Department of Physics Michigan Biophysics
C-PHOM College of LSA National Science Foundation

UM REU Symposium – 2012

Wednesday, August 8 and Thursday, August 9, 2012 in 340 West Hall

Schedule of talks

Please note that each student talk is scheduled for 10 minutes.  There are an extra five minutes between talks reserved for questions and for setting up the next talk.

Wednesday, August 8
9:20
Opening

9:30
Stephen Collins (Gordon College)
Low frequency 1/f noise in 2DEG AlGaAs/GaAs Hall bar structures
9:45
Andrew McElroy
Modeling circadian rhythm in cyanobacteria
10:00
Suraj Jaipalli (Huron)
Assembly of particle clusters without substrate template
10:15
Break

10:30
Wudi Wang (USTC)
Quantum oscillation in topological superconductor
10:45
Zachary Kobos (USC)
Optimizing luminaire beam profiles
11:00
Eric Copenhaver (The University of Akron)
Ultrafast two photon transient absorption spectroscopy in heme proteins
11:15
Evan Losh (SUNY Geneseo)
BOSS calibration, a step towards BigBOSS
11:30
Lunch

1:30
Monika Mohacsi (Adelphi University)
Laser locking with piezo driven frequency modulation
1:45
Austin Little (University HS Academy)
Tracking vibrio cholerae
2:00
Gladys Diaz Vazquez
Effect of ceramide on phase transition in plasma membrane vesicles
2:15
Break

2:30
Phillip Sanchez
Purification and mutagenesis of protein Farnesyltransferase
2:45
Anne Theurkauf (Lehigh University)
Network theory and galaxy clusters
3:00
Yuan Cao (USTC)
Network alerting system for USATLAS based on perfSONAR
3:15
Break

3:45
Saul Richmond-Rakerd (Brown)
Magnifying signals in fluorescence binding assays
4:00
Christopher Hayes (Austin Peay State University)
Plasmon-enhanced single-molecule fluorescence microscopy
4:15
Wayne Lester (Cass Tech)
Measuring nonlinear responses in solutions of gold nanorods

Thursday, August 9
9:45
Danielle Norcini (Penn State University)
The Higgs, Muons, and Resistive Plate Chambers
10:00
Kurt Flesch (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
Fabrication, assembly, and first measurements of a new facility to characterize optical elements for observing the Cosmic Microwave Background
10:15
Danielle Sofferman (Adelphi University)
Fabrication and properties of FIB-synthesized Ga nanodroplets arrays
10:30
Break
10:45
Eilam Morag (Huron)
Nanocomposite materials targeting high efficiency thermoelectrics
11:00
Jamie MacLennan (Lawrence Technological University)
Development of a metrology system to enable daytime observing by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
11:15
Christiana Erba (University of Rochester)
Toy Monte Carlo simulations mirroring the Kaon decay explored in the K0TO experiment
11:30
Jennifer Miller (University of Michigan)
The K0TO experiment
11:45
Lunch

1:00
Dina Rudelson (Huron)

1:15
Wenjuan Zhang (USTC)
Feasibility study of H →a1a1→4muons detection
1:30
Ben Hulbert
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Peptides at varying pH
1:45
Kareem Hegazy (University of Michigan)
Higgs Mass Resolution in H→ZZ*→4l Decay Channel at ATLAS
2:00
Break

2:15
Linda Poplawski (High Point University)
DNA breaks from neutron radiation
2:30
Sanle Hu (USTC)
Soliton Boson Stars in AdS
2:45
Elliott Countess (New College of Florida)
Seeing the light through sub-wavelength apertures
3:00
Erin Gray (University of Michigan)
Variation of phase transition temperature at different stages in the cell cycle
3:15
Break

3:30
Cody Carr (Kalamazoo College)
Photometric redshift estimation
3:45
Brendan Faeth (University of Florida)
Influence of buffer layer morphology on InAs/GaAs quantum dot growth
4:00
Tong Gao (Tsinghua University, China)
Resolving single electron for cantilever magnetometry
4:15
Joshua Engelman

This REU symposium is held as part of the University of Michigan Physics summer REUUniversity of Michigan Biophysics summer REU and University of Michigan Center for Photonic and Multiscale Nanomaterials summer REU programs, which are 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.

Link to last year's REU symposium 2011 and the previous REU symposium 2010.