Presentations – Wooster Physics

More than 50 % of our students presented their research at a conference.

Conference Presentations and Reports

A * denotes a Wooster physics student and a † denotes a summer research student

2024

Augustus Thomas*, Preliminary Profiling Results & Suggestions for Image Deconvolution, COSIfest 2024, Berkeley, CA (October 2024)
Niklas Manz, Daniel Cohen-Cobos*, Kiyomi Sanders†, Laura DeGroot, Heather Guarnera, Cody Leary, and John Lindner, Chemical Reaction-Diffusion Waves Visualize Gravitational Lensing, Dynamics Days Europe, Bremen, Germany (August 2024)
Niklas Manz, Daniel Cohen-Cobos*, Kiyomi Sanders†, Laura DeGroot, Heather Guarnera, Cody Leary, and John Lindner, Chemical Reaction-Diffusion Waves Visualize Gravitational Lensing, Gordon Research Conference on Oscillations & Chemical Instabilities, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (July 2024)
Kelsey McEwen* and Cody Leary, Determining the Motion of an Anisotropic Particle Around an Optical Nanofiber, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Flint, MI (April 2024)
Tali Lansing*, Veran Stanek†, Daniel Cohen-Cobos*, Augustus Thomas†*, and Niklas Manz, Using a Light-Sensitive Reaction-Diffusion System to Visualize the Black Hole Horizon Effect, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Flint, MI (April 2024)
Lily Baker*, Xiaolong Liu, Nileema Sharma, and Matthew Toole, Phase Analysis of Charge Density Waves in Kagome Superconductors, American Physical Society, Minneapolis, MN (March 2024)
Kelly Kim* and Susan Lehman, Interevent Time Correlations for Avalanches on a Conical Bead Pile, American Physical Society, Minneapolis, MN (March 2024)
Veran Stanek†, Tali G. Lansing*, and Niklas Manz, Visualizing a Black Hole Event Horizon using a Light-Sensitive Reaction-Diffusion System, American Physical Society, Minneapolis, MN (March 2024)
Augustus Thomas†*, Mahala Wanner†, Daniel Cohen-Cobos*, and Niklas Manz, Using Reaction-Diffusion Waves to Visualize Electron Drift Velocity, American Physical Society, Minneapolis, MN (March 2024)
Hannah Savoy†, Garrett Worden†, Nicholas Gaba*, and Paul Bonvallet, Swelling thermochemistry and temperature-dependent adsorption of swellable organically modified silica, American Physical Society, Minneapolis, MN (March 2024)
Lily Baker* and Xiaolong Liu, Phase Analysis of Kagome Superconductors using STM, Conference on Women in Physics, Morgantown, WV (January 2024)
Taliah Lansing*, Caleb Marshall, Thanassis Psaltis, David Gribble, Richard Longland, and Kiana Setoodehnia, Measuring the 86Sr(α,α) Cross Section to Constrain the Optical Model, Conference on Women in Physics, Morgantown, WV (January 2024)

2023

Lily Baker* and Xiaolong Liu, Phase Analysis of Charge Density Waves in Kagome Superconductors, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Cleveland, OH (October 2023)
Aeralyn Flynn*† and Susan Lehman, Analyzing Avalanche Patterns on a Conical Bead Pile, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Cleveland, OH (October 2023)
Eric Johnson*, Narmin Ibrahimli, Ilhom Saidjaforzoda, and Necmi Biyikili, Ex-Situ Ellipsometry of Doped Gallium Oxide Thin Films Abstract, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Cleveland, OH (October 2023)
Abrar Khondker*† and Laura DeGroot, Identifying Clumpy Galaxies: Insights from GALFIT and Non-Parametric Measurements, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Cleveland, OH (October 2023)
Gus Thomas*†, Mahala Wanner†, and Niklas Manz, One-Dimensional Belousov-Zhabotinsky Chemical Wave System as an Electron Drift Analog, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Cleveland, OH (October 2023)
Michael Scarberry*, Niklas Manz, and Sarah Sobeck, Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction and its Metal Complex Catalysts, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Rochester, MI (April 2023).
Daniel Cohen Cobos*, Niklas Manz, and Heather Guarnera, Simulating Reaction-Diffusion Waves as an Analog for Gravitational Lensing, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Rochester, MI (April 2023)
Michael Scarberry*, Niklas Manz, and Sarah Sobeck, Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction and its Metal Complex Catalysts, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Rochester, MI (April 2023).
Karmellah Buttler*†, Laura DeGroot, Using Color Gradients to Study the Inside-Out Formation of Disk Galaxies at 0.8 ≤ z ≤ 1.0, American Physical Society, Las Vegas, NV (March 2023).
Olivia Green*†, Cody Leary, A Two-Photon Investigation of Nonlinear Sample Properties, American Physical Society, Las Vegas, NV (March 2023).
Kyla Koos*†, Cody Leary, A Modeling Interference of a Two-Photon State Using Optical Pulses, American Physical Society, Las Vegas, NV (March 2023).
Susan Lehman, Slip Avalanches on a Conical Bead Pile With Cohesion (oral presentation), American Physical Society, Las Vegas, NV (March 2023).
Mahala Wanner†, Niklas Manz, Visualizing electron drift velocity (oral presentation), American Physical Society, Las Vegas, NV (March 2023).

2022

Karmellah Buttler*†, Laura DeGroot, Using Color Gradients to Study the Inside-Out Formation of Disk Galaxies at 0.8 ≤ z ≤ 1.0 (oral presentation), American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Southfield, MI (October 2022).
Olivia Green*†, Cody Leary, A Two-Photon Investigation of Nonlinear Sample Properties, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Southfield, MI (October 2022).
Aman Jissa*†, Cody Leary, Measuring the phase accumulation of a changing polarization state of light, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Southfield, MI (October 2022).
Eric Johnson*†, Susan Lehman, Avalanche Occurrence on a Conical Bead Pile With Cohesion, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Southfield, MI (October 2022).
John Schmidt*†, Paul Bonvallet, Experimentally Determining the Young’s Modulus for Compression of Swellable Organically Modified Silica, American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Southfield, MI (October 2022).
Mahala Wanner†, Niklas Manz, Table-top Analogues Using Chemical Waves: Electron Drift Velocity (oral presentation), American Physical Society – Eastern Great Lakes Section, Southfield, MI (October 2022).
Kiyomi Sanders†, Niklas Manz, Table-top Analogues Using Chemical Waves: Gravitational Lensing Effect, American Physical Society – Far West Section, Honolulu, HI (October 2022).
Niklas Manz, Evolution towards the now accepted name Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, Gordon Research Conference on Oscillations & Chemical Instabilities, Stonehill College, Easton, MA (July 2022).
Melita Wiles*, Niklas Manz, Angular frequency of rotating spiral waves in a chemical reaction-diffusion systems, American Physical Society, virtual (March 2022).

2021

Paul Bonvallet, John Lindner, Brian Corbin†, D. Crow†*, Ryan Reffner†, Teresa Albon Reidl†*, Susan Lehman, and Paul Edminston, Measuring and Modeling the Swelling Force of Swellable Organically Modified Silica (SOMS), American Chemical Society, virtual (April 2021).
Melita Wiles*, Susan Lehman, Adjusting Images of a Conical Bead Pile through Linear Transformations (oral presentation), American Physical Society – Ohio-Region Section, virtual (April 2021).
Margaret McGuire*†, Chase Fuller*†, John F. Lindner, Niklas Manz, Geographic Tongue as a Reaction-Diffusion System, American Physical Society – Ohio-Region Section, virtual (April 2021).
Margaret McGuire*†, Chase Fuller*†, John F. Lindner, Niklas Manz, Geographic Tongue as a Reaction-Diffusion System, Annual Research Day, UNC Adams School of Dentistry, Chapel Hill, NC (March 2021).
Bennett Anderson*†, Susan Lehman, Automated Measurement of the Profile of an Avalanching Conical Bead Pile (oral presentation), American Physical Society, virtual (March 2021).
Melita Wiles*, Susan Lehman, Adjusting Images of a Conical Bead Pile through Linear Transformations (oral presentation), American Physical Society, virtual (March 2021).

2020

Fish Yu*†, Chase Fuller*†, Margaret McGuire*†, John F. Lindner, Niklas Manz, Reaction-diffusion waves interacting with fractals, spirals, and concave & soft obstacles, American Physical Society, Denver, CO (March 2020) – canceled.
Melita Wiles*†, John F. Lindner, Energy Stability of Gravitationally Interacting Rods and Dumbbells, American Physical Society, Denver, CO (March 2020) – canceled.
Dustin Savelli†, Ariel Xie*†, Cody Leary, Transfer of Linear and Angular Momentum from Evanescent Fields of an Optical Fiber to Isotropic and Anisotropic Dipolar Spheres, American Physical Society, Denver, CO (March 2020) – canceled.
Brian P. Corbin*†, John F. Lindner, Paul A. Bonvallet, Logarithmic Expansion of Swellable Organosilica Material, American Physical Society, Denver, CO (March 2020) – canceled.
Sam Cavender†, Sam Nash*, Marc E. Manheim*, Niklas Manz, Reaction-Diffusion Waves as a Black Hole Event Horizon Analogue, American Physical Society, Denver, CO (March 2020) – canceled.
Bennett Anderson*†, Susan Lehman, Automated Measurement of the Profile of an Avalanching Conical Bead Pile, American Physical Society, Denver, CO (March 2020) – canceled.
Cody C. Leary, M. G. Raymer, Brian J. Smith, Andrew H. Marcus, Interferometric extraction of the exchange symmetry of a biphoton joint spectral amplitude, Southwest Quantum Information and Technology, Eugene, OR (February 2020).
Andrew Kunkel*†, Laura DeGroot, GDR2 Radial Velocity Analysis According to Spiral Density Wave Theory, American Atronomical Society, Honolulu, HI (January 2020).
Maria Cook†, Laura DeGroot, Studying the Bulges of Distant Galaxies, American Atronomical Society, Honolulu, HI (January 2020).
Megan Fisher*, D. Falconer, R. Moore, S. Tiwari, Improving the Forecasting of Drivers of Sever Space Weather with the New MAG4 HMI Vector Magnetogram Database, American Astronomical Society, Honolulu, HI (January 2020).
Abigail Ambrose*†, Laura DeGroot, Using Gaia DR2 to Observe Stellar Streams and Dark Matter Distribution in the Milky Way, American Atronomical Society, Honolulu, HI (January 2020).
Laura DeGroot, Swara Ravindranath, Mili Barai*, Nicholas Rosner*, Investigating the Radial Color Gradients in Galaxies – Do Galaxy Disks form inside-out?, American Astronomical Society, Honolulu, HI (January 2020).
Melita Wiles*†, John F. Lindner, Energy stability of gravitational interacting rods and dumbbells, Conference for Women in Physics, Pittsburgh, PA (January 2020)

2019

Chase Fuller*†, John F. Lindner, Niklas Manz, Chemical diode behavior in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction due to inhomogeneous diffusion (oral presentation), American Physical Society – Ohio-Region Section, Flint, MI (October 2019).
Ariel Xi*†, Cody Leary, Optomechanical Spin-Orbit Coupling, American Physical Society – Ohio-Region Section, Flint, MI (October 2019).
Yang (Fish) Yu*†, John F. Lindner, Niklas Manz, Reaction-diffusion wavefronts around concave, spiral, fractals and soft obstacles, American Physical Society – Ohio-Region Section, Flint, MI (October 2019).
Chase Fuller*†, John F. Lindner, Niklas Manz, Chemical diode behavior in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction due to inhomogeneous diffusion (oral presentation), Annual Mathematics Conference: Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems and their Applications, Miami University, Oxford, OH (September 2019).
Margaret McGuire*†, John F. Lindner, Niklas Manz, Reaction-diffusion models of 2D surfaces embedded in 3D space and a model of geographic tongue (oral presentation), Annual Mathematics Conference: Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems and their Applications, Miami University, Oxford, OH (September 2019).
Melita Wiles*†, John F. Lindner, Energy stability of gravitational interacting rods and dumbbells (oral presentation), Annual Mathematics Conference: Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems and their Applications, Miami University, Oxford, OH (September 2019).
Yang (Fish) Yu*†, John F. Lindner, Niklas Manz, Reaction-diffusion wavefronts with concave, spiral, fractals and soft obstacles (oral presentation), Annual Mathematics Conference: Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems and their Applications, Miami University, Oxford, OH (September 2019).
Niklas Manz, Hannah Phillips, Connor Herndon, Abigail E. Ambrose*†, Flavio H. Fenton (online report), Dynamics of Table-top Fire Fronts, Article in SIAM News Online based on presentation at 2019 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in Snowbird, Utah (May 2019).
Abigail Ambrose*†, Niklas Manz, Effect of match types on the fire propagation speeds in a match stick array, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, Wooster, OH (March 2019).
Daniel Blaikie*†, Spencer L. Kirn*, Niklas Manz, Propagation of light-sensitive reaction-diffusion waves in inhomogeneously illuminated systems, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, Wooster, OH (March 2019).
Rebecca Glaser†, Nathaniel Smith*, W.H. (Vincent) Hui*†, John F. Lindner, Niklas Manz, Disruption and Recovery of Reaction-Diffusion Wavefronts Colliding with Obstacles, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, Wooster, OH (March 2019).
Carlos Owusu-Ansah*†, John F. Lindner, Spectral Stability of Gravitationally Interacting Rods, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, Wooster, OH (March 2019).
Joe Theiss and N. Manz, Discrete Tree Based Fire Simulation, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, Wooster, OH (March 2019).
Daniel Blaikie*†, Spencer L. Kirn*, Niklas Manz, Propagation of light-sensitive reaction-diffusion waves in inhomogeneously illuminated systems, American Physical Society, Boston, MA (March 2019).
Rebecca Glaser†, Nathaniel Smith*, W.H. (Vincent) Hui*†, John F. Lindner, Niklas Manz, Disruption and Recovery of Reaction-Diffusion Wavefronts Colliding with Obstacles, American Physical Society, Boston, MA (March 2019).
Carlos Owusu-Ansah*†, John F. Lindner, Spectral Stability of Gravitationally Interacting Rods, American Physical Society, Boston, MA (March 2019).
Kimberly Patterson†, John F. Lindner, Sliding on a Spinning Cuboid, American Physical Society, Boston, MA (March 2019).
Katie Shideler*†, Susan Lehman, Using Pressure Sensors To Characterize Avalanche Dynamics On A Conical Bead Pile, American Physical Society, Boston, MA (March 2019).
Ryan Reffner†, Paul Bonvallet, and Regan Silvestri, Force generation and encapsulation of fluorophores in swellable organically modified silica, American Chemical Society, Orlando, FL (March 2019).

2018

Carlos Owusu-Ansah*†, John F. Lindner, Spectral Stability of Gravitationally Interacting Rods, American Physical Society – Ohio-Region Section, Toledo, OH (September 2018).
Nathaniel Smith*, Rebecca Glaser†, W.H. (Vincent) Hui*†, John F. Lindner, Niklas Manz, Reaction-diffusion wavefronts colliding with obstacles, American Physical Society – Ohio-Region Section, Toledo, OH (September 2018).
Nathaniel Smith*, Rebecca Glaser†, W.H. (Vincent) Hui*†, John F. Lindner, Niklas Manz, Effect of obstacles on the propagation of reaction-diffusion waves in a two-dimensional channel, Gordon Research Conference on Osc. & Chem. Inst., Les Diablerets, Switzerland (July 2018).
Abigail Ambrose*†, Niklas Manz, Using Match Stick Arrays to Analyze Forest Fire Propagation along a Slope (oral presentation), Ohio Academy of Sciences, Bowling Green, OH (April 2018).
Jack Mershon*, Chase Fuller*†, Niklas Manz, Modified Propagation of Belousov-Zhabotinsky Waves in a Quasi-1D System (oral presentation), American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, East Lansing, OH (March 2018).
Nathaniel Smith*, John Lindner, Niklas Manz, A Computational Simulation of Belousov-Zhabotinsky Wave Behavior around Obstacles, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, East Lansing, OH (March 2018).
Abigail Ambrose*†, Niklas Manz (oral presentation), Using Match Stick Arrays to Analyze Forest Fire Propagation along a Slope, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, East Lansing, OH (March 2018).
Paul Bonvallet, Tyler Branscum†, and Zane Thornburg†*, Synthesis and Characterization of high-capacity swellable organically-modified silica, American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA (March 2018).
Gabriel Dale-Gau*†, Susan Y. Lehman, A System of Pressure Sensors to Characterize Duration and Area of Avalanches on a Conical Bead Pile, American Physical Society, Los Angeles, CA (March 2018).
Emma Brinton*, Michael Wolff*, Benjamin Jenkins*†, Cody Leary, Dynamics of a Small Dielectric Sphere Due to the Higher-Order Modes of an Optical Nano Fiber, American Physical Society, Los Angeles, CA (March 2018).
Haidar Esseili*†, Kyle McNickle*, Susan Y. Lehman, Use of Particle Image Velocimetry to Characterize the Dynamics of Avalanches on a Conical Bead Pile, American Physical Society, Los Angeles, CA (March 2018).
Chase Fuller*†, Jack Mershon*, Niklas Manz, Effects of Fluid Flow on Chemical Excitation with Normal and Anomalous Dispersion Relations, American Physical Society, Los Angeles, CA (March 2018).
Susan Y. Lehman, Karin Dahmen, Louis McFaul, Effect of Cohesion on the Time between Avalanches On A Slowly-Driven Conical Bead Pile, American Physical Society, Los Angeles, CA (March 2018).
Hannah Peltz Smalley†, John F. Lindner, Sliding on a Massive Spinning Asteroid, American Physical Society, Los Angeles, CA (March 2018).
Avi Vajpeyi*, John F. Lindner, Susan Y. Lehman, Denise Byrnes, Simulation of a Granular Flow Experiment Using GPU Parallelism (oral presentation), American Physical Society, Los Angeles, CA (March 2018).
Justine Walker*, John F. Lindner, Kim Tritt (oral presentation), Dancing Our Way to Mars Through Physics, American Physical Society, Los Angeles, CA (March 2018).
Nathaniel Moore*, Laura DeGroot, Local Analogs: Comparing a 12-inch to the Hubble, American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC (January 2018).

2017

Jack Mershon*, Nojan Aliahmed, Yadong Liu, Bhavya Sri Pakki, and Magilal Agarwal, Ultra-Thin Flexible Battery, CUR’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates Symposium, Alexandria, VA (October 2017).
Zane Thornburg*, Karl Feierabend, and Susan Lehman, Investigating the Beer-Lambert Law in a Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopic Method, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, Oxford, OH (October 2017).
Avi Vaipeyi*, Andrew Miller, Pia Astone, and Sergio Fransca, Enhancing Long Transient Gravitational Wave Power Spectra with Filters, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, Oxford, OH (October 2017).
Hwan Bae*, Norah Ali†, and John F. Lindner, Hannay’s Hoop Beyond Asymptotics, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, Oxford, OH (October 2017).
Wan Hang Hui*, John F. Lindner, and Niklas Manz, The effect of obstacles on the propagation speed of Reaction-Diffusion waves, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, Oxford, OH (October 2017).
Chase Fuller*† and Niklas Manz, Effects of advection on the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction: standing excitation waves in a quasi-1D system, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, Oxford, OH (October 2017).
Abigail Ambrose*† and Niklas Manz, Using Matches to Investigate Forest Fire Propagation Along a Slope, American Physical Society Ohio-Region Section, Oxford, OH (October 2017).
Michael Wolff*, Cody Leary, Force on a dielectric spherical particle due to the higher-order modes of a few mode optical nanofiber, Optical Nanofibers and Applications, Okinawa, Japan (June 2017).
Alexander Gould*† and Niklas Manz, BZ-Reaction diffusion wave speed around obstacles, Spring 2017 Meeting of the APS Ohio-Region Section, Ypsilanti, MI (May 2017).
Robin Morillo* and Niklas Manz, A Hill on fire: Using matches, 3D printing, and code as a forest fire analog, CUR’s 21st Annual Posters on the Hill, Washington, DC (April 2017)
Robin Morillo* and Niklas Manz, The Ring of Fire: The Effects of Slope upon Pattern Formation in Simulated Forest Fire Systems, American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA (March 2017)
Jordan Dennis*†, Laura Grace*, and Susan Lehman, Period Doubling in Bubbling from a Submerged Nozzle, American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA (March 2017)
Haidar Esseili*†, Avi Vajpeyi*†, and Susan Lehman, Tracking particles during avalanches on a conical bead pile, American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA (March 2017)
Preston Pozderac*† and Cody Leary, Investigation of the Wave Propagation of Vector Modes of Light in a Spherically Symmetric Refractive Index Profile, American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA (March 2017)
Zane Thornburg*† and Paul Bonvallet, Characterizing the Swelling of a Crosslinked Organosilicon Polymer, American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA (March 2017)
Marc E. Manheim*, John F. Lindner, and Niklas Manz, Experimentally Modeling Black and White Hole Event Horizons via Fluid Flow, American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA (March 2017)
Nathaniel Moore*† and John F. Lindner, Sliding on a spinning asteroid (geodesics on a rotating ellipsoid), American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA (March 2017)
Tessa Rosenberger† and John F. Lindner, Soliton creation, propagation, and annihilation in aeromechanical arrays of one-way coupled bistable elements, American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA (March 2017)
Hwan Bae*† and John F. Lindner, Hannay’s hoop revisited beyond asymptotics, American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA (March 2017)
Robin M.P. Morillo* and Niklas Manz, Burning up: The effect of slope upon forest fire propagation, Dynamics Days 2017, Silver Spring, MD (January 2017).

2016

Tyler Branscum† and Paul Bonvallet, Synthesis of Swellable Organically Modified Silica at Various Temperatures and Concentrations, Fall 2016 Meeting of the APS Ohio-Region Section, Bowling Green, OH (October 2016).
Robin M.P. Morillo* and Niklas Manz, Matchstick Forests: Studying Fire Spread On Hills Using a Scaled Model, Fall 2016 Meeting of the APS Ohio-Region Section, Bowling Green, OH (October 2016).
Jersson Pachar† and Niklas Manz, Effects of Advection on Reaction-Diffusion Waves, Fall 2016 Meeting of the APS Ohio-Region Section, Bowling Green, OH (October 2016).
Preston Pozderac*† and Cody Leary, Comparison of Corrections to the Helmholtz and Schrodinger Equations using First Order Perturbation Theory, Fall 2016 Meeting of the APS Ohio-Region Section, Bowling Green, OH (October 2016).
Zane Thornburg*† and Paul Bonvallet, Characterizing the Swelling of a Crosslinked Organosilicon Polymer, Fall 2016 Meeting of the APS Ohio-Region Section, Bowling Green, OH (October 2016).
Cody C. Leary, Maggie Lankford*†, and Deepika Sundarraman*†, Polarization-based control of spin-orbit hybrid modes of light in biphoton interference, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, CA (June 2016).
Spencer. L. Kirn* and N. Manz, Light-sensitive reaction-diffusion waves in a checkerboard-like illumination system, 47^th Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Covington, KY, USA, (May 2016 )
Spencer. L. Kirn* and N. Manz, Light-sensitive reaction-diffusion waves in a checkerboard-like illumination system, APS Ohio-Region Section, Dayton, OH, USA, (April 2016)
Avi Vajpeyi*† and Susan Lehman, Improving Detection of Avalanches on a Conical Bead Pile, American Physical Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD (March 2016)
Justine Walker*† and Susan Lehman, Changes in the Distributions of Avalanches on a Conical Bead Pile with Cohesion, American Physical Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD (March 2016)

2015

Cody C. Leary, Maggie Lankford*†, and Deepika Sundarraman*†, Coupling of spin and orbital degrees of freedom in tunable Hong- Ou-Mandel interference involving photons in distinguishable and indistinguishable hybrid spin-orbit modes, SPIE Conference on Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Transfer and Processing, Prague, Czechoslovakia (April 2015)
Michael Bush*† and John Lindner, Balancing Newtonian gravity and spin to create localized structures, American Physical Society Meeting, San Antonio, TX (March 2015)
Nathan Johnson*† and Susan Lehman, Use of a magnetic field to modify and detect avalanche behavior on a conical bead pile, American Physical Society Meeting, San Antonio, TX (March 2015)
Ziyi Sang*† and John Lindner, Nonlinear dynamics of three gravitating rods, American Physical Society Meeting, San Antonio, TX (March 2015)
Catherine Tieman*† and Susan Lehman, New Analysis Techniques for Avalanches in a Conical Bead Pile with Cohesion, American Physical Society Meeting, San Antonio, TX (March 2015)

2014

Nicolae Istrate*† and John Lindner, Stress-energy distribution for a cylindrical artificial gravity field via the Darmois-Israel junction conditions of general relativity, American Physical Society Meeting, Denver, CO (March 2014)
Maggie Lankford*† and John Lindner, Order and chaos in the rotation and revolution of two massive line segments, American Physical Society Meeting, Denver, CO (March 2014).
Brian Maddock*† and John Lindner, Computer simulation of the classical entanglement of U-shaped particles in three dimensions, American Physical Society Meeting, Denver, CO (March 2014)
Paroma Palchoudhuri*†, Susan Lehman, and D.T. Jacobs, Effects of Cohesion On the Dynamic Response of A Conical Bead Pile, American Physical Society Meeting, Denver, CO (March 2014).
Susan Lehman, Lilianna Christman*, Paroma Palchoudhuri*†, and D.T. Jacobs, Scaling Analysis And Tuning Parameters For Avalanches On A Slowly-Driven Conical Bead Pile, American Physical Society Meeting, Denver, CO (March 2014).

2013

Cody Leary, Thomas Gilliss, Deepika Sundarraman, Bimodal Houg-Ou-Mandel Interference in Symmetric and Asymmetric Optical Systems, Coherence in Quantum Optics 10, Rochester NY (2013).
Theresa Albon*, Wilder Iglesias, Antal Jakli, and Shila Garg, Entanglement and Relaxation of Liquid Crystal Shaped Granular Media, American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD (March 2013)
Matt Schmitthenner*, P.K. Challa, J.T. Gleeson, Shila Garg, Elastic constants and material properties of novel shaped liquid crystals, American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD (March 2013).
Thomas Gilliss*, Deepika Sundarraman*†, and Cody C. Leary, Classical and Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference of Transverse Spatial Modes in a Parity-Based Interferometer, American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD (March 2013)
Elliot Wainwright*† and John F. Lindner, Stochastic Resonance in a Mechanical System, American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD (March 2013)

2012

Theresa Albon*, Paul Edmiston, and Susan Lehman, Investigation of Forces Exerted During the Expansion of Nanomechanically Tensioned Organosilica Materials, American Physical Society, Boston, MA (February 2012)
Norman Israel* and John Lindner, Pure Quantum Gravity Simulation in 1+1 Dimensions using Causal Dynamical Triangulation, American Physical Society, Boston, MA (February 2012)
Karl Smith*† and John Lindner, String Theory (Knot Really), American Physical Society, Boston, MA (February 2012)

2011

Andrew Blaikie*†, R. Mike Winters*, and Deva O’Neil, Simulating the Electroweak Phase Transition: Sonification of Bubble Nucleation, 17^th Annual Conference on Auditory Display, Budapest, Hungary (June 2011)
R. Mike Winters*†, 1/f noise and auditory aesthetics: Sonification of a driven bead pile, 17^th Annual Conference on Auditory Display, Budapest, Hungary (June 2011)
Andrew Blaikie*†, R. Mike Winters*, and Deva O’Neil, Simulating Electroweak Baryogenesis in the Standard Model, American Physical Society, Dallas, TX (March 2011)
Lilianna E. Christman*†, Amanda Logue*, Paul L. Edmiston, and Susan Y. Lehman, Characterization of the Morphology and Rapid Expansion of Swellable Organically Modified Silica, American Physical Society, Dallas, TX (March 2011)
Lorenzo Dumancas*†, David Simpson*†, and D.T. Jacobs, Specific heat at the micellization and phase transitions in a triblock copolymer-water system, American Physical Society, Dallas, TX (March 2011)
Alyse Marquinez*, Ingrid Thvedt*, S.Y. Lehman, and D.T. Jacobs, Scaling, clustering and avalanches for steel beads in an external magnetic field, American Physical Society, Dallas, TX (March 2011)
Hosanna Odhner†, Alison Huff*, Kelly Patton*, D.T. Jacobs, Bryna Clover, and Sandra Greer, Micellization and phase transitions in a triblock copolymer-D₂O system, American Physical Society, Dallas, TX (March 2011)
Christine Welling†, B. P. Miller, W. N. Brandt, R. R. Gibson, M. C. Eracleous, and K. T. Lewis, Broad Absorption Line Variability in Radio-Loud Quasars, 217^th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA (January 2011)

2010

Colin McGuire† and Sarah Schmidtke, Effects of temperature and pH on the fluorescence of 4-amino benzoic acid and its derivatives, 62^nd Southeastern Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA (December 2010)
Alison Huff*, Kelly Patton*, D.T. Jacobs, Bryna Clover, and S.C. Greer, Micellization and phase transitions in a triblock copolymer-water system, American Physical Society, Portland, OR (March 2010)
Amanda Logue*†, John F. Lindner, Jacob Lynn†, and Frank W. King*, Chaos and Order in the /. Body Problem, American Physical Society, Portland, OR (March 2010)
Larry Markley*†, Mary Mills*† and D.T. Jacobs, Self-organized Criticality or not in Spherical Bead Piles, American Physical Society, Portland, OR (March 2010)
Katsuo Maxted*†, John F. Lindner, and Barbara J. Breen, Two-dimensional, one-way coupled arrays, American Physical Society, Portland, OR (March 2010)
Heather Moore*, Lorenzo Dumancas*, Tyler Rhoades*, Mark Zimmerman*, and D.T. Jacobs, Percolation transition in spherical granular materials, American Physical Society, Portland, OR (March 2010)
Margaret Raabe*† and John F. Lindner, Escape from the 3 Body Problem, American Physical Society, Portland, OR (March 2010)
David Simpson*† and D.T. Jacobs, Specific heat at the micellization and phase transitions in a triblock copolymer-water system, American Physical Society, Portland, OR (March 2010)
Mitchell P. Thayer† and Sarah J. Schmidtke, Environmental and structural effects on intramolecular charge transfer exhibited by 4-aminobenzoic acid and its derivatives, American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, CA (March 2010)
Corey Atwood Stone*, Brendan Miller, M. Richards, and J. Budaj, Accretion Structure in AU Mon, American Astronomical Society Meeting #215, Washington, DC (January 2010)

2009

Mark D. Zimmerman*† and D.T. Jacobs, Percolation in Granular Material: Conduction through Silver/Glass/Air Mixtures, American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA (March 2009)
Mike Winters*† and D.T. Jacobs, Self-Organized Criticality: Bead Pile Dynamics Across Bead Types, American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA (March 2009)
Ingrid Thvedt*†, Martha Roseberry*, and Susan Lehman, Investigation into the Mpemba Effect: Variation in the Freezing Time of Water Dependent on Initial Temperature and Purity, American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA (March 2009)
Patrick Odenthal†, John F. Lindner, Kelly M. Patton*, James C. Gallagher†, and Barbara J. Breen, Experimental observation of soliton propagation and annihilation in a hydromechanical array of one-way coupled oscillators, American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA (March 2009)
Jacob Lynn†, Frank W. King*, and John F. Lindner, Chaos & Order in the /.-Body Problem, American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA (March 2009)

2008

Tsang-Min Huang, Thein Kyu, Shila Garg, Kathy McCreary*, Phase diagram of a binary liquid crystal mixture involving induced mesophase transitions, American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA (March 2008)
Joseph Thomas* and Susan Y. Lehman, Does Hot Water Freeze Faster than Cold? Investigation of the Reproducibility and Causes of the Mpemba Effect, American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA (March 2008)
Mark Wellons*, Frank King*†, and Todd McAlpine, Simulating a charged spherical pendulum in time-varying electric and magnetic fields, American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA (March 2008)
Kelly Patton*, James Gallagher†, and John F. Lindner, Experimental Observation of Solitons Propagating in a Hydro-Mechanical Array of One-Way Coupled Oscillators, American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA (March 2008)

2007

Martha I. Roseberry*† and John F. Lindner, Precession and chaos in the Newtonian two-body problem in a spherical universe, American Physical Society, Denver, CO (March 2007)
Evan Heidtmann*† and John F. Lindner, The “Escape Set” elucidates chaos in the restricted three-body problem, American Physical Society, Denver, CO (March 2007)
Henry Timmers*†, Sarah Suddendorf*†, Angie Triplett*†, Nithya Venkataraman*†, and D.T. Jacobs, Correlation length of a near-critical, eight-arm star polystyrene in methylcyclohexane, American Physical Society, Denver, CO (March 2007)
Nathan Utt*† and D.T. Jacobs, Anomaly in the heat capacity of nitrobenzene and dodecane, American Physical Society, Denver, CO (March 2007)
Mary Mills*†, Andrew Kindschuh*, and D.T. Jacobs, Self-Organized Criticality in a Bead Pile, American Physical Society, Denver, CO (March 2007)

2006

John Gamble*† and Shila Garg, Dielectric Properties of Binary Mixtures of MBBA and 7CB, American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD (March 2006)
Megan Miller†, Tuan Nguyen†, Elizabeth Baker†, and D.T. Jacobs, Self-Organized Criticality in a Bead Pile, American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD (March 2006)
Ruth Shewmon†, Ryan Hartschuh*, and D.T. Jacobs, Anomaly in the heat capacity of triethylamine and water, American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD (March 2006)
Daniel L. Tremblay*† and Susan Y. Lehman, Low-Cost Cavity Ring-Down System For Measurement Of High Reflectivity Semiconductor Mirrors, American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD (March 2006)
C.A. O’Brien†, L.M. Boone, and J.D. Hohertz*†, Simulating Particle Dynamics in Tangled Magnetic Field, 207th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC (January 2006)
L.M. Walker*†, K.L. Larson*†, and L.M. Boone, An INTEGRAL Archival Search for Microquasar Candidates, 207th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society,Washington, DC (January 2006)

2005

Angie Triplett*†, Nithya L. Venkataraman*†, and D.T. Jacobs, Correlation length of a near-critical, eight-arm star polystyrene in methylcyclohexane, American Physical Society (Los Angeles CA, March 2005)
Stephen T. Poprocki*, Leann G. Erbsen†, and Susan Y. Lehman, Detection and Analysis of Quantum Dots from Atomic Force Microscope Images, American Physical Society (Los Angeles CA, March 2005)
Daniel Shai*† and John Lindner, Precession of nearly circular orbits in the Newtonian 2-body problem perturbed by constant positive curvature, American Physical Society (Los Angeles CA, March 2005)

2004

Andy P. Brinck*†, Nithya L. Venkataraman*†, and D.T. Jacobs, The correlation length amplitude for eight-arm star polystyrene in methylcyclohexane near the critical point, American Physical Society (Montreal Canada, March 2004)
Elizabeth Baker*† and D.T. Jacobs, Crystal Structure and Self-Organized Criticality in a Bead Pile, American Physical Society (Montreal Canada, March 2004)
Kathleen McCreary*† and Shila Garg, Dielectric Anisotropy of Nematic Binary Mixtures, American Physical Society (Montreal Canada, March 2004)
Katherine Olaksen*†, Nicholas Johann Harmon*†, and John F. Lindner, Nontrivial dynamics of two interacting point particles confined to a sphere, American Physical Society (Montreal Canada, March 2004)

2003

Shila Garg and Hanneke Hoekman*, Dielectric Anisotropy of A Nematic Binary Mixture, International Conference on 6^th Ibero-American Workshop on Complex Fluids and Their Applications (Lisbon, Portugal, September 2003)
B.C. Thomas*, J.F. Lindner, S.B. Hughes*†, D.J. Miller*†, and K. Wiesenfeld, The Flux Creep Automaton, American Physical Society (Austin Texas, March 2003)
N. Venkataraman†*, C.J. Locke*, and D.T. Jacobs, The correlation length of an eight-arm polystyrene in methylcyclohexane near the critical point, American Physical Society (Austin Texas, March 2003)
D. Merriman*† and S. Garg, Investigating the Elastic Properties of N4 Through Freedericksz Transitions, American Physical Society (Austin Texas, March 2003)
J.R. Moffitt*, P. Macdonald†, and J.F. Lindner, Self-erasing perturbations of Abelian sandpiles, American Physical Society (Austin Texas, March 2003)
C. Leidel†, N. Harmon*†, and J.F. Lindner, Optimal Exit: Solar Escape as a Restricted Three-Body Problem, American Physical Society (Austin Texas, March 2003)

2002

Tom Spears *† and Shila Garg, Dielectric Interactions in a Nematic Binary Mixture, American Physical Society (Indianapolis Indiana, March 2002)
Joshua Martin* and Shila Garg, Binary Mixtures of Calamitic and Discotic Liquid Crystals, American Physical Society (March 2002)
R. Hartschuh*† and D. T. Jacobs, Composition dependence for the near-critical heat capacity of triethylamine and water, American Physical Society (Indianapolis Indiana, March 2002)
N. J. Harmon*† and J. F. Lindner, Optimizing Solar Escape: A 3-Body Problem, American Physical Society (Indianapolis Indiana, March 2002)
J. A. Goetz, D. W. Brubaker*†, and C. A. Clerc†, Methanol Maser Emission in W75N and Orion Molecular Cloud 2 (OMC2), American Astronomical Society (Washington D.C., January 2002)

2001

Shila Garg, Kirstin Purdy*, Erica Bramley* and I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, Nucleation and Growth Dynamics Of Focal Conic Domains, International Conference on Pattern Formation and Self-Organization in Nonlinear Complex Systems (Beijing, China, June 2001).
C. Egnatuk*† and D. T. Jacobs, Self-Organized Criticality in a Bead Pile, American Physical Society (Seattle Washington, March 2001)
Amy Lytle* and Shila Garg, A Structural and Optical Study of Evaporated Droplets Containing DNA, American Physical Society (Seattle Washington, March 2001)
E.R. Oby† and D.T. Jacobs, Heat Capacity of the Liquid-Liquid Mixture Perfluoroheptane and 2,2,4-Trimethylpentane Near the Critical Point, American Physical Society (Seattle Washington, March 2001)
Chris Templeman* and Shila Garg, Two-Dimensional Granular Couette Shearing Cell, American Physical Society (Seattle Washington, March 2001)
Shila Garg, A. Christine Rauch* and D.T. Jacobs, Phase Transitions in a Nematic Binary Mixture, American Physical Society (Seattle March 2001)

2000

J. Moffitt*† and D. Ludwigsen, Self-sustained oscillation as a function of blowing pressure in a one mass lip reed model, 140th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Newport Beach California, December 2000)
H. Wagner† and D.T. Jacobs, Bead Pile System as a Model for Self-Organized Criticality, American Physical Society (Minneapolis Minnesota, March 2000)
A. Lytle*† and D.T. Jacobs, Achieving Microkelvin Control at Room Temperature, American Physical Society (Minneapolis Minnesota, March 2000)
Sean English* and Shila Garg, Liquid Crystalline Behavior of DNA Fragments, American Physical Society (Minneapolis Minnesota, March 2000)
L. Ault*† and D. Colladay, Spin Expectation Values in Fermion Gases, American Physical Society (Minneapolis Minnesota, March 2000)
Joshua Martin* and Shila Garg, Dendritic Growth in Nematic Liquid Crystals, American Physical Society (Minneapolis Minnesota, March 2000)

1999

Scott Hughes*†, John F. Lindner, and William Ditto, Chaotic Brownian Billiards, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)
Sridhar Chandramouli*†, Andrew Kuck*, and John F. Lindner, Scaling Laws for Noise Enhanced Propagation, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)
Hanna Coy†, Woodrow Shew*, and John Lindner, Taming Chaos, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)
Madhujit Ghosh*, Shaun McClellan†, and Donald Jacobs, Heat Capacity Anomaly in Succinonitrile and Water, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)
Rachel Costello*†, Donald Jacobs, Predicting Earthquakes from Sand Piles Using Self-Organized Criticality, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)
Chris Templeman*†, Shila Garg, Investigation of Electric Field Induced Wall and Zigzag Structures in the Nematic Liquid Crystal 5CB, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)
A. Christine Rauch* and S. Garg, Phase Separation of Binary Nematic Liquid Crystal Mixtures, Centennial Meeting, American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)
Shila Garg and Joshua Martin*, Spatiotemporal Chaos in MBBA, Int’l Conference on Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals (Waischenfeld, Germany September 1999)

1998

J. Bozeday*† and J. Lindner, Taming Chaos with Disorder in Arrays of Phase Locked Loops, American Physical Society (Los Angeles California, March 1998)
K. Cruz† and D.T. Jacobs, Predicting Earthquakes from Sandpiles Using Self-Organized Criticality, American Physical Society (Los Angeles California, March 1998)
K. Purdy†, E. Bramley*†, and S. Garg, Growth of Focal Conic Domains in a Smectic A Liquid Crystal, American Physical Society (Los Angeles California, March 1998)
A. Kuck*†, M. Hayward*, and A.P. Andrews, Examination of the Fractal Dimension of Fatty Acid Aggregates, American Physical Society (Los Angeles California, March 1998)
C.A. Williams*†, D.T. Jacobs, S.M.Y. Lau†, and Anindya Mukherjee, Turbidity in a Near Critical, Liquid-Liquid System, American Physical Society (Los Angeles California, March 1998)
Shila Garg, Christopher Ditchman*, Nathan Schiffrik* and U. D. Kini, Electric Field Induced Transient Effects in a Nematic Liquid Crystal in the Presence of a Stabilizing Magnetic Field, 17th International Liquid Crystal Conference (Strasbourg, France (July 1998)

1997

C. Ditchman*, Shila Garg, U.D. Kini, Electric Field Induced Transient and Static Modulated Phase in Nematic Liquid Crystals, American Physical Society (March 1997)

1996

W. Shew*† and A. Andrews, Surface Pressure Study of Lipid Aggregates at the Air Water Interface, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (November 1996)
B. Prusha*†, K. Clay*†, and J. Lindner, Optimal Disorders for Taming Spatiotemporal Chaos, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (November 1996)
S. Garg, S. Saeed*, S. Wild†, E. Bramley*†, and U. D. Kini, Frequency Dependent Threshold in the Bend Geometry of 5CB, 16th International Liquid Crystal Conference (June 1996)
E. Bramley*†, R. Craig*, and S. Garg, Frequency Dependence of Bend Freedericksz Threshold in the Nematic Liquid Crystal 5CB, American Physical Society (March 1996)
C. Spillmann*†, A. Flewelling*†, and A. Andrews, Macroscopic Self Assembly of Palmitic Acid as Studied by Surface Pressure, American Physical Society (March 1996)
S. Saeed* and S. Garg, Frequency Dependence of Thresholds in the Modulated Phase of 5CB, American Physical Society (March 1996)

1995

C. Spillmann*†, A. Flewelling*†, and A. Andrews, Macroscopic Self Assembly of Palmitic Acid as Studied by Surface Pressure, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (October 1995)
S. Wild† and S. Garg, Threshold Measurements in the Modulated Phase of 5CB, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (October 1995)
A. Flewelling*† and D.T. Jacobs, Heat Capacity Anomaly in Triethylamine and Water, American Physical Society (March, 1995)
Shila Garg, Salman Saeed*, and U.D. Kini, Effects of a Stabilizing Magnetic Field in the Electric Field Induced Transitions in 5CB, American Physical Society, San Jose (March 1995)

1994

S. Garg and K. Kelley†, A Nematic Liquid Crystal Subjected to an Oscillating Magnetic Field, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (October, 1994)
J. Lindner and J. Hill†, Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Chaos of Coupled Duffing Oscillators, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (October, 1994)
S. Garg and A. Ozgenc*, Nonlinear Effects in Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (October, 1994)

1992

Shila Garg, Karl Crandall* and Asad Khan*, Ratio of Elastic Constants of Diheptylazoxybenzene, 14^th International Conference on Liquid Crystals (Pisa, Italy, June 1992).

1991

Shila Garg, Asad Khan*, and Karl Crandall*, Bend and Twist Elastic Constants of Diheptylazoxybenzene, Gordon Conference on Liquid Crystals (Wolfboro, New Hampshire, June 1991).
Shila Garg, Karl Crandall*, and Mark Bricker*, Determination of the Bend and Twist Elastic Constants of the Liquid Crystal C₇Using Freederickz Transition and Dynamic Light Scattering, Ohio Section/American Physical Society, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio (April 1

Force generation and encapsulation of fluorophores in swellable organically modified silica