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 […]

Ariel Xie

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 […]

Megan Fisher

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 […]

Andrew Kunkel

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 […]

Matteaus Klonowski

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 […]

Gentaro Nakata

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. […]

Carlos Owusu-Ansah

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 […]

geographic-tongue-research-team

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 Niklas Manz (left) and John Lindner (far right) along with Fish Yu ’21, Chase Fuller ’19, and Margaret McGuire ’20 in the computational physics lab during summer 2019

Professors and students collaborate on physics publication

Team draws on grant-funded reaction-diffusion wavefront summer research

Raisa Tasnim Raofa

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 […]

STEM Success Initative Team

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, […]

Collin Hendershot '18 analyzed data from Graham Rahal's car before the race.

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