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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2019

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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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Dynamically Triangulated Quantum Gravity in Three Dimensions, Cameron Chevalier

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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

Early Universe Constraints from Primordial Black Holes and Cosmological Limits on Quantum Mechanics, Julian Sebastian Georg

Measurements of Beauty Production Cross-Sections and Fragmentation Ratios using the LHCb Detector, Matthew Kelsey

Interpretation methods for complex and low quality DNA profiles, Michael A. Marciano

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Dispersive Transport and Drift Mobilities in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskites, Brian Maynard

Self-propelled particle modeling, characterization, and imaging of superdiffusive mouse fibroblast cells on 2D shape memory polymer substrates, Giuseppe Passucci

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Motility-induced phases: out-of-equilibrium droplets, surfaces, and survival, Adam Edward Patch

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The propagation of active-passive interfaces in bacterial swarms, Alison E. Patteson, Arvind Gopinath, and Paulo E. Arratia

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Hyperuniformity with no fine tuning in sheared sedimenting suspensions, Joseph Paulsen, J. M. Schwarz, and Jikai Wang

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Cosmological Perturbations in the Early Universe, Gizem Sengor

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Fabrication and Characterization of Superconducting Metamaterial Resonators, Haozhi Wang

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Deconvolution of Membrane Protein-Detergent Complex Interactions, Aaron Wolfe

Understanding Nonequilibrium Behaviors of Spin Glasses Through Heuristics, JIE YANG

2017

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The detection and parameter estimation of binary black hole mergers, Christopher Michael Biwer

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QUBIT COUPLED MECHANICAL RESONATOR IN AN ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM, Yu Hao

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Gravity 2, Yi Jin

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TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLUIDIZATION OF NANOMATERIALS VIA BIOMIMETIC MEMBRANES TOWARDS ASSISTED SELF-ASSEMBLY, Kathleen Kelly

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Pattern Formation in Active Nematics, Prashant Mishra

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Early universe cosmology as a probe of fundamental physics, Ogan Ozsoy

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Geometry-driven folding of a floating annular sheet, Joseph Paulsen, Vincent Démery, K. Buğra Toga, Zhanlong Qiu, Thomas P. Russell, Benny Davidovitch, and Narayanan Menon

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Was T. S. Eliot's "tantalus Jar" actually a Leyden Jar?, Eric A. Schiff

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Continuum Models of Collective Migration in Living Tissues, Kazage J. Christophe Utuje

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Defects and Rearrangements in Disordered Solids, Sven Wijtmans

2016

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First amplitude analysis of B+→J/..., Thomas Britton

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High-energy Neutron Backgrounds for Underground Dark Matter Experiments, Yu Chen

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Observation of J/psi p resonances consistent with pentaquark states in Lambda_b^0 to J/psi K^- p decays, Nathan Philip Jurik

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Detector Characterization for Advanced LIGO, Thomas James Massinger

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Problems in hard and soft matter: From brain folds and Levy localization to active elasticity, David Mayett

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Electron and hole drift mobility measurements on methylammonium lead iodide perovskite solar cells, Brian Maynard, Qi Long, Eric A. Schiff, Mengjin Yang, Kai Zhu, Ranjith Kottokkaran, Hisham Abbas, and Vikram L. Dalal

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Vortices and Quasiparticles in Superconducting Microwave Resonators, Ibrahim Nsanzineza

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Active colloids in complex fluids, Alison E. Patteson, Arvind Gopinath, and Paulo E. Arratia

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Particle diffusion in active fluids is non-monotonic in size, Alison E. Patteson, Arvind Gopinath, Prashant K. Purohit, and Paulo E. Arratia

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Curvature-induced stiffness and the spatial variation of wavelength in wrinkled sheets, Joseph Paulsen, Evan Hohlfeld, Hunter King, Jiangshui Huang, Zhanglong Qiu, Thomas P. Russell, Narayanan Menon, Dominic Vella, and Benny Davidovitch

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An Improved Pipeline to Search for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence, Samantha Usman

Shells, Sheets, and Shapes, Duanduan Wan

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Development and implementation of efficient noise suppression methods for emission computed tomography, Jiahan Zhang

2015

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Topics in Supersymmetry: Implications for Cosmology and Non-Perturbative Studies on a Spacetime Lattice, Richard Anthony Galvez

Measurement of the form factor shape for the semileptonic decay Lb->LcMuNu, Christos Hadjivasiliou

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Beyond Standard Model Physics under the ground and in the sky, Bithika Jain

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MODULATION AND INTERACTIONS OF CHARGED BIOMIMETIC MEMBRANES WITH BIVALENT IONS, Adolphe Kazadi Badiambile

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Angular trapping of a mirror using radiation pressure, David Bruce Kelley

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Drift Mobility Measurements and Electrical Characterization in Thin Film Cadmium Telluride Solar Cells, Qi Long

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Measurement of the Membrane Electric Field and the Swimming Behavior of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Experiments and Analytical Modeling, Gulmammad Mammadov

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THE EFFECT OF COMPACT OBJECT SPIN ON THE SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM BINARY NEUTRON STAR AND NEUTRON STAR-BLACK HOLE MERGERS, Alexander Harvey Nitz

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Running and tumbling with E. coli in polymeric solutions, Alison E. Patteson, Arvind Gopinath, Mark Goulian, and Paulo E. Arratia

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Understanding Disordered Systems Through Numerical Simulation and Algorithm Development, Sean M. Sweeney

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Predictions and Constraints of Cosmological Correlators, Jayanth Tallakere Neelakanta

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Looking Beyond the Standard Model from the Lattice, Aarti Veernala

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Flux-tunable superconducting transmons for quantum information processing, Matthew Ware

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Collective Phenomena in Active Systems, Xingbo Yang

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Mechanics, shape, and programmability in soft matter systems: From fluid membranes to spring and droplet networks, Tao Zhang

2014

Room Temperature Characterization of Josephson Junctions, Nicholas Ross Baxter

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THE NON-ERYTHROID MEMBRANE SKELETON AND ITS ROLE IN MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, Eleni Kinfe Degaga

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Measurement of CP Observables in B- -> D0 K- pi+ pi- Decays, Justin Garofoli

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Investigating Drift Mobilities in Cadmium Telluride Solar Cells, Daniel Goldman

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Determination of the X(3872) Meson Quantum Numbers, Bin Gui

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Laboratory Studies of Gas-Grain Processes on Cosmic Dust Analogues, Jiao He

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STUDY OF EDGELESS TIMEPIX PIXEL DEVICES, Dylan G. Hsu

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Topics in Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics, Prayush Kumar

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Electron and hole drift mobility measurements on thin film CdTe solar cells, Qi Long, Steluta A. Dinca, Eric A. Schiff, Ming Yu, and Jeremy Theil

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Rigidity and Fluidity in Living and Nonliving Matter, Jorge Hernan Lopez

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Optical Spring Stabilization, James Lough

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Coalescence of bubbles and drops in an outer fluid, Joseph Paulsen, Remi Carmigniani, Anerudh Kannan, and Justin C. Burton

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Multiple transient memories in experiments on sheared non-Brownian suspensions, Joseph Paulsen, Nathan C. Keim, and Sidney R. Nagel

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The Mechanism of Self-Organized Beating of cilia, Jyothish Vidyadharan

Alpha Background Study In Dark Matter Detection, Boqian Wang

2013

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Research and Development of the Positron Damping Rings for the Proposed International Linear Collider, and at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland for the Large Hadron Collider ATLAS Experiment's Integrated Simulation Framework, Ryan Badman

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Research and Development of the Positron Damping Rings for the Proposed International Linear Collider and at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland for the Large Hadron Collider ATLAS Experiment's Integrated Simulation Framwork, Ryan Badman

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Cell Mechanics: From Cytoskeletal Dynamics to Tissue-Scale Mechanical Phenomena, Shiladitya Banerjee

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Measurement of the CP Violating Asymmetry a^s_sl using Bs0->(Ds->phi pi) mu nu, Alessandra Borgia

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Particle Physics in the LHC Era, Don Bunk

A New Outlook Into The Kinetics And Thermodynamics Of A Protein Pore, Belete Regassa Cheneke

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First Leptonic Probe of Neutron Radii in Lead at Low-Q2, Chun-Min Jen

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Multiple transient memories in sheared suspensions: Robustness, structure, and routes to plasticity, Nathan C. Keim, Joseph D. Paulsen, and Sidney R. Nagel

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Influence of Genetic Variation on Birth Defects in Caenorhabditis elegans, Daniel Robert Kepple

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Molecular Sensing with Protein and Solid-State Nanopores, David John Niedzwiecki

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Precision measurement of the Lambda_b baryon lifetime, Bilas Kanti Pal

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Structure and dynamics of self-assembling colloidal monolayers in oscillating magnetic fields, Alison E. Patteson (Koser), Nathan C. Keim, and Paulo E. Arratia

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Measuring material relaxation and creep recovery in a microfluidic device, Alison E. Patteson (Koser), Lichao Pan, Nathan C. Keim, and Paulo E. Arratia

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Approach and coalescence of liquid drops in air, Joseph Paulsen

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Where does the water come from? A temporal geochemical characterization of water sources in the lives of storms, Mallory Ringham

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Measurement of the semileptonic CP violating asymmetry a sl s in B s decays and the D s + -- D s - production asymmetry in 7 TeV pp collisions, Zhou Xing

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Light Trapping for Silicon Solar Cells: Theory and Experiment, Hui Zhao

2012

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FINDCHIRP: An algorithm for detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries, Bruce Allen, Warren G. Anderson, Patrick R. Brady, Duncan A. Brown, and Jolien D E Creighton

Classical and Quantum Correlated Percolation, Liang Cao

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Microstrip Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices for Quantum Information Science, Michael Paul DeFeo

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Electron drift-mobility measurements in polycrystalline CuIn1-xGaxSe2 solar cells, Steluta A. Dinca, Eric A. Schiff, William N. Shafarman, Brian Egaas, Rommel Noufi, and David L. Young

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A Search for WIMP Dark Matter using an Optimized Chi-square Technique on the Final Data from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment (CDMS II)., Manungu Joseph Kiveni

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The inexorable resistance of inertia determines the initial regime of drop coalescence, Joseph Paulsen, Justin C. Burton, Sidney R. Nagel, Santosh Appathurai, Michael T. Harris, and Osman A. Basaran

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Effective Field Theories in Cosmology, Riccardo Penco

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Linear Sigma Models in QCD and S3 Symmetry for Neutrinos, Muhammad Naeem Shahid

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Development of Spect and Ct Tomographic Image Reconstruction, Levon Orion Vogelsang