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physics2011 reu participants

reu summer program


2011 Participants

Alex St. John, working with Prof. Harsh Mathur published the article "Correlations and critical behavior of the $q$ model" in the November 2011 issue of Physical Review E (Vol.84, No.5):
URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.051303
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.051303

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Robert Basili (Grinnell College)
"Chirality and Rotation in Liquid Crystals"
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Charles Rosenblatt
Poster

Rosemary Bramante (Barnard College)
"Charge Carrier Mobility of Organic Photovoltaic Polymers"
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Kenneth Singer
Poster

William (Kirby) Compton (Connecticut College)
"A New Detector for High Energy Cosmic Rays"
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Corbin Covault
Poster

Csilla Czako (Illinois Institute of Technology)
"Thermal Gradient Growth of Indium Nitride"
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Kathleen Kash
Poster

Patrick Dahl (Illinois Wesleyan University)
"Analysis of Entropic Forces in a Simple Model"
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Philip Taylor
Poster

Lorenzo Dumancas (The College of Wooster)
"Analyzing Chirped Random Dielectric Mirrors"
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Rolfe Petshek
Poster

Anne Moffitt (Grove City College)
"Enhancing Spin-Photon Interactions with Optical Resonators"
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Jesse Berezovsky
Poster

Carl Mueller (Illinois Wesleyan University)
"Spark Purification Xenon in the LUX Dark Matter Detector"
Faculty Advisor: Profs. Daniel Akerib & Thomas Shutt
Poster

Matthew Otten (Illinois Institute of Technology)
"Photoluminescence of MoS2 Monolayers"
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Jie Shan
Poster

Adam Shands (John Carroll University)
"Thermal Gradient Growth of Gallium Nitride under Near-Atmospheric Conditions"
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Kathleen Kash
Poster

Alex St. John (University of Wisconsin - Parkside)
"Near Critical Fluctuations and Propagation of Stress Through Granular Media"
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Harsh Mathur
Poster

Rita Wells (Grinnell College)
"A New Detector for High Energy Cosmic Rays"
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Corbin Covault
Poster

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