UH Physics Research Day - 2023

Saturday 18 February 2023 - 08:00
University of Houston - Main Campus

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Feb 2023
AM
09:00 Arrive at 101 Farish Hall  
09:30 Physics concepts, careers and applications  
10:15 Lab Tours  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
12:30
Poster Session - Greg Morrison (University of Houston) (until 16:30)
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 - Mr 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. - Mr 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 - Greg Morrison (University of Houston) (until 15:30)
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)  
13:00
Parallel Session 2 - Claudia Ratti Rene Bellwied (University of Houston (US)) (until 15:15)
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 - Mr 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 ---