2020s
2021
- Kohls, Isa, “FABRICATING MICRO-CHANNELS USING 3D PRINTING AND INFILTRATION,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, Dec 2021).
- Devenport, Gregory, “Design of Simple Aircraft and Visualization of Fluid Velocity and Vorticity,” Advisor: (Capstone, Dec 2021).
- Sheffield, Rebekah, “Trends in Temperature Dependence of Grain Boundary Mobility,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, Dec 2021).
- Beus, Loic, “Identifying Possible Binary Brown Dwarf Systems Using Point Spread Function Model Fitting,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, Dec 2021).
- Manwaring, Michael, “Surface Modification of 316L Stainless Steel for Carbon Nanotube Growth,” Advisor: Felipe Rivera (Senior Thesis, Dec 2021).
- Lewis, Devin, “Degradation of Lithium Fluoride Mirror Coatings in Humid Environments,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, Nov 2021).
- Stevens, Jade, “Analysis of 𝜇SR Data From 5nm and 20nm Magnetite Nanoparticles,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Capstone, Aug 2021).
- Townsend, McKayla, “Bragg Coherent Diffraction Strain Imaging of Temperature-Varied 14YWT Microcrystals,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Capstone, Aug 2021).
- Mathews, Logan, “Launch Acoustics of the Falcon 9 Rocket: Source Characteristics and Models,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, Aug 2021).
- Millecam, Todd, “Coming of age of Allotrope: Proceedings from the Fall 2020 Allotrope Connect,” Advisor: Dennis Della Corte (Capstone, Aug 2021).
- Harkness, James, “Interfacing to Metal 3D Printed Micro-Gas Chromatography Columns,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Capstone, Jul 2021).
- Anderson, Mark, “Weather-Robust Systems for Outdoor Acoustical Measurements,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, Jul 2021).
- Hedelius, Bryce, “Learning inter-atomic forces with an SE(3)-Transformer,” Advisor: Dennis Della Corte (Senior Thesis, Jun 2021).
- Treter, Jonathan, “Sloppy Model Analysis of Buchholtz Neuron Model,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, Jun 2021).
- Rasmussen, Emma, “Modeling an Electron Sensitive Scintillator,” Advisor: John Ellsworth (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Lindorff, Carsen, “Assessing and Improving the Basic Business Skills of Physics Undergraduates,” Advisor: Nathan Powers (Capstone, Apr 2021).
- Atkinson, Nicholas, “Simulations of Nonlinear Thomson Scattering by Protons as a Means to Characterize Ultra Intense Lasers,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Turner, Savanah, “The Search for Brown Dwarf Binary Systems: Improving the Spectral Fitting Code,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Oliver, Hayden, “Discovering New Superalloys Using Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Pak, Chanhyun, “Interdimensional Quantum Cloning,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- King, Spencer, “Zinc Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis in Apoferritin,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- McPherson, Daniel, “Exploring the Dynamics of Magnetic Fluctuations in Magnetite Nanoparticles,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Fletcher, Ethan, “Clarifying the role of the lattice degree of freedom in the canonical metal to insulator transition in V2O3,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Edwards, Ethan, “Modeling Surface Imperfections on Diffraction Gratings for the Extreme Ultraviolet,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Richardson, Gabe, “Computational Development of a Miniature Quantum Dot Spectrometer for Use in Space,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Liechty, Sam, “Design of the Laboratory Nuclear Astrophysics Research (LNAR) Beam,” Advisor: John Ellsworth (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Cass, RJ, “Young’s Modulus of Tungsten Infiltrated Carbon Nanotube Structures,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Read, Charlotte, “Fe3O4 nanoparticles investigated by vibrating sample magnetometry and muon spin relaxation,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Trump, Jason, “Planetarium Use in Introductory Astronomy Courses,” Advisor: M. Jeannette Lawler (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Alley, Malissa, “Characterizing the Acoustic Transparency of Mylar,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Funk, Kristen, “Quantization of SU(3) Yang-Mills Theory,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Saunders, Jason, “Quantum Metrology with Limited Measurement Resources,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Fronk, Gabriel, “Acoustic Vector Intensity Measurements in a Confined Underwater Environment,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Schwartz, Nathan, “Neural Network Solutions to Cylindrical Microwave Cavities,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Gifford, Kennedy, “Transcriptome Response of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Meta-Analysis,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Capstone, Apr 2021).
- Manner, Eric, “Involving Time Delays in Gradient-Based Optimization Methods,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Page, Logan, ““Stainless Uranium” - Oxidation Prevention in Uranium-Niobium Alloys,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Hansen, Jarrod, “Searching for Brown Dwarf Binaries using GAIA, UKIRT and SpeX,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Gibson, Ethan Jacob, “Numerical Renormalization of Divergences in QED,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Burke, Katherine, “Density of Fluoride-Lithium-Beryllium Molten Salts Using the Archimedean Dual-Sinker Method,” Advisor: (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Jones, Braedon, “Modeling defects in Nb3Sn Superconductor Resonance Cavities with Ginzburg-Landau Theory,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Davidson, Jared, “An Examination of the δ Scuti Variable GW Draconis from 20 years of data,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Barnes, Lucas, “The Physics of Knocking Over LEGO Minifigures With Time Reversal Focused Vibrations,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Westhoff, Zach, “A Microcontroller-Integrated Miniature Infrared Spectrometer for Noninvasive Sensing of Physiological Signals,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Capstone, Apr 2021).
- Steele, Jackson, “A New Photometric Redshift Method for Galaxies with 0.01 < z < 0.03,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Kang, Jenny, “Red/green Colorblindness Simulation: Creating a Colorblind Friendly Environment,” Advisor: David Allred (Capstone, Apr 2021).
- Fronk, Kenan, “Storage of Al/AlF3 Thin-Film Mirrors in 327 K Oven,” Advisor: David Allred (Capstone, Apr 2021).
- Williams, Kinamo, “Asymptotic and Bayesian Approaches to Uncertainty Quantification of Interatomic Models,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Szamosfalvi, Benjamin, “Verifying Silicon Photonic Optical Hybrid Designs through Simulation,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Oldham, Christena, “Rapid Bacterial Capture wth Modified Magnetic Nanoparticles for Sepsis Diagnosis,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Pfost, Hannah, “Light and Truth: Measuring Unseen Harm in Individuals and Communities,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Johnstun, Scott, “Optimizing the Phase Estimation Algorithm Applied to the Quantum Simulation of Heisenberg-Type Hamiltonians.,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Graham, Abigail, “Surveying Hidden Planets in Kepler Exoplanetary Systems Using Transit Timing Variations,” Advisor: Darin Ragozzine (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Rasband, Joshua, “Two Reduced Models of Nerve Behavior,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Hendrickson, Kate, “Modeling the Mutual Inclinations of Exoplanets,” Advisor: Darin Ragozzine (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).