Senior Thesis Presentations - Chambers, Liu, Mecadon, Mitry and Toth

Time: 2 PM, Friday, May 9th, 2008

Place: P-148 (refreshments will be served at 1:45 PM in P145A)

Wavelength dependent diffraction patterns from a liquid crystal display
Joseph Chambers

Techniques for Improved EFNMR Results
Jason (Hau-Jian) Liu
In Earth's Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (EFNMR), a homogeneous magnetic field is critical in obtaining reliable Free Induction Decay (FID) signals. The Earth's magnetic field assisted by a set of Helmholtz coils is used to create a relatively homogeneous magnetic field. We investigated different techniques for aligning the Helmholtz to Earth's magnetic field and the effects of these techniques on spin-spin relaxation time (T_2*).

Eigenvector Centrality for Decomposable Markov Chains
Kristen Mecadon
Eigenvector importance ranking allows us to define ranks for states of a random walk. If the states are disconnected we have a decomposable walk. The shadow graph can be used to make connections and compare the ranks in different components. The biological motivation for this technique is the graph derived from the distance matrix on phage proteins with the shadow graph linking all proteins in the same phage.

Generating Non-Diffracting Beams Using a Liquid Crystal Display: Bessel, Airy, and Parabolic Beams
Mark Mitry

Nuclear Equation of State and Neutron Stars
Melinda Toth
We study the properties of neutron stars using a new class of relativistic field-theoretical models for the equation of state of ultra-dense nuclear matter.

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