Fall 2018

Physics Department’s Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar: Fall 2018

Sep. 7^th Di’Arra Mostella and Alya Sharbaugh, TTU Physics Majors
Performing Data Analysis and Studying Rare-Event Physics at Yangtze University in Hubei, China through the PIRE-GEMADARC Undergraduate Research Program

Sep. 14^th Andrew Hall, TTU Physics Major
Determination of the Neutron Capture Cross Section of ¹³⁴Xe at    E_n = 4.2 and 5.5 MeV

Sep. 21^st JP Nelms, TTU Mechanical Engineering Major
AeroGuard: Experiences in Fast-Paced R&D in the Defense Sector

Sep. 28^th Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, TTU Chapter
A NASA Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Team Project 

Oct. 12^th Steven Buchanan, TTU Mathematics Major
How Often is the Conclusion of Euclid’s Lemma True?

Oct. 19^th Professor Patrick Brady, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Neutron star mergers – from nuclear physics to cosmology

Nov. 2^nd Dr. Joseph Lukens, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Quantum Optics: What Is and What Should Be

Nov. 16^th Mae Scott, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Probing Neutron Beta Decay with the Nab Experiment

Nov. 30^th Kenneth Long, University of Wisconsin-Madison and TTU alumnus
Searching for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider

Dec. 7^th Sanjay Chakrabarty, Cookeville High School
Simulating an Ultracold Neutron Depolarization Experiment to Verify the Integrity of an Analysis Model

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