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Student Project Page

Students registered in Physics 75.502 must complete a short project that uses one or more of the techniques developed in the course. The students are free to choose the project, and are encouraged to consider something related to their graduate research topic. Before starting the project, the student should check with the instructor to ensure that it is of a proper scale, and that it is not already being done by another student. At the end of the course, the students make an oral presention of their projects and submit an HTML writeup.

Suggestions for Projects

Student Projects 2001/2002

Monte Carlo calculation of the dose to the breast during a mammogram, Lesley Buckley
Statistical Analysis of an MRI data sample with Gd-DTPA as a contrast agent, Mihai-Raul Gherase
Multicomponent Spin-Spin Relaxation (T2) Data Analysis by Least Squares Methods, Marzieh Nezamzadeh
MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF THE 2D MOTION OF PARTICLES OF A FLUID IN A SMALL TUBE, Flavie Tchoko
Random Walk and Applications, Oliver Witzel

Student Projects 2000/2001

Simulation of the spectrum of cosmic ray muons, Guillaume Belanger
A Monte Carlo Formulation of the Repair-Misrepair model of Cell Survival, Marco Carlone
Polymer dynamic simulation, Simona Crisan
Nonlinear Least Squares Fit of Parameters Related to the Linear Quadratic Model for Combined Therapy Treatment, Carey Feagan
Statistical Analysis of Palm Beach County, Michel Gauthier
Maximum likelihood and non-linear least squares three parameter fit of a look-locker simulated magnetic resonance data, Ken Nknogchu
A Monte Carlo simulation of the coherent cross section, Elena Olariu

Student Projects 1999/2000

Feed-Forward Neural Network, Bryce Bates
Estimation of Signal and Noise from Magnetic Resonance Images, Juan Parra Robles
A Monte-Carlo Simulation of the Photoelectric cross section, Matthew Wismayer
Monte Carlo simulation of photon transport, Nina Kalach
Nonlinear Weighted Least-Squares fit of Kinetic Parameters for ⁸²Rb Myocardial Perfusion Studies, Richard Wassenaar
Monte Carlo Simulation of PMT Dark Noise Spectrum, Salomeh Jelveh
Uncertainty analysis of dose distribution to the tumor due to the setup error during radiotherapy, Zhanrong Gao

Student Projects 1998/1999

Stochastic resonance in a noise stabilized potential , Serguei Katsev
Microcavity modeling of organic devices , Jennifer Lam
The effect of electron diffusion in GMD , Mei Li
A tentative study on signal transmission and reflection in FCAL cable system , Wei Wang

Student Projects 1997/1998

Application of Lorenz model to secure communications, Yvan Gauthier
Fitting Percentage of Body Fat to Simple Body Measurements, Narine Kizilian
The Response Function of a Germanium Detector, Jean-Francois Mercier
Wind Speeds in Ireland: A Correlational Study, Daron Owen
Simulation of an NMR experiment using injected hyperpolarized xenon gas, Pascale Sevigny
Linear Quadratic Model for Cell Survival Sensitivity to Repair Rate for U87-MG cells, Debbie Smith
Subtreshold coincidence detection in integrate and fire neuron model, Martin St.-Hilaire
Integration of Laplace Equation, Marcelo Valdes
Determination of the Higgs mass and width at a muon collider, David Waller

Student Projects 1996/1997

A Study of SNO's Possible Sensitivity to a Periodic Solar Neurtrino Flux, Darren Grant
Applying the linear quadratic model to high dose rate experiments, Malgorzata Niedbala
Flood Acquisition Analysis on a Siemens ZLC, Tanya Hewitt
Flight of a Baseball, Joanne Treurniet
A Monte-Carlo Simulation of Surface Catalysis, Daniel Matusek

Instructions for the HTML writeup

Please use this template for the HTML writeup. Modify it as you wish. To test it out, start up netscape, and under the File menu, choose "Open File...".

If you want to learn more about HTML here are two useful places to look: "Writing HTML" and The NCSA primer.

Currently, mathematical equations are not handled well by HTML. Students who prefer to use LaTeX can use latex2html, available on our HP nodes (theory, pheno, and baloo). Equations and tables will be converted to GIF files which will automatically be imbedded in the document.

If you have postscript figures that you need to convert to GIF files, in order to be included in your HTML writeup, you may use the program, /home/karlen/phys502/examples/ps2gif. In order to fine tune the GIF file (croping, etc) use the "xv" command.