Swarthmore College Department of Physics and Astronomy


Honors Theses

2008-2009

    Antibunching and Excitation Lifetimes in CdSe Nanocrystals

    Margaret Cosgriff | PDF File

    Aggregation of Benzopurpurin 4B

    Chris McKitterick | PDF File

    Excitation Energy Dependence of Fluorescence Intermittency in Core/Shell CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals

    Robert Mohr | PDF File

2007-2008

    LDW Small-Molecule Organic Luminophores for OLED and OPV Device Fabrication

    Ethan Dyle | PDF File

    Creation and Alteration of Two Dimensional MOTs

    Eric Duchon | PDF File

    Quantum Random Walk Search on Satisfiability Problems

    Stephan Hoyer | PDF File

    Genuine Foruitousness, Relational Blockworld, Realism, and Time

    Daniel J. Peterson | PDF File

    Spectral and Hydrodynamic Modeling of X-ray Photoionization Experiments

    Michael J. Rosenberg | PDF File

2006-2007

    Monte Carlo Methods for Sampling Classical and Quantum Particles

    Jennifer Barry | PDF File

    High Time Resolution Spectroscopic Measurements of Electron Temperature in the SSX Plasma

    Vernon Chaplin | PDF File

    Ferroelectricity in Amphiphilic Monolayers

    Jacob Eccles | PDF File

    Aggregation Properties of the Chromonic Liquid Crystal Benzopurpurin 4B

    Nathaniel Erb-Satullo | PDF File

    Imaging of Ultracold Atomic Populations in Magneto-optical Traps

    Daniel Forman | PDF File

    Finding the Energy Spectrum of the Quantum Hindered Rotor by the Lanczos Method

    George Hang | PDF File

    Flow Measurements on Single and Merging Spheromaks at SSX

    Jason Horwitz | PDF File

    The Aggregation and Liquid Crystal Properties of Bordeaux Dye

    Michelle Tomasik | PDF File

2005-2006

    Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulation of Positronium in Cylindrical Pore Spaces

    Timothy W. Cronin | PDF File

    Pulsed Accretion in the Young Binary UZ Tauri East

    Saurav Dhital | PDF File

    High Resolution Flow and Ion Temperature Measurements with Ion
    Doppler Spectroscopy at SSX

    Jerome Fung | PDF File

    Determining the Phase Diagram and Aggregate Size of a Chromonic Liquid Crystal

    Jessica Gersh | PDF File

    Measurement Theories in Quantum Mechanics

    Cortland M. Setlow | PDF File

    Circumstellar Disk Modeling with Bayesian Statistics and Marginal Probabilities

    Andrew Skemer | PDF File

    Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulation of Positronium within a Dielectric Spherical Cavity

    Zachary Wolfson | PDF File

2004-2005

    The Optical and Physical Properties of a Photosensitive Nematic Liquid Crystal

    Dina Aronzon | PDF File

    Surface Gravity as a Diagnostic of Stellar Youth

    Cameron Higby-Naquin | PDF File

    Fundamental Measurements on an Aggregated Dye Liquid Crystal

    Viva Horowitz | PDF File

    Ion Temperature and Flow Velocity Measurements on SSX-FRC

    Aongus Ó Murchadha | PDF File

    Identifying Young Stars Far From Giant Molecular Clouds

    Katie Schlesinger | PDF File

    Modeling Studies of Photoionization Experiments Driven by Z-pinch X-rays

    Nathan Shupe | PDF File

    Measuring Weak Lensing of a Multiply Imaged Quasar

    Lauren Willis | PDF File

    The Pervasive Maxwell Demon

    Dan Yue | PDF File

2003-2004

    XMM-Newton X-ray Spectroscopy of the B2 Bright Giant ε Canis Majoris

    Genevieve de Messieres | PDF File

    Applications of Photospheric Spot Temperature Models to the Study of Stellar Angular Momentum Evolution in the Orion Nebula Cluster

    Matthew Miller | PDF File

2002-2003

    Dynamics of Field-Reversed-Configuration in SSX

    Abram Falk | PDF File

    Formation and Stability of Spheromak/Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) Hybrids in SSX-FRC

    Andrew Fefferman | PDF File

    Modelling O-Star X-Ray Emission Line Profiles

    Roban Kramer | PDF File

    The Three-Dimensional Structure of Magnetic Reconnection in SSX

    Matt Landreman | PDF File

    A Study of Langmuir Monolayers to Find a Template for Two-Dimensional Porphyrin Aggregation

    Mike Loeb | PDF File

    Positronium: A Theoretical Lifetime Calculation and a Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulation in an Electric Field

    Melaku Muluneh | PDF File

    Thermal Fluctuations in the Isotropic Phase of Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Mark Romanowsky | PDF File

    Photon Echo and Single Molecule Fluorescence Measurements of Organic Dyes in Thin Polymer Films

    Robin Smith | PDF File

    X-Ray Emission Line Profiles from the Magnetically Confined Wind Shock Model

    Stephanie Tonnesen | PDF File