| Student |
Mentor |
Year |
Project (Quotes surround titles of presentations and student papers) |
Journal publications
and awards |
| BHess, BToulan, BGlezer |
Lowe |
S2020 |
"Modeling protein-DNA complexes" |
|
| SHiggs and MSpear |
Ganem |
S2020 |
"A Generalized Model of Temperature-Dependent Light Absorption for the Visible and Near-infrared in Thulium-doped YAG"
|
|
| EMullen |
Lowe |
SP2020 |
"An Introduction to Quantum Computing" |
|
| KMarcelino |
Lowe |
SP2020 |
"Laser and Single Photon Interference" |
|
| CHabig |
Erdas |
2019 |
"The Casimir Effect for a Lorentz-Violating Scalar Field" |
|
| KMarcelino and EGarzon |
Ganem |
2019 |
"Measuring and Modeling the Optical Absorptions in Thulium-Doped Materials" |
|
| KSullivan |
Lowe |
S2017 and S2018 |
"High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy of Carbon Nanotube Porins in Supported Lipid Bilayers" |
Conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and at Loyola."Carbon nanotube porin diffusion in mixed composition supported lipid bilayers," Scientific Reports - Nature, vol. 10, no. 1. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-68059-2. |
| JLopez |
Lowe |
S2017 |
"Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Carbon Nanotubes in Lipid-Cholesterol Bilayers" |
Poster award at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Article cited under KSullivan. |
| ZMetzler |
Erdas |
2017 |
Magnetic effects on neutrino masses |
“Magnetic field effects on neutrino oscillations,” Int. J. Mod. Phys. A34, 1950121 (2019) |
| DSpatz |
Erdas |
2016 |
"The Spherical Casimir Effect for a Massive Scalar Field" |
|
| AH |
Jones |
S2016 |
Quantum chemistry |
|
| JL and MD |
Lowe |
S2016 |
Molecular dynamics simulations on proteins |
|
| BR |
Lowe |
S2015 |
Atomic force microscopy |
|
| MK |
Derry |
S2013 and S2014
|
"Techniques to measure the work function of clean metals"
|
AAPT Chesapeake Section Fall 2014 "Best Student Talk" with Eli Worth |
| EW |
Derry
|
S2014 |
"Contact potential difference to measure the work function"
|
AAPT Chesapeake Section Fall 2014 "Best Student Talk" with Megan Kern |
| GW |
Ganem |
S2014 |
"Modeling the energy levels of a laser with temperature dependence"
|
|
| AK |
Erdas |
S2014 |
"Spherical Casimir effect"
|
|
| SM |
Army Research Lab |
S2013 and S2014
|
|
|
| SM |
Lowe |
Fall 2013
|
"Brownian motion of a hard disk gas"
|
2014 Loyola Undergrad Student Research and Scholarship, poster award
|
SM and CK
|
Lowe |
Fall 2013
|
"Measurement of the NA in an optical fiber"
|
|
| CK |
Lowe |
Fall 2013
|
"Phase transitions in small clusters"
|
|
| OO |
Erdas |
Summer 2013 |
"Elliptic integrals in classical mechanics"
|
|
| KS |
REU: Lehigh Univ
|
Summer 2013 |
|
|
| KS |
Erdas |
S2011 and S2012 |
"The Finite Temperature Casimir Effect for Scalar Fields in an External Magnetic Field"
Presentations:
AAPT Chesapeake Section Fall 2011 Meeting
National Conference on Undergraduate Research March 2012, "Chosen from more than 3,500 submissions, your abstract demonstrates a unique contribution to your field of study and we are pleased to offer you the opportunity to present your work to your peers, faculty, and staff from around the world"
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Publications:
"Finite temperature Casimir effect for charged massless scalars in a magnetic field," Phys. Rev. D 88.10 (2013): 105007.
"Finite temperature Casimir effect for charged massive scalars in a magnetic field," Int'l J. Modern Phys A (2014) 29:17.
Awards:
AAPT Chesapeake Section "Best Student Talk" Award
American Physical Society's 2014 Apker Award
2013 Goldwater Fellowship Winner and 2012 Goldwater Fellowship Honorable Mention
|
| AK |
Ganem |
Summer 2012 |
|
|
DK and MD
|
Bozzolo |
|
Nanowires |
"Atomistic modeling of the formation and stability of Ni and V nanowires on a stepped Rh(553) substrate," Int'l J. Nanoscience (2010) 9, 413-422.
|
| DK |
Jones |
Spring 2012 |
Electronic Structure Calculations of Small Collections of Metal Atoms |
|
| YK |
Lowe |
S2011 & AY11-12 |
"Mixing of Two Fluids in a Channel" |
|
| SW |
Lowe |
Summer 2011 |
"Structural Analysis of the Effect of Sugar on the Protein AraC" |
|
| RK |
Jones |
Fall 2011 |
Computations on Nano Particle Alloys |
|
| RK |
REU: George Mason U. |
Summer 2010 |
Varying the initial conditions of polycrystalline grain growth simulations |
Talk at conference |
| PLP |
REU: Harvard-Smithsonian |
Summer 2010 |
“Using GPUs for Next-Generation Radio Telescopes" |
Article in Parallel Computing (in review) |
| AZ |
Derry |
Summer 2010 |
Designing a retarding potential electron lens for use in an energy dispersive spectrometer |
|
| AO |
Ganem |
Summer 2010 |
Synthesis and characterization of infrared optical materials |
|
| RJ |
Derry |
Summer 2010 |
Improving the reliability and accuracy of work function difference measurements using a vibrating capacitor device |
|
| MD |
Lowe |
Summer 2010 |
“Experiments and Computations of Horizontal Soap Films” |
|
| AZ |
Derry and Bozzolo |
Spring 2010 |
Use of a quantum approximate calculational tool to study alloy nanowires |
|
| LOB |
Derry |
Spring 2010 |
Relationships between the technological advances and business economics of photovoltaics (solar cells) |
|
| MP |
Derry |
Spring 2010 |
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos in the human menstrual cycle |
|
| DG |
Lowe and
Schleif (JHU) |
Summer 2009, Spring 2010 |
“A Computational Study to Determine the Structural Differences Between the Wild Type and a Mutant of the Protein AraC” |
First place, 12th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, Group I Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UMBC Oct. 2009 |
| PLP |
Christian (Albrechts U.) |
Summer 2009 |
Simulations of dusty plasmas |
Poster, APS Plasma Physics, Nov. 2009 |
| JD |
Jones |
Summer 2009 |
Search for kinetic energy density functionals |
|
| LB |
Lowe and Bailey |
Summer 2009 |
“A Soap Film Apparatus to Study Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Phenomena” |
"A soap film apparatus to study two-dim hydrodynamic phenomena," Proceedings of the ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section conference, 2009.
|
| MM |
Bailey (ES)
and Lowe |
Summer 2008 |
Soap film tunnel |
|
| KR |
Bailey (ES)
and Lowe |
Summer 2008 |
Biodiesel production |
|
| PL |
Lowe and
Schleif (JHU) |
Summer 2008 |
The use of CHARMM in analyzing tetracycline repressor (TetR) |
First place, UMBC 11th Undergrad. Res. Symp., Poster Sess. II, Grp O, Oct. 2008 |
| JD |
internship |
Summer 2007, 2008 |
NSTec, Associate Scientist |
|
| CE |
Derry |
Summer 2007, 2008 |
Studying the surface of a AgAu Alloy and a NiPd Overlayer system, experimental and computational |
|
| DH |
Ganem |
Summer 2006, 2007 |
Crystal growth and IR optical spectroscopy |
|
| RH |
Space Telescope Science Institute |
Summer 2006 |
|
|
| CG |
Space Telescope Science Institute |
Summer 2006 |
|
|
| ET |
internship |
2005-2006 |
Verizon Federal Network Systems |
National Security Agency Scholarship |
| RH |
Lowe and
Livas (LEOS) |
Summer 2005 |
“Gaussian beam optics” |
|
| CG |
Erdas and Lowe |
Summer and Fall 2005 |
“Calculating the solar neutrino flux using the Tsallis distribution for a non-ideal plasma” |
First place talks, CSAAPT mtg, paper in J. Wash. Acad Sciences |
|
RW
(grad student)
|
Derry |
2003 and earlier |
Structure/composition of silver/gold alloy surfaces studied with LEED |
|
| ML |
Ganem |
Summer 2003, 2004 |
Low-phonon energy laser material research |
|
| QP |
Jones |
Summer 2003 |
"Computational Simulation of Metal Surfaces" |
|
| EF |
Lowe and
Rivers (biology) |
Summer and Fall 2004 for credit |
"Application of a Multiplexed, Bead-Based Method to the Identification of Parasitic Wasps" |
Second place UMBC Undergrad Res Symp; First place Loyola Research |
| MM |
Lowe and
Peyrot (sociology) |
Summer and Fall 2003 for credit |
"Fluorescence Detection of Solid Phase PCR on Microspheres;" "Risk and Acceptability of Bioremediation Options" |
First place in UMBC 6th Ann. Undergrad. Res. Symp., Poster Sess. 2, Grp G |
| EK |
Derry |
2001 |
Structure/composition of silver/gold alloy surfaces studied with LEED |
|
| LG |
Lowe |
2001 |
Molecular biology work for bead-based, flow cytometric detection method |
|
| JC |
Ganem |
Summer 2000 |
Low-phonon energy laser material research |
Phys. Rev. B |
| JW |
Derry and Jones |
Summer 2000 |
"Computational Physics: From Surface Structure to Surface Waves; from Atoms to Ocean" |
|
| EvdS |
Lowe and
Din (biology) |
1999-2000 |
Molecular biology work for bead-based, flow cytometric detection method |
|
| SE |
Lowe and Delcher
(computer science) |
1999-2003 for credit |
Various experimental and computational projects involving determination of oligonucleotide probes |
FEMS, Nucleic Acids Research |
| CS |
Lowe |
AY 1999-2000
for credit |
Molecular biology work for bead-based, flow cytometric detection method |
FEMS |
| BM |
Ganem |
Summer 1999 |
Low-phonon energy laser material research |
|
| JR |
Ganem |
Summer 1999 |
Low-phonon energy laser material research |
|
| SW |
Derry |
1999 |
Structure/composition of silver/gold alloy surfaces studied with LEED |
|
| KS |
Lowe and
Robb (UMBI) |
AY 1998-1999 for credit |
Molecular biology work for bead-based, flow cytometric detection method FEMS |
|
| PS |
Ganem |
Summer 1997, 1998 |
Low-phonon energy laser material research |
Phys. Rev. B |
DH and ML
|
Ganem |
|
|
"Optically-pumped mid-IR phosphor using Tm3+-sensitized Pr3+-doped KPb2Cl5," J. Opti. Soc Am. B, 27 (2010) 2384-2392.
|
FS and SE
|
Derry |
|
|
"Segregation and interlayer relaxation at the NiPd(111) surface," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A (2011) 29, 011015-1 through 4.
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