Eighth annual physics Graduate Research Day
The 8th Annual Department of Physics & Astronomy Graduate Research Day was held on April 20, 2017.
There was another great program this year that included seven research presentations, a guest lecture, a poster session and a pizza dinner. The guest speaker, Dr. Suneetha Devpura (a former WSU Physics graduate student and now a senior associate physicist at Henry Ford Health System), presented a very interesting talk on Raman spectroscopy for early-stage diagnosis of cancer and assessment of radiation therapy response.
Excellent presentations were made by the following graduate students:
- Amit Kumar, Resolution of the jet quenching parameter q̂ puzzle
- Rachael Merritt, The thermal state of KS 1731−260 after 14.5 years in quiescence
- Derek E. Hazard, Lepton flavor violating quarkonium decays
- Kraig Andrews, High-performance 2D transistors enabled by a novel contact strategy
- Mohammad Saleh, ALICE measures the shape of the QGP fireball at freeze-out
- Jon Troyer, Spectral-timing analysis of neutron star low-mass X-ray binary systems
- Joydeep Roy, Imposing LHC constraints on the combined anomaly and Z'-mediation mechanism of supersymmetry breaking
And congratulations to the poster award winners:
- 1st place - Ayesh Gunawardana
- 2nd place - Justin Raupp
- 3rd place - Nick Elsey
Many thanks to the organizers: Parisa Bashiri, Steven Dye, Nicholas Elsey, Derek Hazard, Edward Kramkowski, Namita Shokeen, Jon Troyer, Xinxin Woodward, Gil Paz and Joern Putschke.