Over the last few months, NSD has welcomed a cohort of summer interns from high school and undergraduate and graduate university programs.  Most interns are performing research in our scientific programs, while two students are helping to develop a new outreach website.  Internships provide a valuable opportunity for students to gain experience in a research environment, gain new skills, and contribute to the cutting edge research being performed in the Division.  Hosting and working with interns also presents the opportunity for NSD researchers to serve as mentors. 

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• Fatima Aseluani (University of Saclay) is working with Jaime Cruz-Duran on magnetic modeling for future generation of ion source coils
• Leonardo Calle (San Jose State University) is working  closely with Jaime Cruz-Duran through a SULI internship in the Engineering Division to evaluate the structural performance of 4-meter-class telescopes

Low Energy Nuclear Physics Program

• Arin Manohar (UC Berkeley) is working with Mario Cromaz and Heather Crawford on ML/AI for GRETA to incorporate variations of detector crystal properties into the process to produce GRETA signal bases.

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Program

• Eunseo Oh (Columbia University) is working with Greg Ottino, and Xin Dong on measurement of the MVTX sensor efficiency using cosmic ray data at sPHENIX
• Amir Abdou (UC Berkeley) is working with Shujie Li on ML-based pattern recognition in tracking detectors through the summer SULI program, and is also actively working on the ePIC simulation workflow automation on Perlmutter.
• Joshua Sobajic (UC Berkeley) is a member of Barbara Jacak’s group at UC Berkeley and is spending the summer working on performance studies of the SVT at LBNL.
• Drey Crockett (UC Berkeley) is working with Barbara Jacak’s group at UC Berkeley through the Physics Innovators Initiative (Pi2) Scholars Program to perform PYTHIA studies of energy-energy correlators in pp and p-Pb collisions in collaboration with NSD.

Applied Nuclear Physics Program

• Ana Barrera (UC Berkeley) is working with Weronika Wolszczak to study fluorescent light emission of toluene in organic scintillators.  Ana is supported by the NNSA Minority Serving Institutions Internship Program (MSIIP).
• Adam Abdella (UCLA) is also an MSIIP intern and is working with Nico Abgrall on the analysis of radiological and contextual sensor data from the PANDAWN sensor network.
• Daniel Elli Ruiz (UC Berkeley) is working with Jayson Vavrek to explore the use of Tensor Processing Units to accelerate radiological imaging and mapping using Scene Data Fusion.  Daniel is supported through UC Berkeley by the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium (NSSC).
• Max Soklov (UC Berkeley) is also supported by the NSSC and is working with Brian Quiter on 3D radiation mapping methods and development of free-moving multi-modal sensor systems.

Neutrinos Program

• My-Tien Tran (UC Berkeley), funded by the UC Berkeley Network for Neutrinos Nuclear Astrophysics and Symmetries (N3AS), is working with Alan Poon (and formerly Lisa Schluter) on the development of cryogenic graphene electronics.

Nuclear Theory Program

• Jonathan Parra (University of Houston) is working with Volker Koch to study the effect on baryon annihilation on proton number fluctuations in the search for a QCD critical point.  Jonathan is supported through the SULI program.

Neutrinos and Applied Nuclear Physics Program – Outreach 

• Ariana Thakur  and Natalie Tran are high school students working with Alan Poon (Neutrinos Program) and Alexey Drobizhev and Ryan Heller (Applied Nuclear Physics Program) to refresh the ABCs of Nuclear Science website.  The site provides a brief introduction to important topics in nuclear science and serves as a useful resource for outreach.