Presentation Schedule

Schedule – Friday, July 31, 2020

Note on CHECK-IN:  Please indicate room location preference (meeting room 1, 2, 3 or 4) upon joining site.

8:45 AM – CHECK IN FOR STUDENT PRESENTERS

9:00 AM – PRESENTATIONS

  • Room 1
    Presenter: Marisa Petrusky, Stony Brook University (REU Physics)
    Title: Picturing Plasma: Simulating the Transverse Probing of Laser Wakefields
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Physics & Astronomy)
  • Room 2
    Presenter:  iGEM: Adit Anand (9:00), Melissa King (9:10), Alexis Choi (9:20), Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM, Explorations in STEM-BIO)
    Title: Optogenetic control of cell death via light-mediated Bax expression
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Peter Gergen (Biochemistry & Cell Biology)
  • Room 3
    Presenter:  Lolita Nazarov, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Context Proximity Using BERT Embedding
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Niranjan Balusubramanian (Computer Science)
  • Room 4
    Presenter: Josh Heuvel-Horwitz, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Pressure and Temperature Broadening in the near-IR Spectra of Cryogenic CH4 and N2 Mixtures
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Trevor Sears (Chemistry)

9:15 AM

  • Room 1
    Presenter: Samantha Hardin, Clemson University (REU Physics)
    Title: Investigating Nuclear Reaction Networks and Studying One Dimensional Flames
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Michael Zingale (Physics & Astronomy)
  • Room 2
    Presenter: iGEM: Adit Anand (9:00), Melissa King (9:10), Alexis Choi (9:20), Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM, Explorations in STEM-BIO)
    Title: Optogenetic control of cell death via light-mediated Bax expression
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Peter Gergen (Biochemistry & Cell Biology)
  • Room 3
    Presenter:  Mahan Agha Zahedi, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Micro Expression Recognition: Challenges and Future Directions
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Xin Wang (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
  • Room 4
    Presenter: Beth Webb, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Technological learning for carbon capture and sequestration technologies
    Faculty mentor:     Dr. Devinder Mahajan (Materials Science & Chemical Engineering)

9:30 AM

  • Room 1
    Presenter: Samuel Lewandowski, Cornell University (REU Physics)
    Title: Single Channel Delay Line Readout for GEM
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Klaus Dehmelt (Physics & Astronomy)
  • Room 2
    Presenter: iGEM: Adit Anand (9:00), Melissa King (9:10), Alexis Choi (9:20), Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM, Explorations in STEM-BIO)
    Title: Optogenetic control of cell death via light-mediated Bax expression
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Peter Gergen (Biochemistry & Cell Biology)
  • Room 3
    Presenter:  Jinkyu Lee, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Accelerating Object Detection by FPGAs to Prevent Motor-Vehicle Collisions
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Peter Milder (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
  • Room 4
    Presenter: Leah Alejandra, Tufts University (REU Nanotechnology for Health, Energy and the Environment)
    Title: Modeling Repulsive Interactions Between Cellulose Microfibrils
    Faculty mentor:     Dr. Gary Halada (Materials Science & Chemical Engineering)

9:45 AM

  • Room 1
    Presenter: Justin Peterkin, CUNY College of Staten Island (REU Physics)
    Title: Variational Quantum Method for Optimization/Finding Eigenstates
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Tzu-Chieh Wei (Physics & Astronomy)
  • Room 2
    Presenter: Marcia-Ruth Ndege, Stony Brook University (Explorations in STEM-BIO)
    Title: Acute Fluoxetine Administration Improves Intermittent Hypoxia‐induced Inspiratory Burst Amplitude Deficits During Peak LPS‐induced Neuroinflammatory Phase
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Irene Solomon (Physiology & Biophysics)
  • Room 3
    Presenter: Xinqi Wang, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Hardware Acceleration of Deep Reinforcement Learning Application in Traffic Signal Control
    Faculty Mentor: Dr. Peter Milder (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
  • Room 4
    Presenter: Jacob Myers, The University of Scranton (REU Nanotechnology for Health, Energy & the Environment)
    Title: The Drying Rates of Respiratory Droplets: Implications for COVID-19 Transmission   
    Faculty Mentor:     Dr. Miriam Ravailovich (Materials Science & Chemical Engineering)

10:00 AM

  • Room 1
    Presenter: Noah Devane, The College of New Jersey (REU Physics)
    Title: Investigating Drop in Trackless B-Tagging Efficiency
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Giacinto Piacquadio (Physics & Astronomy)
  • Room 2
    Presenter:  Max Gomez, Stony Brook University (S-STEM Assets)
    Title: Shinnecock Bay Restoration Project
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Sara Cernadas (School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences)
  • Room 3
    Presenter: Nathanael Payen, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Knowledge Acquisition Logic Machine for Extendable Natural Language
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Paul Fodor (Computer Science)
  • Room 4
    Presenter: Mackenzie Stewart, Stony Brook University(REU Nanotechnology for Health, Energy & the Environment)
    Title: Predatory Journals within Nanotechnology
    Faculty Mentor:     Dr. Thomas Woodson (Technology & Society)

10:15 AM

  • Room 1
    Presenter: Sylvi Stoller, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Generating Plasma Channels with Controllable Characteristics Using the Flying Focus Method
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Physics & Astronomy)
  • Room 2
    Presenter: Spencer Cattalani, Stony Brook University (REU Math)
    Title: Contact Nilmanifolds
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Mark McLean (Math)
  • Room 3
    Presenter: Scott Feltman, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title:     Comparison of curvelet and wavelet denoising techniques in terahertz spectroscopic imaging for nondestructive testing and medical applications
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Hassan Arbab (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Room 4
    Presenter: Jessica Rodriguez, East Los Angeles College(REU Nanotechnology for Health, Energy & the Environment)
    Title: Environmentally Benign Fiber to Fiber Recycling of Cotton Muslin Waste
    Faculty Mentors:     Dr. Gary Halada, Dr. Tae Jin Kim (Materials Science & Chemical Engineering)

10:30 AM

  • Room 1
    Presenter: Henry Shi, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Determining the Hubble Constant from Observations of Distance Modulus and Redshift for Type Ia Supernovae
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Will M. Farr (Physics & Astronomy)
  • Room 2
  • Room 3
    Presenter: Kellie Snyder, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Classifying the Depth of Skin Burn Terahertz Images using Machine Learning Algorithms
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Hassan Arbab (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Room 4
    Presenter: Andy Acevedo Roman, Universidad Ana G. Mendez Cupey Campus (REU Nanotechnology for Health, Energy & the Environment)
    Title: Analyzing how Low-Intensity Vibrations can impact CAR-T cell therapy in Lymphoma Cancer
    Faculty mentor:     Dr. Mei Lin (Ete) Chan (Biomedical Engineering)

10:45 AM

  • Room 1
    Presenter: Kelly Ou, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Particle production in relativistic electron-ion collisions at the EIC
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Abhay Deshpande (Physics & Astronomy)
  • Room 2
  • Room 3
    Presenter: Cynthia Wu, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Pollution and Human Health During Covid-19 Lockdowns
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Hassan Arbab (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Room 4
    Presenter: Karan Kumar, Stony Brook University (SULI)
    Title: Far-forward neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Milind Diwan (BNL, Dept. of Physics)

11:00 AM

  • Room 1
    Presenter: Neomi Lewis, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Towards Cavity-Enhanced 2DIR Spectroscopy
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Tom Allison (Physics & Astronomy)
  • Room 2
  • Room 3
    Presenter: Susan Wu, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: C-Reactive Protein as a Biomarker for Severe COVID-19: a demographics driven analysis
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Hassan Arbab (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Room 4
    Presenters: Amelia Camino, Stony Brook University (CSTEP, LSAMP, NY NASA Space Fellow); Austin DeMurley, Suffolk County Community College (SULI); Douglas Howell, Penn State Univ. (SULI)
    Title: Development of Calibration Analysis for the Scintillation system in the ICARUS LAr Neutrino Detector
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Milind Diwan (BNL, Dept. of Physics)

11:15 AM

  • Room 1
    Presenter: Chiu Yin Lee, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Numerical Simulation of Adiabatic Rapid Passage
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Eric Jones & Dr. Harold Metcalf (Laser Teaching Center, Physics & Astronomy)

11:30 AM

  • Room 1
    Presenter: Sara Kurdi, Stony Brook University (PSEG Explorations in STEM)
    Title: Laser-Illuminated Test Patterns for Calibration of a Time Projection Chamber
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Thomas Hemmick (Physics & Astronomy)

NOON – CLOSING REMARKS