{"id":1012,"date":"2025-05-27T15:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aholley\/?page_id=1012"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:02:09","slug":"fall-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aholley\/fall-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"underline\"><span style=\"color: #666666;font-size: 1.625rem\">Physics Department\u2019s Undergraduate STEM<\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #666666;font-size: 1.625rem\">Research Seminar: Fall 2025<br><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: revert\"><strong>Monday, Sep. 15<sup>th<\/sup> <\/strong>Dr. Kenneth Long, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aholley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/09\/a_Sep-15-2025_Kenneth_Long_MIT.pdf\">Measuring the mass of the W boson: a portrait of a complex measurement at the Large Hadron Collider<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct. 3<sup>rd<\/sup> <\/strong>Dr. Kanokporn Chattrakun (&#8220;Tu&#8221;), TTU Physics<br><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aholley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/09\/b_Oct-4-2025_Chattrakun_Kanokporn.pdf\">Improved site-specific labeling for smFRET measurements using non-natural incorporation<\/a><br><br><strong>Oct. 17<sup>th<\/sup> <\/strong>DNP\/Fall Break<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct. 24<sup>th<\/sup> <\/strong>SESAPS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct. 31<sup>st<\/sup> <\/strong>Cricket Bergner, TTU Physics<br><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aholley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/c_Oct-31-2025_Cricket_Bergner.pdf\">Sheath-Driven Impurity Modeling for Helicon Wave Operation in DIII-D Using the STRIPE Suite<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 7<sup>th<\/sup> <\/strong>Abigail McCall, TTU Physics<br><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aholley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/11\/d_Nov-7-2025_Abigail_McCall.pdf\">Simplified Analysis of UCNtau+ Monte Carlo Simulations via an Alternate Geometry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 14<sup>th<\/sup> <\/strong>Professor Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Vanderbilt University<br><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aholley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/11\/e_Nov-14-2025_Rithya_Elayavalli_Vanderbilt.pdf\">Back to fundamental QCD &#8211; a tale of quarks and gluons!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 21<sup>st<\/sup> <br><\/strong>Carson Alfaro, TTU Mathematics, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aholley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/11\/f_Nov-21-2025_Carson_Alfaro.pdf\">A SiPM-Based Ultracold Neutron Depolarization Monitor<\/a><br><br>Jack Seger, TTU Physics and Mathematics<br><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aholley\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/11\/g_Nov-21-2025_Jack_Seger.pdf\">Coupling a Quadrupole Beam Deflector to a Laser Ablation Ion Source at the TN Tech Ion Beam Lab<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dec. 5<sup>th<\/sup> <\/strong>Advanced Lab Presentations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><span style=\"color: #999999\"><sub>Click a title to see the abstract<\/sub><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics Department\u2019s Undergraduate STEM&nbsp;Research Seminar: Fall 2025Monday, Sep. 15th Dr. Kenneth Long, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMeasuring the mass of the W boson: a portrait of a complex measurement at the Large Hadron Collider Oct. 3rd Dr. Kanokporn Chattrakun (&#8220;Tu&#8221;), TTU PhysicsImproved site-specific labeling for smFRET measurements using non-natural incorporation Oct. 17th DNP\/Fall Break Oct. 24th &hellip; 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