Richard Metzger with Ken SingerLiquid crystal semiconductor nanostructuresOrganic semiconductors are the subject of much study, especially for organic light emitting diodes and photovoltaics. Charge transfer and transport processes are important in this context, and optical spectroscopy on molecular aggregates can yield important information. We will study self-assembly of discotic...
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Dane Pittock with Claudia de RahmModified gravity on solar system scalesDuring his senior project, Dane Pittock will explore effects of Modified Gravity on Solar System scales. Infrared modifications of gravity are typically expected to modify Newton’s law and on very large distance scales, but such theories usually come hand...
Max Service with Paul Harding, Dept. of AstronomyAsteroseismology using KeplerRecent advances in asteroseismology allow ages of individual stars to be measured. The ages of the stars allow us to trace the formation history of the galaxy. We are interested the and the formation of the galactic stellar halo, which...
Mathew Solomon with Mike MartensWorking towards the ideal nanoparticle for Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI)The performance of magnetic particle imaging (MPI) depends on the properties of magnetic nanoparticles with diameters in the range of 10 to 100 nanometers. The response of the nanoparticles to an externally applied time-varying magnetic field...
Terence Southard with Roger Quinn, Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Design, fabrication and testing of a new limiting oxygen index device
The Limiting Oxygen Index (LOI) is one of an array of commonly used metrics for the rating of material flammability. Although devices to measure this value are commercially available,...
Jason Tabachnik with Andrew TolleyExploring the dualities between fluids, strings, and gravityRecently, high-energy physicists have discovered and developed powerful new tools known as “dualities.” Dualities are deep correspondences between naively different theories, allowing one to examine the same phenomena in two seemingly divergent lights. Essentially, they are like two...
Robert Badea with Jesse Berezovsky
Fabrication and characterization of ferromagnetic vortices for spintronics
Poster Paper
The proposed project involves creating thin ferromagnetic films which behave with reduced dimensionality to create concentrated localized magnetic fields. The initial part of the project is to create thin ferromagnetic disks with a thickness of approximately 50nm...
Brian Cox with Rolfe Petschek
Understanding Quasicrystals
Poster Paper
Quasicrystals have been observed in a variety of metallic systems and recently also in simulations of hard tetrahedral. In quasicrystals atoms are arranged in such a way that the fourier transform of the positions of their centers, or indeed of any characteristic of...
Bill Flaherty with Glenn Starkman
Accounting for the sun's gravity in dark matter detection
Poster Paper
Dark matter is thought to compose a large fraction of the energy density of the universe, and in particular of our galaxy. The favored candidate for dark matter is weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), particles tens...
Rebecca Gilson with Brian Grimberg and Robert BrownPlasmoidium Falciparum Response to Oscillating Magenetic Fields and the Influence of Disruptive MeasuresMalaria causes over one million deaths per year and Plasmodium falciparum is the most deadly of the five types of human malaria. To prevent the build up of toxic heme,...