Repository of Student's Theses

Winter 2023

Brandon deLeon: ASTEROID INTERCEPTION TO MINE RESOURCES

Nathan Gehmlich: MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF LASER WELDS IN REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL STEEL USING POSITRON ANNIHILATION LIFETIME SPECTROSCOPY

Vanessa Howe: INFLUENCE OF THE GREAT IMPACT ON THE ORBIT OF EARTH

Fall 2022

Ben Akers: WRITING A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS USING THE XRF MACHINE

Anneke Allart: POLAR MOTION MODELING PREDICTING HOW THE POSITION OF EARTH’S GEOLOGICAL POLE VARIES OVER TIME

David Boyer: THE INVERSION PROBLEM AND PRIMITIVE VARIABLE RECOVERY IN RELATIVISTIC HYDRODYNAMICS

Sierra Child: EVALUATING THE MASS RESOLUTION OF THE ST. GEORGE DETECTION SYSTEM

Max Delaney: DISTANCE TO UY BOO: A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF AN RR LYRAE VARIABLE STAR

Josh Merrill: DISTANCE TO ST BOO AN RR LYRAE TYPE STAR IN THE CONSTELLATION BOOTES

Jacob Michie: ATOMIC STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS ON FATIGUED COPPER AND ALUMINIUM USING DOPPLER BROADENING TECHNIQUES

Alex Morales: IMPROVING AN IN-VACUUM MONOCHROMATOR FOR AN EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT SOURCE

Tyler Morton: ANALYSIS OF THE HARDENED INTERSITE CABLE SYSTEM IN THE AMERICAN ICBM NETWORK

Kaylee Nyborg: ADDRESSING TWO CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPING AN EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT SOURCE FOR IMAGING MAGNETIC MATERIALS

Emily Payne: OPTIMIZATION OF MULTI-LAYER THIN-FILM STRUCTURES WITH PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS

Ben Sabat: FREQUENCY RESPONSE AND NODAL MAPPING OF SINGING BOWLS

Johnathan Soderquist: DRIVE WAVEFORM OPTIMIZATION IN AN ELECTROSTATICALLY ACTUATED MEMS MIRROR FOR COHERENT LIDAR

Keaton Tate: SIMULATING SOLID PHASE CHANGES IN DENSE LITHIUM

Spring 2022

Nickalaus Anderson: ACOUSTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF ROOMS USING DIRECTIONAL AND OMNIDIRECTIONAL SOURCES

Tatum Mahlstede: CHANGE IN PARTICULATE MATTER IN THE ATMOSPHERE THROUGHOUT DIFFERENT SEASONS: REXBURG, IDAHO

Winter 2022

Brendan Hansen: Atmospheric and Respiration of CO2 Sensing

Madison DeRosier: LIGHT SCATTERING MODEL THROUGH COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN PYTHON USING A DIGITIZED GREEN FUNCTION BY SCATTERING OF SMALL PARTICLES

Sabrina Hatt: CONVERSION OF NIMIIX ION ACCELERATOR INTO A POSITRON BEAM: A FEASIBILITY STUDY

Keith Hunter: CHARACTERIZING ROCKET NOISE FROM CASTOR 600 AND 300 SOLID ROCKET MOTORS

Josiah Howe: LEVELS OF CARBON DIOXIDE AT HIGH ALTITUDE

Diego Pena: IMPROVING OFFSET CALCULATION FOR DRIFT TIME SPECTRA FOR THE STRAW TRACKING STATION AT HADES

Conner Ridenour: USING MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT BINARY COMPOUND PHASES FROM ELECTRON CONFIGURATIONS

Fall 2021

Roberta Bonnell: ISOCHRONAL ANALYSIS OF OPEN STAR CLUSTER BERKELEY 43

Chance Christensen: FORENSIC AUDIO ANALYSIS OF GUNSHOTS

Christian Fialho: Spherical Represntations of Anisotropic of Grain Boundary Energy Function Space for Copper

Hannah Gibeault: THE IMPACT OF GOING REMOTE DUE TO COVID-19

Jack Hanni: CRYSTAL SYNTHESIS OF SELECTED QUANTUM MATERIALSx

Izek Hornbeck: SOLVING THE GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATIONS FOR 3HE USING THE FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD

Lincoln Houghton: AN INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL FOR AgPt VIA MACHINE LEARNING

Jacob Hynes: UPDATING THE NHD USING GIS

Kade Jones: DETERMINING ACCURACY OF MATERIALS SIMULATION MODELS

Rachel Mosher: MAKEUP OF FIRE SEASON SMOKE THROUGHOUT THE ATMOSPHERE AND ITS EFFECT ON AIR QUALITY

Bryce Pass: Improved Fitting Functions of the Graon Boundary Energy of Uranium Dioxide

Carter Shirley: DETERMINATION OF VACANCY ENERGY THROUGH POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY

Nathaniel Stumpf: INITIAL DEVELOPMENT OF A HELICON PLASMA SOURCE

Lawson Turcotte: FIBER-COUPLED FMCW LIDAR

Spring 2021

Devan Blanscett: PREDICTING EMERGENCY ROOM WORKLOAD USING PATIENT WAIT-TIMES AND CENSUS DATA

Logan Richan: GRAIN BOUNDARY ENERGY CHANGE DUE TO TEMPERATURE IN UO2

Winter 2021

Nolan Chandler: TEMPEST RADIATION VS. MACHINE LEARNING USING NEURAL NETWORKS TO CLASSIFY ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA

Talon Dow: Comparing Catelan's equations to distances from GAIA using an RR Lyrae type star, SW Andromedae

George Evans: EXPLORING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NETWORK STRUCTURE & MANIFOLD STRUCTURE IN SIMPLE PATH MASS ACTION MODELS

Hadassah Griffin: IDENTIFYING AND REMOVING SLOPPY PARAMETERS IN UNDERWATER TRANSMISSION LOSS MODELS

Tyce Olaveson: ASTROMETRIC STUDY OF BINARY SYSTEMS AND PHOTOMETRIC STUDY OF A VARIABLE STAR

Andrew Phipps: DIVERSITY IN PHYSICS: DEFINITIONS AND STATISTICS

Sariah Phipps: SEARCHING FOR WOBBLING MOTION IN 135CE

Fall 2020

Joshua Forsyth: QUANTIFYING DIFFERENCES IN SPHERICAL VS DEFORMED HAUSER-FESHBACH CALCULATIONS

Will Gullion: SYNTHESIZING SUPER-HARD TANTALUM BORIDE USING PLASMA-ASSISTED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION

Braxton Owens: MACHINE LEARNING FOR MEANINGFUL CHANGE DETECTION IN SENTINEL 2 IMAGES

Joey Watkins: A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY ANALYSIS USING COINCIDENCE DOPPLER BROADENING

Spring 2020

Couton Karch: GRAIN BOUNDARY VELOCITY

Caleb Spear: GRAIN BOUNDARY EXCESS VOLUME FOR URANIUM DIOXIDE

Winter 2020

Kyle Adams: LOW FREQUENCY ALL SKY MONITOR (LOFASM) DATA ANALYSIS

Peter Clyde: SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO SIGNAL RECORDING AND SOFTWARE REVISION

Eric Bridenstine: BYU-IDAHO METEORITE ANALYSIS

Joseph Harris: USING THE PERIHELION ADVANCE OF MERCURY TO VERIFY GENERAL RELATIVITY

Jason Meziere: ANALYTICAL DERIVATIVES FUNCTION SIMPLIFICATION FROM COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHM

McKay Murphy: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF THE PFOTZER MAXIMUM THROUGH AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION AND DATA COLLECTION

Emily Smith: EARTHS FIELD NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE

Fall 2019

Brenna Carbno: AUTOMATION OF SENSITIVITY STUDY FOR MARMOT VALIDATION PLAN

Talmage Coates: COMPUTATIONAL ENZYME DESIGN

James Crist: ATTENUATION OF X-RAY BEAMS BY CARBON FIBER TREATMENT TABLES IN TELETHERAPY

Steven Empey: GRAIN BOUNDARY ENERGY VISUALIZATIONS

Eli Harris: MODELING URANIUM DIOXIDE USING MOMENT TENSOR POTENTIALS AND AN ACTIVE LEARNING ALGORITHM

Lydia Harris: SOLID STATE PHYSICS FOR THE STRUCTURE OF URANIUM OXIDE AND ZINC ARSENIDE

Miaki Hulse: LASER STABILIZATION FOR ATOMIC TRAPPING OF RUBIDIUM VIA ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATION

Raiarii Jithame: ACOUSTIC DIRECTIVITY MEASUREMENTS OF A GEM-63 ROCKET MOTOR AND OF A YAMAHA HS8 STUDIO MONITOR

Tyler Miller: DEVELOPING A BUBBLE NUMBER DENSITY TREND FOR BISON

Josef Opeda: STRING THEORY AND NON-EMPIRICAL THEORY ASSESSMENT: WHY EXPERIMENTATION MATTERS IN THEORY CHOICE

Morgan Robbins: VIABILITY OF GENERATION RISK ASSESSMENT

Stephen Smith: PULSED POWER FACILITY REFURBISHMENT AND ANALYSIS

Kaylisa Wolsey: MEASUREMENTS OF THE 124Sn( ,n) AND 169Tm( ,n) CROSS SECTIONS AT AN INCIDENT PHOTON ENERGY OF 13 MEV

Nonnie Woodruff: INVESTIGATING POTENTIAL CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON THE HYDROLOGY OF THE RHINE RIVER BASIN

Winter 2019

Logan Carpenter: SCALE SETTING IN LATTICE QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS

Tyler Trogden: INTRODUCTION TO PHASE FIELD MODELING

Pauline White: LOW-FREQUENCY INTENSITY VECTORS AND WIND NOISE REDUCTION USING A COHERENCE-BASED METHOD

Adam Worden: TEMPERATURE AND OZONE AS A FUNCTION OF ALTITUDE

Fall 2018

Hannah Chesley: BUILDING A POCKET-SIZED MUON DETECTOR AND STARTING A COSMIC RAY RESEARCH GROUP

Justin Cooley: AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMON HAND-LAYUP METHODS WITH COMPOSITE MATERIALS

Kristen Hawkins: ORBITAL CLASS NANOSATELLITE LAUNCH VEHICLE SPIN-STABILIZATION SYSTEM

Cameron Jorgensen: APPLICATIONS OF X-RAY DIFFRACTION

Alex Niver: OPTIMIZATION OF COLLIMATOR HEAD ANGLE TO REDUCE EXTRA-PTV HOTSPOT OCCURRENCE

Emily Togagae: URANIUM DIOXIDE GRAIN BOUNDARY ENERGY DATABASE AND MISORIENTATION VISUAL

Will Weiss: INFRARED CLOUD IMAGING DURING THE 2017 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE

Spring 2018

Sean Masengale: SELECTING AN EMPIRICAL POTENTIAL FOR UO2

Winter 2018

Zachary Braiser: LOW ALTITUDE CORONAL OBSERVATIONS WITH CITIZEN CATE

Adam Cameron: UNDERSTANDING ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN 2D MOLECULES USING

DUSTY PLASMA SIMULATIONS AND PERCOLATION THEORY

Baylee Danz: MEASURING A NOVEL OPTICAL SPRING EFFECT

Paul De Montaudouin: MAGNETOGENETICS

Aaron Fetterman: SIMULATIONS FOR THE MaRIE FREE ELECTRON LASER

Joseph Hafen: SPECTRAL PATTERNS OF SEED ALFALFA: A STUDY TO INCREASE CROP YIELD

Christopher Reynolds: INCLUSION OF PAGE METHOD WITHIN THE TWO-POINT IN SITU METHOD FOR DETERMINING SOUND POWER LEVELS

Tyler Whitaker: COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF THE EVOLUTION OF PURE OXYGEN ICE GRAINS

Chandler Williams: A MODEL FOR GRAIN BOUNDARY ENERGIES IN URANUM DIOXIDE

Fall 2017

Aileen Godfrey: CREATION OF THE HIGH ALTITUDE RESEARCH TEAM TO RESEARCH AND RECORD THE 2017 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE

David Gillis: The Dependence of Unwinding Speed and Age of Scotch Tape, In the Production of X-rays

Joshua Gubler: WAFER-LEVEL EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT DETECTOR

Kendra Gillis: Mounted Polarimeter Radiometer for Dark Sky Atmospheric Polarization Study

Makenzie Allen: Disentangling the Data; Organizing, graphing, and analyzing rotorcraft and flight weather data

Spring 2017

Ryan Flamm: ACOUSTICS IN OPENFOAM

Winter 2017

Patty Kobak: SEARCH FOR X-RAY CHANNELING RADIATION AT FERMILAB'S FAST FACILITY

Kelli Melville: COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY FOR INFLUENZA TREATMENT

John Rackham: INVESTIGATION OF THE CO-RE-TI SYSTEM AS A POTENTIAL SUPERALLOY

Angel Royston: ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI: THE PERIODICITY OF BLAZAR MARKARIAN 501

Axel Seoane: Implementation of Orthotropic Elasto-Plastic model in MOOSE and Pellet-Cladding Interaction Simulations

Heidi Sager: Tracking Sunspot Waves Across the Solar Disk Using IRIS

Colby Walker: TESTING AND REPAIR OF A HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION SYSTEM

Fall 2016

Neishan Ali: Universality of The Loopless Nontrapping Invasion-Percolation Model

John-Michael Bradley: FOUNDATION FOR AN ANISOTROPIC MODEL

Caleb Duff: Development of Real Time Data Visualization and Analysis Software for the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) X-ray Powder Diffraction (XPD) Beam Line

Dallin Francom: Alignment Method for Diffuse Optical Tomography Reconstructions used in Prostate Photodynamic Therapy

Jarin French: IMPROVING THE FUNCTION FOR GRAIN BOUNDARY ENERGY INTERPOLATION IN URANIUM DIOXIDE

Nick Hall: PROTOTYPING NEUTRON DETECTORS FOR SUPERCDMS CALIBRATION

Daxton Hawks: Performance of Phase and Amplitude Gradient Estimator Method for Calculating Energy Quantities in a Plane-Wave Tube Environment

Jacob Johnson: QUALIFICATION OF PHILLIPS X'PERT MPD DIFFRACTOMETER FOR APPLICATIONS IN X-RAY DIFFRACTION AND X-RAY REFLECTION

Bryce Murray: TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT DOPPLER BROADENING FOR POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY

Spring 2016

Alex Marvin: CRADTRAN: A C++ RADIATIVE TRANSFER CODE

Enea Rrokaj: Determining the Validity of the Topographic Lidar Equation

Brett Wilson: INITIAL ORBIT DETERMINATION THROUGH OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS

Winter 2016

James McCulloch: STIMULATED METAL WHISKER GROWTH

Jon Slater: AN INVESTIGATION OF SKYLIGHT POLARIZATION USING A SPECTRO-POLARIMETER

Russell Steed: SIMULATING FINANCIAL MARKETS USING PHYSICAL MODELS

Heather Tippets: Radiation Safety Design for High Energy Electron Flux Environments Testing

Jared Tolliver: INCORPORATING ANISOTROPIC GRAIN BOUNDARY ENERGY INTO A
PHASE FIELD MODEL OF URANIUM DIOXIDE

Trevor Vent: An Introduction to Multiplanar Reconstructions in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis -- Accompanying slides

Fall 2015

Tucker Sprenkle: Constructing an Experimental Apparatus for Observing the Temperature Dependence of Atomic Vacancies in Aluminum Using Positron Annihilation

Giles Wright: Microwave Scattering and Life Detection

Sarah Young: Outdoor Measurements of Spherical Acoustic Shock Decay

Spring 2015

Michael Corrigan: Nondestructive Structural Mapping using iOS Application Sonar

James Nelson: Simulated Rayleigh Scattering

Winter 2015

Matthew Brownell: Building and Improving a Linux Cluster

Jordan Claspell: Negative Index of Refraction of Cross-bar Metamaterial

Jimmy Favaron: Periodicity of Variable Stars at the BYU-Idaho Livestock Center Observatory

Anthony Hales: Orbital Consequences from the Giant Impact Theory

Tim Harbison: ANISOTROPIC GRAIN BOUNDARY ENERGY FUNCTION FOR URANIUM DIOXIDE

Forrest Hubert: Nanostructured Diamond Film Deposition on Yttrium Orthovanadate Substrates: Process Control and Characterization

Schyler Porter: Optimization of an Ammonium Nitrate Based Solid Rocket Propellant

Fall 2014

Blaszczyk, Ross: Life Detection Using Microwave Back Scatter and Prolate Spheroids

Hales, Jacob: Semi-Empirical Simulation Method for High-Powered Model Rocketry

Spring 2014

Bhattarai, Kushal: Investigation of Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy of Arsenic Implant Defects in Silicon Wafers

Hoiland, Kellie: Identification of Semiconductors Through Positron Annihilation

Winter 2014

Andrews, Derek: Activation Energies of Spark Plasma Sintered Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Steels

Harker, Eric: Scalable Interconnect Model for Tower Jazz SBC18

Heiner, Josh: Numerical Modeling of Positron Annihilation

Tolman, Malachi: Modifying TALYS to Implement Custom Nuclear Level Densities

Fall 2013

Cliche, Dylan: Measuring and Modeling Concentrations of Defects in Metallic Samples Using Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy

Larson, Kyle: Spherical Bulge Testing of Thin Film X-Ray Windows

Muller, Scott: Solar Spectroscopy and the Rotational Doppler Effect

Newey, David: Optimization of Ammonium Nitrate Solid Rocket Fuel

Withers, Joseph: Resolution Limits of In-Line Holographic Imaging Systems

Spring 2013

Butterfield, Aaron: EXPLORATION OF THE PHASE FIELD FRAMEWORK MARMOT TO INCLUDE ANISOTROPIC GRAIN BOUNDARIES WITH MOLECULAR DYNAMICS

Winter 2013

Barrett, John: COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF POSITRON ANNIHILATION IN SOLIDS

Carmack, Joseph: EXTENDING SYMMETRY-MODE ANALYSIS TO DETERMINING MAGNETIC SUPERSTRUCTURE SYMMETRY

Clark, Steven: Detailed Background Analysis for Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy

Dailey, Ben: Development of a New Method and Apparatus for the Measurement of Water Vapor Transmission Rates (WVTR) in Packaging Materials

Hill, Joe: ESTIMATING BINARY BLACK-HOLE MERGER SIGNALS

Laughlin, Kevin: More Efficient Data Collection with Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy

Lofgran, Stefan: Thin Film Deposition & Vacuum Technology

McNair, Carson: MAXIMIZATION OF OIL RECOVERY FROM AND REMEDIATION OF OIL-BASED DRILL CUTTINGS BY CHEMICAL TREATMENT AND CENTRIFUGATION

Nicolaysen, Sean: BALLOON-BORNE MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING OF VEGETATION FOR THE MONITORING OF CARBON DIOXIDE LEAKS ORIGINATING FROM A SIMULATED GEOLOGIC CARBON SEQUESTRATION FACILITY

Fall 2012

Knight, Jedi: Lagrangian Particle Tracking and Atmospheric Microscale Turbulence

Spring 2012

Decker, Karl: THE TIME DEPENDENCE OF THE X-RAY TRIBOLUMINESCENCE OF ADHESIVE TAPE

McGuire, Kelly: Surface Distribution and X-ray Emission From Scotch Tape

Scott, Phil: Measuring the Thickness of Thin Metal Films

Rodriguez, Juan: Photodiode light Dectector Calibration and Optical System Alignment Methods

Wilson, Jon: VISUALIZATION OF MODIS DATA IN THE BLENDER ENVIRONMENT: OR SCIENCE IN A BLENDER

Winter 2012

Pincock, Dallin: Positron Annihilation and the W-Parameter

Baird, Lorin: SURFACE TENSION DRIVEN FLOW OF MICRO PARTICLES

Lemmon Bhattarai, Sarah: COLOR IMAGING USING THE BYU-IDAHO MAKSUTOV-NEWTONIAN TELESCOPE AND TRI-COLOR CCD CAMERA

Keller, Brad: Benefit of Visual Survey Data System

Andersen, Allen: Microwave Optics Research

Kackstaetter, Marianne: Variable Star Observation of UX Hercules and XZ Draco and 24-inch Telescope Control Program

Murray, Bryce: Effects of Including Parity Ditributions on Neutron Induced Cross Sections

Fall 2011

Barney, Josh: PyTran

Cameron, Kayla: DETECTION OF TRANSITTING EXOPLANETS

Spring 2011

Lafranceschina, Jacopo: POSITRON ANNIHILATION DEFECT IMAGING (PADI)

Winter 2011

Francis, Ben: Construction of Components of a Strontium Ion Interferometer

Hawkins, Russell: A HYPOTHETICAL STUDY OF VALLEY CROSSWINDS

Fall 2010

Ferguson, Amy: EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICENECY OFA CADMIUM TELLURIDE CADMIUM SULFIDE PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL

Fuller, Scott: RESEARCH CAPABILITIES OF BYU IDAHO TELESCOPE AND VARIABLE STAR STUDY OF RV URSA MAJOR

Spring 2010

Jones, Cameron: Astrophotography Using the Brigham Young University-Idaho Mak-Newt Telescope

Winter 2010

Bunker, Carolyn: Effects of Wind Direction and Speed Turbulence and Wind Shear

Monson, Jonathan: Effects of Annealing on Shot Peened Copper

Williams, Tyson: Keeping Materials Safe in a Nuclear Reactor

Zachreson, Matt: MODELING TRACE ION FLOW IN AN INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETER USING THE DRIFT-DIFFUSION EQUATION

Winter 2009

Christenson, Wayne: TUNGSTEN STM TIP PRODUCTION METHODS AND EVALUATION

Hansen, Aaron: A PROOF OF CONCEPT FOR A METHOD OF SENDING WEATHER DATA TELEMETRICALLY

Heilmann, Nathan: Extreme Ultraviolet LIght Polarimetry

Starks, Berkley: The Effect of the E1 Strength Function on Neutron Capture Cross Sections

Fall 2008

Dumais, Heidi: True Color BVR Imaging From Astronomical Exposures

Francom, Brian: X-ray Fluorescence Instrument Calibration

Sanders, Cameron: Characterization and Applications of 100-300 MEV Electron Beams

Schaeffer, Daniel: Fabrication of Tungsten Fiber Arrays in Glass and Electrochemical Etching of Tungsten Wire

Winter 2005

Kristen Woffinden: Preliminary Work in Detection of Defects in Minerals Using X-Ray Diffraction

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