Recent Undergraduate 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:

2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994

2005

• 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

2004

• 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

2003

• 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

2002

• 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

2001

• Dips in the X-ray Intensity of Cygnus X-1; Mark Ertmer, Advisor: Cui

2000

• 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

1999

• 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

1998

• 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

1997

• 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

1996

• Supergravity Gravitino Contributions Newton's Law of Gravity; Ed Warnicke, Advisor: Clark

1995

• 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

1994

• Radiation Hardness Tests of Microstrip Gas Chambers for The Large Hadron Collider; Brian Connelly, Advisor: Shipsey