Evaluation of US Renewable Portfolio Standards in Terms of Effectiveness and Intention

Jacob Derzon with Justin Gallagher Evaluation of US Renewable Portfolio Standards in Terms of Effectiveness and Intention In the past several decades, there have been several attempts by lawmakers to increase the use of renewable resources in various states through legislation known as the renewable portfolio standard (RPS), which mandates increased...

Read more

Optimal Current Patterns and Resolution Limitations of the Bayesian Methodology in EIT

Oliver Ernst with Erkki Somersalo Optimal Current Patterns and Resolution Limitations of the Bayesian Methodology in EIT One of the applications of the Bayesian methodology is to the determination of the electrical admittivity distribution from measurement data in Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT). Since this inverse problem is ill-posed, a spectrum of...

Read more

Nanoscale Membrane Structures for Radiation Detection

Matthew Krupcale with Philip FengNanoscale Membrane Structures for Radiation DetectionRadiation detectors are used in a wide range of environments from medical to nuclear and research facilities. The use of nanoscale membranes for radiation detection has largely been unexplored, despite having interesting optoelectronic properties. This project focuses on conducting a...

Read more

Measuring Scattering, Absorption, and Reflection Properties for Filters in the South Pole Telescope

Kristen McKee with John Ruhl Measuring Scattering, Absorption, and Reflection Properties for Filters in the South Pole Telescope A current problem with many ground-based telescope experiments, such as the South Pole Telescope, is that the optical loading on the detectors is undesirably high. In the South Pole Telescope, millimeter-wavelength photons from...

Read more

Significance of Image Heterogeneity in Multi-Modality Medical Imaging

Devin Miles with David Jordan Significance of Image Heterogeneity in Multi-Modality Medical Imaging Heterogeneous features have been observed in clinical PET-CT and PET-MRI imaging of tumors.  The significance of this heterogeneity is not well understood but may have prognostic value for clinicians.  To advance understanding of this parameter, an investigation of...

Read more

Physics and Instrumentation of Growing MoS2 Crystals

Christopher Miller with Philip FengPhysics and Instrumentation of Growing MoS2 CrystalsThis senior project is aimed at developing physical vapor deposition, transfer printing, and other related techniques for making ultra thin semiconducting membrane structures, which have potential to be engineered into transducers and sensors (e.g., gas sensors or single-particle detectors)...

Read more

Stochastic Differential Equations Driven by Compound Poisson and Lévy Processes

Thomas Norton with Wojbor A. Woyczyński Stochastic Differential Equations Driven by Compound Poisson and Lévy Processes Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) provide a rigorous setting for investigating the dynamics of systems subject to “noise,” by which we mean source terms whose behavior is not deterministic, but governed by a probability distribution.  The...

Read more