This level of participation in cutting-edge research by undergraduates is very impressive and demonstrates that OSU physics students are ambitious, passionate about the subject and very well prepared academically to hold their own in the nation’s best research centers. Some of their research has been presented at the undergraduate research symposium and SURE Science poster sessions. Students will continue to present research at seminars in the physics department throughout the year.<\/p>\n
Yousif Almulla<\/em><\/strong> participated in an REU (Research Expereicen for Undergraduaets) program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with Dr. Jacek Jakowski. He used density functional theory to understand how qubits work.<\/p>\n Hassan Alnatah<\/em><\/strong> developed a protocol with Bo Sun of OSU Physics to construct a 3D printed cell model based on confocal imaging.<\/p>\n Hazel Betz<\/strong><\/em> did an internship in the Fault Isolation and Failure Analysis Laboratory at Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon. She analyzed samples with a scanning electron microscope and designed to proof-of-concept experiments to improve device probing characteristics, and developed and documented procedures to improve the process.<\/p>\n Mirek Brandt<\/strong><\/em> received a fellowship to study at the Kupcinet-Getz International Science Summer School at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. During his eight weeks with Dr. Boaz Katz, he modeled the spectrum of type 1a supernova, given some arbitrary explosion model. The intent is to eventually test the supernova detonation models studied by Katz.\u00a0 Mirek highly recommends the program. He returned to OSU to take up his Goldwater Fellowship in the lab of Matt Graham in the Department of Physics. A very busy summer!<\/p>\n Katelyn Chase<\/em><\/strong> participated in an NSF-REU program at the University of Utah in the group of Michael Vershinin in the Physics and Astronomy Department.\u00a0 She studied the effect of Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) on the stability of kinesin-1 motor proteins as a function of temperature.<\/p>\n Aaron Dethlefs<\/em><\/strong> worked in Janet Tate\u2019s physics lab commissioning the new PPMS system in EECS for transport experiments on semiconductors.<\/p>\n Patrick Flynn<\/strong><\/em> solved partial differential equations with applications to bacteria migration, with Arnd Scheel in the Mathematics Department at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n Ian Founds<\/em><\/strong> studied students\u2019 use of the chain rule in thermodynamics with physics faculty Paul Emigh and Corinne Manogue of the Physics Education Research group. Founds presented his work at the PERC conference this summer.<\/p>\n Cassandra Hatcher<\/strong><\/em> had a SURE Science Fellowship to work with Davide Lazzati in the Department of Physics at OSU. She studied X-ray polarization from Compton scattering in asymmetric supernova remnants.<\/p>\n Garrett Jepson<\/em> <\/strong>worked in David Roundy\u2019s group in the OSU Physics Department. He evaluated a new Monte Carlo code written in rust for use in studying fluids.\u00a0 He also worked with physics professor Guenter Schneider using machine learning techniques to locate and identify cells in a cell microscopy image. He received a SURE Science award to support his work.<\/p>\n Ryan Lance<\/em><\/strong> developed a new analysis for optical spectroscopy of thin films in Janet Tate\u2019s lab in the Physics Department at OSU. He received an honorable mention for his presentation at the university’s Summer Undergraduate Research Conference. Ryan shows his award in the photo below.<\/p>\n Chris May<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0working in David Roundy\u2019s group, developed an improved code for studying the Weeks-Chandler-Anderson fluid.<\/p>\n Dublin Nichols<\/em><\/strong> is a College of Science SURE Science scholar. This summer, he built a microscope rig that enabled him to stack atomically thin crystals for further study. He worked in the lab of Ethan Minot in the Physics Department.<\/p>\n Gabriel Nowak<\/em><\/strong> had a Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) in the Atomic, Molecular, and Optical sciences group in the\u00a0Chemical Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He investigated laser-generated nanoparticle array formation and the dynamics of charge transfer in the process.<\/p>\n Jesse Rodriguez<\/em><\/strong> modeled plasmas in the lab of Mark Cappelli of Stanford\u2019s Mechanical Engineering Department.<\/p>\n Nikita Rozanov<\/em><\/strong> characterized the interaction between cytochrome c and 3-mercaptopropionoic acid (MPA) coated gold nanoparticles using molecular dynamics simulations. He worked under the supervision of research scientist Caley Allen in the group of Rigoberto Hernandez at the Johns Hopkins Department of Chemistry. This work was part of an NSF-REU at the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology.<\/p>\n Tanner Simpson<\/em> <\/strong>worked in David Roundy\u2019s group testing broad histogram Monte Carlo methods using the square well fluid. He presented his work at OSU\u2019s Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium.<\/p>\n Abe Teklu<\/em><\/strong> was part of a DOE-funded program at General Atomics in San Diego with mentor Richard Moyer. Abe analyzed divertor footprints in the DIII-D tokamak to determine whether computational models describe the divertor region accurately. Below is a picture of Abe (right) gathering data in the tokomak.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/files\/2017\/10\/Ryan_Lance_UG-Summer-Research-Symposium_2017_HM3-210x300.jpg\")
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