Department of Physics

Possible UROP Projects

Applications for UROP must be made by deadlines announced early in each semester. Information on the application process is available at http://www.d.umn.edu/urop.

• Jay Austin, MWAH 352 and RLB 209, 726-8773, jaustin@d.umn.edu
• Richard Gran, MWAH 382, 726-7096, rgran@d.umn.edu
  • Develop and test pieces of MINERvA experiment software infrastructure.
  • Neutrino interaction modeling and analysis using GENIE event generator.
  • Build, test, and operate muon telescope in our lab.
• Alec Habig, MWAH 384, 726-7214, habig@neutrino.d.umn.edu
  • Work on maintaining the MINOS experiment (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) to watch neutrinos oscillate as they travel between Fermilab, near Chicago, and the Tower-Soudan mine.
  • Study neutrinos, cosmic rays, and proton decay using the Super-Kamiokande detector.
  • Work with the SNEWS (Supernova Neutrino Early Warning System) project to help provide an early warning of the next galactic supernova using data from the world's neutrino detectors.
• John Hiller, MWAH 353, 726-7594, jhiller@d.umn.edu
  • Numerical solution of coupled integral equations
  • Analytic Lanczos diagonalization techniques
  • Properties of bound states in quantum field theories
• Thomas Jordan, MWAH 358, 726-7213, tjordan@d.umn.edu
  • Dynamics of open quantum systems
  • Foundations of quantum mechanics
• Sergei Katsev, 230D RLB, MWAH 358, 726-6057, skatsev@d.umn.edu
  • Study the fundamental interactions between physics and chemistry: Determine, by modeling and/or experiment, how the physical structure of porous medium affects the rates of chemical/biogeochemical reactions, such as in sediments in lakes and during petroleum formation.
  • Help create a user-friendly model for simulating lake processes that affect the quality of water (Fortran or C++ programming).
  • Help find out why the productivity of Lake Superior has declined over the past 40 years, by running an existing model.
• Jonathan Maps, MWAH 378, 726-8125, jmaps@d.umn.edu
  • Scanning tunneling microscopy and electromigration
  • Atomic force microscopy
• Michael Sydor, MWAH 376, 726-7205, msydor@d.umn.edu
  • Satellite image processing and measurements to determine the optical properties of particles suspended in Duluth-Superior Harbor.
  • Measurement of the (in vivio) optical properties of skin.
  • Measurement of the scattering and extinction coefficients of snow.

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