ISAAPT/SPS Research Awards Recipients
Each year a committee of the Illinois Chapter of the American Association of Physics Teachers selects the top 3 student presentations (among typically 20-30 submissions) at its annual meeting. ILP students participated in 9 meetings (Macomb 2007, East Peoria 2006,Edwardsville 2005,Urbana 2004, Galesburg 2003, Urbana 2000, Bloomington 1998, Normal 1998, Bloomington 1997) at which they received 14 out of 23 awards.
1. Thomas Traynor, Illinois Wesleyan University, Construction of an Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometer
2. Alison O'Connell, Illinois State University, Monte-Carlo Simulation of Non-diffusive Behavior of Light Scattering
3. Sawyer Campbell, Illinois State University, Light Distribution Along the Optical Axis in Milk Water Mixtures
1. Nicholas Jurasek, Illinois State University, Automated Calculation of Fractal Dimension of Congressional Districts
2. Matthew Narter, Illinois State University, Ensemble vs. Frequency Averages for a Random Scattering Medium
3. Alison O'Connell, Illinois State University, Monte-Carlo Simulations for Light Scattering in Milk
1. Matthew Narter, Illinois State University, Ensemble
vs. Frequency Averages for a Random Scattering Medium
2. Amy Winkler, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville,
Europium Doped Silicate Glass Laser
3. Cary Pint, University of Northern Iowa, The Formation of Domain Walls with Striped Symmetry in Submonolayer Pentane and Hexane on Graphite
1. Jacob Hutchcraft, Illinois State University, Adaptive Delayed Feedback Control of a Chaotic Impact Oscillator
2. Rebecca Wenning, Illinois State University,
Coherence and De-coherence in a Light-Mirror System
3. Matthew Narter, Illinois State University, Computer
Modeling of Light Scattering in Random Media
1. John Henderson, Illinois State University,
Fractional Cycloatom States
2. Allen Lewis, Illinois State University, Evidence of
Dark Cone in Backscattered Light off Turbid Media
3. James Gumbart, Western Illinois University, Modeling Electromagnetic Problems Using Finite Element Analysis
1. Anne Wake, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, The Patience of Building a Classical Cassegrain, Part II
2. James Gumbart, Western Illinois University, Using the Adjoint Operator to Solve Fluid-Flow Stability Problems
3. Andrew James, Eastern Illinois University, The Restricted Three Body Effective Potential
1. Jeffrey Smith, Knox College, Design and Construction of a 1.5 Mev Cyclotron
2. Anne Wake, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, The Patience of Building a Classical Cassegrain
3. Michael Baxa, Western Illinois University, Raman and EXAFS Studies of Low-Ni-Doped YBCO Superconductors
1. Robert E. Wagner, Illinois State University, What are
Cycloatoms?
2. Shannon M. Mandel, Illinois State University,
Numerical Simulations of Laser-Tissue Interactions
3. Michael C. Baxa, Western Illinois University, The Critical State Effects of Nickel Doping in a YBCO(123) Superconductor
1. Amul Tevar, Western Illinois University, Investigation of Gravitational Shielding by Rotating Superconductors
Nov. 20-21, 1998 (SPS Zone)
1. Radka
Bach, "Time-Reversal and the Klein Paradox"
3. Jennifer
Csesznegi, "Storage and Recall of Optical Information in Dielectric
Media"
1. Amul Tevar, Western Illinois University, Investigation of the Effects of Cobalt Doping on Copper Oxide Superconductors
2. Nick Stojanovich, Knox College, An NMR Investigation of Hydrogen Motion in Quasicrystalline TiZrNi
3. Clay D. Nall, Western Illinois University, Enhancements in High Temperature Superconductivity Data Acquisition Techniques
1. Jason Griesbach, University of Wisconsin - Platteville, High Speed Strobe Photography Techniques
2. Jennifer Csesznegi, Illinois State University, Optical Properties of Coherently Excited Three Level Media
3. Mark Welter, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, Radical Density Measurements in a Diamond Growth Flame
1. Jonathan Foster, Bradley University, Apparatus Development for Raman Spectroscopy
2. Bridget Ford, Bradley University, The Miniaturization of a Time of Flight-Mass Spectrometer for Infield Applications
3. Chris Pelto, Illinois Wesleyan University, Harmonic Osc. in the Presence of Multiple Damping Forces