Undergraduate Research in the Physics Department

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.

Supervisor: Marc Achermann

Student: Peter Mistark

Optical characterization of metal films with hole and disk arrays

Supervisor: Marc Achermann

Student: Daniel Brosnan

Setup of the scanning and feedback system of a near-field scanning optical microscope

Supervisor: Tony Dinsmore

Student: Matthew Gratale

Measuring the shape of a crumpled spherical shell

Supervisor: Tony Dinsmore

Student: David Lawrence

Temperature-swellable, semi-permeable capsules by self assembly

Supervisor: Tony Dinsmore

Student: Timothy Prisk

Measuring the contact forces at the bottom of droplet piles

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.

Supervisor: Bob Hallock

Student: Silvia Inoescu

Studies of thermal conductivity at low temperature

Supervisor: Bob Hallock

Student: Ruary Layton

Properties of aluminum films

Supervisor: Bob Hallock

Student: Kyle Thompson

Senior thesis on disordered surfaces

Supervisor: David Kawall

Student: Drew von Maluski

Development of a High Finesse Scanning Confocal Fabry-Perot Interferometer

Supervisor: Jon Machta

Student: Eric Miller

Diffusion limited aggregation on a curved surface using computer simulations.

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

Supervisor: Rory Miskimen

Student: William Barnes

Building an experiment for the Intermediate Lab to observe the quantum entanglement of two gamma rays

Supervisor: Monroe Rabin

Student: Huai-Ti Lin

Independent study on nerve conduction, with an honors thesis on a method to measure mammalian locomotion.

Supervisor: Mark Tuominen

Student: John DeBardeleben

Research on proton transport through nanopores

Supervisor: Mark Tuominen

Student: Yitzi Calm

Development of nano education video/animation modules;

research on arrays of nanomagnets

Supervisor: Stephane Willocq

Student: Mikhail Orkrochkov

The analysis of simulated Technicolor events in ATLAS

Supervisor: Stephane Willocq

Student: Jaime Hopkins

The analysis of simulated top-quark events in ATLAS, and muon reconstruction performance with the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer