Duke Physics

Senior Thesis Projects

A Senior Thesis is a way to document your independent research conducted while an undergraduate, leading to Graduation with Distinction in Physics .   The research and writing is often undertaken during an Independent Study Course (PHY 226 or 227). The Thesis is defended before a group of faculty in a style similar to a M.S. or Ph.D. thesis defense. As of Fall of 1998, all students are required to post there Senior Thesis on our Web site.

Senior Theses Listed by Year (Year Thesis Defended)

2007

• Chavarria, Alvaro
  
• Huang, Jeremy
  
• Mestler, Troy
  
• Wall, Richard
  
• West, Katie
  

2006

• Barton, John
  
• Bell, Kate
  
• Coppock, Joyce
  
• Corona, Thomas
  
• Daverman, Edward
  
• Kaldre, Ingrid
  
• Mehta, Abhijit

2005

• Chang, Daphne
  
• Foster, David
  
• Neil, Ethan

2004

• Boschini, Fernando
  
• Clark, Susan
  
• Czakon, Nicole
  
• Jacobs, Chandra
  
• Keefe, Joseph
  
• Mao, Albert

2003

• Ammons, Mark
• Foster, Jacob
• Harris, Margaret
• Miller, Michael

2002

• Crawford, Bristol
• Strader, Jay

2001

• Bierenbaum, Daniel
• Bunn, Paul
• Ong T. Tzen

1999

• Beasley, Christopher
• Hurtgen, Clare
• Jackson, Mark

(see paper appearing in Phys. Rev. D)
• Sensoy, Berk

Senior Theses Listed by Name

• Ammons, Mark
• Barton, John
  
• Beasely, Christopher
• Bell, Kate
  
• Bierenbaum, Daniel
• Boschini, Fernando
• Bunn, Paul
• Chang, Daphne
• Clark, Susan
• Corona, Thomas
  
• Crawford, Bristol
• Czakon, Nicole
• Daverman, Edward
• Foster, David
• Foster, Jacob
• Harris, Margaret
• Hurtgen, Clare
• Jackson, Mark
• Jacobs, Chandra
• Kaldre, Ingrid
  
• Keefe, Joseph
• Mao, Albert
• Mehta, Abhijit
  
• Miller, Michael
• Neil, Ethan
• Ong, T. Tzen
• Sensoy, Berk
• Strader, Jay

Senior Thesis Listed by Title

• Biophysical Investigation of Tissue Dynamics: Quantitative Modeling of Dorsal Closure in Myospheroid Mutant of Drosophila
• Body Vibrational Spectra of Metal Flute Models
• Characterization of a Rotational Shear Interferometer for Astronomical Purposes
• A Compact, Air-cooled Zeeman Slower as a Cold Atom Source
  
• Design and Construction of an Improved Zeeman Slower
• Gravitational Lensing: Center of Light Curves For a Point Mass Lens System
• High-order Vibrational Wave Patterns in a Stadium-shaped Thin Metal Plate: An Analog Experimental System for Observation of Quantum Chaos Effects
• Holographic Modulation of a Pulsed UV Laser Microbeam for Biophysical Investigations of Tissue Dynamics
• Interference & Interaction Effects in Quantum Dots: Even-Odd Effect in Coulomb Blockade Peak Spacings
• Laser-Driven Polarized Light-Nuclei Gas Targets
  
• Leg-pole Factor Transformations in Two Dimensional String Theory
  
• Monte Carlo Simulation of an Atomic Interferometer
• Noise Exposure Associated with Marching Bands: measurements, assessments of risks, and possible solutions
• Null Geodesics and Holography
• Order of the Chiral Phase Transition in the Absence of the Anomaly
  
• Patter Formation in a Conveting Fluid in an Annular Domain
• Physics with Two Time Dimensions
• Polarization Instabilities of Laser Beams Counterpropagating Through a Rubidium Vapor
• Rotational Shear Interferometry for Astronomical Imaging
• Search for Excited Muon Production Using the Dimuon + Photon Signature at CDF in Run II
• Simulation Tools for the 2KM detector at the T2K Experiment
  
• Statistics of Disordered Wave Functions with Applications to Coulomb Blockade Peak Spacing
• Strangeness Production at RHIC from Cascading Partons
• A Structural Model of Genetic Regulatory Networks
• Superconformal Theories from Branes at Singularities
• Temperature Dependence of Dorsal Closure
• Variable Stars in the Core of the Globular Cluster M3
• Variable Stars in Globular Cluster M14