impossible to include all of them on my board). They said that expensive lab equipment was not permitted, but this is neither really expensive, or lab equipment. Also if it were to be stolen I would not be the end of the world (or my research).

I was wondering exactly what I need to include on my poster (for instance do I need to include a explanation of STM or information that had been in YC's project).

The Journal of what I have been doing in the lab, would that just be my lab notebook/calculations/logbook compiled together.

__My current abstract

Powerpoint Presentation__

Word Document with all of my images

jpegs of images selected for poster