Physics undergraduate theses have been archived at OSU library. See the current list.

Ian Busby

On the Relationships between Light Curve and Spectral properties of Time-Resolved Gamma-Ray Bursts
Advisor: D. Lazzati

Richard Freeman

Interactive Visualization of Crystal Lattices and Momentum Space for Electronic Structure Calculations
Advisor: E. Minot

Jackson Gessner

Understanding the Lower Atmosphere Counterpart of Active Region Outflows with IRIS
Advisor: Vanessa Polito

Haley Miles

System for Targeted Reactivity using Farnsworth-Hirsch Inertial Reactor Experiment(STARFIRE)
Advisor: Brian Woods (Nuclear Engineering)

David Hannahs-Jackson

Coupling Effects for Self-Gravitating Polytropic Star-Disk Systems: Spatially Resolved
Star Modeling, a linear analysis
Advisor: K. Hadley

Audra Lein

A Review of Probable Dark Matter Candidates
Advisor: D. Craig

Sophia (Phia) Morton (WIC Honorable Mention)

GW190521: a binary black hole merger inside an active galactic nucleus

Advisors: Stefano Rinaldi (U. Pisa), and Walter Del Pozzo (U. Pisa), X. Siemens

Audrey Nelson

Sifting Through Radio Telescope Observations in Search of Millisecond-Period Pulsars
Advisor: Xavier Siemens

Hannah O'Meara

Slowing Metastasis: Temperature Testing of MDA-MB-231 Breast Cancer Carcinoma Cells
Advisor: Bo Sun

Peter J. Orndoff

Visualizing the Gravitational Wave Background generated by Supermassive Black Hole Binaries using gw_sky
Advisor: Jeffrey Hazboun

Hailey Richter

The Mechanics of Invading Tumor Spheroids in Aligned Extra-Cellular Matrix
Advisor: Bo Sun

Clare Swartz

Advisor: O. Ostroverkhova

Joey Takach (WIC Awardee)

Hamiltonian Truncation Applied to Lattice φ⁴ Theory
Advisors: A. Luty (UC Davis), and D. Craig

Vincent Vaughn-Uding

Advisor: R. Tumblin

Ty Zuber

Physically modeling simplistic lattices: Testing the fibrous nature of extracellular matrices
Advisor: Bo Sun

Andrew Ashby

Checking for Noise Model Consistency Between the NANOGrav 12.5- and 15-Year Data Sets
Advisor: X. Siemens

Sullivan Bailey-Darland (WIC awardee)

Model effectiveness in time-resolved spectroscopy: new statistical approaches to uncertainty and model selection for global analysis
Advisor: K. Brown (Pharmacy)

Zishi Chen

Computational Study of the Electrostatic Interaction between Kinesin-5/BimC and the Microtubule
Advisor: W. Qiu

Austin Erickson

Relativistic Ray Tracing: Visualizing Curved Space-Time Towards Locating Neutron Stars
Advisor: K. Hadley

Skylar Farmer

Predicting the Percentage: Relating the Refractive Index to Effective Medium Theory in Combination Dielectric Films
Advisor: J. Tate

Logan Holler

Tabletop Fusion Reactors: Construction and Testing of a Demonstration Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusor
Advisor: B. Woods (Nuclear Engineering)

Nathan Johnson

Time Resolved THz Spectroscopy of Photocarrier Dynamics in WSe₂
Advisor: Y.S. Lee

Nelson Kangethe

Time-Independent Degenerate Perturbation Theory
Advisor: D. Craig

Rebecca Munk (WIC honorable mention)

Modeling Optical Reflection and Electric Field Intensity in Organic Semiconductor Microcavities
Advisor: O. Ostroverkhova

Basie Seibert

Investigating Polymer Quantum Mechanics: Mathematical Formulation, the Particle on a Ring, and Time Evolution
Advisor: D. Craig

Jay Shin

Computational Study of the Structure of Indium Alloys at Low Temperatures Using ab initio Methods
Advisor: G. Schneider

Maxwell Siebersma (WIC honorable mention)

The particle on a ring in polymer quantum mechanics: A quantum cosmology analogue on a compact space
Advisor: D. Craig

Brendan Snyder

Using the Langevin Equation to Verify a Single-Particle Brownian Motion Simulation
Advisor: D. McIntyre

Joseph Stephens

A Simplified Method for Simulating Ballistic and Diffusive Motion in a Brownian System
Advisor: D. McIntyre

Micah Toll

A Machine Learning Model for Predicting Student Homework Success and Studying the Structure of Homework Questions
Advisor: K. Walsh

Georgia Carroll (Honors College)

Estimating Basal Conditions of Hiawatha Glacier Using Reflector Slopes
Advisor: Pettit (CEOAS)

Cameron Clonch (Honors College; WIC awardee)

Measuring Bubble Pressure in Glacier Ice
Advisor: Pettit (CEOAS)

Dominic Daprano

Clustering of Ensemble Localization-Delocalization Matrices with Application to Drug Discovery
Advisor: Cheong (CH)

Jaden Downing (Honors College; WIC honorable mention)

Analysis of Radio Signals for New Pulsar Detection
Advisor: X. Siemens

Emily Eagen (Honors College)

Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics by Engineered Kinesin-14 Motors
Advisor: Qiu

Christopher Gamboa

Fermi Estimates: Identifying the Connections Between Counting Units and Deriving Quick Formulas
Advisor: Gire

Abbie Glickman (Honors College)

Interannual variability of oceanographic conditions on the continental shelf outside of Sermilik Fjord
Advisor: Straneo (Scripps)

Leah Holmes

TBA
Advisor: Roundy

Thomas Knudson

Cartographer: Using Python to Animate the Motion of Low-Mass Objects about a Schwarzschild Black hole
Advisor: Hadley

Magnus L'Argent

Hyperspectral Imaging of Atomically Thin Materials
Advisor: Graham

Ryan Leopold

Discovering New Pulsars to Detect Gravitational Waves
Advisor: X. Siemens

Adam Levenburg

Pulsar Noise Analyses
Advisor: X. Siemens

Christopher Magone

A Division Algebra Description of (part of) the Standard Model
Advisor: Manogue/Dray

Jose Medina Hernandez

The Periodic Signature of Planetary Masses Around Pulsars
Advisor: X. Siemens

Tyler Norgren

A Deep Dive into an Introductory Physics Course Curriculum
Advisor: Walsh

Tucker Rhead

Varying Star-to-Disk Mass Ratio in Protostellar Systems Including Computationally Resolved Stars
Advisor: Hadley

Jared Smith

Using Sentiment Analysis to Predict Transformative Experience in Physics Education Research
Advisor: Walsh

Henry Spruiell

The Two Wells System: A Benchmark for Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Mechanics
Advisor: Roundy

Ethan Steele

Simulating the Pulsar Array Detection Method for Gravitational Waves
Advisor: X. Siemens

Alexa Zaback

Electron Temperature in a LED Quantum Well Below Turn-On Voltage
Advisor: Graham

Derrick Bailey

TBA

Michael Boss

Solving the Cartpole Problem with REINFORCE
Advisor: Schneider

Genevieve Connolly (Honors College)

Searching for Pulsars for Use in Gravitational Wave Detection
Advisor: X. Siemens

Ian Diaz

Locating and Observing Pulsars for Use in Gravitational Wave Detection
Advisor: X. Siemens

Benjamin Hanson

A Generalized Scheme for Creating Regge Calculus Models of General Relativity
Advisor: Craig

Michelle Jeliazkova

Investigating Carrier Temperature in LED Quantum Well Driven Below the Turn-On Voltage
Advisor: Graham

Rohal Kakepoto

Scattering Mechanisms and Transport Properties of Semiconductors at Low Temperatures
Advisor: Tate

Jin Kiatvongcharoen

Simulating the Dynein Motor Protein: A Monte Carlo Approach to Achieve Coordinated Stepping
Advisor: Roundy

Hunter Nelson

Calculating characteristic timescales for environmental decoherence in the presence of thermal gravitons
Advisor: Craig

Cooper Nicolayson

Effect of Solar System Models on Pulsar Timing Experiments
Advisor: X. Siemens

Brandon Nye

Detecting Nanohertz Gravitational Waves by Searching for and Timing Millisecond Pulsars
Advisor: X. Siemens

Cade Perrizo

Analyzing Nonaxisymmetric Instabilities in the Formation of Star-Disk Systems
Advisor: Hadley

Richard Puro (WIC awardee)

Photodimerization of Organic Semiconductors in the Strong Coupling Regime
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Trevor Reid (Honors College)

Twist in a Torus: Minimization of Nematic Configurations with Discontinuous Director Fields in Toroidal Coordinates
Advisor: Kornilovich

Joshua Ripp

Molecular Motors: Modelling Electrostatics Between Kinesin and Tubulin
Advisor: Qiu

Tyler Schimleck

The Geometry of Symmetry: An Application of Symplectic Geometry in Understanding Noether’s Theorem
Advisor: Craig

Zachary Scroggy

Simulating Brownian Motion Experiments to Replicate Data from Optical Trap Laboratories
Advisor: McIntyre

Justin Sheetz

Directing Cell Migration via Environmental Anisotropy
Advisor: Sun

Milo Sprague

Application of Coupled Oscillator Model to Terahertz and Optical Control of Plasmon Induced Opacity in Coupled Metamaterials
Advisor: Lee

YiPeng Teo (Honors College)

Isolating Non-Blackbody Radiation Spectra from Low-Bandgap LEDs near Zero Bias
Advisor: Graham

Dylan Walker

Investigating gamma ray bursts using tracer particles
Advisor: Lazzati

Jessica Waymire

Illuminating amorphous oxides: Defect states and carrier recombination characterized by photoluminescence
Advisor: Graham

Elena Wennstrom

Development of a Brownian Motion Experiment for an Undergraduate Laboratory Course
Advisor: Tate

Rosemary Williams (Honors College)

E+A galaxy and spiral E+A galaxy candidates in the Hercules supercluster
Advisor: Liu (CSI)

Ryan Wong (Honors College)

Cancer Cell Detection with Mask R-CNN
Advisor: Sun

Julian Wulf

Optical Modeling of Thin Films: Applying Effective Medium Theory to Mixtures of TiO2 and SnO2
Advisor: Tate

Benjamin Bauml (Honors College)

Consistent Histories Formulation of the Double-Slit Experiment
Advisor: Craig

Jonathan Carney

Practical Mechanically Interlocked Molecules: A Model of Gas Adsorption in Metal Organic Frameworks Harboring Rotaxane Molecular Shuttles
Advisor: Simons/Roundy

Reid Center

The interaction of bulk heterojunction donor/acceptor blends with polaritonic state creation in organic crystalline films
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Hao-Tung Chuang

Behind The Veil: Numerical Solution to Finding The Initial Conditions of Gamma-Ray Bursts using Fireball Model
Advisor: Lazzati

Zachary Colbert

Development of a visible-light photoluminescence photospectrometer
Advisor: Graham

Ross Dewberry

Gravitational Buoyancy Effects on Plasma Plume Formation
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Alexander Eisenhauer

A Solution to the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equation in R3
Advisor: H. Kim (Math)

Clark Embleton

Towards Molybdenum Disulfide Exciton-Polaritons in Metallic Microcavities
Advisor: Minot

Kaylin Gopal

Advisor: Woods (NE)

Randall (Hank) Greenburg

Modeling Biodegradation of Crude Oil Spills on Sea Water Using Partial Differential Equations
Advisor: Higdon (Math)

Hanna Hansen

Development of Micro-Electrode Array Sensors for Electrochemical Detection of Dissolved Oxygen
Advisor: Minot

Jiadi (Jed) He

Dissecting the directionality mechanism of Kinesin-5/Cut7 by using computational approaches
Advisor: Qiu

Garrett Jepson

Standard methods in general relativity and their underlying geometric structure
Advisor: Craig

Isabella Johnson

Describing Particles with Lie and Clifford Algebras
Advisor: Dray

Joseph Kreb

Spectroscopic Ellipsometry on Thin Films of TiO2: Comparing CompleteEASE Cauchy and Cody-Lorentz Models
Advisor: Tate

Alex Kuepper

Rossby Wave Instabilities in Hydrodynamic Simulations of 3D Protoplanetary Accretion Disks
Advisor: Hadley

Sara Leathers

Designing and Building a Radio Direction Finder for an Autonomous Vehicle
Advisor: Mulder/Minot

Michael Maurer

Using a machine learning algorithm to alert instructors that early intervention is needed
Advisor: Walsh

Kira McCoy

Shrinking Stars: Protostellar Disks of Keplarian Rotation Approaching a Point Star
Advisor: Hadley

McKenzie Meyer (Honors College; WIC honorable mention)

Examination of the Impact of One-Dimensional Crustal Structures on Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake Locations
Advisor: Trehu (CEOAS)

Austin Mullins (Honors College)

Corrugation Instabilities Across Shock Fronts in Magnetohydrodynamical Astrophysical Systems
Advisor: Hadley

Steven Neiman

Effects of independent group work on learning outcomes
Advisor: Walsh

Duy Nguyen

Towards an electrically driven quantum single-photon source at room temperature
Advisor: Minot

Cyrus Oliver

Keeping the Lights On: Measuring the non-blackbody emissions of LEDs under varying conditions at zero bias
Advisor: Graham

Acacia Patterson

Variable Temperature Transport Measurements and Conduction Mechanisms of Crystalline and Amorphous Titanium Dioxide Thin Films
Advisor: Tate

Mai Sakuragi (Honorable mention)

Analysis of semiconductor microcavity exciton-polaritons with coupled harmonic oscillators
Advisor: Lee

Yuantao Shen

The Polar Energy Distribution of Short Gamma-Ray Burst Outflows from Binary Neutron Star Mergers
Advisor: Lazzati

Robert (Jasper) Spafford

Fungal Photonics
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Cameron Stewart

Optical properties comparison between similar thickness TiO2 polymorphs

Advisor: Tate

Jacob Taylor

The Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays: Evidence for the Background in Individual Pulsars
Advisor: X. Siemens

Ryan Tollefsen (Honors College; Honorable mention)

Improving the Photostability and Recovery of Organic Semiconductors A Study on Controlling the Photo-Degradation of Functionalized Pentacene Derivatives
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Dustin Treece

Developing a Learning Progression on Units and Dimensions
Advisor: Gire

Jacob Van de Lindt (Honors College; WIC awardee)

Modeling the Fusion Reaction in an Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Reactor with the Particle- in-Cell Method
Advisor: Woods (NE)

Jacob Vande Griend

Simulating Fluids: Testing a New Grand Canonical Histogram Method on the Square-Well Fluid
Advisor: Roundy

Elena Wennstrom

2021
Advisor: Tate

Cameron Wiesner

Optoelectronic Properties of a Novel Fungi-derived Pigment
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Ian Wilson

The Consistent Histories Approach to the Stern-Gerlach Experiment
Advisor: Craig

Pu Yang

Single-molecule studies of kinesin-5/Cut7 motility
Advisor: Qiu

Kaseylin Yoke

Optical Analysis of IBF Polished Silicon Wafers for Purpose in Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
Advisor: Schellman

Fangyi Zhu

A lower Limit for the Mass of Stellar Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors
Advisor: Lazzati

Patrick Berry

Characterizing Optical Signatures of TiO2 Amorphous Precursors
Advisor: Tate

Victor Brequigny

Terahertz field enhancement in nanoantennas on gallium arsenide
Advisor: Lee

Kelda Diffendaffer

Oxygen’s Effect on Electrical Measurements of TiO2 Polymorphs
Advisor: Tate

Brennan Douglas (WIC awardee)

Chiral Topological Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals and Classical Field Theories
Advisor: Pavel Kornilovich, HP

Mateo Estrada Jorge

Contact resistance: the return of the Cox and Strack method for heterojunction solar cells
Advisor: Zachary Holman (ASU), Ethan Minot, (OSU)

Nicholas Gilmore

Fabrication and Characterization of Graphene Electrolytic Supercapacitors
Advisor: Minot

Alex Gonzalez

Data analysis on the Swellex-96 experiment: Source localization and tracking by matched-field-processing
Advisor: William Hodgkins (Scripps) & Bo Sun (OSU)

Aaron Goschie

Exploiting Diffraction Orders from a Phase LimitedSLM to Remove and Model Zernike Aberrations
Advisor: McIntyre

Nikita Grigorian

A Convolutional Neural Network For Cell Classification
Advisor: Schneider

David Haas

Detection of exciton polaritons in organic thin film TES-ADT
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Calvin Henry

Improving the Gradient Effects of Plasma on a Triple Langmuir Probe
Advisor: Brian Woods, Nuclear Eng.

Travis Herring

How physics students use evaluative sensemaking strategies when prompted to reflect in an introductory calculus-based physics course
Advisor: Gire

Abigail Kimbrough (WIC honorable mention)

Teaching Gravitational Potential Energy: Student Interaction with Surface Manipulatives
Advisor: Gire

Noah Langlie

Traveling wave analysis of non-linear maxwell models with applications to non-linear optics
Advisor: Vrushali Bokil, Math

Sean McDonough

Calculating Lift and Drag Forces on Surfboards using a Navier-Stokes solver and Momentum Conservation
Advisor: Roundy

Joseph Meyers

Plasmon Induced Transparency in Terahertz Metamaterial
Advisor: Lee

John Micallef

Deriving relationships between number of observed short gamma ray bursts and viewing angle
Advisor: Lazzati

Dublin Nichols

Fabrication and low-temperature measurement of quantum devices
Advisor: Minot

Joshua Ramm

Anti-Reflective Films: Spectroscopy and Ellipsometry of Porous Films
Advisor: McIntyre

Jacob Rogers

Examining Particulate Size Distributions of Alternative Jet Fuels Under Turbulent Flame Conditions
Advisor: David Blunck, Engineering

Reese Siegel

Understanding Change: Surface manipulative-activities as a tool for addressing student difficulties in Thermodynamics
Advisor: Gire

Cade Trotter

Multi-Grand, Multi-Canonical, Flat Histogram, Monte Carlo Simulations for the Square Well Fluid
Advisor: Roundy

Michael Trumbull

Reasoning with multiple representations: A parallel plate capacitor
Advisor: Gire

Troy Tyma

Riesz Transforms on a Sphere
Advisor: HoeWoon Kim, Math

John Waczak (WIC honorable mention)

Drunken Walking: A Novel Brownian Dynamics Simulation for the Mechanochemical Cycle of the Dynein Motor Protein
Advisor: Roundy

Jesse Weller

Beyond Scattering: Identifying the Boundaries of Light Control Through Opaque Materials with a Genetic Wavefront Optimization Algorithm
Advisor: Schneider

Yousif Almulla (Honors College)

Computing Wavefunctions of Silicon Donor Qubits with Density Functional Theory
Advisor: Jakowski, ORNL / Roundy

Hassan Alnatah

Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of the Length of Actin Filaments in Cancer Cells
Advisor: Sun

Matthew Ball (Honors College)

Analysis of Upper Ocean Surface Wave Structure in the Bay of Bengal using χSOLO Floats
Advisor: Shroyer, CEOAS

Ryan Ball

Correlating Boxsand.org Web Engagement with Increased Student Performance
Advisor: Walsh

Jake Bigelow

Project BoxSand: Impact of Course Website Interactions on Exam Performance in a Flipped Classroom Environment
Advisor: Walsh

Sean Bullis

Using an Optical Trap to Measure Brownian Motion on 3 μm Polystyrene Microspheres
Advisor: McIntyre

Joel Chantland

Econophysics: Evolving Boltzmann-Gibbs Income Distributions
Advisor: Roundy

Katelyn Chase

Synchronized Cellular Mechanosensing due to External Periodic Driving
Advisor: Sun

Aaron Dethlefs

The Effect of Annealing Parameters on the Electrical Properties of Fluorine Doped Tin Oxide
Advisor: Tate

Lahiru Fernando

Econophysics: Lagrangian Mechanics Description of an Economic System
Advisor: Roundy

Patrick Flynn (Honors College)

Localized structures in a diffusive run and tumble model for M. xanthus
Advisor: Scheel, Minnesota / Sun

Darlene Focht

Stellar Disks with Keplarian Rotation and Star-Disk Coupling
Advisor: Hadley

Aaron Goschie

2019
Advisor: McIntyre

Nikita Grigorian

2019
Advisor: Schneider

Cassandra Hatcher

Predicting Gamma and X-Ray Polarization from Supernova Remnants
Advisor: Lazzati

Andrew Lam

Spectral Analysis of Anthradithiophene Derivatives with Polarization Dependence
Advisor: Graham

Ryan Lance

Optical Analysis of Titania: Band Gaps of Brookite, Rutile and Anatase
Advisor: Tate

Christopher May (WIC awardee)

Freezing a Softly Repulsive Fluid: Monte Carlo Methods and the Weeks-Chandler-Andersen Potential
Advisor: Roundy

Collin Muñiz

Synthesis and Characterization of New Rare Earth Niobates
Advisor: Nyman, Chemistry

Joshua Randolph

Accretion Disk Formation in Newly Formed Binary Black Hole Systems
Advisor: Lazzati

Jesse Rodriguez (Honors College)

Radial Velocity Profiles and Magnetic Field Probes for Hypervelocity Plasma Deflagration Jets
Advisor: Cappelli, Stanford / Tate

Nikita Rozanov

Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Fluorescent Proteins
Advisor: Fang, Chemistry

Tanner Simpson (Honors College)

Broad Histogram Algorithm Comparison for the Square Well Fluid
Advisor: Roundy

Daniel Still

Measurement of Double Layer Capacitance of Single Layer Graphene
Advisor: Minot

Kyle Tafoya

Modifications to Student Laboratories for Oregon State University’s Waves & Oscillations Physics Course
Advisor: Graham

Abraham Teklu (Honors College)

Using Divertor Strike Point Splitting to Understand Plasma Response and its Sensitivity to Equilibrium Uncertainty
Advisor: Moyer, UCSD / Schellman

Attila Varga

Beating modes In proto-stellar disks
Advisor: Hadley

Aneeq Ahmed

Modelling Gravitationally Coupled Modes of Protstellar Star-Disk Systems
Advisor: Hadley

Ryan Bailey-Crandell

ISFET Characterization and Assessment of Thermal Instability
Advisor: Minot

Andrew Baldwin

Spatial and temporal damping of fluid perturbation at a distance
Advisor: Cozzi, Math

Hazel Betz

Repair of a Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Retesting for the Formation of Pyramidal Structures Formed on Sputtered Germanium (110)
Advisor: Chiang, REU UC Davis / Tate

Cody Bibler

Biodegradation of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine via anaerobic & aerobic bacteria isolates
Advisor: Craig, Vet. Med.

Mirek Brandt

The Impact of Crystal Morphology on the Opto-Electronic Properties of Amorphous and Organic Crystalline Materials
Advisor: Graham

Keenan Cabrera

Charge-asymmetry dependence of kaon elliptic flow in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 27 GeV from STAR
Advisor: REU UCLA / Schellman

Elliot Capek

Simulating dynein’s powerstroke using Brownian dynamics
Advisor: Roundy

Jared Cayton

Developing a Mouse EEG (Electroencephalograph) Signal Simulator and a Preamplifier to Reduce Noise during Sleep EEG Data Acquisition
Advisor: Lim, REU OHSU

Karan Cheema

Projected temperature and precipitation changes for Corvallis and Los Angeles for the 2030-2059 period using the Hadley Center’s regional climate model (HadRM3P)
Advisor: Shell, CEOAS

Zackery Dempsey

Fourier analysis of smartphone call quality
Advisor: McIntyre

Brian Devlin

Advisor: Krane

Matthew Dickie

Conductivity Mapping of Graphene using Terahertz Spectroscopy
Advisor: Lee

Michael Forkner

Thermoelectric properties of the heterostructural alloy Sn1-xCaxSe
Advisor: Tate

Graham Founds

A Study of Charging Behaviors in Organic Semiconductors using Optical Trapping
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Ian Founds

Solution method and error evolution of student responses to chain rule problems within a thermodynamics course
Advisor: Manogue

Kaylen Groberg

Advisor: Schneider

Jesse Hanson (Honors College)

Stability of accretion disks in binary black hole systems and their effects on merger parameters
Advisor: Lazzati

Isaac Hodges (Honors College)

Off Axis Gamma Ray Burst Contribution the Cosmic Microwave Background in the 100-600keV Range
Advisor: Lazzati

Alexander Jacoby

Qualitative Comparison of Algorithms for Tracking Cell Trajectories
Advisor: Sun

Tallon Korn

Project BoxSand:Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining
Advisor: Walsh

Noah Langlie (Honors College)

(See 2018/19)
Advisor: Dascaliuc, Math

Tymothy Mangan (Honors College)

Implementation of a test stand for scintillator development
Advisor: Danielson, REU LANL / Schellman

James May

Optical Characterization of Heterostructural Alloys Sn1-xCax[S,Se]
Advisor: Tate

Zachary McKay

Fabrication and Characterization of Nanoscale Devices made from Molybdenum Disulfide with Viscoelastic Dry Transfer
Advisor: Minot

Ikaika Mckeague-Mcfadden (2018)

Reducing Particle Contamination Between Stacked Interfaces of Heterostructure Devices
Advisor: Graham

Jeremy Meinke (WIC Culture of Writing in Physics Award)

Single-Molecule Analysis of a Novel Kinesin Motor Protein
Advisor: Qiu

Gabriel Nowack

Testing, Development, and First Results of a Method for Measurement of the Isotropy of the One-Way Speed of Light
Advisor: Wojtsekhowski, REU JLAB / Schellman

Allyson Peterson

Student Interaction with Online Pre-Lecture Videos and how it Influences Grades
Advisor: Walsh

Garrett Plunkett

Electrical Transport Measurements Show Intrinsic Doping and Hysteresis in Graphene p-n Junction Devices
Advisor: Graham

Alexander Quinn (2018)

Exploring the Optical and Electronic Properties of Xylindein, a Fungus-Derived Pigment, as a Sustainable Organic Semiconductor
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Willis Rogers

Gravitational Coupling of Uniformly Rotating Computationally Resolved Stars in Protostellar Star-Disk Systems
Advisor: Hadley

Anton Schuster

Solar Induced Fluorescence: A More Affordable and More Accurate Proxy for Plant Stress
Advisor: Higgins, CBEE

Jeffrey Shuford

Monte Carlo: Triga Nuclear Reactor
Advisor: Giebultowicz

Richard Wallace

Study of Organic Semiconductors Using Time-Resolved Charge Measurements at the Microscale
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Griffin Alberti

Exploring Frequency Responses of Custom Spider Web Geometries using Physical and Computational Models
Advisor: Hatton, MIME

Katie Banowetz (WIC Culture of Writing in Physics honorable mention)

Quantifying the effects of acoustic coupling on Advanced LIGO
Advisor: Schofield, REU U. Oregon

Connor Bice

Simulating Synchrotron Optical Flashes in the Reverse Shock of a Gamma Ray Burst
Advisor: Lazzati

Bret Brandner

Implementation of a comparative method for measuring fluorescence quantum yield of novel compounds in solution
Advisor: Graham

James Compeau

High-field Terahertz Spectroscopy of Optically Excited Gallium Arsenside
Advisor: Lee

Rafid Chowdhury

Light scattering and opacity simulation
Advisor: Jansen

Michael Goldtrap

Mapping Mathematical Tools to Physical Models: An Evaluation of the ACER Framework
Advisor: Manogue

Samuel Grimm

Crystal morphology and dimensionality determine the electronic response in novel semiconducting materials
Advisor: Graham

Nicholas Groves

Look Ma, no beads: Analyzing traction force characteristics of migratory adenocarcinoma in heterogeneous type 1 collagen through bead-free confocal microscopy
Advisor: Sun

Job Guidos

3D Soft-Body Collisions in a Gravitational Field
Advisor: Lazzati

Scott Kelley (2018)

A Simple Leapfrog Integration Scheme to Find Optimal Interplanetary Trajectories
Advisor: Giebultowicz

Sam Kowash (Honors College; WIC Culture of Writing in Physics Award)

The lag–luminosity correlation in time-resolved episodes of long gamma-ray bursts
Advisor: Lazzati

Evan Peters (Honors College; WIC Culture of Writing in Physics honorable mention)

Data driven study of neutron response in MINERvA using quasielastic neutrino scattering
Advisor: Schellman

Alexander Peterson

The thermal conductivity and diffusivity of thin films using time domain thermoreflectance experiments
Advisor: Graham

Jeremy Rath

Organic semiconductors: incorporating xylindein into (opto)electronic devices
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Christopher Rosenow (Fall 2016)

Computational Modeling of Magnetic Materials in 3-Dimensions
Advisor: Jansen

Joshua Stahly

Electrical Transport Measurements on the Alloy Sn1-xCaxSe
Advisor: Tate

Gregg Stevens

Characterizing a coupled photodiode-led system for neuro-sensing applications
Advisor: Minot

Brenden Vischer

Free Energy Decomposition of the Critical Square-Well Liquid Using a Renormalization Group Method
Advisor: Roundy

L Roy Bonner (Honors College)

A magnetotelluric investigation of shallow conductivity sources beneath the Cascadia Volcanic Arc
Advisor: Schultz, CEOAS

Jacob Busche (Honors College)

Optical Tweezers-Based Probe of Charge Transfer in Organic Semiconductors at Microscopic Scales
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Lisa Fletcher

Nucleation of Iron Dust from Type II Supernovae
Advisor: Lazzati

David Delaney

A study of the graphite-diamond energy ground states and the phase transition pressure using density functional theory
Advisor: Roundy

Mitchel Elliott (2016)

Solving for the ground state energy of a noninteracting electron gas using the density operator
Advisor: Jansen

Scott Hutchings

Observation of the Third Harmonic Sinusoidal Voltage Response of a Small Incandescent Lightbulb
Advisor: Tate

David Konyndyk

Design of an Optical Medium for the Simulation of Neutron Transport in Reactor Component Materials
Advisor: Klein, Nuc. Engr.

Patrick Kreitzberg

Monte Carlo Simulations for a Soft Sphere Fluid
Advisor: Roundy

Daniel Tzu-Yang Lin

A Novel Method of Detecting Lines on a Noisy Image
Advisor: Sun

Dalton McCuen

Complex Index of Refraction of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes in Strong Terahertz Fields
Advisor: Lee

Samuel McLain

Leapfrog Integration as an Accurate and Uncomplicated Alternative for N-Body Simulations in Computational Astronomy
Advisor: Giebultowicz

Abigail Merkel

Designing and Implementing a Portable Interface System for Field-Effect Transistor Biosensors
Advisor: Minot

Joshua Montegna

Determining the Effective Entropy of a Visual Hash System
Advisor: Roundy

Joshua Mutch

Temperature Dependence of Cu3-x(Sb1-yMy)S4 (M = Sn,Ge) Resistivity and Thermopower
Advisor: Tate

Bao Nguyen

Computational Modeling of Photon Scattering In Gamma Ray Bursts Using Monte Carlo Techniques
Advisor: Lazzati

Rachael Nolan (2016)

Advisor: Brook

Blythe Nourie

Computational Analysis of Spin Systems in Lattice Using the Heisenberg Model
Advisor: Jansen

Seamus O'Callaghan

Single Molecule Studies of the Bidirectional Movement of Yeast Kinesin-5/Cin8
Advisor: Qiu

Connor O'Driscoll

Hyperspectral Fluorescence and 2-Photon Surface Imaging of “Graphene-like” Dichalcogenides
Advisor: Graham

Michael Perlin (Honors College; WIC Culture of Writing in Physics Award)

Optimizing Monte Carlo simulation of the square-well fluid
Advisor: Roundy

Alexander Poff

Hall Effect in Semiconducting Thin Films
Advisor: Tate

Mitchell Senger

Framework for Computational Modeling of Cellular Diffusion Systems
Advisor: Sun

Samuel Stephenson

Hyperspectral Absorption and Fluorescence Surface Imaging Microscope
Advisor: Graham

Jayde Templin (2016)

Experimental Apparatus for Measuring Heat Memory of Drosophila Melanogaster Utilizing Thermal Electric Devices
Advisor: Giebultowicz

Cameron Thayer-Freeman

Comparison of a Persistent Random Walk to MDA-MB-231 Cancer Cell Chemo taxis through a 2.5D Collagen Matrix
Advisor: Sun

Austin Valeske (Honors College)

Determining Free Energies of Hard Sphere Fluids via Monte Carlo Simulation
Advisor: Roundy

Blake Wells

Bandgap measurements of nonspecular materials using a bifurcated fiber optic method of diffuse reflectance
Advisor: McIntyre

Daniel Gluck

High-Resolution Spectroscopy and Abundance Analysis of Very Metal Poor Red-Giant Stars
Advisor: Rhee

Michael Goldtrap (Spring 2016)

Mapping Mathematical Tools to Physical Models: An Evaluation of the ACER Framework
Advisor: Manogue

Patrick Gollmann

Fouling Prevention by Electrically Charged Thin Film Composite Forward Osmotic Membranes;
Advisor: Farr/Sun

Bradley Hermens

Adaptive Choronagraphy Using a Digital Micromirror Array
Advisor: Hetherington

Arlyn Hodson

Advisor: van Zee

Alec Holmes

First principles study of finite temperature phase stability in (Cu,Ag,Au)In2 and Al2Cu alloys
Advisor: Schneider

Aaron Kratzer

A Comparison of Material Characterization Techniques: Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Reflection Spectroscopy on Zinc Sulfide
Advisor: Tate/McIntyre

MacKenzie Lenz

Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy of Vanadium Oxide
Advisor: Lee

Samuel Loomis

Advisor: Roundy

Paho Lurie-Gregg

The contact value approximation to the pair distribution function for an inhomogeneous hard sphere fluid
Advisor: Roundy

Cord Meados

Force Measurements measured from Reflection in an Optical Tweezer
Advisor: McIntyre

Abigail Merkel (S15)

Designing and Implementing a portable interface system for field-effect transistor biosensors
Advisor: Minot

Jordan Pommerenck

Characterization of super-low frequency electromagnetic fields produced by an undersea transmission cable in a homogeneous fluid
Advisor: Yokochi, CBEE

Christoffer Poulsen

Advisor: Hetherington

Cole Schoonmaker

Advisor: Schneider

Grant Sherer (Honors College)

Examining Upper-Division Thermodynamics Using the Actor Oriented Transfer Framework
Advisor: Manogue

Harsukh Singh

The Effect of Inhomogenous Surface Temperature Distribution on Collagen Growth
Advisor: Sun

Rodney Snyder (Honors College)

Electrical and Thermal Properties of Silicon and Tetrahedrite
Advisor: Tate

Daniel Speer (2016)

Room temperature Seebeck measurements of silicon wafers and thin-film tetrahedrite derivatives Cu10-xAgxZn2Sb3S13 on silicon substrates
Advisor: Tate

Dustin Swanson

Effects of impurities and contact resistance in graphene field effect transistors
Advisor: Minot

Mattson Thieme

Low temperature microscopy of organic optoelectronic materials
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Kyle Thomas

Fibroblast Morphology During Trypsinization
Advisor: Sun

Heather Wilson (WIC Culture of Writing in Physics Award)

Real-time monitoring of chemical reactions with carbon nanotube field-effect transistors
Advisor: Minot

Rene Zeto

Testing the model for Min D protein oscillations in Escherichia coli
Advisor: Roundy

Alex Abelson

I-V characteristics of micron-scale plasma devices
Advisor: Northrup-Grummin REU

Maxwell Atkins (S14)

Radio Telescope Resonator Design for Observation of the 21 cm Line
Advisor: Hetherington

Novela Auparay

Room-temperature Seebeck coefficients of metals and semiconductors
Advisor: Tate

William Bramblett

Solar Radiation in the 70-cm band measured through a Yagi-Uda Antenna
Advisor: Hetherington

Morgan Brethower

Implementing the Autocorrelation Transform for Nanosecond-Scale Optical Pulse Resolution
Advisor: Hetherington

Chaelim Reed Coffman

Reflection from Graphene
Advisor: Minot

Nicholas Coyle

Raman spectroscopy of graphene
Advisor: Minot

John Elliot

Design and Implemenation of Next Generation Digital Scientific Instrumentation
Advisor: Hetherington

Thomas Ferron

Measuring Low Intensity Light Reflections of High Temperature CO2 Adsorbed on SiO2 Near Brewster's Angle
Advisor: Hetherington

David Froman (S14)

Analysis of Nullification Methods of Hysteresis in Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors
Advisor: Roundy

Ky Hale

Solar Radiation in the 70-cm band measured through a Yagi-Uda Antenna

Advisor: Hetherington

Louise Henderson (S14)

Calculating Crystal Properties of Bismuth Telluride Using Wien 2k
Advisor: Tate

Casey Hines

Practical Implementation of a Physical Vapor Deposition System in a Research Environment
Advisor: Tate

Benjamin Howorth

Detecting ZnS films on Si substrates using X-ray diffraction
Advisor: Tate

Caleb Joiner (S18)

Analysis of Single Enzyme Activity measured by a Nanoelectronic Sensor
Advisor: Minot

Maia Manock (S15)

How to Model Spin Waves in a One-Dimensional Solid
Advisor: Jansen

Bethany Matthews (Honors College)

Building a basic computational model of impurity and surface states in a 1-dimensional solid
Advisor: Jansen

Afina Neunzert

Exploration of charge-transfer exciton formation in organic semiconductors through transient photoconductivity measurements
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Benjamin Norford

Acoustic Backscatter Surveys over Methane Vents along the Cascadia Continental Margin
Advisor: Trehu, CEOS

Kyle Peters

Optical Tweezer Trapping of Colloidal Polystyrene and Silica Microspheres
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Justin Schepige (Honors College)

A weathering balloon program at Western Oregon University
Advisor: Schoenfeld, WOU

Kathleen Stevens Prudell (2014)

Determining Thickness of Zinc Sulfide Thin Films Through Optical Spectroscopy
Advisor: McIntyre

Eric Stringer

A weathering balloon program at Western Oregon University
Advisor: Schoenfeld, WOU

Andy Svesko (Honors College)

A Detailed Introduction to String Theory
Advisor: Stetz

Sean van Hatten

Calibrating an aerolab 375 sting balance for wind tunnel testing
Advisor: Albertani, MIME

Jenna Wardini

A Guide to Graphene Growth and Characterization
Advisor: Minot

Joshua White

Advisor: Roundy

River Wiedle (Honors College)

Thermal conductivity measurements via the 3ω method
Advisor: Tate

Thomas Windom

SPR: Surface Polarization Reflection of Few-Monolayer Adsorbates on SiO2
Advisor: Hetherington

Marcus Cappiello

Effects on the Corpus Callosum of Ferrets Due to Restriction of Visual Input During the Prenatal Stage and Optimization of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Protocol
Advisor: Kroenke, OHSU

Brian Devlin

Advisor: Krane

Billy Geerhart

Melting Curve of a Lennard-Jones 12-6 System Determined by Coexistence Point Simulations
Advisor: Schneider

Shawn Gilliam

Use of a Digital Micromirror Array as a Configurable Mask in Optical Astronomy
Advisor: Hetherington

Jacob Goodwin

The Pressure Transmission Through an Air-filled Rubber Shell
Advisor: Bay, MIME

Jonathan Greene

Effects of van der Waals interactions on surface polarization reflection
Advisor: Hetherington

Christopher Jones

Discrete time quantum walk with two-step memory
Advisor: Kovchegov / Dimcovic

Mason Keck (Honors College)

X-ray Spectroscopy in Astrophysics and Neutron Capture Cross Section Measurements
Advisor: Krane

Timothy Mathews

Temperature effects on Fowler-Nordheim tunneling regime in a 2N7000 (n-channel enhanced MOSFET)
Advisor: Hetherington

Teal Pershing

Solar granulation imaging techniques using optical Fourier analysis
Advisor: Hetherington

James Montgomery

Radiotelescope at OSU
Advisor: Hetherington

Nicholas Petersen

Measuring neutron absorption cross sections and epithermal resonance integrals of natural platinum via neutron activation analysis
Advisor: Krane

Samuel Settelmeyer (Honors college)

Student motivation, introductory calculus-based physics (PH 211) and project based learning, Oh my!
Advisor: Demaree

Tyler Turner

Developing techniques to measure single molecule conductance: Design considerations, complications, and instrumentation
Advisor: Hetherington

Jaryd Ulbricht

Design and implementation of apparatus to create calibration curves for use in laser induced fluorescence experiments
Advisor: Narayanan, MIME

Murray Wade

Creating a Thermodynamics simulation using the Ising model: A microcanonical Monte Carlo approach
Advisor: Roundy

Colby Whitaker

Noise reduction of OSU's radio telescope
Advisor: Hetherington

Sean Caudle

Simulated radial compression of carbon nanotubes
Advisor: Schneider

Lee Collins (Honors College)

Monte Carlo simulations of structure and melting transitions of small Ag clusters
Advisor: Schneider

Howard Dearmon (2018)

Neutron capture cross sections of selenium isotopes
Advisor: Krane

Alison Gicking

Neutron capture cross sections of cadmium
Advisor: Krane

Jessica Gifford (Honors College)

Gravitational wave detection with the laser interferometer space antenna and Optical trapping and fluorescence spectroscopy of nanoparticle sensors in microfluidic devices
UW REU
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

David Mack

Optical and electrical properties of thin film BaSnO3
Advisor: Tate

Kris Paul

Propagation of error in estimating redshift from photometric data
Advisor: NASA Ames internship / Hetherington

Rachel Waite

Seebeck effect in chalcogenides
Advisor: Tate

Jesse Weller (S19)

2019
Advisor: Schneider

Pat Bice

Magnetic treatment device for stimulating magnetoreceptors in Chinook salmon
Advisor: Bellinger / Giebultowicz

Steven Brinkley

Measuring acoustic response functions with white noise
Advisor: Roundy

Steven Bussell

A dual polarized waveguide for observations at 4 GHz
Advisor: Hetherington

Chris Carlsen

Persistent interlayer coupling by an antiferromagnetic spacer above its Néel temperature (a Monte Carlo study)
Advisor: Giebultowicz

Matthew Cibula

Generation of high-energy terahertz radiation through optical rectification using tilted pulse fronts in LiNbO3
Advisor: Lee

Alex Dauenauer

Neutron capture cross sections, resonance integrals and half-lives of barium isotopes
Advisor: Krane

Daniel Gruss (Honors College)

Applied computing techniques for holographic optical tweezers
Advisor: McIntyre

Tom Hathaway

Winter 2011
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Jeff Holmes

Digital signal processing enhancement to the OSU single-dish radio telescope network (Spring 2011)
Advisor: Hetherington

Shaun Kibby

Three-meter dish radio telescope service life extension program (SLEP)(Spring 2011)
Advisor: Hetherington

Howard Hui

Instrument design for measuring the polarization of the cosmic microwave background
Advisor: Internship JPL

Michael Nielsen

Measuring acoustic response functions with white noise
Advisor: Roundy

Cory Pollard

OSU MASLWR Secondary Systems Control Algorithm (Winter 2011)
Advisor: Nuclear Rad Center / Jansen

Keith Schaefer

Winter 2011
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Colin Shear (Honors College)

Thin Film Bi-based Perovskites for High Energy Density Capacitor Applications
Advisor: Gibbons, Mat. Sci.

Andrew Stickel

Interactions of narrow band multi-cycle THz pulse with microcavity quantum well
Advisor: Lee

Sol Torrel

Neutron Capture Cross Sections and Half-lives of Cerium Isotopes
Advisor: Krane

Kyle Williams

Winter 2011
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Troy Ansell

Observations at 1.4205 GHz
Advisor: Hetherington

Alex Brummer

3x3 Octonionic Hermitian Matrices with Non-Real Eigenvalues
Advisor: Dray, Mathematics

Abel Condrea

GPS Autonomous Precision Aerial Delivery System

Evan deBlander (Honors College)

Characterization of BaCuSF Thin Films Grown in Excess Copper by Pulsed Laser Deposition
Advisor: Tate

John Hart

A Further Investigation of 1,4-cyclohexanedione via Gas Phase Electron Diffraction

Ramsi Hawkins

Utilizing the Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) Model to Develop an Undergraduate Laboratory Exploring Bulk and Quantum Resistivity
Advisor: Minot / Demaree

Chris HomesParker (Honors College)

A Search for Low Temperature Thermoelectric Materials
Advisor: Hetherington

Jonathan Hunt

Simulated Radial Compression of Carbon Nanotubes
Advisor: Schneider

Jeff Macklem

The Art of LABView: Running a Spectrometer for Thin Films and Powders
Advisor: McIntyre

Scott Marler

Analysis of an Electrostatics Activity for Introductory Calculus-Based Physics
Advisor: Demaree

Sean McDonough

2019

Michael Paul

Reflection Imaging of Carbon Nanotube Transistor Chips
Advisor: Minot

Colin Podelnyk

Validation by Single Molecule Fluorescent Resonant Energy Transfer
Advisor: Minot

Patrick Bice

Spring 2010
Advisor: Bellinger /Giebultowicz

Doug Francisco

Advisor: Hetherington

Scott Griffiths (Honors College)

Seasonal and Solar Cycle Variations in High Probability Reconnection Regions on the Dayside Magnetopause
Advisor: Jansen

Daniel Harada

Noise mechanisms in carbon nanotube biosensors
Advisor: Minot

David Hasenjaeger

Random Anisotropy model of a lattice structure

Caleb Joiner (2013)

Alden Jurling

Impedance Spectroscopy of Thin Film Dielectric Materials
Advisor: Tate

Henry Priest

Empirical Annotation of the Brachypodium Transcriptome

Daniel Schwartz

Optimum Feed Design for a 1.4 GHz Radio Telescope
Advisor: Hetherington

Ken Takahashi

Neutron Capture Cross Sections and Resonance Integrals of Cadmium Isotopes
Advisor: Krane

Drew Watson (Honors College)

The Impact of Guiding Questions and Rubrics in the Scientific Writing of Middle-Division Physics Students
Advisor: Manogue

Tyler Backman

Thermodynamic Analysis of the Biodiesel Cycle

Scott Clark

Protein Statistics
Advisor: Landau

Zachary Haines

Light Propagation in a Photonic Crystal

Doug Jacobson

Domain Structures and Hysteresis Curves of Ferromagnetic Systems
Advisor: Landau / Giebultowicz

Kim Johnson (Honors College)

The Effects of air mass origin on cumulus clouds in the Caribbean
Advisor: Twohy, COAS

Joseph Kinney

Room Temperature Excitons in BaCuChF
Advisor: Tate

Nicholas Kuhta

Electrodynamics of the Planar Negative Index Lens
Advisor: Podolskiy

Ken Lett

Modeling the anisotropic superlens
Advisor: Podolskiy

David Mack

Fall 2011
Advisor: Tate

William Martin

Simulating the reaction-diffusion equation in space and time

Nick Meredith

Computing Occupation Times with Integral Equations

Gabriel Mitchell

Light scattering from large particles
Advisor: Landau

Rozy Nystrom

Radio Telescope II
Advisor: Hetherington

Joshua Russell

Radio Telescope I
Advisor: Hetherington

Ken Takahashi

Curtis Taylor

Transverse Flux Permanent Magnet Linear Generator

Timothy Anna

Nuclear Spin Relaxation Rate Study of P-Type Transparent conductive Oxide CuSc02:Mg
Advisor: Warren

Connelly Barnes (Honors College)

ThermoSolver: An Integrated Educational Thermodynamics Software Program
Advisor: Landau

Mark Blanding

Optical Tweezers
Advisor: McIntyre

Phil Carter

Parallel Computing on the physics Beowulf cluster
Advisor: Landau

Matthew Christensen

Seminar in COAS

Micah Eastman

Neutron Capture Cross Sections of Tellurium Isotopes
Advisor: Krane

Doug Fettig (Honors College)

The Effect of Transverse Shifts in the LIGO Interferometer
Advisor: McIntyre

Nathan Paul

Inductively Coupled Plasma

Joe Peterson

Autocorrelation
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Zack Peterson

Optical and electrical behavior of 200-nm diameter Au particles deposited on polythiophene and undoped polythiophene thin films
Advisor: Ostroverkhova

Christopher Somes

Instabilities of the Thermolhaline Ocean Circulation and its Effect on the Pacific Ocean Oxygen Minimum Zone

Joshua Stager

Creating the Paradigm Portfolio
Advisor: Manogue

JC Sanders (Honors College)

Near Earth Object Collisional Mitigation Via Intense Neutron and Photon Sources: a Study in Asteroid Interdiction and Energy Coupling
Advisor: Jansen

Chris Smith (Honors College)

Experiments into Plasma Physics
Advisor: Jansen

Brent Valle

Measurements of autocorrelation for femtosecond pulses
Advisor: Lee

Ben Weston

Simulating Optical Interfaces
Advisor: Podolskiy

Jason Gieske

Design Optimization and Theoretical Analysis of a Linear Reluctance Mass Accelerator

Susan Guyler

Optical Measurements of P-Type Thin Film Semiconductors
Advisor: Tate

Ae Kim

THz wave propagation in one-dimensional photonic crystals
Advisor: Lee

Adam Rand

Frequency Modulation Spectroscopy: Fast measurement of resonance and linewidth
Advisor: McIntyre

Gary Schwab

Dynamics of Absorption Using the Techniques of Surface Polarization Reflectance
Advisor: Hetherington

Jeremy Sylvester

Neutron Activation Analysis of Sn Isotopes
Advisor: Krane

Juan Vanegas

Scientific Visualization with OpenDx: Uses and Applications in Physics
Advisor: Landau

Andrew Walker

Surface Absorption Studies of Benzene Via SPR
Advisor: Hetherington

Robert Casperson

Measuring the Neutron Capture Cross Section of 148Gd
Advisor: Krane

Werner Hager (Honors College)

Using Angular Correlation to Determine Decay Behavior in Nuclei through the Analysis of Coincidence Sum Peaks
Advisor: Krane

Briony Horgan

Investigating grain boundaries in BaCuS1xSexF Using Impedance Spectroscopy
Advisor: Tate

Abraham Korn (Honors College)

Time Periodic Sand Ripples at the Oregon Coast
Advisor: P. Siemens

Dara Easley (Honors College)

Room Temperature Seebeck Measurements on CuSc1-x Mgx02+y Transparent Conductive Thin Films
Advisor: Tate

Modesto Godinez

Photonic crystals for broadband signal from 0.5 THz to 2.5 THz
Advisor: Lee

Levi Kilcher

Optical Spectroscopy of Transparent Conducting Oxides from the UV to near-IR and a Method for Determining the Refractive Index of Transparent Thin Films
Advisor: McIntyre / Tate

Scott Bain (Honors College)

Wavelength Dependence of the Scattering of Small Particles by Sunlight
Advisor: Griffiths

Rachel Bartlett

Neutron Activation Analysis of 195mPt and 117mSn
Advisor: Krane

Martin Held

Fractography of a Nd:YAG single crystal
Advisor: UW REU / Tate

Michael Joyer (Honors College)

Deformation Reduction in Intermetallic NiAl Microlaminations
Advisor: Warnes, Mat. Sci.

Derek Tucker (Honors College)

Optical Characterization of Transparent Conductive Thin Films
Advisor: McIntyre / Tate

Ross Brody

Band Gap of Analysis of Doped and Undoped CuCrO2 Thin Films
Advisor: Tate

Skye Dorsett

Measurement of the Thermal Neutron Absorption Cross-section of 194Hg and 194Au
Advisor: Krane

Christopher Duncan

Measurements of Neutron Activation in Palladium Isotope 102
Advisor: Krane

Jeremy Wolf

Measurement of the Thermal Neutron Absorption Cross Section of 160Tb
Advisor: Krane

Miriam Lambert (Honors College)

The Neutron Capture Cross Section of 208Pb
Advisor: Krane

Diedrich Schmidt

P –Type Electrical Conduction in Transparent Conducting Oxides
Advisor: Tate

Nathan Bezayiff

Circuit to Observe Quantum Conductance
Advisor: Tate

Brandon van Leer

Analysis of YBa2Cu3O7 Films by X-Ray Diffraction
Advisor: Tate

Joseph Neal

Integrated Laboratory Experiences in Physics Education
Advisor: Tate

Eric Bixby (Honors College)

Light Transmittance Properties of Biological Tissues of the Red-sided Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis, Between 450 and 850 Nanometers
Advisor: McIntyre

Scott Broughton

Octonions
Advisor: Manogue

Brian Brisbine

Casimir Effect
Advisor: Manogue

Andrew Fowler

Current Dependence of Resistivity of YBaCuO in Zero Magnetic Field
Advisor: Tate

Milton Cornwall-Brady

Klein Paradox
Advisor: Manogue

Amy J. Spofford

An Analysis of the Current-Voltage Characteristics of YBa₂Cu₃O₇ in the Vortex State
Advisor: Tate

Jeffrey Arasmith

An Introduction to Superconductors for Undergraduate Research Assistants
Advisor: Tate

Anupama Bhat

The Temperature and Magnetic Field Dependence of the Activation Energy in YBa2Cu3O7 in the Flux Creep Region
Advisor: Tate