Undergraduate Presentations and Awards

Future Physicists Day - April 14, 2008

Poster Session and Presentations

The highlight of the 2008 Future Physicists Day followed lunch when 40 undergraduates shared their research results in oral and poster sessions. The Undergraduate Awards Reception followed the undergraduate sessions. Dr. Judy Franz, Executive Officer of the APS, presented book awards to several undergraduate presenters.

The book awards were provided by American Physical Society, the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), Physics and Astronomy Division, the APS Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP), the APS Division of Physics of Beams (DPB), the APS Division of Plasma Physics (DPP), the APS Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP), and the APS Division of Astrophysics (DAP).

Funding for the awards reception at the Riverfront Hyatt Hotel was provided by CUR. The Society of Physics Students (SPS) sponsored a rousing round of Physics Jeopardy, following the book awards presentation. Another popular component of the reception was the distribution of door prizes provided by the University of Chicago Press.

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Future Physicists Day 2008 Book Award Winners

Name	Institution	Presentation
Adam Jacobs	Hendrix College	S20.02: Using a Large Ring Laser Gyroscope (RLG) to Understand the Torsional Components of Near-Field Seismic Events
Mary Williams	University of North Alabama	S19.04: Whispering-Gallery-Mode Resonances in Flourescent Microspheres
Nathan Brewer	Union University	S19.05: Probing the Unusual Thresholds of AlH+/AlD+ formation by Molecular Dynamic Simulations on MRCI Potential Energy Surfaces
Laura Stiles	University of Kansas	S18.02: Search for QCD Hawking Radiation in Heavy Ion Collisions
Yun Kyoung Ryu	Ohio Wesleyan University	S18.01: SPS Outstanding Student Award for Undergraduate Research Talk: Lifetime Measurements and Deformation in 79 Sr
Gabriel Caceres	Augustana College	S18.06: CDMS Veto Stability Study and Calibration
Jessica Hanzlik	The Ohio State University	S1.61: Improving the Higgs Mass Resolution by Using a Neural Network to Make Jet Corrections in the ZH -> l+l-bb Channel
Doug Schaefer	The Ohio State University	S1.048: Resolving the Higgs
Lindsey Perry	The Ohio State University	S1.49: Understanding Charged Particle Backgrounds for GLAST
Andrew Schenk	Millikin University	S1.50: Improving Campus Security with Increased Lighting Efficiency while Simultaneously Reducing Light Pollution
Adam Jakus	Georgia Institute of Technology	S1.54: Modeling and Simulation of the Impact Response of Filled and Unfilled Linear Cellular Alloys for Structural Energetic Material Applications
Robert Mentzer	Millikin University	S1.53: Measuring Coefficients of Friction for Materials Commonly Used in Theatre