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The faculty have listed the following as potential projects for students undertaking a senior thesis.
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Current students |
Continuing students (graduating 2022 or later) |
# ADDITIONAL projects available for those graduating 2022 or later |
Project information | |
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Craig, David |
Nelson (21) Schimleck (21) Hanson (21) Jepson (21) |
Linebarger (22) |
0-1 |
Quantum inequalities in the decoherent histories formulation of quantum theory |
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Dray, Tevian (Mathematics) |
- | - | 0 | Math Education, mathematical physics |
| Gire, Elizabeth | van Balderen (21) |
Adams (22) |
1-2 |
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| Graham, Matt | Jeliazkova (21) Teo (21) Waymire (21) |
L'Argent(23) Zaback(22) Boryer (23) |
0 |
If interested, please consider applying to URSA-ENGAGE advertisement, SURE or other scholarship programs through my lab. Contact Dr. Graham |
| Hadley, Kathryn |
Perrizo (21) |
Klimowicz (22) |
0-1 | Computational astrophysics: modeling protostellar systems; Rossby wave instabilities, plasma shocks |
| Herman, Greg | - | - | 0 | Ambient-pressure XPS (expt) |
| Jansen, Henri | none | - | 0 | Dr. Jansen is a computational physicist. He is currently full-time in the Dean's office. |
| Keszler, Douglas (Chemistry) | - | Daprano (22) | 1 | Elucidating mobility trends in solution processed transparent conductors (experimental); contact Dr. Keszler at Douglas.Keszler at oregonstate.edu. Research mostly on-campus and at ATAMI, possibly via an internship with nexTC (https://www.nextcmaterials.com/ ). |
| Kornilovich, Pavel (Hewlett Packard) | Reid (21) | - | 0 | (computational) Stable knots in nematic liquid crystals. No projects for 2021/22. |
| Lazzati, Davide | Sophie Zhu (21) Dylan Walker (21) |
- |
0-1 |
Contact Dr. Lazzati (Astrophysics). Projects normally involve some computer coding. Besides that there is a lot of flexibility with finding a project that satisfies the student's curiosity about the subject. |
| Lee, Yun-Shik | Sprague (21) | none | 1 | High-Field Terahertz spectroscopy of nanomaterials |
| Manogue, Corinne | none | none | 0 | Contact Dr. Manogue (Physics Education, mathematical physics) |
| McIntyre, David | Scroggy (21) | none | 2 | 1) Optical tweezer trapping and Brownian motion (exp/comp) 2) Optimized laser focusing via adaptive optics and machine learning (exp/comp) 3) Optical spectroscopy of materials (exp/comp) |
| Minot, Ethan | none |
none | Possibly 2 |
Dr. Minot is planning a 1-year trip to Finland (2021/2022 Academic Year) for collaborative research on quantum devices. If the trip goes ahead, he won't be available to supervise OSU projects. However, there is some uncertainty about international travel due to COVID-19. If he stays in Corvallis next year, Dr. Minot can supervise projects such as: |
| Ostroverkhova, Oksana |
Collins (21) |
Widmer (22) Brodeaur (Chem, 23) |
2 | Fungi-derived optoelectronic materials; Properties of polaritons in organic cavities |
| Qiu, Weihong |
Ripp (21) |
Eagen (22) none |
2 | Experimental/Computation Biophysics. Potential projects are : i) In silico characterization of the interaction of molecular motor proteins with the tracks they run on; and ii) Characterize the mechanism of bidirectional kinesin motor proteins. |
| Roundy, David |
Kiatvongcharoen (21) |
Aranth (22) |
0 | (computational) (1) Flat histogram Monte Carlo simulation algorithms. |
| Schellman, Heidi | none | - |
none 2021/22 |
Neutrino physics. No additional projects for PH403 students in 2021/22. Contact Dr. Schellman if you are interested in starting a project for PH403 in 2022/23. |
| Schneider, Guenter | Boss (21) | ? | ? | Using machine learning to aid discovery in physics and science. Some computer programming experience required. |
| Siemens, Xavier |
Connolly (21) |
Glickman (22) |
2 | (1) using radio telescopes to search for pulsars, (2) using radio telescopes to perform gravitational wave observations (pulsar timing), and (3) searching pulsar timing data for nanohertz gravitational waves. |
| Sun, Bo |
Wong (21) |
Melville (23) |
0-1 |
Characterizing cell migration in conflicting environment (experimental, and matlab data analysis) Developing deep learning methods for cell detection and tracking (proficient programing skills needed) |
| Tate, Janet |
Kakepoto (21) |
none |
2 | (1) Optical properties of semiconductors (experimental) (2) Transport properties of semiconductors (experimental) (3) X-ray absorption in transition metals More information |
| Walsh, KC | Bailey (21) | Smith (22) | 1-2 |
(1) Ecampus comparative study of introductory physics using educational data mining and learning analytics. (2) Predictive modeling student success using various artificial intelligence methods. (3) Language processing student's reflective writing. |
| PH317 | (W21) Rosario Evans Walker, J Goldschmidt |
(W22) 12 spaces Ali Keyes Norgren Schultz Staller |
Next offering of PH317 is W22 | |
| OSU, non-PH advisors | ||||
| Fang, Chong (Chemistry Dept) | - | 1 | Using steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopic methods to study fluorescence mechanisms of functional molecular systems (e.g., proteins, chromophores, biosensors) in solution. (Experimental, contact Dr. Fang at Chong.Fang at oregonstate.edu). Grup website: https://fanglab.oregonstate.edu |
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| Woods, (Nuc. Eng.) | Gopal (21) | |||
| Pettit (CEOAS) | Carroll (22) | |||
| Liu, C (AMNH Astro) | Williams (21) |