2026 REU Final Talk Schedule

Wednesday July 22

10:00 Mariah Ellis / Visualizing 2D Materials Using Multi-Layered Structures

10:20 Richard Hill / Surface Phonon Polaritons and Engineered Reststrahlen Bands

10:40 Claude Valdez / Independent Laser System for Strontium Atom-Interferometer Gyroscope

11:00 Madeline van Staveren / Galactic Archaeology and the Formation of the Elements

11:20 Shirsha Mukherjee / Making a BaTiO3 Electrode with E-Beam Lithography

11:40 Madeleine Cigan / Antibiotic Resistance: The Mechanisms of Efflux Pumps

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 Abhinu Mysore / CGM & KCWI Data Cubes

13:20 Jiawen Lin / Developing a Liquid-Liquid Interface Growth Strategy for Alkoxy-Substituted Quadrupolar Fluorescent Dye Thin Films

13:40 Laura Belt / High Energy Physics and Detection of t+c with ATLAS

14:00 Thomas Vukic / High Energy Physics and Detection of t+c with ATLAS

14:20 Gabriel Centeno / Identification and Classification of eclipsing Be stars

Thursday July 23

10:00 Leigh Harwell / Stellar Label Estimates through use of Machine Learning

10:20 Mason Beaty / Stellar Age Estimates through use of Machine Learning

10:40 Lyne Laribi / Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer at Cerium-Based Cluster Interfaces

11:00 Jaden Cooper / Galaxies in Silhouette

11:20 Julia St. Pierre / Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Minor Mergers

11:40 Benjamin Summers / Quantum Dot Localization and Photonic Structure Nanofabrication

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 Star Amponsah / Degradation of Microplastics

13:20 Jacob Seldon / How Galactic Chemical Evolution Influences the Distribution of Stellar Rotation Rates

13:40 Connor Mills / Higgs Phenomenology

14:00 Natalie Meyer / Studying Damped Lyman-alpha Systems Using Quasar Spectra

14:20 Adam Powell / Optical Characterization and Quantum Spin Control of Erbium Doped Cerium Dioxide