Category Archives: Research

Anything pertaining to research that I have done.

The End is Near (i.e. here)

By Ben Caplins | Published: December 19, 2009

The first semester of my graduate school career is over — woohoo!!! I just finished my last exam on Friday. I don’t know what kind of grades I earned yet, but I am pretty happy with how classes went — I now have a pretty solid understanding of the basics of Quantum Mechanics [...]

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JHelioviewer

By Ben Caplins | Published: July 6, 2009

Back in winter and spring of 2008 I took a semester off and worked full time for the European Space Agency in Greenbelt, MD as a programmer on the SOHO project team. They tasked me with exploring the feasibility and starting the coding on a new type of solar image viewing application. The [...]

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My Summer Plans!

By Ben Caplins | Published: July 15, 2006

I will be spending my summer at Hood College participating in research. I will be working under Dr. Stromberg on the electronic properties of novel biomemimic catalysts. Wish me luck!!
I will also be training for cross country in the fall. My workout is here.

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