Physics

Past Research (Projects)

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Past Research (Projects)

Be inspired by the many different undergraduate projects from the past few years.

Astrophysics and Cosmology

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

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

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

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

  • Jay Tang

    Professor of Physics & Engineering, Director of Master's Program

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

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

  • 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

Student Researchers

  • Marc Langer - How to Detect Anyons in the Real World

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

Student Researchers

  • Octavia Crompton - Simulations of Chiral Smectic Membranes

Elementary Particle Experiment

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

Student Researchers

  • Nakul Luthra - A Field Theoretic Approach to Mathematically Model Brain Function

Student Researchers

  • William Hicks - U(1) charges in weakly-coupled free-fermionic heterotic string models

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

Student Researchers

  • Caitlin Carpenter - Research in Gauge Theory and Strings

Student Researchers

  • Laurentiu Rodina - Twistors, Grassmannians and Gravity
  • Sorawis Sangtawesin - Research in String Theory and Quantum Field Theory: Scattering Amplitudes