Outstanding T.A. Award

This award recognizes outstanding performance of the graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants in the School of Physics & Astronomy.

Bo-Han Lin: "I am from Taiwan. My main research area is quantum information, especially topological phases of matter."

Madi Hanrahan: " I am from Chesapeake, Virginia. I am focused on High Energy Physics Experiment research, more specifically for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment."

Jarrett Fein: "I'm originally from a town called Hopkins, Michigan. I'm focused on high-energy experiment research. I work on neutrino experiments."

Derek Perera: Originally from San Jose, CA. "I research dark matter using gravitational lensing."

Mentor TAs:

Kate Hildebrandt: "I am originally from Maple Grove, Minnesota.I work on experimental neutrino physics with my advisor, Professor Andy Furmanski. I am a member of the DUNE and SBND collaborations."

Joe Gehrke: "My research focuses on using machine learning techniques to improve precision measurements of Higgs boson decays to W bosons (H→WW) at the CMS experiment."

Asset Khakimzhan: "At the Noireaux Lab I develop techniques to synthesize membrane proteins and engineer artificial bacterial membranes."

Moosa Khan: "My research area is Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics"

Savannah Lehrman: "My area of research is experimental neutrino physics."

Cooper Nesmith: "I do experimental research on neutrinos with the DUNE collaboration."

Mentor TAs:

Kate Hildebrandt: "I study neutrino physics with Andy Furmanski. I am a member of the DUNE collaboration, working on studies to improve the muon spectrometer reconstruction. I am also involved in prototyping work for this detector."

Allison Schroeder

Felipe Fontinele Nunes

Alex Granados: " I study the cross-correlation of the anisotropic stochastic gravitational wave background with electromagnetic tracers of structure in the universe." 

Chelsea Rodriguez:

Colin Weber: "Neutrino cross section measurements and modelling in NOvA, and novel neutrino oscillation analysis techniques in DUNE."

Ethan Stark: "My current research focus is Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics." 

Will Benoit: "I work on using machine learning for low-latency detections of gravitational waves from compact object mergers."
 

Mentor TAs:

 Jacob Ritz: "I develop single-molecule fluorescence microscopy techniques to better understand signaling pathways in diseased cells with 20 nm spatial resolution and sufficient sensitivity to quantify protein expression with single molecule precision."
 

Nicholas Kruegler: "I research Jupiter's magnetosphere and auroras. Currently, I work with data from the Juno spacecraft to better understand the acceleration of the particles that generate Jupiter’s aurora. Interactions between waves and particles are understood to be the main driver of electron precipitation into the main aurora, so I seek to constrain these wave-particle interactions by studying the spatial variation of important plasma properties above the aurora."

Yuri Bae, Sanket Chirame, Gautam Hegde, Billy Jackson, Emmanouil Kokkinis, Jaden Ma, Sarah McHale

Mentor TAs: Rafia Omer, Nikki Pallat and Jacob Ritz

Santosh Adhikari, Jenna Freedberg, Virginia Gali, Angelina Gallego, Burke Irwin, Faraz Samavat

Mentor TAs: Lucas Myers, Swetlana Swarup, Tom Eichlersmith (Head mentor TA)

Bryan Crossman, Wen-Han Kao, Sarunas Nedzinskas Verner, Swetlana Swarup, Tien (Anthony) Vo