Old Dominion University
Department of Physics
Physics Undergraduate Seniors' Day
Tuesday April 28, 2015
Senior Thesis Presentations
2:15 - 2:45 pm.
Refreshments in OCNPS First floor Atrium
2:45 - 2:55 pm.
Welcome and Introduction in Scale-Up (OCNPS 142 - 144)
3:00 - 5:00 pm.
Senior Thesis Presentations
Scale-Up Room OCNPS 142-144 and ECSB 1202 Auditorium (CAVE)
Senior Thesis Presenters
(Two Parallel Sessions)
| Presenter | CAVE | Time | SCALE-UP | Presenter |
| Katheryne McMahan Scintillator Testing and Repair for the Large Acceptance Detector at Jefferson Lab. |
C1 | 3:00 - 3:15 pm. | S1 | Mathieu Ehrhart Beamline Magnet Studies for the Heavy Photon Search Experiment at Jefferson Lab. |
| Cameron Nunez Comparing Phase Shifts of the Finite Potential Well to that of the Periodically Bound Case. |
C2 | 3:15 - 3:30 pm. | S2 | Matthew Vogel Neutrino Oscillations in Vacuum and Matter. |
| Nathaniel Schirle Signal Propagation and Attenuation in Different Cable Types. |
C3 | 3:30 - 3:45 pm. | S3 | Cory Gruber Modeling Transverse Structure of the Pion Distribution Amplitude. |
| Sean Babcock Investigation of the Effects of Recombination Processes on the Performance of Organic Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaics. |
C4 | 3:45 - 4:00 pm. | S4 | Victoria Lagerquist Observation of Symbiotic Binary Systems in Cygnus. |
| Jon-Michael Glick Mechanics of the Double Pendulum and An Analytic Study of the Logistic Function and Chaos. |
C5 | 4:00 - 4:15 pm. | S5 | Christopher Cotnoir A Hybrid Nature-Inspired Algorithm for a Multidimensional Nonlinear Optimization with Applications to Biology. |
| Mark Stefani Wavelet-Based Noise-Reduction Techniques in Tomography With Application to Plasma and Accelerator Physics. |
C6 | 4:15 - 4:30 pm. | S6 | Frank Berardi NMR for Polarized Nuclei in an Inhomogeneous Magnetic RF Field. |
| David Gary Elastic Scattering as a measure of Luminosity in an Electron-Ion Collider. |
C7 | 4:30 - 4:45.pm. | S7 | Anthony Sciola Charge Exchange Process for Impact Between Low-Z Ions and Atomic Hydrogen. |
| Josh Frechem Photometric Survey of Symbiotic Binary Systems in the Northern Hemisphere Using the Goddard Robotic Telescope. |
C8 | 4:45 - 5:00 pm. | S8 | Sonja Schimmers-Wood The Testing of Scintillation Detectors for the CLAS TOF system. |