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• 2020

Class of 2021

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

1. Rodrigo Vidal Arias (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD/GBST Advisor: Nelson “Gluebot - an epoxy printer”
2. Brett Hudson Barth (pdf), BS-PHYS Advisor: Kordosky “Studies of neutrino interactions and neutrino flux using the DUNE near detector”
3. Austin Josiah Batz (pdf), BS-PHYS/MATH, HONORS, PBK, Advisor: Erlich “Composite Gravity in Curved Spacetime”
4. Andrew John Beling (pdf), BS-PHYS, HONORS, PBK, Advisor: Aubin “Progress Towards Electromagnetic Manipulation and Trapping of Micro-particles”
5. Michael Brennen Brown (pdf), BS-PHYS, Advisor: Cooke “Development of a High-Voltage Marx Generator for Plasma-Immersion Ion Implantation”
6. Lauren Marie Carver (pdf), BS-PHYS, HONORS, Advisor: Armstrong “Simulation and optimization of kinematics measurements for the MOLLER parity-violating electron-electron scattering experiment”
7. Samantha Leigh Cohodas (pdf), BS-PHYS, Monroe Scholar, Advisor: Cooke “Development and Characterization of Outgassing Rates for Use in an Expanded LIGO Vacuum”
8. Giles Thompson Rex Corzine (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD, Advisor: Frey “Development of Advanced Additive Manufacturing for Piezoelectric Polymers”
9. Simon James Davenport (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD, Advisors: Cooke & Frey “Breakout Board Process Research”
10. Jonathan Toniel Diaz-Ramos (pdf), BS-PHYS, Advisor: Novikova “Development of a Tunable Microwave Source for EIT Magnetometer”
11. Jackson Bernard Dillard (pdf), BS-PHYS/MATH, Monroe Schoalr, Advisor: Erlich “Nonlocality in a stochastic approach to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory”
12. Joshua Paul Dunn (pdf), BS-PHYS, Advisor: Nelson “Machine Construction and End Effector Iteration of Fermilab D.U.NE.'s Anode Plane Assembly Epoxy Printer” (Fall 2021)
13. Christopher Scott Egerstrom (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD/MATH, Monroe Scholar, Advisor: Frey “Development of Advanced Additive Manufacturing for Piezoelectric Polymers”
14. Cutter Lake Fugett (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD, Advisors: Cooke & Frey “Breakout Board Process Research”
15. Adam Grey Haneberg (pdf), BS-PHYS, Advisor: Cotton “Structural and Orientational Characterization of Host Defense Peptides via Solid-State NMR and Oriented Proton Chemical Shifts”
16. Ali Abdelnaser Hassan (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD, Advisor: Cooke “Development of Step-Up Device for Senior Citizens”
17. Gabrielle Rebekah Jawer (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD, Monroe Scholar, Advisor: Cooke “Development of Step-Up Device for Senior Citizens”
18. Finnian Ramsey Mayhew (pdf), BS-PHYS/MUSC, Advisor: Vahle “Studies of Beamline Instrumentation in the NOvA Test Beam Experiment”
19. Colm Thomas McDermott Jr. (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD, Advisor: Cooke “Bluetooth Low Energy Connection via Mobile Application”
20. Preston Crowl Mulford (pdf), BS-PHYS, Advisor: Orginos “Testing Magnetic Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on the Sine Gordon Model”
21. Douglas Joseph Palumbo (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD/HIST, HONORS, PBK, Monroe Scholar, Advisor: Nelson “Machine Construction and End Effector Iteration of Fermilab D.U.NE.'s Anode Plane Assembly Epoxy Printer”
22. Jonathan Lawrence Palumbo(pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD/HIST, HONORS, PBK, Monroe Scholar, Advisor: Yang ”Preclinical Development of a Smart Video Laryngoscope (EPAD)”
23. Elizabeth Ann Salata (pdf), BS-PHYS/MATH, HONORS, Advisor: Stevens “ Exploring the PhiEtaPrime Final State at GlueX”
24. Daniel Oleg Slyepichev (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD, Advisor: Yang “Pre-clinical Development of a Smart Video Laryngoscope”
25. Stuart Nathan Thomas (pdf), BS-PHYS, HONORS, 1693 Scholar, PBK, Monroe Scholar, Advisor: Monahan “Topology of the O(3) non-linear sigma model under the gradient flow”
26. Jacob Thomas Wacht (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD, Advisors: Nelson/Courtney Harris (VIMS) “Characterization of Water Column Structure in the Northern Andaman Sea, Myanmar based on Field Data collected in December 2017”
27. Maximilian Sellers Weinhold (pdf), BS-PSYC/PHYS, Advisors: Cooke & Frey “Breakout Board Process Research”
28. Doyle Stevens Weishar (pdf), BS-PHYS-EPAD, Monroe Scholar, Advisor: Frey “Development of Advanced Additive Manufacturing for Piezoelectric Polymers”