Recent PhD Projects

WHEN TO HOLD AND WHEN TO FOLD: STUDIES ON THE GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY OF LINKAGES AND ORIGAMI

QUANTUM CHAOS, INTEGRABILITY, AND HYDRODYNAMICS IN NONEQUILIBRIUM QUANTUM MATTER

PROGRESS TOWARDS HERALD AND RICOCHET: DETECTORS AT THE INTERFACE OF PARTICLE AND CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

TEV-SCALE LEPTON NUMBER VIOLATION: NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE BETA DECAY THE ORIGIN OF MATTTER, AND ENERGY FRONTIER PROBES

Deformations of Geometrically Frustrated Elastic Sheets

Reservoir Engineering of Multi-photon States in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

Quantum Field Theory in Nontrival Background and Particle Production

Symmetry-Breaking Effects in Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems

Filaments, Fibers and Foliations in Frustrated Soft Materials

Distortion Controlled Isotropic Swelling and Self Assembly of Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces

Search for Displaced Hadronic Vertices in the ATLAS Inner Detector and Muon Spectrometer in p-p Collisions at sqrt(s)=13 TeV at the LHC

Controlled Membrane Remodeling by Nanospheres and Nanorods, Experiments Targeting the Design Principles for Membrane Based Materials

Probing Quantized Exitations and Many-body correlations in Trasnition Metal Dichalcogenides with Optical Spectroscopy

Characterization of the Anomalous pH of Aqueous Nanoemulsions

Precise Control of 360-Degree Magnetic Doman-Wall Formation and the Properties in Geometrically Confined Nanowires

Characterization of the Motion of Cellulose Synthase Protein Complexes in the Plant Cell Membrane

Geometry, Growth and Pattern Formation in This Elastic Structures

Preparation, Mechanics and Structure of Sphere Packings near the Random Loose Packing Limit

Collider Tests of Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrino Properties

Alpha Radiation Studies and Related Backgrounds in the DarkSide-50 Detector

Antenna Enhanced Graphene Terahertz Emitter and Detector and Graphene Microwave Detector

Measured Capillary Forces on Spheres at Liquid Interfaces and the Mechanics of Interfacial Particulate Assemblies

Quantum Phase Transitions in Disordered Boson Systems

Production of Cosmological Observables During the Inflationary Epoch

Assembly of Particles Onto Rigid Cylinders and Flexible Membranes: Probing Effects of Surface Curvature and Deformation

Equilibrium Partitioning of Binary Polymer Mixtures into Biological Nanopores

Prospects For Infrared Quantum Gravity: From Cosmology to Black Holes.

Material and Morphological Effects in van der Waals Interactions.

Designing Active Granular Squares.

Morphology Of The Thin Sheets In the Lame Setup and Beyond.

STUDIES OF e+e- PAIR PHOTO-PRODUCTION ON PROTON TARGET AT 8 GEV IN THE GLUEX EXPERIMENT

Evaporation induced self-assembly and characterization of nanoparticulate films: a new route to bulk heterojunctions.

Validation of Argon From Underground Sources For Use In The Darkside-50 Detector.

Elasticity and geometry in curved-filament assemblies.

Searches for Gravitational Waves Associated With Gamma-Ray Bursts.

The impact of terrestrial noise on the detectability and reconstruction of gravitational wave signals from core-collapse supernovae.

Contact angle and contact line of spherical particles at isotropic and anisotropic liquid interfaces.

Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in dimuon events from pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.

Unraveling photophysical and electronic properties of exciton coupling in Pol (3-hexylthiophene) nanofibers.

The Impact of Membrane Tension on Phase Separation and Solid Domain Properties in Model Multicomponent Vesicles.

Direct Measurement of the pp Solar Neutrino Interaction Rate in Borexino.

Measurement of the Parity Violating Asymmetry in Elastic Electron Scattering off $^{208}$Pb.

Gravitational Wave Production through Decay of the Inflaton into Intermediary Fields during Slow Roll Inflation.

Investigations of Surface Tension Effects Due to Small-Scale Complex Boundaries.

Fabrication, Characterization and Analysis of Patterned Nano-sized Material with Large Magnetic Permeability at High Frequency.

Measuring Proton Spin Polarizabilities with Polarized Compton Scattering.

Charge Transport Studies of Proton and Ion Conducting Materials.

Replica Exchange Monte Carlo Simulations of the Ising Spin Glass: Static and Dynamic Properties.

Quantum Corrections to the Gravitational Scattering of Massless Particles.

Swelling and Folding as Mechanisms of 3D Shape Formation in Thin Elastic Sheets.

Phase Transitions in Polyelectrolyte Systems.

Wide parameter searches for gravitational-waves from binary black hole coalescences with ground-based laser interferometers.

Toward the "bijel" structure: light scattering and morphology studies of spinodal decomposition in polymer blends mixed with nanoparticle.

Search for Contact Interactions with Dimuons at the ATLAS Detector.

Capillary Interactions among Microparticles and Nanoparticles at Fluid Interfaces.

Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of the Higgs Mechanism in the Standard Model and Beyond.

Efficiency of Parallel Tempering for Ising Systems.

Wrinkling of Floating Thin Polymer Films.

Investigations of Electron Transport and Storage Mechanisms in Microbial Biofilms.

Experiments and Simulations on Granular Gases.

Bilayer Bolometers to Kosterlitz-Thouless: A Study of Helium Films.

Rare decays in BaBar: search for decays of the neutral B meson into two leptons and measurement of CP asymmetry in inclusive radiative decays of the B meson into a strange-quark system.

Exciton-Plasmon Interactions in Hybrid Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures.

Nanofabrication Techniques For Nanophotonics.

NMR Experiments on Vibrofluidized and Gas Fluidized Granular Systems.

Evaluation of Image Quality Using Human and Numerical Observers.