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Four physics majors will present results from cutting-edge research projects conducted under the guidance of faculty members at the Student Research Spectacular noon-1 p.m. today in Gagnon Lecture Hall (room 100), Hugel Science Center.
Sponsored by Physics Club, the event is free and open to the public. Food and drinks will be provided.
The presenters and their topics will be Timothy Bragdon ’04 (Rahway, N.J.), collisions of cold gases; Mayank Lahiri ‘05 (Bombay, India), crystal growth; Malinda Saia ’04 (Turnersville, N.J.), binary stars; and Dan Swarr ’03, physics and medicine.
Bragdon has used the Doppler Effect to investigate the fundamentals of atomic collisions in an EXCEL Scholars project with Andrew Kortyna, assistant professor of physics.
Saia has worked as an EXCEL Scholar with Michael Stark, assistant professor of physics, on a project to understand the orbital motion of Cygnus X-3, a binary system of stars.
Lahiri has collaborated as an EXCEL Scholar with Andrew Dougherty, associate professor of physics, on “The Emergence of Dendritic Crystal Growth,” a project involving his majors in physics and computer science.
In independent study with Bradley Antanaitis, associate professor of physics, Swarr, a Goldwater Scholar, has researched nuclear magnetic resonance because of its relevance to magnetic resonance imaging, a technique he may use one day as a practicing physician.
A National Leader in Undergraduate Research. Malinda Saia ’04 coauthored an article in The Astrophysical Journal with Michael Stark, assistant professor of physics.