Rochester Symposium for Physics Students
PROGRAM
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM: Registration and poster setup (B&L LOBBY)
8:30 AM: Welcome (B&L 109)
Prof. Frank Wolfs, University of Rochester.
8:45 am – 10:00 am: Session IA. optics, quantum optics, and quantum mechanics (B&L 109)
8:45 Polarization of Iridescent Shells
Carrie Burgess, Colgate University
9:00 Spatial Mode Encoding of Photons Using Spatial Light Modulators
Xinru Cheng, Colgate University
9:15 Using a Spatial Light Modulator to Create Poincare Laser Beam Patterns
Brett L. Rojec, Colgate University
9:30 Frequency-Stabilized External-Cavity Diode Lasers for an Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory Magneto-optical Trap
Peter Heuer, Maitreyi Jayaseelan, Justin T. Schultz, Marek Haruza, Azure Hansen, and Nicholas P. Bigelow, University of Rochester
9:45 Oscillations in Classical and Quantum Mechanics
Philippe Lewalle, Shantanu Agarwal, and Prof. Joseph Eberly, University of Rochester
8:45 am – 10:00 am: Session IB. instrumentation (B&L 106)
8:45 Refurbishment of the Houghton College Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM)
Mark Spencer and Brandon Hoffman, Department of Physics, Houghton College
9:00 Designing the Trigger Monitor for the LUX Dark Matter Detector
Brian Degner, Eryk Druszkiewicz, and Frank Wolfs, University of Rochester
9:15 Exploring the Capabilities of the Houghton College Cyclotron
Nicholas Fuller, Sylvia Morrow, and Mark Yuly, Department of Physics, Houghton College
9:30 Low activity Mössbauer Sources for Undergraduate Labs
Keith Mann, Emily Morrow, and Mark Yuly, Department of Physics, Houghton College
9:45 Laser Target Position Determination From Digital X Ray Images
Erini Lambrides, University of Rochester
10:00 am – 10:30 AM: session II. Poster session (LOBBY)
Construction of an Optical Tweezer Apparatus
Pavel Aprelev and Chad Orzel, Union College
Measuring the incidence of LIRGs among blue EDisCS Cluster Galaxies
Alissa Earle and Dr. Rose Finn, Siena College
Study of Electrodeposition of Bi-Fe-O Thin Films
N. F. Prestes*', H. F. Jurca', W. H. Schreiner', and D. H. Mosca', ' Federal University of Parana, * Vassar College
Testing the use of GPUs to calculate the two-point angular correlation function
Christopher Godfrey and Matthew Bellis, Siena College
Proof of Principle for Positioning System for Outdoor Robotics Applications
Sheila Hanna, Renee Bourgeois, and Dr. Michele McColgan, Siena College
Measuring the Cross Section for the 12C(n, 2n)11C Reaction in the 20-30 MeV Energy Interval
Garrett Hartshaw, Keith Mann, Tyler Reynolds and Mark Yuly, Stephen Padalino, Danae Polsin, Megan Russ, Michael Krieger, Collin Stillman, Angela Simone, Mollie Bienstock, and Drew Ellison, and Craig Sangster, Houghton College, SUNY Geneseo, and the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester
The Incidence of Dust-Obscured Star Formation in Nearby Galaxy Clusters
Amy McCann, John Moustakas, and Rose Finn, Siena College
Single-emitter fluorescence in nanostructures for single-photon source applications
Dilyana Mihaylova, Justin Winkler, Svetlana Lukishova, and Zhimin Shi, University of Rochester
The Transverse Doppler Effect: A Possible Undergraduate Lab to Demonstrate Relativity
Emily Morrow, Keith Mann, and Mark Yuly, Department of Physics, Houghton College
Examining Parity Violation in Beta Decay using Gamma Ray Polarization
David Richards and Mark Yuly, Department of Physics, Houghton College
On the Perturbative Solution of Functional Differential Equations
Thaddeus Savery and Graziano Vernizzi, Siena College
A Monte Carlo Algorithm for Predicting RNA Secondary Structure
Aaron van Dyne and David Mathews, Roberts Wesleyan College and the University of Rochester
A Yb:KGd(WO4)2 Femtosecond Oscillator for Non-Linear Microscopy Applications
Justin Verde, Col. Kraig, and E. Sheetz, United States Military Academy, West Point
10:30 am – 11:30 am: Session IIIA. Biological and medical physics (B&L 109)
10:30 Establishing institution-specific action levels for EPID-based QA for IMRT at the URMC
A Saldan, D Rosenzweig, A Gray, R Meiler, D Clark, R Abu-Aita, M Schell, and D Cavanaugh, University of Rochester
10:45 Hole Transport in DNA: Part I
Alexander J. Breindel, Rachel E. Stuart, William J. Bock, David N. Stetler, Shane M. Kravec, and Esther M. Conwell, University of Rochester
11:00 Hole Transport in DNA: Part II
Alexander J. Breindel, Rachel E. Stuart, William J. Bock, David N. Stelter, Shane M. Kravec, and Esther M. Conwell, University of Rochester
11:15 Simulating Dynamics of Coupled Josephson Junction Neurons
Siyang Guo, Colgate University
10:30 am – 11:30 am: Session IIIB. condensed matter and solid state physics I (B&L 106)
10:30 Frequency Synchronization and Non-Linear Dynamics in Josephson Junction Arrays
Matthew Brunetti, Colgate University
10:45 Fluxon Tunneling in Josephson Junction Arrays
Ryan Freeman, Colgate University
11:00 Rate constants of lithium molecules
Colleen Kelleher, Siena College
11:15 Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements
Kyle Conine, SUNY Brockport
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Lunch (Meliora, Ballroom)
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Physics Jeopardy (B&L 109)
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm: Session IVA. astrophysics (B&L 109)
1:30 A Search for Rapid Emission Line Variations in Quasars from the SDSS
Stephanie Hathaway and Dr. Eric Monier, SUNY Brockport
1:45 The Firefly CubSat: Mission and Scientific Motivation
Lindsay McTague, Dr. Allan Weatherwax, and Dr. Matthew Bellis, Siena College, NASA GSFC
2:00 Visual Analysis of Models of the Inflation Field Potential
Mark Sullivan and Evan Halstead, Union College
2:15 Dielectric Material for a Radar Calibration Satellite
William Schmidt, Justin Vonsik, and Joshua Wilson, United States Military Academy, West Point and MIT Lincoln Laboratory
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm: Session IVB. High energy and particle astrophysics (B&L 106)
1:30 The Evolution of Time Dependent Non-asymptotically Flat Branes
Taylor Piccarreto, SUNY College at Cortland
1:45 Search for Dirac Monopoles with the CDF II Detector
Nicolas Cothard, Jonathan Lewis, Homer Wolfe, and Daniel Golden, University of Rochester, FNAL, The Ohio State University
2:00 Extracting Muon Momentum Scale Corrections for Hadron Collider Experiments
Aaron van Dyne, Arie Bodek, Willis Sakumoto, and Jiyeon Han, Roberts Wesleyan College and the University of Rochester
2:15 Building a Computer Cluster in Order to Simulate Dark Matter Interactions in Parallel
Colin Lauer and Christopher Wells, Department of Physics, Houghton College
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm: Session IVC. condensed matter and solid state physics II (B&L 407)
1:30 An Evaporation Deposition System for the In-Situ Study of Thin Metal Films
Joshua Mertzlufft and Brandon Hoffman, Department of Physics, Houghton College
1:45 The Design and Construction of an Interferometer System for the Study of Thin Metal Films
Tyler Reynolds and Brandon Hoffman, Department of Physics, Houghton College
2:00 Vacuum Deposition and Characterization of Thin Indium Films
Jeremy Mehta, SUNY Brockport