Student Posters and Talks

Student Posters

The Student Poster Session will be 9-10am on Sunday, January 19th in the Yale Science Building Pavillion.

  • Abby Mintz, Probing the High-Redshift Circumgalactic Medium Through Quasar Absorption Line Tomography

  • Addison Hartman, From Ion Trap to Particle Accelerator

  • Alexa Anderson, LEGO: Using Dark Clouds in the Milky Way to Understand Distant Galaxies

  • Alexis Demirjian, Searching for Globular Cluster Streams in Andromeda Using the Rolling Hough Transform

  • Allison Erena, Playing with Matches: the Search for AGN in Galaxy Groups

  • Chloe Thorburn, The Heterogeneous Molecular Dynamics of Supercooled Water

  • Clara Richter, Touch Interaction Techniques for Hybrid AR Displays

  • Dahlia Ghoshal, Dispersion-Managed Passive Similariton Fiber Laser

  • Danielle Markowski, Are local group dwarf galaxies primordial: a statistical comparison of the local group dwarf galaxies to the expectations of the first galaxies.

  • Edita Bytyqi, Targeted Correction of Point-Like Aberrations with High-Order Thermal Compensation

  • Elizabeth Ruddy, Developing a Single-Photon Detection Method with Rydberg Atoms for HAYSTAC

  • Guadalupe Duran, Linearity Studies of CMOS Image Sensors

  • Jiankun Wu, Fabricating Focused Acoustic Wave Generators using Thin Film Photolithography

  • Jireh Garcia, Exploring Moiré Band Tunability In van der Waals Materials

  • Kari Henry, Using Stellar Occultation to Estimate the Helium Abundance in Saturn’s Atmosphere

  • Lilianna Houston, Determining Variation of Different AGN Types

  • Mahlet Shiferaw, Building Mock Galaxy Catalogs to Test the Nature of Gravity

  • Manasi Sharma, Real/Bogus Classification for the Palomar Gattini-IR Telescope using Deep Learning

  • Maryann Valerio, Exploring Structure and Magnetism of Potential Skyrmion Hosts in the Filled β-Manganese Structure Cu1.5M0.5(Pt0.7Cu0.3)3B (M = Fe, Ni, Zn)

  • Michaela Guzzetti, A Technique to Differentiate Axion Signals from Radio-Frequency Interference Signals in ADMX

  • Nicole Ford, Optical Properties of Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies with Potential Ionizing Radiation Escape

  • Olivia Cooper, Lensing Masses of 8 Planck-selected Gravitationally Lensed Sub-millimeter Galaxies

  • Polly Pierone, How Modifications to Perovskite Composition Impact Carrier Mobility and Lifetime in Solar Cells

  • Rabeya Hussaini, Four Neutrino Analysis of Reactor Experiments at the Gosgen Nuclear Reactor

  • Rosa Meyo, Characterizing Protein Aggregate Morphology as a Function of Age in C. elegans

  • Samantha Berek, Project AMIGA: Identifying the Circumgalactic Gas Associated with Andromeda and its Dwarf Satellites

  • Shira Rosenberg, Quantifying Single and Multiple Oligonucleotide Hybridization to DNA Hairpins

  • Simona Miller, Modeling the Effective-Spin Distribution of the Binary Black Hole Population

  • Xinrui Zhu, Electric properties at the Interface of Heterostructures 

Student Talks

Student Research Talks will be 10:15-11:30am on Sunday, January 19th in Sloane Physics Laboratory

SPL 57

  • 10:15 Noise Temperature Measurements for HIRAX and CHIME; Maile Harris, Yale University
  • 10:30 Improving drone-based beam mapping using a Real-Time Kinematic GPS; Annie Polish, Yale University
  • 10:45 Optical Properties of Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies with Potential Ionizing Radiation Escape; Nicole Ford, Williams College
  • 11:00 Real/Bogus Classification for the Palomar Gattini-IR Telescope using Deep Learning; Manasi Sharma, Columbia University
  • 11:15 Numerical Solutions for Screened Scalar Fields in Galaxies; Isabel Sands, Yale University 

SCL 110

  • 10:15 Analyzing ITP Data to Characterize Layering and Double Diffusive Convection in the Arctic Ocean; Emma Longhurst, Yale University
  • 10:30 Selective Water Oxidation to H2O2 facilitated by Tunable Band Gap Mn-alloyed TiOx and WOx Thin Films; Grace Callander, Yale University
  • 10:45 Quantifying Single and Multiple Oligonucleotide Hybridization to DNA Hairpins; Shira Rosenberg, Brandeis University
  • 11:00 Polymer-Free Transfer of 2D Materials for Scanning Probe Microscopy and Molecule-Encapsulation Experiments; Lihy Buchbinder, University of New Hampshire

SCL 160

  • 10:15 Ultrashort Laser Pulses for High-Precision Optical Clocks; Dahlia Ghoshal, Columbia University
  • 10:30 Exploring Structure and Magnetism of Potential Skyrmion Hosts in the Filled β-Manganese Structure Cu1.5M0.5(Pt0.7Cu0.3)3B (M = Fe, Ni, Zn); Maryann Valerio, Mt Holyoke College
  • 10:45 Transport measurement in twisted bilayer-bilayer graphene; Thao H. Dinh, MIT
  • 11:00 Controlling Magnetic and Optical Properties in Mixed Halide Compound CrCl_{3-x}Br_x; RuiXi Seet, Brown University

SPL 59

  • 10:15 From Ion Trap to Particle Accelerator; Addison Hartman, Amherst College 
  • 10:30 A Closer Look at Reactor Neutrinos; Rabeya Hussaini, Brandeis University
  • 10:45 Developing a Single-Photon Detection Method with Rydberg Atoms for HAYSTAC; Elizabeth Ruddy, Yale University
  • 11:00 Improving the Calorimeter-Seeded Track Trigger for Mu2e; India Bhalla-Ladd, Yale University
  • 11:15 Calibrating Error Models for the IBM Q Tenerife; Helena Lyng-Olsen, Yale University