Summer 2021 Capstone & Symposium

Physics Research Experience for Undergraduates

August 20, 2021

Zoom room

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Welcome & Introductions

Dr. Joey Key

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Developing Professional Vision for Equity with Periscope Lessons

Andrea Wooley

Western Washington University

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Rachel Scherr

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Sensemaking in circuit analysis: Identifying students' conceptual resources in a small group environment

Beth Gallatin

South Puget Sound Community College

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Amy Robertson

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Computational Modeling: Atmospheric Physics and Climate Change

Adrienne Beggs

Berea College

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Eric Salathé

10:45 AM - 11:05 AM

Heat Wave Projections for the PNW

Chris McJunkin

University of Washington Bothell

Satveer Sandhu

University of Washington Bothell

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Eric Salathé

11:05 AM - 11:15 AM

10 minute break

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

L-CAM Lunar Optical Telescope for Exoplanet Study and Discovery

Carol Miu

Collin College

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Joey Key

11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Identification and Characterization of Ligo Spectral Artifacts

María Notario

University of Washington Seattle

AuDuyen Trinh

University of Washington Seattle

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ansel Neunzert

11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Finding Extremely High-Velocity Outflows in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16 Quasars

Michael Parker

William & Mary

Cora DeFrancesco

University of Oklahoma

Nathnael Kahassi

University of North Carolina

Wendy Garcia Naranjo

University of Washington Bothell

Mikel Charles

University of Washington Bothell

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paola Rodriguez Hidalgo

Placeholder poster

12:20 PM - 12:30 PM

10 minute break

12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

OBSCURE: Determining the Likelihood of Exoplanetary System Configurations from Observational Catalogs

Alicia Palmerin-Jimenez

Colgate College

Myrla Phillipe

Unviersity of Central Florida

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Joesph Glaser

12:50 PM - 1:10 PM

Finding EMRIs in Simulated LISA Data

August Muller

Haverford College

Kaia Smith

Scripps College

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Joey Key

1:10 PM - 1:25 PM

Higher Order Boundary Conditions to Improve Gravitational Waveforms from Binary Black Hole Simulations

Andrew Evans

Sonoma State University

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Luisa T. Buchman

1:25 PM - 1:35 PM

10 minute break

1:35 PM - 1:50 PM

Applications of Thin Films in Optics, Superconductivity, and Surface Science

Cuauhtliztac Nicholas

Green River College

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Subramanian Ramachandran

1:50 PM - 2:05 PM

Preliminary Experiments Involving Thermal Evaporation of Bi₂Te₃ and Seebeck Coefficient Measurements

Justin Heckt

University of Washington Bothell

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Subramanian Ramachandran

2:05 PM - 2:20 PM

Searching for Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays

Christine Ye

Eastlake High School

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeff Hazboun