Opportunities

Mathematical Methods in Physics

Shape-Anisotropic Particles in the Gravity-Driven Flow of Spheres

Using LAMMPS simulations to track the forces and stresses on tracer particles embedded in gravity-driven granular material flow

Developing, repairing, and modifying apparatus to demonstrate principles of physics.

Building a muon-tagging telescope.

Developing, repairing, and modifying apparatus to demonstrate principles of physics.

Developing, repairing, and modifying apparatus to demonstrate principles of physics.

Population-annealing simulations of binary mixtures of hard spheres in the glassy regime.

Studying advanced topics in black hole physics and inflationary universe cosmology.

Developing, repairing, and modifying apparatus to demonstrate principles of physics.

Monte Carlo simulations of discrimination between Z’ boson  models with dilepton final states for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade.

Collider Phenomenology of the Higgs Triplet Model

Teaching assistant in Phys114, "Theory of Sound with Applications to Speech and Hearing Science."

Characterizing silicon photomultiplier tubes in vacuum and liquid xenon.

Application of Geant4 simulations to laboratory experiments.

The Ising model with a random, time-varying, external field

Measuring the effect of organic electrolytes and interfacial charge on the formation of particle-stabilized emulsions.

Improving small scale calorimetry through research on nano-thermometry.

DS-50 analysis of background characterization via pulse-shape discrimination.

Making and characterizing PC-board based microwave circuits.

Teaching assistant in Phys114, "Theory of Sound with Applications to Speech and Hearing Science."

Building a muon-tagging telescope.

Studying advanced topics in black hole physics and inflationary universe cosmology.

Introducing instantons in field theory and describing the decay of vacuum into a pair of cosmic strings joined by a membrane.

Developing and testing a high-bandwidth, high-sensitivity Faraday magnetometer for the muon g-2 Fermilab experiment.

Setting up the dilution refrigerator, design and implement wiring of sensitive low-noise measurements.

Optical simulations of the liquid xenon system in the lab using chroma.

Designing superconducting microwave cavities for time-domain measurement of cavity transmission.

Developing, repairing, and modifying apparatus to demonstrate principles of physics.

Studying microtubule and actin filaments as they cross velocity boundaries: a “Snell’s Law” for elastic rods.

Experimental studies of DNA transcription slippage in yeast cells by imaging.

Developing, repairing, and modifying apparatus to demonstrate principles of physics.

Population Annealing in Bidisperse Hard Sphere System

Simulating radon-daughter induced backgrounds to improve the detection efficiency of nEXO

Impact of bottom quark identification schemes on detecting Higgs pair producing resonances

Characterizing Transport Phenomena of Membrane-Bound Cellulose Synthase Complexes using Image Correlation Spectroscopy

Monte Carlo studies of the signal-to-background optimization with track jets for the ATLAS diboson search with hadronic jets

Extending a mathematical model for steady-state ATP activity to a new (creatine phosphokinase) system, and  carrying out experiments to test it

Learning simulation tools in the programming language Python

Monte Carlo studies of the signal discrimination potential for the ATLAS dilepton resonance search at the high-luminosity LHC (Large Hadron Collider)

Measurement of Cs-134 production in natural xenon

Imaging and analyzing the motion of cellulose synthase in  Brachypodium distachyon

Measuring the mechanical properties of charged granular media

Experiments with microtubule-severing enzymes

LabVIEW programming of the nEXO (next  Enriched Xenon Observatory) xenon liquefaction slow control

Calibrating and minimizing uncertainties of NMR probes for use at Fermilab to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron to an unprecedented level of precision

Development and generation of Monte Carlo simulated samples of dark photon production at the ATLAS experiment

Investigation of design options for cathodes for the nEXO (next  Enriched Xenon Observatory) experiment

Developing Methods for Measuring the Pion Polarizability

Investigating the role of wall friction on the rate of flow of grains in a hopper using LAMMPS molecular dynamics simulation software

Learning nEXO (next  Enriched Xenon Observatory) laboratory setups for testing UV-sensitive photosensors

Experimental study of the motion of cytoskeletal filaments being driven by molecular motor proteins in a gliding assay

Comparisons between data and Monte Carlo simulation for the ATLAS diboson search with hadronic jets

Using photoelasticity to measure stresses in an object

Testing flash-ADC VME based electronics for the Jefferson Lab Hall D project.

Vortex dynamics and statistics in a bilayer superconducting system.

Gas diffusion through ultra thin polymer films.

Physics of a superconducting single-electron trap device.

Development of a xenon irradiation cell for Cs-136 production.

Assembly of Large-Area Uniform Films Composed of Micro-Particles.

Data analysis for the BOREXINO solar neutrino experiment.

Dissociation of Superconducting Vortex Stacks in Bilayer Configuration.

Studies of high-pT muon performance with the ATLAS detector.

Developing an active-scintillating polarized proton target for use in low-energy photo-nuclear experiments.

Seismic Trend Analysis and Control System Modeling for Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors.

Characterization of a cryogenic Avalanche Photodiode test setup.

Characterization of a NaI detector for gamma rays.

Data analysis for the DarkSide dark matter detector.

Kinesin motor driven microtubule organization.

Data analysis for the DarkSide dark matter detector.

Atmospheric particulate measurements.

Simulations of elastic and fluid interfaces.

Detectability studies for astrophysical signatures in LIGO.

Gravitational Tension of Black Strings in AdS.

Structure formation and interactions in charged granular media.

Data quality and characterization for the LIGO gravitational wave detectors.

Design and engineering drawings of a radon counter for material screening.

Development of xenon scintillation flashers for EXO R&D.

Analytical and Numerical Relativity in the Search for Intermediate Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescences in LIGO.

Boosted Decision Tree Muon Tagging in the Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment.

Data analysis for the BOREXINO solar neutrino experiment.

Mechanics of a model for cell cytoskeleton: Microrheology of a composite of actin-microtubule-intermediate filaments.

Localized Kaluza-Klein masses with finite tension.

Studies of seismic upconversion and data stability in the Enhanced LIGO data run.

GEANT4 simulations for EXO-200.

EXO-200 simulations and work on an avalanche photodiode test setup for EXO R&D.

Development of a LabVIEW-based DAQ for laboratory particle detectors.

GEANT4 Montecarlo simulations for the DarkSide dark matter detector.

Measuring the motions of single cell mitotic spindle and chromosome dynamics in living budding yeast cells in 3D at subpixel resolution.

Data analysis for the BOREXINO solar neutrino experiment: mitigation of 11C background with multivariate analysis techniques.

On the Quest for Gravitational Wave Detection: Mitigating Environmental Noise and Breaching the Quantum Limit.

Read out system for a an avalanche photodiode test setup for EXO R&D.

Mechanics of a model for cell cytoskeleton: Microrheology of a composite of actin-microtubule-intermediate filaments.

Gravitational Tension of Black Strings in AdS.

Structure formation and interactions in charged granular media.

Investigations of the folding of cellular retinoic acid binding protein I (CRABP1) using single molecule techniques.

Computer simulations of surface growth models in statistical physics.

Studies of microtubule mechanics.

Identification of muon background with the boosted decision tree multivariate analysis technique in data from the BOREXINO solar neutrino detector.

Developing stabilized lasers to observe the Hanle effect in the B[1] state of PbO cooled in a buffer gas of neon.

Localized Kaluza-Klein masses with finite tension.

Polarized proton target for photo-nuclear experiments based on active scintillators.

(1) Measuring the leakage of helium gas though epoxy as a function of temperature (and pressure gradient) from 77K to room temp, (2) measuring the flow of liquid helium through porous materials (Vycor, packed rouge) as a function of temperature and pressure from about 1.4K to 2.2K and 1 to 24 bar, and (3) obtaining TEM images of small diameter rouge powders, one of the porous materials.

Studies of microtubule mechanics.

Data analysis for the BOREXINO solar neutrino detector: detector stability and pulse shape discrimination.

Design of laboratory equipment with SolidWorks and participation in on-site operations of EXO-200.

Study of magnetic couplings and physical environment monitors for the online characterization of data in Enhanced LIGO.

Investigating the prospects for discovery of black holes produced by proton-antiproton collisions at the LHC.

Measuring the spin-polarizabilities of the proton: designing a scintillating, polarized proton target and sensitivity studies of the cross sections to the polarizabilities.

Setup of the scanning and feedback system of a near-field scanning optical microscope.

Development of nano education video/animation modules; research on arrays of nanomagnets.

Measuring the Three-Dimensional Morphology of Crumpled Shells Using Confocal Microscopy.

The analysis of simulated top-quark events in ATLAS, and muon reconstruction performance with the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer.

Temperature-swellable, semi-permeable capsules by self assembly.

Independent study on nerve conduction, with an honors thesis on a method to measure mammalian locomotion.

Optical characterization of metal films with hole and disk arrays.

Search for ρtc→W+Z Technicolor Signature at ATLAS.

Implementation of an optical autocorrelator to measure femtosecond laser pulses, including optical setup, electronics for the detection system and measurements; laser setup to induce local heat shocks in fish embryos.

The Transmission of Light Through Static Disordered Systems.