Senior Thesis Projects
A Senior Thesis is a way to document your independent research conducted while an undergraduate, leading to Graduation with Distinction in Physics . The research and writing is often undertaken during an Independent Study Course (PHY 226 or 227). The Thesis is defended before a group of faculty in a style similar to a M.S. or Ph.D. thesis defense. As of Fall of 1998, all students are required to post there Senior Thesis on our Web site.Senior Theses Listed by Year (Year Thesis Defended)
2008
- Caceres, Alejandro
- Frank, Alexander
- Herring, Christina
- Lester, Christopher
- Liska, Sebastian
- Sinthuprasith, Tutanon
- Staub, David
2007
2006
- Barton, John
- Bell, Kate
- Coppock, Joyce
- Corona, Thomas
- Daverman, Edward
- Kaldre, Ingrid
- Mehta, Abhijit
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
1999
- Beasley, Christopher
- Hurtgen, Clare
- Jackson, Mark
- Sensoy, Berk
(see paper appearing in Phys. Rev. D)
Senior Theses Listed by Name
- Ammons, Mark
- Barton, John
- Beasely, Christopher
- Bell, Kate
- Bierenbaum, Daniel
- Boschini, Fernando
- Bunn, Paul
- Caceres, Alejandro
- Chang, Daphne
- Clark, Susan
- Corona, Thomas
- Crawford, Bristol
- Czakon, Nicole
- Daverman, Edward
- Foster, David
- Foster, Jacob
- Frank, Alexander
- Harris, Margaret
- Herring, Christina
- Hurtgen, Clare
- Jackson, Mark
- Jacobs, Chandra
- Kaldre, Ingrid
- Keefe, Joseph
- Lester, Christopher
- Liska, Sebastian
- Mao, Albert
- Mehta, Abhijit
- Miller, Michael
- Neil, Ethan
- Ong, T. Tzen
- Sensoy, Berk
- Sinthuprasith, Tutanon
- Staub, David
- Strader, Jay
Senior Thesis Listed by Title
- An Analysis of the Viscosity of Quark-Gluon Plasma Produced from Heavy Ion Collisions
- Biophysical Investigation of Tissue Dynamics: Quantitative Modeling of Dorsal Closure in Myospheroid Mutant of Drosophila
- Body Vibrational Spectra of Metal Flute Models
- Characterization of a Rotational Shear Interferometer for Astronomical Purposes
- A Compact, Air-cooled Zeeman
Slower as a Cold Atom Source
- Design and Construction of an Improved Zeeman Slower
- Gravitational Lensing: Center of Light Curves For a Point Mass Lens System
- High-order Vibrational Wave Patterns in a Stadium-shaped Thin Metal Plate: An Analog Experimental System for Observation of Quantum Chaos Effects
- Holographic Modulation of a Pulsed UV Laser Microbeam for Biophysical Investigations of Tissue Dynamics
- Investigating T1 and T2 in Hyperpolarization
- Interference & Interaction Effects in Quantum Dots: Even-Odd Effect in Coulomb Blockade Peak Spacings
- Laser-Driven Polarized
Light-Nuclei Gas Targets
- Leg-pole Factor
Transformations in Two Dimensional String Theory
- Monte Carlo Simulation of an Atomic Interferometer
- Noise Exposure Associated with Marching Bands: measurements, assessments of risks, and possible solutions
- Null Geodesics and Holography
- Order of the Chiral Phase
Transition in the Absence of the Anomaly
- Patter Formation in a Conveting Fluid in an Annular Domain
- Physics with Two Time Dimensions
- Polarization Instabilities of Laser Beams Counterpropagating Through a Rubidium Vapor
- Rotational Shear Interferometry for Astronomical Imaging
- Search for Excited Muon Production Using the Dimuon + Photon Signature at CDF in Run II
- Search for Φ-N bound state from subthreshold production of Φ meson
- Simulation Tools for the 2KM
detector at the T2K Experiment
- Statistics of Disordered Wave Functions with Applications to Coulomb Blockade Peak Spacing
- Strangeness Production at RHIC from Cascading Partons
- A Structural Model of Genetic Regulatory Networks
- Superconformal Theories from Branes at Singularities
- Temperature Dependence of Dorsal Closure
- Variable Stars in the Core of the Globular Cluster M3
- Variable Stars in Globular Cluster M14
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