Future of Physics Days: March Meeting 2023 Student Presenters

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Presenters from APS March Meeting 2023

Thank you to the undergraduate presenters who shared their work! Their presentations spanned a breadth of physics topics and demonstrate the innovations undergraduates bring to the physics community.

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Name	Institution	Presentation	Best Presenters in Session
Taha Kaleem	Rutgers University	Probing CDW states in Graphene/1T-TaS2 heterostructures using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy	Top Presenter
Kenta Kodama	California State University, Long Beach	Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy to Study the Electronic Properties of PtTe₂: A Type-II Dirac Semimetal
Andrew Vincent	Augusta University	Fabrication of planar screening probes to study strongly correlated 2D materials such as twisted bi-layer graphene
Amelia Schaeffer	Reed College	Investigating Nanoscale Morphology and Conductivity in a PEDOT:PSS and Au Nanoparticle System
Eli Hellmig	Francis Marion University	Green Function Approach for Calculating Surface Electronic Structure of Iron Selenide on Strontium Titanate
Tedi Qafko	Wentworth Institute of Technology	Low-cost setup for determining the thickness of van der Waals materials
Michele Eggleston	Oberlin College	Measuring the Exciton Binding Energy of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites
Suman Neupane	Middle Tennessee State University	Properties of carbon nanotube/alumina nanocomposites synthesized by various magnetic catalysts
Zixuan Liang	New York University	Mechanical exfoliation of h-BN as dielectric in Josephson junction fabrication
Anne Evans	University of North Florida	Surface reaction induced transformation of 2D-Pt-ditelluride to a 2D-monotelluride	Top Presenter
Ege Kutlubas	Colgate University	Role of Aromatic Amino Acids in Enhancing the Optical Transmissivity of PEDOT:PSS
Sean Driskill	University of Arizona	Low Temperature Photoluminescence of SbPS₄	Top Presenter
Lauren Massaro	Kennesaw State University	Floquet Engineered Vortex States in Dirac-like Systems
Cody Graves	Slippery Rock University	Cooled atomic force microscope for undergraduate research
Gabriel Andres	Northwestern College	Design and Construction of an Inverted Microscope to be Used in IR Optical Tweezers	Top Presenter
Alyssa Miller	Gettysburg College	Design and Application of Wide-Angle Ultraviolet Stop Filter for Semi-transparent Organic Photovoltaics	Top Presenter
Aries Martinez	Eastern Illinois University	Developing dielectric-metal hybrid nanomaterials for solar cells
David Whatcott	Eastern Illinois University	Solar cell photoresponse enhancement with perovskite quantum dots and plasmonic particles
Luis Torres Cantu	Eastern Illinois University	Nanoscale imaging of solar cells using Kelvin probe force microscopy
Alex Landry	Linfield University	Simulating the Influence of Birefringence for Centrosymmetric Point Groups using Rotational Anisotropy Second Harmonic Generation (RA-SHG)
Patrick Herron	Cleveland State University	On the Importance of the Direct Measurements of the Specific Refractive Index for Microgels and Micelles	Top Presenter
Michael Dixon	Trinity University	Effect of Hydrogen Content on Rare Earth Fluorescence in Lithium Niobate
Avery Gilson	New York Institute of Technology	Measuring photon correlation using laser feedback interferometry with time-correlated coherence measurements
Charanjot Singh	City College of New York	Strain engineering effects on the optical properties of bilayer MoS₂	Top Presenter
Nathon Segovia	U.S. Military Academy West Point	4-level ladder electromagnetic induced transparency quantum antenna: theory
Samantha Damonte	U.S. Military Academy West Point	4-level ladder electromagnetic induced transparency quantum antenna: experiment
Jordan Wilhelm	Lafayette College	Converting Radio Frequency waves to Electrical Energy using Metamaterials
Haben Belai	University of Florida	Anisotropic Magnetoresistance (AMR) of Phase Separated (La0.4Pr0.6)0.67Ca0.33MnO3
Laura Zichi	University of Michigan	Exfoliation of large high-quality graphene coupled with physically informed automated identification
Sihan Chen	Caltech	Shift Current Response in Twisted Multilayer Graphene
Caeli Benyacko	Dept. of Physics and MagLab, University of Florida	Magnetic Properties of Ferromagnetic Cobalt Grown in an Applied Magnetic Field
Brady Wilson	Kennesaw State University	Structural and magnetic characterization of chiral magnetic oxides of MMoTeO₆ (M=Mn, Co) family
Christopher Barns	West Chester University	Structural Phase Patterning of MoS₂	Top Presenter
Evan Engelhaupt	Trinity University	Enhancing the efficiency of FRET using surface plasmons waves on gold nanogratings	Top Presenter
Andra Key	Trinity University	Enhancing FRET Efficiency of Precisely Spaced Fluorescent Molecules Using Surface Plasmons
Rohith Sajith	University of California, Berkeley	Critical correlations and entanglement in the measured quantum Ising model
Jessica Jiang	Smith College	Finite Element Calculations of the Electron-Electron Coulomb Repulsions in a Quantum Dot Dimer	Top Presenter
Emma Kurth	Coastal Carolina University	Spin and Charge Currents from Stern-Gerlach-Like Forces
Alex Giovannone	The Ohio State University	Design of a Cryogenic-Friendly Spintronic Terahertz Emitter Mount for Small Samples	Top Presenter
Andrew Zimmerman	Augusta University	Topological properties of photon-mediated interacting fermions in the presence of honeycomb optical lattice.
Venise Jan Castillon	Seton Hall University	Improving the efficiency of Tin-Based Perovskite using WxAMPS
Noah Hann-Deschaine	Colgate University	Development & optimization of low-cost TENGs using bioderived materials
Alexander Brady	Augusta University	Integrating LASSO machine learning algorithm with LLG spin dynamics	Top Presenter
Daniel King	Brigham Young University	Machine Learning to Predict Quasi TE₀₁₁ Mode Resonance of Dielectric Resonators in Free Space
Matthew Vallely	Bucknell University	Predictive Modeling of the Mechanical Properties in Triblock and Dual Triblock Copolymer Organogels	Top Presenter
Holden Hankerson	Winston-Salem State University	Use Simple Pasco Experiments to Stimulate Computational Thinking
Walker Hayes	Valdosta State University	Discovery of Copper-Catalyzed Click Chemistry Reaction Intermediates in Nanoreactor by Accelerated MD	Top Presenter
Grennon Gurney	American University	Distribution and scaling of complexity in Conway's Game of Life, and connections to nonequilibrium dynamics
Mateus F. B. Granha	Universidade de Pernambuco	Three-State Opinion Dynamics for Financial Markets on Complex Networks
Igor Oliveira	Universidade de Pernambuco	Critical behavior effects of Fractal Networks on the Majority-vote Model Dynamics	Top Presenter
Giuliano Porciúncula	Universidade de Pernambuco	Majority-vote model with limited visibility on scale-free networks
Aashay Pai	New York University	Spectral Holography: Imaging Complex Systems with Broadband Sound
Gabriel Kuntz	Seattle University	Mechanical Properties of Fish Shoals
Mitchell Rask	Seattle University	The Effects of Changing Geometry on Fish Motion in Shoals
Brendan D'Aquino	Northeastern University	Studying Turing patterns in vegetation
Alexander Hardin	Northern Arizona University	Energetic Models of Artificial Chlorosome Light Harvesting Systems
Ngoc Nguyen	Trinity University	Exploring Membrane-Damaging Effects of Amyloid Aggregates on the Clustering Behaviors of Lipid Molecules in Simulated Neuronal Membranes Using Unsupervised Machine Learning (NMFk) Algorithm
Victoria Torres	Trinity University	Measuring the Motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Near Surfaces	Top Presenter
Daniel Nordquist	Northwestern College	Moving Towards Crystallizing Rev1 Mutants to Investigate the Structure
Ahmed Mardini	California State University Long Beach	Non-linear Computational Analysis of the Azeotropic Behavior of a Ternary Refrigerant Mixture
Diego Gilbert Estrada	Cornell University	Using Entanglement to Optimize Precision in Continuous Quantum Clocks
Robert Cady	Santa Clara University	Dynamical Decoupling Protocols for Reconstructing Qubit Charge Noise
Aliza Siddiqui	Louisiana State University	Investigating the Performance of the Quantum Neuron Born Machine on Near-Term Hardware
Natalia Wilson	North Carolina State University	Simulating Time Evolution of Entanglement Entropy on Quantum Computers via Algebraic Compression	Top Presenter
Marcus Corulli	Augusta University	A machine learning analysis of energy and entanglement property of the XYZ quantum spin chain
Riya Rai	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal	Estimation of Semimajor Axis of Exoplanet Orbit Using Machine Learning Techniques	Top Presenter
August Muller	Haverford College	Finding EMRI Signals in Simulated LISA Data
Elaine Nieves	Florida International University	Energy Dependent Morphology of HAWCJ2019+368, a High Energy Pulsar in the Dragonfly Nebula
Jonah Beurkens	Kalamazoo College	Characterizing the Relationship Between Temperature and Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Manganite Thin Films
Jeff Carlson	University of Northern Iowa	Preparation of Gold Films on MoS₂ with Subatomic Surface Roughness by Sputtering
Elvin Cordero Figueroa	University of Puerto Rico at Humacao	Effect of the gate voltage scan rate on charge transport in graphene that is gated with an ionic liquid
Jessica Dawson	SUNY Geneseo	Rapid Vaporization of Activated Lithium for Detector Testing
Collin Douglas	Cleveland State University	Understanding the Scattering by Polystyrene Microspheres
Luke Elder	Roanoke College	Applying Kernel Ridge Regression to Predict Dielectric Properties of Ceramic Oxides	Top Presenter
Jonas Flann	Colorado Mesa University	Investigation on exciton-phonon optical properties and Raman shift in hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) monolayers using Raman spectroscopy and photoluminescence measurement towards non-cryogenic operation
Sarah Glasser	Duquesne University	Mechanochemical activation of yttrium iron garnet with and without graphene nanoparticles
Jose L. Perez Gordillo	University of Puerto Rico at Humacao	Reduced Graphene Oxide on Silicon Heterojunction for Self-Powered Photodetection	Top Presenter
Matthew Hooks, Nathan Roberts	Murray State University	One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Simulations of Helical Homopolymers: A Comparative Analysis of Efficiency and Funnel Folding
Virginia Jarvis	Benedictine College	Diffusion Coefficient for Electron Transport Simulation
Lillian Jirousek	Northwestern University	Transport Behavior of Planar Fe3GeTe2 Josephson Junctions
Madelyn Johnson	University of Northern Iowa	Diffusion of Carbon Nanoparticles Intercalated into Layered Materials
Evan Krysko	Pennsylvania State University	Synthesis and Characterization of a High-Entropy Spinel Oxide Single Crystal
Megan Q. Loh	Stanford University	Optical response of relativistic-like materials using Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy
Stephanie McNamara	Pennsylvania State University	1D Confinement of 4He Inside Cesium-Plated MCM-41 Nanopores
Young Moua	University of Northern Iowa	Magnetic Properties of FeCrVAl-Based Materials
Solomon Murdock	Swarthmore College	Exploration of Relationship Between Phonons and LiFePO₄ Cathode Behavior using Density Functional Theory
Bhavana Panchumarthi	Reed College	Dielectric Characterization of h-BN by Preparing Metal-Insulator-Metal Capacitors
Taylor Pettaway	Towson University	Effect of Post-Deposition Thermal Treatments on the Structure and Properties of Metal Oxide Thin Films
Nicolas Puentes	Central Washington University	Computationally Modeling the Magnetization of Ca₃Co₂O₆
Jeiko Pujols	Colgate University	Highly Rigid and Transparent Supramolecular Fibrils of Tyrosine
Sam Rubin	University of Chicago	Non-Brownian Motion of Janus Particles in liquid crystals
August Schwoebel	Missouri State University	Investigation of quantum materials using p-block fluxes
Samantha Stapf	Slippery Rock University	Synthesis and characterization of molybdenum carbonitride nanoplates
Saraí Vega Angueira	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus	Chemical Vapor Deposition of Rhenium Disulfide Nanoflowers: Effects of Water-Vapor, Substrate Preparation and Post-Growth Treatments
Lavender Allen	University of West Florida	Polarization Sensitive Low Frequency Raman and Coherent Raman Spectrum of Crystals	Top Presenter
Rena Beban	Adelphi University	Numerical Calculations of Atomic Excitation with Nanosecond Pulses
Gaven Cannon	Assumption University	Spectroscopic study of the 4f⁷6s² ⁸Sᵒ7/2 - 4f⁷ (⁸Sᵒ) 6s6p (¹Pᵒ) ⁸P9/2,7/2,5/2, transitions in neutral europium-151 and europium-153: absolute frequency and hyperfine structure
Lana Flanigan	Coastal Carolina University	Simulating the Classical Stern-Gerlach Effect
Aydan Gibbs	Appalachian State University	Crystal Structure Determination Through X-Ray Diffraction
Avery Gilson	New York Institute of Technology	Controlling the polarization transmitted through an electro-optic modulator in a laser feedback interferometer
Kiyan Hocek, Tarik Cigeroglu	Colgate University	Einstein Beams for Free-space Optical Communications
Rosalba Huerta, Weiling Xia, Owen Bellevage	University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee	Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Thin Films Grown by Physical Vapor Deposition	Top Presenter
William Kaiser	U.S. Military Academy West Point	Development of a database of Rb Rydberg atom properties in support of demonstrating an EIT-based quantum antenna
Dylan Kirkeby	Northwestern College	Undergraduate Custom Designed Cost Effective IR Optical Tweezer Set Up fo DNA Applications
Ganesh Petterson	St. Lawrence University	Computational Exploration of Anti-Reflective Nanostructures	Top Presenter
Mihail Popa	CSU Chico	The effect of Duschinsky rotation on Femtosecond Coherence Spectra
Temazulu Zulu	Macalester College	SARS-CoV-2 Quantum Sensing Using NV Centers in Nanodiamonds	Top Presenter
Jackson Hofland	Northwestern College	Fluorescence studies of small heat shock protein oligomerization
Taniya Ballard	Winston-Salem State University	Potential Causes of Electrical Responses due to Musical Influences during In vivo and In vitro experiments.
Allison Cartee	Emory University	Pausing by E. Coli RNA Polymerase at LacI and EcoRI Protein Roadblocks
Zaria Dillahunt	Winston-Salem State University	Insights into the Cardiac Effect of Music on the Electrical Activity of the Body
Taylor Millett	Utah Tech University	Hollow hair and how its structure helps big game animals thermoregulate
Nathaniel O	Saint Joseph's University	Investigation of the use of sodium dodecyl sulfate for reducing leakage of bovine serum albumin from ethyl cellulose microcapsules
Laura Tirado	University of South Florida	Gel vs. Plaque Formation during Self-assembly of Amyloid Fibrils
Richard Dong	University of Southern California	Microwave-Transparent Infrared Filters for Superconducting Qubits
Anne Graf	North Carolina State University	The Effect of Neutrino Flavor Oscillations on The Supernova Early Warning Pypeline (SNEWPY)
Robert Hare	US Naval Academy	Quantum Engineering in the Undergraduate Laboratory: Quantum Foundations and Applications of Quantum Information Science
Stefan Hill	Universitaet Koblenz-Landau	An application of quantum machine learning for inter-case predictive process monitoring
Jocelyn Liu	University of Southern California	Experimental Characterization of a Modular Dissipator for On-Demand Cavity Cooling	Top Presenter
Georgia Eirini Mandopoulou	University of Hamburg, Harvard University	Fabrication of Tapered Optical Fibers for Free-Space Access Microcavities	Top Presenter
Clark Miyamoto	University of Southern Califronia	Developing a library of modular superconducting qubit components for rapid device design
Clara Sobery, Sabrina Sobery	St. Mary's Univeristy	Determination of Elevation with Muon Flux Measurements
Erica Valencia Gomez	Universidad del Quind√≠o	Exploring the adsorption mechanism of a CO₂ molecule in graphene and graphene oxide structures employing DFT
Madisyn Brooks	University of Central Florida	Examining and Defining the Structure of Saturn's B-ring
Morgan Cole	University of California, Berkeley	Plasma Wakefield Accelerators, and Solutions to Compactness and Efficiency
Dania Collie	Benedict College	Multiphysics Simulation of Thermoelectric material (GST₂₂₅)
Donovan Donald	University of Incarnate Word	Uses of Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing in Cryogenic Heat Capacity Measurements
Raphael Ettinger-Finley	Vassar College	Mapping Magnetic Fields with Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
Austin Galli	St. Lawrence University	Modeling and Constructing an Efficient Railgun
Timothy Godsil	US Military Academy West Point	Effects of Gravitational Time Dilation during Balloon Satellite Flights with Chip Scale Atomic Clocks and their use in Small-Scale Systems
Walker Hayes	Valdosta State University	Discovery of Copper-Catalyzed Click Reaction Intermediates in Nanoreactor by Accelerated MD
Patrick Herron	Cleveland State University	Physics Fridays – undergraduate student led physics outreach program for K-12 kids.
Robert Hoye	Roanoke College	Investigating Bromine Vacancy Coordination in CsPb(1-x)SnxBr2.875	Top Presenter
Simon Ji, Shintaro Inaba, Kai Yang Tan	Swarthmore College	Performance Comparison of Commercially-Available Rechargeable 2032 Batteries	Top Presenter
Eric Kirchner	Stony Brook University	Simulations on the X(3872) Exotic Meson
Daniel Klotz	US Military Academy West Point	Space Weather Forecasting by Sunspot Mapping and Solar Activity Correlation
William Li	The Lawrenceville School	A Simple Method to Determine Temperature Dependency of Thermal Diffusivity
Yiqi Liu	Johns Hopkins University	Global-NILC: a bias reduction effort for NILC at large angular scale
Seth Lowery	Central Washington University	Characterizing Uncertainty of Violin Mobility Measurements	Top Presenter
Ted Mburu	Ithaca College	Developing an Interactive Simulation for Non-Inertial Reference Frames	Top Presenter
Emily McCallum	US Military Academy West Point	Abstract for Determining Rotational Period of Asteroid 101955 Bennu through Analysis of IR Spectrometer (OVIRS) Data from OSIRIS-REx	Top Presenter
Brenna McConnell	St. Lawrence University	Applying Runs Tests to NOvA Data	Top Presenter
Cielo Medina Medina	Central Michigan University	Computational Exploration of high energy density Metal Ion Electrode Materials	Top Presenter
Rudy Morales	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	Optical Detection of Exoplanets using Transit Method with CTMO and McDonald Observatories
Miguel Moya	Slippery Rock University	Convolutional Neural Network for Graphene Detection using Automated Optical Microscope
Giovanni Paz-Silva	California State University Chico	Finding Dynamical Chaos in Stellar ModelsComputational PhysicsUndergraduate Physics Research
Bermuda Pierre	Rutgers University	Using Social Network Analysis in Physics Education Research
Vedant Rautela	Northeastern University	Optimization problems in the development of a blimp to monitor radiation levels in the CERN FCC environment
Michael Rochette	Saint Anselm College	Computational Methods for Kepler's Law
Sam Krietzman	US Military Academy West Point	Application of Imaging Methods to Enhance Observatory Operation
Ana Segovia	The University of Texas at Arlington	Nonstandard Lagrangians and Gauge Functions and Dissipative Forces in Dynamics
Michael J. Tan, Nicholas M. Kirby, Ari M. Goldberg, Jackson J. Wiley, Andrea S. Muszka, Daniela Zheng Fung	Suffolk University	Energy Dependent Neutron Absorption Coefficients in Polyethylene
Connor Tomlinson	Xavier University	Inertial Cavitation and its Relationship with Fluid Fill Height	Top Presenter
Xiangqin Wang	Colgate University	A New Way of Simulating Josephson Junction Circuits
Matthew Weil	Ithaca College	Contributing to a Greener NY: Analysis of methane emissions in NYS	Top Presenter
Jacob Willis	US Military Academy West Point	Determining the Rotational Period of an Asteroid Using Differential Lightcurve Photometry	Top Presenter
Jiwon Hwang, Sungwook Hong	California State University, Los Angeles	Molecular Dynamic Simulation Incorporated with Science Pedagogy to Improve Undergraduate Students' Authentic Engineering Problem-Solving Skills
Hunter Ketels	Kennesaw State University	Bicircular Light-induced Space Symmetry Breaking in Topological Insulating States
Elizabeth Chouinard	University of Dallas	Tuning the Magnetic Phases of Iron Oxide Nanocubes
Artyom Filippov	California State University, Sacramento	Phase Exploration in a SU(N)-Symmetric Singlet-Projector Model on the Diamond Lattice Using Quantum Monte Carlo
Jessica Jiang	Smith College	Utilizing an Adaptive Earth Mover's Distance to Detect Quantum Chaos	Top Presenter
Yuqi Zhang	Bryn Mawr College	Deposition of Pt/Co/Ir multilayer films with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions
Angéline Lafleur	University of Ottawa	Design of globally aligned multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) film reflector to enhance antenna directivity	Top Presenter
Justin Craven	California State University Chico	A versatile shutter driver with integrated arbitrary waveform generator using a programmable system-on-chip (PSoC) device
Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri	University of Connecticut	Active roles of Poynting vectors & π-phase shift in observing the superposition outputs through a Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Octavia Ailsworth	Lincoln University (Missouri)	Analyzing cholesteric liquid crystals' properties and their disordered helical textures
Hailey Currie	University of Texas at Austin	Characterizing the Viscoelasticity of Calcium-Alginate Hydrogels Via Multiple Particle Tracking Microrheology	Top Presenter
Jacob Groh	Point Loma Nazarene University	Structure of PLGA and Its Cardio-Protective Effect: Atomic Simulation and Machine Learning
Dmitri Krymski	NIST / University of Maryland, College Park	Millikelvin Characterization of Electronic Components for Cryoelectronic Circuits
Chaucer Langbert	Wellesley College	Performance Assessment of NASA Mission Proposal to Characterize Exoplanet Atmospheres with Space-based High-Resolution IR Spectrometer
Iain Morton	Seton Hall University	Simulation of Photovoltaic Efficiencies of Various Thickness Values of Thin Films
Elena Stipetich	Duquesne University	Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Thulium Oxide-Hematite Nanoparticle System
Samuel Alber	University of California, Berkeley	Understanding Warm Dense Matter Beyond Density Functional Theory	Top Presenter
Cameron Brochu	Saint Lawrence university	Developing Low-cost Temperature Sensing Capabilities For Prosthetics
Ricardo Parra Payano	Universidad Nacional de Ingenier√≠a	Exploring b-jet properties in Pb+Pb collisions with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
Ashleigh Hughes	Assumption University	Relating quantitative ultrasound measurements of two cancer cell lines, HeLa and MDA-MB-231, to biological markers
Nadia Qutob	Georgia Institute of Technology	Advancing Parameter Estimation for LIGO's Fourth Observing Run	Top Presenter