Physics
Past Research (Projects)
Astrophysics and Cosmology
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Ian Dell'Antonio
Professor of Physics, Undergraduate Concentration Advisor
Student Researchers
- Alexander Moskowitz - Computer Modeling of Dark Matter Weak Lensing
- Geoffrey Sedor - Hunting for Extreme Quasars
- Nora Shipp - Measuring the Impact of Large Scale Structure on Galaxy Cluster Masses
- Erik Stayton - An Analysis of Mass Distribution in Galaxy Clusters Through the Application of Strong and Weak Gravitational Lensing
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Richard Gaitskell
Hazard Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Daniel Butler - Neural Networks for Particle Discrimination in the XENON10 Detector
- Adam Coogan - PMT Testing and Detector construction for the LUX Experiment
- Anand Desai - DMTools Dark Matter Experiment Limit Plotter
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Savvas Koushiappas
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Urmila Chadayammuri - Gamma Ray Signals from a Collection of Unresolved Dwarf Galaxies
- Laura Mocanu - Dark Matter Substructure in the Milky Way and Its Effects on the Dark Matter Annihilation Signal
- Deivid Ribeiro - Analysis of Gamma Ray data in search of dark matter signals
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Gregory Tucker
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Allison Deshler - Analysis of the flight performance of the BLAST and EBEX sun sensors
- Soumya Ghosh - Testing of the optics of the Millimeter-wave Bolometric Interferometer
- John Hermansen - Measuring Magnetic Fields in Star Formation Regions
- Charles Lee - A real time simulation of the EBEX star camera
Biological Physics
Student Researchers
- Jonathan Beller - Electrokinetic Energy Harvesting in Silica Nanochannels with Hydrodynamic Slip
- Karri DiPetrillo - Entropically Trapping DNA with Solid-State Nanopores
- Layne Frechette - Use of Electrospray Ionization in the Development of Nanopore Mass Spectroscopy
- Matthew Kretschmer - Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting in Silicon Nanochannels
- Jaeyoon Lee - Effects of nanotrench dimensions in free energy landscaping
- Jordi Negron - Employing molecular probes and nanofluidic devices to study the mutated Clostridium difficile strain responsible for CDAD outbreaks
- Elijah Shelton - An Investigation of Reaction Rate Theory via Thermally Activated DNA Transport in a Nano-scale Topography
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Jay Tang
Professor of Physics & Engineering
Student Researchers
- James Bensson - Examining the Near Surface Swimming Behavior of Bacterium C. crescentus
- Yukun Gao - Swimming behavior of Caulobacter crescentus in viscous media
- Ryan Handoko - The motility mechanics of healthy vs. sepsis neutrophils
- Yosuke Kurokawa - Self-immobilization of Genetically Engineered Caulobacter Crescentus and Its Application in the Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Water
- Katrina Wilson - Racing Swimming Bacteria on the Track of an Electric Field Time
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James Valles, Jr.
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Eva Lyubich - Investigating the Swimming Response of Tetrahymena to Changes in Effective Gravitational Forces
- Real Provencher - Comparative Investigation of the Swimming of Paramecia of Two Different Sizes
- Cole van Krieken - Studying the formation of metallic thin films on hydrophobic and oleophobic surfaces
- Michael Wagman - The Effects of Viscosity on Paramecium Motion
- Alexander Berg - The Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Thin Films on Patterned Silicon
Condensed Matter Experiment
Student Researchers
- Laura Kolowski - Mobility of Excited Electron Bubbles in Liquid Helium
- Nathan Weinberger - Making Movies of Electrons
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Vesna Mitrović
Department Chair, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Physics & Engineering
Student Researchers
- Ryan Kaplan - The Integration and Analysis of Micro-Coils in NMR Probes
- Zachary Winoker - Quantum Computing with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Condensed Matter Theory
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Dmitri Feldman
Professor of Physics, Director of Graduate Studies
Student Researchers
- Marc Langer - How to Detect Anyons in the Real World
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Brad Marston
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Katherine Dagon - Formation of Jets in Planetary Atmospheres
- Thomas Iadecola - Hopf-Flow: A Renormalization-Group Approach To Modeling Geophysical Statistics
- Samuel Ocko - Variational Approach to Spin Liquids in Two Dimensions
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Robert Pelcovits
Professor of Physics, Undergraduate Concentration Advisor
Student Researchers
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Octavia Crompton - Simulations of Chiral Smectic Membranes
Elementary Particle Experiment
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Meenakshi Narain
Professor
Student Researchers
- Jared Lafer - Improvements to the CMS trigger systems detection of top quark production
- Wei Jie Poh - Characterizing the Next Generation of Silicon Detectors
Elementary Particle Theory
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Gerald Guralnik
Professor
Student Researchers
- Nakul Luthra - A Field Theoretic Approach to Mathematically Model Brain Function
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David Lowe
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- William Hicks - U(1) charges in weakly-coupled free-fermionic heterotic string models
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Marcus Spradlin
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Alexander DiRe - The Structure of Scattering Amplitudes at High Loop Order
- Edward Parker - Exploring the Leading Singularity Conjecture
- Amin Shaikh - Classification of Dual Conformal Graphs
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Chung-I Tan
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Caitlin Carpenter - Research in Gauge Theory and Strings
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Anastasia Volovich
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Laurentiu Rodina - Twistors, Grassmannians and Gravity
- Sorawis Sangtawesin - Research in String Theory and Quantum Field Theory: Scattering Amplitudes