Physics and Astronomy
Physics Honors Program
The Honors Program in physics is open to outstanding senior-year majors at the invitation of the department faculty.
Students in this program will normally be expected to complete the graduate study preparation program and must carry out a special project in experimental or theoretical physics or astrophysics under the direction of a member of the department.
Honors students write a thesis based on their work and take comprehensive examinations. The physics major requirement of Physics 414 may be waived upon request for an honors student whose project is in experimental physics.
Physics Honors Projects
- Julian Kennedy
Simulating the Fermi Bubbles in Milky-Way-Like Galaxies - Iago Braz Mendes
Isometric Embeddings of Black Holes: Numerical Horizons in Euclidean Space - Felix Weber
Detecting Gravitational Waves with Pulsars: Optimally Correcting for Interstellar Delays - Shuran Zhu
Quantal Time Evolution in the Simple Harmonic Oscillator and the Constant-force Potentials: Analytic Solutions
- Eduardo Castro Munoz
Design and Construction of an Induction Coil Magnetometer for the Advanced SNIPE Hunt - Michele Eggleston
Using Electroabsorption to Determine the Exciton Properties of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perivoskites - Heather Pearson
Building and Modeling a Nuclear Spin Oscillator for the Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter - Sammy Siegel
A Two-screen Model of the Variable Scintillation of Pulsar B1737+13 - Niels Vanderloo
Gas-puff Z-Pinch Simulations Using the FLASH Code
- Aidan Khelil
Characterizing AGN Influence on the Calculated Metallicities of Adjacent Star-Forming Spaxels - Harry Mayrhofer
Solving Differential Equations using the Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method - James Sullivan
Geometric Scattering Delays in Pulsar Scattering - Dhruv Tandon
Excess Power Analysis Method for the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic Physics (GNOME)