UH Physics Research Day - 2024

from Tuesday 30 January 2024 (08:00) to Tuesday 27 February 2024 (17:30)
University of Houston - Main Campus

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
24 Feb 2024
AM
PM
13:00
High Energy and Quantum Field Theory (until 15:30)
13:00 Improving Calibration Methods for NOVA Experiment - Dat Tran (University of Houston)  
13:12 Extrapolation of baryon density contours to search for the QCD critical point. - Hitansh Shah  
13:24 Dual-Phase TPC Separation Grid Development and Production in Darkside-20k Prototypes - Daniel Huff (University of Houston)  
13:36 The fixed-target experiment in STAR @ RHIC - FNU Rutik  
13:48 Entanglement Entropy in p-p Collisions at LHC Energies - A Hutson (University of Houston (US))  
14:00 ALICE Experiment In LHC Run 3 - Iris Likmeta (University of Houston (US))  
14:12 Machine Learning Approaches for Phase Transition Recognition in Statistical Models - Ahmed Abuali  
14:25 Luminosity Detector Studies for the ePIC experiment at the EIC. - Aranya Giri (University of Houston)  
14:38 Critical point fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions within molecular dynamics - Mr Volodymyr Kuznietsov (University of Houston)  
14:50 Particle Production as a Function Transverse Spherocity in pp Collisions at 13 TeV - Jeseleth Van Rose  
13:00
Material Science (until 15:00)
13:00 Spectroscopic Study of the Electronic Structure in Two-dimensional Chromium trihalides - Chamini Pathiraja (University of Houston)  
13:12 PTFE reinforced electrolyte membrane for high performance and durability in proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) - Subash Bhandari  
13:24 Replication and study of anomalies in LK-99, the alleged ambient-pressure, room-temperature superconductor - Mr Thacien Habamahoro (University of Houston, Physics department, Texas Center for Superconductivity)  
13:36 Synthesis of Ce-doped NiFe-LDH electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction through a single-step hydrothermal method - Byaruhanga Paul (Department of Physics and Texas center for superconductivity)  
13:48 Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Studies in the Two-Dimensional Magnet CrSBr - Jayajeewana Ranhili Pelige (University of Houston)  
14:00 Study of the Thermoelectric properties of n-type Mg3Sb2 via doping Zr and incorporating MXene - Suraj Pradhan  
14:12 Band Topology of LK-99 - Bishnu Karki  
14:24 NiMo based bifunctional catalysts for water electrolysis - Navmi Naik  
14:36 Thermoelectric Properties of N type Mg3Bi2-N type Bi2Te3 Composites - JUNAID UR REHMAN  
13:00
Poster Session - Greg Morrison (University of Houston) (until 15:30)
13:00 Investigating the efficiency of mixing in centrifuge tube based on novel ultrasonic generator. - Paththini Kuttige nonis (Department of Physics, Texas CDepartment of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity University of Houston)  
13:20 Development and characterization of advanced nanomaterials for chemical sensing. - Waligo David  
13:40 Atmospheric neutrino zenith angle and non-standard interaction study - Muyuan He (University of Houston)  
14:00 Promotional Effect of Fe2+ in the electrocatalytic activity of FeMoO4 nanorod array for Oxygen Evolution Reaction under Alkaline Conditions - Vidhi Vidhi (Dr. Shuo Chen's Research Group & Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH)  
14:20 Investigating the Magnetic Ordering of Strained CrSBr by Neutron Diffraction - Uchenna Ubeh  
14:40 Evolution with Information-Based Fitness - Yi-Kai Mo  
15:00 Introduction to Single-Mask X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging - Jingcheng Yuan  
15:10 Effects of Protein Crowders and Charge on the Folding of Superoxide Dismutase1 (SOD1) Variants: A Computational Study - Atrayee Sarkar (University of Houston)  
15:10 Finite density QCD equation of state: critical point and lattice-based $T'$-expansion - Micheal Kahangirwe  
15:18 Improving the Numu-CC1Pi Cross Section on Water at T2K - Donnie Munford  
13:00
Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter and Others (until 15:30)
13:00 Physics-Inspired Modeling and Validation Approaches for Pharmaceutical Security - Timothy Burt (University of Houston)  
13:12 Decomposition of Anomalous Diffusion in Variable speed generalized Lévy Walks - Abhijit Bera (University of Houston)  
13:24 Finding Community Structure in Networks with RenEEL and its Extension to Bipartite Networks - Ms TANIA GHOSH (University of Houston)  
13:36 Generalized Free Cumulants for Quantum Chaotic Systems - Siddharth Jindal  
13:48 Measurement Induced Logical Qutrits in Kitaev Honeycomb Circuit - Aymen Nomani (University of Houston)  
14:00 Superconductor vortex spectrum in type 2 Weyl semi metal - Swadeepan Nanda  
14:12 On a Kneading Theory for Gene-Splicing - Ethan Speakman  
14:24 Analysis of Student Performance in Computer-Based vs. Paper-Based Exams in Introductory Physics - Samuel Oedi  
14:36 Quantum dynamics of nonequilibrium states in charge density waves - Johnathan Sanderson