The Effect of Varying Paneling Characteristics on Soccer Ball Flight
Name: Daniel Halbing Major: Physics, Philosophy Advisors: Dr. Susan Lehman, Dr. Niklas Manz The predictability of flight of the Adidas Conext15, Adidas Jabulani, Adidas […]
Exoplanet Sunsets
Name: Ariel Xie Majors: Physics, Mathematics Minor: Computer Science Advisors: Dr. Lindner, Dr. Kelvey How does sunset look like on exoplanets? For some eccentric […]
Free-Fall Spinning-Planet Tunnel Transportation Network
Name: Yuchen Gan Major: Physics Advisors: Dr. John Lindner, Dr. Niklas Manz Transportation is a very general and important thing. We have airplanes and […]
Avalanches on a Conical Bead Pile
Name: Henry Whyte Major: Physics Minor: Mathematics Advisors: Dr. Susan Lehman, Dr. Niklas Manz Avalanches are one of the most destructive forces in nature, […]
Alien Sunsets on Tumbling Asteroids
Name: Yang “Fish” Yu Major: Physics Minor: Mathematics Advisors: Dr. John F. Lindner, Dr. Cody Leary We simulated Sol’s apparent motion as observed from […]
Investigation of Fire Propagation using Discrete Tree Simulations
Student Name: Handeul Son Major: Physics Minor: Mathematics Advisor: Niklas Manz & Cody Leary Click here to view Handeul’s presentation. (NOTE: A Wooster login […]
A Case of Heartburn: Replicating the Heart’s Electrical Signals with Fire
Student Name: Craig Klumpp Major: Physics Advisor: Niklas Manz, Susan Lehman Typically, when someone mentions fire, a person’s first thought is that of a […]
Creating an Event Horizon Analogue using the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
Student Name: Megan Fisher Major: Physics Minor: Mathematics Advisor: Dr. Niklas Manz, Dr. John Lindner (second reader) The purpose of this thesis was to […]
Examining Light-Matter Interactions Through Two Photon Entanglement
Student Name: Andrew Kunkel Major: Physics Minor: Mathematics Advisor: Cody C. Leary, Second reader: John F. Lindner In this thesis we model two-photon interference […]
Measuring properties of entangled photons using the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect
Student Name: Mili Barai Major(s): Physics Advisors: Dr. Cody Leary, Dr. John Lindner We model Joint Spectral Intensities of two entangled photons created by […]
Understanding the Swelling Mechanism of Stimuli Responsive Organically-Modified Silica
Name: Mattaeus Klonowski Majors: Chemistry, Physics Advisors: Dr. Paul Edmiston, Dr. Cody Leary Stimuli-responsive polymers (SRPs) are materials which exhibit a change in physical […]
Propellant-less Space Travel with Tethers: Swimming in Space using an Asteroid’s Gravity Gradient
Name: Gentaro Nakata Major: Physics Advisors: Dr. John Lindner, Dr. Susan Lehman For this thesis, we set off to investigate the practicality of space […]
Energy Conservation: Harnessing Excess Thermal Energy and Converting to Electricity by Use of the Thermoelectric Effect
Name: Katie Shideler Majors: Physics, Mathematics Advisors: Dr. Susan Lehman, Dr. R. Drew Pasteur The dynamics of thermoelectric energy were studied throughout this research. […]
The trajectory of an Anisotropic Particle Near a Light-Transmitting Optical Nanofiber
Name: Carlos Owusu-Ansah Majors: Physics, Mathematics Advisors: Dr. Cody Leary, Dr. Robert Kelvey Hi, I am Carlos. I love to do research. When I […]
Interdisciplinary research team publishes article on geographic tongue
Wooster alumni and professors integrate math, physics, computer science, and dentistry in study published in peer-reviewed journal
Professors and students collaborate on physics publication
Team draws on grant-funded reaction-diffusion wavefront summer research
APEX Fellowship | Raisa Tasnim Raofa
Major: Physics Class Year: 2023 Faculty Mentor: Cody Leary Wilson Award While interning at Intigra Science Organization, Bangladesh, I created physics outreach materials for […]
AMRE | Stem Success Initiative
Prediction of Retention and Persistence Brendan Dufty ’22, Math Sky Gill ’22, Statistical and Data Science Bang Nguyen ’22, Computer Science Ariel Xie ’21, […]
Wooster graduates play significant role in Indy 500
Physics majors reflect on their time at the College and how their I.S. and liberal arts education prepared them for their motorsport careers.
Wooster Professor Part of New Innovative Research on Neural Networks
John Lindner part of NAIL team that is teaching artificial neural networks to adapt to chaos