Department of Physics College of LSA National Science Foundation

UM Physics REU Symposium – 2010

Wednesday, July 28 and Thursday, July 29, 2010 in 340 West Hall

Schedule of talks

Please note that each talk is scheduled for 15 minutes.  There are an extra five minutes between talks reserved for questions and for setting up the next talk.

Wednesday, July 28
1:00
Jeremy Bradford (Central Connecticut State U) Testing Statistical Isotropy of the CMB: The Effect of Foreground on Low-l Multipoles
1:20
Deborah Tien (Wellesley College) Quell Your Dreads: Quantum Dots are Your Friends
1:40
Daniel Blatter (University of Utah) When matter meets anti-matter: probing polymers with positrons
2:00
Jacob Bruggemann (Rice University) Characteristics of Vibrating Emulsions
2:20
Break

2:40
Kaitlin Moore (University of Michigan) Measuring Optical Clock Transitions in Neutral Mercury Vapor
3:00
Andrew Harmon (Calvin College) Riboflavin Based Cell-Targeting: Riboflavin Binding Protein Binding Studies
3:20
Avery Archer (DePauw University) Millennium Gas Simulation: An X-ray observer's view
3:40
Benjamin Landes (University of Michigan)
 & Joel Xu (Caltech)
Persistence and Quantum Efficiency Analysis on NIR HgCdTe Detectors

Thursday, July 29
1:00
Adriana Cordova (University of Puerto Rico)
Non Linearity in Irradiated DNA and the Effect of Magnetic Field
1:20
Benjamin Isaacoff (University of Michigan) Excitons in atomically thin GaSe sheets
1:40
Michael Howe (University of Michigan)
 & Joshua Larson (University of Michigan)
Identifying and Correcting Intra-Pixel Variations in Near-Infrared Detectors
2:00
Christopher Creighton (Albion College) Direct Detection of Dark Matter
2:20
Break
2:40
Mallory Fuhst  (Grand Valley State University) Networking the 'Verse
3:00
Angela Steinmann  (Stetson University) KOTO Experiment
3:20
Anastasiya Romadan (University of Michigan)
 & Nikola Whallon (University of Michigan)
RVVP: ROTSE Variable-Star Verification Project

This REU symposium is held as part of the University of Michigan Physics summer REU program, which is supported by funds from the National Science Foundation, Department of Physics and the College of LSA.  Additional information is available from the NSF REU website.