David Hart and Dr. Kent Gee, Department of Physics and Astronomy Military jet aircraft are some of the fastest vehicles ever made. Their jet engines exhaust fuel at supersonic speeds and create large amounts of noise. However, this noise is loud enough to cause hearing loss, even with the most advanced levels of hearing protection. […]
The Planar Equitent Conjecture: Combining Isoperimetry and Minimal Surfaces
Abraham Frandsen and Dr. Michael Dorff, Department of Mathematics The goal of this project was to explore a new problem in geometric optimization: isoperimetric surfaces with both boundary and volume constraints. The idea behind the problem is the following: what is the optimal way to enclose a given volume with a surface that must also […]
Bayesian Semi-parametric Modeling of Functional Data Exploration into Major League Baseball Analytics
Jared Fisher and Dr. Gilbert Fellingham, Department of Statistics Most measurements follow trends over time, and those trends can be modeled. While there are many techniques for doing this, this project’s model brings a unique angle. This method can model trends with multiple peaks, from different subjects, and group them in clusters of similar curves. […]
H2O Megamasers: Measuring the Central Black Hole Mass of Mrk 1210
Stephen Clouse and Dr. Victor Migenes, Department of Physics and Astronomy Abstract We present results from monitoring the spectra of Mrk 1210 with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and through the construction of sub-mas resolution maps with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). The purpose of these observations was to determine the accelerations, distances, and […]
Sound Radiation from a Hammered Dulcimer
Benjamin Christensen and Dr. Kent Gee, Department of Physics and Astronomy The hammered dulcimer is a stringed instrument of the zither family, typically consisting of a wooden trapezoidal body with metal strings stretched across the frame. A typical dulcimer can span anywhere between 2 1/2 and 5 octaves, depending on the size of the instrument. The dulcimer used […]
Paleostream channels of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation
Mariah Chambers and Dr. Brooks Britt, Department of Geology The purpose of my ORCA project is to determine the nature of the stream systems represented by the Morrison Formation, a unit of sediments deposited 150-million-years-ago (Jurassic-age) that is famed for its dinosaurs, such as Stegosaurus and Allosaurus. Despite the unit’s importance to paleontology, oil and […]
The TAT Two Hybrid System
Joshua Browning and Dr. Allen Buskirk, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The TAT two hybrid system for discovering novel stalling peptides met with some immediate challenges that ultimately resulted in the abandonment of this project. The feasibility for using this method to discover new peptide sequences that would cause the stalling of translation within an elongating ribosome became […]
Transmission Electron Microscope Imaging of Lipid-body COX Localization
Andrew Broadbent and Dr. Daniel Simmons, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The laboratory of Dr. Daniel L. Simmons, my mentor, studies the cyclooxygenase (COX) enzyme. Dr. Simmons is one of the world’s foremost authorities on COX, he having discovered one of its two known types, COX-2. The COX enzyme, which exists in many organisms, including humans, is responsible […]
Moral Hazard in Hedge Funds: An Approach Using Stochastic Differential Games
Jeremiah Bejarano and Dr. Jeffrey Humpherys, Department of Mathematics This project is a continuation of a line of research that I have been working on over the last two years, with the object of analyzing the relationship incentive structure present in the hedge fund industry and identifying any potential for moral hazard. In economics theory, […]
Development of Low-Cost Point-of-Care Channel Flow Constriction Immunoassays for the Developing World
Neil Anderson and Dr. Adam Woolley, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Biomarkers have a tremendous capacity for use in screening for various diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and bacterial infections. Existing immunoassay methods can detect a broad spectrum of biomarkers. However, they are costly to perform for small numbers of samples and require bulky, expensive instrumentation, making these methods unfit […]
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