Research

Joseph Pincura presented “A Search for Echoes of Old Tidal Disruption Events” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Late Times Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are objects where the supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy disrupts and accretes a star […]

Brandon Niese ’19 presented “Biophysics: fabrication and testing of microconstriction array microfluidic devices for characterizing cancer cell mechanical properties” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference in March. Niese is an Engineering Physics major n the Honors Tutorial College. He worked in Dr. David Tees’ biophysics lab. […]

Miles Lindquist presented “Optimization of a growth process for as-grown 2D materials-based devices” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Working under the direction of Dr. Eric Stinaff, Lindquist has been using photolithog­raphy to produce metallic patterns. He grows single layer films which […]

Jamison Lahman presented “The Structure of White Dwarfs” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Lahman studied with Dr. Madappah Prakash during the summer and learned computational techniques required to solve non-trivial problems encountered in many branches of physics and astrophysics through several projects. […]

Esther Grossman presented “Simulation of Glass Formation Near Covalently Grafted Nanoparticles” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Grossman was awarded an 11-week NSF-sponsored REU grant (Research Experience for Undergraduates). She worked with Professor David Simmons in the Department of Polymer Engineering at […]

Taylor Gardner  presented “Spatial Distributions of Type 1a Supernovae in Early-Type Galaxies” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Gardner studied Type Ia supernovae under the direction of Dr. Ryan Chornock. Type Ia supernovae (also known as SNe Ia) are produced by the explosions of white […]

Jack Bruno presented “Pulsed Laser Deposition”at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Bruno worked in Dr. Arthur Smith’s lab and completed the setup of an exci­mer pulsed laser deposition system. After finishing the setup, Jack did the first tests of firing the laser […]