Stephen Snyder

Current Employment:
Research Assistant in Physics Department at UMN 2008 - present
Former Employment:
Teaching Assistant in Physics Department at UMN 2006 - 2008
Laboratory Assistant in Physics Department at Loyola University Chicago 2003 to 2006

Awards:
2007 Outstanding TA Award from UMN Physics
2006 Horan Award for Outstanding Physics Graduate from Loyola University Chicago Physics
2003 - 2005 Father Gerst Memorial Award in Physics from Loyola University Chicago Physics

I am currently working on a variety of projects in Prof. Goldman's lab all having to do with novel properties of superconductors. The project I am mostly working on is on superconducting nanorings. These rings are smaller than their superconducting coherence length which changes their magnetic response (See attached image). I am also working on a project to help explain some strange results we have seen recently in superconducting nanowires. After being driven resistive by high current the wires were seen to reenter the superconducting state upon application of small magnetic fields. We hope to test our hypothesis that this is due to dissipation in the wires by tuning the dissipation without a magnetic field.