Undergraduate Presentations and Awards

Future Physicists Day: May 2 - 3, 2009

Poster Session and Presentations

Undergraduate Presentations
As usual, the most important parts of Future Physicist Days were the presentations by undergraduates.

Thirty individuals shared their research results in one of the Undergraduate Research oral or poster sessions held Saturday and Sunday. The Undergraduate Awards Reception which brought Future Physicists Days to a close on Sunday afternoon provided an opportunity for us to recognize these undergraduates for their excellent work.

Awards Reception
The Awards Reception began began with a very exciting game of Physics Jeopardy hosted by the Tom Olson and Gary White from the Society of Physics Students (SPS).

After the suspenseful final Jeopardy round ended, SPS recognized the presenters in the Undergraduate Research sessions with certificates and then Dr. Judy Franz, Executive Officer of APS, presented book awards to several outstanding undergraduate presenters.

See Physics in your Future - discover tomorrow

The awards reception and the book awards were funded by American Physical Society and the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) - Physics and Astronomy Division.

Future Physicists Day 2009 Book Award Winners

Name	Institution	Presentation
Robert Anthony	Ohio Wesleyan University	E1.00055 : Toward a Study of Synchronization in Quantum Mechanical Josephson Junction Arrays
Sedona Price	Caltech	E1.00059 : Simulating Background Radiation to Establish NuSTAR Detection Limits
Benjamin Ray	CDF/FNAL	J14.00003 : Search for a Fermiophobic Higgs Boson Decaying into Diphotons at CDF
Dominick Rocco	University of Wisconsin - Madison	E1.00058 : Seasonal Variations of the Atmospheric Muon Flux in IceCube
Mallory Young	Hendrix College	D14.00009 : Neutrino-Stimulated Pair-Creation in Supernovae
Jessica Snyder	University of Kansas	D14.00010 : Measuring neutron flow with an upgrade of the CMS Zero Degree Calorimeter
D.C. Stoken	Ursinus College	E1.00050 : One Neutron Knockout from ⁴⁵Cl
Dennis Gardner	University of Colorado at Boulder	D14.00003 : Nanoparticle Self-Assembly in the Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Blue Phase