Summer Student Projects 2020

Toy Models for Testing the Efficiency of Stochastic Sampling in Hilbert Space

Student
Anna Barth
Physics
Harvey Mudd College

Mentor(s)
Vojtěch Vlček,

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Vojtěch Vlček,

Department(s)
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations Enable Effective Thermal Modeling of a Composite Phosphor-Conversion Platform

Student
Vedad Bassari
Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara

Mentor(s)
Kristin Denault

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Fluency Lighting Technologies Inc.

Department(s)
Materials
Quantifying the Forces Required to Deform Colloidal Membrane Vesicles through Fourier Analysis

Student
Anson Braun
Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara

Mentor(s)
Ray Adkins

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Zvonimir Dogic

Department(s)
Physics
Computer Controlled Manipulation of Multi-Phase Flow Using Light Responsive Surfactants

Student
Marielle Cooper
CCS Chemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara

Mentor(s)
Ke-Chu Lee

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz

Department(s)
Mechanical Engineering
The Influence of Atomic Structure on the Magnetic Order of MnCuSb

Student
Brenda Escobedo
Electrical Engineering
University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Mentor(s)
Justin Mayer

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Ram Seshadri

Department(s)
Materials
Materials Research Laboratory
Generating more accurate coverage on California internet access maps by using various forms and sources of internet coverage data

Student
David Farias-Llerenas
Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara

Mentor(s)
Udit Paul

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Elizabeth Belding

Department(s)
Computer Science
Electrochemical Aptamer-Based Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Highly Sensitive Bio-Detection

Student
Kelsey Harrison
Chemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara

Mentor(s)
Tung Nguyen

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Quyen Nguyen

Department(s)
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Complexes of aggrecan and hyaluronic acid determine structural and mechanical properties of soft tissue

Student
Zina Helal
Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas at San Antonio

Mentor(s)
Sarah Innes Gold

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Omar Saleh

Department(s)
Materials
Interpreting Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) Data Taken from Swell Shark Egg Cases

Student
Ryland Jolliffe
Materials Engineering
California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

Mentor(s)
Rubayn Goh

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Herb Waite
Rachel Segalman

Department(s)
Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology
Chemical Engineering
Density Functional Theory Investigation of 2D Ruddlesden-Popper Hybrid Lead Iodide Perovskites with Short Interlayer Distances

Student
Alice Li
Chemistry
Bates College

Mentor(s)
Emily Morgan

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Ram Seshadri

Department(s)
Materials
Materials Research Laboratory
Creating a Tunable Optical Cavity to Measure Silicon Vacancy Emission in Diamond Optomechanics for Quantum Information Science

Student
Rio Ondo
Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara

Mentor(s)
Jeff Cady

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Ania Jayich

Department(s)
Physics
Analytic Calculation of Wannier Functions and Bose-Hubbard Parameters

Student
Max Prichard
Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara

Mentor(s)
Peter Dotti

Faculty Sponsor(s)
David Weld

Department(s)
Physics
Altering the Glass Transition Concentration in Polymer Membranes Causes Pore Size Asymmetry

Student
James Raj
Physics
California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

Mentor(s)
Jan Garcia

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Glenn Fredrickson

Department(s)
Materials Research Laboratory
Molecular dynamics simulations of polypeptoids reveal the effects of chemistry and topology on local water behavior

Student
Daniela Rivera Mirabal
Chemical Engineering
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

Mentor(s)
Sally Jiao

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Scott Shell

Department(s)
Chemical Engineering
Atomistic calculations of the generalized stacking fault energies and local slip resistances in three refractory multi-principal element alloys

Student
Rebecca A. Romero
Materials Science and Engineering
University of Texas at El Paso

Mentor(s)
Shuozhi Xu

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Irene Beyerlein

Department(s)
Mechanical Engineering
Investigation of the phase behavior of ABC miktoarm star polymers: binodal vs spinodal decomposition

Student
Vedika Shenoy
Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara

Mentor(s)
Saeed Najafi

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Megan Valentine

Department(s)
Mechanical Engineering
Predicting Energy-Dependent X-Ray Scattering through Simulated Polymer Morphologies

Student
Claire Wu
Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara

Mentor(s)
Veronica Reynolds

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Michael Chabinyc

Department(s)
Materials
Predicting ssNMR shifts through DFT Simulations on NASICON-Na3+xV2-xMgx(PO4)3 Cathode for Na-Ion Batteries

Student
Aryan Zaveri
Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara

Mentor(s)
Elio Gonzalez-Correa

Faculty Sponsor(s)
Raphaële Clément

Department(s)
Materials

Materials Research Laboratory at UCSB: an NSF MRSEC

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