8:00-8:25 RSPS
Registration: Bausch and Lomb Lobby
8:30-8:45 Bausch
and Lomb Hall, Room 109:
Introduction
and welcome: Prof. Frank Wolfs, University
of Rochester
8:45-9:45 Bausch
and Lomb Hall, Room 109: Quantum Optics
Session
Chair: Prof. Mitra Feizabadi, Canisius
College
8:45 The
Design and Physics of Optical Trapping
Joe
Shatzel, Prof. Mitra Feizebadi, Canisius College
9:00 Violating
the Bell-Kocken-Speaker Inequality with a Single Photon Entangled State
Bryce
Gadway, Prof. Enrique Galvez, Colgate University
9:15 Trapping
and Rotating Objects with Laguerre-Gaussian Beams
Nikolay
Zhelev, Prof. Enrique Galvez, Colgate University
9:30 Construction of Optical Mode Converters for use in Bose Einstein Condensate Studies
Kristin
Beck, Prof. Nicholas Bigelow, University of Rochester
8:45-10:00 Bausch
and Lomb Hall, Room 106: Astronomy/Gravitational
Physics
Session
Chair: Prof. Shashi Kanbur, State
University of New York at Oswego
8:45 Electron Speckle Pattern Interferometry (ESPI) Phase Analysis with a Temporal Hilbert Transform Atmosphere Disturbances
Venkat
Motupalli, Gegory Schwartz, Chad Giacomozzi, and Lt. Colonel John
Hartke, United States Military Academy, West Point
9:00 Detection
of Extremely Small Silicates
Alex
Kitt, State University of New York at Buffalo and
Prof. William Forrest and Ben Sargent, University of Rochester
9:15 Determining the Fate of Star-Forming Cluster Galaxies
Corey
Snitchler and Prof. Rose Finn, Siena College
9:30 Period-Color and Amplitude-Color Relations in the Sloan RR Lyrae Sample
Christina
Phelps and Prof. Shashi Kanbur, State University of New York at Oswego
9:45 A Theoretical Investigation into the Properties of RR Lyraes at Maximum and Minimum Light
Gregory
Feiden and Prof. Shashi Kanbur, State
University of New York at Oswego
8:45-10:00 Bausch
and Lomb Hall, Room 407: Nuclear and Particle Physics I
Session
Chair: Prof. Michael Vineyard, Union
College
8:45 Detection and Analysis of Cosmic Ray Showers
Jordan
Webster, Robert Bradford, and Prof. Kevin McFarland, University of
Rochester
9:00 Electron Scattering and Pion Production in Relation to Neutrino-Nucleon Interactions
Elizabeth
Scherrer and Prof. Kevin McFarland, University of Rochester
9:15 Fiducial Cuts for the Jefferson Lab CLAS G3 Data Set
Richard Bonventre, Elliot Imler,
Christian Shultz, and Prof. Michael Vineyard, Union College
9:30 Momentum Corrections for the Jefferson Lab CLAS G1c and G3a Data Sets
Christian
Shultz, Richard Bonventre, Elliot Imler, and Prof. Michael Vineyard,
Union College
9:45 Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVTX) and the CAEN SY1527 Universal Multichannel Power Supply System
Fook-Chin Chiang, University of Rochester and Prof. Axel Drees and Harry Themann, State University of New York at Stony Brook
10:00-10:30 Bausch
and Lomb Hall, Room 208: Coffee Break
Mathematical Model of Cancer Treatment: Immunotherapy and Chemotherapy
Christian
Volk and Prof. Mitra Feizabadi, Canisius College
The Mobility of Taxol in Microtubule Bundles
Joseph
Shatzel and Prof. Mitra Feizabadi, Canisius College
Investigating Nuclear D++ Components with the (n,2p) Reaction
Kirby Runyon,
Jeffrey De Young, Steven Wallace, and Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton College
Design
and Construction of a Variable Temperature Atomic Force Microscope
Bethany
Little and Prof. Brandon Hoffman, Houghton College
Optimal Coupling in Acoustic Pipes
Nicholas
Zufelt and Prof. Lawrence Brehm, State University of New York at Potsdam
Magnetic Levitation
Zak
Brown and Prof. Michael Grady, State University New York at Fredonia
10:30-11:45 Bausch
and Lomb Hall, Room 109: Quantum
Optics/Nano Structures/Condensed Matter Physics
10:30 Generation of Polarized Electrons from Rubidium Gas
Joseph
Tessitore and Prof. Mark Rosenberry, Siena College
10:45 Modeling
Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Steven
Cowen and Prof. Joshua Diamond, Siena College
11:00 Synthesis of Nano-Structures: A Feasibility Study
Corey Lemley and Prof. Monisha Mahanta,
State University of New York at Oneonta
11:15 Effect of Silver Content and Undercooling on Interlaced Cyclic Twinning in Near Eutectic TinÐSilver Solder
Duncan McGillivray and Prof. Eric Cotts,
University of Binghamton
11:30 Automated Beam Control to Improve a Double Pump Probe Experiment
Daniel Galgano, Gregory Schwarz,
and Lt. Colonel John Hartke, United States Military Academy, West Point
10:30-11:45 Bausch
and Lomb Hall, Room 106: Biophysics
Session
Chair: Prof. Robert Pompi, Binghamton
University
10:30 The
Evolution of Proliferating Cells During the Course of Chemotherapy
Christian
Volk and Prof. Mitra Feizabadi, Canisius College
10:45 Light Scattering Study of Alpha Crystallin Lens Protein and its Subunits with applications to Cataract Disease
Brandy Pappas and Prof. George Thurston,
Rochester Institute of Technology
11:00 Electrostatics of an Eye Lens Protein Solution
Stephen Baker, Ben Haehnel, Stephanie
Dorn, and Profs. George Thurston, Dawn Carter, and Vern Lindberg,
Rochester Institute of Technology
11:15 Expanding from Single to Double Stranded DNA the Polarization Effect of Water and Ions on Excess Charge
Patrick
McLaughlin and Prof. Esther Conwell, University of Rochester
11:30 Theoretical Estimates of Polaron Energies and Wavefunctions on double Stranded DNA
Steven
Bloch and Prof. Esther Conwell, University of Rochester
10:30-11:45 Bausch
and Lomb Hall, Room 407: Experimental Tools and Techniques
Session
Chair: Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton College
10:30 Implementing a Semantic Web Knowledge Database for Scientific Control and Diagnostic Systems
Daniel Gresh and
Prof. Richard Kidder, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of
Rochester
10:45 Initial Results from the Houghton College Cyclotron
Andrew Loucks and Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton
College
11:00 Considerations in the Design of Electrostatic Accelerator Columns
Joshua
Troyer, Alexander Lipnicki and Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton College
11:15 A Remotely-Controlled Electron Gun for a 200 keV Electrostatic Accelerator
Alexander Lipnicki, Joshua Troyer, and Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton College
11:30 Highly Uniform Magnetic Fields and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Dave Antanavige and Prof. Mark
Rosenberry, Siena College
11:30-12:15 Lunch
Ð Meliora Faculty Club, Salon D
12:15-1:15 Bausch
and Lomb Hall, Room 109: Special Talk
12:15 The Physics of Baseball
Prof.
Charles Freeman, State University of New York at Geneseo
1:15-2:15 Bausch
and Lomb Hall, Room 109: Physics Education
and Physics Laboratories
Session
Chair: Prof. Michael Rogers, Ithaca Collge
1:15 Development of an Air-Water Rocket Experiment
Andrew
Wasicek and Prof. Joseph Amato, Colgate University
1:30 Finding the Fun in Physics Ð Teaching Science with Summer Camp Activities
Lia Stelljes, Bruce Thompson, Alexis Abramo, and Prof. Michael Rogers, Ithaca College and the Ithaca Sciencenter
1:45 Modification of Laboratory Experiments for use in a New Performance-Based Physics Classroom
Rhea Hanrahan, Luke Keller, Mathew Sullivan, and Prof. Michael Rogers, Ithaca College
2:00 Chaos in a Resistor-Inductor-Diode Circuit
Joseph
Murphy, Profs. Richard Mancuso and Mohammed Tahar, State University of
New York College at Brockport
1:15-2:45 Bausch
and Lomb Hall, Room 106: Astronomy/Gravitational
Physics II
Session
Chair: Prof. Michael Grady, State
University of New York at Fredonia
1:15 Materials
using X-26A X-Ray Microprobe Beamline
Ilona Sitnitsky and Prof. George Flynn,
State University of New York at Plattsburg
1:30 Fourier
Transform Infrared (FTIR) Analysis of Meteorites
Michelle Dragoon and Prof. George Flynn, State University of New York at Plattsburgh
1:45 Search for a Diurnal Variation of a Gravitational Stochastic Background
Chad
Forrest and Prof. Adrian Melissinos, University of Rochester
2:00 Para Ð Statistics I
Matthew
Barbery and Prof. Charles Nelson, University of Binghamton
2:15 Para Ð Statistics II
Joshua Julian
and Prof. Charles Nelson, University of Binghamton
2:30 Para Ð Quantum Field Theory
Shan Huang and Prof. Charles Nelson, University of Binghamton
1:15-2:15 Bausch
and Lomb Hall, Room 407: Nuclear and
Particle Physics II
Session
Chair: Prof. Lt. Colonel John Hartke, United States Military Academy,
West Point
1:15 Transformation Algebras between a New Cupling in Top Quark Decay and the Standard Model
Jeffrey
Berger and Prof. Charles Nelson, University of Binghamton
1:30 Additional Couplings in the Standard Model at the High Energy Limit
Patrick Gan and
Prof. Charles Nelson, University of Binghamton
1:45 Investigating
the Effects of a New Lorentz Structure in Decay
Alessandra Borgia and Prof. Charles
Nelson, University of Binghamton
2:00 A Three-Body Partial Decay Width in the Littlest Higgs Model
Andrew
Whitbeck and Prof. Lynne Orr, University of Rochester
2:45 Refreshments
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