Class of 2000 Senior Theses

Mandy Brown

The Two Cultures Revisited: Debates Between the Disciplines

with Prof. Griffioen (S)

Lara Bryan

2-H NMR Studies of Deuterated Polycrystalline L-Cyclo(leucine-glycine)-d

with Prof. Hoatson (S)

Karen Burke

A Lesson in the Physics of Hybrid Electric Vehicles

with Prof. von Baeyer (S)

John Cleveland

PIC Chip Lab

with Prof. Kossler (S)

Adam Cohen

Optical Analysis of the Ablation Process in Pulsed Laser Deposition

with Prof. Reilly (S)

Heather Faltin

The Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Permalloy-Carbon Thin Film Multilayers

with Prof. Reilly (HH)

Chris Fetsch

Longitudinal Disorder of Superconducting Pancake Vortex Arrays

with Prof. Kossler (S)

Adam Gurson

An Algorithm to Resolve Dead Blocks in the Radiative-Phi Experiment Software

with Prof. Armstrong (H)

Matt Inman

Atomic Hydrogen Cleaning of Polarized Electron Source Gallium-Arsenide Photocathodes

with Prof. Averett (H)

Lisa Kaufman

Recoil Proton Detection of Radiative Decays of the Phi Meson

with Prof. Armstrong (HH)

Jennifer Knowles

Investigation of Techniques for Producing High Polarization 3-He Gas Targets

with Prof. Averett (HH)

Dave Leichtman

Vacuum Stability in the Extended Higgs Model

with Prof. Sher (HHH)

Randy Mulvaney

Instability in High Mass Stars

with Prof. Carlson (S)

Chris Neilson

Design and Testing of a Cosmic Ray Shielding Scintillator Array for the Proposed MECO Experiment

with Prof. Kane (S)

Pat Ryan

Measurement of the Electroweak Correction to A-perp in Polarized Electron-Nucleon Scattering

with Prof. Griffioen (HHH)

Rob Saunders

Development of a Gamma Camera Array for Biological Imaging in Small Animal Research

with Prof. Welsh (HH)

Aaron Suplizio

Fourier Transforms of mu-SR Data and Their Use in the Determination of the Internal Magnetic Field Distributions of YBa2Cu3O7-delta

with Prof. Kossler (S)

Ian Swanson

Investigation of the Properties of Magnetic Films Deposited on Carbon Nitride

with Prof. Sher (HHH)

Charles Tahan

Growth Simulations of Single Crystal Perovskite Alloys

with Prof. Zhang (HHH)

Brian Tighe

Ionization Times of Classical Hydrogen in Parallel Electric and Magnetic Fields

with Prof. Delos (HHH)

Michelle Venanzi

Model of Stratification in the Elizabeth River

with Profs. Brubaker (VIMS) (S)

Ruth van de Water

Detection of Weakly-Coupled Scalar Bosons at Thomos Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

with Prof. Carone (HHH)

Linton Wells

Patterned Plasma Immersion Exposure of Insulation Materials for the Purpose of Modifying Optical Properties

with Prof. Manos (HH)

Jennifer Wilkes

The Experimental Ultrafast Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect

with Prof. Reilly (S)