The Department of Physics at Syracuse University has been educating students and carrying out research for over 125 years. Our faculty members, research associates, graduate students, and undergraduate majors are active in fields ranging from biological and condensed matter physics, through cosmology and particle physics, to gravitational wave detection and astrophysics.

Physics attempts to understand how the world works; from the very small scales inside the nucleus of an atom to the very largest scales in the Universe; from the behavior of the most basic constituents of matter to the rich and diverse phenomena that arise when many simple components interact together. We have internationally recognized research groups working in all of these areas; from soft condensed matter and biological physics to elementary particle physics and cosmology and the search for gravitational waves

This page contains all publications submitted to SURFACE written by students, faculty, and staff in the department.

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2024

Exploring the equilibrium competition binding assay and ligand-induced current noise at the single-molecule level, Jiaxin Sun

2023

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Neutron Star Interiors: From Proto-Neutron Stars To Galactic Pulsars, Chaitanya Afle

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The biophysics of bacterial collective motion: Measuring responses to mechanical and genetic cues, Merrill Einar Asp

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Mechanobiology as a tool for addressing the genotype-to- phenotype problem in microbiology, Merrill E. Asp, Minh-Tri Ho Thanh, Subarna Dutta, Jessica A. Comstock, Roy D. Welch, and Alison E. Patteson

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Amplitude analysis of B0 decays to J/ψπ−K+ and ψ(2S)π−K+, Andy Beiter

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Geometric confinement of thin films: From crumple formation to curvature-induced propulsion, Raj De

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AlGaAs Coating Studies for Present and Future Gravitational Wave Detectors, Nicholas Anthony Didio

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Antibacterial and Cytocompatible pH-Responsive Peptide Hydrogel, Dona I. Edirisinghe, Areetha D'Souza, Maryam Ramezani, Robert J. Carroll, Quenten Chicón, Cheyene L. Muenzel, Jonathan Soule, Mary B. Monroe, Alison E. Patteson, and Olga V. Makhlynets

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Physical Insights into Biological Processes: From Viral Uptake to Chromatin Organization to Cell Motility to Tissue Rigidity, Sarthak Gupta

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Downconversion of Phonons to Suppress Correlated Errors in Superconducting Qubit Arrays, Vito Iaia

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Hydrodynamics, Stability and Accretion: from planets, to stars, to supermassive black holes, Suman Kumar Kundu

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Heterotypic Interactions in the Complex Environments of Living Tissue, Elizabeth Lawson-Keister

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Asymptotics, Geometry, and Soft Matter, Manu Mannattil

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The molecular biophysics of extracellular vimentin and its role in pathogen–host interactions, Sepideh Parvanian, Leila S. Coelho-Rato, John E. Eriksson, and Alison E. Patteson

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Vimentin takes a hike – Emerging roles of extracellular vimentin in cancer and wound healing, Sepideh Parvanian, Leila S. Coelho-Rato, Alison E. Patteson, and John E. Eriksson

Search for Majorana neutrinos in B− → D(∗)+μ−μ− decays, Hangyi Wu

2022

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Investigation of Holographic Lattice Theories, Muhammad Asaduzzaman

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A Torsion-Based Rheometer for Measuring Viscoelastic Material Properties, Merrill E. Asp, Elise Jutzeler, Jakub Kochanowski, Katherine Kerr, Dawei Song, Sarthak Gupta, Robert Carroll, and Alison E. Patteson

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Search for NuMI muDAR Electron Neutrinos in MicroBooNE, Ohana Benevides Rodrigues

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Measurements of B → D(∗)−,0D(∗)+,0K+π− Branching Fractions in the K∗0 Mass Window, Harris Bernstein

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Mechanologic: Designing Mechanical Devices that Compute, Michelle Berry

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Extracellular vimentin is sufficient to promote cell attachment, spreading, and motility by a mechanism involving N-acetyl glucosamine-containing structures, Robert Bucki, Daniel V. Iwamoto, Xuechen Shi, Katherine E. Kerr, Fitzroy J. Byfield, Lukasz Suprewicz, Karol Sklodowski, Julian Sutaria, Pawel Misiak, Agnieszka Z. Wilczewska, Sekar Ramachandran, Aaron Wolfe, Minh H. Thanh, Eli Whalen, Alison E. Patteson, and Paul A. Janmey

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Dynamic remodeling of fiber networks with stiff inclusions under compressive loading, Robert J. Carroll, Minh H. Thanh, and Alison E. Patteson

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Characterization of superconducting hardware for implementing quantum stabilizers, Kenneth Richard Dodge

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Measurement of |vcb| Using the Semileptonic Decay Λb → Λcμνμ, Scott Edward Ely

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WDR5 Network Analysis Using Ensemble Approaches, Ali Imran

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Geometry of discrete and continuous bounded surfaces, Kyung Eun Kim

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Rab11 endosomes and Pericentrin coordinate centrosome movement during pre-abscission in vivo, Nikhila Krishnan, Maxx Swoger, Lindsay I. Rathbun, Peter J. Fioramonti, Judy Freshour, Michael Bates, Alison E. Patteson, and Heidi Hehnly

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Design and modeling of superconducting hardware for implementing quantum stabilizers, Yebin Liu

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Observation of the Ξ_b^-→Λ_b^0 π^- decay and measurement of B(Ξ_b^-→Λ_b^0 π^-), Zhuoming Li

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Spreading rates of bacterial colonies depend on substrate stiffness and permeability, Alison Patteson, Merrill Asp, Minh H. Thanh, Danielle A. Germann, Robert J. Carroll, Alana Franceski, Roy D. Welch, and Arvind Gopinath

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Materials science and mechanosensitivity of living matter, Alison E. Patteson, Merrill E. Asp, and Paul A. Janmey

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Unique Role of Vimentin Networks in Compression Stiffening of Cells and Protection of Nuclei from Compressive Stress, Katarzyna Pogoda, Fitzroy Byfield, Piotr Deptuła, Mateusz Cieśluk, Łukasz Suprewicz, Karol Skłodowski, Jordan L. Shivers, Anne van Oosten, Katrina Cruz, Ekaterina Tarasovetc, Ekaterina L. Grishchuk, Fred C. Mackintosh, Robert Bucki, Alison E. Patteson, and Paul A. Janmey

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Self-organization of Microtubule and Associated Protein Map65, Sumon Sahu

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How Green Lakes State Park Got Its Name: The optics and appearance of Fayetteville Green Lakes, Eric A. Schiff

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High Fidelity Universal Gates Performed on a Continuously-Decoupled Coherence Enhanced Transmon Qubit, Michael Senatore

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Characterization of Scintillation Light in Large Liquid Argon Detectors and the Implications for Proton Decay Searches, Kyle Spurgeon

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Detector Improvements and Optimization to Advance Gravitational-wave Astronomy, Varun Srivastava

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Vimentin Intermediate Filaments Mediate Cell Morphology on Viscoelastic Substrates, Maxx Swoger, Sarthak Gupta, Elisabeth E. Charrier, Michael Bates, Heidi Hehnly, and Alison E. Patteson

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Probing Lepton Flavour Universality With $\bz \to \kstarz \taup \taum$, Aravindhan Venkateswaran

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Constraining Beam Backgrounds and Analyzing the Detector Response in a Test Beam With the Nova Experiment, Abhilash Yallappa Dombara

2021

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Observation of Ω Contribution in the c1(3872) → Π+π−j/ψ Decays, Baasansuren Batsukh

MeV Scale Physics in Microboone, Avinay Bhat

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A data-driven statistical description for the hydrodynamics of active matter, Ahmad Borzou, Alison E. Patteson, and J. M. Schwarz

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Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Gravitational-wave Measurements of Their Parameters and the Nuclear Equation of State, Daniel Roger Finstad

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Interplay of Geometry and Mechanics: Disordered Spring Networks and Shape-changing Cerebella, Mahesh Chandrasekhar Gandikota

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The role of vimentin–nuclear interactions in persistent cell motility through confined spaces, Sarthak Gupta, Alison E. Patteson, and J. M. Schwarz

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Multimode Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics With Superconducting Metamaterial Resonators, . Indrajeet

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Utilizing Parity Violating Electron Scattering As a Probe to Measure the Neutron Radius of 208-pb, David Eric King

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Eccentricity of Merging Neutron Star Binaries: Searches, Parameter Estimation, and Future Prospects, Amber Kiana Lenon

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A tissue-engineered human trabecular meshwork hydrogel for advanced glaucoma disease modeling, Haiyan Li, Tyler Bagué, Alexander Kirschner, Ana N. Strat, Haven Roberts, Robert W. Weisenthal, Alison E. Patteson, Nasim Annabi, W. Daniel Stamer, Preethi S. Ganapathy, and Samuel Herberg

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Dynamic Nuclear Structure Emerges from Chromatin Cross-Links and Motors, Kuang Liu, Alison E. Patteson, Edward J. Banigan, and J. M. Schwarz

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A Solid-State Phase Camera for Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors, Erik Muniz

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Effective Computational Cosmology, Eva Nesbit

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Vimentin tunes cell migration on collagen by controlling β1 integrin activation and clustering, Zofia Ostrowska-Podhorodecka, Isabel Ding, Wilson Lee, Jelena Tanic, Sevil Abbasi, Pamma D. Arora, Richard S. Liu, Alison E. Patteson, Paul A. Janmey, and Christopher A. McCulloch

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Cell nuclei as cytoplasmic rheometers, Alison E. Patteson and J. M. Schwarz

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Beyond The Standard Models Of Particle Physics And Cosmology, Gabriele Rigo

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Beyond the Standard Models of Particle Physics and Cosmology, Gabriele Rigo

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Buckling Patterns and Mechanics of Thin Interfacial Polymer Films, Monica M. Ripp

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Bacterial activity hinders particle sedimentation, Jaspreet Singh, Alison E. Patteson, Bryan O. Torres Maldonado, Prashant K. Purohit, and Paulo E. Arratia

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Cell-induced confinement effects in soft tissue mechanics, Dawei Song, Jordan L. Shivers, Fred C. MacKintosh, Alison E. Patteson, and Paul A. Janmey

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Extracellular Vimentin as a Target Against SARS-CoV-2 Host Cell Invasion, Łukasz Suprewicz, Maxx Swoger, Sarthak Gupta, Ewelina Piktel, Fitzroy J. Byfield, Daniel V. Iwamoto, Danielle Germann, Joanna Reszeć, Natalia Marcińczyk, Robert J. Carroll, Paul A. Janmey, J. M. Schwarz, Robert Bucki, and Alison E. Patteson

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Self-organization in Models of Cyclically Sheared Suspensions, Jikai Wang

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First Measurement of B(ξc0 → Π−λ+c ), Michael Kent Wilkinson

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Direct Single Molecule Imaging of Enhanced Diffusion for Enzymes and Enzyme-conjugated Dna origami, Mengqi Xu

2020

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Merging neutron star and black hole binaries: Inference of their parameters and simulations of their formation and fate, Soumi De

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SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF ICES WITH ASTROPHYSICAL INTEREST, Shahnewaz M. Emtiaz

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Loops versus lines and the compression stiffening of cells, Mahesh C. Gandikota, Katarzyna Pogoda, Anne van Oosten, Tyler A. Engstrom, Alison E. Patteson, Paul E. Janmey, and J. M. Schwarz

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Investigating the parameters affecting the sensitivity of a protein nanopore sensor, Motahareh Ghahari Larimi

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Rigidity in Frictional Particle Packings and Dynamics in Living Polymeric Packings, Kuang Liu

Cosmological Implications of Co-Decaying Dark Matter, Brandon Scott Melcher

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The vimentin cytoskeleton: when polymer physics meets cell biology, Alison E. Patteson, Robert J. Carroll, Daniel V. Iwamoto, and Paul A. Janmey

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Mechanical and Non-Mechanical Functions of Filamentous and Non-Filamentous Vimentin, Alison E. Patteson, Amir Vahabikashi, Robert D. Goldman, and Paul A. Janmey

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Fluidization and Segregation in Confluent Models for Biological Tissues, Preeti Sahu

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Investigating the Relationships Between Disorder, Structure, and Dynamics in Amorphous Systems, Ethan Stanifer

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Laboratory Studies of Structural Changes in Water-Poor and Water-Rich Ices: A Connection to Molecule Formation in Interstellar Ices, Francis Eugene Toriello

Observation of new excited Bs0 states using the LHCb Detector, Yuezhe Yao

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DIRECT DETERMINATION OF THE WEAK CHARGE OF THE PROTON VIA PARITY-VIOLATING ELECTRON SCATTERING, Peng Zang

2019

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Euclidean Dynamical Triangulations: Running Couplings and Curvature Correlation Functions, Scott David Bassler

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TOWARDS PROBING THE STRONG FIELD GRAVITY USING BINARY BLACK-HOLE RINGDOWNS, Swetha Bhagwat

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Strongly coupled fermions on the lattice, Nouman Tariq Butt

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IMPROVING THE SENSITIVITY OF ADVANCED LIGO THROUGH DETECTOR CHARACTERIZATION, Derek Davis

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Relevant Operators of Particle Physics and Cosmology, Cem Eroncel

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Digital Readout and Control of a Superconducting Qubit, Caleb Jordan Howington

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Holography, large N, and supersymmetry on the lattice, Raghav Govind Jha

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ADPATIVE MODE MATCHING UPGRADE FOR ADVANCED LIGO, Fabian Magana-Sandoval

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Emergence of tissue-like mechanics from fibrous networks confined by close-packed cells, Anne van Oosten, Xingyu Chen, LiKang Chin, Katrina Cruz, Alison E. Patteson, Katarzyna Pogoda, Vivek B. Shenoy, and Paul A. Janmey

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Loss of Vimentin Enhances Cell Motility through Small Confining Spaces, Alison E. Patteson, Katarzyna Pogoda, Fitzroy J. Byfield, Kalpana Mandal, Zofia Ostrowska-Podhorodecka, Elisabeth E. Charrier, Peter A. Galie, Piotr Deptuła, Robert Bucki, Christopher A. McCulloch, and Paul A. Janmey

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Vimentin protects cells against nuclear rupture and DNA damage during migration, Alison E. Patteson, Amir Vahabikashi, Katarzyna Pogoda, Stephen A. Adam, Kalpana Mandal, Mark Kittisopikul, Suganya Sivagurunathan, Anne Goldman, Robert D. Goldman, and Paul A. Janmey

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Memory formation in Matter, Joseph Paulsen, Nathan C. Keim, Zorana Zeravcic, Srikanth Sastry, and Sidney R. Nagel

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Pi+ Cross Section on Argon for the LArIAT Experiment, Gregory Pulliam

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DETECTION AND INFERENCE IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTRONOMY, Steven Daniel Reyes

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The Shape of Soft Matter: Geometry and Defects, Francesco Serafin

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Geometric and Topological Aspects of Soft & Active Matter, Suraj Shankar

Developing membrane protein based nanopore for real-time sensing of transient protein-protein interaction (PPI) at the single molecule level, Avinash Kumar Thakur

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Adaptive Mode Matching in Advanced LIGO and Beyond, Thomas V. Vo

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Quenching active swarms: effects of light exposure on collective motility in swarming Serratia marcescens, Junyi Yang, Paulo E. Arratia, Alison E. Patteson, and Arvind Gopinath

2018

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Statistical Mechanics of thermalized ribbons and sheets, SOURAV SANJUKTA BHABESH

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Rheology and Collective Behavior in Living Tissue, Michael David Czajkowski

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Muon/Pion separation using Convolutional Neural Networks for the MicroBooNE Charged Current Inclusive Cross Section Measurement., Jessica Nicole Esquivel