Format: Poster Presentation

Location: Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (CU*IP) (Memphis, TN)

Project: My goal is to measure the reaction rate of ¹⁸O(p,ɑ)¹⁵N, as it would allow us to better understand the composition of asymptotic giant branch stars and the potential origins of Nitrogen-15 observed in stardust.

This project is ongoing

Format: Oral Presentation

Location: National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) Conference (Houston, TX)

Project: My goal is to measure the reaction rate of ¹⁸O(p,ɑ)¹⁵N, as it would allow us to better understand the composition of asymptotic giant branch stars and the potential origins of Nitrogen-15 observed in stardust.

This project is ongoing

Format: Poster Presentation

Location: National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) Conference (Knoxville, TN) and the Flatiron Institute (New York City, NY)

Project: My goal was to identify potential sources of areas of temperature decrease in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the oldest light we can see in the Universe.

• Luparello et al discovered temperature dips of ~15 ɥK  in the CMB around galaxies

• My goal was to identify possible causes of these dips

I replicated the original analysis by creating a program that takes the average temperature around a specified ring on a map

By comparing the temperature differences in maps of the CMB at different frequencies, I would be able to determine which phenomena are possible causes.

Format: Oral Presentation

Location: Ultrasafe Nuclear Corporation (Seattle, WA)

• USNC was working on a program that would help optimize their nuclear reactor designs

Project: I tested the effectiveness of the current method used for optimization and compared it against other methods we hypothesized would be more effective. Those were:

• Gradient Descent

• Simulated Annealing

• Genetic Algorithms

We concluded the genetic algorithm was the most effective method to use

Format: Digital Poster Presentation

Location: North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Symposium (Online)

Project: I wanted to create a program to effectively teach young students physics and engineering concepts through application

• Not everyone can access a lab, materials, or space to test a wide variety of concepts

• Using augmented reality (AR), I planned to address this need with a gaming framework

• There are three proposed tiers:

  • Simple Machines: Learning basic physics concepts by building Rube Goldberg machines.

  • Complex Machines: Applying knowledge about simple machines to construct a virtual robot.

  • Coding Machines: Learning how to make aspects of a robot functional with block code.

I was able to develop and run a sample program where a ball rolled down planks and knocked over a set of dominos in AR

Format: Digital Poster Presentation

Location: National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR@Home; Online) and Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) 2021 (Online)

Project: I extrapolated the energy densities of four of the Universe's energy sources into the far future. Those sources are:

• Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)

• Starlight

• Hawking Radiation (theoretical radiation from black holes)

• Dark Matter Annihilation Energy (theoretical source from dark matter particles annihilating to release energy)

I was able to  generate models of starlight energy density evolution in a galaxy and of the CMB over time