Advisor:
2022
- Kandin Allen, “Upgrade to High Intensity Laser System at Brigham Young University,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- David Anderson, “Teaching the Practical Principles of Fourier Optics in an Undergraduate Laboratory,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Capstone, April 2022).
- Paul Argyle, “Dynamics of Spinning Three-Body Gravitational Systems using the Post-Newtonian Approximation,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Zan Aslett, “Verification and Study of Soliton Behavior of Trivelpiece-Gould Modes of a Non-Neutral Plasma,” Advisor: Grant Hart (Capstone, March 2022).
- Emma Campbell, “Photometric Analysis and Modeling of a TESS Object of Interest,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Carson Karl Chandler, “Requiring Students to Create, Revise, and Communicate Scientific Models Positively Impacts Students’ Scientific Modeling in BYU’s Physics 108 Course,” Advisor: Adam Bennion (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Isaac Christensen, “Searching for Brown Dwarf Binary Systems: Testing the PSF Fitting Code,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Jacob Christensen, “Pair Distribution Function Analysis of the Short-Range Magnetic and Atomic Correlations in Manganese Telluride,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Brooke Croxall, “The Indices of Refraction of SiO2 and AlF3 in the XUV Determined from Simultaneous Reflection and Transmission Measurements on XUV Diodes,” Advisor: David Allred (Capstone, April 2022).
- Luke Cvetko, “Filling in the Blanks for the Unit Cell of Hafnium-Doped Nitinol,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Henry D Davis, “Sacrificial Powder Pressure Control for Infiltration of Microscale Metal Parts,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Capstone, April 2022).
- Jayson Davis, “Attitude Control Mechanism for High-Power Colligate Competition Rockets,” Advisor: (Capstone, April 2022).
- Corey Dobbs, “Characterization of Low-Frequency Limit of Absorptive Panels in Laboratory Water Tank through Acoustic Intensity Measurements,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Capstone, April 2022).
- Evan Dodson, “Infrared Transflectance of the Radial Artery Using Monte Carlo Simulations,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Joey Ehlert, “Efficacy of Enforced Parsimony on a Machine Learning Model of Gravity,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Kane Fanning, “Deconvolution and the Magnetic Pair Distribution Function,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Alexis Gibson, “Heat Capacity and Thermodynamic Functions of Sodium Rare Earth Ternary Fluorides,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Aidan Gillam, “Designing a Map for Quantum Teleportation Protocols,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Emily Golightly, “Super Resolution, Time Reversal Focusing Using Path-Diverting Scatterers,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Sam Greenwell, “Analyzing Frequency Spectra of Crowd Speech,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Capstone, April 2022).
- Leif Hagen, “Probing Self-Gravitational Interaction at the Mesoscopic Scale through Matter-Wave Interferometry,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Christian Hall, “Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Active Galactic Nuclei with The Astronomy Research Consortium (Arc) 3.5m Telescope,” Advisor: Benjamin Boizelle (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Tyler Harding, “H-alpha and H-beta Variations in X Persei and Gamma Cassiopeiae,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Merlin Hart, “Retarding the Growth of Oxide on Aluminum Thin-Films,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Kira Johnson, “Imaging of Magnetic Domains at Remanence in Cobalt-Platinum Multilayers with N = 20 Repeats,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Capstone, April 2022).
- Taylor Kimball, “Path Integral Method for Calculating Work Statistics in Quantum Thermodynamics,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Mayalen Laker, “The Emission Ratio of the [O III] λ λ5007, 4959 Å Doublet with Redshift,” Advisor: Benjamin Boizelle (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Corbin Maciel, “A Compilation of Dose Studies in Particle Therapy Treatment for Cancer,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Grace McKay, “Comparing Blast Wave Propagation over a Porous Ground,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- James McKenzie, “Domain-Boundary Intersection Defect Networks and Coset Graphs,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Cooper Merrill, “Spectral Decomposition of a T-7A Red Hawk Installed GE F404 Engine,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, April 2022).
- Connor Morris, “MILCDock: Machine Learning-Enhanced Consensus Docking for Virtual Screening in Drug Discovery,” Advisor: Dennis Della Corte (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Alex Thomas Mumford, “Developing a system for automated crop steering in cannabis,” Advisor: John Colton (Capstone, April 2022).
- Ryan Scott, “Space-Time Resolving Quantum Electrodynamic States of Two Charges,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Dallin Spencer, “Dynamical Evidence for the Existence of a Second Satellite of Eris,” Advisor: Darin Ragozzine (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Jay Spendlove, “Connecting Local Grain Boundary Structure to Grain Boundary Interfacial Energy with Machine Learning,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Kaylyn Terry, “Mode-based Models with Realistic Boundary Conditions for a Laboratory Water Tank,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Capstone, April 2022).
- Daniel Tveten, “Analysis of Energy Flow in a Laser Focus Capable of Particle Trapping,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
- Lincoln Westcott, “Modern Physics for 5th and 6th Grade Students,” Advisor: Adam Bennion (Capstone, April 2022).
- Zackary Windham, “Three-body Systems and Kozai-Lidov Oscillations in the Post-Minkowskian Approximation to General Relativity,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2022).
2021
- Malissa Alley, “Characterizing the Acoustic Transparency of Mylar,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Mark Anderson, “Weather-Robust Systems for Outdoor Acoustical Measurements,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, July 2021).
- Nicholas Atkinson, “Simulations of Nonlinear Thomson Scattering by Protons as a Means to Characterize Ultra Intense Lasers,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Lucas Barnes, “The Physics of Knocking Over LEGO Minifigures With Time Reversal Focused Vibrations,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Loic Beus, “Identifying Possible Binary Brown Dwarf Systems Using Point Spread Function Model Fitting,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, December 2021).
- Katherine Burke, “Density of Fluoride-Lithium-Beryllium Molten Salts Using the Archimedean Dual-Sinker Method,” Advisor: (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- RJ Cass, “Young’s Modulus of Tungsten Infiltrated Carbon Nanotube Structures,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Jared Davidson, “An Examination of the δ Scuti Variable GW Draconis from 20 years of data,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Gregory Devenport, “Design of Simple Aircraft and Visualization of Fluid Velocity and Vorticity,” Advisor: (Capstone, December 2021).
- Ethan Edwards, “Modeling Surface Imperfections on Diffraction Gratings for the Extreme Ultraviolet,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Ethan Fletcher, “Clarifying the role of the lattice degree of freedom in the canonical metal to insulator transition in V2O3,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Gabriel Fronk, “Acoustic Vector Intensity Measurements in a Confined Underwater Environment,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Kenan Fronk, “Storage of Al/AlF3 Thin-Film Mirrors in 327 K Oven,” Advisor: David Allred (Capstone, April 2021).
- Kristen Funk, “Quantization of SU(3) Yang-Mills Theory,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Ethan Jacob Gibson, “Numerical Renormalization of Divergences in QED,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Kennedy Gifford, “Transcriptome Response of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Meta-Analysis,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Capstone, April 2021).
- Abigail Graham, “Surveying Hidden Planets in Kepler Exoplanetary Systems Using Transit Timing Variations,” Advisor: Darin Ragozzine (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Jarrod Hansen, “Searching for Brown Dwarf Binaries using GAIA, UKIRT and SpeX,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- James Harkness, “Interfacing to Metal 3D Printed Micro-Gas Chromatography Columns,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Capstone, July 2021).
- Bryce Hedelius, “Learning inter-atomic forces with an SE(3)-Transformer,” Advisor: Dennis Della Corte (Senior Thesis, June 2021).
- Kate Hendrickson, “Modeling the Mutual Inclinations of Exoplanets,” Advisor: Darin Ragozzine (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Scott Johnstun, “Optimizing the Phase Estimation Algorithm Applied to the Quantum Simulation of Heisenberg-Type Hamiltonians.,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Braedon Jones, “Modeling defects in Nb3Sn Superconductor Resonance Cavities with Ginzburg-Landau Theory,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Jenny Kang, “Red/green Colorblindness Simulation: Creating a Colorblind Friendly Environment,” Advisor: David Allred (Capstone, April 2021).
- Spencer King, “Zinc Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis in Apoferritin,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Isa Kohls, “FABRICATING MICRO-CHANNELS USING 3D PRINTING AND INFILTRATION,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, December 2021).
- Devin Lewis, “Degradation of Lithium Fluoride Mirror Coatings in Humid Environments,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, November 2021).
- Sam Liechty, “Design of the Laboratory Nuclear Astrophysics Research (LNAR) Beam,” Advisor: John Ellsworth (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Carsen Lindorff, “Assessing and Improving the Basic Business Skills of Physics Undergraduates,” Advisor: Nathan Powers (Capstone, April 2021).
- Eric Manner, “Involving Time Delays in Gradient-Based Optimization Methods,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Michael Manwaring, “Surface Modification of 316L Stainless Steel for Carbon Nanotube Growth,” Advisor: Felipe Rivera (Senior Thesis, December 2021).
- Logan Mathews, “Launch Acoustics of the Falcon 9 Rocket: Source Characteristics and Models,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, August 2021).
- Daniel McPherson, “Exploring the Dynamics of Magnetic Fluctuations in Magnetite Nanoparticles,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Todd Millecam, “Coming of age of Allotrope: Proceedings from the Fall 2020 Allotrope Connect,” Advisor: Dennis Della Corte (Capstone, August 2021).
- Christena Oldham, “Rapid Bacterial Capture wth Modified Magnetic Nanoparticles for Sepsis Diagnosis,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Hayden Oliver, “Discovering New Superalloys Using Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Logan Page, ““Stainless Uranium” - Oxidation Prevention in Uranium-Niobium Alloys,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Chanhyun Pak, “Interdimensional Quantum Cloning,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Hannah Pfost, “Light and Truth: Measuring Unseen Harm in Individuals and Communities,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Joshua Rasband, “Two Reduced Models of Nerve Behavior,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Emma Rasmussen, “Modeling an Electron Sensitive Scintillator,” Advisor: John Ellsworth (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Charlotte Read, “Fe3O4 nanoparticles investigated by vibrating sample magnetometry and muon spin relaxation,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Gabe Richardson, “COMPUTATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF A MINIATURE QUANTUM DOT SPECTROMETER FOR USE IN SPACE,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Jason Saunders, “Quantum Metrology with Limited Measurement Resources,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Nathan Schwartz, “Neural Network Solutions to Cylindrical Microwave Cavities,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Rebekah Sheffield, “Trends in Temperature Dependence of Grain Boundary Mobility,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, December 2021).
- Jackson Steele, “A New Photometric Redshift Method for Galaxies with 0.01 < z < 0.03,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Jade Stevens, “Analysis of 𝜇SR Data From 5nm and 20nm Magnetite Nanoparticles,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Capstone, August 2021).
- Benjamin Szamosfalvi, “Verifying Silicon Photonic Optical Hybrid Designs through Simulation,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- McKayla Townsend, “Bragg Coherent Diffraction Strain Imaging of Temperature-Varied 14YWT Microcrystals,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Capstone, August 2021).
- Jonathan Treter, “Sloppy Model Analysis of Buchholtz Neuron Model,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, June 2021).
- Jason Trump, “Planetarium Use in Introductory Astronomy Courses,” Advisor: M Jeannette Lawler (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Savanah Turner, “The Search for Brown Dwarf Binary Systems: Improving the Spectral Fitting Code,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
- Zach Westhoff, “A Microcontroller-Integrated Miniature Infrared Spectrometer for Noninvasive Sensing of Physiological Signals,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Capstone, April 2021).
- Kinamo Williams, “Asymptotic and Bayesian Approaches to Uncertainty Quantification of Interatomic Models,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, April 2021).
2020
- James Adams, “Design and Manufacturing of Control System for Monochromator,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Capstone, August 2020).
- Paul W. Bailey, “Universal Quantum Circuitry: Deutsch Gate Construction Using GaAs/InAs Quantum Dots,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- Tyler Bennett, “Helical Resonator for a Dual-Species Ion Trap,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- Alexandra Christensen, “Brachytherapy Implant Evaluation Using New Isodose Surface Metrics,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- John Christensen, “Brillouin Zone Reduction for Band Structure Integration,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- Ian Clark, “The Periods and Stability of ZZ Piscium,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- Carter Day, “Effects of Illumination Shadows in Interference Pattern Structured Illumination Imaging,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, June 2020).
- Nicolas Ducharme, “Connections between magnetic correlations and local crystalline structure in two dilute magnetic semiconductors: Li(Zn,Mn)As and (Ba,K)(Zn,Mn)2As2,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- John-Michael Eberhard, “Statistical Spectral Fitting of Brown Dwarf Binary Candidates,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- James Erikson, “Photoluminescence Lifetime as an Indicator of Temperature in Materials,” Advisor: David Allred, John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- Jacob Fields, “Gamma-ray Burst Afterglow Dynamics in Inhomogeneous Interstellar Media,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, July 2020).
- Nate Foulk, “Two-Dimensional Integration of Electronic Bands through Quadratic Interpolation,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, August 2020).
- Caleb Gaunt, “Web-Based Controllers for the ROVOR Observatory,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- Parker Hamilton, “Computed Phase Diagrams for Superalloys Using Nested Sampling,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- Dallin Haslam, “Exploration of Vacuum-Tube Combo Guitar Amplifier Directivities,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, August 2020).
- Derek Hensley, “Mapping Grain Boundary Metastable Sates with Unsupervised Learning,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- Daniel Hodge, “Intensity Dependence of Radiation Scattered by Electrons in a Laser Focus,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, May 2020).
- Amanda Howard, “Rapid Separation of Bacteria from Blood Using Surface-Modified Magnetic Nanoparticles for Sepsis Diagnosis,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, December 2020).
- Jake Hughes, “A New Approach to PDF Symmetry Mode Calculations,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Capstone, August 2020).
- Zachary Jones, “Wind-Induced Microphone Noise Reduction in Outdoor Sound Level Measurements,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, July 2020).
- Matthew Lawyer, “Bohmian Mechanical Trajectories for the Simple Harmonic Oscillator,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, October 2020).
- Charles Lewis, “Neural Network Approximations of the Temperature of CdTe Quantum Dots,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, June 2020).
- Melanie Lowe, “Introduction to Nested Sampling,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, December 2020).
- Jessica Martin, “Assessing Lab Assistant Attitude Shifts and Strength in Undergraduate Physics Labs,” Advisor: Nathan Powers (Capstone, August 2020).
- Sarah Ostergaard, “Acoustic Directionality of Explosions as Scale-Model Volcanoes,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Senior Thesis, December 2020).
- Dallen Petersen, “Motorized Mirror Controller with 3D Printed Parts,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- J. Nicholas Porter, “Etalon interference wavelength metrology using webcams,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, December 2020).
- Timothy Puente, “Press Cut-off Redesign,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Capstone, April 2020).
- Spencer Roberts, “Mechanical Characterization of Carbon Nanotube based Neural Probes,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2020).
- Mahonri Romero Carranza, “Nonlinear Thomson Scattering: Minimum Useful Focal Spot Size as a Function of Laser Pulse Duration,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, August 2020).
- Paige Simpson, “The Performance of Time Reversal in an Elastic Cavity as a Function of Volume,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Senior Thesis, June 2020).
- Nathan Stone, “Linear Time Prime Factorization Using Weak Value Amplification,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
- Yance Sun, “Investigation of Coherence between Electrons Born from the Same Atom when Emitting Nonlinear Thomson Scattering,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2020).
- Ellyse Taylor, “Rubidium Vapor Transport Through Micron-Scale Channels,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2020).
- Joel Temple, “Physics Problem-Solving Methodology in Application to Non-Physics Problems,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Capstone, August 2020).
- Carla Wallace, “High-Amplitude Time Reversal Focusing of Ultrasound in Air,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Senior Thesis, August 2020).
- Benjamin Whetten, “Wavenumber Error in Interference Pattern Lensless Imaging,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, April 2020).
2019
- Bryan Andrews, “Driver Controls Analysis and Redesign,” Advisor: (Capstone, April 2019).
- Camille Baird, “Methods of Fabrication and Testing for Resonating Micro-Rings and Disks as Sensors,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Jacob Barker, “3D Visualization of Light Scattered by a Free Electron in a Relativistic Laser Focus,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, March 2019).
- Sam Bellows, “Analysis of Directivity Factors and Indices of Human Speech,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Nate Benfell, “Reversing Time to Find Families: Reviewing Backwards Integration as a New Method of Family-finding in the Kuiper Belt,” Advisor: Darin Ragozzine (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Daniel Boyce, “Using platinum nanoparticles on ferritin to form hydrogen gas from methyl viologen and organic acids,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, August 2019).
- Caleb Brown, “Power Requirements of the Water and Vacuum Pumps for a Cummins 2.8 L Diesel Engine,” Advisor: (Capstone, June 2019).
- Adam Bugg, “Using small robotic telescopes to monitor Cepheid variable stars,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Alex Cahoon, “Instrumental Developments for a Surface Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect (SMOKE) Magnetometer,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Capstone, April 2019).
- Jared Carlson, “Simulations of Magnetic Vortex Nucleation at Grain Boundaries in RF Superconducting Cavities,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, May 2019).
- Damyn Chipman, “Viscous Aerodynamics Modeling Using a Mesh-Free Approach,” Advisor: (Capstone, April 2019).
- Adam Christensen, “Hybrid neutron detection optics for gadolinium-acrylic disks in liquid scintillator,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, August 2019).
- Chad Clayton, “Low-cost sound attenuation for retail Blendtec home blenders,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Capstone, August 2019).
- Rudger Dame, “Calculating Roughness of Planetary Surfaces Using 3D Terrain Models,” Advisor: (Capstone, April 2019).
- Elisabeth Frischknecht, “Exoplanetary Candidates Around HD100546 in Archival ACS Data,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Josh Gregg, “Electromagnetic excitation technique for nonlinear resonant ultrasound spectroscopy,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Senior Thesis, June 2019).
- Sarah Hill, “Constructing a Helical Resonator for a Dual-Species Ion and Atom Trap,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Leslie Howe, “Levitating Microscopic Particles in a Laser Beam via Photophoresis,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2019).
- Daniel Johnston, “Copper Complexes as Influenza Inhibitors,” Advisor: (Capstone, April 2019).
- Daniel Jones, “Photometric and Polarimetric Signatures of Geosynchronous Satellites,” Advisor: David Allred, Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Christian Lambert, “Emergence in Flocking Boids with Graph Theory,” Advisor: Manuel Berrondo (Senior Thesis, February 2019).
- Eric Lenhart, “Emergent Properties of the Transport of Sand,” Advisor: Manuel Berrondo (Senior Thesis, August 2019).
- Eric Lysenko, “Direct Measurement of Seismo-acoustic Wave Coupling,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Senior Thesis, June 2019).
- Quin McKnight, “Isotopic Separation and Spectroscopy of Ytterbium-173(3/2) using Laser Cooling,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Jared Miller, “Altering Listening Environments Through Active Noise Control,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Capstone, April 2019).
- Michael Nelson, “Nuclear Event Classification via Graphically Driven Computation,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Michelle Nuttall, “Determining Transition Temperature of Lipids by Observing the Passage of TPP through a Lipid Bilayer,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Capstone, December 2019).
- Miriam Packard, “Standardizing Light Curves of RR Lyraes in the Globular Cluster NGC 5466,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Mason Parkes, “Investigating a loss of Magnetic Domain Memory in a [Co/Pd]/IrMn Thin film,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, August 2019).
- Seth Pincock, “Modeling the Orbits of Trans-Neptunian Triple 47171 Lempo,” Advisor: Darin Ragozzine (Senior Thesis, December 2019).
- Paige Price, “Locking a Cavity to a Laser for Laser Phase Noise Measurements,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Capstone, April 2019).
- Benjamin Proudfoot, “Modeling The Formation Of The Collisional Family Of The Dwarf Planet Haumea,” Advisor: Darin Ragozzine (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Matthew Richards, “Ferritin-bound Platinum Nanoparticles in Hydrogen Production,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Christoph Schulzke, “Calculating Radiation Emitted by Laser-Driven Relativistic Electrons,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, January 2019).
- Micah Shelley, “RF magnetron sputtering of arsenic-doped p-type zinc oxide,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Alex Spencer, “Automating Noise Reduction Procedures for Exoplanet Research,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Rochelle Steele, “Photometric Survey for Dwarf Galaxies Within Intergalactic Voids,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Nick Steil, “Connecting Physics and Finance,” Advisor: David Allred (Capstone, December 2019).
- Colter Stewart, “Optical Constants of Amorphous Zinc Arsenide (Zn3As2) via Spectroscopic Ellipsometry,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Nicholas Van Alfen, “Survey and Data Reduction of Blazars Using the ROVOR Telescope,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2019).
- Peter Vogel, “A Complete Physics Curriculum for an Honors and Ordinary High School Course,” Advisor: Duane Merrell (Capstone, June 2019).
- Jacob Ward, “Comparing two inverse array methods for jet noise sound field reconstruction,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, September 2019).
- Dunn Westhoff, “Designing and Creating a 3D Rendering of a Large-scale Solar-still Fountain,” Advisor: (Capstone, June 2019).
2018
- Keir Ashby, “Improving Exoplanet Occurrence Rate Estimates with Approximate Bayesian Computation,” Advisor: Darin Ragozzine (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Tyler Averett, “Implementation of a Robust Communications System for Robotic Mars Rover Application,” Advisor: (Capstone, June 2018).
- Tyler Bahr, “Parameter Reduction of the Hodgkin-Huxley Model of Action Potential Propagation,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Sterling Baird, “LiNO3-Free CNT Li-S Batteries towards Safe, High Specific Energy Storage: Mechanistic Studies, Ratio Effects, CNT Parameters, and Other Practical Considerations,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, September 2018).
- Richard Barney, “Quantum Erasure and Coherence Recovery through the Stern-Gerlach Effect,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, December 2018).
- Jonathan Bassett, “Chaos in the Spinning Relativistic Three-body Problem,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- William Black, “Primordial Origins of Supermassive Black Holes,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Brooks Butler, “K-means Clustering Analysis of Geospatial Features: Optimizing the Acquisition of Training Data,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, March 2018).
- Clint Carlson, “Physics 492R Capstone Report: Ku-band Phase Shifter for a Phased Array Receiver,” Advisor: (Capstone, August 2018).
- Michael Carlson, “ICP-MS Skimmer Cone Shock Simulations Compared to Experimental Measurements,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Joseph Chandler, “Modeling Ion Sheath Formation in an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Seth Clarke, “A Standardized Hα Photometric Index in Cygnus OB2,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, December 2018).
- Mitchell Clingo, “Simulating Non-linear Mode Coupling in Low Density Non-neutral Plasma using Computational Methods,” Advisor: Grant Hart (Capstone, May 2018).
- Scott Crossen, “Optically Detected magnetic Resonance: Computational Predictions and Experimental Results,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Alexandra Davis, “Oxidation of Aluminum Under Various Thicknesses of Aluminum Fluoride,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, December 2018).
- Adam Dodson, “Quantum Interference in the Hyperfine Transitions of Ytterbium,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Ryan Doel, “Refining the Model of Ionic Wind Propulsion by Analyzing Thrust Dependence on Electrode Geometry,” Advisor: Bryan Peterson (Capstone, January 2018).
- Carson Evans, “Electron Collisions and Ionization of Argon Gas in the Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Trey Fanning, “Analyzing the Lenticule Created During the Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE) Procedure and Creating a 3D Model,” Advisor: (Capstone, August 2018).
- Trent Furlong, “Using Time Reversal Acoustics to Remotely Deliver Energy for Active Noise Control,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Senior Thesis, June 2018).
- Ryan Hatch, “The Characteristic Problem in GRMHD,” Advisor: Eric Hirschmann (Senior Thesis, August 2018).
- Andy Hernandez, “H alpha filter analysis of h and chi Persei using PSF photometry,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Lauren Hindman, “Flaring Rate of Northern Blazars,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, May 2018).
- Heather Hogg, “Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence Lifetime of Rhodamine B,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Stephen Hogg, “Characterizing stress corrosion cracking in stainless steel using nonlinear resonant ultrasound spectroscopy,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Senior Thesis, June 2018).
- Tyler Hopkin, “Evaluation of the Missionary Training Center Auditorium using Room EQ Wizard,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, April 2018).
- Rylan King, “Nondestructive Comparison of the Wahoo and King Mackerel for Use in a Novel Biomimetic Unmanned Undersea Vehicle,” Advisor: (Capstone, December 2018).
- Annie Laughlin, “Creating High Surface Area Lithium Electrodes,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, July 2018).
- Stefan Lehnardt, “Mechanical Properties of Multi-layer Graphene,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Capstone, April 2018).
- Steven Maggard, “Statistically Weighted Orbital Elements for Kuiper Belt Objects,” Advisor: Darin Ragozzine (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Brittni Newbold, “Modeling the Magnetic Ordering of Magnetite (Fe3O4) Nanoparticle Assemblies,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Felicity Nielson, “Understanding Grain Boundaries Through Machine Learning in Regards to Hydrogen Embrittlement of Steel,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Will Oldroyd, “Thermal Equilibrium Depth Modeling of Subglacial Antarctic Meteorites,” Advisor: Darin Ragozzine (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Sean Pearce, “Photometric Calibrations of Gemini Images of NGC 6253,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- J. Ryan Peterson, “Sputtering p-Type Arsenic-doped Zinc Oxide Thin Films,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Seth Price, “Assembly of a Wein Filter with a Tektronix Programmable Power Supply,” Advisor: John Ellsworth (Capstone, June 2018).
- Reese Rasband, “Sound Measurements of M16A4 Rifles,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, August 2018).
- AJ Rasmusson, “Error-Disturbance Uncertainty Relations Simulated on a Quantum Computer,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, June 2018).
- Jesse Richmond, “Surface-Atmosphere Interactions with Ultraviolet Light on Mars,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Mark Hunter Standring, “Open Source Jet Turbine Engine Controller for a JetCat P-100,” Advisor: (Capstone, August 2018).
- David Van Komen, “Effectiveness of Subarray Beamforming for High-performance Military Aircraft Noise Source Localization,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Aaron Vaughn, “Empirical Modeling of Laboratory and Full-Scale Jet Noise Spectra,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Emily Welch, “Looking for Brown Dwarf Binaries with a PSF Fitting Python Script,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, August 2018).
- Ethan Welch, “Stabilizing Injection-Locked Lasers through Active Feedback,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2018).
- Christopher Yost, “Implementing the Algebraic Search for Cooperative Rotational Rigid-Unit Modes,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Senior Thesis, June 2018).
2017
- Konrie Angel, “Improving an Electrical Circuits Lab with Models,” Advisor: Nathan Powers (Capstone, May 2017).
- Kolten Barfuss, “Algorithms for Inferring the Information Topology of Statistical Mechanics Models,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Hugh Bates, “Hα vs Hβ Index Values for the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151 Over a Range of Redshifts,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Karrie Beckstead, “Standardizations of Exams for Physics 127-Descriptive Astronomy,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Ashton Brown, “Gamma Ray Detector with Neutron Detection Capabilities for Shielded Fission Sources,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Garett Brown, “Beyond Phase Transitions: an Algorithmic Approach to Flocking Behavior,” Advisor: Manuel Berrondo (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- John Chorak, “Characterizing a Digital Camera for Use in a Wavelength Meter ,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2017).
- Berg Dodson, “Feasibility of an Electrical Interconnect in Carbon-Nanotube-Templated Microfabrication,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, May 2017).
- Adam Erickson, “Modeling and Analysis of Reverberation Time Measurements at the Center for Change,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Capstone, January 2017).
- Leanne Farnbach, “Statistical Spectral Fitting of Potential Brown Dwarf Binary Systems,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Suzanne Flaten, “Quantification of Human Body Weight Change using Textbook Methods and The Dynamic Model,” Advisor: (Capstone, August 2017).
- Rachel Kimberlyn Gardner, “Modeling Quantum Energy Teleportation,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, August 2017).
- Caleb Goates, “Bandwidth Extension of Acoustic Beamforming using Phase Unwrapping and Array Interpolation,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Jeremy Goodsell, “Coma pattern effects on a Photophoretic particle trap,” Advisor: (Capstone, April 2017).
- Joe Hall, “Assembly of a beam target chamber for studying screening potentials in condensed matter,” Advisor: John Ellsworth (Senior Thesis, August 2017).
- Melissa Hallum, “A Comparison of the Light Curves for NGC 4151,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Jake Hansen, “Hullq and the search for new superalloys,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Capstone, July 2017).
- Kameron Hansen, “Ferritin encapsulated PbS, PbSe, and MoS$_2$ Nanocrystals for Photovoltaic Applications,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Christina Horne, “Analyzing the Dynamics of Coupled Quantum Harmonic Oscillators,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Kyle Matt, “Using Model Point Spread Functions to Identify Possible Binary Brown Dwarf Systems,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- McKay Osborne, “Extracting Long-term Periodicity in Markarian 501 from Optical Wavelength Filters,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, May 2017).
- Andrew Patterson, “Data Reduction Script for Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope Transit Survey,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Miriah Peterson, “Calibration of a High-Throughput Spectrometer for Measuring Hyper Rayleigh Scattering,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2017).
- Claire Pincock, “High-Resolution Speech Directivity Balloons,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, April 2017).
- Hyrum Richardson, “Linear and Nonlinear Properties of Pancharatnam's Phase in Polarization Optics\,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Joe Rivest, “Optical Photometric Evidence for a Binary Black Hole in Mrk 501,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, May 2017).
- Michael Rose, “Comparison of Multi-microphone Probes and Processing Methods for Acoustic Intensity,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, August 2017).
- David Squires, “Wavefront Sensing in the Presence of Turbulence with Holographic Interferometry,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Tyler Stevens, “Annealing of Coated Electron-Beam Induced Deposition of Platinum Nanowires,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Spencer Thevenin, “Effects of Roughness on Reflection of Monochromatic Light,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2017).
- Stephanie Thomas, “Preventing Oxidation of Aluminum Mirrors with Cadmium and Zinc Barriers,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, May 2017).
- Jacob Tinnin, “Analysis of the Stability and Efficiency of Lattice Boltzmann Algorithms,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, August 2017).
- Parkes Whipple, “Blazar Polarimetry with the ROVOR Telescope,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Capstone, July 2017).
- Matthew Willardson, “Time Reversal Focusing of High Amplitude Sound in a Reverberation Chamber,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Capstone, August 2017).
- Spencer Willett, “Making aluminum shine again, removing polymers used to protect aluminum from oxidization,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, August 2017).
2016
- Matthew Ashby, “Measurement of Scattered Radiation from Free Electrons in an Intense Laser Focus,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, August 2016).
- Merrill Asp, “Adaptation in Enzyme Networks: Searching for Minimal Mechanisms,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Cameron Bell, “Brownie Waffles: Programmatically Accelerating Human Creativity with Cross-Discipline Connections,” Advisor: (Capstone, April 2016).
- Kendall Berry, “Submicron Nanoporous Polymer Support Membrane for More Transmissive X-Ray Windows,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Joel Bradley, “High Mass X-Ray Binary KRL2007B-367 and Adjacent Star Fey in the Optical,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Matt Burbidge, “Investigating Integration Schemes in First Principles Materials Modeling,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Dan Crunkleton, “Strong Field Ionization of Neutral Strongly-Coupled Plasmas in a Gas Jet ,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Andrew Davis, “Carbon Nanotube Templated Manufacturing of Hierarchically Structured Fluid Filters,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Michael Denison, “A Method to Evaluate Nonideal Effects of Anechoic Chambers for Multiple-Angle Measurements,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, April 2016).
- Jacob Embley, “Electron Spin Coherence in Silicon Vacancy Defects of Proton-irradiated Silicon Carbide,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Alex Erikson, “Dual Species Magneto Optical Trap: A Fusion Analogue,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Capstone, December 2016).
- Cory Finlinson, “VocalEyes: Real-time Automated Singing Assessment,” Advisor: (Capstone, August 2016).
- Forrest Glines, “Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics on Graphics Processing Units,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- M. E. Gold Dahl, “Determining the Accuracy of a Partially-Stabilized Frequency Comb,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Julia Grimes, “Pre Class Exercise to Help Understanding,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Capstone, April 2016).
- Dalton Griner, “Study of Magnetite Nanoparticle Assemblies Using X-ray Resonance Magnetic Scattering (XRMS),” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, August 2016).
- Nicholas Harrison, “Radius and Intensity Dependence of Laser Plasma Expansion,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Spencer Hart, “Improving Material Simulation Efficiency by Improving Interpolation Schemes,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Matthew Healey, “Topology of the Magnetic Domains of a Co/Pt Multilayer with 16Å Cobalt Layers,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Capstone, June 2016).
- Christopher Heaton, “Time Reversal Focusing of Elastic Waves in Plates for Educational Demonstration Purposes,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Capstone, August 2016).
- Gregory Hill, “Single Pulse Neutron and Gamma Discrimination with Combination Glass and Liquid Hybrid Detector,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Marcus Holden, “Periodicity of Markarian 501,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Travis Hoyt, “Volume Velocity Estimation for Multiple-Driver Loudspeakers,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, August 2016).
- Rachael Hunter, “Improving Period Accuracy of Variable Stars through Radial Velocity Time Corrections,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Dale Huntington, “Facilitated Lipid Analysis via Nano Differential Scanning Calorimetry,” Advisor: (Capstone, July 2016).
- Tanner Ingalls, “Tracking a Team in the Workplace - Defining Performance Management in Real-Time,” Advisor: (Capstone, August 2016).
- Joseph Lawrence, “Enumeration Method for Search of Low-energy Structures on Graphene,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, August 2016).
- Kevin Leete, “Mach Stem formation in Outdoor Measurements of Acoustic Shocks,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Ryan Lesser, “Measuring Redshifts of Emission-line Galaxies Using Ramp Filters,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Shaun Livingston, “Softball Instrumentation and Dynamic Feedback System,” Advisor: (Capstone, April 2016).
- Eli McArthur, “Finding the First Stars,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, June 2016).
- Andrew McClellan, “Hybrid Liquid Organic Scintillator and Lithium-6 Glass Neutron Detector: Correlated Pulses,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Michael Meehan, “Continous Wave Operation and Mode-Locking of Ti:Sapph Lasers,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, June 2016).
- Cameron Olsen, “Permanganate-Based Synthesis of Semiconducting Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in the Protein Ferritin,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Brian Ostler, “Minimizing Room Return Neutrons,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Derek Ostrom, “Practicality of using the Wang-Landau algorithm to model real alloys,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Katrina Pedersen, “Automating the Data Reduction Process for Geosynchronous Satellite Spectra,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2016).
- Reese Petersen, “Atomic Layer Deposition of Hafnium Dioxide on Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Making a Dielectric Capacitor,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- John Peterson, “Response Magnitude Uniformity of Two Commercial 5-Inch Photomultiplier Tubes,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, April 2016).
- McKinley Pugh, “Increasing Stability in Extended Cavity Diode Lasers using Frequency Noise Feedback,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Alec Raymond, “Stand-alone high resolution neutron spectrometer,” Advisor: John Ellsworth (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Michael Rollins, “The Influence of Room Acoustics on the Voice,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, August 2016).
- Aaron Skousen, “Bike Trailer/Jogger for Quadriplegic Adults,” Advisor: (Capstone, April 2016).
- Dallin Smith, “X-ray Studies and Magnetic Ordering Modeling of Chains of Magnetite Nanoparticles,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Erik Swenson, “Nanostructures Formed by Calcium Substitution in Graphane,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- KaeCee Terry, “Paired Neutron Detection,” Advisor: John Ellsworth (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Darren Torrie, “Initial Laboratory Experiments to Validate a Phase and Amplitude Gradient Estimator Method for the Calculation of Acoustic Intensity from Broadband Sources,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Clarissa Veach, “Si Coated Patterned CNT Frameworks as a Potential Medium for Purifying Large Proteins,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
- Michael Zarian, “Improving the Efficiency of the Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm Using Partial-Rank Jacobian Updates,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, April 2016).
2015
- Chris Alberts, “The Effects of Cryotherapy (Icing) on AMPK and Inflammatory Proteins,” Advisor: (Capstone, May 2015).
- Dallin Barton, “Nickel and Copper Electroplating of Patterned Carbon-Coated Carbon Nanotube Forests for Applications in Microelectricalmechanical Systems and Through-Silicon Vias,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, August 2015).
- Mark Berardi, “Quantification of Vocal Effort in Varying Acoustical Environments,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Senior Thesis, December 2015).
- Ashlie Burton, “Sound Reduction in Prostheses,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, April 2015).
- Cassi Burton, “An Ideal Guitar Tuner: Optimizing Consonance by Minimizing Beating,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Capstone, September 2015).
- Jacob Collings, “Quantifying the Uncertainty of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Relation: Preparation vs. Measurement Uncertainty,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, August 2015).
- Daniel Eliason, “Improving Ion Injection into a Cylindrical Malmberg-Penning Trap,” Advisor: Bryan Peterson (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Stephen Erickson, “Tunable Band Gaps of Nanocrystals Encapsulated by the Protein Ferritin,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Nathan Eyring, “Subjective Evaluations of Acoustic Sources,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Senior Thesis, July 2015).
- Jackson Farnsworth, “Investigating Sub-Harmonics and Frequency Coupling in Structural Modes of the Cymbal,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Capstone, August 2015).
- Ben Fischer, “Reduction and Analysis of KELT Data \\to Confirm Transiting Planets,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, December 2015).
- James Fletcher, “Time Delayed Double Pulse Variation of Radiation Scattering From Free Electrons Inside an Intense Laser Focus,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, December 2015).
- Robert Foster, “Examination of Time Corrections for RR Lyrae Variables in the Kepler Data,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, December 2015).
- Clement Gaillard, “Detecting Planets around Low-mass Stars in the Kepler Field,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, December 2015).
- John Gardiner, “Explorations in Quantum Channels,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Doug Gardner, “Searching for Unresolved Binary Brown Dwarfs in the Hubble Archives,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, August 2015).
- Kimball Gunther, “Evanescence and Directivity of a Cymbal,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, August 2015).
- Aubrey Hatch, “Fabricating an SU-8 Support Structure with Non-Vertical Side Walls Using a Diffraction Grating,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2015).
- Adam Heninger, “Comparison of Strain Coefficients of a Fiber Bragg Grating on a Cantilever Beam Obtained by Bernoulli-Euler Beam Theory and the Butter-Hocker Model,” Advisor: (Capstone, March 2015).
- Bailie Hicken, “My Research Experience(s),” Advisor: (Capstone, June 2015).
- Emma Hoggan, “Investigating Landau Damping through Visualization of Simulated Plasmas,” Advisor: Grant Hart (Capstone, April 2015).
- Samuel Hord, “Sensitivity Analysis of Ground Impedance on Horizontal Full-Scale Rocket Motor Test Fire,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Jared Jay, “Chaos in the Relativistic Three-Body Problem,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Tyler Jones, “Measuring Laser Wavelength with Filtered-Photodiode Color Sensors,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Zak Jones, “Single Pixel Camera,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, August 2015).
- Adam Kingsley, “Instructional Lab for Undergraduates Utilizing the Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, December 2015).
- Curtis Koelling, “Dust Mitigation Project: An Experimental Evaluation of the Metal Fluoride Trap,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Capstone, June 2015).
- Jacob Lallatin, “Heat Stress Prevention Kit,” Advisor: (Capstone, October 2015).
- Brandon McKeon, “Characterization of Silicon Dioxide Thin Film Deposition,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Jerika McKeon, “Simulated vs. Traditional Labs in a High School Physics Class,” Advisor: (Capstone, April 2015).
- Kyle Miller, “Electron Spin Echo and Coherence Times in Silicon Carbide Defects,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Hugh Morgan, “The Post-Newtonian Three-Body Problem,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Steven Noyce, “Porous Cantilever Resonators for Chemical Sensing in Fluid Environments,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2015).
- Chris Olsen, “Search for Laser Second Harmonic Generation in Helium,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Nils Otterstrom, “Filtered Photodiodes for Laser Wavelength Metrology,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Alden Pack, “Computational Models of Film and Bulk Superconductors in Time Varying Magnetic Fields,” Advisor: Mark Transtrum (Senior Thesis, August 2015).
- Michael Pearson, “Rocket Noise Nonlinearity: The Importance of Atmospheric Conditions and Rocket Speed,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Aaron Porter, “Library of X-Ray Florescence Spectra of Lanthanide Series Elements and Order of Magnitude Measurements of Absorption Conditions,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, June 2015).
- Alex Safsten, “Mapping Magnetic Memory in [Co/Pd]IrMn Thin Films Under Exchange Bias Conditions,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Elora Salway, “Using Point-Spread Dunctions to Identify and Characterize Unresolved Binary Brown Dwarfs,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Benjamin Smith, “Reflectance Measurements of Two Thin Film Materials in the UV,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, August 2015).
- Joseph Thaden, “Determining Effects of Meteorological Trends on Jet Noise Analysis,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, April 2015).
- Cameron Vongsawad, “Physics Education Through S.T.E.M. Outreach,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Capstone, April 2015).
- Ryan Walton, “Comparative Analysis of Light Curves for Known RR Lyrae stars in the Globular Cluster M3 Using DAOPHOT and ISIS,” Advisor: Elizabeth Jeffery Kraczek (Senior Thesis, December 2015).
- Tyler Westover, “Construction of Snap-Together Ion Source and Testing Facility,” Advisor: John Ellsworth (Senior Thesis, June 2015).
- Abigail Wilkins, “Developing A Diagnostic For Measuring The Density Of Ultracold Neutral Plasmas,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, September 2015).
- Daniel Woodbury, “Construction of a Compact Two-Dimensional Magneto-Optical Trap for a Cold Calcium Beam,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
- Katrina Wright, “Spectral Fitting of Brown Dwarf Binaries Using C++,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
2014
- Jason Kyle Anderson, “Developing Atomic Layer Deposition Techniques of Tungsten on Carbon Nanotube Microstructures,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, April 2014).
- Zachary Anderson, “Correlation Analysis of Military Aircraft Jet Noise,” Advisor: Kent Gee, Traci Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2014).
- Rachael Bakaitis, “Propagation of Nonlinear Acoustic Waves Through a Baffled, Open-ended Pipe,” Advisor: Kent Gee, Derek Thomas (Senior Thesis, August 2014).
- Lawrence Barrett, “High-Aspect-Ratio Metal Microfabrication by Nickel Electroplating of Patterned Carbon Nanotube Forests,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2014).
- Jordan Batschi, “TEM Sample Preparation for Order-Disorder Temperature Analysis of Au-Cu Nanoparticles,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, August 2014).
- James Brady, “Design and Testing of a Stabilization Platform for the Naval Research Laboratory,” Advisor: Anton Bowden (Capstone, April 2014).
- Collin Brown, “Infiltration of CNT forests by Atomic Layer Deposition for MEMS Applications,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, April 2014).
- Matthew Calton, “An Acoustical Analysis and Loudspeaker System Design of a Local High School Auditorium,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, April 2014).
- PJ Carruth, “Acoustical Analysis of the Marriott Center Sound System,” Advisor: (Capstone, July 2014).
- Bryce Clay, “Silica Aerogel thin films,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2014).
- Alexander Corey, “Construction and Testing of Four Adit Photomultiplier Tubes With Scintillating Plastic for Neutron Detection,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, December 2014).
- Caleb Cox, “Topographic Effects on the Reliability of Precipitation Measurement,” Advisor: (Capstone, July 2014).
- Adam George, “Light propagation through multilayer finger model,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, June 2014).
- Eddie Hansen, “Building an Apparatus for Beta Decay Measurements,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Capstone, December 2014).
- Nathan Harris, “2014 Air Force Research Laboratory Design Challenge,” Advisor: (Capstone, August 2014).
- Craig Higgins, “Cadmium Capture-gated Neutron Detector Analysis of the U-235 Fission Spectrum,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, April 2014).
- Chuck Honick, “Single Dish Radio Astronomy: Reaching First Light,” Advisor: Victor Migenes Gaetan (Senior Thesis, May 2014).
- Trevor Jex, “Preliminary Study of a Dual PMT Lithium-Cadmium Hybrid Neutron Detector,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2014).
- Enoch Lambert, “Mode Stabilization of a Diode Laser Using Radio-frequency Lock Noise,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2014).
- COLIN Mann, “Use of Correlated Photon Pairs in Absolute Efficiency Measurement of Single Photon Source,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, September 2014).
- Joshua Marx, “Determining Surface Roughness Using Extreme Ultraviolet LIght,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2014).
- Joshua Matern, “Simultaneous Determination of Three Different Spin Projections Using Entanglement and Weak Measurement,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, June 2014).
- Matthew McArthur, “Neutron Measurements with a Shielded Source & Measured and Theoretical Errors for Multiplicity Counting,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, November 2014).
- Matthew McNeff, “Observing Astronomical Redshift Through Optical Red and Blue Slope Filtes,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2014).
- Joseph Morris, “A Model of the Royden G. Derrick Planetarium using the Enhanced Acoustic Simulator for Engineers (EASE),” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, July 2014).
- Jeshua Mortensen, “Computing the directivities of Platonic-solid loudspeakers,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Senior Thesis, April 2014).
- Jazmin Myres, “Creation of Coherent Complex Pressure Measurements Through Overlapping Scan-Based Measurements,” Advisor: Kent Gee, Traci Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2014).
- Cody Petrie, “Determining thin film roughness with EUV reflection,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, August 2014).
- Hsinping Pope, “Comparison of Military Aircraft Spectra to Similarity Spectra of Turbulent Mixing Noise,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Capstone, August 2014).
- Taylor Richards, “Transit Time Uniformity of Two Commercial 5” Photomultiplier Tubes,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, August 2014).
- Stephen Rupper, “Frequency Locking Circuits,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2014).
- Liz Scott, “Measuring the Index of Refraction of Y2O3 in the Extreme Ultraviolet,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, August 2014).
- Brigitte Stewart, “Morphological Variation in Dune Parameters on Titan Reveals Formation Environment of Dunes,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, December 2014).
- Emily Stoker, “A Model for A Contact Eclipsing Binary System in the Field of KOI 1152,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, June 2014).
- Bradford Talbert, “Calibration of a cadmium capture-gated neutron spectrometer,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2014).
- Philip White, “Quantifying Climate Change: Bayesian Model for Antarctic Surface Mass Balance,” Advisor: C. Shane Reese (Capstone, March 2014).
- Jenny Whiting, “On the Use of EASE and a Real-Time Convolution System for the Creation and Use of Virtual Acoustic Environments,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Senior Thesis, April 2014).
- Darren Wood, “Size Effects on L10 Ordering in CoPt Nanoparticles,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, December 2014).
- Nathaly Young, “Short and Long Term Variability Analysis of High Mass X-ray Binary System BD+53 2262,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2014).
2013
- Jeffery Anderson, “,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Capstone, June 2013).
- Jordan Bell, “Thickness Uniformity Of Uranium Oxide Films Sputtered While Undergoing Planetary Motion,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- Ty Beus, “,” Advisor: Manuel Berrondo (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Josh Bodon, “Radiation of Finite-amplitude Waves from a Baffled Pipe,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Carla Carroll, “Broadband Photometric Reverberation Mapping with Meter-Class Telescopes,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- Caleb Coburn, “Characterizing Single Electron Radiation in an Intense Laser Field,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Daniel Craft, “Non-Exponential Electron Spin Decay in Indium Arsenide Quantum Dots,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- Eric Gibbs, “Symmetry-mode analysis of magnetic and displacive superstructures of La_0.5Ca_0.5MnO_3,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Erin Gilmartin, “Unexpected Occurrences of the Pt8Ti Structure,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, December 2013).
- Landon Goggins, “Preparing a Differential Scanning Calorimeter and Characterization of Membrane Stability,” Advisor: Dixon Woodbury (Physiology and Developmental Biology) (Capstone, June 2013).
- Matthew Groesbeck, “Control System for Experiment Probing Potential Time-Variance in Nuclear Beta Decay Rates,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Nathan Gundlach, “Simulating a Dirac Electron in a High-Intensity Laser Field,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- David Hart, “Bayesian Optimization Of An Equivalent Source Model For Military Jet Aircraft,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- Kelsey Hatch, “,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, December 2013).
- Timothy Hecht, “,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, June 2013).
- David Hoagland, “Design and Testing of a Helical Insert for the Purpose of Affixing Retention Devices Used in the Snow Ski Industry,” Advisor: Justin Zsiros (MET) (Capstone, August 2013).
- Jarom Jackson, “Frequency Stabilization of Diode Lasers for Ion Interferometry,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- Brian James, “Modeling Cd-based Neutron Detector Configurations,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Zachary Jensen, “Modeling Insertion Loss of Engine Enclosures,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- Jorge Jimenez Blanco, “Reducing Scan Time in MRI by Under-Sampling,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- Soyoung Jung, “Dynamics of a Many-Spin System including Relaxation Effects : Phase Transitions, Spin Waves, and Magnetic Patterns,” Advisor: Manuel Berrondo (Senior Thesis, December 2013).
- Adam Konneker, “Vertically Aligned Three Dimensionally Patterned Silicon Carbide Nanowires,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- Tess Larson, “Using DAOPHOT to Locate KOI 667.01,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Tyler Lee, “In the Absence of Synaptobrevin and Synaptosomal-Associated Protein 25, Syntaxin Seems to Hinder Vesicle Fusion,” Advisor: Dixon Woodbury (Physiology and Developmental Biology) (Capstone, June 2013).
- David Ludlow, “Math Drag’n: An Application for Eliminating Algebra Mistakes in Physics Homework,” Advisor: Keith Leatham (Math Ed.) (Capstone, April 2013).
- Spencer Lyon, “hsfpy - A Python Interface to the Hierarchal Spline Forest C++ Library,” Advisor: Derek Thomas (Capstone, August 2013).
- Thayne McCombs, “Development of a Data Reduction Pipeline for the ROVOR Observatory,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Natalie Muhlestein, “,” Advisor: Grant Hart (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Dino Munoz, “Mega-Maser Emission from Extragalactic Sources,” Advisor: Victor Migenes Gaetan (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- Josh Olson, “Measurement of Plasma Density in a High Field Laser Focus,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, July 2013).
- David Perkins, “Neoclassical Computation of Temperature Anisotropy in the National Spherical Torus Experiment,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Lukas Pritchett, “Quantum Field Theory Dynamics Without Diagonalization,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- Nicole Quist, “LGB Time of Flight Facility,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, May 2013).
- Drake Ranquist, “Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Corona: Simulation vs. Observation,” Advisor: Victor Migenes Gaetan (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- Emily Ranquist, “A Compilation and Description of Scripts Written for the Optimization of Photometric Procedures,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Brent Reichman, “Solving the Snoring Problem: Attenuation through Active Noise Control,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Senior Thesis, April 2013).
- Shanell Reynolds, “Noise Exposure Near a Military Jet Engine,” Advisor: Kent Gee, Traci Neilsen (Capstone, April 2013).
- Lauren Richey, “,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Senior Thesis, June 2013).
- Danny Ritter, “Differential Scanning Calorimetry Measurements of Artificial Vesicles,” Advisor: Dixon Woodbury (Physiology and Developmental Biology) (Capstone, June 2013).
- Conrad Rosenbrock, “Calculation Of Optical Absorption Spectra Using A Supervised Neural Network,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Honors Thesis, April 2013).
- Ryan Sandberg, “3D Visualization of an Electron Wave Packet in an Intense Laser Field,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- James Schwab, “Investigations of the Causes of Expansion for Yttrium Oxide Films,” Advisor: David Allred (Capstone, April 2013).
- John Hinckley Smith, “Experimental Models of Patera Formation on Io,” Advisor: Jani Radebaugh (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Michelle Spencer, “Photometric Observations Of Supernovae In BVR And I Filters,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, May 2013).
- Susan Stoffer, “,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, December 2013).
- Trevor Stout, “Acoustic Intensity in Military Jet Noise Field Characterization,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Jane Tanner, “Off-line Prototype of an On-line Sheet Shape Measurment System,” Advisor: John Colton (Honors Thesis, April 2013).
- Daniel Thrasher, “Noise Characterization of an Injection-Locked Ti:sapphire Laser System,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Matea Trevino, “Fabrication and Characterization of Superparamagnetic Magnetite (Fe3O4) Nanoparticles,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
- Seth Van Orden, “ISOSUBGROUP: A Web Resource For Generating Isotropy Subgroups of Crystallographic Space Groups,” Advisor: Harold Stokes (Capstone, August 2013).
- Brace White, “A Demonstration of the Sound Properties of Tubes and Bells,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Capstone, April 2013).
- Josh Wilson, “Ultracold Neutral Plasma Physics at Room Temperature,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, August 2013).
2012
- Brody Bassett, “,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Suraj Bastola, “Spontaneous Fission Spectrum of Neutrons from Cf-252 with Kinetic Energies Less than 1 MeV,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Benjamin Boizelle, “Establishing a Multi-year Monitoring Project of Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- John Boyle, “Active Noise Control of a Baffled, Small Centrifugal Fan,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Capstone, June 2012).
- Benjamin Christensen, “On The Acoustic Radiation From The Hammered Dulcimer,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Stephen Clouse, “H2O Megamasers: Measuring the Mass of The Black Hole in the Active Nucleus of Markarian 1210,” Advisor: Victor Migenes Gaetan (Senior Thesis, July 2012).
- Nathaniel Cook, “Can The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Detect And Identify Interstellar Comets?,” Advisor: Denise Stephens, Darin Ragozzine (Senior Thesis, April 2012).
- Mark Cunningham, “,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Alex Doermann, “Water Flux Across Lipid Membranes Observed by Variations in Electrical Capacitance,” Advisor: Gus Hart, Dixon J. Woodbury (Capstone, August 2012).
- Kay Erb, “Experimental Search for Predicted Platinum Binary Alloys,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Senior Thesis, July 2012).
- Steven Gardiner, “Neutron Detection Using Shards of 6Li Glass Scintillator,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- William Hall, “Measuring Plasma Modes near the Cyclotron Frequency in a Finite Non-Neutral Plasma: A Search for Bernstein Modes,” Advisor: Bryan Peterson (Senior Thesis, April 2012).
- Richard Hansen, “Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Carbon-Nanotube-Templated Metallic Microstructures,” Advisor: David Allred (Honors Thesis, July 2012).
- Blaine Harker, “Theoretical evaluation of continuous-wave time reversal acoustics in a half-space environment,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Honors Thesis, August 2012).
- Stuart Harper, “Statistical Analysis of Noise From Solid Rocket Motors,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, October 2012).
- Stuart Harper, “Statistical Analysis of Noise From Solid Rocket Motors,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, December 2012).
- Gregory Hart, “Correcting for Reflection Attenuation in the Extreme Ultraviolet Due to Surfce Roughness,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Michael Hermansen, “Low-Noise Piezoelectric Driver for External Cavity Diode Lasers,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Capstone, April 2012).
- Andrew Hoffman, “Improving Cadmium Capture-Gated Neutron Detection Techniques,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Amy Jackson, “Experimental Determination of the Pt K Edge K-Factor for Nanoparticle Order-Disorder Transition Analysis,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Honors Thesis, July 2012).
- Marc Jenkins, “Brigham Young University E.A.R.S – Educational Acoustics Research Study,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, December 2012).
- Trevor Jerome, “Hearing Risk Of Referee Whistles,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, December 2012).
- David Johnson, “Characterization of a Helmholtz Coil for Maintaining a Flat Magnetic Field in a Plasma Chamber,” Advisor: Bryan Peterson (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Michael Johnson, “Characterizing and Stabilizing the Energy and Frequency of an Optical Parametric Oscillator,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Adam Konneker, “,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, December 2012).
- Muxue Liu, “Observations on the Transiting Planet around KOI1152,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, April 2012).
- David Meyer, “Spin Lifetime Measurements in a 14nm GaAs Quantum Well,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Andrea Munyan, “Determining the Origin of OH Megamaser Emission in Merging Galaxies,” Advisor: Victor Migenes Gaetan (Senior Thesis, April 2012).
- Garrett Porter, “BYU Acoustics Microphone Database Development,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, December 2012).
- Joseph Rawlins, “Infrared Colors Of Trans-Neptunian Objects Observed With Hst,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Nathan Rock, “Characterizing Density for Low Density, Ultra-Cold Plasmas by Measuring the Free Expansion Rate of Coulomb Explosion,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, June 2012).
- Matthew Rytting, “Effect of Field Cooling on Magnetic Domain Memory in Exchange Coupled Thin Films,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Aaron Smith, “How Cosmological Flatness Affects Neutrino Properties,” Advisor: Eric Hirschmann (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Blake Stauffer, “H2O Maser Observations of Planetary Nebula K3-35,” Advisor: Victor Migenes Gaetan (Senior Thesis, April 2012).
- Zephne Vaterlaus, “,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2012).
- Adam Wallace, “,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2012).
- Andrew Westover, “Evolution of Magnetic Domain Morphology in Co/Pt Thin Films,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
- Richard Wyman, “Bulge Testing of Duracoat and Carbon in the Large Deflection Limit,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, April 2012).
- Kyle Zufelt, “Low-Z, Chemically Resistant, Microfabricated Carbon Composite Transmission Electron Microscope Grids,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
2011
- Patrick Berg, “Co-purification of the PhLP-CCTb apical domain,” Advisor: Barry Willardson (Capstone, June 2011).
- Taylor Bradham, “Sub-Reflector Proof of Concept,” Advisor: Robert Davis, David Long, BYU Electrical Engineering Dept. (Capstone, April 2011).
- Kerianna Butler, “Observations Of Markarian 421 With VERITAS,” Advisor: Victor Migenes Gaetan, David Kieda, Stephan LeBohec (Capstone, December 2011).
- Youngwoong Byun, “Exchange Bias in [Co/Pd]/IrMn Thin Films,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
- Jacqueline Corbitt, “Guiding The Experimental Search: Computational Discovery Of Palladium Jewelry Alloys With Enhanced Hardness,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Honors Thesis, August 2011).
- Andrew DeWitt, “Sensitivity Measurements for Two West Mountain Observatory CCDs and Exposure Times for Observing Exoplanets,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, August 2011).
- Derek Felli, “The Detection of OH-MASER Satellite Lines in High Mass Star Forming Regions,” Advisor: Victor Migenes Gaetan (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
- Benjamin Frandsen, “X-Ray Diffuse Scattering in Relaxor Ferroelectric Material PZN-PT,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Honors Thesis, August 2011).
- Evan Hansen, “Weather Station for the ROVOR Telescope,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, June 2011).
- Nicholas Herrick, “Controlled Attenuation Of Laser-generated High-order Harmonics For Extreme Ultraviolet Polarimetry,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, September 2011).
- Nathaniel Hogan, “Characterization of a Cadmium Capture-Gated Neutron Spectrometer,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, August 2011).
- Rita Hoggan, “Cadmium Capture-Gated Neutron Detector with 6Li-Glass,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
- Caleb Hustedt, “Fabrication Of Suspended Graphene Membranes Grown By Chemical Vapor Deposition (Cvd) Using Carbon Nanotubes,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2011).
- Trevor Jenny, “Ultrasonic Anechoic Chamber Qualification: Accounting For Atmospheric Absorption And Transducer Directivity,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
- Kelsey Jorgenson, “Hydrogen Beta Index Calculation for Delta Scuti Variable Stars,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
- Samuel Keller, “,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, December 2011).
- Sean Kerman, “The superstructure determination of displacive distortions via symmetry-mode analysis,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Honors Thesis, September 2011).
- Cynthia Knight, “The Nature of the Most Isolated Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
- Bret Little, “Telescope Automation through CelestialGrid,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
- Daniel Marquez, “Measuring the Blocked Electrical Impedance of Moving-Coil Loudspeakers: A Comparison of Six Methods,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, August 2011).
- Nichole Maughan, “Defect-induced Diffuse Scattering in Microporous Aluminophosphate-5,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Senior Thesis, August 2011).
- David McKenna, “Tungsten Infiltrated Carbon Nanotube Forests As A Framework For 3-D Microfabrication,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2011).
- Jessica Morgan, “Simple-Source Model of Military Jet Aircraft Noise,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
- Michael Muhlestein, “Acoustic and high speed video analysis of exploding gas filled balloons,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, August 2011).
- Jacob Nelson, “The Variability of "Normal" Galactic Nuclei,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
- Matthew Nilsen, “Description of Wide Range Spectrometer Development,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Capstone, August 2011).
- Jaren Norris, “A Computational Study of Carbon Nanotubes Embedded In Silicon,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Honors Thesis, June 2011).
- Kamal Pangeni, “Construction of a time-of-flight ion spectrometer for calibrating laser high intensity,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, July 2011).
- Austin Parker, “Aluminum Oxynitride Armor: Production and Modeling of Next Generation Transparent Armor for the Global War on Terror,” Advisor: Grant Hart (Capstone, December 2011).
- Alex Rockwood, “Modeled Roughness Of A Sputtered Surface And Its Effects On Extreme Ultraviolet Reflection,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
- Dallas Smith, “Optical Measurement of Electron Spin Lifetimes in Gallium Arsenide,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, June 2011).
- Phillip Smith, “Radiometric Particle Levitation in Multiple Laser Beams,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
- Nathan John Steiger, “Quantum Uncertainty and Conservation Law Restrictions on Gate Fidelity,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Honors Thesis, April 2011).
- Grayson Tarbox, “Near-Field and Far-Field Interference of Oscillating Current Distributions,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, December 2011).
- R Taylor, “Microphone System Response in High Amplitude Noise Environments,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, August 2011).
- Scott Thalman, “Photoluminescence Lifetimes of Quantum Dots,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, August 2011).
- Cary Tippets, “Electrical and Optical Properties of Cupric Oxide Deposited by Spray Pyrolysis,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2011).
- Patrick van Langen, “Two-Source Two-Slit Spatial Interferometer,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, May 2011).
- Julia Vernon, “Acoustical Characterization of Exploding Hydrogen-Oxygen Balloons,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, August 2011).
- Adam Wallace, “Lithium Glass Neutron Detector,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2011).
- Alison Wells, “Determining The Cause Of Metal Oxide Film Growth Due To Exposure To Vacuum Ultraviolet Light,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, August 2011).
- Chad Williams, “Electron Elimination As a Step Toward Long-Term Non-Neutral Ion Plasma Confinement,” Advisor: Bryan Peterson (Senior Thesis, August 2011).
- Taylor Wood, “Mechanical Properties of a-Carbon Infiltrated Carbon Nanotube Templated Materials,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Honors Thesis, August 2011).
2010
- Pedro Acosta, “The Proof of a Mirror Symmetry Conjecture: FJRW-Rings and Landau-Ginzburg Orbifolds,” Advisor: Eric Hirschmann (Honors Thesis, May 2010).
- Steven Allen, “Phase-Sensitive And Dual-Angle Radiofrequency Mapping In 23na Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” Advisor: John Colton (Honors Thesis, July 2010).
- Aaron Bennett, “Homodyne Detection in a Laser Locking System,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2010).
- David Black, “Spatial Distribution of Laser Light Absorption by Small Spheres Undergoing Mie Scattering,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2010).
- James Brady, “Investigation of areas of low conductivity in coatings of Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) on a metallic base,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Capstone, January 2010).
- Stephen Brown, “An Object-Oriented Framework for Experimental Control in the Colton Spin Dynamics Laboratory,” Advisor: John Colton (Capstone, August 2010).
- Christopher Busselberg, “Monte Carlo Simulation of Cadmium Capture-Gated Neutron Detector,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, September 2010).
- Christian Cowles, “Cadmium Capture-Gated Neutron Detector Design and Construction,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Honors Thesis, July 2010).
- Daniel Erickson, “Characterizing the Operation of a Rotating Wall Device on a Non-neutral Ion Plasma,” Advisor: Bryan Peterson (Senior Thesis, December 2010).
- John Esplin, “How Nonideal Microphones Affect Directional Impulse Response Measurements In Room Acoustics,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Capstone, April 2010).
- Taran Esplin, “Statistical Spectral Fitting of the Brown Dwarf Binary System 2M0559,” Advisor: Denise Stephens (Senior Thesis, December 2010).
- Calvin Gardner, “The Importance of Pattern Center Determination to Wilkinson’s Method and an Analytical Error Correction,” Advisor: Brent Adams, BYU Mechanical Engineering Dept. (Capstone, July 2010).
- Erin Gilmartin, “,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2010).
- Heather Harper, “The Behavior Of Thermal And Bremsstrahlung Radiation Emitted By Merging Binary Neutron Stars,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Capstone, April 2010).
- Scott Horton, “,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, April 2010).
- Daniel Jibson, “A Study Of Tangential Maser Emissions Of U Orionis,” Advisor: Victor Migenes Gaetan (Senior Thesis, May 2010).
- Jacob Johansen, “Bohmian Trajectories in Atoms Interacting With Electromagnetic Fields,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2010).
- Aaron Jones, “Photoluminescence Of Indium Gallium Arsenide Quantum Dots And Dot Chains,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, May 2010).
- Reid Kraniski, “,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, April 2010).
- Wesley Krueger, “Holistic Solution Methods For Complex Multi-Particle Systems,” Advisor: Manuel Berrondo (Senior Thesis, September 2010).
- Sheng Lee, “Generation Of Cold Atoms Using Dual Stage Laser Ablation,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, May 2010).
- Jershon Lopez, “Characterization of a Transmission Grating for a Wide-Range Spectrometer,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, August 2010).
- Thomas McConkie, “Photoevaporation Of Cosmological Minihalos By The First Stars,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, August 2010).
- Chase McLauchlin, “How Credit Ratings Agencies Contributed to the Credit Crisis of 2007 and 2008,” Advisor: Matt Anderson (Math) (Capstone, January 2010).
- Nicholas Morrill, “,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2010).
- Devon Mortensen, “Determining The Cause Of Yttria Film Growth Due To Exposure To Vacuum-Ultraviolet Light,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, August 2010).
- Joseph Nelson, “Spatial And Temperature Dependence Of Magnetic Domain Memory Induced By Exchange-Coupling,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, May 2010).
- Cameron Pace, “BVRI Comparison Stars Near Selected Very-High Energy Blazars,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, May 2010).
- Richard Pearson, “Markarian 501 Monitoring Campaign Using ROVOR,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, May 2010).
- Nathaniel Ralston, “Simulation of Electron Diffraction Patterns in the CuAu L10 Phase,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, November 2010).
- Alex Rockwood, “,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2010).
- Ryan Sayer, “Improved Power Output of Vertically-Oriented Solar Cells,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, October 2010).
- Steven Schmidt, “Description, Development History, and Research Utilizing FENIX 10: Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo Simulation Software,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Capstone, July 2010).
- Jeremy Schoonmaker, “Photometric and Spectroscopic Time-Series of Three Delta Scuti Variables,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2010).
- Jacob Siebach, “Characterization of He-3 Detectors Typically Used in International Safeguards Monitoring,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, August 2010).
- Carly Smith, “The Use of Waveform Digitizers with Solid State Detectors for Spectroscopic Applications,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, May 2010).
- Nathan Steiger, “Quantumn Uncertainty and Conservation Law Restrictions on Gate Fidelity,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Honors Thesis, August 2010).
- Gregory Sutherland, “Chaos From Second-Order Post-Newtonian Equations: The Relativistic Three-Body Problem,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, May 2010).
- Daylin Troxel, “A Characterization Of The Noise Spectral Density Of A Low Noise Current Driver And Pid Controller,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2010).
- Anthony Willey, “Increasing Plasma Intensity in a Hollow Cathode Plasma Source with a Magnetic Field,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, October 2010).
2009
- Laura Adams, “Standardization Of Hα Photometry,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, April 2009).
- Bryce Allred, “Absolute Calibration Of A Wide Range Spectrometer To Determine Electron Energy And Plasma Temperature,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, April 2009).
- Daniel Anderson, “Measurement Of The Adhesion Force Between A Carbon Nanotube And A Curved Silicon Surface,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Capstone, August 2009).
- James Archibald, “Construction of a 423 nm Fluorescence Probe Using Second Harmonic Generation,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2009).
- David Baxter, “Using Seismic Attributes to Identify Stream Channels in the Uintah Basin,” Advisor: R. William Keach II (Capstone, April 2009).
- Scott Black, “Maximizing Carbon Nanotube Forest Growth with 99.5% Pure Ethylene,” Advisor: Robert Davis, Richard Vanfleet (Capstone, July 2009).
- Alex Booth, “Velocity Distribution of an Atomic Beam Created by Laser Induced Back Ablation,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, December 2009).
- Jon Brame, “Selectively Grown Silicon Nanowires For Transistor Devices,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, April 2009).
- David Brown, “The Relationship Between Water Contact Angle and Adhesion Peel Force in UV-treated OTS Multilayers,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Honors Thesis, April 2009).
- Mark Calton, “Liquid Lithium Pendant Droplet for Laboratory Nuclear Astrophysics Beam Experiments,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, December 2009).
- Miriam Conde, “Microwave Interferometry In Laser Stabilization,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2009).
- John P. Corson, “Time-Frequency Description of Precursor Fields,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, December 2009).
- Jordan Cox, “A Case Study: Analysis Of A Blocked Field Goal Using Photogrammetry Calibrated With Coplanar Points,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Honors Thesis, August 2009).
- Eric Cunningham, “Analysis of Acausal Superluminal Trajectories in the Bohmian Interpretation of the Klein-Gordon Equation,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, December 2009).
- Brian Davis, “Nanoshaving And Nanografting Of Water-Soluble Polymers On Glass Surfaces,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Honors Thesis, April 2009).
- Scott Eldredge, “BYU ARES Project: Hybrid Rocket Motor,” Advisor: Jerry Bowman (Mechanical Engineering) (Capstone, June 2009).
- Jayrin Farley, “Ultrasonic, Normal-Incidence Insertion Loss through Common Building Materials Using Continuous-Wave Excitation,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Capstone, December 2009).
- Michael Fogarty, “Simulations Of The Interactions Of Silicon With Carbon Nanotubes,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, April 2009).
- Jarom Giraud, “Acoustic Temperature Measurement in a Full-Scale Rocket Noise Field,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, July 2009).
- Adam Hall, “Describing Two Charged Particles In A Magnetic Field Using Trajectories And Wave Equations Through Factorization,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, April 2009).
- Benjamin Heaton, “Nuclear-Electron Coupling In GaAs Spin States And Control Of The Effects,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, August 2009).
- Steven Howell, “Lithium Gadolinium Borate Crystal Scintillator For Low Flux Neutron Detection,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2009).
- Mark Hutchison, “Computational Analysis Of The Relative Decay Constants For 7be, 7be+, And 7be++,” Advisor: Bryan Peterson (Honors Thesis, August 2009).
- David Jones, “Fabrication Of Transistors From Purified (7; 6) Carbon Nanotubes,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2009).
- Emmalee Jones, “Patterning Vertical Structures for Use in Constructing Amorphous Silicon Solar Cell Molds,” Advisor: Robert Davis, Richard Vanfleet (Capstone, April 2009).
- Jeffrey Kemp, “A New Method For The Diagnosis Of High Energy Plasmas From A Broadband Spectrometer,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, April 2009).
- David Krueger, “Acoustical and Vibrometry Analysis of a Large Balinese Gamelan Gong,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, July 2009).
- Matthew Lords, “Predicting New Structures: The Simple Cubic and Perovskite Case,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Capstone, March 2009).
- Jordan Maucotel, “Creating and Characterizing a Sequence of Counter-Propagating Pulses for Laser High-Harmonic Experiments,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Capstone, December 2009).
- Debora Merrell, “Calculation Of Hydrogen Beta Color Indices For Delta Scuti Stars,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, August 2009).
- Daniel Merrill, “Amplifying An Ultra-Stable Diode Laser Via Injection Locking,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2009).
- Joseph Muhlestein, “Optical Constants for Y2O3 in the Extreme Ultraviolet,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, February 2009).
- Michael Rasmussen, “,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, April 2009).
- David Ripplinger, “Normal Frequencies Of A String Vibrating At Large Amplitudes,” Advisor: Brian Anderson (Senior Thesis, August 2009).
- Matthew Shaw, “Acoustical Analysis Of An Indoor Test Facility For A 30-Mm Gatling Gun,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, August 2009).
- Jordan Stutz, “Sequencing The Creation And Characterization Of A Non-Neutral Plasma,” Advisor: Bryan Peterson (Senior Thesis, April 2009).
- Christopher Verhaaren, “Chaos In General Relativity: Spinning Particle Orbits,” Advisor: Eric Hirschmann (Senior Thesis, April 2009).
- Brian Wilcken, “Magnetic Memory In Exchange Bias Thin Films,” Advisor: Karine Chesnel (Senior Thesis, August 2009).
- Daniel Wilcox, “Calculating The Sampling Cone Gas Flow In An Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, April 2009).
- Devin Young, “Laboratory Testing of the Bibroacoustic Response Characteristics of Endevco 8510b-5 Piezoresistive Microphones,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, December 2009).
2008
- Michael Amonson, “A Dual Stage Laser Ablation Source For Cold Atoms?,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Bronson Argyle, “Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Of Financial Data,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Honors Thesis, August 2008).
- McKay Bonham, “Observations Of LPH 123 And 127, High-Mass X-Ray Binaries, In A Two-Summer Attempt To Detect Variabilities,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- Arthur Brown, “Resistivity Measurements With Hysteresis In Crystalline Thin Films Of Vanadium Dioxide By Four-Point Probe,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- Tiffany Brown, “Finding Light Curves The High Mass X-Ray Binary System Lph 115,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- J.J. Campbell, “Chaos In The Post-Newtonian Gravitational Three-Body Problem,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Capstone, December 2008).
- Jeremy Carter, “Correctional Magnetic Coils For Beryllium-Based Ion Plasma Chamber,” Advisor: Grant Hart (Capstone, August 2008).
- Nathan Curtis, “A Patentability Assessment For The Polar Squared Impulse Response Method,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, August 2008).
- Jonathan Daniels, “Light Curves For Supernova Sn2006jc,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- Colby Dawson, “Integrator Circuitry Used To Determine The Radial Profile Of A Non-Neutral Plasma,” Advisor: Bryan Peterson (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Jared Dickson, “X-Ray Powder-Diffraction Simulations From Large-Scale Defect Models,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Capstone, April 2008).
- W. Todd Doughty, “Roughness Correction Model For Reflection From Perfectly Conducting Scatterers,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- Lucas Earl, “Explorations In Quantum Relativity,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- Nicholas Eyring, “Tools Used In The Development And Support Of An Anti-Oxidant Bio-Photonic Scanner,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Nicholas J. Eyring II, “Tools Used in the Development and Support of an Anti-Oxidant Bio-Photonic Scanner,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Honors Thesis, April 2008).
- William Farmer, “A Program For Reverse Geocoding,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- J. Isaac Fjeldsted, “Diffraction Of Sound Waves By An Aperture In An Acoustic Baffle,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Capstone, August 2008).
- Kellen Giraud, “Simulation And Manufacture Of A Quadrupole Mass Filter For A 7be Ion Plasma,” Advisor: Grant Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Nathan Gray, “Extreme Ultraviolet To Visible Wide-Range Spectrometer,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Jared Greenwald, “Generating Order 2 And 4 Free-Fermionic Nahe-Based Heterotic Models,” Advisor: Eric Hirschmann (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- Janalee Harrison, “Monitoring Variability In 1es 1959+650 With Rovor,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, December 2008).
- John Harrison, “Correlations Of Coupled Logistic Maps,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Amanda Henderson, “Variable Stars In The Cluster Ngc 6882/6885,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Brent Hicks, “Development And Characterization Of An Ft-Icr/Ms System For A Non-Neutral Plasma,” Advisor: Bryan Peterson (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Bryan Hicks, “Diode Properties of Nanotube Networks,” Advisor: David Allred (Capstone, April 2008).
- Katherine Hurd, “Process For Aggregation Of Micron-Sized Patterns Of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Forests,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- David Hutchison, “Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes As A Framework For Microfabrication Of High Aspect Ratio Mems,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- E. Paul Iverson, “New Aperture Photometry Technique For Brigham Young University Astronomy Group,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Ian James, “Transmission Electron Diffraction in Tellurium Modified TiO2,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Daniel Jenson, “A System For Simultaneously Driving Three Discrete Nuclear Resonances In GaAs: Theory And Experiment,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, December 2008).
- Christopher Johnson, “GST Crystallite-Density TEM-Analysis Finds No Crystalline Structure,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Capstone, April 2008).
- Josh Kacher, “Separating Coincident Electron Backscatter Diffraction Patterns near Interfaces,” Advisor: Brent Adams, BYU Mechanical Engineering Dept. (Capstone, April 2008).
- Michael Lau, “Comparison of Calibration Methods for a Fiber-Optic Hydrophone,” Advisor: Charles Emery, Ph.D.; Mirabilis Medica (Seattle company) (Capstone, April 2008).
- Gordon Mancuso, “Surface Phase Transformation In Lithium Aluminate,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- Michael Mendoza, “Design And Construction Of An Anechoic Chamber,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, August 2008).
- Trent Mouton, “Implementing An Automated Positioning And Measurement System For The Study Of A Hypersonic Speaker,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Robert Petersen, “Radiometric Particle Levitation In A Laser Beam At High Ambient Gas Pressure,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- Steven Phillips, “Photodarkening In Tellurium-Modified Titanium Dioxide Nanocrystals,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- Natalie Porter, “Continued Observations Of The Variable Star V577 Ophiuchi, A Binary System With A Scuti Component,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- Daniel Robertson, “Breathing Interplay Effects During Proton Beam Spot Scanning: Simulation And Statistical Analysis,” Advisor: Harald Paganetti (Mass. General Hospital) (Capstone, August 2008).
- Dustin Shipp, “Numerical Model Of Non-Collinear Parametric Down-Conversion,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Elisabeth Strein, “Studying And Eliminating Adventitious Carbon Contamination On Silicon Wafers,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- Craig Swenson, “Automated Iraf Reduction Scripts For Astronomy Group At Brigham Young University,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Ryan Tanner, “General Relativistic Models Of Rotating Astronomical Objects,” Advisor: Eric Hirschmann (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Derek Taylor, “Comparing Takeoff and Landing Impulses of Steeplechasers for Barriers 1 and 2,” Advisor: Iain Hunter, BYU Dept. of Exercise Science (Capstone, August 2008).
- James Taylor, “Elastic Scattering From Viscous Incompressible Fluid Obstacles At High Reynolds Number,” Advisor: Vianey Villamizar, Math Dept. (Capstone, July 2008).
- Daniel Tengelsen, “Omnidirectional Enhancement Of A Regular Polyhedron Loudspeaker,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, August 2008).
- Brendan Turner, “Effect Of Catalyst Thickness And Barrier Layers On Patterned Vertically-Aligned Carbon Nanotube Growth,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
- Miriam West, “Photometric Search For Variable Stars In The Open Cluster Ngc 1528,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
- Charles Woods, “A Study Of Gas Dynamics Under Poiseuille Conditions: A Comparison Of The Fluid Equations And Dsmc,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, April 2008).
2007
- JohnPaul Abbott, “Comparison and Analysis of Acoustic Impulse Response Analyzers and their Respective Interrogation Methods,” Advisor: Benjamin Faber (Capstone, August 2007).
- Marian Adamson, “Detection Of Trace Metal Contaminants In Model Biological Tissue With Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Eric Allan, “Observing The Variability Of AGN: Aperture Photometry Vs. PSF Fitting,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Jason Ard, “Computational Modeling of CdS Nanocrystals,” Advisor: James Lewis (Capstone, March 2007).
- Paul Atkinson, “Characterizing An Alleged New Phase Of Titanium Dioxide,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Capstone, August 2007).
- Jeremiah Birrell, “Design of a Frequency-Doubled 423 nm Laser For Use in a Calcium Interferometer,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, December 2007).
- Jeffrey Brown, “Counterfeit Coins,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Adam Callens, “Apparatus for Vacuum Heating of TEM Samples,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Capstone, May 2007).
- Daniel Christensen, “Instrumentation And Calculations For Matter-Wave Interferometry Experiments,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Michael Clemens, “Absolute Quantum Yield Measurements Of Density Separated Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Suspensions,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Hiram Conley, “Imaging Ribosomes In Fluid Using The Atomic Force Microscope,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Brady Cox, “Characterization Of Crystalline Vanadium Dioxide By Transmission Electron Microscopy,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Christian Draper, “A Variable Star Search In The Open Cluster NGC 6940,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Cole Duke, “Measurement and Evaluation of Blade Passage Frequency Fluctuations,” Advisor: Kent Gee, Scott Sommerfeldt (Capstone, April 2007).
- Mark Esty, “Biological Deposition Of Iron Catalyst For Carbon Nanotube Growth,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Ryan Frei, “Simulation Of Rotational Diffusion And Hydration Of Laurdan In A Dppc Bilayer,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Michael Gardner, “An Investigation Of Rubens Flame Tube Resonances,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, August 2007).
- Ryan Gardner, “Evaluating The Open Physics Abstraction Layer Programming Library For Use In Undergraduate Instruction,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, April 2007).
- Robert Gillis, “Determining The Extreme Ultraviolet Constants Of Thoria By Spectral Ellipsometry.,” Advisor: David Allred (Capstone, August 2007).
- Gavin Giraud, “Observation Of Laser Pulse Evolution During Generation Of High-Order Harmonics,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- John Gordon, “Using An Optical D-Fiber As A Chemical Sensor,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Amy Grigg, “Oxidation Effects On The Optical Constants Of Heavy Metals In The Extreme Ultraviolet,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Honors Thesis, August 2007).
- Matthew Harrison, “Using Conical Spectrometers to Monitor X-ray Emission from Laser Produced Plasmas,” Advisor: Larry Knight, Alexander Shevelko (Capstone, April 2007).
- Jacqualine Jackson, “Determining The Refractive Index Of Scandium Oxide In The Euv Using Kramers-Kronig On Thin-Film Transmission Data,” Advisor: David Allred (Honors Thesis, April 2007).
- Daniel Jensen, “Computation Of Two-Center Two-Electron Integrals For Excited-State Calculations,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Adam Johanson, “Galaxy Nuclear Variability As A Probe Of AGN Structure,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Lee Johnson, “Observation of Two-Photon Quantum Interference Using Entangled Photons,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Capstone, August 2007).
- Joel Jolley, “Time-Series Ensemble Photometry Of The High-Amplitude Scuti Star Ae Ursae Majoris,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Elise Martin, “Surface-Roughness Corrections To Extreme Ultraviolet Thin-Film Reflectance Measurements,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Mirinda Martin, “Testing the Smoothness of a Levitating Particle Laser Beam,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Capstone, August 2007).
- Matthew Morrise, “Equalization Metrics,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Laren Mortensen, “An Accelerated Surface-Hopping Method For Computational Semiclassical Molecular Dynamics,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Nicholas Nelson, “Numerical Methods For General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Matthew Nerdin, “Solid Ion Source for Laboratory Nuclear Astrophysics Research,” Advisor: John Ellsworth (Capstone, May 2007).
- Nathan Packard, “Conical Soft x-ray Spectrometer,” Advisor: Larry Knight, Matt Asplund (Capstone, April 2007).
- Adam Payne, “Analyzing The Skimming Process Of An Icp-Ms Using A Monte Carlo Simulation,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Charles Phillips, “Photometric And Spectroscopic Observations Of Two Scuti Variables: V919 Herculis And V927 Herculis,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Melissa Powell, “Parallelizing Simulations Of Nonneutral Plasma Instabilities In A Malmberg-Penning Trap,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Capstone, December 2007).
- Tyson Ririe, “Optical Properties Of Close-Packed And Sparse Quantum Dot Arrays,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Andrew Sampson, “Trace Element Analysis In A Numerical Simulation Of An Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Sarah Schuff, “A Photometric Search And Analysis Of Short-Period Variable Stars In The Open Cluster Ngc 7092,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, December 2007).
- Cody Short, “Characterization And Analysis Of The Site 1k Ccd As Used In The Tenagra Ii .81m Telescope,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- David Silvers, “X-Ray Attenuation Corrections For Human Head Hair Using PIXE,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Joseph Smidt, “Photoevaporation Of Cosmological Minihalos By The First Stars,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Jennifer Stanley, “Radio Astronomy At Brigham Young University,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Nicholas Stanley, “Methods For Long Period Variability Detection Using Optical Photometry,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, July 2007).
- Marie Stellman, “Improvement Of Automation For Collection Of Reflectance Vs. Angle Measurements,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Hales Swift, “Time Varying Loudness as a Means of Quantifying Loudness in Nonlinearly Propagated Acoustical Signals,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, April 2007).
- David Tanner, “Chaotic Scattering In The 2nd Post-Newtonian Order Gravitational Three-Body Problem,” Advisor: David Neilsen (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Michael Tanner, “Obtaining An Electron Energy-Loss Spectra Fingerprint For The And Phases Of Aluminum Oxide,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Honors Thesis, December 2007).
- Richard Taylor, “Logistic Maps And Synchronization,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Derek Thomas, “A Balloon Lens: Acoustic Scattering from a Penetrable Sphere,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, August 2007).
- Andrew Thompson, “Ultra-Small Scale Hydroelectric as a Supplemental Energy Source,” Advisor: Daniel Maynes (Capstone, April 2007).
- Brian Thornock, “Design and Development of Phantom-to-ICP Power Conversion Circuits,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, April 2007).
- Seth Tomlinson, “Demonstration Of Properties Of Human Hearing Using A Cochlear Analogue,” Advisor: Kent Gee (Capstone, April 2007).
- Matthew Turner, “Simulating Laser Pulse Propagation Under Optimized Conditions For High-Harmonic Generation,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
- Marshall van Zijll, “A Digital Potentiometer For An Ultra Stable Laser Current Driver,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2007).
- Shannon R. Walch, “Design and Construction of A Z-Pinch Apparatus for Metal-Catalyzed Fusion Experiments,” Advisor: John Ellsworth (Honors Thesis, March 2007).
- Matthew Wright, “Domain Growth Law Violations In A Compressible 2d Ising Model,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
2006
- William Ashby, “Trace Element Analysis of 9mm Bullet Lead Via PIXE Spectroscopy,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2006).
- Patrick Baugh, “The Usefulness Of Flat Field Images Does Time Matter?,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, December 2006).
- Clark Blockburger, “Analysis Of Cobalt And Iron Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts Using Transmission Electron Microscopy,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, December 2006).
- Brandon Bonewell, “Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Print Ink Analysis Using The PIXE Method,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, April 2006).
- Christopher Braniff, “Synthesis and Characterization of Manganese Oxide Nanocrystals,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, August 2006).
- Berne Broadbent, “A Photometric Search for Variable Stars in the Sparsely Populated Regions of NGC 2169 and NGC 5385,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, August 2006).
- Greg Doermann, “An Ultra-Stable Laser Current Controller,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2006).
- Matheau Eysser, “Brain Stimulation Reward Is Integrated By A Network Of Electrically-Coupled Midbrain GABA Neurons,” Advisor: Scott Steffensen (Capstone, March 2006).
- Sterling Fillmore, “The Density Effects of Thioglycolic Acid as a Promoter During Electrochemical Adsorption of Ferritin and the Effects of Cyclic Voltammetry on Ferritin Electrochemically Adsorbed to Atomically Flat Gold Surfaces.,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Capstone, July 2006).
- Jacob Fluckiger, “Functionalization And Metallization Of Carbon Nanotube Mats,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, December 2006).
- John-Mark Geiss, “Deposition of Avidin Protein on Silicon Oxide Substrate,” Advisor: Robert Davis, Matthew Linford (Capstone, December 2006).
- Steve Gray, “A Variable Star Search in NGC 6866,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Honors Thesis, August 2006).
- Benjamin Hall, “PIXE Analysis Of Oil-Paint Pigments: Proof Of Principle,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, April 2006).
- Vern Hart, “Airy Wave Packets As Quantum Solutions For Recovering Classical Trajectories,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, August 2006).
- Shinji Inagi, “Acoustical Study of Organ Pipe Voicing,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, August 2006).
- Michael Johnson, “Calibration Of A Von Hamos Spectometer For X-Ray Source Monitoring,” Advisor: John Ellsworth (Capstone, April 2006).
- Jaron Krogel, “Simulating the Inductively-Couple Plasma Mass Spectrometer Using the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, January 2006).
- Canon Laverty, “Standardization of H(alpha) Photometry using Open Clusters II. The Hyades,” Advisor: (Senior Thesis, January 2006).
- Richard Marsh, “The Electron Properties of Dehydrated and Hydrated DNA,” Advisor: James P. Lewis (Senior Thesis, April 2006).
- Jason Neff, “Characterization of Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) Nanoparticles, Rutile and Anatase, using Electron Microscopy,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Senior Thesis, April 2006).
- Brian Neyenhuis, “Developing A Narrow Linewidth 657 Nm Diode Laser For Use In A Calcium Atom Interferometer,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2006).
- S. Andrew Ning, “Creation of an Intermediate Environment and Utilizing Switchable Microwave Absorbent Material to Aid in Performing Work on Mars,” Advisor: David Allred (Honors Thesis, August 2006).
- Mark Olson, “The Effect of Electrode Placement on ECG Signal,” Advisor: (Capstone, January 2006).
- Aaron Paget, “ROVOR: Protection From The Elements Ensuring Safe Observational Conditions,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Capstone, June 2006).
- Bret Parker, “Comparison of sound propagation in water-saturated sediment using different sediments in an Effective Density and Fluid model,” Advisor: Traci Neilsen (Capstone, February 2006).
- Justin Paul, “Contributions to an Atomic Frequency Standard,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2006).
- Brandon Skinner, “2-Dimensional Magnetic Transducers For Stringed Instruments,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, December 2006).
- Johanna Sorensen, “Reciprocal Beauty,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele, Patrick Madden (Capstone, December 2006).
- Mark Transtrum, “Quantum Mechanics In Snyder Space,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Honors Thesis, August 2006).
- Mana Philip Vautier, “Standardization of H Photometry Using Open Clusters III. The Pleiades,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, April 2006).
- Ryan Wessel, “Analysis of SN 2005CS and SN 2006X,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2006).
- D. Lawrence Whipple, “Study Of The Photoluminescence Of Nanocrystals Using Ultrafast Upconversion,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, December 2006).
- Oliver Woodland, “Development Of An Automated Search Engine For Variable Stars In Large Clusters,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2006).
2005
- Mark Adams, “Measuring Absolute Brightness of Laser Generated High Harmonic Emission,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2005).
- Daniel Andelin, “Use of Signal Processing Methods to Improve Speech Intelligibility in Throat Microphones,” Advisor: Scott Thomas (Senior Thesis, July 2005).
- Lance Anderson, “High Resolution Neutron Spectroscopy,” Advisor: Bart Czirr (Photogenics) (Capstone, December 2005).
- Nicole Brimhall (Farnsworth), “Thorium-Based Mirrors in the Extreme Ultra Violet Optical Application of Uranium Thin Film Compounds for the Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Region,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Honors Thesis, January 2005).
- Tabitha Buehler (Bush), “A Photometric and Spectroscopic Study of Three 0 Scuti Stars: GW Ursae Majoris, BO Lyncis, and AN Lyncis,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, August 2005).
- Kurt Christen, “Matlab Simulations Of Super Luminal Energy Transport In Passive Dielectrics,” Advisor: Scott Glasgow (Capstone, April 2005).
- Eric Christensen, “Direct Measurement of Absorption Rates for Laser High-Order Harmonics Generated in Helium and Neon,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, April 2005).
- David Conlee, “Femtosecond and Nanosecond Laser Ablation and Chemical Functionalization on Silicon,” Advisor: (Senior Thesis, January 2005).
- David Cullen, “Fingerprinting the α and γ phases of alumina using electron energy-loss spectroscopy,” Advisor: Richard Vanfleet (Capstone, April 2005).
- Andrew J. Davis, “A CCD Photometric Search for Variable Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 188,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Honors Thesis, July 2005).
- Steven Davis, “Considerations And Instructions For Measuring Three-Dimensional Directivity Patterns For Sources Of Time Varying Amplitude,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, July 2005).
- Michael Dickerson, “Design, Construction, And The Testing Of An Electric Monochord With A Two-Dimensional Magnetic Pickup,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman, Scott Sommerfeldt (Capstone, December 2005).
- Connor Duke, “High-Fidelity Sound Reproduction System,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, April 2005).
- Christopher Erickson, “A High Temperature Vapor Cell for Absorption Spectroscopy on the Calcium Intercombination Line,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, June 2005).
- William Ray Evans, “Determining Optical Constants for ThO2 Thin Films Spluttered under Different Bias Voltages from 1.2 to 6.5 eV by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry,” Advisor: David Allred (Honors Thesis, January 2005).
- Brett Guisti, “Micro-Furnace Development for Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Experiments,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Senior Thesis, April 2005).
- Jeffery Hallstrom, “Mirror Designer User’s Guide: Using a Genetic Algorithm to Design Multilayer Mirrors,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Capstone, August 2005).
- Richard Hansen, “Understanding the Reconstructive Phase Transition in Pb,” Advisor: Dorian Hatch, Harold Stokes, James R. Lewis (Capstone, December 2005).
- Marshall Hart, “Trapped-Particle Asymmetry Modes Due to a Magnetic Barrier,” Advisor: Grant Mason (Senior Thesis, March 2005).
- Adam Hendrickson, “Radiometric Levitation of Opaque Particles in a Laser Beam,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, June 2005).
- Scott Hollingshaus, “Relative Binding Affinity of Non-Occupied and Sincle-Ion-Occupied Acetylcholinesterase with Acetylcholine,” Advisor: James Lewis (Honors Thesis, February 2005).
- Joshua Hunter, “Testing, Optimization and Configuration of an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator,” Advisor: John Day (Utah Heart Clinic) (Capstone, August 2005).
- Jamie Jensen, “Biomechanics of the Wrist Lock: An Analysis of Spiraling and Twisted Twig,” Advisor: Iain Hunter (Exercise Sci.) (Capstone, August 2005).
- Reed Jensen, “Analysis of Peculiar Nonlinear Wave Behavior in a Non-Neutral Plasma,” Advisor: Grant Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2005).
- Bryan Keeler, “The Behavior Of A Loudspeaker Surround,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, November 2005).
- Remy Lamberts, “Trace Element Analysis Of Utah Lake’s Sedimentary Sludge Using XRF And PIXE Techniques,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, August 2005).
- William Lewis, “Preparation of a Scanning Tunneling Microscope to Image Semiconductor,” Advisor: (Senior Thesis, January 2005).
- Rhett Lindsey, “Optical Levitation of Opaque Particles in a Laser Beam at High and Low Pressures,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2005).
- Philip McClure, “Ligand Binding to CD1D: Importance of α-GC configuration,” Advisor: Paul Savage, Matt Peterson (C&B), Rick Jellen (Capstone, April 2005).
- Kathleen Moncrieff, “A Photometric Search for Variable Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 6709,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, August 2005).
- Christopher Olsen, “Collimation and Focusing of the Optics of the 22 Inch Rovor Telescope,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2005).
- David Olson, “Construction and Characterization of a Specialized Malmberg-Penning Trap for Confinement of a Nonneutral Radionuclide Plasma,” Advisor: Bryan Peterson (Senior Thesis, August 2005).
- Benjamin Shafer, “The Construction And Qualification Of A Reverberation Chamber For Sound Absorption And Sound Power Measurements,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Capstone, August 2005).
- Michael Skeen, “Constructing a Proton Therapy Facility: An Experience in the Design, Installation, and Commisioning of the Treatment Room Systems at MPRI,” Advisor: William Evenson (Honors Thesis, August 2005).
- Jared Smith, “Real Option Analysis In The Pharmaceutical Industry,” Advisor: Craig Merrill (Business) (Capstone, May 2005).
- Michael Sprinkle, “Self-Aligned Palladium Silicide Process for Rigidly Attaching Carbon Nanotubes to Silicon Surfaces,” Advisor: (Senior Thesis, January 2005).
- Samuel Tobler, “Comparison of Experimental and Theoretical Modes of Oscillation in Non-Neutral Electron Plasmas,” Advisor: Bryan Peterson (Senior Thesis, April 2005).
- Bradley Underwood, “A Practical Analysis of Combining Larmor Modulation and Time of Flight Methods on a Pulsed Inelastic Neutron Spectrometer,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Senior Thesis, April 2005).
- Eric Wald, “Photoaccoustic Spectroscopy,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Capstone, September 2005).
- Tyler Weeks, “Absolute Soft X-Ray Calibration Of Laser Produced Plasmas Using A Focusing Crystal Von Hamos Spectrometer,” Advisor: Michael Ware (Capstone, December 2005).
2004
- Justus Adamson, “Ultrasonic Measurement of Light Liquid Viscosity,” Advisor: Margaret Greenwood (Capstone, July 2004).
- Kristi Adamson, “Determining Chemical Composition of Sputtered Uranium Oxide Thin Films through X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, April 2004).
- Joel Andrus, “Development of an Energy-Based Sound Power Measurement Device,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Capstone, April 2004).
- Paul Archer, “Determining Favorable Conditions for Endolithic Growth: UV Protection and Desiccation Prevention,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, June 2004).
- Luke Bissell, “Determining Ruthenium's Optical Constants in the Spectral Range 11-14 NM,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, August 2004).
- Peter Brown, “Observing Gamma Ray Burst Afterglows from BYU's Orsen Pratt Observatory,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, August 2004).
- Thomas Butler, “Analytical and Numerical Approaches to Specific Heat-Photon Spectrum Inversion,” Advisor: William Evenson (Senior Thesis, June 2004).
- Brent Cannon, “Model Rocket Simulation with Drag Analysis,” Advisor: Grant Hart (Capstone, April 2004).
- Matthew Cannon, “A Prototype Resistive Plate Chamber for Muon Radiography,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson, Richard Schirato (LANL) (Senior Thesis, April 2004).
- Ryan Chester, “Construction and Evaluation of an Acoustical Scale Model of a Mosque and a Miniature Human Voice Source,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Senior Thesis, December 2004).
- Jenni Currit, “Solar Cookers for Developing Countries,” Advisor: Steven Jones, Warner Woodworth (Capstone, December 2004).
- Brigham Russell Frandsen, “Free Electron Acceleration by a Laser: Exploration of Evanescent Waves,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Honors Thesis, July 2004).
- Jared Green, “Goethe's Theory of Color,” Advisor: David Grandy (Capstone, July 2004).
- Jacob Hale, “An Ultra Low-Noise Combined Confocal Optical/Atomic Force Microscope,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, April 2004).
- Daniel Hartsock, “Growth Controls of Ice Crystals in Cirrus Clouds,” Advisor: Don Morgan (BYU Geography), Tim Garrett (UofU) (Capstone, July 2004).
- Joseph Hopper, “Current State of the Software Used to Control the Remote Observatory for Variable Object Research,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Senior Thesis, January 2004).
- Daniel James, “A Semi-Classical Study Of Electron Blurring In The Longitudinal Stern-Gerlach Magnet,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, November 2004).
- Elizabeth Jeffery, “Calibration of Standard Stars in the Galactic Cluster M67,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Senior Thesis, January 2004).
- Jedediah Edward Jensen Johnson, “Thorium Based Mirrors for High Reflectivity in the EUV,” Advisor: David Allred (Honors Thesis, August 2004).
- Jon Johnson, “Estimating the Absolute Brightness of Magnesium Laser-Produced Plasmas,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, August 2004).
- Kara Kemsley, “The Effects of Source Directivity on Room Acoustics Parameters,” Advisor: Timothy Leishman (Senior Thesis, April 2004).
- David Ketcheson, “An Algebraic Characterization of Strong Stability Preserving Runge-Kutta Schemes,” Advisor: (Senior Thesis, January 2004).
- John Manchak, “Arguments Concerning Photon Concepts,” Advisor: David Grandy (Capstone, January 2004).
- Bonnie McLaughlin, “Creating a High Power, Laser Diode End-Pumped cw Green Laser: Cheap Green Photons,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, March 2004).
- David Niemi, “Observation of Entangled Photons Produced in Laser Down-Conversion,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2004).
- Rebecca Olson, “Self-Referencing Interferometer Measurement of Prism Angles with Microradian Precision,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, January 2004).
- Jorj Owen, “Automated, Controlled Deposition of Nanoparticles on Polyelectrolyte-Coated Silicon from Chemomechanically Patterned Droplet Arrays,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Capstone, April 2004).
- John Painter, “Optical Levitation of Opaque Particles in a Laser Beam: Zero Gravity Experiment,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2004).
- Mario Pinoli, “Molecular Modeling of the μ-helix of Poly-L-Glutamine,” Advisor: David Busath (Capstone, August 2004).
- Benjamin Pratt, “Laser High-Order Harmonic Generation in Gas Cells,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, January 2004).
- John Rajikannu, “Physics in your Palm,” Advisor: Steven Jones (Capstone, January 2004).
- Scott Raymond, “Acoustical Properties of Human Scalp Hair,” Advisor: Kullervo Hynynen (Harvard Med) (Capstone, April 2004).
- Danny Rogers, “Ion Conductance Of Gramicidin A Channels In Assymetrical Sodium Chloride Solutions,” Advisor: David Busath (Capstone, December 2004).
- Michael Rose, “Improving Aperture Photometry Reduction Techniques,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, April 2004).
- Richard Sandberg, “Optical Applications of Uranium Thin-Film Compounds for the Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Region,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, August 2004).
- Kelly Smith, “Phase Matching of Laser High Harmonic Generation in a Semi-Infinite Gas Cell,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Honors Thesis, February 2004).
- Melinda Tonks, “Nano-Level Surface Patterning Through Chemomechanical Functionalization of Silicon and Germanium Surfaces Using an Atomic Force Microscope,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Honors Thesis, March 2004).
- Marie Urry, “Determining Optical Constants of Uranium Nitride Thin Films in the Extreme Ultraviolet (1.6-35 NM),” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2004).
- Nicholas Webb, “The Oxidation Rates of Vanadium,” Advisor: (Senior Thesis, January 2004).
- Daniel Zurcher, “Classical Molecular Dynamics Algorithms,” Advisor: (Senior Thesis, January 2004).
2003
- Jacob Anderson, “Level 3 Z Tracking Algorithm,” Advisor: Steven Jones (Senior Thesis, March 2003).
- Curtis James Broadbent, “Reversible and Irreversible Energy in Dispersive/Dissipative Optical Media,” Advisor: Scott Glasgow (Senior Thesis, August 2003).
- Danelle Elaine Brown, “Atomic Granularity and Molecular Optics Computational Studies of Atomic Structure Effects in the EUV and Soft X-Ray,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2003).
- Jay M. Call, “Gravitational Collapse in 2+1 Dimensions with a Dilation Coupled to a Cosmological Constant,” Advisor: Eric Hirschmann (Honors Thesis, June 2003).
- Ryan Camacho, “Microstructural Analysis of Copper Thin Films for Characterization of Stress-Induced Voiding Mechanisms,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, May 2003).
- Donald M. Cannon, “Calculations of M=0 Normal Modes in Cold Non-Neutral Plasmas Using a Scaled Spherical Coordinate System,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, July 2003).
- Gordon Dix, “Design and Implementation of an Automated Intensity Scanning System at the Acoustical Testing Lab of the NASA Glenn Research Center,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Capstone, April 2003).
- Deborah L. Gatrell, “Pedagogical Change in a Conceptual Course: A Case Study of Physical Science 100 at BYU,” Advisor: M Jeannette Lawler (Honors Thesis, June 2003).
- James Aamodt Hart, “A Particle-In-Cell Code for Modelling Ultracold Plasmas,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, April 2003).
- Josh Holt, “Simulating the Generation of Ultrafast Optical Superconinuum Pulses,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, August 2003).
- Casey Huffmire, “A Fundamental Understanding of Patent Law for Physicists,” Advisor: Ned Israelson (Capstone, August 2003).
- Elke Jackson, “Rectifying Synchrotron and Monochromator Measurement Differences and Monochromator Improvements,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2003).
- J. Edward Maxwell, “Applying Filter Functions to Spectra Using the Cubic Spline Method,” Advisor: Benjamin Taylor (Senior Thesis, April 2003).
- Matthew McDonald, “Finding Optical Constants of Uranium Oxide Mirrors Using Fortran,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, August 2003).
- Rebecca Merrill, “A New Scheme for External-Cavity Diode Laser Stabilization,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Honors Thesis, March 2003).
- Eric L. Peterson, “The Landau Damping of a Manhole Cover,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Honors Thesis, February 2003).
- Ross Robinson, “Removing Contaminates from Silicon Wafers to Facilitate EUV Optical Characterization,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, August 2003).
- Patrick William Ross, “Plasma Diagnostics for ICF Target Fabrication,” Advisor: Grant Hart (Senior Thesis, April 2003).
- Mark Scott, “Evidence for Low Temperature D-D Fusion in TIDx Foils,” Advisor: Steven Jones (Senior Thesis, August 2003).
- Lance Smemoe, “Interactive Waves Simulation,” Advisor: Ross Spencer, Garth Hill, Jason Dzubak (Capstone, April 2003).
- Angela Tygerson, “Constructing Efficient Computer Models for Augmented Reality,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Senior Thesis, April 2003).
- Jed Whittaker, “Self-Aligned Mechanical Attachment of Carbon Nanotubes to Silicon Dioxide Structures by Selective Silicon Dioxide Chemical Vapor Deposition,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, April 2003).
2002
- Dan Allen, “Investigation of CdSe Nanocrystals by Chemical Doping With In and Perturbed Angular Correlation Spectroscopy,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, April 2002).
- Ryan Robert Anderson, “Focusing Optics with a Constant Angle Grazing Incidence Spectrograph for Spatian and Spectral Resolution of Capilary Discharge Plasmas,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2002).
- Eric Baird, “Gravitational Collapse of a Dilaton,” Advisor: Eric Hirschmann (Senior Thesis, July 2002).
- Benjamin A. Bellville, “Single-Beam Laser Traps for Opaque or Reflective Particles,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, April 2002).
- Cody Larry Bliss, “Optical Levitation of Intensity-Fleeing Particles in a Single-Beam Laser Trap,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, August 2002).
- Peter Bradford, “Constructing a Pulsed Amplifier for a Tunable Diode Laser,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, August 2002).
- Jared Estus Daily, “Development and Characterization of a Field Electron Emission X-Ray Source,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, April 2002).
- Daniel W. Farrell (Jr.), “Single-Frequency 397 nm Diode Laser for Ca+ Spectroscopy,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2002).
- Jacob P. Fugal, “Characteristics of a Slitless Spectroscopic Near-Infrared Emission-Line Galaxy Survey,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Honors Thesis, April 2002).
- Brian Hansen, “Measuring Changes in Indices of Refraction with Respect to Temperature in Birefringent Crystals,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, December 2002).
- Andrew Landen, “High-Intensity Laser Facility at Brigham Young University,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, May 2002).
- Stephen W. Lee, “Design and Construction of a Hemispherical Boom for Measuring Sound Power Levels and Directivity Patterns,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Honors Thesis, January 2002).
- Andrew D. Ludlow, “Thermal Self Locking Measurements of Two Photon Absorption in Potassium Niobate,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2002).
- Nathan C. Moody, “Construction and Testing of a Low-Finesse Fabry-Perot Interferometer for use in Atomic Spectroscopy,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, August 2002).
- Heather McKnight Smith, “Numerical Modeling of Whizzer Cone Loudspeakers,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Senior Thesis, April 2002).
- Joshua A. Strong, “X-Ray Fluorescence of Laser-Produced Plasmas,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, December 2002).
- Fabian Thomas Walter, “Obtaining Soft X-Ray Constants Across the 2P Edge of Fe in Thin Films by Resonant Magnetic Scattering Experiments of Polarized Soft X-Rays,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, August 2002).
- Eva Wilcox, “Energy Resolution in Neutron Detection,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees, Bart Czirr (Honors Thesis, February 2002).
2001
- Brian Anderson, “The Effect of Inharmonic Partials on Pitch of Piano Tones,” Advisor: William Strong (Senior Thesis, July 2001).
- Joseph S. Choi, “In Situ Ellipsometry of Surfaces in an Ultrahigh Vacuum Thin Film Deposition Chamber,” Advisor: David Allred (Honors Thesis, June 2001).
- Matthew Byron Crookston, “Spatial Measurements of a Capillary Discharge Plasma with a Toroidal Mirror and a Grazing Incident Spectrograph,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, April 2001).
- Philip Du Toit, “Spin Current: The Contribution of Spin to the Probability Current for Nonrelativistic Particles,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Honors Thesis, June 2001).
- Matthew Housley, “Direct CVD Growth of Carbon Nanotubes on Silicon Nitride AFM Probes,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Honors Thesis, June 2001).
- Kathryn A. Jensen, “Laser Tracking Using Closed Loop Feedback Control,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, April 2001).
- Cort Johnson, “Developing an Improved Extreme Ultraviolet Filter,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, April 2001).
- Dale Kitchen, “A Proposed Thin Film Process for Shortening Carbon Nanotube AFM Probes,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, July 2001).
- Thomas McKnight, “Absolute Gamma Efficiency and Its Evaluation for Lithium Gadolinium Borate,” Advisor: Branton Campbell, Bart Czirr (Senior Thesis, August 2001).
- Cynthia Mills, “Multi-Angle Reflectance Measurements in the EUV,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Honors Thesis, March 2001).
- Ryan Monson, “Growth and Characterization of a Cadmium Selenide Nanocrystal Monolayer,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Honors Thesis, May 2001).
- Michael (Vern) Pack, “A Single-Lens Interferometer for Introducing Gaussian Laser Beams,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, December 2001).
- Jed Simmons, “Grazing Incidence Spectrometer for Measuring Laser High-Order Harmonics,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, March 2001).
- Jamie Titensor, “Creating Shaped Counter-Propagating Laser Pulses to Increase High Harmonic Production,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, December 2001).
- Brent Alan Wacaser, “Assembly of Groups of Au and CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals Chemically Linked by 1,4-Benzenedimethanethol,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Honors Thesis, May 2001).
- Michael J Ware, “Optical Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Systems,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (PhD Dissertation, December 2001).
2000
- Levi Barnes, “Flexible Sets of Basis Functions for First Principles Calculations of Ground-State Energy in Crystalline Solids,” Advisor: Harold Stokes (Senior Thesis, May 2000).
- Philip M. Nelson, “Effects of Fluorination on Gramicidin A Conductance: Analysis of Data Using 3B2S Model, Symbolic Math Software and Statistical Computations,” Advisor: David D. Busath (Honors Thesis, February 2000).
- Liberty Rae Schwendiman, “A PHotometric Study of the Anomalous Second Period in V567 Ophiuchi,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, June 2000).
- Liberty Rae Schwendiman, “A Photometric Study of the Anomalous Second Period in V567 Ophiuchi,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Senior Thesis, January 2000).
- Steven L Tait, Jr., “A Comparative Study of Various Display Formats of Speech Frequncy Spectra to Aid Lip Readers,” Advisor: William Strong (Honors Thesis, June 2000).
- Ribeka Takahashi, “Goldhelox Project Soft X-Ray Detecting System,” Advisor: (Senior Thesis, May 2000).
- Nephi Thompson, “A Three-Barrier Two-Site Analysis of Gramicidin Conductance in Fluorinated and Native Peptides,” Advisor: David Busath (Honors Thesis, July 2000).
- Owen Dennis Yeates, “Transcendence: Reassessing the Religious Thinking of Sir Isaac Newton,” Advisor: David E. Bohn (Honors Thesis, March 2000).
1999
- Kenneth S. Anderson, “Single-Beam Optical Trapping of Micron-Sized Particles,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Honors Thesis, April 1999).
- Christopher Bass, “Characterization of CdSe Nanocrystal Photodiodes,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, August 1999).
- Robert K. Bradford, “Characterization of Pi-Proton Events Producing Charged Tracks and Four Gammas,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, May 1999).
- Sam Carter, “Classifying Bushes of Molecular Vibrational Modes According to their Universality Classes,” Advisor: Harold Stokes (Senior Thesis, January 1999).
- Sterling W. Cornaby, “Heliostat for Educational Display,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, April 1999).
- Matthew Bodell Garvin, “V927 Herculis: δ Scuti γ Doradus?,” Advisor: Eric Hintz (Honors Thesis, November 1999).
- Thomas Grant Jenkins, “The Dynamic Alternating-Direction-Implicit Algorithm,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, April 1999).
- Angela Johnson, “Calculations of the Calcium 4s4p1P10 Radiative Lifetime via Molecular Spectroscopy of the Diatomic B1SigmaU+ State,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Honors Thesis, June 1999).
- Brent E. Kraczek, “Study of Quantum Computation Through Simulation of Shor's Algorithm on a Classical Computer,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Honors Thesis, May 1999).
- Shannon Lunt, “The Use of Genetic Algorithms in Multilayer Mirror Optimization,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Honors Thesis, March 1999).
- Mary Landon Martin, “Determining Spin Wave Stiffness in a Colossal Magnetoresistive Thin Film,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Honors Thesis, June 1999).
- Scott E. Perry, “Design, Construction, and Testing of an External-Beam PIXE System for Coin and Manuscript Analysis at Brigham Young University,” Advisor: Neil Rasband (Honors Thesis, March 1999).
- Paul Sorensen, “Thermovision 780 System,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, April 1999).
- Matthew B. Squires, “On Determining the Optical Constants of Sputtered U and a-Si at 304 and 484 Å,” Advisor: David Allred (Honors Thesis, March 1999).
- Michael Ware, “Phase Delay and Energy Flow in Angularly Dispersive Optical Systems,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Honors Thesis, March 1999).
1998
- Ronald E. Ainsworth (Jr.), “Trombone Tone Sustain Simulation Through Linear Prediction,” Advisor: William Strong (Senior Thesis, December 1998).
- Adam Fennimore, “Morphology and Oxidation of U/Al and UN/Al Multilayer MIrrors,” Advisor: David Allred (Honors Thesis, February 1998).
- Karl Kowallis, “Developing Finite Element Meshes for the Acoustic Simulation of Jet Engines,” Advisor: Scott Sommerfeldt (Honors Thesis, January 1998).
- Eric Scott Leishman, “Quantum Mechanics of Rigid Boxes with Voids,” Advisor: William Evenson (Honors Thesis, July 1998).
- Jason W. Mumford, “Flame Deposition as a Mechanism for Diamond Snthesis,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, April 1998).
- David Oliphant, “Scalar Wave Scattering from a Clinder with Dirichlet Boundary Conditions Unsiong High-Order Basis Plynomials,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, August 1998).
- Troy Rockwood, “A Classical Model of an Atom in a Strong Laser Field,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Honors Thesis, January 1998).
1997
- Marshall Bartlett, “Pressure Dependence of Molecular Reorientation in the Low-Temperature Phases of Potassium Cyanide,” Advisor: Harold Stokes (Senior Thesis, April 1997).
- Renee George, “High-Order Basis Functions on Wires,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Honors Thesis, February 1997).
- Derek Hullinger, “Analysis and Design of the Solar Funnel,” Advisor: Steven Jones (Senior Thesis, September 1997).
- Zerubbabel A. Johnson, “Simulation of a Quantum Computer on a Classical Computer,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Honors Thesis, July 1997).
- Cavendish McKay, “Collisionless Damping of Plasma Waves in Finite-Length Non-Neutral Plasmas,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Senior Thesis, April 1997).
- Damian P. Menscher, “Modeling the Quantum Computer on the Classical Computer,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Honors Thesis, July 1997).
- Brent Morring, “Complimentarity Versus Uncertainty,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, August 1997).
- Steve Summers, “Ultrashort Laser Pulses,” Advisor: Bret Hess (Senior Thesis, April 1997).
- Scott L. Vance, “Search for Fusion from Sonoluminescence in Ammonium Amalgam: A Null Result,” Advisor: Steven Jones (Honors Thesis, February 1997).
1996
- David Christiansen, “Development of Diagnostics for an X-Ray Laser,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, May 1996).
- Teresa Griffin Fairbanks, “The Characteristic Frequency of Formamidinium-Induced Noise in Gramicidin A Channels: Voltage and Concentration Dependence,” Advisor: David D. Busath (Honors Thesis, August 1996).
- Dawn K. Gifford, “Comparison of ORPA Suprathermal Electron and OPA Solar Wind Proton Data from the Pioneer Venus Orbiter,” Advisor: Douglas Jones (Honors Thesis, March 1996).
- Samuel T. Jones, “Physical Analysis of Olmec Artifacts,” Advisor: Steven Jones (Honors Thesis, March 1996).
- Lee Loveridge, “Applying Supersymmetry to Quantum Mechanics with a study of Bound States in the Continuum,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, May 1996).
- Karl D. Nelson, “Thermoacoustic Cooling,” Advisor: Mark Nelson (Honors Thesis, December 1996).
- Gregory B. Thompson, “Reactive Gas Sputtering of Lithium Compound Thin Films,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, June 1996).
- B. Scott Williams, “On Photo-Assisted Atomic Layered Epitaxy of Iron Pentacarbonyl,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, August 1996).
1995
- Jonathan A. Bennett, “Discrepancy Between Theory and Experiment of Aspect Ratio Measurements in Non-Neutral Plasmas,” Advisor: Grant Mason (Honors Thesis, November 1995).
- Taylor Y. Cardall, “Exploitation of Interfacial Tension as a Noninvasive Diagnostic Method for Canned Food Products,” Advisor: Steven Jones (Honors Thesis, July 1995).
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Joel Curzon,
“An Evaluation of the Supreme Court Decision in
Wickard v. Filburn in Light of the Original Intent of the Constitution and Early Pecedent,” Advisor: Dr. Gary Bryner (Honors Thesis, July 1995). - Dale Eliason, “Software Intellectual Property: Billings 4,714,989 Patent Validity and Impact,” Advisor: Evan L. Ivie (Honors Thesis, March 1995).
- William Henstrom, “Computational Study of Cluster Models for Crystals Used as Gamma Ray Scintillators,” Advisor: Manuel Berrondo (Senior Thesis, April 1995).
- Mitch Larsen, “Construction of Optical Components by Ultrastructure Processing,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, February 1995).
- Kenneth Nelson, “A Photometric Study of the Pulsation Period for BL Camelopardalis,” Advisor: Mike Joner (Honors Thesis, April 1995).
- Noe Yamaguchi, “Pioneer Venus Orbiter Retarding Potential Analyzer Observations of the Electron Component of teh Solar Wind, and of the Venus Bow Shock and Magnetosheath,” Advisor: Douglas Jones (Honors Thesis, March 1995).
- Y. E. Young, “The Piecewise Parabolic Method in Plasma Simulation,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Honors Thesis, March 1995).
1994
- Kristen Adams, “A Presentation of the Mapping of LBN434 and Its Ramifications on the Assumption of Clear Seeing at high Galactic Lattitudes,” Advisor: Joseph Moody (Honors Thesis, July 1994).
- Arle S. Beckwith, “Particle Interferometry to Understand the Quantum Entity,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Senior Thesis, August 1994).
- R. K. Berg, “Solutions of the Convection Equation by the Piecewise Parabolic Method,” Advisor: Ross Spencer (Honors Thesis, April 1994).
- Grant Jensen, “A Comparison of Asynchronous and Synchronous Speech Analysis,” Advisor: William Strong (Honors Thesis, April 1994).
- Michael J. Lund, “Proposed Walk-In Labs for Physics 431: Critical Phenomena and Vapor-Liquid Coexistence,” Advisor: Dean Barnett (Senior Thesis, May 1994).
- Lisi Anne Neff, “Mathematical and Graphical Investigation of a Complex-Variable Description of Electrostatic and Magnetostatic Fields,” Advisor: Everett Larson (Honors Thesis, November 1994).
- Matthew Neil Rasband, “Motsa Optimization Using Vascular Phantoms,” Advisor: William Dibble (Honors Thesis, April 1994).
- Shawn Young, “Searching for Asymptotically Flat Metrics in Cylindrical Coordinates,” Advisor: Kent Harrison (Senior Thesis, May 1994).
1993
- Christian Y. Cardall, “Extraction of Dynamical Equations from Chaoitic Data,” Advisor: Neil Rasband (Honors Thesis, July 1993).
1992
- Branton Campbell, “Pulsed Nuclear Magneitic Resonance Study of (NH4)2(SO4)3,” Advisor: Harold Stokes (Senior Thesis, May 1992).
- Richard Clawson, “Analysis of New Family of Vacuum Solutions of the Equations of General Relativity,” Advisor: Kent Harrison (Senior Thesis, May 1992).
- Evan D. Hansen, “High Purity Crystalline Silicon,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Honors Thesis, April 1992).
- Nathan Rhead Hilton, “Characterization of Multilayers Using a Scanning Probe Microscope,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Honors Thesis, May 1992).
- Mont A. Johnson, “Simulation of a Simplified Violin Via Computer,” Advisor: William Strong (Senior Thesis, April 1992).
1991
- Eric W. Hirschmann, “The Behavior of Electromagnetic Precursors in Dielectric Media,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Honors Thesis, June 1991).
1990
- Stephen M. Setzer, “M Giant Space Density in the MF17 Region,” Advisor: Clark Christensen (Honors Thesis, July 1990).