Senior thesis 10 minute talks. Zoom link will be emailed in the weekly memo. Visitors, please obtain the link from the student presenters. Please join a few minutes before 3pm for introductions. The first speaker will begin at 3pm sharp.

Schedule (Thesis titles and biographies at https://physics.oregonstate.edu/wic-course-information)

•3:00 – 3:10 Cade Perizzo: Analyzing Nonaxisymmetric Instabilities in the Formation of Star-Disk Systems, (Kathryn Hadley) •3:12 – 3:22 Hunter Nelson: Calculating characteristic timescales for environmental decoherence in the presence of thermal gravitons (David Craig) •3:24 – 3:10 Michael Boss: Solving the Cartpole Problem with REINFORCE (Guenter Schneider) •3:36 – 3:46 Milo Sprague: Application of Coupled Oscillator Model to Terahertz and Optical Control of Plasmon Induced Opacity in Coupled Metamaterials (Yun-Shik Lee) •3:48 – 3:58: Jin Kiatvongcharoen: Simulating the Dynein Motor Protein: A Monte Carlo Approach to Achieve Coordinated Stepping (David Roundy) •4:00 – 4:10 Justin Sheetz: Directing Cell Migration via Environmental Anisotropy (Bo Sun) •4:12 – 4:24 Joshua Ripp: Molecular Motors: Modelling Electrostatics Between Kinesin and Tubulin (Weihong Qiu) •4:24 – 4:34 Richard Puro: Photodimerization of Organic Semiconductors in the Strong Coupling Regime (Oksana Ostroverkhova) •4:36 – 4:46 Cooper Nicolaysen: Effect of Solar System Models on Pulsar Timing Experiments (Xavier Siemens) •4:48 – 4:58 Jessica Waymire: Illuminating amorphous oxides: Defect states and carrier recombination characterized by photoluminescence (Matt Graham) •5:00 – 5:10 Zachary Scroggy: Simulating Brownian Motion Experiments to Replicate Data from Optical Trap Laboratories (David McIntyre)