Undergraduate Research VII

Presentations

• Soil Sample Preparation Methods to Optimize a Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Signal

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Leah Vela

    • University of Miami

  Authors

  • Leah Vela

    • University of Miami

  • Emily Grace

    • Ransom Everglades School

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• Advancing Quantitative Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Algorithms for Environmental Analysis

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Minnie W Zhou

    • Ransom Everglades School

  Authors

  • Minnie W Zhou

    • Ransom Everglades School

  • Emily Grace

    • Ransom Everglades School

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• Low-Cost Magneto-Optical Traps for Rubidium Optical Lattices

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Audrey Schubert

    • Slippery Rock University

  Authors

  • Audrey Schubert

    • Slippery Rock University

  • Sagar Bhandari

    • Slippery Rock University

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• Accessible Quantum Optics: Low-Cost UHV Optical Traps for Rubidium-Based Qubit Manipulation.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Willora Mudiyanselage Chamath G Bandara

    • Slippery Rock University

  Authors

  • Willora Mudiyanselage Chamath G Bandara

    • Slippery Rock University

  • Sagar Bhandari

    • Slippery Rock University

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• Cost-Effective Optical Tweezing with the Open Flexure Microscope

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Ian D Villaraos

    • Ransom Everglades School

  Authors

  • Ian D Villaraos

    • Ransom Everglades School

  • Emily Grace

    • Ransom Everglades School

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• Pollen + Lasers: Tweezing Pollen to learn about its Optical Properties

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Neale Villaraos

    • Ransom Everglades School

  Authors

  • Neale Villaraos

    • Ransom Everglades School

  • Emily Grace

    • Ransom Everglades School

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• Measuring Laser Force on the Cheap: Cost-Effective Optical Tweezer

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Max Wolfensberger

    • Ransom Everglades High School

  Authors

  • Max Wolfensberger

    • Ransom Everglades High School

  • Emily Grace

    • Ransom Everglades School

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• Photoluminescent cooling of 10% Yb:YLF with light emitting diodes

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Alexandra Miller

    • Saint Mary's College (Indiana)

  Authors

  • Alexandra Miller

    • Saint Mary's College (Indiana)

  • Sushrut Ghonge

    • Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana
    • Saint Mary's College (Indiana)

  • Masaru Kuno

    • University of Notre Dame

  • Alexander Albrecht

    • University of New Mexico

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• Abstract Withdrawn

  ORAL · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

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• Optimization of superoscillatory sub-diffraction limit focusing via engineering of a secondary aperture

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Publication: We are currently writing an article on this topic but without a set date as of now.
  If it counts part of this was used for my bachelor's thesis on "Superoscillatory beam focusing below the diffraction limit".

  Presenters

  • Michał Puza

    • University of Warsaw

  Authors

  • Michał Puza

    • University of Warsaw

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• Modeling and Direct Observation of Opto-Acoustic Interactions in an AOM

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Paweł Ptaszek

    • University of Warsaw

  Authors

  • Paweł Ptaszek

    • University of Warsaw

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• Exploring a Gröbner basis approach to modeling wavefront aberrations using Zernike polynomials

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • David Marocik

    • New York Institute of Technology - Old Westbury

  Authors

  • Ben Ovryn

    • New York Institute of Technology - Old Westbury

  • David Marocik

    • New York Institute of Technology - Old Westbury

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• Entropy Leakage vs Invariant Modes: Finite Boundaries in Electron Diffraction

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Whitney Langford

    • University of Oregon

  Authors

  • Whitney Langford

    • University of Oregon

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