REU 2012

REU Final Presentations 2012

Wednesday, August 8

09:20 AM: Opening

09:30 AM: "Low Frequency 1/f noise in 2DEG AlGaAs Hall Bar Structures" Stephen Collins (Gordon College)

09:45 AM: "Modeling Circadian Rhythm in Cyanobacteria" Andrew McElroy

10:00 AM: "Assembly of Particle Clusters without Substrate Template" Suraj Jaipalli (Huron)

10:15 AM: BREAK

10:30 AM: "Quantum Oscillation in Topological Superconductor" Wadi Wang (USTC)

10:45 AM: "Optimizing Luminaire Beam Profiles" Zachary Kobos (USC)

11:00 AM: "Ultrafast Two Photon Transient Absorption Spectroscopy in Heme Proteins" Eric Copenhaver (The University of Akron)

11:15 AM: "BOSS Calibration, A Step Towards BigBOSS" Evan Losh (SUNY Geneseo)

11:30 AM: LUNCH

01:30 PM: "Laser Locking with Piezo Driven Frequency Modulation" Monika Mohacsi (Adelphi University)

01:45 PM: "Tracking Vibrio Cholerae" Austin Little (University HS Academy)

02:00 PM: "Effect of Ceramide on Phase Transition in Plasma Membrane Vesicles" Gladys Diaz Vazquez

02:15 PM: BREAK

02:30 PM: "Purification and Mutagenesis of Protein Farnesyltransferase" Phillip Sanchez

02:45 PM: "Network Theory and Galaxy Clusters" Anne Theurkauf (Lehigh University)

03:00 PM: "Network Alerting System for USATLAS Based on perfSONAR" Yuan Cao (USTC)

03:15 PM: BREAK

03:45 PM: "Magnifying Signals in Fluorescence Binding Assays" Saul Richmond-Rakerd (Brown)

04:00 PM: "Plasmon-Enhanced Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy" Christopher Hayes (Austin Peay State University)

04:15 PM: "Measuring Nonlinear Responses in Solutions of Gold Nanorods" Wayne Lester (Cass Tech)

Thursday, August 9

09:45 AM: "The Higgs, Muons, and Resistive Plate Chambers" Danielle Norcini (Penn State University)

10:00 AM: "Fabrication, Assembly, and First Measurements of a New Facility to Chacterize Optical Elements for Observing the Cosmic Microwave Background" Kurt Flesch (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)

10:15 AM: "Fabrication and Properties of FIB-Synthesized Ga Nanodroplets Arrays" Danielle Sofferman (Adelphi University)

10:30 AM: BREAK

10:45 AM: "Nanocomposite Materials Targeting High Efficiency Thermoelectrics" Eilam Morag (Huron)

11:00 AM: "Development of a Metrology System to Enable Daytime Observing by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope" Jamie MacLennan (Lawrence Technological University)

11:15 AM: "Toy Monte Carlo Simulations Mirroring the Kaon Decay Explored in the K0TO Experiment" Christiana Erba (University of Rochester)

11:30 AM: "The K0TO Experiment" Jennifer Miller (University of Michigan)

11:45 AM: LUNCH

01:00 PM: Dina Rudelson (Huron)

01:15 PM: "Feasibility Study of H →a₁a₁→4 muons Detection" Wenjuan Zhang (USTC)

01:30 PM: "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Peptides at Varying pH" Ben Hulbert

01:45 PM: "Calculating the Higgs Mass Resolution at ATLAS" Kareem Hegazy (University of Michigan)

02:00 PM: BREAK

02:15 PM: "DNA Breaks from Neutron Radiation" Linda Poplawski (High Point University)

02:30 PM: "Soliton Boson Stars in AdS" Sanle Hu (USTC)

02:45 PM: "Seeing the Light Through Sub-Wavelength Apertures" Elliott Countess (New College of Florida)

03:00 PM: "Variation of Phase Transition Temperature at Different Stages in the Cell Cycle" Erin Gray (University of Michigan)

03:15 PM: BREAK

03:30 PM: "Photometric Redshift Estimation" Cody Carr (Kalamazoo College)

03:45 PM: "Influence of Buffer Layer Morphology on InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Growth" Brendan Faeth (University of Florida)

04:00 PM: "Resolving Single Electron for Cantilever Magnetometry" Tong Gao (Tsinghua University, China)

04:15 PM: Joshua Engleman