REU Cohorts
2023 Cohort
Name | University | Research Project |
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Achintya Krishnan | University of Wisconsin-Madison | AGN Variability at Millimeter Wavelengths (Vieira) |
Andrew Clarke | Iowa State University | A New LED-Based Calibration System for the ATLAS and CMS ZDC in the HL-LHC Era (Grosse Perdekamp) |
Annette Kwasniewski | Elmhurst University (IL) | Characterization of a Laser-Based Broadband Terahertz Source (Filippini) |
Dennis Mollinedo Gutierrez | University of Hawai'i Maui College | Molecular Dynamic Simulations of DNA Origami Virus Traps (Aksimentiev) |
Eowyn Acres | University of California, Santa Cruz | Optimization of Protein Counting Methods for Degradosome (Kim) |
Hana ElSayed | The University of Toledo (OH) | Plant Material Characterization for Bioenergy Applications (Snyder) |
Joshua (Jay) Graves | Morehouse College (GA) | Investigating Quantum Secret Sharing Schemes (Chitambar) |
Kaitlyn Prokup | Carthage College (WI) | Bias Away From GR Due to Missing Spin-Precession, Eccentricity, and Higher Modes in GR Waveform Models (Yunes) |
Kendall Fletcher | Sonoma State University (CA) | High z Sources of Dusty Star Forming Galaxies (Vieira) |
Leonardo Pena | University of Texas at El Paso | Searching for a QCD Critical Point at Finite Strangeness Densities using a Bayesian Analysis in a Holographic Model (Jaki Noronha-Hostler) |
Melanie Huq | Amherst College (MA) | Probing Glassy Behaviour Determined by Transport in Antiferromagnet Fe1/3NbS2 (Mason) |
Omri Raz | King's College London | High-Fidelity State Tomography for Enhanced Quantum Control (Pfaff) |
Spencer Kirkman | San Francisco State University (CA) | Approximating KOH Etching (Kou) |
Tegan (T) Thomas | Washington University in St. Louis (MO) | Exploring Modified Gravity Theories in Simulated Images of Supermassive Black Holes (Gammie) |
Yashasvi Moon* | Missouri State University | South Pole Telescope Duty Cycle for Galactic Plane (Vieira) |
* An international student
2022 Cohort
Name | University | Research Project |
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Abhishek Karve* | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Rydberg Atom Quantum Gates & Computational Phase Change of Random Max-Cut using QAOA (Covey) |
Amanda Leveritt | Parkland College (IL) | sPHENIX Electromagnetic Calorimeter Block (Sickles) |
Caitlin Kubina** | St Mary’s College (MD) | Rydberg Atom Quantum Gates & Computational Phase Change of Random Max-Cut using QAOA (Covey) |
Chevy Cecil** | San Joaquin Delta College (CA) | Dynamics of Quantum Many-Body Systems (Vishveshwara) |
David Wacaser | McHenry County College (IL) | Visualization Photon Polarization Tomography (Snyder) |
Driss El Andlosy | Parkland College (IL) | Proteins into Human Cells (Gruebele) |
Emily Dillingham | Berea College (KY) | Love Relations of Neutron Stars (Noronha-Hostler) |
Emily Finson | Rochester Institute of Technology (NY) | Entanglement. in Topol. Sts., Pt. Grp. Symmetries (Hughes) |
Erin Trost | Roanoke College (VA) | Non-Equilibrium and Disorder in Ferroelectrics (Colla) |
Ethan Lowder | Illinois Wesleyan University | Auto. Measurement Program for Fluxonium (A. Kuo) |
Isaiah Alvarez | Western Kentucky University | Electrical Properties of Superconductors (Mason) |
Luke Villarama | California State University Los Angeles | GUI - Brownian Diffusion in Bacterial Cells (Kim) |
Lydon Bindal | The Ohio State University | Synthesizing Topological Metamaterials (Gadway) |
Mandela Phillips | Parkland College (IL) | ZDC in a High Rad. Environment (Grosse Perdekamp) |
Marshall Horton | Parkland College (IL) | Carbon Fiber Trusses for SPIDER and TIM (Filippini) |
Michael Norlander** | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Dynamics of Quantum Many-Body Systems (Vishveshwara) |
Talia Long | Monmouth College (IL) | DNA Replication in JCVI-Syn3A (Luthey-Schulten) |
* IIQURS student supported by IBM and NSF QLCI-HQAN (#2016136) and an international student
** IIQURS students supported by IBM and NSF QLCI-HQAN (#2016136)