Recent Senior Theses

Adam Burnett
Senior Thesis: Testing Theories of Aural Radio Emissions With Direction-of-Arrival Measurements
Advisor: James LaBelle

Krishan Canzius
Senior Thesis: Entanglement Metrcis in Quantum Spin Chains
Advisor: Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

Emily Golitzin
Senior Thesis: Follow-up on a Swift/BAT Detected Seyfert II: Gas Ionization, Kinematics and the Spectral Energy Distribution of SWIFT J0446.4 + 1828
Advisor: Ryan Hickox

Raphael Hviding
Senior Thesis: Understanding the Galactic Scale Effect of AGN with Fabry-Perot Spectroscopy from SALT
Advisor: Ryan Hickox

Alana Juric
Senior Thesis: Studying the Space Weather of Exoplanets in Binary Star Systems
Advisor: Hans Mueller

Chenguant Li
Senior Thesis: Memory Reactivation in Neural Networks
Advisor: Alex Rimberg

Katherine Mentzer
Senior Thesis: Extracting Density-Density Correlations From Quantum Degenerate Gases
Advisor: Kevin Wright

Saba Nejad
Senior Thesis: Does Gravity Enforce Macrorealism
Advisor: Miles Blencowe

Andrew Sun
Senior Thesis: Time-Dependent Simulation of Neutral Helium in the Heliosphere
Advisor: Hans Mueller

Douglas Tallmadge
Senior Thesis: Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion as an Undergraduate Laboratory
Advisor: Robyn Millan

William Tremml
Senior Thesis: Methods of Approximating Divergence-Free Vector Fields for Ionospheric Data
Advisor: Kristina Lynch

Kent Ueno
Senior Thesis: Entanglement Spectra of Engineered NMR Spin Hamiltonians
Advisor: Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

Erik Weis
Senior Thesis: Benchmarking Quantum Computers Using Electronic Structure Algorithms
Advisor: James Whitfield

Anne Woronecki
Senior Thesis: Optical Trapping and Transportation of an Ultracold Cloud Using a Focus Tunable Lens
Advisor: Kevin Wright

Lucas Bezerra​
Senior Thesis: Fast Wavefront Characterization of Optical Traps for Quantum Gases
Advisor: Kevin Wright

Pawan Dhakal​
Senior Thesis: High Precision Helium Spectroscopy and Quantum Gravity Effects
Advisor: Roberto Onofrio

Oscar Friedman​
Senior Thesis: Time Evolution of the Wigner Flow Function
Advisor: Miles Blencowe

Muhammad Kiani​
Senior Thesis: Fabrication and Characterization of Graphene Devices
Advisor: Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

Luis Martinez​
Senior Thesis: Bubbles in My Scalar Field Soup: A Study on Oscillons in Cosmology
Advisor: Mercelo Gleiser

Jonathan Vandermause​
Senior Thesis: Characterization and Control of Nuclear Spin Systems
Advisor: Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

Kathryn Waychoff​
Senior Thesis: Zonal Wind Variability of the Jovian Planets
Advisor: Robyn Millan

Laurel Anderson
Senior Thesis: Experimental Control of Spin Chain Dynamics
Advisor: Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

Todd Anderson
Senior Thesis: Orbital Dynamics Model of a CubeSat Swarm Under Aerodynamic Torque in LEO
Advisor: Kristina Lynch

Spencer Diamond
Senior Thesis: Plasma Etch Characterization for Use in Cavity Optomechancis Experiment
Advisor: Alex Rimberg

Peter Horak
Senior Thesis: Attitude Estimation for Rocket-Borne Sensorcraft
Advisor: Kristina Lynch

Sarah Pasternak
Senior Thesis: Design and Early Verification of an Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance (EDMR) System
Advisor: Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

Nathan Utterback
Senior Thesis: Kinematic Modeling and Analysis of the Galactic Supernova Remnant 3C58 (G130.7 + 3.1)
Advisor: Robert Fesen

Michael Chilcote
Senior Thesis: Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Ionospheric Sounding Using AM Radio
Advisor: James LaBelle

Aryeh Drager
Senior Thesis: Using Multimedia Pre-Lecture Assignments to Improve the Introductory Physics Experience
Advisor: Robyn Millan

Emily DeBaun
Senior Thesis: Nonlinear Dynamics of a Biological Cell in a Uniform Electric Field
Advisor: Miles Blencowe

Nicholas Knezek
Senior Thesis: An Analysis of Energetic Oxygen Interaction with Europe in the Jovian Magnetosphere
Advisor: Robyn Millan

Amanda Slagle
Senior Thesis: Vector Field Mapping and Analysis Using Finite Sensor Swarms
Advisor: Kristina Lynch

Ian Boneysteele
Senior Thesis: Delta Pion Channels
Advisor: Timothy Smith

Laura DeLorenzo
Senior Thesis: The Non-Linear Dynamics of a DC Voltage Biased Microwave Cavity With An Embedded Josephson Junction
Advisor: Miles Blencowe

Ian Hayes
Senior Thesis: Microwave Resonators for the Study Of the Quantum-To-Classical Transition
Advisor: Alex Rimberg

Umair Siddiqui
Senior Thesis: Design, Calibration and Use of a Collimated Electron Source for Plasma Sheath Studies
Advisor: Kristina Lynch