To provide some perspective on the range of topics that can be investigated in PHYS 590 (Physics Undergraduate Research Thesis) , here is a list of the titles of PHYS 590 projects from years past.
2022-23
- Continuous Changes in Land Suitability Leads to Instabilities in Land Use Planning
- Theory and modelling of gain-compensated localized plasmon modes and gain-modified spontaneous emission rates
- Analysis of Gefran Bellows Position Sensor in the PICO 40-L Bubble Chamber Experiment
- Determining the orientation of the Magnetic Fields of Molecular Clouds based on Polarized Dust Emission Observations
- Modelling cancer progression with dynamical systems of equations
- Acoustic localization of dark matter using machine learning
- Using Radar Backscatter and Multispectral Imagery to Track Glacier Snow Line Altitude in Auyuittuq National Park
- Testing the accuracy of 3D Barolo recovered surface density distributions of simulated Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies
- Open dynamical systems and symbolic dynamics
- Searching for observational evidence of the effect of dark matter on st
- An Investigation of Star Formation in the High Mass Vela C Molecular Cloud
- Self-interacting dark matter spherical capture of white dwarfs
- The Calculation of Vibrational Eigenstates by Sketched Filter Diagonalization in a Lanczos Basis
- Advanced Visualization of Planetary Evolution Models
- Muon tomography with micromegas detectors via Monte Carlo simulations
- Hamiltonian Mean Field Model in One and Two Dimensions
- Simulation of energy transport by dark matter in realistic stars with spin-dependent and spin-independent couplings
- SNO+ Sensitivity to eV2 Scale Sterile Neutrinos
- Training An Artificial Neural Network Using Molecular Dynamics Techniques
- Young Stellar Object Cataloging In Nearby Cepheus Clouds
- Exploring the Galactic Disk: Vertical Waves and Disequilibrium in Stellar Populations using Gaia DR3
- Structural Decompositions of Mock (NIHAO) Galaxies
- Charging and Discharging Behaviors of Stacked Polymer Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells
- Molecular dynamics simulation of argon for dark matter detection
- A Complex Ammonia Spectrum Analysis of KEYSTONE Clouds
- Solving Non-Linear Partial Differential Equations with Population Coding
- Fuzzy Dark Matter Dynamics and the Quasi-Particle Hypothesis
2021-22
- Trade-Offs in Multi-Objective Land Allocation (MOLA) Problems
- Maximal Extension of Spherically Symmetric Static Spacetimes with R2 = 0
- Unsupervised Training with Deep Liquid State Machine in Neural Networks
- Reducing the Broadband Spectrum of a Beam of Light
- Excess 511 keV Emission and Excited Dark Matter
- Validation of collapsed cone model-based dose calculations with Monte-Carlo dose calculations in Ir-192 source high dose rate brachytherapy
- Time-resolved Quantum Photonics
- Real Time Attitude Determination of a Balloon-Borne Telescope Using Onboard Camera
- Statistical Mechanics Analogies applied to Epidemiology and Network-Based SIR Modelling
- Evolution of Galaxy Scaling Relations
- The Ubiquity of Stellar Halos in Virgo Cluster Galaxies
- Self Assembly of Hard-particle Colloids with Specific Geometries
- Examining the Formation of New Start in the VELA C Magnetized Molecular Cloud
- Terahertz Harmonic Generation from Graphene using Bloch Surface Waves
2020-21
- Investigations of Galaxy Structure Based on Numerical Simulations
- Predicting Student Grades Via Machine Learning
- Modelling Sensorimotor Control in a Thalamocortical Microcircuit with a Liquid State Machine
- Automation of firn detection of White Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut through FirnPy.
- Installation and Implementation of a Pharos Femtosecond Laser System & Orpheus-F Optical Parametric Amplifier
- Modelling Sensorimotor Control with a Liquid State Machine
- Using Techniques of Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory to Investigate the Carminati-McLenaghan Invariants Examining algebraic independence and syzygies
- Investigation of the Origin of Class-0 Binary Stars
- The Self-Assembly of 1,3-Dibenzylbenzimidazol on Au(111)
- Horizon Sensor to Determine the Roll and the Pitch of a Balloon-Borne Payload
- The Intrinsic Thickness of Disk Galaxies
- Evidence for Warping of Galaxies by Non-Linear Coupling
- Probing the Dark Sector Through the Production and Evaporation of Microscopic Black Holes at Proton-Proton Colliders
- The Feasibility of Stacked Microring Resonator Based Quantum Gates
- Modelling the Detectability of Subsurface Glaciovolcanic Cavities Using GRASIMU
- Improvement of PICO-60 Machine Learning Techniques
2019-20
- Quantifying Learning in First Year Physics Courses: A Study of the PHYS 104/106 Introductory Labs
- A study of scintillator pulse shape in the SNO+ experiment
- N-body Simulations of the Milky Way-Gaia Enceladus Merger
- Spectroscopy of Microscopic Black Holes from Electron-Positron Collisions
- A Method to Improve the Background Signal Elimination in SNO+
- Radio Catalogue of CHANG-ES Galaxies
- Single primary electron peak finding for simulated data emulating the NEWS-G dark matter detection experiment
- Investigating the Inner Structure of Spiral Galaxies
- A Measurement of Zn-65 Electron-Capture Decays
- Colloidal Pre-Assembly and Alternate Structures
- Coupling of Warps and Spiral in the Kalnajs Disk
- Detector design for horizontal tracking neutrinos for P-ONE
- Chaos Generation by Modeling Continuous Time Recurrent Neural Network
- Existence of Regular Null Coordinates for the Schwarzschild and Vaidya Spacetimes
- A Novel Approach to the Analysis of PICO-40L Data
- A phenomenological model of doping front propagation in polymer light-emitting electrochemical cells
- Analysis of TESS and CoRoT photometry of Plaskett's Star
- The Effect of Notebook Media, Lab Format, and Course Faculty on the Type of Information Recorded in Third Year Undergraduate Physics Laboratory Notebooks
- Applying Threshold Concepts from Vector Calculus to Electromagnetic Theory Education
2018-19
- Reverse Bias Electroluminescence Mechanisms In Frozen p-i-n Junctions Formed In Conjugated Polymer Light Emitted Electrochemical Cells
- Is the magnetic activity of Cepheid variables modulated by pulsation? The case of eta-Aquilae
- Non-Relativistic Effective Operator Handling of Dark Matter Capture by the Sun.
- Structural Properties of Intermediate Mass Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster
- Do Design Labs Promote Problem-Solving?
- Polarization and Polarization Conversion of Transmitted SPR Signal Through Various Grating Structures
- Frequency measurement of surface acoustic waves with a Sagnac interferometer
- A Case Against the Conical Interpretation of the Kerr-Newman-de Sitter r = 0, t = constant Two-Surface
- Cascadia Basin Neutrino detector
- Using Machine Learning to Predict Student Performance in Physics
- The Study of Diversity in Dwarf Galaxy Rotation Curves
- The effect of vertical and in-plane perturbations on the structure of the Galactic disc
- The effect of photon scattering losses on continuous variable quantum teleportation with two-mode squeezed vacuum states
- Students' Transfer of Learning Gap from Vector Calculus to Electromagnetism
- Machine Learning for Image Analysis of the PICO 60L Dark Matter Detector
- A Numerical Ring Model for Galactic Disk Warps
- Gas Flow Optimization for Selective Laser Melting Additive Manufacturing
- Towards Real-Time Exposure Estimation of Time of Flight Camera Images
- Low Temperature Wavelength Shift and I-V Characteristics of InGaAsP Near Infrared Light Emitting Diodes
- Investigating the Feasibility of Supplementing SNO+ Monte Carlo Data with Generative Adversarial Networks
- Approximating the Gravitational Potential Using Multipole Expansions
- Obtaining Approximate Inverses Cheaply For Gaussian Processes
- Simulating the Photocurrent Found in Large Lateral Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells
2017-18
- Quantum trajectory theory applied to cavity-QED systems with coherent optical feedback
- Magnetism In Main Sequence, B-Type Stars
- Determining Spatial Resolution in a Segmented HPGe Detector using Simulated Charge Signals
- Applying A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Fitting Algorithm To Optimize The MINER Experiment Data Acquisition
- Angelic Structure: A 2-Dimensional Computational Analysis of Stellar Haloes in Virgo Cluster Galaxies
- Characterization of salt-doped polymer light emitting devices
- Modelling Rotation Curves of Late-Type Spiral Galaxies
- Commissioning of an optical computed tomography scanner for three-dimensional gel dosimetry
- Modeling Motions of Compact Toroids in the ITER Tokamak
- Challenging the Radial Acceleration Relation's Impacts on Lambda-CDM
- A Comparison of HII Regions in the Optical and Radio Regimes