Undergraduate Research Involvement
University of Louisville Department of Physics

Here is a list of undergraduate students who have recently participated in research in the UofL Physics Department, plus a short description of their work. Some undergraduates on this list are visitors from other Universities, who performed their research at UofL. We encourage all of our undergraduates to become involved with research as early as possible. Students may volunteer as research assistants; some paid research assistant positions may also be available. Under the guidance of a faculty mentor, you may receive credit for an independent research project through PHYS 498, our Physics Research course.

• Anthony Abounader. Anthony was a member of our High Energy Physics group. He wrote code to display the paths of particles in a relativistically boosted frame of reference.
• Chris Bullock. Chris is currently a graduate student in the Department of Physics. As an undergraduate, Chris did research on techniques for identification of charged subatomic particles.
• Darius Bundrent. Darius has been working on a data visualization system (graphics) for the High Energy Physics group. He has also begun research into quark and gluon jets in electron-antielectron collisions.
• Hannah Carter. Hannah has worked on the design, construction, and testing of a charged particle detector and associated electronics.
• Roseanne Cheng. Roseanne has been active in research in the UofL Department of Physics since her days at duPont-Manual High School. She has worked on a project in Coded Aperture Imaging. She has also been active working on programs to demonstrate measurement statistics in High Energy Physics and to simulate subatomic particle collisions. Roseanne was a local participant in our Summer 2000 REU program. In April 2001, Roseanne received a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship.
• Tony Clark. Tony worked with a new piece of distributed software, the Java Analysis Studio, doing some studies of simulated very high energy electron-antielectron collisions for future experiments.
• Jeremy Cole. Jeremy worked in Astronomy and Astrophysics as an undergraduate. He worked in Atomic Physics as a graduate student.
• Ankur Datta. Ankur studied various factors affecting the distribution of charged particle multiplicity in electron-antielectron collisions at high energy.
• Tom Dodge. Tom proposed, designed, and began construction on a small cyclotron. He later held a Department of Energy Fellowship at Argonne National Lab. Tom is now a graduate student in Applied Physics at UC Davis.
• Kevin Driver. Kevin worked on the design and construction of a Gas Jet Impactor for studying defects in graphite surface formation.
• Rebecca Duncan. Rebecca worked on a Java simulation of an ion cyclotron. She was a local participant in our Summer 2000 REU program. She currently works on large-scale simulation of e⁺e^- interactions.
• Kelly Ford. Kelly worked on various projects in the area of High Energy Physics as both an undergraduate and graduate student in the department.
• John Holloway. As a participant in our Summer 2001 REU program, John studied atomic levels using a Hartree-Fock approximation, and produced images of the associated probability density functions for electrons in many-electron atoms.
• Srdjan Hrkalovic. As part of our Summer 2000 REU program, Srdjan ("Serge") worked on a simulation of island formation in thin film growth on surfaces. He continued this work as part of the 2001 REU program.
• Jeremy Huber. Jeremy worked on software for the High Energy Physics group. He also participated in the Summer 2000 REU program, working on a solar telescope. He has since continued work in Astrophysics and is currently a graduate student at UofL.
• Joe Hutchins. Joe worked on designing and testing novel radiation detectors.
• William Komp. Bill worked on a large-scale simulation based on tight-binding molecular dynamics and wrote computer code to obtain the geometric and electronic structures of silicon dimers, trimers, and other structures. He was supported in part by the Cottrell College of Science Grant from the Research Corporation.
• J. Scott Little. Scott was a participant in our Summer 2001 REU program. He studied Quantum Chromodynamics and tried to find an analytical method to optimize a parameter for finding hadronic jets in High Energy Physics data.
• D. Kevin McGrath. Kevin worked on a Xinerama display for the Rauch Planetarium as part of our Summer 2001 REU program.
• Jason Newkirk. Jason spent nearly four years with the High Energy Physics group. He worked on software for a major scientific collaboration based at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). He also performed an analysis of the decay of a subatomic particle which led to the measurement of the particle's mass. His Honors thesis was awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Honors Project Award for 2000. He also received the Woodcock Medal, the highest honor bestowed on a graduating A&S Senior.
• Suzanne Nichols. Suzanne was a local participant in our Summer 2001 REU program. As part of this program, she worked on the calibration of instruments for an atomic spectroscopy experiment.
• Chuck Pearsall. Chuck is working with the High Energy group on a study of the statistics of charged particle multiplicity and on large-scale simulation of e⁺e^- collisions.
• Will Robertson. Will worked with the High Energy group on design and measurements for a small ion cyclotron. He received a Department of Energy Fellowship to Argonne National Lab.
• Abdoulaye Sangare. Abdoulaye worked on a large-scale simulation based on tight-binding molecular dynamics and wrote computer code to obtain the geometric and electronic structures of silicon dimers, trimers, and other structures. He was supported in part by the Cottrell College of Science Grant from the Research Corporation.
• Daniel Sherman. Daniel worked with the High Energy Physics group on the analysis of decays of the Phi meson.
• Harrison Simrall. Harrison worked for several years with the experimental Nuclear Physics group on the simulation and construction of high-resolution particle detectors.
• Nick Stein. As a member of our Summer 2001 REU team, Nick studied Quantum Chromodynamics with the High Energy Physics group. Specifically, he wrote a simulation of hadrons produced in 3-jet events.
• Jonathan Wilkerson. Jonathan was part of the High Energy group, working on understanding effects of sampling on analyses of charged particle multiplicities. Jonathan was a participant in our Summer 2000 REU program.
• David Wilson. David worked on the use of optics in Cerenkov detectors for the High Energy Physics group.
• Tim Wolf. Tim worked with Dr. Morrison on Hartree-Fock computation of atomic states.