2025 REU 5-Minute Talk Schedule

Tuesday June 10

12:10 Rose Crawford / Impact of crystalline packing motifs on excitonic states in the Perforin family

12:17 Aaniyah Gamble / Creating Heterostructures of 2-D Materials

12:24 Reagan Thompson / Exploring Spin-Mixing Dynamics in Bosonic Systems Beyond the Mean-Field Approximation

12:31 Nicholas Townsend / Photoluminescence Measurements on GaAs Thin Film

12:38 Aiden Guild / Rotating Polarizer for an Atomic Force Microscope

12:45 Sheina Peralta / Dynamics of polar-aligned Circumbinary Discs with applications to Planet Formation

Thursday June 12

12:10 Aubrey McNiel / Magneto-optical trap for ultracold sodium gases

12:17 Silas Goodman / Flat Band Structures

12:24 Sue Lind / Twin Beam Generation in Hot Sodium Vapors

12:31 Hermoine Hernandez / Data Analysis for Low Signal to Noise Ratio Quasars

12:38 Freda Dong / Basics and Applications of Pulsed Laser Deposition

12:45 Lizzie Flores / Simulating Stellar Populations of Edge-On Galaxies to Study Galactic Formation

12:52 James Byrd / SiC Grating Fabrication and Phonon-Polariton Excitations