Senior Thesis 2019
Senior Thesis 2019
14 students will present their work. Each student will speak for 10 minutes and answer questions for 2 minutes. Audience members can enter/exit in between talks (please be discrete).
3:00pm - Kelda Diffendaffer
“Oxygen’s Effect on Electrical Measurements of TiO2 Polymorphs” (advisor Janet Tate)
3:12pm - David Haas
“Detection of exciton polaritons in organic thin film TES-ADT” (advisor Oksana Ostroverkhova)
3:24pm - Sean McDonough
“Calculating Lift and Drag Forces on Surfboards using a Navier-Stokes solver and Momentum Conservation” (advisor David Roundy)
3:36pm - Jesse Weller
“Beyond Scattering: Identifying the Boundaries of Light Control Through Opaque Materials with a Genetic Wavefront Optimization Algorithm” (advisor Guenter Schneider)
3:48pm - John Waczak
“Drunken Walking: A Novel Brownian Dynamics Simulation for the Mechanochemical Cycle of the Dynein Motor Protein” (advisor David Roundy)
4:00pm - John Micallef
“Deriving relationships between number of observed short gamma ray bursts and viewing angle” (advisor David Lazzati)
4:12pm - Jacob Rogers
“Examining Particulate Size Distributions of Alternative Jet Fuels Under Turbulent Flame Conditions” (advisor David Blunck)
4:24pm - Victor Brequigny
“Terahertz field enhancement in nanoantennas on gallium arsenide” (advisor Yun-Shik Lee)
4:36pm - Troy Tyma
“Riesz Transforms on a Sphere” (advisor HoeWoon Kim)
4:48pm - Alex Gonzalez
“Data analysis on the Swellex-96 experiment: Source localization and tracking by matched-field-processing” (advisors William Hodgkins, Scripps & Bo Sun, OSU)
5:00pm - Reese Siegel
“Understanding Change: Surface manipulative-activities as a tool for addressing student difficulties in Thermodynamics” (advisor Liz Gire)
5:12pm - Cade Trotter
“Multi-Grand, Multi-Canonical, Flat Histogram, Monte Carlo Simulations for the Square Well Fluid” (advisor David Roundy)
5:24pm - Calvin Henry
“Improving the Gradient Effects of Plasma on a Triple Langmuir Probe” (advisor Brian Woods)
5:36pm - Nikita Grigorian
“A Convolutional Neural Network For Cell Classification” (advisor Guenter Schneider)