Fourteen undergraduate physics and engineering physics majors participated in this summer's 10-week long Physics Undergraduate Research Program. On July 16 they shared their research projects with faculty, graduate students, post-docs, and other undergraduate students during a poster session hosted by the Physics Undergraduate Studies Office. 

Participants:

• Jacob Balek, working with Dr. Antonio Boveia, presented Projections for the HL-LHC at CERN for Trigger-Level Photon + Dijet
• Thanadis (Nill) Charoenrujijin, working with Dr. Annika Peter, presented Analytic Evaluation of SIDM
• Kara Diludovico, working with Dr. Chris Hirata, presented Creating a Simulated Image for Subpixel Response on the Roman Space Telescope
• Sabrina Henige, working with Dr. Geraldine Cochran, presented The Five "Game Moves" of Social Moderation in Analyzing Qualitative Research Data
• Michael Hill, working with Dr. Robert Baker, presented A Balanced Approach to Modeling Defect Stats in Cu₂O
• Dimitri King, working with Dr. Kevin Singh, presented Holographic Trapping of Neutral Atoms
• Haotian Lou, working with Dr. Lou DiMauro, presented Development of Electro-Optic Sampling Device
• Olivia Manger, working with Dr. Daniel Brandenberg, presented Mock Analysis of J/psi -> e+e- in p+p collisions at √snn = 510 GeV with the STAR Forward Upgrade
• Brickelle Rahmaan Bixler, working with Dr. Michael Poirier, presented Optimizing Buffer Conditions for DNA Origami Free Energy Force Spectrometer
• Aatmaj Rajesh, working with Dr. Jeanie Lau, presented Patterned Piezoelectric Architectures for Strain Engineering in 2D Materials
• Ayden Rinaldi, working with Dr. Mike Chini, presented Interferometric FROG Using Third-Order Nonlinearity
• John Scott, working with Dr. Mike Lisa, presented Observations of Alpha Virginis with Stellar Intensity Interferometry
• Aditi Sinha, working with Dr. Roland Kawakami, presented Growing Superconducting Thin Films for Spintronics Applications
• Zhan Yang, working with Dr. Sasha Landsman, presented Rydberg State Formation in Strong-Field Ionization
   

Thank you to the judges:

• Rob Claassen
• Andrew Engel
• Antony Fahmy
• Inhee Lee
• Allison Lucas
• Cara Nel
• Barnik Pal
• Ann-Kathrin Raab
• Suriyaa Valliapan Ramanathan
• Alan Salcedo Gomez
• Suthanth Srinivasan
• Brian Winer
   

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

• Alpheus W. and Adah B. Smith Endowment Fund in Physics
• The Bunny C. Clark Student Support Fund
• Captain Forrest R Biard Undergraduate Research Scholarship Fund in Physics
• Dr. David C. DeMartini Endowed Fund in Physics
• Harold McMaster Scholarship Fund in Physics
• Hazel S. Brown Scholarship and Fellowship
• Jack C. and Charlotte D. Smith Scholarship Fund
• Tanaka Physics Scholarship

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