Undergraduate Physics Research
All undergraduate physics majors are encouraged, regardless of their degree program, to participate in an individual research project supervised by a faculty member. Honors Physics Majors are required to participate. This normally occurs in their senior year, registered under PHYS593. Below are some synopses of recent undergraduate physics research at Purdue:
Recent Undergraduate Research:
| 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 |
· Interraction between electric current and magentic domain; Jeff Fitzgerald, Advisor: Hu
· Polarization Calibration of Radio Interferometric Data; Kevin O'Brien, Advisor: Lister
· Sources of Bias in Time-of-Flight Measurements; Riei Ishizeki, Advisor: Jones
· Experimental design to measure the hydrogen momentum distribution function in metals; Matt Marziale, Advisor: Koltick
· Nonlinear spin waves of stripe phases; Paris Miles-Brenden, Advisor: Carlson
· Enhancment of protein crystal growth using lasers; John R. Schaibley IV, Advisors: W.A. Cramer (Bilogical Sciences) and Savikhin
· Collisional Energy Loss of High Energy Particles; Margaret Stewart, Advisor: Wang
· Origin of Absorption Dips in the X-ray Pulsar GX 1+4; Krystal Tyler, Advisor: Cui
· A detection system sensitive to radiation in water; Elvira Aaron, Advisor: Koltick
· Modeling Helical Jets; Michael Herman, Advisor: Lister
· Development of novel gas detectors for particle physics; Brandon Hogan, Advisor: Shipsey
· Development of novel gas detectors for particle physics; Andy Irrgang, Advisor: Shipsey
· Large-Scale Jet Structures in Blazars; Martin Kochanczyk, Advisor: Lister
· Spin Waves in Stripe Ordered Phases of Doped Antiferromagnets; Paris Miles-Brenden, Advisor: Carlson
· Neutron interrogation of Biological materials; Travis Dirks, Advisor: Koltick
· Modeling X-ray Spectra of the Microquasar GRS 1915+105; Travis Dirks, Advisor: Cui
· Modeling Helical Jets; Michael Herman, Advisor: Lister
· Jet Kinematics of the Quasar OQ 208; Martin Kochanczyk, Advisor: Lister
· Development of novel gas detectors for particle physics; Justin May, Advisor: Shipsey
· Limits on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions; Jeff Myer, Advisor: Koltick
· A detector to differentiate fast neutron, slow neutrons and gamma rays; Kenny Wakeland, Advisor: Koltick
· A high speed VME Data Acquisition System; Craig Wenger, Advisor: Koltick
· Quantum mechanics with time dependent boundary conditions; Stephen Hoover, Advisor: Love
· Development of novel gas detectors for particle physics; Steve Kane, Advisor: Shipsey
· Analysis of Data from RXTE Observations of the Black Hole XTE J1118+480; Anthony Nettleton, Advisor: Cui
· Dips in the X-ray Intensity of Cygnus X-1; Mark Ertmer, Advisor: Cui
· Writing Into Quantum Memory; Michael Crogan, Advisor: Khlebnikov
· Path Integral Formulation of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theories: Symmetries, Renormalization and Models; Martin Madsen, Advisor: Clark
· Path Integral Formulation of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum field Theories: Symmetries, Renormalization and Models; Sean Nowling, Advisor: Clark
· Gas Absorption on Nanoparticles at High Pressure; Ryan Prenger, Advisor: Koltick
· Development of Synthetic Diamond for Structural Support of Silicon Sensors in the Silicon Tracker for CLEO III; Eric Reber, Advisor: Shipsey
· Radiation Hardness Tests of Multi Gas Electron Multipliers for the Large Hadron Collider; Robert Hill, Advisor: Shipsey
· Raman Spectra of Silicon Carbide; Kevin Holman, Advisor: Ramdas
· The CDF Hadronic Endplug Calorimeter Upgrade Project: radioactive source responses of all scintillating tiles; Jonathan Smith, Advisor: Barnes
· The simulation of silicon micro-pixel particle detectors; Anthony Bollinger, Advisor: Bortoletto
· Suitability of a Multi Channel Photomultiplier in the All Sky Low Energy Gamma-Ray Observatory (ALLEGRO); Peter Duselis, Advisor: Finley
· Swinging Atwood Machine;
Ben Haley, Advisor: Haugan
· The Correlation of Optical, intensities in Markarian 421; J. L. Jensen, Advisors: Finley and Lessard
· CMS Endcap Muon System Long Term Resolution Tests of Max Planck Institute Transparent Amorphous Silicon Optical Beam Position Sensors in a Multi Sensor Straight Line Monitor; Robert Lee, Advisor: Eartly
· Photorefractive Effects in Germanium; Ben MacCall, Advisor: Nolte
· Optical Nonlinearities of Coffee Studied By Four-Wave Mixing Techniques as a Preliminary Measurement for Protein Folding Study; Peter T. Rakich; Advisor: Nolte
· CLEO III Silicon Tracker (Si3) Thermal Management Calculations and Measurements; Derek Tournear, Advisor: Shipsey
· The CDF Hadronic Endplug Calorimeter Upgrade Project: calibrations using moving radioactive sources; Matthew Wilson, Advisor: Barnes
· Silicon Avalanche Diodes for a Time of Flight Detector; Ozgur Basaran, Advisor: Stringfellow
· Ablation Patterns on a Debris Covered Glaciar: Haut Glacier d'Arolla; Andrew Elmore, Advisors: Tubis and Harbor
· Fluid Flow in Small Structures; Greg Fiete, Advisor: Giordano
· Investigation of Silicon Avalanche Diodes as Charged Particle Detectors; Bill Headley, Advisor: Scharenberg
· A Comparison of Surface Exposure. Ages in volcanic rhyolytes and andesites using different radioactive isotopes; Burke Minsley, Advisor: Elmore
· Cross Sections for a Variety of Nuclei; Leiph Preston, Advisor: Gutay
· Be X-ray Binary 2S0114+65=LSI+65 10; Rollin Thomas, Advisor: Finley
· X-Ray Imaging Optics;
Joon Yoon, Advisor: Durbin
· Supergravity Gravitino Contributions Newton's Law of Gravity; Ed Warnicke, Advisor: Clark
· Measurement of Signal Attenuation in a TPC; Amy Connelly, Advisor: Hirsch
· Optical Absorption by Silver Nanoparticles in AIGaAs; David Crouch, Advisor: Nolte
· Radiation Hardness Tests of Microstrip Gas Chambers for the Large Hadron Collider & FEA Studies of Mechanical Models of the Silicon Tracker for CLEO III ; Adam Degrush, Advisor: Shipsey
· Quantum Field Theory Matter Corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert Action with Cosmological Constant for External Gravitational Fields;
Anthony Roach, Advisor: Clark
· Radiation Hardness Tests of Microstrip Gas Chambers for The Large Hadron Collider; Brian Connelly, Advisor: Shipsey
