Agenda RSPS 2021 : News & Events : Department of Physics and Astronomy : University of Rochester

Agenda RSPS 2021

9:00 AM	The Effects of Multiscatter Dark Matter Capture and Evaporation on the Evolution of Population III Stars Ian K. Bania, Colgate University
9:15 AM	Constraining Dark Matter Properties with Population III Stars Cosmin Ilie, Caleb Levy, Jacob Pilawa, and Saiyang Zhang, Colgate University
9:30 AM	Neutron Stars in the Braneworld: The Role of the Nuclear Equation of State and the Brane Tension Rebecca Coglianese, Manhattan College
9:45 AM	Photometry and Imaging of Asteroid Vanessa Havens, Siena College
10:00 AM	Deblending Merging Galaxies using SCARLET Ashley Martsen, Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Michael Lam, Fred Moolekamp, RIT, RIT, RIT, Princeton
10:15 AM	The Effect of Stellar Velocity on Dark Matter Capture Rates of Population III Stars Jillian Paulin, Cosmin Ilie, Colgate University

9:00 AM	LCLS-II Photoinjector Optimization Using Measured Transverse Laser Profiles Lucas Berens (1,2), Nicole Neveu (1), Lipi Gupta (1,3), 1: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2: Rochester Institute of Technology, 3: University of Chicago
9:15 AM	Autonomous Arduino-Based Wetlands Sensor Brandon Parks, Rachel Schultz, SUNY Brockport
9:30 AM	Gaussian Process for Anomaly Detection in Particle Accelerators Yue Wang, University of Rochester, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
9:45 AM	Local Positioning System using Chip Scale Atomic Clocks (CSACs) Aaron Flowers, George Zhang, Saleem Ali, Dr. Paula Fekete, United States Military Academy
10:00 AM	Modeling Gamma Calibration Sources and Designing a Single Phase Time Projection Chamber in the Noble Element Simulation Technique Grant Block, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
10:15 AM	Detecting Neutrino Signals from Supernovae in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory Navya Uberoi, University of Rochester

Using REBOUND to simulate the orbit of asteroid 2010 TK7
Fred Genier, Mark Rosenberry, Graziano Vernizzi, Siena College

(Zoom Rm: Poster #1)

(Zoom Rm: Poster #2)

Heavy Neutral Particle Search in MINERvA
Dyson Kennedy, Jacob Smith, University of Rochester, on Behalf of the MINERvA Collaboration

(Zoom Rm: Poster Rm #3)

Using Machine Learning to Develop a Transient Identification Pipeline for DESI
Amanda Wasserman, Vashisth Tiwari, Segev BenZvi, University of Rochester, for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

(Zoom Rm: Poster #6)

Lightcurve Analysis of Minor Planet
CDT Jacob Willis, United States Military Academy

(Zoom Rm: Poster #7)

Field-controlled transport of Dirac particles with elliptical dispersion
George Zhang, Dr. Paula Fekete, Dr. Andrii Iurov, Dr. Godfrey Gumbs, United States Military Academy

(Zoom Rm: Poster #8)

11:30 AM	Develop Augmented Reality Tools for Teaching Physics & Chemistry Concepts Justin Marotta, Natalie Stagnitti, Siena College
11:45 AM	Effects of Gravitational Time Dilation during Balloon Satellite Flights with Chip Scale Atomic Clocks George Zhang, Aaron Flowers, Saleem Ali, Dr. Paula Fekete, United States Military Academy
12:00 PM	A Photonic Electro-Optic Circuit for On-Chip Quantum Frequency Processing Benjamin Nussbaum, University of Rochester
12:15 PM	A Quantum Measurement Driven Engine and the Demon's Arrow of Time Andrew N. Jordan, Sreenath K. Manikandan, Kagan Yanik, University of Rochester

11:30 AM	Free-Standing Membrane Formed of Nanoplatelet Translocation in MoS2 for Nanopore Sensing Vincent Meunier, David Clymer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Northeastern University
11:45 AM	Modeling Heat Flow Through Insulation Colin Dixon, Colgate University
12:00 PM	Deciphering Hidden Text in Historical Manuscripts: Multispectral vs. Hyperspectral Imaging Abby Lupi, Tania Kleynhans, David Messinger, Rochester Institute of Technology
12:15 PM	The A.R.M:A Customizable Myoelectric Prosthesis Blyden Nartey, Siena College
12:30PM	Boltzmann entropy for decision tree algorithms Daniel Whinnery, Siena College

1:15 PM	Analysis of Electron Density Modifications During Vitamin D Absorption. Keontré I. Hughes, Colgate University
1:30 PM	Learning in Spiking Josephson Junction Neural Networks Jack Tregidga, Colgate University
1:45 PM	Studying Spin Noise in 1D Nanowires Using Quantum State Diffusion ChanJu (Zoe) You, Colgate University
2:00 PM	Terahertz Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes Rishi Lohar, Colgate University
2:15 PM	Femtosecond Carrier Relaxation and Coherent Acoustic Phonon Generation in Bi2Se3 Nanolayers Charles Chimera, Jing Cheng, Peter Francis, University of Rochester
2:30 PM	Creating a Cost-Efficient Ionization Chamber Aroon Pressram, Siena College

1:15 PM	Evaluating the BAO signal through CenterFinder Chad Popik, University of Rochester
1:30 PM	Exploring the Distribution of the Intergalactic Medium Gas 11 billion Years Ago Joshua Ratajczak, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Regina Demina, Zachery Brown, Gebri Mishtaku, University of Rochester
1:45 PM	Decomposition of Galaxy Rotation Curves Yifan Zhang, University of Rochester
2:00 PM	CaII Absorption in Quasar Fields Stella Van Ness, SUNY Brockport
2:15 PM	Detection of a Disk Surrounding the Variably Accreting Young Star HBC722 Xi Yek (Zach), SUNY at Fredonia
2:30 PM	The Effects of Decaying Dark Matter at Early Times on The Hubble Constant John Yevoli, Manhattan College