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NSE UROP Summer Research Festival
Friday, August 28, 2020. 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST

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The 2020 NSE UROP Summer Research Festival showcases undergraduate research in the Department. The moderated lightning talks by eleven undergraduates will be held in three parallel Zoom sessions.

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Session 1
Hosted by Lisa Magnano-Bleheen Join Session

• Jaron Cota
• Sophomore in NSE
• UROP advisor: Prof. Michael Short
• Title: Observing Thermal Anisotropy in Uranium Dioxide with Transient Grating Spectroscopy
• Moderated by: Prof. Michael Short
• Mriganka Mandal
• Sophomore in Biology/Chemistry
• UROP advisor: Dr. Charles Forsberg
• Title: Crushed Rock and Sprayed Nitrate Salt Heat Storage for Variable Electricity Generation
• Moderated by: Dr. Charles Forsberg
• AJ Cavallaro
• Junior in EECS/NSE
• UROP advisor: Prof. Dennis Whyte
• Title: Software Tools for Plasma Physicists
• Moderated by: Prof. Dennis Whyte, Dr. Ethan Peterson
• Peninah Levine
• Senior in NSE
• UROP advisor: Prof. Areg Danagoulian
• Title: Conversion of electron beam to epithermal neutrons: compact, cheaper detection of nuclear threats in cargo
• Moderated by: Prof. Areg Danagoulian

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Session 2
Hosted by Kristi Stone Join Session

• Natalie Montoya
• Senior in NSE
• UROP advisor: Prof. Scott Kemp
• Title: Is This COVID-19 or Allergies? Addressing the Question Everyone’s Asking with Bayesian Computation
• Moderated by: Prof. Scott Kemp
• Calvin Cummings
• Sophomore in NSE
• UROP advisor: Prof. Anne White
• Title: Measuring Turbulence in Tokamaks: A Brief Look into Optical Depth
• Moderated by: Rachel Bielajew (NSE graduate student and UROP mentor)
• Lauryn Kortman
• Sophomore in DMSE
• UROP advisors: Prof. Dennis Whyte, Dr. David Fischer
• Title: Controlling experiments remotely through a GUI with serial communication
• Moderated by: Dr. David Fischer (PFSC postdoc)
• Myles Stapelberg
• Senior in NSE
• UROP advisors: Profs. Ju Li and Michael Short
• Title: A Parametric Study of the Resistance of Direct Energy Deposition-made Inconel 718 to Helium Bubble Formation
• Moderated by: Prof. Michael Short

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Session 3
Hosted by Nancy Iappini Join Session

• Abdalla Osman
• Senior in MechE
• UROP advisor: Prof. Jacopo Buongiorno
• Title: Non-aqueous EV Battery Coolants: Modeling, Synthesis, and Testing
• Moderated by: Dr. Bren Phillips (NSE research scientist)
• Charlotte Wickert
• Sophomore in Physics
• UROP advisor: Prof. Ben Forget
• Title: Improving Thermal Neutron Scattering Data
• Moderated by: Amelia Trainer (NSE graduate student and UROP mentor)
• Liam Hines
• Junior in NSE
• UROP advisor: Prof. Koroush Shirvan
• Title: Preliminary Accident Analysis of D-T Fusion Facilities
• Moderated by: Patrick White (NSE graduate student and UROP mentor)

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August 2019