Research Rotation Catalog

Below is a list of research projects for the Fall 2009 semester. You may change the semester and year to view previous projects. When the department is ready to accept applicants for the research projects you will see an "Apply Here" button. It will not be visible otherwise.

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Select	Project Title	Subdiscipline	Designation	Advisor
	Simulation Studies for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments	Subatomic Physics	Theoretical & Experimental	Alarcon, Ricardo
	Magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) studies of thin MnAs films	Materials Physics & Condensed Matter	Experimental	Bauer, Ernst
	Nanothermodynamics applied to disordered materials	Materials Physics & Condensed Matter	Theoretical	Chamberlin, Ralph
	Atom Diffraction from Nanoscale Man-Made Gratings	Nanoscale Physics	Experimental	Doak, R. Bruce
	Gravitational Deceleration of Microscopic Liquid Droplets	Multidisciplinary	Experimental	Doak, R. Bruce
	Intermixing during SiGe heteroepitaxy	Materials Physics & Condensed Matter	Experimental	Drucker, Jeff
	Science of Nanowire Epitaxy	Materials Physics & Condensed Matter	Experimental	Drucker, Jeff
	Lee-Wick particles and renormalization	Subatomic Physics	Theoretical	Lebed, Richard
	Studying conformational dynamics in biopolymers by Fluorescence Fluctuation...	Biological Physics	Experimental	Levitus, Marcia
	Carbon nanotube nanopores for DNA sequencing	Biological Physics	Experimental	Lindsay, Stuart
	Nanopattern Formation on Ferroelectric Surfaces	Nanoscale Physics	Experimental	Nemanich, Robert
	Stochastic effects in gene regulation	Biological Physics	Theoretical	Newman, Timothy
	Analysis of the Disease Pathway by Dynamics of the Adenylosuccinate lyase (...	Biological Physics	Theoretical	Ozkan, Banu
	Mechanical unfolding of proteins using linear response theory	Biological Physics	Experimental	Ozkan, Banu
	The origin of “dead layer” in nanocapacitors	Materials Physics & Condensed Matter	Theoretical	Peng, Xihong
	Applications of Density Functional Theory	Multidisciplinary	Theoretical	Rez, Peter
	Biomineralization and Biophysics	Nanoscale Physics	Theoretical & Experimental	Rez, Peter
	Single Cell Adhesion	Biological Physics	Experimental	Ros, Robert
	Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy on Ligand-Receptor Systems	Biological Physics	Experimental	Ros, Robert
	Electron transport through weak hydrogen bonds in DNA with the goal of sequ...	Biological Physics	Theoretical	Sankey, Otto
	Theoretical simulations of properties of viral pathogens and of cell transp...	Biological Physics	Theoretical	Sankey, Otto
	Deuteron formation in low density matter	Subatomic Physics	Theoretical	Schmidt, Kevin
	Superfluid fermi gases	Materials Physics & Condensed Matter	Theoretical	Schmidt, Kevin
	Quantum Hall effect in graphene in a strong magnetic field	Nanoscale Physics	Theoretical	Shovkovy, Igor
	Measurement of the Casimir vacuum torque	Materials Physics & Condensed Matter	Theoretical & Experimental	Spence, John
	Computational optics of subwavelength materials	Nanoscale Physics	Theoretical	Sukharev, Maxim
	Modeling Amorphous Graphene	Materials Physics & Condensed Matter	Theoretical	Thorpe, Michael
	Protein Pathways	Biological Physics	Theoretical	Thorpe, Michael
	Photonic approach to the inactivation of viruses with ultrashort pulsed las...	Biological Physics	Experimental	Tsen, Kong-Thon
	A quantitative demonstration of the Coriolis effect	Multidisciplinary	Experimental	Tsong, Ignatius
	Characterization of Ionic Liquids and Amorphous Materials for Mg Battery Ap...	Materials Physics & Condensed Matter	Experimental	Yarger, Jeff
	NMR and MRI Structural and Dynamic Elucidation of Spider Silk Fibers & Rela...	Biological Physics	Experimental	Yarger, Jeff