On July 23, participants of the Department of Physics Undergraduate Research Program presented their research efforts and results during a poster session hosted by the OSU Consortium of Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences. The poster session took place on campus at the Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center.

Congratulations to our students!

Participants:

Aaron Bernys
Faculty mentor: Kaeli Hughes
Poster title: Classifying Blazar Candidates of Uncertain Type with Machine Learning

Jaansi Chaurasia
Faculty mentor: Zoya Vallari
Poster title: Mitigating Correlated Post-Trigger Hits (CPTH) in the 2x2 Demonstrator

Eling Cheng
Faculty mentor: Annika Peter
Poster title: Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies

Rocky Clites
Faculty mentor: Roland Kawakami
Poster title: Epitaxial Growth and Characterization of an Altermagnet / 2D Topological Insulator Heterostructure

Johnny Eschbach
Faculty mentor: Enam Chowdhury
Poster title: Machine learning optimization of diffraction efficiency and LIDT for MLD gratings for high intensity lasers

Gavin Finley
Faculty mentor: Nandini Trivedi
Poster title: Modeling Superconductivity with Disordered LC Networks

Sabrina Fortunak
Faculty mentor: Annika Peter
Poster title: Convergence Tests of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Simulations Using NSphere

Ryan Gabel
Faculty mentor: Len Brillson
Poster title: V2O5/LiPON Thin Film Battery Project

Yile Huang
Faculty mentor: Alexandra Landsman
Poster title: Sontrong Field Ionization with squeezed quantum light

Laurinda Lan
Faculty mentor: Klaus Honscheid
Poster title: AskDESI: A Local RAG Prototype for DESI Observatory Operations

Eli Lesman
Faculty mentor: Kevin Singh
Poster title: Frequency Stabilization of a 399nm Laser Using POLEAS or PS for Laser Cooling Ytterbium

Ethan Lu
Faculty mentor: Ilya Gruzberg
Poster title: Studying the Anderson Transition in the Quantum Hall effect through mapped models

Astrid Nystrom
Faculty mentor: Jeanie Lau
Poster title: An Examination of the Electronic Properties of Two Dimensional Materials

Aditya Patnaik
Faculty mentor: Alex von Hoegen
Poster title: Building a 2D THz Microscopy Setup

Aatmaj Rajesh
Faculty mentor: Brian Skinner
Poster title: Phases of a Transverse Field Ising Model on a Dual-Species Array

Maggie Ramsey
Faculty mentor: Mike Lisa
Poster title: An Analysis of Kappa Draco with Preliminary Measurements from VERITAS-SII

Natasha Roth
Faculty mentor: Richard Hughes
Poster title: Clustering Active Galactic Nuclei from Multiple Telescopes' Data with Machine Learning

Pranav Sakthi
Faculty mentor: Witold Matysiak (medical physics)
Poster title: Interactive 3D Proton Therapy Collision Simulation

Julie Scherzer
Faculty mentor: Daniel Brandenburg
Poster title: Exploring Quantum Entanglement and Nuclear Structure using Asymmetric Heavy Ion Collisions

Tom Snippert
Faculty mentor: John Beacom
Poster title: Analysis of the Milky Way Galaxy’s Circumgalactic Medium: Super-Virial Gas Found in its Outer Boundaries

Ollie Snow
Faculty mentor: Chris Hirata
Poster title: Modeling Thermal Emission Interference on the Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument

Shravan Sripadhanallur Natarajan
Faculty mentor: Richard Furnstahl
Poster title: Variational Perturbation Theory for Strongly Interacting Quantum Systems

Roxanne Tang
Faculty mentor: Mike Chini
Poster title: Modeling Mid-IR Compression Spectra with Drude-Lorentz Framework

Isabelle Tardivon
Faculty mentor: Brian Winer
Poster title: Multi-Wavelength Detection of AGN Anomalies using Machine Learning

Alice Todd
Faculty mentor: Antonio Boveia
Poster title: Can we select the resonance jets? A study in jet combinatorics using ML and kinematic selection criteria

Kenny Wong
Faculty mentor: Brian Skinner
Poster title: Percolation-type Phase Transition in the Inference of Spatial Genomics

Chentai Wu
Faculty mentor: Jeanie Lau
Poster title: Fabrication of Two-Dimensional Material Devices for Electrical Measurements

Chase Yang
Faculty mentor: Roland Kawakami
Poster title: Characterizing Epitaxial Thin-Film Growth for 2D Materials

Anthony Yuhos
Faculty mentor: Kaeli Hughes
Poster title: Bayesian Inference for Neutrino Direction Reconstruction in ANITA

Tilen Zupan
Faculty mentor: Kaeli Hughes 
Poster title: Search for High Energy Neutrinos

Program Funding:

A huge thank-you to the scholarship donors who make this program possible. 

• The Bunny C. Clark Student Support Fund
• Captain Forrest R Biard Undergraduate Research Scholarship Fund in Physics
• Robert P Caren Family Endowment Fund; DeMartini UG Research Fund
• Tanaka Physics Scholarship

Pictures from the event can be viewed on the OSU Physics Flickr page.