XXVII - ROCHESTER SYMPOSIUM
FOR PHYSICS (ASTRONOMY & OPTICS) STUDENTS
SPS Zone 2 Regional Meeting


April 5, 2008
 
PROGRAM


  
8:00-8:30                RSPS Registration: Bausch and Lomb Lobby

8:45-9:00                Bausch and Lomb Hall, Room 109

                                Introduction and welcome:  Prof. Frank Wolfs, University of Rochester

 

Presentation Session I

9:00-10:15                Bausch and Lomb Hall , Room 109:  Condensed Matter, Quantum Optics, and Biological Physics

                                 Session Chair: Prof. Robert Pompi, Binghamton University

9:00                          A Study of Tailored Oriented Microstructures in Thin Silver Films using
                                 Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD)
                                    Bethany Little, Brandon Hoffman, and Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton College

9:15                          Series Resistance Measurements of Nanostructured Solar Cells
                                    Elliott Miller and Prof. Seth Hubbard, Rochester Institute of Technology                                   

9:30                          Optical Isolator
                                    Jane Cornett and Prof. Kenneth Segall, Colgate College

9:45                          Automated Beam Positioning and Control for a Double Pump Probe Experiment
                                    Chi-Feng Ching and Lieutenant Colonel Hartke, United States Military Academy, West Point

10:00                        Information Rate Optimization of the Squid Giant Axon
                                    Jeffrey Seely and Prof. Patrick Crotty, Colgate University



Poster Session and Coffee Break
 
10:15-10:45               Bausch and Lomb Hall, Room 208:

                                  Design and Construction of a Deposition Chamber for Thin Metal Films Research
                                    Kurt Aikens, Brandon Hoffman, and Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton College
  
                                  The Houghton College Cyclotron:  Results and Modifications
                                    Daniel Haas, Andrew Loucks, and Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton College


 
Presentation Session II
 
10:45-12:00              Bausch and Lomb Hall, Room 109:  Experimental  Nuclear and Particle Physics

                                 Session Chair:  Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton College

10:45                        Construction of an NMR System for Measurement of Fundamental Symmetries
                                    Jason Laffin and Prof. Mark Rosenberry, Siena College

11:00                        Cosmic Ray Muon Imaging and Decay and Capture Process Detection
                                    Elizabeth Pollock, Eric Henry and Prof. Udo Schröder, University of Rochester                                     

11:15                        Neutron Induced Deuteron Breakup
                                    Steve Thomson, Daniel Haas, and Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton College

11:30                        Hadronic Jets and Clustering Algorithms in CMS
                                    Zhen Qi and Prof. Regina Demina, University of Rochester

11:45                        Analysis of Momentum Resolution in VLE Beamlines
                                     Jordan Webster and Prof. Regina Demina, University of Rochester
              

10:45-12:00              Bausch and Lomb Hall, Room 106:  Theoretical Particle Physics


                                 Session Chair:  Prof. Stanley Radford, State University of New York at Brockport

10:45                        Non-Standard Couplings in Third Generation Vertices
                                    Stephan Piotrowski and Prof. Charles Nelson, Binghamton University

11:00                        Para-Majorana Fermions
                                    Joshua Julian and Prof. Charles Nelson, Binghamton University

11:15                        Normal Ordered Matrix Representation and Paraparticle State Space
                                    Shan Huang and Prof. Charles Nelson, Binghamton University
 
11:30                        Discussion of Projection Operators and Para-Fock Spaces
                                    Matthew Dornfeld and Prof. Charles Nelson, Binghamton University
 
11:45                        Discussion of the Projection Operators for One and Two Mode Parafermions
                                    Dustin Pardo and Prof. Charles Nelson, Binghamton University

 
12:15-1:15                Lunch - Meliora Faculty Club, Salon D
 
Special Session
 
1:15-2:15                    Hoyt Auditorium:  
 
1:15                            Physics Jeopardy Game
                                        Krystle Williams, Zone 2 SPS Associate Councilor,  University of Rochester Medical Center

 
Presentation Session III
 
2:15-3:15                    Bausch and Lomb Hall, Room 109:  Astronomy

                                    Session Chair:  Prof. Lieutenant Colonel Hartke, United States Military Academy West Point
 
2:15                            The Dependence of Galaxy Colors to Magnitude and Environment at 0.5<z<1.5
                                        Konstantinos Vilaetis and Prof. Eric McKenzie, Colgate University
 
2:30                            Data Reduction Procedures for the SUNY Oswego/NOAO/University of Illinois IR LMC Survey
                                        Travis Rooker, Frank Ripple, D. Crain, G. Feiden, and Profs. Sashi Kanbur, L. Macri, C. Ngeow,
                                        State University of New York at Oswego
 
2:45                            Photometry Procedures for the SUNY Oswego/NOAO/University of Illinois IR LMC Survey
                                        Frank Ripple, Travis Rooker, and Profs. Sashi Kanbur, L. Macri, C. Ngeow,
                                        State University of New York at Oswego

 
3:15                            Refreshments to Go, Bausch and Lomb Hall, Lobby (LLE TOUR)