Student Thesis Archive

2020s

Britton, Darcey, “Measuring faceted grain boundary motion,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2025).

Manwaring, Tanner, “Cost-effective multi-dimensional imaging of terahertz pulses via compact cameras,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2024).

Belot, Josh, “Machine Learning Predictions of Curie Temperatures,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, May 2023).

Cvetko, Luke, “Filling in the Blanks for the Unit Cell of Hafnium-Doped Nitinol,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2022).
Spendlove, Jay, “Connecting Local Grain Boundary Structure to Grain Boundary Interfacial Energy with Machine Learning,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2022).

Lowe, Melanie, “Introduction to Nested Sampling,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Dec 2020).
Foulk, Nate, “Two-Dimensional Integration of Electronic Bands through Quadratic Interpolation,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Aug 2020).
Bekker, Brayden, “Machine-Learned Interatomic Potential for Superalloy Discovery,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Jun 2020).
Hamilton, Parker, “Computed Phase Diagrams for Superalloys Using Nested Sampling,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2020).
Christensen, John, “Brillouin Zone Reduction for Band Structure Integration,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2020).
Hensley, Derek, “Mapping Grain Boundary Metastable Sates with Unsupervised Learning,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2020).

Nyshadham, Chandramouli, “Materials Prediction Using High-Throughput and Machine Learning Techniques,” Advisor: Gus Hart (PhD Dissertation, Dec 2019).
Morgan, Wiley Spencer, “Using Symmetry to Accelerate Materials Discovery,” Advisor: Gus Hart (PhD Dissertation, Apr 2019).

Rosenbrock, Conrad Waldhar, “Machine Learning to Discover and Optimize Materials,” Advisor: Gus Hart (PhD Dissertation, Dec 2017).
Hansen, Jake, “Hullq and the search for new superalloys,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Capstone, Jul 2017).

Morgan, Wiley Spencer, “Increasing the Computational Efficiency of Combinatoric Searches,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Masters Thesis, Dec 2016).
Ostrom, Derek, “Practicality of using the Wang-Landau algorithm to model real alloys,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2016).
Burbidge, Matt, “Investigating Integration Schemes in First Principles Materials Modeling,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2016).
Hart, Spencer, “Improving Material Simulation Efficiency by Improving Interpolation Schemes,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2016).

Gilmartin, Erin, “Unexpected Occurrences of the Pt8Ti Structure,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Dec 2013).
Nelson, Lance Jacob, “Cluster Expansion Models Via Bayesian Compressive Sensing,” Advisor: Gus Hart (PhD Dissertation, May 2013).

Taylor II, Richard Hansen, “Prediction and Study of Binary Alloys Using First-Principles Methods,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Masters Thesis, Aug 2010).
Gilmartin, Erin, “,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2010).

Argyle, Bronson, “Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Of Financial Data,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Honors Thesis, Aug 2008).
Harrison, John, “Correlations Of Coupled Logistic Maps,” Advisor: Gus Hart (Senior Thesis, Apr 2008).