Parallel Talks

Hot Topics in Physics and Student Flash Talks will occur during the Parallel Talks session from 10:55 to 11:40am on Saturday, January 18th, 2020.

Hot Topics in Physics provide topical reports on subfields of Physics presented by Graduate students. Presenters will speak in the order listed as follows:

– Nancy Aggarwal
– Andrea Bryant
– Nidhi Pashine
– Aziza Suleymanzade

Student Flash Talks are 3-5 minute presentations given by undergraduate conference attendees about their research or another physics-related topic of interest to them.
Titles and speakers are listed below in scheduled order.

“Study of Immediate Effects of High Impact Collisions in College Football”
Presented by Natalia Kucharcyk

“Accelerator Mass Spectrometry“
Presented by Erin Markel

“Dark Matter in the Early Universe“
Presented by Shalma Wegsman

“Relativistic Magnetic Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and Global Simulations of an Accreting Black Hole“
Presented by Yufeng Du

“Online Monitoring of the ICARUS-T600 Detector at Fermilab“
Presented by Olivia Bitter

“Alignment of the COronal Spectrographic Imager in the Extreme ultraviolet (COSIE)“
Presented by Gabrielle Beach

“Nanotextured 2D Materials“
Presented by Maritha Wang

“A Novel Method of Measuring Airplane Thrust“
Presented by Margaret Capalbo

“The Impact of Solar Wind Ion Sputtering on the Surface and Exosphere of Mercury“
Presented by Rebecca Carmack

“Searching for Infrared Galaxies in the MUSE Optical Data“
Presented by Kathryn Downey

“Distributing Nonlocality Using Local States“
Presented by Sarah Hagen

“Effect of supplementary videos on scientific reasoning in a general physics course“
Presented by Amber Sammons

“Role of the Extracellular Matrix in High-Grade Glioma Self-Organization“
Presented by Anna Argento

“The causes of the shortage of women engineers in the U.S“
Presented by Yoselin Serrano