Name: UH Physics Research Day - 2023
Start: 2023-02-18T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2023-02-18T17:30:00-06:00
Location: University of Houston - Main Campus

UH Physics Research Day - 2023

Saturday, 18 February 2023 - 08:00

Monday, 13 February 2023
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Friday, 17 February 2023
Saturday, 18 February 2023

09:00 Arrive at 101 Farish Hall
Arrive at 101 Farish Hall
09:00 - 09:30
9:00am: Arrive at 101 Farish Hall

09:30 Physics concepts, careers and applications
Physics concepts, careers and applications
09:30 - 10:15
Presentations about physics concepts and careers, and how to apply for and succeed in STEM majors

10:15 Lab Tours
Lab Tours
10:15 - 12:00
Guided tours of research labs in the department

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 12:30
12:30 Poster Session: Poster Session
Poster Session
12:30 - 16:30
Contributions

12:30 Muon Neutrino – Nucleus Charge Current Interactions with Low Hadronic Activity Cross Section Measurements with NOvA - James Lesmeister

12:35 A Lock-in-Amplifier system for performing Intensity Modulated Photovoltage Spectroscopy measurement in photoelectrochemical cells, tested on TiO2 thin films - Lilly Schaffer (University of Houston)

12:40 Investigating the Magnetic Ordering and Atomic Structure of Strained CrSBr by Neutron Diffraction - Uchenna Ubeh

12:45 Electronic structure analysis of air stable 2D magnet CrSBr using RIXS - Jayajeewana Ranhili Pelige (University of Houston)

12:50 Effects of Curvature on the Conformational Properties of Confined Semi-Flexible Polymers - Joel Gard

12:55 AI-SNIPS: A Platform for Network Intelligence-Based Pharmaceutical Security - Timothy Burt (Computational Biomedicine Lab & Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Houston)

13:00 Entanglement degradation in a bipartite system with a finite lifetime observer - Pablo Lopez-Duque (University of Houston)

13:05 A brief overview of Systematics and their implementation in the T2K P0D - Donnie Munford

13:10 Investigating the Local Structure of MoTe2 Using Atomic Pair Distribution Function and EXAFS Techniques. - Sumit Khadka (University of Houston)

13:15 Fundamental Constitutive Effects of Anomalous Diffusion in Lévy Walk - Abhijit Bera (University of Houston)

13:20 Introduction to Edge-Illumination X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging - Jingcheng Yuan

13:30 Measuring Charmed baryon to meson ratio at ALICE experiment, investigation for hadronization - Oveis Sheibani (University of Houston (US))

13:50 Role of scattering in the prediction of simulation based optical properties of dielectric TiO2 nanotubular materials. - David Waligo (University of Houston)

14:10 Fe doping and electrochemical reconstruction in Ni&Ni0.2Mo0.8N for large current density alkaline seawater electrolysis - Minghui Ning

14:30 Muyuan He Atmospheric neutrino abstract - Muyuan He

14:50 Synthesis of cubic boron arsenide single crystal with ultrahigh thermal conductivity - Fengjiao Pan

15:10 Module Readiness Tests and Data Quality Management for DUNE Near Detector - Dat Tran (University of Houston)

15:30 Photoacoustic laser streaming for liquid handling operations. - Paththini Kuttige nonis (University of Houston)
13:00 Parallel Session 1
13:00 - 15:30
Contributions

13:00 Entaglement entropy in p-p collisions - Alek Hutson (University of Houston)

13:15 Contribution of Hadron Families to the QCD Equation of State - Alejandro Florez

13:30 QCD equation of state at finite density with a critical point from an alternative expansion scheme - Micheal Kahangirwe

13:45 Using Xenon-Doped Liquid Argon Scintillation for Full-Body, Time of Flight Positron Emission Tomography - Alejandro Ramirez

14:00 Elliptic flow measurement in Xe-Xe collisions at \sqrt{S_{NN}}=$5.44 Tev$ - Iris Likmeta (University of Houston (US))

14:15 Lightning Protection of the Artemis Spacecraft - Nathan Roberts

14:30 Integrating Darkside-20K into the SuperNova Early Warning System and Implementing Recurrent Neural Networks for Supernova Neutrino Detection - Sebastian Torres-Lara

14:45 LIMITED FREQUENCY BANDWIDTH ON THE INVERSE SCATTERING SERIES AND THE EFFECTS ON SEISMIC PROCESSING GOALS - Ana Carolina Gonzalez Romero (University of Houston)
Parallel Session 2
13:00 - 15:15
Contributions

13:00 Centrality Measures for Directed Signed Networks - Atrayee Sarkar (University of Houston)

13:15 Extreme Value Statistics of Community Detection in Complex Networks with Reduced Network Extremal Ensemble Learning (RenEEL) - TANIA GHOSH (University of Houston)

13:30 Conventional superconductivity at the surface of a Type-I Weyl Semimetal - Aymen Nomani (University of Houston)

13:45 Machine Learning to Identify Gene Structure - Ethan Speakman

14:00 Vortical effects in chiral band structures - Swadeepan Nanda

14:15 Proton Exchange Membrane for Fuel Cell and Water Electrolysis Application - Subash Bhandari

14:30 The significantly distinct performance of thermoelectric AMg2Sb2 (A = Ca, Sr, Sm, Yb, and Mg) - Xin Shi

14:45 Quantum Transport of Charge Density Waves - Johnathan Sanderson

15:00 Spectroscopic Determination of Electronic and Magnetic key energy scales of Chromium Trihalides - Chamini Pathiraja (University of Houston)
16:30 Physics Career Panel
Physics Career Panel
16:30 - 17:30