Twenty three undergraduate physics and engineering physics majors participated in this summer's 10-week long Physics Undergraduate Research Program. Yesterday they discussed their research projects with faculty and other students during a poster session hosted by the Physics Undergraduate Studies Office. 

Participants:

• Danielle Bingman, Delving in to Nucleosome Accessibility under the Regulation of Linker Histone Protein H1.0
• Chaosong Chen, Jet Algorithms Validation and Software Development in Search for New Physics with Two Higgs Bosons
• Noah Donald, Phase Transitions in Quantum Spin Liquids: Anisotropic Kitaev Honeycomb Model in a Magnetic Field
• Michael Ferrarelli, Charge Motion in Quantum Spin Liquids
• Boyu Gao, Constraining Dark Matter
• Jiasheng He, Density Distribution of Dark Matter Subhaloes
• Nathan Lachner, Toward Construction of a Tip and Sample Preparation Chamber
• Luca Lavezzo, Data Analysis for MilliQan Experiment
• Connor Luellen, Development of Scanned Probe Magnetic Imaging Using NV Centers in Diamond
• Brandon Manley, Data Analysis for MilliQan Experiment
• Joey Masters, Thin Exfoliated Films of Layered Materials
• Sahar Nikkah, Digital Intensity Interferometry
• Emily Osborne, Hydrodynamic Differentiation of Magnetic Microswimmer Trajectories
• Feng Qian, Linear Optical Quantum Circuit for Performing the Quantum Fourier Transform
• Cade Sbrocco, Simulation of Radar Technique for Neutrino Detection
• Ryo Shinohara, ATLAS Detector: Search for Long-Lived Z Boson
• Noah Smith, Hydrodynamics of Bacterial Surface Scattering
• Niko Stamos, Construction and Analysis of Vacuum Apparatus for Strong Field Simulation
• Jenna Thuma, Nucleosome Dynamics and Transcription of Factor Binding in the Presence of Unmodified PTM H1.2
• Clark Van Lieshout, Galaxy Bias in DES Y1
• Connor Winter, Developing a 1Hz Thomson Parabola Spectrometer
• Zhenyu Wu, Signal Monte Carlo Generation and Validation in Search for New Physics with Two Higgs Bosons
• Christian Zupan, Study of Plasmonic Interactions Using DNA Origami-Nanoparticle Composites in an Optical Tweezers Setup
   

Thank you to the judges:

• John Beacom
• Antonio Boveia
• Amy Connolly
• Jack Elvin-Poole
• Lou DiMauro
• Jay Gupta
• Chris Hammel
• Kevin Ingles
• Harris Kagan
• Kelly Luo
• Nicholas Marco
• Christopher Pierce
• Michael Poirier
• Steven Prohira
• Nandini Trivedi
• Hiran Wijesinghe
• Gabriel Vasquez
   

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

• Robert P. Caren Family Endowment Fund
• The Captain Forrest R. Biard Undergraduate Research Scholarship Fund in Physics
• The Bunny C. Clark Student Support Fund
• James L. Smith Student Support Fund

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