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Joseph Pincura | A Search for Echoes of Old Tidal Disruption Events

Joseph Pincura

Joseph Pincura presented “A Search for Echoes of Old Tidal Disruption Events” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Late Times Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are objects where the supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy disrupts and accretes a star […]

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April 10, 2017 at 7:06 pmResearch

Brandon Niese | Biophysics: Fabrication and Testing of Microconstriction Array Microfluidic Devices for Characterizing Cancer Cell Mechanical Properties

Brandon Niese

Brandon Niese ’19 presented “Biophysics: fabrication and testing of microconstriction array microfluidic devices for characterizing cancer cell mechanical properties” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference in March. Niese is an Engineering Physics major n the Honors Tutorial College. He worked in Dr. David Tees’ biophysics lab. […]

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April 10, 2017 at 7:01 pmResearch

Miles Lindquist | Optimization of Growth Process for As-grown 2D Materials-based Devices

Miles Lindquist

Miles Lindquist presented “Optimization of a growth process for as-grown 2D materials-based devices” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Working under the direction of Dr. Eric Stinaff, Lindquist has been using photolithog­raphy to produce metallic patterns. He grows single layer films which […]

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April 10, 2017 at 6:51 pmResearch

Jamison Lahman | The Structure of White Dwarfs

Jamison Lahman

Jamison Lahman presented “The Structure of White Dwarfs” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Lahman studied with Dr. Madappah Prakash during the summer and learned computational techniques required to solve non-trivial problems encountered in many branches of physics and astrophysics through several projects. […]

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April 10, 2017 at 6:45 pmResearch

Esther Grossman | Simulation of Glass Formation Near Covalently Grafted Nanoparticles

Esther Grossman | Simulation of Glass Formation Near Covalently Grafted Nanoparticles

Esther Grossman presented “Simulation of Glass Formation Near Covalently Grafted Nanoparticles” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Grossman was awarded an 11-week NSF-sponsored REU grant (Research Experience for Undergraduates). She worked with Professor David Simmons in the Department of Polymer Engineering at […]

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April 10, 2017 at 6:39 pmResearch

Taylor Gardner | Spatial Distributions of Type 1a Supernovae in Early-Type Galaxies

Taylor Gardner | Spatial Distributions of Type 1a Supernovae in Early-Type Galaxies

Taylor Gardner  presented “Spatial Distributions of Type 1a Supernovae in Early-Type Galaxies” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Gardner studied Type Ia supernovae under the direction of Dr. Ryan Chornock. Type Ia supernovae (also known as SNe Ia) are produced by the explosions of white […]

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April 10, 2017 at 6:34 pmResearch

Jack Bruno | Pulsed Laser Deposition

Jack Bruno

Jack Bruno presented “Pulsed Laser Deposition”at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Bruno worked in Dr. Arthur Smith’s lab and completed the setup of an exci­mer pulsed laser deposition system. After finishing the setup, Jack did the first tests of firing the laser […]

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April 10, 2017 at 6:27 pmResearch