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
- William J. Bertrand
Investigating Subglacial Quarrying with Rock Fracture Simulations - Loubna El Meddah El Idrissi
Automating Reading Digital and Analog Meters using Machine Learning: a Gasmeter Implementation - Jakob Tristan Faber
Branched Flow in the Interstellar Medium - Tian Liang
Energy and Greenhouse Gas Savings for LEED-Certified U.S. Office Buildings Using Weighted Regressions - Esme Rubinstein
Modeling Hydrogen Isotope Separation in Three Well-Characterized MOFs - Hengrui Zhu
Pulsar Double-lensing Event Sheds Light on the Origin of Extreme Scattering Events
- John Freiberg
Emergence of Tides during Binary Black Hole Inspirals in Numerical Relativity - Daniel Mukasa
Development of a Highly Selective Deuterium-Hydrogen Separation Process - Sun Yool Park
Construction of a Single Beam SERF Magnetometer using Potassium Atoms for GNOME - Katharine Rigdon
A Gas Flow-Through System for Hydrogen Isotopic Separation with Metal-Organic Frameworks