Former Students

These pages list of all the students who have graduated in physics from Hamilton since 1951. The years from 2010 onward are found immediately below while previous decades can be found by following these links:

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Class of 2024

Graduate Senior Thesis
Alex Axton Improving Bimodal Antenna-Resonator Coupling
Shane Dux Confirmation of Exoplanet TIC 250839071.01
Sam Feldman Comparing NetMAP to Non-linear Least-Squares Fitting for Larger Resonator Networks
Charles Graffin A Neutron Chopper Lift for The BL3 Neutron Lifetime Experiment
Kai Haesslein Optimizing the Fabrication of Microfluidic Devices to Sort Micro-particles by Luminescence
Leah Bell Khovov Exploring the Fabrication Process for PDMS Microfluidic Sorters
Philip Le attended Washington University as a 3-2 dual degree engineering student
Maggie Maselli My First Glimpse at Teaching: A Lab Investigation into Pressure and Area Using Hovercrafts
Clare Nelle A Characterization of Loosely-Coherent Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves
Yongwoo Park Engineering a Magnetometer using Diamond NV Centers
Michael Scoleri Bridging Simulation and Visualization: 3D Rendering of Accretion Processes in Black Holes
Elizabeth (Pippi) Seider Artificial Cytoplasm: Crowding Components Causing Anomalous Diffusion

Class of 2023

Graduate Senior Thesis
Lance K. Barton Refining Measurement Techniques of Unpolarized Faraday Rotation in a Potassium-Rubidium Hybrid Cell
Noah Barton Regarding quasi-local energies in static black hole spacetimes
Gregory Bauman Modernizing Pulse NMR Code: Transition from IGOR to Python
Aben Carrington Statistical Mechanics of Constantly Accelerating Observers in Black Hole Spacetimes
Russell Chan Using Hall Effect Sensors for a Gradiometer in Applied Gradients
Ryan Hunt A Follow-Up Observation of TIC 219852584.01 In Multiple Astro Photometric Light Filters
Zachary A. Jones Code Improvements and Stress Analysis of Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities in a Simulated Magnetically Arrested Accretion Disk
Estelle Khairallah Accelerating Observers Near Vaidya Black Holes
Lauren Kuster Characterizing a Microfluidic Device for Sorting Nanodiamonds
Elisabeth (Bess) Lawrence Artificial Cytoplasm: Observing Anomalous Diffusion & Progress Towards Drift-Reduction
Marvin Lopez Acevedo Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)
Alvaro M. Miralles Exploring Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities in Thin Magnetically Arrested Disks Around Black Holes
Richard Shap McCoy Measuring B Field Gradients using a Compact Gradiometer
Casey E. McGrath Quantifying Noise in Measurements of Faraday Rotation in Unpolarized Rubidium
Christopher Nields High Precision Current Measurements to Stabilize NMR Power Supply Output
Liam Regan Heating in Residential Homes with Heat Pumps
Trevor Scheuing Statistical mechanics for accelerating observers around a black hole under loop quantum gravity
Jacob Sichlau Evaluating Variations in Neutron Spectra within the BL3 Apparatus
Ryan Smolarsky Diffusion and Drift Reduction in Artificial Cells
Merrill Storch Simulating Errors in the Neutron Spectrum Measurement for the BL3 Neutron Lifetime Experiment
Asa Andrew Szegvari Developing Data Collection Methods forS Measuring Unpolarized Faraday Rotations in Potassium-Rubidium Hybrid 3He Cells

Minors, class of 2023

Dylan Badillo
Benjamin Coffey
Ricardo Molina

Class of 2022

Graduate Senior Thesis
James Adler Examining Current Imaging and Domain Sizes of P3HT:PCBM Organic Photovoltaics
Caitlyn Altermatt An Astrophotometric Observation of Exoplanet Candidate TIC 284206913.01
Will Braun Modified Newtonian Dynamics on Solar System Scales: An Examination of Breakthrough Starshot Trajectories
William Crane-Morris LEED I-V Analysis of Crystalline Silica on a Ruthenium Substrate
Matt Dioguardi Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Bubble Disruptions and Their Effect on the Magnetic Field in a Black Hole Accretion Disk Simulation
Connor Feldman Creating a Gradiometer to Measure the Uniformity of Magnetic Fields
Max Hanrahan Analysis of Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and its Effect on Angular Momentum Transport in a Black Hole Accretion Disk
Matt Jankowski Building a Compact Magnetic Field Gradiometer
Ethan McDevitt Modified Newtonian Dynamics Analysis of Orbital Clustering in Kuiper Belt Objects
Will McGonigle Construction of a 2-Dimensional Rail System for Mapping Magnetic Fields
Sydney Molnar Optimization of the Shielded Solenoid Used for Helium-3 Neutron Spin Filtration in vSANS
Claire Montague The Effects of Annealing Temperature on Geometric and Electronic Homogeneity in Organic Solar Cells
Kavoi Mutisya Modified Newtonian Dynamics on Solar System Scales
Nicholas Rubino A Follow Up Observation of TIC344541839 Using the Transit Method
Conrad Smith Modified Newtonian Dynamics on Solar System Scales: Exploring MOND Effects in Relation to Kuiper Belt Objects and Planet Nine
Nathan Ward Quantum Scattering on a Curved Surface Under the Influence of an Electromagnetic Field
Samantha Wilkerson Comparing Uncertainties in Datasets of Exoplanet HD 189733b to Improve Peters Observatory
Shu Xin Wu Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities in Thin Magnetically Arrested Disks Around Black Holes

Minors, class of 2022

Eva Abel
Chiara Bondi
Benjamin Grummon
Sarya Khandare
Dominic Lannon
Kara Mathes
Kathryn Peinkofer
Jacob Ryan

Class of 2021

Graduate Senior Thesis
Mitch Bierman Crowding in Active Colloidal Particle Solution: A More Optimized Model for Cellular Cytoplasm
Lily Brackett Sense(ors) and Magnetic Sensibility: Proving We Can Map a Uniform Magnetic Field
Calen Carron Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Bubble Disruptions and Their Effect on the Magnetic Field in a Black Hole Accretion Disk Simulation
Andrew Charman (interdisciplinary major) Building a 3-Season Portable Tiny House
Mufudzi Chogugudza Engineering of Helmholtz Apparatus and Gradiometer
Sean Conroy Ultrasonic Transmission Through a Single Layer of Bubbles
Adriana Cruz Physics of a Peruvian Water Whistle
Sammi D'Angelo Using Faraday Rotation to Measure Relative Densities and Polarization of a Rubidium-Potassium Hybrid Cell
Peter Fisher How It Stood the Test of Time: Modeling the Efficiency of Hamilton College's Solar Classroom
Lindsay Gearty Porting Code and Assessing Expectations for Measuring Faraday Rotation
Alex Golub Voynich Manuscript: An Exploration of the Table and Grille Generating Method
Thomas Graham Measuring Magnetic Fields with a Hall Effect Sensor
Colin May Exploring Orbits in Modified Newtonian Dynamics
Andrew Projansky On Exponential Corrections to Black Hole Entropy
Catherine Ryczek IV LEED Analysis of Silica Structures on an Oxygen Covered Ru(0001) Substrate
Patricia Shiebler Developing High School and Undergraduate Physics Teaching and Learning Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Karina Sirabian Examining the Effects of the Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Thin Magnetically-Arrested Accretion Disks Around Black Holes
Hudson Smith Examining the Impact of Blend Ratio and Annealing Time on the Densities of Thin Squaraine Films
Leenie Wilcox Exploring a Repulsive Regime within the Symmetron Model of Modified Gravity
Bentley Wilking (Chemical Physics) Investigating the Effects of Streamlining Organic Solar Cell Production and Efficiency Measurements to Improve Consistency and Reduce Degradation
Lucas Wright Microfluidic Fluorescent Nanodiamond Sorting
Jade Xu Outward Transportation of Angular Momentum in Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Model and Its Relationship with Accretion of Black Holes

Class of 2020

Graduate Senior Thesis
Kent Campbell Classification of a Helmholtz Apparatus and Fixture Designs for Measuring Magnetic field Gradients with Hall Effect Sensors
Michael P. Cantarella (interdisciplinary major) Heating Efficiency in Residential Structures
Nicole DeBuono Faraday Rotation Measurements of a Rubidium-Potassium Hybrid Cell
Chengqi (Sophia) Guo Berry Phase and Berry Connection on Hermitian Hamiltonians and non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with PT-symmetry
Ruo Nan Huang Construction of a 3-Dimensional Robotic Arm for Magnetic Field Mapping
Samuel Jones Hydroacoustic Signatures of Macro Dark Matter
Edis-Alexander Levent Making a Magnetic Gradiometer using Hall Effect Sensors
Thomas Marsh Neutron Tomography of Spot Welds
Caitlin McHugh
Giordano (Jordan) Olivar Optimization of a Rubidium Magnetometer
Bryce Phillips Time of Flight System Improvements and Neutron Spectrum Shift Effects on C1 Term for BL3 Experiment
Luis Uribe attended Washington U as a 3-2 dual degree engineering student
Aidan Wood Improving the Time-of-Flight System for the Neutron Chopper of the BL3 Experiment
Fuming Qiu attended Columbia U as a 3-2 dual degree engineering student
Omar Beesley (physics minor) Towards a Quantization of the Hamiltonian Constraint for Plane Gravitational Waves in Loop Quantum Gravity
Spencer Woolfson (physics minor) Comparison of Accretion Disk Models in Supermassive Black Hole Simulations

Class of '19

Kenan Akin (Dartmouth 2-1-1-1)
Justin Bower (Dartmouth 2-1-1-1)
Hannah Burrall
John Carey
Ian Chen
Bryan Edwards
Jacob Engleman
Carlo Esquivia
Michael Hosek
Abigail Kaplan
Mingquan (Dominic) Lu (Columbia 3-2)
Kathryn McKillop
Ian Nish
Alexei Smith
Robert (RJ) Taylor
George Tucker
Daniel Wall
Mikel Zemborain

Class of '18

Samantha Benevelli
Steven Cunden
Keon Garrett
Elise Lepage
Anna Mowat
Anya Nugent
Emily Teichman
Josue Velasquez
Houghton Yonge

Class of '17

Brady Bruno
Kevin Carey
Maxwell Coleman
Alexander Cornwell
Marcos Ferreccio
Leo Kell
Ash Khan
Ashton Lowenstein
Greg Reeves
Ben Schafer
Tom Soldi
Josue Velasquez
Eli Ward
Mengyi Zhu

Class of '16

Nathan Arndt
Joelle Baer
Ryan Glenn
Olivia Gozdz
Thomas Hoffman
Alex Lang
Lillie Ogden
Juston Perri
John Pickus
Vineeth Devi Prasad Rao
Kenny Ratliff
Todd Roeder
Isabella Schoning
Mike Verostek
Eric Wistman

Class of '15

Ben Conley (Cooperative engineering program/ Dartmouth)
Jacob Davidson
Alexander Grieco
Bennett Heussler
Malcolm Katzenbach
Ian Matthews
Benjamin Moody
Rebecca Patterson
William Robbins
Kevin Rovelli
Donald Stayner (Cooperative engineering program/ Dartmouth)
Connor Stevenson
Joshua Wilding

Class of '14


Ahmed Abrar
Emily Birch
McKinley Brumback
Alexandra Huss
Christopher Lockwood
Andrew Morrison
Spencer Olsson
Katie Pierce
Sunrose Shrestha
Lucas Sisler
Kerkira Stockton
Rebecca Straw (self-designed major)
Brandon Wilson

Class of 2013

Jeremy Adelman
Andrew Dubowitz
Jillian Hallak
Michael Howard
Elizabeth Jonathan
Tae Wook Kang
Nicholas Sylvester

Class of 2012

Erin Bessette-Kirton (Cooperative engineering program/ Columbia)
Louis Croce (minor)
Allison Eck
Sarah Fobes
Zane Glauber (minor)
Cui Olivia Lin (Chemical Physics)
Robert Kosar
Leonard Teng
Jake Zappala

Class of 2011

Patrick Barnes
Ileana Becerra
David H. Goldberg
Juan S. Hurtado
William T. Kalbacker
Edward A. Lamere
Andrew J. Portuguese
Lauren M. Vilardo
Anne E. Vilsoet
Sam Ward

Class of 2010

Kathryn Arpino (Chemical Physics)
William K. Bauder
Andrew P. Beyler (Chemical Physics)
Casey K. Bloomquist
Chelsea L. Dilley
Valerie S. Hanson
Erich D. Kreyling
Gregory M. Schwedock
Glenn E. Smith

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