N. C. State University
Undergraduate Research Symposium
1999-2003
Papers by Physics Majors

1999
Kjersten C. Bunker — A Search for Synchrotron Emission from Planetary Nebulae
Michael T. Raley & Rosemary Stallings — Convection and Rotation in Three Dimensional Supernova Simulations
Rosemary Stallings — Driving Convection in Supernova Blastwaves
Nicholas A. Stoute — Origin of Pulse Period Changes in X-Ray Binary Stars

2000
Dargan M. Frierson — The Interaction of a Pulsar Nebula and a Supernova Remnant
Dargan M. Frierson — Testing Unified Theories for Seyfert Galaxies with the Arecibo Telescope
Jacqueline S. Jones — Ionization of Molecular Clouds Due to Supernova Remnants
Chad E. Mitchell — Frame-Independence of Exclusive Amplitudes in the Light-Front Quantization
Michael T. Raley — Gravitational Wave Signatures of Core Collapse Supernovae
Nicholas A. Stoute — Hydrodynamical Simulations of X-Ray Heating Transport off of Accretion Disks Onto Compact Stellar Objects
Christopher B. Truman — Gravitational Focussing of Stellar Winds
Brett E. Unks — Simulation of Radiative Shocks

2001
Matthew Brinkley — Reflectance Difference Spectroscopy of Silicon Insulator Interfaces
Aaron M. Carpenter — Thin Shell Instabilities in Planetary Nebulae
James S. Cook — A Pulsed Jumping Ring Apparatus for Demonstration of Lenz’s Law
Albert E. Hopping & Gregory J. Nusz — Biologically Compatible Probes via Self-Assembled Monolayers
Chirag Lakhani — Classical Chromodynamic Approach to Study of Hadrons
Alex C. Mayer — Recent Advances in the Study of Superconductivity-Dependent Sliding Friction
Amanda L. Sabourov — Development of a Compton Scattering Beam Flux Monitor
C. Soo Hoo & D. Paquin — Convective Instability in Core-Collapse Supernovae
Nathan J. Speer & Miklos Z. Kiss — Studying Bone Using Diffraction Enhanced Imaging
Paul J. Tanner — Nuclear Orientation Thermometry
David K. Wood — Formation of Cobalt Disilicide Films on (3x3) 6H-SiC(000-1)

2002
Aaron M. Carpenter & Scott Miller — Testing of a 2.5 Tesla Superconducting Magnet System
Anthony De Caro, Will Peterson, Gerald Sears, Noah Genzel, Tonya Mason, Frank Ziglar, Paul Ehrenkaufer, Mark Lavin, Rich Helle, James Perkins, Iyam Lynch, Eric Brunner, Ana Pinto, Ralph White, Nick Featherstone, Aaron Carpenter, Ashley Harris, Sally Royo, Megan Miller, Tera Crowe, Sam Thompson, Jeff Junker, Kevin Lee, Rob Pascale, Karen Spieler, Warren Buff — Got Iron? Iron Distribution in Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts
Nicholas A. Featherstone — On the Evolution of Ejecta Inhomogeneities in Supernova Remnants
Mark C. Harris — Surface Morphology of Polystyrene
Jennifer J. Huening — Synchrotron Radiation in Supernova Remnants
Derek H. Justice — Nonperturbative Vacuum Effect in the Quantum Field Theory of Neutrino Oscillations
Alana E. Kirby — A Search for the Smallest Stable Cage Clusters: Heteroatom Fullerenes
Mengning Liang — Emission Site Density Characterization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Films
Gregory J. Nusz — Biologically Compatible Probes via Self-Assembled Monolayers
Michael P. Robertson — Thin Shell Instabilities in Young Supernova Remnants
Lucas K. Wagner — A Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Electron Correlation in Transition Metal- Oxygen Systems
Lucas K. Wagner & Zachary Helms — Silicon Nanocrystals: Reconstructions and the Stokes Shift

2003
Justin S. Brockman — Supernova Neutrino Mixing
Hugh Heldenbrand — Adsorption of Nitric Oxide on Diesel Particulates
Zach Helms & Lucas Wagner — Hydrogen-Saturated Silicon Nanocrystals
Steven Story, Donald Winesett & Guenter Appel — Tuning Substrate Surface Energy for polystyrene/poly(methyl methacrylate) Blends