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May 2024 - August 2025
After the FCCee project, I was determined to pursue HEP research and consulted with LHCb faculty, Prof. Phoebe Hamilton regarding my interest. I thus began working on the R&D of the ECAL's Upgrade II, doing linearity tests for multianode and single anode PMTs that will be installed during Long Shutdown 3 (LS3) and subsequently LS4. I am testing different characteristics (such as amplitude and charge) of the PMTs to determine this but setup wise, the process is simply executed by flipping between two OD filters in the blackbox.
January 2024 - June 2024
This project was for a Particle Physics class that I took with Dr. Christopher Palmer in the Spring of 2024 and the projects done were jointly between UMD and MIT. There were 3 undergraduate students in my group (including myself) and we were being advised by a graduate student, Luca Lavezzo, a post-doctoral scholar, Dr. Jan Eysermans, and a faculty member, Dr. Christoph Paus. At UMD, we were being advised by Dr. Chris Palmer. We worked on simulating the two photon virtual background from Z Boson collision event via Monte Carlo generators (Whizard3 and Pythia8). We analyzed various kinematic properties by plotting the invariant mass, pseudorapidity, luminosity, four-vector momentum, and cuts of each segment of the event.
August 2022 - December 2023
I reconvened with my GRAD-MAP Winter Workshop mentor (in association with a post-doctoral scholar) to work on my current research project under a Seed Grant via Jacob Bringewatt through the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. I am interpreting the mappings of computational complexity class 3SAT and MAX2SAT in NP-Complete, and NP-Hard to two-local Hamiltonians that have a quantum numerical sign problem. Depending on how bad the sign problem is, next steps involve mitigating or curing it as well as finding a physical interpretation of the Lattice Ising model mapping that is within a similar computational complexity class.
May 2022 - August 2022
For the summer of 2022, I continued with GRAD-MAP into their Summer Scholars REU program, where I was paired to work under an Astronomy faculty mentor on figuring out the re-inflation of Hot Jupiters orbiting post-main sequence stars. During my time with this program, I learned how to read, analyze, and present research papers and how to do active data analysis and figure out results from simulations based on the research project I was undertaking.
December 2021 - January 2022
Over the winter between 2021 and 2022, I was involved with GRAD-MAP's Winter Workshop, which was a week-long workshop on enhancing students - with interests in astronomy and physical sciences - with skills relevant to performing research necessary for those mentioned fields: it consisted of a 5 day long Python bootcamp, which equipped you with tools to perform data analysis and simulating numerical solutions to general problems. During the duration of the workshop, everyone was also assigned with a mentor to work on a mini-research project and, I was assigned with a mentor to work on a Quantum Systems project.
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