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Class of 2022

Senior research topics, honors, and what's next:

  1. Yunhong Bao, PBK, BS-PHYS-EPAD/MATH Advisor: Nelson “Design and Specification of the Anode Plane Assembly Epoxy Printer for Use in Fermilab’s DUNE Project.”
  2. Jacob Miles Brotman-Krass (pdf), HONORS, BS-PHYS-EPAD Advisor: Yang “Listening to Nature: Translating Plant Action Potentials and Environmental Characteristics into Music.”  
  3. Sofia Camryn Brown (pdf), HONORS, *PBK, *MON, BS-PHYS Advisor: Novikova “Optical Fiber-Linked Magnetometer Employing Artificial Intelligence for Magnetic Field Measurement.”
  4. Gordon Jameson Crouse (pdf), HONORS, PBK, *MON, BS-PHYS/GOVT Advisor: Mordijck “A Study of Transport in the SOL Region of Tokomaks.”
  5.  Michael Christian Cusack-Nelkin, BS-PHYS-EPAD Advisor: Cooke “DC Pulsed Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation.”
  6. Derek A. Dietz, BS-PHYS-EPAD Advisor: Cooke “DC Pulsed Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation.”
  7. Caitlin Michelle Dolt (pdf), BS-PHYS Advisor: Erlich “The Classics of Classical Mechanics: An Analysis of Isaac Newton’s Principia.”
  8. Destiny C. Dozier, BS-PHYS-EPAD Advisor: Yang “Pre-Clinical Development of a Smart Video Laryngoscope.”
  9. Titouan Baptiste Duston, *PBK, *MON, BS-PHYS/CHEM Advisors: Kidwell & Armstrong “Investigation of Energy Relaxation Pathways of A2Σ+ {NO}·{CO} Cluster Near Dissociation.”
  10. Anthea Elaine Empson, BS-PHYS-EPAD Advisor: Yang “Listening to Nature: Translating Plant Action Potentials and Environmental Characteristics into Music.”
  11. Derek N. Fang, BS-PHYS Advisor: Nelson “Prototype Circuit Board Production and Quality Control for the Dune Detector Anode Plane Assemblies.”
  12. Callie Marie Fernandez, *MON, BS-PHYS Advisor: Kordosky “Studies of the Impact of Near Detector Measurements on Systematic Uncertainties in the DUNE Oscillation Analysis.”
  13. Seth Aaron Gnesin (pdf), HONORS, *PBK, *MON, BS-PHYS Advisor: Mordijck “Method for Protecting Satellites from Solar Energetic Particles Using Chaotic Magnetic Fields.”
  14. Mikayla Rose Huffman (pdf), THOMAS JEFFERSON PRIZE IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, HONORS, Mortar Board, *PBK, *MON, BS-PHYS Advisors: Sher & Singer “Investigation of Tertiary Impact Cratering and Relation to Impact Physics Theory.”
  15. Jordan Elias Koseski, *MON, BS-PHYS-EPAD Advisor: Yang “Development of a Video Laryngoscope with AI Assisted Epiglottis Bounding and Automatic Recording.”
  16. Boyang Li (pdf), *PBK, *MON, BS-PHYS/MATH Advisor: Monahan “Chiral Fermions and Domain Walls in Lattice Gauge Theory.”  
  17. Jiahui Li (pdf), HONORS, *PBK, *MON, BS-PHYS/MATH Advisor: Novikova “An Atomic Magnetometer based on Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Polarization Rotation.”
  18. Yuqiao “Cordelia” Li (pdf), *PBK, *MON, BS-PHYS/MATH Advisor: Orginos “Hadamard-gate Quantum Image Recognition: Theory and Experiment.”
  19. Morgan Elisabeth Logsdon (pdf), HONORS, BS-PHYS Advisor: Aubin “Co-Planar Waveguides for Microwave Atom Chips.”
  20. Caitlyn Philips Marat (pdf), *MON, BS-CSCI/PHYS Advisor: Mikhailov “Automating Mode Detection in Quantum Imaging.”
  21. Qian Niu (pdf), HONORS, *PBK, BS-PHYS/PHIL Advisor: Carone “Nonlocal Lorentz-Violating Modifications of Quantum Electrodynamics.”  
  22. Joshua George O'Cain (pdf), HONORS, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, BS-PHYS/DSCI Advisor: Stevens “Development of Convolutional Neural Network for Particle Identification in the GlueX DIRC Detector.”
  23. Elise Therese Palmer (pdf), BS-PHYS Advisors: Wustholz & Aubin “Utilizing Blinking Dynamics for Multiplexed Super Resolution Imaging.”
  24. Michael T. Parker (pdf), HONORS, *MON, BS-PHYS Advisor: Averett “Alkali Linewidths Under High Temperatures and Pressures of 3He.”
  25. Alec Kynan Pixton, BS-PHYS-EPAD Advisor: Cooke “DC Pulsed Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation.”
  26. Stephen Carl Wemmerus Rosene, BS-PHYS/ECON Advisor: Aubin “Progress Toward Microwave Manipulation of Micro-Objects.”
  27. Tyler Schroeder (pdf), *PBK, BS-PHYS/MATH Advisor: Erlich “Cosmological Implications of Stochastic Quantum Gravity.”
  28. Sindu Esha Shanmugadas, BS-PHYS Advisor: Aubin “Measuring the Magnetic and Electric Fields of a Microwave Lattice for Atom Chip Development.”
  29. Noah Gregory Shanton (pdf), BS-PHYS Advisor: Monahan “Searching for New Physics with BS Meson Decay.”
  30. Jacob Scott Silliman, BS-PHYS-EPAD Advisor: Cooke “DC Pulsed Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation.”
  31. Reehan E. Siraj, *MON, MORTAR BOARD, BS-PHYS Advisor: Mordijck “Diagnosing Magnetic Reconnection in Simulations of Tokamak Scrape-Off Layer Turbulence.”
  32. Percival James Skalski (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD Advisors: Frey & Gong “Design and Deployment of a UAV Mounted Autonomous Water Sampling Payload.”
  33. Jack Oliver Slater (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD Advisors: Frey & Gong “Design and Deployment of a UAV Mounted Autonomous Water Sampling Payload.”
  34. Tomas Francis Sommer, *MON, BS-PHYS-EPAD Advisor: Yang “Development of a Video Laryngoscope with AI Assisted Epiglottis Bounding and Automatic Recording.”
  35. Carson Melville Stillman (pdf), HONORS, *MON, BS-PHYS-EPAD Advisor: Yang “Development of a Video Laryngoscope with AI Assisted Epiglottis Bounding and Automatic Recording.”
  36. Alexander Michael Toyryla (pdf), HONORS, BS-PHYS Advisor: Novikova  “Development of a Vector Magnetometer Based on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in 87Rb Atomic Vapor.”
  37. Kerry Zeyun Wang (pdf), *MON, BS-PHYS/CSI Advisor: Aubin “Developing Software for Controlling an Ultracold Atomic Apparatus.”
  38. Jiaruo “Eve” Xu (pdf), BS-PHYS Advisor: Monahan “Developing a Better Procedure for Lattice Data Analysis.”
  39. Hantao Yu (pdf), BS-MATH/PHYS Advisor: Cooke “AISI-1020 Low-carbon Steel Outgassing Analysis.”