Winchester
Matthew Winchester
Matthew worked on the strontium superradiant laser experiment from fall 2013 until summer 2017. He was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship in 2016! He majored in Engineering Physics, and successfully completed an honors research project on superradiant lasers and graduated in 2017.
Matthew Winchester, a senior majoring in engineering physics, and Matthew Hurst, a senior studying aerospace engineering and applied mathematics, are among a handful of national recipients for 2016.
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. PFCs also include creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented groups, and outreach to the scientific community and general public.