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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