Undergraduate Presentations and Awards

Future Physicists Day: March 21 - 22, 2011

Poster Session and Presentations

Undergraduate Presentations
This year at the March meeting, we were thrilled to welcome more than 75 undergraduates to share their research with us! With an estimated 400 undergraduates in attendance total, it's safe to say that this year's meeting enjoyed a very strong undergraduate presence. A hearty thanks goes out to all students and undergraduate advisors who attended the meeting this year. We hope to see you all at another APS meeting soon!

Future of Physics Days Travel Awards
A limited number of travel awards were dispersed to presenting students this year, at $200 (FPD Basic) and $500 (FPD Scholar) levels. All presenting students were eligible for the awards. For more information on the Future of Physics Days Travel Awards, please visit our Travel Awards page.
About Student Travel Award Grants

Undergraduate Epitome
Every year, APS prepares a separate epitome for undergraduates, highlighting sessions which would be of special interest to students.
March 2011 Undergraduate Epitome

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Planned Future of Physics Days Events

Mentor/Student Welcome Reception
Monday, March 21
Undergraduate Students and their Mentors enjoyed some wonderful food and learned about career opportunities for students of physics. Student and faculty joined forces in a special contest for the chance to win some great prizes!

Graduate School Fair
Tuesday, March 22
Representatives from several local universities were available to meet with students to discuss their graduate research programs. Coffee, drinks and light snacks were served. Over eighty undergraduates were in attendance.

Student Awards Reception and Career Panel
Tuesday, March 22
Graduate and Undergraduate students mingled with working physicists at this special student reception. Winning presenters from SPS oral and poster sessions were given awards and recognition. The awards reception was followed by a Career Panel of physicists from diverse fields. Panel discussion was followed by open Q &A. Light refreshments were served.

The awards reception and the book awards were funded by American Physical Society and by Think Geek.

Future Physicists Day 2011 Research Presentation Winners

Name	Institution	Presentation
Nyles Breecher	Hamline University	Exploring a Parasite-Host Model with Monte Carlo Simulations
Cortney Bougher	Appalachian State University	Growth and Morphology of High Mobility Organic Semiconductors
Katherine Carrasquillo	Univ. of Puerto Rico-Humacao	Tunable Schottky diodes fabricated from electrospun crossed SNO2/PEDOT-PSSA nanoribbons
Eric Driscoll	Lock Haven University of PA	Compositional dependence of the narrow band emission from zinc oxide nanowires
Erik Garcell	University of Florida-Gainesville	Characterization of a MEMS Actuator through Simulation
Udai Garimella	Hendrix College	The Optimization and Implementation of the Qweak Database
Michael Garman	Goucher College	Thermal Conductivity of a two-gap superconductor MgB2 in High Magnetic Field and Low Temperatures
Adam Iaizzi	Ithaca College	An Ab-initio Study of Folded Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons
Verida Leandre	North Carolina AT SU	The 11C Project: Measurement of Root Exudation at Elevated CO2 Levels in Low and High Nutrient Solutions
Catherine Lee	Wellesley College	Effects of Interactions on Interference Pattern formed after release and expansion of two identical Bose-Einstein condensates
Anne Moffitt	Texas Christian University	Drug Loading of Mesoporous Silicon
Maritza Reyna	Univ. of Puerto Rico-Humacao	Low Temperature Study of the Electrical Properties of Sb-SnO2 Nanofibers
Emilee Sena	Santa Clara University	UV-vis and Transport Characterization of Degradation in Polymer Blend Photovoltaics
Yichen Shen	Johns Hopkins University	Emergent magnetic monopoles and their dynamics in Artificial Spin Ice
Amy Van Newkirk	Grove City College	Designing an Optical Dipole Trap for the Creation of Bose-Einstein Condensates