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Undergraduate Projects: Germano S. Iannacchione

 

UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS

 

MAJOR QUALIFYING PROJECTS (MQP):

 

1.      Eric Clinton, “The Design, Fabrication, and Testing of an Ultra-stable Thermal Platform for Temperature Sensor and Experimental Cell Housing”, Lawton-Plimpton Award, PH GSI-9801 (May 1999).

2.      Jeremy Gogos, “Numerical Simulation of the Confined Nematic to Isotropic Phase Transition”, Provost MQP and Robert H. Goddard Award, PH GSI-9802 (May 1999).

3.      Karen Hirst, “A Frustrated Liquid crystal”, Lawton-Plimpton Award, PH GSI-9901 (May 2000).

4.      Kevin King, “Thermal Response Optimization Study of AC-Calorimetric Cells”, Provost MQP Award. PH GSI-9903 (May 2000).

5.      Anthony Cruz, “Fractal Formation in Confined Geometries”, PH GSI-0001 (May 2001).

6.      Sarah House and Lewis Kotredes, “GSFC NASA-WPI: Design and Testing of an Advanced Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator”, co-advised with S. N. Jasperson and F. J. Looft, L. Kotredes received the Salsibury Award, PH SNJ-G201 (October 2001).

7.      Joseph P. Lefrancois, “Construction of a Versatile Low-Temperature AC-Calorimeter”, Lawton-Plimpton Award, PH GSI-0102 (May 2002).

8.      Brian Dewhirst, “Dielectric Measurements of a Liquid Crystal-Aerosil Dispersion”, PH GSI-0103 (May 2002).

9.      Matthew Hilt, “Construction of a Thermoacoustic Refrigerator”, Lawton-Plimpton Award, PH GSI-0106 (May 2002)

10.  Brittany R. Morgan, “Simulation of Micro-Elasticity in a Fractal Network”, PH GSI-0101 (May 2002).

11.  Nikole Howard, “Numerical Simulations of the Impact of Jupiter's Migration on the Formation of the Hilda Asteroid Group”, Robert H. Goddard Award, PH GSI-0107 (May 2002).

12.  Elizabeth Bouvier, “Operation of a Low-Temperature, Versatile AC-Calorimeter”, PH GSI-0304 (May 2004).

13.  Helen Hanson and Deanna Wolfson, “Geiger-Mode Avalanche Photodiode for LADAR”, MIT/Lincoln Labs. WPI/Sigma Xi MQP Award & Honorable Mention Provost MQP Award, PH GSI-0504 (December 2005).

14.  Anne Bothmer and Kevin Glynn, “Photomechanical Properties of a Liquid Crystal”, co-advisor with N. Burnham. Honorable Mention Provost MQP Award. A. Bothmer received the Salsibury Award, PH NAB-MQP5 (March 2006).

15.  William Aust, “Firefighter Location Detection System”, co-advisor with D. Cyganski, PH DC-0501 (May 2006).

16.  Jared Bollinger, “Digital Dynamic Light Scattering Experiment for Colloids”, PH GSI-0501(May 2006).

17.  Christopher Kalisz, “Disorder Strength Measurement of a Liquid Crystal – Silica Colloid”, PH GSI-0502 (May 2006).

18.  Brenden Brown, “Theoretical Modeling of AC/RF Calorimetry”, PH GSI-0503 (May 2007).

19.  Caroline F. Mallory, “Accelerator Beam Window: Radiation Cooled Window for an ADS Reactor”, PH GSI-0605 (May 2007).

20.  Jesse Sawyer and Eugeny Sosnovsky, “Omnidirectional Horizontally Polarized UHF Antenna Design”, E. Sosnovsky won the Salsibury Award. MIT Lincoln Labs, PH GSI-0701 (December 2007).

21.  Eric Scheid (PH), Christopher Cleary (ECE), and Sara Duran (ECE), “Discriminating Between Splitting and Crossing Targets: A Radar Tracking Problem”, MIT Lincoln Labs, co-advised with K. Clements, PH KAC-0702 (December 2007).

22.  Angelo Chandler (PH) and Thomas MacDonald (ECE), “Profit and Loss Workflow Analysis”, Bank of America – London UK, co-advised with M. J. Ciaraldi, A. Gerstenfeld, and J. Orr, PH MXC-W075 (December 2007).

23.  John Schneeloch, “Structural Analysis of a Simulated Supercooled Liquid”, co-advised with G. D. J. Phillies, PH GDP-0701 (May 2008).

24.  Olga Petrova, “Search for Coincidence Events in LIGO and GEO600 Data”, at MIT, Robert H. Goddard Award, PH GSI-0702 (May 2008).

25.  Christopher Calommusi, “AC Calorimetry Spectroscopy”, PH GSI-0303 (May 2008).

26.  Jillian Daniels, “KY Gravity Anomaly Modeling”, PH GSI-0705 (May 2008).

27.  Andrew Lingenfelter and Meghan LeBounty,”Optimization of a Thermoacoustic Refrigerator”, PH GSI-0706 (May 2008).

28.  Michael Kavulich, “The Physics of Sand Dune Formation and Migration on Mars”, co-advised with Declan De Paor, PH GSI-0801 (May 2008).

29.  Steven Rose (PH) and Bradley Scoville (ECE), “Aircraft Lasercom Terminal Compact Optical Module (ALT-COM) ”, MIT Lincoln Labs, co-advised with W. Michalson, PH GSI-0806 (October 2008).

30.  Joseph Mullin, Matthew Silva Sa, and Dericc Orso, “Rutherford Scattering and GeLi Detector Nuclear Physics Experiments”, PH GSI-0805 (December 2008).

31.  Amanda Cox, Jessica LaGoy, and Thomas MacDonald, “Physics Out of the Box”, PH GSI-0802 (May 2009).

32.  Vineet Barot and David Coit, “Thermoacoustic Refrigerator Engineering”, PH GSI-0807 (May 2009).

33.  Nicholas LeCompte and Dante Amaroso, “Physics of Ferrofluids”, MA/PH joint MQP co-advised with B. Verneascu, PH GSI-0808 (May 2009). N. LeCompte won the Salisbury Award, D. Amoroso won the R. H. Goddard Award.

34.  Ronald Turba, “Electrojet Microfluidics”, co-advised with ??(AE), JB3-MFJ1 (PH GSI-0809) (May 2009).

35.  Caleb Teske and Robert Lowery, “Table-top Doppler Effect Model”, PH GSI-0812 (May 2009).

36.  Matthew Rumore, “Experimental Study of GEMs”, at BNL, PH GSI-0803 (expected May 2009).

 

 

INTERACTIVE QUALIFYING PROJECTS (IQP):

 

1.      Joshua S. Engstrom and Christopher A. Knight, “Designing a 8th grade science curriculum”,

IQP –51 GSI-0002 (May 2001).

2.      Michael DeLuc, “Characteristics of successful physics departments”,

IQP –51 GSI-0301 (May 2004).

3.      Sumeet Sharma, Nathan T. Hanify-Neal, and Mordecai Waegell, “Augmentation of the Physics E&M Labs.”, co-advised with C. Koleci,

IQP –51 CK-ID04 (December 2004)

4.      Gregory Artim, Clifford Harvey, and Michael Kavulich, “Physics in a Box”,

IQP –51 GSI-0707 (May 2008).

5.      Kyle Pydynkowski, Bennett Lessard, Konrad Perry, John McGinley, Bennie Jones, “Ongoing Advancement of the Physics Toolbox”, co-advised with Fredrick Hutson (Lab Manager)

IQP –51 GSI-0810 (December 2008).

6.      Andrew Crouse, “Robert H. Goddard as a Proto-Plan Student”,

IQP –51 GSI-0801 (May 2009).

 

 

GRADUATE STUDENTS

 

1.      Aleksander Roshi, Ph.D. (Summer 2000 – May 2005), “Effect of disorder through quenched random order on liquid crystalline phase transitions”.

2005 – present: Research Engineer, Analogic Corp., Peabody, MA

2.      Saimir Barjami, Ph.D. (Summer 2001 – May 2005), “Calorimetric spectroscopy techniques: RF-heat modulation and heat capacity bridge”.

June – August 2005: Physics Research Scientist, WPI, Worcester, MA.

2005 – present: Physics Faculty, Cal. Poly. State U., San Luis Obispo, CA.

3.      Florentin Cruceanu, Ph.D. (Fall 2003 – May 2008), “Dielectric spectroscopy study of quenched random disorder on liquid crystalline phase transitions”.

4.      Klaida Kashuri, Ph.D. (Summer 2005 – now), “Calorimetric study of protein unfolding”.

5.      Krishna Sigdel, Ph. D. (Spring 2007 – now), “RF/AC calorimetry”.

6.      Nihar Pradhan, Ph.D. (Fall 2007 – now), “Thermoconductivity and specific heat measurements along the long-axis of Cobalt nano-tubes and nano-wires”.

7.      Rajratan Basu, Ph.D. (Spring 2007 – now), “Simultaneous calorimetric and dielectric measurements on organic and inorganic composites”.