Physics
Past Research (Summer)
Astrophysics and Cosmology
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Ian Dell'Antonio
Professor of Physics, Undergraduate Concentration Advisor
Student Researchers
- Christopher Bonadonna - Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Identification
- Samantha Dallas - RESOLVE Compact Galaxy Search
- Evan Harris - Shapelet Modeling of Galaxy Shapes as Tool for Improving Galaxy Simulations
- Devon Seymour - Galaxy Blending as a Source of Bias in Cluster Mass Fitting
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Richard Gaitskell
Hazard Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Mansheej Paul - LUX Dark Matter Experiment
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Savvas Koushiappas
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Nathaniel Tarshish - The Abundance of Elementary Particles in the Early Universe
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Gregory Tucker
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Edward Williams - Balloon-borne Exoplanet Experiment
Biological Physics
Student Researchers
- Nicholas Bower - Experimental Studies of Nanoscale Capillarity
- Ellen Goldberg - Improving Efficiency of Ion Transfer from Nanopore to Mass Spectrometer
Student Researchers
- Sha Sha - Can Viscoelastic Matrix Enhance Bacterial Motility?
Condensed Matter Experiment
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Vesna Mitrović
Department Chair, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Physics & Engineering
Student Researchers
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Dominic Adams - Elementary quantum computation with NClO3 crystals
Elementary Particle Experiment
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David Cutts
Professor Emeritus
Student Researchers
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Charles Snider - Studying pp collisions with the CMS detector at CERN's LHC and searching for new particles
Elementary Particle Theory
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Marcus Spradlin
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Adam Scherlis - Cluster Algebras and Polylogarithms
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Chung-I Tan
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Richard Nally - Using String Theory to Illuminate Aspects of the Standard Model
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Anastasia Volovich
Professor of Physics
Student Researchers
- Daniel Parker - Mathematical Structures of Scattering Amplitudes