2022 Final Presentations

Day 1 - Wednesday, August 17, 2022, 9am to 12pm Pacific Time

• 9:00am: Miles Cochran-Branson, Lawrence University

  • "Tau Energy Scale Calibration at ATLAS using Machine Learning"

  • Final Paper

• 9:30am: Madeleine Carhart, Vassar

  • "Topological Edge States in 2D Silicon Nitride Photonic Lattices"

  • Final Paper

• 10:30am: Uchenna D. Nwaege, UC Riverside

  • "Exploring Uses of Neural Networks Trained with Rotationally Invariant Protein Data"

  • Final Paper

• 11:00am: Utheri Wagura, MIT

  • "DMS Studies with NLP Models"

  • Final Paper

• 11:30am: Anisa Tapper, St. Catherine University

  • "Frequency-narrowing a laser at 1762 nm used for the Ba ion qubit and qudit control"

• Chair - Jessica O'Mahar, Georgetown College

Day 2 - Thursday, August 18, 2022, 9am to 12pm Pacific Time

• 9:00am: Michelle McKenzie, Cal State Long Beach

  • "The CCD module for DAMIC-M"

  • Final Paper

• 9:30am: Eliana Green, UCLA

  • "Adsorption On Ultra Clean 2D Materials"

  • Final Paper

• 10:30am: Drew Vincent, Augusta University

  • "Fabrication of screening probes to study strongly correlated 2D materials such as twisted bi-layer graphene"

  • Final Paper

• 11:00am: Jessica O'Mahar, Georgetown College

  • "The Effect of Thermal Noise on the Search for Axion Dark Matter"

  • Final Paper

• 11:30am: Ian Carter, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

  • "An Analysis of Fast and Slow Thinking about "Trick" Physics Questions"

  • Final Paper

• Chair - Anisa Tapper, St. Catherine University