2026 REU 5-Minute Talk Schedule

Tuesday June 9

12:10 Abhinu Mysore / CGM & KCWI Data Cubes

12:17 Jiawen Lin / Developing a Liquid-Liquid Interface Growth Strategy for Alkoxy-Substituted Quadrupolar Fluorescent Dye Thin Films

12:24 Madeline van Staveren / Galactic Archaeology and the Formation of the Elements

12:31 Jaden Cooper / Galaxies in Silhouette

12:38 Claude Valdez / Independent Laser System for Strontium Atom-Interferometer Gyroscope

12:45 Shirsha Mukherjee / Making a BaTiO3 Electrode with E-Beam Lithography

12:52 Laura Belt / High Energy Physics and Detection of t+c with ATLAS

12:59 Thomas Vukic / High Energy Physics and Detection of t+c with ATLAS

1:06 Break

1:13 Leigh Harwell / Stellar Label Estimates through use of Machine Learning

1:20 Mason Beaty / Stellar Age Estimates through use of Machine Learning

Thursday June 11

12:10 Jacob Seldon / How Galactic Chemical Evolution Influences the Distribution of Stellar Rotation Rates

12:17 Julia St. Pierre / Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Minor Mergers

12:24 Gabriel Centeno / Identification and Classification of eclipsing Be stars

12:31 Natalie Meyer / Studying Damped Lyman-alpha Systems Using Quasar Spectra

12:38 Lyne Laribi / Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer at Cerium-Based Cluster Interfaces

12:45 Connor Mills / Higgs Phenomenology

12:52 Mariah Ellis / Visualizing 2D Materials Using Multi-Layered Structures

12:59 Richard Hill / Surface Phonon Polaritons and Engineered Reststrahlen Bands

1:06 Madeleine Cigan / Antibiotic Resistance: The Mechanisms of Efflux Pumps

1:13 Benjamin Summers / Quantum Dot Localization and Photonic Structure Nanofabrication

1:20 Star Amponsah / Degradation of Microplastics

1:27 Adam Powell / Optical Characterization and Quantum Spin Control of Erbium Doped Cerium Dioxide