| Presentation | Presenter | Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2018 | ||
| Pulse tectonics in the radial artery | Quinn Mathew L'heureux | Tom Furness |
| A Linguistic inquiry into the status of Patagonian Welsh | Josh Benjamin Warnick | Alicia Wassink |
| A measurement of the E2/M1 mixing ratio for the 21+ -> 31 + transition in 22Na | Minjung Sung | Alejandro Garcia (Physics) |
| Magnetic field stability analysis using ESR in project 8 phase II experiement | Shirley Chen | Mathieu Guigue and Gray Rybka (Physics) |
| Ground truthing statistical modeling in a field lab on the damage characteristics of ice targets by projectile hypervelocity impact | Austin Seely | Mariah Danner and Robert Winglee |
| HuskySat-1: a 3U CubeSat | Aaron Adler | Robert Winglee, Paige Northway and Paul Sturmer |
| An Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostic: Fabrication of a Graphene Field-Effect Transitor Utilizing a Modular Chimeric Probe Assembly for Biomaker Detection | Rebeka Khajenpour (Phys), Jessica Tran , Zane Smith | Richar Lee, Mehmet Sarikaya and David Starkebaum |
| Direct Observation of RNAP Transcription Using SPRNT | Jesse Huang | Jens Gundlach (Physics) and Ian Nova |
| LIGO Remote Control Room | Brandon Iritani | Joey Key (Physical Sciences) |
| Inhibition of Aurora B Kinase Suppresses Segregation of Chromosomes in Insect Sperm Cells | Bill Lee (Biophysics) and Connor James | Charles Asbury |
| Photometric Redshifts with the LSST: The Impact of Near-Infrared Photometry | Winnie Wang | Andrew Conolly and Melissa Graham |
| Analysing Star Formation Histories to find High Mass X-Ray Binary Candidates | Jacob Gross | Benjamin Williams |
| Orbital Solutions for a Variety of Eclipsing Binaries | Aleezah Ali | Diana Windemuth, Meredith Rawls and Eric Agol |
| Sympathetic Cooling of Ytterbium Ions by Motional Coupling to Barium Ions for Trapped Ion Quantum Computing | Justin Burau | Boris Blinov (Physics) |
| Developing an Expansion Microscopy Method to Study Bacterial Replication Complexes | Yotam Ofek | Paul Wiggins (Physics) and Sarah Mangiameli |
| Star Formation in Low Metallicity Environments | Daven Cocroft | Nia Imara and Theron Carmichael |
| Orientation Changes of Diamond Nitrogen Vacancy Centers by High Temperature Annealing | Christopher Moore | Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) |
| Counting Densities of Discrete Sets | Kimberly Bautista, Madeline Brown (Physics) and Pihyun Lim | Jayadev Athreya and Samantha Fairchild |
| Faster, Cheaper, Better X-Ray Optics for High-Resolution Benchtop X-Ray Spectroscopy | Scott Kihara | Gerald Seidler, William Holden and Evan Jahrman (Physics) |
| The Mass Transfer Geometry of V367 Cyg | Aislynn Wallach | Jamie Lomax |
| Axiom Haloscope: Electric Tiger | Yujin Park | Gray Rybka |
| Searching for Exoplanets with Sputtering Space Telescopes | Nicholas Saunders | Rodrigo Luger and Rory Barnes |
| Werk SQuAD: The Quest to better understand Galaxies and their surrounding Medium | Christina Lindberg and Courtney Klein | Jessica Werk |
| A Visual Demonstration of Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance | Nicholas Brunelle | Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) |
| Mapping the Supernovae-Rich Fireworks Galaxy NGC 6946 | Locke Patton | Emily Levesque |
| Calibration of Zeff Diagnostic on the HIT-SI | Kuan Wei Lee | Aaron Hossack |
| Mapping Cosmic Baryon Cycles with Quasar Spectroscopy | Olivia Petry and Travis Mandeville | Jessica Werk, Hannah Bish and Grace Telford |
| Cross-Correlations between Lyman Alpha and Lyman Beta from the XQ-100 Legacy survey | Bayu Wilson | Matthew McQuinn and Vid Irsic |
| A Search for Changing-look Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Sierra Dodd and Daniel Hoover (Physics) | Scott Anderson |
| Solar Telescope | Jimmy Ragan, Ellis Avallone, Alexander Lee and Andrea Begerson | Olive Fraser |
| Synthesis of Lead-Free Double-Perovskite (Elpasolite) Colloidal Nanocrystal Semiconductors | Evan Crites | Daniel Gamelin and Sid Creutz |
| UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2017 | ||
| Spatially Resolving the Condensing Effect of Cholesterol on Phospolipids | Felix Leeb | Lutz Maibaum |
| Using Optogenetics to induce grooming Behaviors in Drosphilia Melanogaster | Ley Gaskill | John Tuhill (Biophysics) and Anthony Azevedo (Biophysics) |
| Further Investigation into the Influence of UGT144*3 Genotype on the Glucuronidation of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 | Huabin Huang | Kenneth Thummel and Tim Wong |
| The Impact of Molecule Inhibitors on Chromosome Segregation in Cricket Spermatocytes | Connor James and Bill Lee | Charles Asbury (Biophysics) and Luke Johnson (Biophysics) |
| Manastash Ridge Observatory Auto-Guider Control System | Magdalyn Paige, Courtney Johnson (Physics) | Sara Tuttle and Jason Lozo |
| Analyzing the Pressure Dynamics of a Single Stage Supersonic Rocket | Karine Junior, Alec Gordon (Physics), Kushagra Agarwal (Physics) | Robert Winglee |
| Swarm Robotics | Jesse Hernandez (Physics) and Nini Hong | Santosh Devasia |
| Interactive Electric Vehicle Queueing Simulation | Haley Cho | Don Mackenzie |
| Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the Circumgalactic Gas Flows that Drive Galaxy Formation and Evolution | Dustin Burnham | Jessica Werk |
| PanOptes: Low Budget Survey Astronomy | Courtney Johnson | Jason Lozo |
| The Optical Depth of Tropical Clouds at Varying Altitudes | Greg Bertolacci | Dennis Hartman |
| APOGEE / Kepler Overlap Yields Orbital Solutions for a Variety of Eclipsing Binaries | Aleezah Ali | Diana Windemuth, Eric Agol and Meredith Rawis |
| Design and Development of the "3U Cubesat" Satellite Chassis" | Jiasheng Xie (Physics), Daniel Hsu, Erin Graves, and James O'neil. | Robert Winglee |
| Next Generation Manastash Ridge Observatory Control Systems: Bifrost and Evora | Douglas Branton (Physics) and Tristan Hillis | Sarah Tuttle and Jason Lozo |
| Improvements to an Ion Doppler Spectrometer on the HIT-SI Plasma Confinement Experiments | Rian Chandra | Aaron Hossack |
| Scalable Growth and Characterization of Monolayer WSe2 | Frank McKay | David Cobden (Physics) |
| A Spatially-Resolved Study of the GRB 020903 Host Complex | Mallory Thorp | Emily Levesque |
| The Geophysics of Habitable Exoplanets | Benjamin Guyer | Rory Barnes |
| Spatially Resolved Metallicity ad Star Formation Rates of the Supernovae-Rich Fireworks Galacy | Locke Linden | Emily Levesque |
| Nontransitive Dice and Social Choice | Jacob Watkins (Physics) Robert Gunn (Physics) and Jason Grills | Jonah Ostroff and Lucas Metter |
| High- Resolution Single-Molecule Analysis of UvrD Helicase Using Nanopore Tweezers | Hugh Higinbotham | Jens Gundlach (Physics) and Ian Nova |
| Effects of Target Surface Tilt on the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry | Elizabeth Farrell | W. T. Elam (Applied Physics Laboratory) |
| Towards Quantum Information with NV Centers in Diamond | Ian Robert (Physics) | Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) |
| OCMAP: Milky Way Open Cluster Stellar Membership Assignment in SDSS u, g, r, I, z and Stromgren v, b, y. | Locke Linden Patton (Physics) and Ellis Avallone (Physics) | Ana Larson |
| MRO Spectrograph Calibration System | Jane McNicoll (Physics) and Jimmy Ragan (Physics) | Jason Lozo and Sara Tuttle |
| A Spectroscopic Study of Quasar PG1407 + 265 and Galaxies Along the Sightline | Camellia Magness | Jessica Werk |
| The Effects of High Temperature Annealing on NV Centers in Diamond | Kelsey Bates | Kai- Mei Fu (Physics) and Emma Schmidgall (Physics) |
| Mapping the Cosmic Byron Cycle using Quasar Absorption Line Spectroscopy | Brittany Platt | Jessica Werk and Hannah Bisch |
| Design a Pulsed Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance Microscope | Maya Dunn | Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) |
| Two-Photon Exchange in Electron-Nucleon Scattering | Jesse Ashworth | Wally Melnitchouk and Peter Bluden |
| The RelationshiP Between Supermassive Black Hole Mergers and their host Galaxy | Daniel Simmons (Physics and Daven Cocroft (Physics) | Thomas Quinn and Michael Tremmel |
| Super Massive Black Hole Effects on Galaxy Properties | Zoe Deford | Thomas Quinn and Michael Tremmel |
| Testing our Models for the Intergalactic Medium | Bayu Wilson | Matthew McQuinn and Phoebe Sanderbeck |
| High- Resolution Multi-Wavelength Examination of a Supernova Remnant in Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 300 | Jacob Gross | Benjamin Williams |
| Evolution Outliers: Characterizing Emission Line Stars | Aislynn Wallach | Benjamin Williams |
| UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2016 | ||
| Manastash Ridge Observatory Offset Guider | Adrian Davila (Physics), Jakob Balkenhohl and Andrew Lozo | Joseph Huehnerhoff |
| Analysis of Apache Point Observatory 3.5 m Enclosure Air Flow Efficiency | Courtney Johnson | Joseph Huehnerhoff |
| Structure Design and Analysis for Cube Satellite | Jiasheng Xie (Physics), Daniel Hsu, and Nicolas Mavriplis | Robert Winglee |
| Observatory Cloud Monitoring System | Matt Armstrong (Physics) and Andrew Wilkins (Physics) | Joseph Huehnerhoff |
| Search for the Hidden Valley Particles | Andrew Arbogast (Physics), Tom lee Jr. (Pysics) and Jiasheng Xie )Physics) | Gordon Watts |
| Modeling Fluid and Thermal Properties of Melting Sea Ice | Samuel Farley | Bonnie Light |
| Contractillity Measurements in Cardiomyocytes from Danon Disease Patients | Jessica Trinh | Nathan Sniadecki and Andrea Leonard |
| Effects of Supermassive Black Hole on Host Galaxy Properties | Zoe Deford ( Physics) and Joshua Smith | Thomas Quinn and Michael Tremmel |
| The Meridian Line of the Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli e Martiri | Mallory Thorp (Physics), Guadalupe Tovar, and Jennifer Look | Woodruff Sullivan |
| Laboratory Testing of the Controlled Flux Technique for Measuring Oceanic Turbulence | Eric Bochsler | William Asher and Kyla Drushka |
| Modeling Kepler Eclipsing Binaries | Aleezah Ali (Physics) and Ananya Garg | Diana Windemuth and Eric Agol |
| Examing the X-ray Luminosity Function of NGC 300 WITH THE Chandra X-ray observatory | Jacob Gross | Benjamin Williams and Brenna Binder |
| Manastash Ridge Observatory Software Architecture Upgrade | Tristan Hillis and Douglas Branton | Joseph Huehnerhoff |
| In-vivo Screen for Drugs that can Target Cancer Stem Cells Utilizing Drosophila Germline Stem Cell Model | Zachary Gottschalk (Physics), Debra Del Castillo, Jefinner Merril, Deepkiran Singh, Lavinia Turian, Samuel Mairbaixa & Dana R. | Hannele Ruohola-Baker and Yalan Xing |
| Instrumentation upgrades at Manastash Ridge Observatory | Kyle Olinger and Joshua Oppor | Joseph Huehnerhoff |
| Orbital Mechanics of CubeSat Propelled via Pulsed Plasma Thruster in and Beyond Low-Earth Orbit | David Olson and Tyler Valentine | Robert Winglee |
| A Feasibility Study of Implementing a Collisional-Radiative Helium-1 Model for Electron Density and temperature Diagnostics on the HIT-SI3 Experiment | Rian Chandra | Aaron Hossack |
| Surface Exposure Dating of Missoula Flood Boulders and Glacial Erratics with Cosmogenic Isotopes | Christopher Bowan | John Stone |
| Measuring Tritium Levels with a Gas Flow Proportional Counter | Matthew Kallander | R. G. Hamish Robertson (Physics) and Diana Parno (Physics) |
| Dust as a Fuel for In-Space Electric Propulsion | Brittney Dodson | Robert Winglee |
| Preventing Errors in Unsigned Computations | Christopher Mackie | Michael Ernst |
| New Methods in Hand Tracking | Vladimir Korukov | Dieter Fox |
| Testing our Models for the Stuff between Galaxies | Bayu Wilson (Physics) and Adriana Buckley (Physics) | Phoebe Sanderbeck and Matthew McQuinn |
| Feasibility of Exomoon and Spectral Recovery in the Presence of Exozodiacal Dust | Tiffany Jansen | Eric Agol |
| Finding the Rotation-Activity Relation in a Spectroscopic Survey of Kepler M Dwarfs | Tessa Wilkinson | Suzanne Hawley |
| The Radioactive Habitable Zone | Benjamin Guyer | Roy Barnes |
| Cataclysmic Pulses: Investigating Temperature Instability of Accreting White Dwarfs Pulsators | Donald Grey | Paula Szkody |
| Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Resolution of Coherent Temporal-Spatial Plasma Structures | Roy Taylor | Brian Nelson and Nathan Kutz |
| Design of a Microwave Resonator for Use with Diamond Magnetometry | Kelsey Bates | Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) |
| Mitigating Spectral Insatability in Solid-State Defects for Quantum Information Processing | Ian Robert | Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) |
| Zebra Finch Song Analysis as a Precursor to Understanding Modulation of Variability in Trial-and-Error Learning | Elliot Abe | Adrienne Fairhall |
| Measuring T1 of Electrons Bound to Donor Impurities in ZnO Nanowires | Cameron Johnson | Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) |
| Measuring NV Center Lifetimes with a Pulsed Laser | Seth Hyra | Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) and Michael Gold |
| Developing an Interactive Quantum Chemistry E-textbook | Jesse Ashworth (Physics), Mengjia Zhu and Alisa Vangrunsven | Stefan Stoll |
| Novel Coaxial Electron Spin Resonance Probe for Precision Magnetic Field Measurements | Megan Wachtendonk | Gray Rybka (Physics) and Martin Fertl (Physics) |
| Confining Barium-Ytterbium / Barium-Barium Ion Chain in a Quartic Anharmonic Oscillator for Quantum Computing | Wen Tan | Boris Blinov (Physics) |
| Understanding the Host of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers | Daniel Simmons (Physics and Daven Cocroft (Physics) | Fabio Governato and Michael Tremmel |