Presentations by UAlbany Physics Majors
Recent Presentations
PASCAL (Physics All-students Conference at Albany)
- Aiden Sanders – X-Ray Phase Imaging with Polycapillary optics (2025)
- Mia LaMontagne - Neutron Activation Analysis of Unidentified Materials: Energy-Based (2025)
- Chad Wamsganz - Neutron Activation Analysis of Unidentified Materials: Time-Based (2025)
- Abby Greco – The Snowball Chamber (2024)
- Reth Lopes – Calorimeter studies on the DUNE Near Detector (2024)
- Mia LaMontagne – Cosmic Watch Radiation Detector (2023)
- Abeer Awawdeh – Coherent Scattering (2022)
- Henry Ashley – Superheated water as Bubble Chamber medium (2022)
- Isabella Magliocca – Superheated water as a medium for Dark Matter detection (2021)
Showcase
- Mia LaMontagne - Neutron Activation Analysis of Unidentified Materials: Energy-Based (2026)
- Chad Wamsganz - Neutron Activation Analysis of Unidentified Materials: Time-Based (2026)
External Presentations
- Carli Pelletier, talk, SURC, SUNY Old Westbury, (2021)
- Ning Wang, X-ray Phase and Scatter Imaging with Polycapillary Optics, UASRP Research Symposium, (2021)
- Josh Martin (class of 2019):
APS Meeting, Columbus, OH (2018)
SURC (SUNY Undergrad Research Conference), SUNY Adirondack (2019) - Corwin Knight (class of 2018):
ICHEP Conference, Seoul, South Korea (2018)
APS Meeting, Columbus, OH (2018) - Ashley Chontos (class of 2016):
Leadership Alliance National Symposium (2015)
La Serena School for Data Science (2015)
American Astronomical Society (2016)
APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (2016) - Nicole Wallack (class of 2016):
Astronomical Society of New York (2013, 2015)
American Astronomical Society (2014, 2015, 2016)
APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (2016)
Posters by UAlbany Physics Majors
UG students have presented posters at many venues – CURCE, Showcase Day, PASCAL, SURC
Publications by UAlbany Physics Majors
(Undergraduate students are bolded)
- M. Szydagis, C. Levy, A.E. Bolotnikov, M.V. Diwan, G.J. Homenides, A.C. Kamaha, J. Martin, R. Rosero, and M. Yeh, “A Simple Model of Energy Threshold for Snowball Chambers,” Universe 10, 81 (2024) - arXiv:2401.15064 [hep-ex]
- A. Sharikova, E. Quaye, J. Y. Park, M. C. Maloney, H. Desta, R. Thiyagarajan, K. L. Seldeen, N. U Parikh P. Sandhu, A. Khmaladze, B. R. Troen, S. A. Schwartz, S. D. Mahajan, "Methamphetamine Induces Apoptosis of Microglia via the Intrinsic Mitochondrial-Dependent Pathway", J. Neuroimmune Pharmacology 13(3), 396-411 (2018)
- J. Y. Park, X. Chen, A. Sharikova, A. Khmaladze, "Dual wavelength digital holographic imaging of embedded layered structures", Proc. SPIE, 9718, pages: 97182J-1 - 97182J-6 (2016)
- M. Szydagis etal (C. Knight co-author) Demonstration of neutron radiation-induced nucleation of supercooled water (Corwin Knight) (2021)
- M. Szydagis etal (E. Mangus co-author), A Review of Basic Energy Reconstruction Techniques in Liquid Xenon and Argon Detectors for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics Using NEST (2020)
- De Rosa, et al. (UAlbany author A. Chontos). Astrometric Confirmation and Preliminary Orbital Parameters of the Young Exoplanet 51 Eridani b with the Gemini Planet Imager, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 814 L3 (2015).
- Malakar N.K., Gladkov D., and Knuth K.H. 2013. Modeling a sensor to improve its efficacy, Journal of Sensors, vol. 2013, Article ID 481054, 11 pages. arXiv:1303.4385 [physics.ins-det]
- Knuth K.H., Placek B., Richards Z. 2012. Detection and characterization of non-transiting extra-solar planets in Kepler data using reflected light variations. N. Chawla and A.N. Srivastava (eds.) Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding 2012, IEEE Explore, 31 - 38.
- Placek B., Richards Z., Knuth K.H. 2012. Detecting non-transiting exoplanets. U. von Toussaint (ed.) Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, Garching, Germany, July 2012, AIP Conference Proceedings 1553, American Institute of Physics, Melville NY, 23-29.
- Malakar N.K., Mesiti A.J., Knuth K.H. 2009. The spatial sensitivity function of a light sensor. P. Goggans, C.-Y. Chan (eds.) Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, Oxford, MS, USA, 2009, AIP Conference Proceedings 1193, American Institute of Physics, Melville NY, 352-359.
- Knuth, K.H., Tse M.K., Choinsky J., Maunu H.A., Carbon D.F. 2007. Bayesian source separation applied to identifying complex organic molecules in space. Proceedings of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Madison WI, August 2007, 346-350. (Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/SSP.2007.4301277 )
- Tse M.K, Choinsky J., Carbon D.F. and Knuth K.H. 2007. Estimating background spectra. K.H. Knuth, A. Caticha, J.L. Center, A. Giffin, C.C. Rodriguez (eds.), Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA, 2007, AIP Conference Proceedings 954, American Institute of Physics, Melville NY, 322-327.