Room 10

10:20

  • Presenter: Adam Fletcher (Suffolk County Community College)
    Title: Particle Identification with GridPix Detector at EIC
    Faculty mentors: Dr. Prakhar Garg, Dr. Thomas Hemmick (Physics & Astronomy)

10:30

  • Presenter:  Othman Alrawi (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    Title: Comparison of Scattering and Extinction Spectra by Finite Element Analysis and Analytical Methods
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Klaus Dehmelt (Physics & Astronomy)

10:40

  • Presenter:  Roswell DeMott (Colorado School of Mines)
    Title: Convergence Properties of Green’s Functions in the sPHENIX Detector
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Ross Corliss (Physics & Astronomy)

10:50

  • Presenter: Melissa Rasmussen (Utah State University)
    Title: Blowing Up a White Dwarf: Simulations of the Sub-Chandra Type Ia Supernovae
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Michael Zingale (Physics & Astronomy)

11:00

  • Presenter:  Jeff Backus (Cornell University)
    Title: Measuring the self-coupling of the Higgs boson at ATLAS: a neural network mass estimate of the di-Higgs system in events with two b quarks and two hadronically-decaying tau leptons
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Giacinto Piacquadio (Physics & Astronomy)

11:10

  • Presenter:  Spencer Tamagni (University of Central Florida) 
    Title: Modeling Systematic Uncertainties for the VH, H->bb ATLAS Analysis: The Diboson Process
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Giacinto Piacquadio (Physics & Astronomy)

11:20

  • Presenter:  Kate Futrowsky (University of Maryland College Park)
    Title: Classifying particle collision events using artificial neural networks with rapidity-mass matrices
    Faculty mentor: Dr. Dmitri Tsybychev (Physics & Astronomy)

11:30

  • Presenter: Nolan Maher (Black Hills State University)
    Title: Simulation of a Transverse Electron Probe in a Plasma Wake Field
    Faculty mentor:  Dr. Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Physics & Astronomy)