News - Physics Student Research on Show at SRS

The (second!) annual SDSU Student Research Symposium is on this Friday and Saturday (27/28th Feb) in the Aztec Center. Download the full program.

• Friday 8.00am: Opening ceremony (Montezuma Hall),
• Saturday 12:00pm–1:15pm: Reception (Aztec Center Courtyard),
• Saturday 1:15pm–2:30pm: Keynote Address and Awards Presentation (Montezuma Hall).

The following Physics undergraduate and graduate students are presenting their research as part of the various sessions

Oral Session A-13 (Astronomy and Physical Sciences) in the 'Presidential Suite' room has talks by:

• Fri 11:00am - Antonio Talamantes on 'The Search for Bright Variable Stars in Open Cluster NGC 6819.' (Undergrad Research Assistant with Sandquist)
• Fri 11:30am - Oliver Hamil on 'Variational Study of Neutron Star Properties' (Masters with Weber)
• Fri 11:45am - Omair Zubairi on 'The Cosmological Constant and Compact Stars' (Masters with Weber)
• Fri 12:00pm - Melinda Toth on 'Nuclear Equation of State and Neutron Stars' (Masters with Weber)
• Fri 12:15am - Rodrigo Negreiros on 'Cooling of Superconducting Strange Stars' (PhD with Weber)

Oral Session B-6 (Physical Chemistry and Sciences) in the 'Presidential Suite' room has talks by:

• Fri 1:00pm - Derek Padilla on 'Hall effect study of superconducting CaFe₂As₂ under pressure' (Masters with Torikachvili)
• Fri 1:15pm - Kyle Rollin on 'Structure and Properties of Al⁺' (Masters with Bromley)

Poster Session B-1 (Computational Sciences, Mathematics, and Statistics) in the 'Montezuma Hall South' room sees:

• Fri 1:00-2.30pm - Martin Kandes has Poster #2 on 'Ultracold Atom Interferometry in a Circular Waveguide' (PhD with Bromley)

Oral Session B-12 (Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics) in the 'Presidential Suite' room has a talk by:

• Fri 3.30pm - Miguel Villalobos on 'The Effects of Amplitude Modulation and Higher Harmonics Detection on Obtaining Hyperfine Spectra.' (Masters with Morris)

Oral Session B-10 (Biology and Neurobiology) in the 'Casa Real' room has a talk by:

• Fri 4:15pm - Rita Philavanh on 'Mechanical Properties of Simulated Temporary Cross-linked F-actin Polymer Networks' (Undergrad with Baljon)

Poster Session C-1 (Neurophysiology) in the 'Montezuma Hall South' room sees:

• Fri 5.15-6.45pm - Casey Abing has Poster #18 on 'Uncertainties in the BrainLAB Novalis Body/ExacTrac System and Their Clinical Implications' (Masters with Jani)

Oral Session D-7 (Applied Mathematics and Physics) in the 'Quetzalcoatl A' room has a talk by:

• Sat 8:00am - Tyler Otto on 'Modeling The Power Output of Grid Connected Photovoltaic Arrays ' (Masters with Sweedler)
• Sat 8:15am - Charles (Chuck) Tally on 'Computational Modeling of Interactions Between Bose-Einstein Condensates and Ince-Gaussian Laser Beams' (Masters with Bromley)
• Sat 8:30am - Joris Billen on 'Influence of spatial dependence on the eigenvalue spectrum of complex networks' (PhD with Baljon)