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 Anoopoma Bhowmik

Graduate Student in Optical Sciences

I'm a Californian with a spark of wanderlust.  I've loved my time spent in Michigan, Colorado, and now Arizona.  I'm here to learn and discover.
Let's get together and go do something great.

  
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."                                                                                                                     ~ Mark Twain
Contact Information
  E-mail: letterstoapb@gmail.com
  Office: (520) 626 - 7302		Mailing Address:
1630 E. University Boulevard
Meinel Building, Room 300
Tucson, AZ 85712-0094
Education

B.S. Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI              (Aug. 2003 to May 2007)

Research

      
       Graduate Research Assistant, OSC, University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ                         (Aug. 2008 to Present)

  • Demonstrating minimization of mid-spatial frequency noise through controlled reduction of the
    source spatial coherence in an interferometer

  • Designing and assembling a small-scale interferometer test bed for the Secondary Mirror Fizeau Test

  • Conducting precision measurements of final system optical components

  • Planned and built experiments for the optomechanical laboratory class Opti 421L / 521L
     

Work Experience

      
       Systems Engineer, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems- Redondo Beach, CA                        (2007 to 2008)

  • Designed requirements ledger in DOORS for automated compliance documentation verification

 (On educational leave-of-absence while attending the University of Arizona)
 

       Mechanical Intern, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. - Boulder, CO                                                  (2006)

  • Performed vibration tests and hardware verification tests to support the James Webb Space Telescope

 

      Mechanical Intern, Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena, CA                                                                     (2005)

  • Constructed a Matlab tool to design a heat sink and extend mission lifetime to 10 hours for a Venus Probe

 

      Researcher, S3FL, University of Michigan,  - Ann Arbor, MI                                                        (2003 to 2004)

Presentations
Technical Skills

  • Software: 4Sight, Zemax, Matlab, Unigraphics, Solidworks, IDEAS, Labview, & DOORS

  • Hardware: PM Fiber, HeNe lasers, Zygo Interferometers, Wyco Interferometers, vacuum and thermal chambers, Theodolites, and Displacement Measurement Interferometers

  • Machine shop: CNC and Bridgeport mills and lathes

Affiliations

  • SPIE (Member)

  • OSA (Member)

  • Arizona Assurance Scholars (Mentor for two undergraduate students)

  • GPSC Travel Grant (Member of Evaluation Committee)

  • OSC Industrial Affiliate (Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems)

  • OSC Optics Summer Camp (Volunteer)

Last Updated: January 29, 2010