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2022 Annual Physics Poster Competition
Initiated in 2005 by Prof. Jeff Sonier, the department hosts an Annual Poster Competition for graduate students and postdocs. This annual social event provides an opportunity to present and learn about the current research work in the department and meet and get to know others outside of the office or lab in a relaxing environment.







Event rule
The poster competition is being adjudicated using a procedure based on the Elo chess ranking system, using a set of head-to-head match ups (introduced by Profs. Andrei Frolov and David Broun). As a judge, all participants have been assigned 10 pairs of posters, chosen at random. For each pair of posters, on the basis of the criteria given below, decide which of the two is the better poster.
Posters should be in portrait format, size 48 x 36” (4x3’) (or alternatively ‘A0’ size). Due to space constraints at the event, horizontal / landscape posters are discouraged.
Assessment criteria
- Significance of the scientific or technical advance. (what is new and interesting?)
- Clarity of the presentation and explanation. (Can we easily determined and understand the point?)
- Have they made it attractive and accessible to a general audience? (Can we all appreciate the physics?)
Benefits to winners
There will be cash prizes (3 X cash awards of $100) for the best posters. Department will be displaying the winning posters in the 8000-level corridor for one year.
Congratulations to the winners!
Name | Supervisor | Poster TItle |
Jonathan Barenboim | Andrei Frolov | Evaporating Non-Singular Black Holes in 2D Dilaton Gravity |
Ali Mokhtari | Malcolm Kennett | Contour-time approach to the disordered Bose-Hubbard model in the strong coupling regime |
Sujit Narayanan | Malcolm Kennett | Fractional Quantum Hall effect in Graphene |
Participants
Name | Supervisor | Poster Title | Link to PDF |
Prithviraj Basak | John Bechhoefer | Inferring potential from non-equilibrium trajectories. | |
Steven Blaber | David Sivak | Efficient Engines 200 Years Later: From Steam Engines to Molecular Machines | |
Ulas Ozdemir | David Broun | Effect of out-of-plane impurities on superfluid density and optical conductivity of overdoped cuprates | |
Jonathan Barenboim | Andrei Frolov and Gabor Kunstatter | Evaporating Non-Singular Black Holes in 2D Dilaton Gravity | |
Leya Lopez | Steve Dodge | Revisiting Photoinduced Superconductivity in YBa2Cu3O6.5 | |
Koushik Bar | Nancy Forde | Incorporation of Temperature Control in a Centrifuge Force Microscope | |
Matt Leighton | David Sivak | Dynamic and thermodynamic bounds for collective motor-driven transport | |
Sujit Narayanan | Malcolm Kennett | Fractional Quantum Hall effect in Graphene. | |
Hamid Mirpoorian | Levon Pogosian | Hunting For Traces of a Fifth Force in the Sky | |
Ali Mokhtari | Malcolm Kennett | Contour-time approach to the disordered Bose-Hubbard model in the strong coupling regime | |
Guillermo F. Quispe Peña | Andrei V. Frolov | Astrophysical foreground cleanup using non-local means | |
Florian Baer | Malcolm Kennett | Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the two-component Bose-Hubbard model | |
Obinna Uzoh | Eundeok Mun | Slight Y-doping induced ferromagnetism in YbCuAs2 | PDF |
Anitha Jose | Karen Kavanagh | Mapping the electrostatic potential gradient in GaN NW p-n junctions using electron holography | |
Mark Rempe | Eldon Emberly | Optimizing efficiency and motility of a polyvalent molecular motor | |
Suyoung Kim | Eundeok Mun | Peak effect in Ga-doped Re3Ge7 type-II superconductor | |
Eric Jones | David Sivak | Stochastic acquisition of the gut microbiome in Drosophila | |
Pak Tik Fong | Kero Lau | Engineering arbitrary two-mode CV gates with fixed two-mode interfaces | |
Adam DeAbre | Stephanie Simmons | T-center ensembles in integrated silicon photonic waveguides |