Future of Physics Days: March Meeting 2024 Student Presenters

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Presenters from APS March Meeting 2024

We extend our gratitude to the undergraduate presenters for generously showcasing their work! Their presentations explored a diverse range of physics topics, highlighting the valuable contributions and innovative spirit that undergraduates bring to the physics community.

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Name	Institution	Presentation	Best Presenters in Session
Takuto Ueda	San Jose State University	Laser Scanning Microscope for Van der Waals Material Studies
Manisha Parthasarathy	Rutgers University	Construction of a transferable STM head for use in room temperature and low temperature environments
Annette Asryan	University of California, Santa Cruz	Aligned Graphene/Hexagonal Boron Nitride Heterostructures as a Quantum Dot Canvas	Top Presenter
Lily Guo	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	X-ray Diffraction Study of Single-Layer ZrTe2
Eva Carmona-Rogina	Department of Physics, Bryn Mawr College	Micromagnetic Simulations of Antiferromagnetically Coupled Bubble Skyrmions
Megan Schoenzeit	University of Minnesota	Experimental Studies and Modeling of Temporal Evolution of Chain Formation in Magnetorheological Fluids	Top Presenter
Omarree Kimbrough	Trinity University	Measuring the Viscosity of a Dense Two-Dimensional Colloid
Hannah Supranowicz	Trinity University	Measuring Surface Forces in Salty Solutions
John McMohan		Using surface plasmons to enhance the FRET efficiency of fluorescent molecules as a function of molecular spacing and relative
Rubayat Jalal	Reed College	Temperature and Frequency-Dependent Electric Response in Conductive Polymer Composite
Addhyaya Sharma	City College of New York	Propagation of organic Exciton-Polariton condensates in microwires at room temperature
LaToya Anderson	Flatiron Institute (Simons Foundation)	Localized superatomic Wannier functions for superatomic solids	Top Presenter
Emma Capaldi	Phillips Academy	Machine Vision and Datalogging Extension for the VEX Microprocessor using ESP-NOW
Sol Samuels	University of New Mexico	Molecules as Neural Networks
Logan Beatty	Augusta University	Investigating the synchronization properties of a two-coupled chaotic neural network
Eduarda Tavares	Universidade de Pernambuco	Extended Topological Analysis of the Brazilian Power Grid Network
Luiz F. A. de Oliveira	Universidade de Pernambuco	Majority-vote model on proximity graphs with variable disorder
Matheus Henrique Gusmão	Universidade de Pernambuco	Sportsbooks and opinion dynamics on random networks
Timothy Day	Marquette University	Utilizing Machine Learning to Analyze Soot Morphology in Microscopic Images	Top Presenter
Jean Luc Ishimwe	Swarthmore College	Simulations of jammed, quasi-statically sheared particles and fixed pins	Top Presenter
Yash Mohod	Ithaca College	Thermal diffusion in the advanced lab: Evaluating numerical simulation against the analytical model
Anna Janni	University of Minnesota	An Experimental Investigation of the Mpemba Effect
Blake Bottesi	Xavier University	Ambipolar Diffusion with a Polytropic Equation of State
Joshua Hale	Augusta University	Isolating deuterium isotopes via quantum filtering	Top Presenter
Uday Lamba	Ithaca College	Switching Behavior in NbO2-Based Memristive Devices
Carlos I Hernandez	University of Texas at El Paso	Ab Initio Study of the UO₂→U₃O₈ Transition
Brody Brogdon	Augusta University	Investigating the electromagnetic induction response of neurons on stimulus waveform shapes and coil geometries
Shawn Macon	Augusta University	Cell Size Affects Synthetic Cell-Cell Signal Output In Vivo
Annie Cloonan	Agnes Scott College	Pigmentation Pattern Recreation in Reaction-Diffusion Systems using Realistic Bounds
Alyssa Agarie	Irvine Valley College	Collectively moving filaments in oil suspensions of the nematode T. aceti
Elisabeth Lawrence	Hamilton College	Observing subdiffusion in artificial cytoplasm: polyethylene glycol as a crowding agent	Top Presenter
Yingxiao Liao	Department of Physics, Bryn Mawr College	Fabrication and characterization of gold microdisks for cancer treatment
Martha Stein	Northwestern College	Rev1 DNA Polymerase Repair Mechanism and Optical Tweezer Measurements on Damaged DNA
Gabriel Andres	Northwestern College	Construction of Optical Tweezers and Inverted Microscope
Gerald Harris	Clayton State University	Progress of Development and Design of DUCK (Detector of Unusual Cosmic-ray casKades)
Noah Hebdon	Brigham Young University	Quantum Game Theory and Genuine Quantum Advantage
Carl Zent	Saint Anselm College	Relatavistic Tunneling In Superposition
Miguel Mercado	University of Southern California	Dynamics of Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases of Matter on a Quantum Computer	Top Presenter
Theo Mahaffey	University of Minnesota	Spectral Hamiltonian learning in Si:P arrays
Nicholas Kapsos	University of Florida	Schrödinger-Poisson modeling of SiGe-based bilayer systems
Mireya Gonzales-Rivera	California State University, San Marcos	Qubit Readout Techniques for Donor-Based Quantum Architectures in Silicon
Guillermo Escobar-Arrieta	Universidad de Costa Rica	Improved performance of the Bacon Shor code with Steane syndrome extraction
Santiago Lopez	Purdue University	Benchmarking Quantum Error Correction Codes Against Realistic Error Models for Superconducting Qubits	Top Presenter
Benjamin Helman	University of Chicago	Mitigating Superconducting Qubit Loss by Active Acoustic Pumping
Kyla Koós	Baldwin Wallace University	Qubit-Based Simulation of Magnetic Resonance Pulse Sequences
Jialun Ge	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Surface Graphitization of Silicon Carbide to Study Divacancy Qubits with Photoexcited Scanning Tunneling Microscopy	Top Presenter
Gavin Baker	South Dakota State University	Effect of Mn Doping on the Magnetic and Electronic Band Properties of CoFeVAl: Experiment and Theory
Jax Wysong	South Dakota State University	Effect of Changing Stoichiometry on the Magnetic properties of NiFeMnAl
Cole Brown	South Dakota State University	Structural and magnetic properties of the V2CoAl Heusler alloy
Jiyuan Fang	Georgia Institute of Technology	Flat-band engineering using III-V semiconductor heterostructures
Natalie Rogers	Reed College	Exfoliating and Characterizing mm-Size 2D MoS2 Films	Top Presenter
Zixuan Liang	New York University	Characterization of disorder in InAs quantum well with metal-insulator transition	Top Presenter
Margaret Marte	Clemson University	Low Temperature Characterization of Dielectric Properties of Complex Oxide Heterostructures on Silicon
Brady Wilson	Kennesaw State University	Investigation of Anisotropic Magnetic and Dielectric Behavior of Chiral Magnetic Oxide CoTeMoO6
Alejandro Cruz-Arzon	University of Puerto Rico at Humacao	Temperature-dependent electrical characterization of a p-Si/BBL heterojunction p-n diode
Alexander Sikiric	Ramapo College of New Jersey	Magnetoimpedance of magnetic amorphous alloys, measured by a contactless technique
Robert Xi	New York University (NYU)	Optimizing Hybrid Ferromagnetic Metal-Ferrimagnetic Insulator Spin-Hall Nano-Oscillators: a Micromagnetic Study
Shreenithi Katta	Georgia Institute of Technology	Magnetic properties of non-Kramers thulium trihalides TmX3 (X=Cl, Br, I)	Top Presenter
Samuel Tkacik	University of South Florida	Interactions of Magnetic Planar Defects in Chiral Weyl Semimetals
Cormac Grindall	Rutgers University	Decoupled surface and bulk localization in higher order topological insulators
Tuong Phung	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Bispectral Analysis of Local Atomic Environments
Brooke Thibodeau	University of Connecticut	Clusters of Quantum Particles due to Strong Interactions: Spectrum and Dynamics
Aaron Beisaw	University of Connecticut	Failure to Break Clusters of Quantum Particles using Defects: Spectrum and Dynamics
Ron Nodel	University of California, Santa Barbara	Exploring Exotic Microphases in Simulated Spin-Orbit Coupled Boson Systems	Top Presenter
Xavier Wellons	Valdosta State University	Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Photovoltaic Exciton Dissociation
Zach Hadjri	Emory University	Quadrupolar-dipolar excitonic transition in a tunnel-coupled van der Waals heterotrilayer
Sridevi Pulugurtha	Columbia University	Spin Relaxation in Strained Graphene-TMD Heterostructures using Ab Initio Methods	Top Presenter
Connor Meese	Kennesaw State University	Photo-induced Vortex States in the Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Collin Douglas	Cleveland State University	Combining Light Scattering and Small Angle X-ray Scattering for Particle Characterization
Avery Gilson	New York Institute of Technology	FPGA based laser feedback interferometry using heterodyne and phase shifting measurements of large and nanometer displacements in the optical path.
Mariana Rojas-Montoya	San Jose State University	Scanning Interferometer Aimed at Characterizing Laser Coherence Lengths
Ethan Sosnowski	Taylor University	Investigation of Pulse Jitter in a Periodic Laser Pulse Train
Nikolas Thornton	Clayton State University	Design and testing of photon-based hardware random number generator.
Aisha Bah	Gettysburg College	Fabricating a Twisted Bilayer WSe2 Device
Edwin Baiden	Seton Hall University	Exploring the Potential of Flexible Piezoelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting Applications
Lily Baker	The College of Wooster	Phase Analysis of Charge Density Waves in Kagome Superconductors Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Talia Becker Calazans	University of Pennsylvania	Limits of coupled learning for multifunctional allosteric responses in physical flow networks
Jeff Carlson	University of Northern Iowa	Impact of the Mechanical Processing of Nanocellulose on the Characteristics of Nanocellulose Derived Solids
William Davis	University of Alabama at Birmingham	"Corona" Wind and Its Relationship to Voltage and Electrode Size in Alternating Current Electrospinning
Dorothy Doughty	Rutgers University	ATR-FTIR Investigation of Plastics Treated by Atmospheric Pressure Plasma
Joseph Fogt	Hope College	Effect of proton irradiation on the properties of YBCO thin-film superconductors
Kayley Galbraith	University of Wyoming	Effects of Hydrogen Molecule Absorption on the Raman Scattering in Few-layer Graphene
Charles Graffin	Hamilton College	Holographic optical trapping of core-shell colloidal particles
Beth Guevara	University of Northern Iowa	Dependence of cellulose nanocrystals on feedstock cellulose feature size
David Heson	Mississippi State University	Ground State Stability for the spin-1/2 ferromagnetic Heisenberg spin ring
Maurissa Higgins	Iowa State University	Rare Earth Metal Erbium Under High Pressures and Low Temperatures
Yi-Jia Liu	National Taiwan Normal University	Effect of Environmental Humidity and Temperature on the Variations in Physiochemical Properties of Monolayer Graphene in Sliding Electrical Contact Interface
Jessica McDivitt	Lafayette College	Dendritic Growth of Ammonium Nitrate Crystals
Larissa S. Mesquita	Universidade de Pernambuco	Micromagnetic Simulation of Meander-Like Sensing Elements
Emily Morales	University of Puerto Rico at Humacao	Fundamental Analysis of Carbon Spheres Synthesized via Sucrose-Derived Hydrothermal Carbonization	Top Presenter
Trisha Musall	Tufts University	Thermal and structural properties of 3D printed silk fibroin	Top Presenter
Lane Nichols	Illinois State University	Title: Nanomaterials Patterning Involving Undergraduates at Illinois State University
Manisha Parthasarathy	Rutgers University	Low Temperature Growth of Superconducting Thin Films for Quantum Computation
Sam Remus	University of Minnesota-Duluth	Crushing Emulsions: A tensiometer study of different diameter ferromagnetic emulsions
Josh Sedarski	Hamline University	Investigating Economic Methods to Synthesize Wood Biochar for Supercapacitor Electrodes	Top Presenter
Robert Sevik	Illinois State University	Dual Detection of Kerker Anapoles in Dielectric Microspheres
Keiralys Soto-Ortiz	University of Puerto Rico at Humacao	Ionic liquid gate tunable diodes based on MoSe2/doped Si hetero-junctions
Justin Stevenson	University of Wisconsin - La Crosse	Poster: The Development of ZnO, Ultraviolet, All-Optical Switches	Top Presenter
Audrey Stith	University of Cincinnati	Combination of Gold Nanotriangle Arrays with MoSe2 Monolayers for Plasmon-Exciton Coupling
Vivek Tara	University of Wisconsin - La Crosse	Optical Properties of Hafnium Doped Gallium Oxide Thin Films
Jessie Wei	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Developing gating devices for scanning tunneling microscope (STM)
Xavier Wellons	Valdosta State University	Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Photovoltaic Exciton Dissociation
Noah Wessels	University of Iowa	Topological Magnons in the Bi-layer Honeycomb Ferromagnet
Matthew Wieberdink	South Dakota State University	Crystalline and Magnetic Properties of Cr2MnAl	Top Presenter
Bradley Demeritt	United States Military Academy	Small Satellite Applications: Insights from High-Altitude Balloon Experiments with Chip Scale Atomic Clocks
Jaden Dougal	South Dakota School of Mines & Technology	Laser Ablation for Efficient Space Debris Removal	Top Presenter
Francisco Gomez Rivas-Vazquez, Carlos Horcasitas, Dieter Manstein, Emily Grace	Ransom Everglades School	Integrated machine learning and laser spectral analysis of penny composition across the 20th century
Sean Huh	US Military Academy West Point	Investigating the use of Chip Scale Atomic Clocks to account for Gravitational Time Dilation effects in diverse environments and their implementation in Small-Scale systems.
James Partridge	University of West Florida	Exploring Electronic Resonance Enhancement in 3-color Two-Beam Coherent Raman Scattering
Eleanor Flynn	Augsburg University	Impact of Dopamine Agonist on Locomotion Pattern of Daphnia Magna
Yu Fu	University of Illinois Urbana-Champain	Sparse identification of bacterial transcriptional regulation
Lylia Gomez	Illinois State University	Mathematical Modeling of C. elegans’ Thermotaxis
Sabryn Labenz	University of Northern Iowa	Decoding Destabilization: Investigating the Mechanisms by Which Disruption of the RAD51:RAD51 Interface Affects RAD51 Nucleoprotein Filament Integrity and Function
Georgia McSwain	Washington and Lee University	A stochastic three-state model on a Cayley tree and its potential applications to nanomedicine
Michael Mederos	Ransom Everglades School	Biophysics Comes to Highschool: Developing a Low-Cost Method for Measuring the Force of a Laser Tweezer Trap
Aarya Mehta	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Single Photon Vision: A Quantum Optics Lens on the Human Eye.	Top Presenter
Hailey Richter	Oregon State University	The Mechanics of Invading Tumor Spheroids in Aligned Extra Cellular Matrix
Richard Seabrease	Towson University	Measuring the Localized Physical Properties of A. nidulans Using Atomic Force Microscopy	Top Presenter
Rachel Seaman	St. Lawrence University	Effects of DNA-Wrapped Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Cell Viability and Proliferation, In Immortalized and Native Murine Cells
Victor Terranova	Towson University	Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Cancer Cells
Nora Wagner	St. Lawrence University	Influence of Static Magnetic Field Orientation on HT22 Neural Cell Behavior	Top Presenter
Aegean Kael Dela Cruz	San Joaquin Delta College	Poster: Modeling Open Quantum Systems Using QuTiP
Isaiah Delebreau	University of Wisconsin - La Crosse	Quantum-Dot-Based Single-Photon Detection with Solid-Immersion-Lens Integration
Thomas Draper	Brigham Young University	Natural Language Processing on Quantum Computers
Jazmin Drop	Diablo Valley College	Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of Superconducting TiN films
Stephanie Howell	University of Colorado, Denver	Characterization of Nanoscale Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices in a Top-Loading Cryogen-Free 4 K Refrigerator
Inga Kaminska	Illinois Wesleyan University	Parametric Energy Transfer Between Microwave Resonators
Zihan Li	Washington and Lee University	A Quantum Computing Algorithm for an Ising Model in One and Two Dimensions
Nevaeh Meadows	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	A Hands-on Cryogenics Training Module for Quantum Engineering Students: Evaluating Superconductivity in Thin Film Materials
Dmytro Papaianki	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Raman Noise Measurement in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate at Telecommunication Wavelengths
Matthew Worthington	Brigham Young University	Enhanced Purification Protocol for Entangled Systems
Hasif Ahmed	Lawrence University	Accelerating Diffusion Models in Particle Physics	Top Presenter
Anders Anthonisen-Brown	Hamline University	Investigating Correlations Between the Microstructures of Different Wood Species and their Performances as Supercapacitor Electrodes
Megan Batchelor	Mercer University	Thermomagnetic Oscillators with FeRh	Top Presenter
Jessica Bickel	Cleveland State University	Multidisciplinary REU site at Cleveland State University: Synthesis, Assembly, and Characterization of Soft Matter
Matthew Bradley	CSU Sacramento	Developing a Plotting Tool to Study the Higgs Boson Production mode ttHH with the ATLAS Detector at CERN
Patrick Comiskey	Milwaukee School of Engineering	Employing Computational Fluid Dynamics in Undergraduate Research
Michelle Jing Dong	University of California, Berkeley	Towards Non-equilibrium Field Theories
Qingshuo Du	Grinnell College	A Comparison of Vendor and Mayo-Designed AIR Coil Arrays for Prostate MRI
Krystin Ferguson	Benedict College	Multiphysics Simulation of Thermoelectric Material (Fe2V0.8W0.2Al)
Emily Garvie	Stockton University	Data Analysis of Stellar Spectra Using Fourier Analysis and Wavelet Analysis
Emma Horner	University of San Diego	Studying Quantum Kinetics With Neutrinos in the Early Universe
Daniel Hughes	Coe College	Neutron and Gamma Shielding Capabilities of Li and Na Borate Glasses
Logan Ingraham	University of Northern Iowa	Development of Microprocessor Based Physics Lab System for Undergraduate and K-12 Education
CJ Johnson	Simmons College	Exploring Band Structure Effects in Transition Metal Oxides for Electrocatalytic Nitrite Reduction
Parker Johnson	University of North Dakota	Accuracy and Efficiency of Integration Methods for Modeling Reactions	Top Presenter
Adib Kabir	Gettysburg College	Measurement of Proton's Energy Loss Through Thin Gold Film
Tyler Karasinski	St. Lawrence University	Adapting A Generalist, Automated ALFALFA Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation for use with Green Bank Telescope Observational Data
Jonathan Kliewer	Missouri State University	Nitinol Interatomic Potential Using Moment Tensor Potentials in Machine Learning
Mikolaj Konieczny	Ithaca College	Development of Instructional Physics Simulations for Classical Mechanics
Duc Trong Le	Middlebury College	Noise Detection Using Generative Adversarial Networks with Applications to High Energy Physics
Yuhan Liu	University of Southern California	Comparisons of the Seismic Properties of the Sun During Solar Cycles 23, 24, 25
Mashrup Anon	Stony Brook University	Effects of crystalline structures on protein repellent property of ultrathin homopolymer thin films
Emma Morrone	Stockton University	Wind Energy and its Effect on Local Weather and Climate
Oltjona Muca	Minnesota State University Mankato	Exploring meteoritic fragments with microscopy and spectroscopy techniques
Joelle Murray, Brendan Perez, Virag Carlile-Kovacs, Sydney Pfleiger, Lucas Pinard	Linfield College	Insect swarms and complexity
Taylor Pettaway	Towson University	The Use of Atomic Force Microscopy to study charging and charge transfer between micron sized particles and substrates.
Madison Previti	Towson University	Structural and Electrical Properties of Calcium Manganese Oxide Thin Films
Nicholas Raden	University of Wisconsin - La Crosse	Proton-Emission Resonance Levels in 11B
Hugh Randall	State University of New York at Oswego	On the Center of Mass of the Half n-Ball	Top Presenter
Andrew Rauscher	Tufts University	Control of polar phases of PVDF through electrospraying
Amar Rodgers	US Military Academy West Point	Lightcurve Photometry of Suitable Astroids Using an Automated Observatory
Mohammed Sbai	University of Nebraska Lincoln	Elastomer Bistable Jumper for Soft Robotics
Meklit Shiferaw	Minnesota State University Mankato	Assembling and testing an atomic force microscope to examine carbonaceous meteoritic fragments	Top Presenter
Bjorn Solberg	Augsburg University	Determining Efficiency of Direct Energy Converters through Simulation
Phillip Sommerfeld	California State University, Sacramento	Study of Higgs Boson Production in the ttHH mode at the Future HL-LHC with the ATLAS Detector at CERN
Marko Suchy	Washington & Lee University	Luddism on Diffusion Networks.
Gabriella Toryk, Elizabeth Maggio	Stevens Institute of Technology	Interactive Infrared Camera Photo Booth
Valerie Wu	Reed College	Gauging Non-invertible Symmetries	Top Presenter
Caio B. L. Silva	Universidade de Pernambuco	Transient Regime on Consensus Formation via Random Graphs
Rinisha Ramprakash	University of Georgia	Simulating Interactions with Lunar Rocks	Top Presenter
Evan Pate	Augusta University	Effects of flow control on the production of emulsion drops
Emilio Pelaez Cisneros	University of Chicago	Average circuit eigenvalue sampling on NISQ devices
Lauren Illa	Stanford University	Theoretical Band Structure and X-Ray Spectroscopy Calculations for Lithium Battery Materials	Top Presenter
Peyton D. Miller	Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech	Higher Harmonic Magnetic Nanoparticle Characterization using AC Faraday Rotation
Bryce Roop	Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech	Magnetic Nanoparticle Characterization using AC Faraday Rotation
Aurora Colter	Pennsylvania State University	Space-time Superpositions as Fluctuating Geometries	Top Presenter