The Department of Physics & Astronomy’s undergraduate poster show was held Thursday, December 4, 2025. The show is held annually to showcase research completed by graduating seniors. This year’s show was held in the Spark Academic Innovation Hub, where posters can be displayed on monitors. This format allows students to show posters with multiple pages and images with high definition. An undergraduate research project is a graduation requirement of the BS Physics program. Students work with faculty mentors drawn from the entire university community. The project helps students celebrate their knowledge, and learn practical skills applicable to graduate school and the work place.
This year’s posters feature theoretical/computational investigations, experimental work, data mining, observational astronomy, and literature reviews.
The list of poster titles follows:
Measuring the external quantum efficiency of a PM6:Y6 cell using LED light
Period, luminosity, and metallicity: estimating the distance to SS Leo
Evaluating Physics 101 lab course effectiveness
Quantum neural networks
Massive black holes in low mass galaxies
Young’s modulus of doped PMMA with variable temperature
Rediscovering chaos within the Bender bouncer
Finding the distance to RR Lyrae variable star AA CMi
Trapped ion quantum computing
Benchmarking OpenMC for TRIGA control blade worth prediction against MCNP and operational measurements