2008-2009 Undergraduate Research
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Supervisor: Marc Achermann Student: David Ouellette |
Implementation of an optical autocorrelator to measure femtosecond laser pulses, including optical setup, electronics for the detection system and measurements; laser setup to induce local heat shocks in fish embryos. |
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Supervisor: Marc Achermann Student: Peter Mistark |
Optical characterization of metal films with hole and disk arrays |
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Supervisor: Marc Achermann Student: Daniel Brosnan |
Setup of the scanning and feedback system of a near-field scanning optical microscope |
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Supervisor: Tony Dinsmore Student: Matthew Gratale |
Measuring the shape of a crumpled spherical shell |
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Supervisor: Tony Dinsmore Student: David Lawrence |
Temperature-swellable, semi-permeable capsules by self assembly |
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Supervisor: Tony Dinsmore Student: Timothy Prisk |
Measuring the contact forces at the bottom of droplet piles |
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Supervisor: Gene Golowich Student: Eoin Moore |
Honors thesis on Physics at the LHC, detailing how the Large Hadron Collider would operate as a data-collecting machine, and discussions of theoretical issues relevant to possible LHC discoveries. |
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Supervisor: Bob Hallock Student: Silvia Ionescu |
Studies of thermal conductivity at low temperature |
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Supervisor: Bob Hallock Student: Ruary Layton |
Properties of aluminum films |
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Supervisor: Bob Hallock Student: Kyle Thompson |
Senior thesis on disordered surfaces |
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Supervisor: David Kawall Student: Drew von Maluski |
Development of a High Finesse Scanning Confocal Fabry-Perot Interferometer |
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Supervisor: Jon Machta Student: Eric Miller |
Diffusion limited aggregation on a curved surface using computer simulations. |
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Supervisor: Rory Miskimen Student: John Barrett |
Measuring the spin-polarizabilities of the proton: designing a scintillating, polarized proton target and sensitivity studies of the cross sections to the polarizabilities |
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Supervisor: Rory Miskimen Student: William Barnes |
Building an experiment for the Intermediate Lab to observe the quantum entanglement of two gamma rays |
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Supervisor: Monroe Rabin Student: Huai-Ti Lin |
Independent study on nerve conduction, with an honors thesis on a method to measure mammalian locomotion. |
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Supervisor: Mark Tuominen Student: John DeBardeleben |
Research on proton transport through nanopores |
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Supervisor: Mark Tuominen Student: Yitzi Calm |
Development of nano education video/animation modules; research on arrays of nanomagnets |
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Supervisor: Stephane Willocq Student: Mikhail Orkrochkov |
The analysis of simulated Technicolor events in ATLAS |
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Supervisor: Stephane Willocq Student: Jaime Hopkins |
The analysis of simulated top-quark events in ATLAS, and muon reconstruction performance with the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer |