Senior Projects at Cal Poly I’ve advised:
Søren Muñoz (2026): work in progress
Reese Cormier (2026): work in progress
Sanjay Sreejith (2026):Remote Detector Operations with the CUORE Experiment and Algebra in Quantum Mechanics (not available online)
Alessandro Libenson (2026): Experimental Methods for Cryogenic Rare Event Detection: CUORE and CUPID (not available online)
Reagen Garcia (2025): Muon Veto Panel Uniformity Tests at Yale Wright Laboratory for the CUORE and CUPID Experiments and Visualizing Dirac Spinors in the Chiral Basis with the Bloch Sphere
Joseph I. Heneghan (2024): The Lobster Plot: Exploring the Half-Life Sensitivity of CUORE’s search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay (not available online)
Quinn Reece (2024): Non-Relativistic Limit of Selected Terms from The SME Dirac Lagrangian
Joshua Mann (2018): Cuoricino Thermal Pulse Classification by Machine Learning Algorithms
Kevin Armenta (2017): My Contributions to the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events Experiment and the Utilization of Geant4 in their Analysis
Kevin Phung (2017): Working With CUORE In Search for The Neutrinoless-Double Beta Decay
Aaron Wong (2017): On-Sight Shifting at the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events
Nickolas Pilgram (2015): Thermodynamic Effects of a Local Bell State Projection Interaction in a One-Dimensional Dynamic Spin System; followup project Spontaneous Quantum Teleportation in a Quenched Spin Lattice
Dakota Rose (2015): CUORE Image Analysis and CUORE-0 Shifting: A Contribution to the Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Bonnie Coit (2015): Investigating the theory and experimental results of neutrino oscillations (currently no online version)
George Jing (2015): Using an Android Smartphone to Demonstrate Relativistic Effects at a Reduced Speed of Light (currently no online version)
Matthew Murachver (2014): Centered-Difference Applications for Schrödinger’s Equation
John Sekerak (2014): Ultrasonic Bonding for the CUORE Collaboration
Edward Taylor (2014): Introduction to LIGO and an Experiment Regarding the Quality Factor of Crystalline Silicon
Austen Greene (2013): Image Analysis for the CUORE Collaboration (currently no online version)
Sam Meijer (2013): Contributions to the CUORE Collaboration
Michael Haskin (2013): Michael’s Awesome Italian Adventure (With a Bit of Science, Too)
Andrew Bianco (2013): Student Contributions to CUORE Collaboration (talk given at California Nevada APS Conference 2013); currently no online version
Ivo Plamenac (2013): Contributions to Background Reduction and Computer Simulations for CUORE & CUORE-0
Jon Macias (2013): Density Functional Theory and the Calculation of TcMg_2O_4 Spinel Lattice Parameters
Richard Mellinger (2012): Aspects of General Relativity in 1+1 Dimensions (co-advised with Dr. Scott Fraser)
David Miller (2012): Building an Alpha Spectrometer for the CUORE Collaboration
Joshua Gearhart (2012): The Quantum Mechanics of Supersymmetry
Randy Lao (2011): A Modular Design for Nuclear Battery Technology
Robin Reil (2010): Liquid Helium Refill Shifts at the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events
Leland Gregory (2010): The Usage of Smartphones in the Calculation of Relativistic Time Dilation Effects at Meager Velocities
Laura Sparks (2009): Contributing Efforts in the Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
A link to recent senior projects from the Cal Poly physics department