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REU Publications and Previous REU Project Titles

REU co-authored Refereed External Publications  (38 total from 2008 – 2019; 17 total from 2001 - 2007)

REU students' names in bold face type with (year) of participation.

 REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (Calendar Years 2008-2019)

  1. Y. Sheffer, M. Rogers(2005), S. R. Federman, N. P. Abel, R. Gredel, D. L. Lambert, and G. Shaw, “Ultraviolet Survey of CO and H2 in Diffuse Molecular Clouds: the Reflection of Two Photochemistry Regimes in Abundance Relationships,” Astrophysical Journal, 687, 1075 (2008).
  2. N. Reshetnikov (2007), L. J. Curtis, M. S. Brown and R. E. Irving, “Determination of polarizabilities and lifetimes for the Mg, Zn, Cd and Hg isoelectronic sequences,” Physica Scripta 77, 015301:1 (2008).
  3. Wisniewski, J.P., Kowalski, A.F. (2004), Bjorkman, K.S., Bjorkman, J.E., & Carciofi, A.C., “Toward Mapping the Detailed Density Structure of Classical Be Circumstellar Disks,” Astrophysical Journal Letters, 656, L21 (2007).
  4. Ingler Jr, W. B.; Ong, G. (2007); Deng, X. “RF Sputter Deposition of Indium Oxide - Iron Oxide Films for Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production,” ECS Trans. Vol. 16, No. 7. (State-of-the-Art Program on Compound Semiconductors (SOTAPOCS), 49 (2008).
  5. Yunsic Shim, Mary E. Mills  (2007), Valery Borovikov, and Jacques G. Amar, “Effects of substrate rotation in oblique-incidence metal(100) epitaxial growth,” Physical Review E 79, 051604 (2009)
  6. I. Martinson, A. N. Ryabtsev (2007), I. Kink, R. E. Irving and L. J. Curtis, "Additions to the spectra and energy levels of ionized boron, B II - B V," in Atomic Structure and Collision Processes, Man Mohan, ed. (Narosa Pub. House, New Delhi, 2010) 81-6.
  7. Sellgren, Kris; Werner, Michael W.; Ingalls, James G.; Smith, J. D. T.; Carleton, T. M. (2010); Joblin, Christine, C60 in Reflection Nebulae, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 722, Issue 1, pp. L54-L57 (2010).
  8. J. Bancroft Brown (2008), M. S. Brown, S. Cheng, L. J. Curtis, D. G.Ellis, S. R. Federman and R. E. Irving,"Experimental and Semiempirical Branching Fractions of the 3s23p2 – 3s3p3 transition array in P II," Can. J. Phys. 89, 1-3 (2011).
  9. Draper, Z. H. (2010), Wisniewski, J. P., Bjorkman, K. S., Haubois, X., Carciofi, A. C., Bjorkman, J. E., Meade, M. R., & Okazaki, A.,  "A New Diagnostic of the Radial Density Structure of Be Disks", ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1101.3571, The Astrophysical Letters (2011).
  10. Carlson, R. K. (2009), Shim, Y, Ingler Jr., W. B. “Optimization of Indium Tin Oxide by pulsed DC power on single junction amorphous silicon solar cells,” Thin Solid Films 519, 6053-6058 (2011).
  11. K. Sellgren, M.W. Werner, J.G.Ingalls, J.D.T. Smith, T.M. Carleton (2010) and C.Joblin, “Confirmation of C60 in the Reflection Nebula NGC 7023,” PAHs and the Universe (C. Joblin and A.G.G.M.Tielens, eds) EAS Publications Series 46, 209 (2011).
  12. William J. Fischer, S. Thomas Megeath, John J. Tobin, Amelia M. Stutz, Babar Ali, Ian Remming, Marina Kounkel (2010, 2011), Thomas Stanke, Mayra Osorio, Thomas Henning, P. Manoj, and Thomas Wilson, “Multiwavelength Observations of V2775 ORI, an Outbursting Protostar in L 1641: Exploring the Edge of the FU Orionis Regime,” Astrophysical Journal 756, 99 (2012) doi:10.1088/0004-637X/756/1/99.
  13. Kristen Garofali (2011), Joseph Converse, Rupali Chandar, and Blagoy Rangelov, "On The Dynamical Formation of Very Young, X-Ray Emitting Black Hole Binaries in Dense Star Clusters," Astrophysical Journal 755:49 (2012).
  14. Kathyrn E. Hoepfl (2010), Andrew Solocha, Alvin D. Compaan, Eldon Johnson, “Comparison of Solar and Wind Power Output and a look at Real-Time Pricing,” International Journal of Policy and Management, Vol. 12, No.2/3  pp. 233 - 243 (2012).
  15. D. Moomey (2006), S. R. Federman, and Y.  Sheffer, “Revisiting the Chlorine Abundance in Diffuse Interstellar Clouds from Measurements with the Copernicus Satellite,” Astrophysical Journal 744, 174 (2012).
  16. C. J. Taylor (2010), A. M. Ritchey, S. R. Federman, and D. L. Lambert, “The 7Li/6Li Isotope Ratio near the Supernova Remnant IC 443,” Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 750, L15 (2012).
  17. R. C. Hupe, Y. Sheffer, and S. R. Federman, “Ultraviolet Measurements of Interstellar C2,” Ap. J., 761, 38(7pp) (2012).
  18. Y. Shim, N.B. Callahan (2011), and J.G. Amar, “Localized saddle-point search and application to temperature-accelerated dynamics,” Journal of Chemical Physics, 138, 094101 (2013).
  19. A.J. Porras (2012), S.R. Federman, D.E. Welty, and A.M. Ritchey, “OH+ in Diffuse Molecular Clouds,”  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 781:L8, (2014).
  20. W.J. Fischer, S.T. Megeath, J.J. Tobin, L. Hartmann, A.M. Stutz, M. Kounkel (2011, 2012), C.A. Poteet, B. Ali, M. Osorio, P. Manoj, I. Remming, T. Stanke, and D.M. Watson, “HOPS 136: An Edge-On Orion Protostar Near the End of Envelope Infall,” Astrophysical Journal, 781, 123 (2014).
  21. N. G. F. Reaver (2010), S. V. Khare, “Imminence of peak in US coal production and overestimation of reserves,” International J. of Coal Geology, 131, 90 (2014).
  22. N. Heidarian, R. E. Irving, A. M. Ritchey, S. R. Federman, D. G. Ellis, S. Cheng, L. J. Curtis, and W. A. Furman (2014), “Lifetimes and Oscillator Strengths for Ultraviolet Transitions in Singly-Ionized Lead,” ApJ, 808, 112 (2015).
  23. K. P. Bhandari, P. J. Roland, T. Kinner (2012), Y. Cao, H. Choi, S. Jeong, and R. J. Ellingson.  "Analysis and characterization of iron pyrite nanocrystals and nanocrystalline thin films derived from bromide anion synthesis."   J. Mat. Chem. A 3, 6853-6861 (2015).  [ DOI: 10.1039/c4ta06320a ]
  24. Tyler Kinner (2012), Khagendra P. Bhandari, Ebin Bastola, Bradley M. Monahan, Neale O. Haugen, Paul J. Roland, Terry P. Bigioni and Randy J. Ellingson. "Majority Carrier Type Control of Cobalt Iron Sulfide (CoxFe1-xS2) Pyrite Nanocrystals."  J. Phys. Chem. C (2016) DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b11204.
  25. J.G. Amar and Mikhael Semaan (2015), "Island nucleation and growth with anomalous diffusion", Physical Review E 93, 062805 (2016).   (M. Semaan, REU Summer 2015)
  26. Electric field stimulated growth of Zn whiskersD. Niraula, J. McCulloch (2015), G. R. Warrell, R. Irving, V. G. Karpov, and Diana Shvydka Citation: AIP Advances 6, 075201 (2016); doi: 10.1063/1.4955764 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.49557View Table of Contents:http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/adva/6/7?verPublished by the AIP Publishing
  27. Zhang, L., Y. Zhou, L. Guo, W. Zhao, A. Barnes (2014), H.-T. Zhang, C. Eaton, Y. Zheng, M. Brahlek, H. F. Haneef, N. J. Podraza, M. H. W. Chan, V. Gopalan, K. M. Rabe, R. Engel-Herbert, “Correlated Metals as Transparent Conductors,” Nature Materials 15, 204 (2016).
  28. Togi, Aditya, Witt, A. N., St. John, Demi (2013), “Dust properties of the cometary globule Barnard 207 (LDN 1489),” Astronomy & Astrophysics 2017arXiv170707925T (2017)
  29. D. C. Knauth, C. J. Taylor (2010), A. M. Ritchey, S. R. Federman, and D. L. Lambert, “Parsec-scale Variations in the 7Li/6Li Isotope Ratio toward IC 348 and the Per OB2 Association,” Ap. J. (Letters), 835, L16 (2017).
  30. N. Dulaney (2016), N. D. Richardson, C. J. Gerhartz, J. E. Bjorkman, K. S. Bjorkman, A. C. Carciofi, R. Klement, L.Wang, N. D. Morrison, A. D. Bratcher, J. J. Greco, K.K. Hardegree-Ullman, L. Lembryk, W. L. Oswald, and J. L. Trucks, “A Spectroscopic Orbit for the Late-type Be Star β CMi,” Astrophysical Journal, 836:112 (5pp), (2017).
  31. Kounkel, M. (2010, 2011), Megeath, S. T., Poteet, C. A., Fischer, W. J., Hartmann, L. "An HST Survey for 100-1000 au Companions around Young Stellar Objects in the Orion Molecular Clouds: Evidence for Environmentally Dependent Multiplicity”  2016 ApJ 821 52.
  32. Szymanski, N. J. (2017), Liu, Z. T. Y., Alderson, T., Podraza, N. J., Sarin, P.,  Khare, S. V. “Electronic and optical properties of vanadium oxides from first principles”, Comp. Mat. Sci. 143, 310 (2018).
  33. Adhikari, V., Liu, Z. T. Y.,  Szymanski, N. J. (2017), Khatri, I.,  Gall, D., Sarin P., Khare, S. V., “First-principles study of mechanical and magnetic properties of transition metal (M) nitrides in the cubic M4N structure”, J. Phys. Chem. Sol., 120, 197 (2018).
  34. M. S. Brown, R. B. Alkhayat, R. E. Irving, N. Heidarian, J. Bancroft Brown (2008), S. R. Federman, S. Cheng, and L. J. Curtis, “Oscillator Strengths for Ultraviolet Transitions in P II – The Multiplet at 1308 Å,” Ap. J., 868, 42 (2018).
  35. N. J. Szymanski (2017), L. N. Walters, O. Hellman, D. Gall, S. V. Khare,“Dynamical Stabilization in Delafossite Nitrides for Solar Energy Conversion”,
    J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 20852-20862.
  36. K. Decker French, Ann I. Zabludoff, Ilsang Yoon, Yancy Shirley, Yujin Yang, Adam Smercina, J. D. Smith, Desika Narayanan, “Why Post-starburst Galaxies Are Now Quiescent”, The Astrophysical Journal, 861:123 (8pp), (2018).
  37. V. Adhikari, N. J. Szymanski (2017), I. Khatri, D. Gall, S. V. Khare, “First principles investigation into the phase stability and enhanced hardness of TiN-ScN and TiN-YN alloys”, Thin Solid Films (Accepted 2019).
  38. N. J. Szymanski (2017), V. Adhikari, M. A. Willard, P. Sarin, D. Gall, S. V. Khare Prediction of improved magnetization and stability in Fe16N2 through alloying
    Journal of Applied Physics (Accepted 2019).

PRESENTATIONS WITH PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS/PROCEEDINGS PAPERS (CY 2008-2019)

  1. M. Brown, S. R. Federman, L. J. Curtis, S. Cheng, R. E. Irving, S. Torok (2006), and R. M. Schectman, “Oscillator Strengths for Ultraviolet Transitions in P II and Cu II for Interstellar Studies,” B.A.A.S., 40, 184, (2008). 
  2. R. Hupe (2007), S. Federman, and Y. Sheffer, “Electronic Transitions of C2 in the Ultraviolet: A Survey with the Hubble Space Telescope,” B.A.A.S., 40, 188, (2008). 
  3. Y. Sheffer, M. Rodgers (2005), S. R. Federman, D. L. Lambert, R. Gredel, N. P. Abel, and G. Shaw, “Ultraviolet Survey of 12C16O/13C16O and 12C16O/H2 in Diffuse Molecular Clouds,” B.A.A.S., 40, 195, (2008).
  4. Wisniewski, J.P., Kowalski, A.F. (2004), Bjorkman, K.S., & Bjorkman, J.E., “Toward Mapping the Detailed Density Structure of Classical Be Circumstellar Disks,” in Active OB-Stars: Laboratories for Stellar and Circumstellar Physics, 361, 524 (2007).
  5. Kowalski, A.F. (2004), Wisniewski, J.P., Clampin, M., Grady, C.A., Sitko, M.L., Bjorkman, K.S., Fukagawa, M., Hines, D.C., Katoh, E., & Whitney, B.A. “Diagnosing the Structure of the HD 163296 Protoplanetary Disk via Coronagraphic Imaging Polarimetry,”, AIP Conf. Proc.: Cool Stars 15 (2009).

PRESENTATIONS (CY 2008-2019). 

  1. W. J. Dirienzo (2007), A. N. Witt, and S. Mandel, “Extended Red Emission as a Function of Optical Depth in High-Latitude Interstellar Clouds,” AAS Meeting in Austin , TX , January 2008.
  2. L. Simanton (2008), R. Chandar, A. Lark, and N. Zellner, “Photometry of Star Clusters for Extragalactic Star Formation and Telescope System Analysis,” Michigan Space Grant Consortium meeting (2008).
  3. Ingler Jr, W. B., Ong, G. (2007), Deng, X. “RF Sputter Deposition of Indium Oxide – Iron Oxide Films for Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production,” ECS Trans. Vol. 16, No. 7. (State-of-the-Art Program on Compound Semiconductors 49 (SOTAPOCS 49), 2008, 49. 210th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Inc., Honolulu, HI, October 12-17 (Oral Presentation).
  4. R. M. Zeller (2008), J. D. Walker, K. A. Wieland, and A. D. Compaan, “Real-time Optical Thickness monitor for Thin Film Growth,” 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 7-12, 2009.  Abstracts are refereed to determine acceptance then the full 4-page papers are refereed before publication.
  5. On December 17th 2010 Katie Hoepfl*(2010) testified at a David Besse Nuclear power plant license extension hearing utilizing her REU research results on Comparison of Solar and Wind Power Output and a look at Real-Time Pricing. The idea was to discuss what alternatives are available such as wind & solar.
  6. S. R. Federman, M. S. Brown, S. Maddock, J. Bancroft Brown (2008), R. E. Irving, S. Cheng, L. J. Curtis, and D. G. Ellis, “Lifetimes and Branching Fractions in P II,” 10th International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas (2010).
  7. Kathryn E. Hoepfl (2010), Alvin D. Compaan, Andrew Solocha, “Comparison of Solar and Wind Power Output and Correlation with Real-Time Pricing,” March Meeting of The American Physical Society, (2011).
  8. Kristen Garofali (2011), Joseph Converse, Rupali Chandar, and Blagoy Rangelov, "The Dynamical Formation of Young Black Hole Binaries in Dense Star Clusters," American Astronomical Society, Meeting #219, #151.28 (2012).
  9. Kounkel, Marina (2010, 2011), Megeath, T., Fischer, W., Poteet, C., “WFC3 Imaging of Protostars in the Orion Molecular Clouds,” American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #337.11 (2012).
  10. A. M. Ritchey, C. J. Taylor (2010), S. R. Federman, and D. L. Lambert, “Lithium Isotope Ratios near the Supernova Remnant IC 443,” Mem. S. A. It. Suppl., 22, 137 (2012).
  11. S.R. Federman, A.J. Porras (2012), D.E. Welty, A.M. Ritchey, “OH+ in Diffuse Molecular Clouds,” 222nd Meeting A.A.S., 216.04 (2013).
  12. Brandon Schurter (2013), Tom Kvale, Rick Irving, Erik Mckee, and Tim Darling, “Equivalent Dosage from Neutron Radiation Produced by Deuterium-Palladium Plasma in the NTF Zebra Chamber,” Poster 44, Kentucky Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY, November 8-9, (2013).
  13. K. P. Bhandari, R. R. Khanal, N. R. Paudel, P. Koirala, P. J. Roland, T. Kinner (2012), Y. Yan, R. W. Collins, M. J. Heben, and R. J. Ellingson.  "Performance of nanocrystalline iron pyrite as the back contact to CdS/CdTe solar cells."  40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2293-2298 (2014).
  14. Sarah M. Burkhart (2014) and Adolf N. Witt, – An Investigation into PAH Destruction in Nearby Supernova Remnants, North Polar Spur and Cygnus Loop, 225th Annual American Astronomical Society (AAS) Meeting, Seattle, WA, Abstract 256.13, p. 283 (January, 2015).
  15. N. Heidarian, R. E. Irving, A. M. Ritchey, S. R. Federman, D. G. Ellis, S. Cheng, L. J. Curtis, and W. A. Furman (2014), “Lifetimes and Oscillator Strengths for Ultraviolet Transitions in Singly-Ionized Lead,”  46th  Annual Meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, A.P.S., B5.00004 (2015).
  16. M. Semaan (2015) and J.G. Amar, "Submonolayer Island Nucleation and Growth for Subdiffusive Random Walkers”, CSU Long Beach College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Symposium, (September 2015). 
  17. A. M. Ritchey, N. Heidarian, R. E. Irving, S. R. Federman, D. G. Ellis, S. Cheng, L. J. Curtis, and W. Furman (2014), "The Interstellar Abundance of Lead: Experimental Oscillator Strengths for Pb II λ1203 and λ1433 and New Detections of Pb II in the Interstellar Medium," International Astronomical Union General Assembly XXIX, FM12p.15 (2015).
  18. S. R. Federman, N. Heidarian, R. Irving, A. M. Ritchey, D. Ellis, S. Cheng, L. Curtis, and W. Furman (2014), “Lifetimes and Oscillator Strengths for Ultraviolet Transitions in Involving 6s26d 2D and 6s6p3 2D Levels in Pb II,”  228th Meeting of the A.A.S., 116.08 (2016).
  19. S.R. Federman, Negar Heidarian, R.E. Irving, A.M. Ritchey, D.G. Ellis, S. Cheng, L.J. Curtis, and W.A. Furman (2014), “Ultraviolet Transitions Involving ns2nd 2D and nsnp3 2D Levels in Pb II and Sn II,” 12th International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas (2016).
  20. M. M. Junda, K. Ghimire, A. Barnes (2014), L. Karki Gautam, and N. J. Podraza, “Combined Optical Emission Spectroscopy and Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Collected During Thin Film Deposition,” presented by M. M. Junda at the American Vacuum Society 61st International Symposium, Baltimore
  21. N. Dulaney (2016), N. Richardson, C. Gerhartz, J. E. Bjorkman, K. Bjorkman, A. C. Carciofi, L. Wang,  N. D. Morrison, R. Klement, Ritter Observing Team, “ A spectroscopic orbit for the late-type Be star β CMi," 229th Meeting of A.A.S., 151.07 (2016)
  22. P. Chia Thao (2016), N. Richardson,  C. Gerhartz, K. S. Bjorkman, J. E. Bjorkman, J. P. Wisniewski, A. Burrow,  J. R. Lomax, K. R. Covey, “The Be Population in 10 Galactic Open Clusters From the Discovery Channel Telescope," 229th Meeting of A.A.S., 151.06 (2016)
  23. S. R. Federman, N. Heidarian, R. Irving, A. M. Ritchey, D. Ellis, S. Cheng, L. Curtis, and W. Furman (2014), “Lifetimes and Oscillator Strengths for Ultraviolet Transitions in Involving 6s26d 2D and 6s6p3 2D Levels in Pb II, Sn II, and Ge II,”  230th Meeting of the A.A.S., 213.05 (2017).
  24. N. J. Szymanski (2017), L. N. Walters, O. Hellman, D. Gall, S. V. Khare, “Dynamical Stabilization in Delafossite Nitrides for Solar Energy Conversion”, Materials Science and Technology Conference (MS&T 2018), Columbus, Ohio (October 2018).

REU Project Titles and Other References

  1. U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, NCES 2005-171 (2005).
  2. David Lapotto, “Survey of Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE): First Findings,” Cell Biology Education, Vol. 3, 270-277, Winter 2004.
  3. Kody Kamunen (2013), (J. Bjorkman), “Atmospheric Extinction for Ritter Observatory”, (Astrophysics/Astronomy)
  4. Demi St. John (2013), (A. Witt), “Interstellar Dust Cloud Barnard 207”
  5. Daniel Kondratov (2014), (L. Anderson-Huang),”Computer Simulation of Radiation Through a Stellar Atmosphere”, (Astrophysics/Astronomy)
  6. Tyler Frey (2014), (T. Megeath), “Measuring Accretion Rates of Protoplanetary Disks Around Young Stars in Cepheus OB3b”, (Astrophysics/Astronomy)
  7. Sarah Burkhart (2014), (A. Witt), “An Investigation into Interstellar Dust PAHs vs Large Grains”, (Astrophysics/Astronomy)
  8. Sierra Ashley (2015), (A. Witt), “Changes in the Interstellar Radiation Field at High Latitudes”, (Astrophysics/Astronomy)
  9. Amanda Menechella (2015), (S. T. Megeath), “Properties of Proto-Stellar Outflows”, (Astrophysics/Astronomy)
  10. Nick Dulaney (2016), (J. Bjorkman), “A search for the elusive companion to Beta”, (Astrophysics/Astronomy)
  11. Aaron Harder (2016), (A. Witt), “Diffuse Interstellar Bands Strengths in Relation to Ultra-Violet Radiation Intensity”, (Astrophysics/Astronomy)
  12. Pa Chia Thao (2016), (J. Bjorkman), “Finding Be stars in Galactic open star clusters”, (Astrophysics/Astronomy)
  13. Nathan Ross (2013), (D. Ellis/ R. Irving), “Calculating transition probabilities for configurations of interest for Pb II using the new grasp2K relativistic atomic structure package”, (Atomic/Molecular/Optical Physics)
  14. Travis Bean (2014), (T. Kvale), “Characterizing the UNR Velocity Map Imaging System in the Photodetachment Experiments at the UNR-NIRF”, (Atomic/Molecular/Optical Physics)
  15. Ace Furman  (2014), (R. Irving and D. Ellis), “Measurement and Theoretical Calculation of the Radiative Meanlife of the 1433 Å Transition in Pb II”, (Atomic/Molecular/Optical Physics)
  16. Kendra Bergstedt (2015), (D. Ellis, R.Irving), “A Computational and Experimental Determination of F-Values of Sn II Transitions”,  (Atomic/Molecular/Optical Physics)
  17. Julianna Pfadt (2014), (D. Shvydka), “Monte Carlo Simulation of Ionization Chamber Energy Response Function”, (Biological, Health, and Medical Physics)
  18. Nnamdi Ike (2016), (D. Pearson), “Study of SBRT spine patients and MRI’s role in Spinal Cord Delineation”, (Biological, Health, and Medical Physics)
  19. Raul Rodriguez (2016), (D. Shvydka), “Monte Carlo Simulations of radiation dose for soft tissue”, (Biological, Health, and Medical Physics)
  20. Christopher Bisbee (2014), (V. Karpov), “Electric Field Distributions of Cylindrical Filament ReRAM Cells”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  21. Alexa Van Hattum (2014), (J. Amar), “Effects of size-dependent island-edge barriers on submonolayer nucleation, utilizing a modified Union-Find-Delete algorithm”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  22. Ryon Michalak (2014), (M. Heben), “Electron Transport at Low Temperatures in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  23. Brooke Paquin (2014), (Y. Yan), “Zinc Phosphide Thin Films Grown by Close Space Sublimation”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  24. James McCulloch (2015), (D. Shvydka), “Stimulated Metal Whisker Growth”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  25. Dylan  Hamilton (2015), (Y. Yan), “Optimization of Atomic Layer Deposited SnO2 for use as a Buffer Layer in CdTe Solar Cells”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  26. Michael Bowman (2015), (Y. Yan), “Optimization of Cu-doped ZnTe as a Back contact Interface Layer in CdTe Solar Applications”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  27. Tim Alderson (2015), (S. V. Khare), “Optical Properties from first principles computations”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  28. Ed Cichewicz (2016), (V. Karpov), “Resistive Memory Further Analysis of the Coherer”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  29. Shaeley Diemer (2016), (N. Podraza), “Spectroscopic Elipsometery and Quantum Efficiency Analysis of CdTe Solar Cells”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  30. James Windsor (2016), (R. Collins), “Elipsometery Instrumentation”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  31. Sarah Richie (2016), (Y. Yan), “Magnesium Zinc Oxide via Atomic Layer Deposition”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  32. Tim Alderson (2016), (S. V. Khare), “Calculating Optical Properties of Delafossite Nitrides from First Principles”, (Condensed Matter Physics)
  33. John Burt (2014), (S. V. Khare), “Community-Based Ceramics Database for High Performance Coatings”, (Computational Physics)
  34. Mikhael Semaan (2015), (J.Amar), “Submonolayer Growth Sub-Diffusive Walkers”, (Computational Physics)
  35. Devon  Shustarich (2015), (S. V. Khare), “ERoEI of modern nuclear reactors using uranium”, (Computational Physics)
  36. Sean Davis (2016), (J.Amar), “Simulating Annihilation Diffusion Anomolous Diffusion”, (Computational Physics)
  37. Logan Riney (2016), (J.Amar), “Temperature Accelerated Dynamics Simulation of Cu/Ni(110) Growth”, (Computational Physics)
  38. Jacob Noon (2015), (Deck, Amar), “Effects of Confinement on the Relativistic Energy Levels of Hydrogen”, (Mathematical Physics)
  39. Timothy Anderson (2013), (T. Kvale/T. Darling), “X-Ray Film Analysis of X-pinch Plasmas”, (Plasma Physics)
  40. Brandon Schurter (2013), (T. Kvale/T. Darling), “Effective Dosage from Neutron Radiation in NTF's Zebra Bay”Anna Barnes (2014), (N. Podraza), “Plasma Chemistry in Solar Cell Production & Ellipsometric Spectra of LSAT”, (Plasma Physics)
  41. Luke Meech (2014) Christopher Robinette (2014), (T. Darling, B. Hammel, A. Covington, T. Kvale, R. Irving), “Characterization of X-ray emission during X-Pinch Shock Testing with Copper Target”, (Plasma Physics)
  42. Andrew Polasky (2014), (R. Ellingson), “Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance in FeS2 Nanocrystals”, (Plasma Physics)
  43. Hannah Salmon (2015), (N. Podraza), “Optical Emission Spectroscopy of RF Sputter Deposition of Aluminum Doped Zinc Oxide Thin Films”, (Plasma Physics)
  44. Alex Robinette (2015), T. Darling, A. Covington, T. Kvale, R. Irving, “Characterization of X-ray emission during X-Pinch Shock Testing with Copper Target”, (Plasma Physics)
  45. Nathan Szymanski (2017), (S. Khare), "Calculating the Structural, Electronic, and Magnetic Properties of Fe16N2 Doped with Transition Metals", (Computational Physics)
  46. Sean Davis (2017),  (J. Amar), “Escape in diffusion-controlled annihilation”, (Computational Physics)
  47. Heidi Kuchta (2017), (T. Megeath), "Searching for Brown Dwarfs and Ultra-cool Dwarf Stars in the Orion Molecular Cloud", (Astrophysics/Astronomy)
  48. Scott Legeza (2017), (N. Richardson),"Studying the short term photometric and spectroscopic variations in the Wolf Rayet star Gamma 2 Velorum", (Astrophysics/Astronomy)
  49. Christopher Wilton (2017), (R. Chandar), “Globular Clusters in Spiral Galaxies”, (Astrophysics/Astronomy)
  50. “Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research,” Nicholas H. Steneck, US HHS ORI publication; “Little Book of Plagiarism,” Richard A. Posner, Publisher: Pantheon (January 16, 2007), ISBN-10:037542475X; Selected readings provided by the speakers. Seminar series addresses various issues in research, including safe laboratory practices, regulatory compliance issues, and ethics issues in research, scholarship, and creative activities.

 

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