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 |
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