2009 Term Projects

1. Self-organized criticality and earthquakes -- Sean Kuvin
2. Metallic Glass -- Shawn Havery
3. Nucleation, droplets, and the physics of clouds -- Steven Dolly
4. Liquid Crystal -- Matt Hoza
5. Phase transitions in biological systems --Nick DeGuzman
6. Inflatory Universe and phase transitions of early matter -- Ron Frey
7. Crystal growth -- Peter Gallagher
8. Experimental methods for determining crystal structure -- Chris Cowdery
9. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of high Tc cuprates -- Kyle Loker
10. Strong electronic correlations and the Mott metal-insulator transition -- Arin Brown
11. Unconventional superconductivity in nearly-magnetic metals -- Travis Robbins
12. Geometrically Frustrated Materials -- Alison Pawlicki
13. Super Liquids: A Look at the Phenomena of Superfluidity and Superheated Liquids -- Holly Brown
14. Superfluidity of Neutron Stars -- Nicholas Fitzsimmons
15. Bouncing Balls