2009-2010 Undergraduate Research

Supervisors: B. Brau and A. Pocar
Student: Brandon Hoover		 Simulations to optimize the design of a spark chamber for cosmic ray studies in an advanced undergraduate laboratory setting.
Supervisor: L. Cadonati
Student: Sebastian Fischetti		 Detectability of gravitational wave signatures from the coalescence of binary black holes in LIGO.
Supervisor: L. Cadonati
Student: Keith Fratus		 Identification of muon background with the boosted decision tree multivariate analysis technique in data from the BOREXINO solar neutrino detector.
Supervisor: L. Cadonati
Student: Amanda Lund		 Analysis of calibration data for the BOREXINO solar neutrino, with applications to the search for 8B solar neutrinos.
Supervisor: L. Cadonati
Student: David Sliski		 Study of magnetic couplings and physical environment monitors for the online characterization of data in Enhanced LIGO.
Supervisor: L. Cadonati
Student: Alex Lombardi		 Online studies of seismic upconversion and data stability in the Enhanced LIGO data run.
Supervisor: L. Cadonati
Student: John Quirk		 Data analysis for the BOREXINO solar neutrino detector: detector stability and pulse shape discrimination.
Supervisor: C. Dallapiccolla
Student: Colleen Treado		 Investigating the prospects for discovery of black holes produced by proton-antiproton collisions at the LHC.
Supervisor: T. Dinsmore
Student: Ben Bromberg		 Structure formation and interactions in charged granular media.
Supervisor: L. Goldner
Student: Robert Deegan		 Investigations of the folding of cellular retinoic acid binding protein I (CRABP1) using single molecule techniques.
Supervisor: L. Goldner
Student: Alex Kiriakopoulos		 Droplet fluidics for single molecule confinement.
Supervisor: B. Hallock
Student: Dylan Lovinger		 (1) Measuring the leakage of helium gas though epoxy as a function of temperature (and pressure gradient) from 77K to room temp, (2) measuring the flow of liquid helium through porous materials (Vycor, packed rouge) as a function of temperature and pressure from about 1.4K to 2.2K and 1 to 24 bar, and (3) obtaining TEM images of small diameter rouge powders, one of the porous materials.
Supervisor: D. Kawall
Student: Paul Hughes		 Developing stabilized lasers to observe the Hanle effect in the B[1] state of PbO cooled in a buffer gas of neon.
Supervisor: J. Machta
Student: Matt Drake		 Computer simulations of surface growth models in statistical physics.
Supervisor: R. Miskimen
Students: Richard Rines, Fabian Ahmed		 Development of a Field Programmable Gate Array based trigger to be used with a Solid-State photomultiplier with high speed ADC readout.
Supervisor: R. Miskimen
Student: Eric Lee		 Polarized proton target for photo-nuclear experiments based on active scintillators.
Supervisor: A. Pocar, B. Brau
Student: Andy Dowd		 Development of a spark chamber for an instructional lab.
Supervisor: A. Pocar
Student: Chris Dunay		 Development of xenon scintillation flashers for EXO R&D.
Supervisor: A. Pocar
Student: Brandon Kyle Schmoll		 Design of laboratory equipment with SolidWorks and participation in on-site operations of EXO-200.
Supervisor: A. Pocar
Student: Chris Sterpka		 Detector simulations for EXO-200.
Supervisor: J. Ross
Student: Matt Mirigian		 Studies of microtubule mechanics.
Supervisor: J. Ross
Student: Nathalie Fadel		 Studies of microtubule mechanics.
Supervisor: J. Traschen
Student: Theodore Patrick Ansbacher-Hunt		 Gravitational Tension of Black Strings in AdS.
Supervisor: J. Traschen
Student: Adam Krellenstein		 Localized Kaluza-Klein masses with finite tension.