DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Commencement Ceremony SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2020

9:00 a.m.: Main Ceremony Refer to: https://commencement.uoregon.edu/ 10:30 a.m.: Physics Department Ceremony Refer to: https://commencement.uoregon.edu/ Welcome and Opening Remarks Bruce Blonigen Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Professor, Dept. of Economics Welcome and Opening Remarks Richard Taylor Head, Department of Physics Professor, Department of Physics Student Address Matthew Kafker Graduate Faculty Address Ben McMorran Associate Professor, Department of Physics Closing Remarks and Invitation to Zoom Reception Scott Fisher Astronomy Lecturer and Outreach Coordinator Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Physics

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Grad Roll Graduating Class of 2020 Personalized messages from our graduating students 1:00 p.m.: Zoom Reception Hosted by: Scott Fisher Zoom meeting I D: 961 544 1031 https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/9615441031 Special thanks to physics community contributors: Dean Livelybrooks, Ray Frey, Richelle Cabatic, Jordan Fowlds, Jeremy Guenza-Marcus, Nicole

Ringsdorf, Kaia Hall, Mateo Minato, Jeremy Welsh-Kavan, Ben R hodeland, Sarah Malpass

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.” - Albert Einstein

PHYSICS DOCTORAL Candidates

Jason Tyler Barkeloo “Search for the Flavor-Changing Neutral Current, t to q gamma, in Top Pair Events Using the ATLAS Detector” Advisor: Jim Brau Andrew Douglas Blaikie “Graphene Electromechanical Resonators and their use in Thermal Detectors” Advisor: Benjamín Alemán Johan Sebastian Bonilla Castro “Reconstructing the top quark in a search for a pair-produced supersymmetric partner in the all-hadronic plus missing energy final

−1 state using 139 FB OF = 13 tev proton-proton collisions delivered by the large hadron collider and collected by t he atlas detector” Advisor: Stephanie Majewski Kahli Burke “Boundary Integral Method and Applications for Chaotic Optical Microcavities” Advisor: Jens Nöckel Wesley W. Erickson “Lévy Motion and Laser-Cooled Atoms” Advisor: Dan Steck

Andrew Peter Hammond "The Structure of Fluid and Glassy Systems at Short Time and Length Scales" Advisor: Eric Corwin Edouard A. Hay “Identifying Gut Bacteria and Their Interactions Using Deep Learning Based Image Analysis and Gnotobiotic Experiments” Advisor: Raghu Parthasarathy Caleb Holt "The interplay of neural dynamics and connectivity s tructures in visual cortex" Advisor: Yashar Ahmadian Erik Jason Keever “Nonlinear investigation of oscillations in radiating shockwaves" Advisor: Jim Imamura David Joseph Miller “Shaping, Tuning, and Playing Nanodrums: Towards Scalable and High Quality Factor Graphene Nanoelectromechanical Systems” Advisor: Benjamín Alemán Saba Moslehi “Bio-inspired fractal electrodes interfacing with retinal cells” Advisor: Richard Taylor

Rudolph William Resch “Field Emission Based Displacement Sensing Using a Carbon Nanotube Enhanced Electromechanical Probe” Advisor: Benjamín Alemán Benjamin David Rhodeland “The Physics of Bacterial Collective Motion on a Surface: The (Ir)relevance of Run and Tumble Chemotaxis to Rapid Group Motility and Evidence of an Abiotic Jamming Transition as a Primary Control Parameter of a Spreading Bacterial Suspension” Advisor: Tristan Ursell Brandon Henry Schlomann “Learning Biophysical Rules of Gut Bacterial Communities Through Live Imaging of Zebrafish” Advisor: Raghu Parthasarathy Julian Hirsch Smith “How Neurons Exploit Fractal Geometry” Advisor: Richard Taylor Tom Tong “Beyond the Standard Model: Dark Mesons and Custodial Symmetry” Advisor: Graham Kribs Joshua E. Ziegler “Engineering and characterization of single photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride” Advisor: Benjamín Alemán

PHYSICS Master’s Degree Candidates

James Amarel Matthew Ball Saumya Biswas Matthew Brown Brittany Carter Bruce Edelman Mostafa El Demery Rachael Klaiss Tiemo Landes Nicholas Luongo Kent Mastroianni Kara Merfeld Daniel Moore Will Parker Aria Radick Hannes Sobottka Deepika Sundarraman Ethan Turner Kara Zappitelli

APPLIED PHYSICS Industrial Internship Master’s Degree

Candidates

Sawyer Buck Scott Chandler Jacob Curtis Justin deMattos Carl Felstiner Austin Ferrie Nicholas "Cole"Gilmore Adam Golfman Alex Gonzalez Joseph Gutierrez Grant Hall Genesis Hearne Nicholas Hernández Trent Jones Aaron Kaufman Katherine LaChasse Grayson Langham John Lassetter Tristan Lee Elliot Lehman Kara McDonough Joseph Meyers Suzanna Officer Joshua Ramm Michael Regotti Christopher Riley Takuma Sato-Duncan Reese Siegel Jeanette Smit Johanna Stensaas

Michael Sundvall Liam Taylor Michael Trumbull Amy Van Leeuwen Boubacar Wane Luke Westbrook Adam Wright

PHYSICS Baccalaureate Degree Candidates

Nathaniel S. Ahn Davis D. Austin Adam “Skippy” Clairmont Chase M. Craig Jordan D. Fowlds Connor C. French Jessie L. Garr Dustin B. Gearhart Laura C. Huskey Matthew Kafker Elias R. King Sarah D. Malpass Jordyn Mascarenas-Wells Noah C. Mifsud Mateo Minato Devon Scallion Madelyn N. Scott Daniel H. Sellers Keenan H. Siminski Taylor O. Simpkins Jeremy I. Welsh-Kavan Physics Minor Degree Ilia R. Duckler Dylan J. Bardgett Kevin V. Nguyen

Summa cum laude (top 2%) Cum laude (top 10%) Departmental Honors, awarded to students with a 3.5 GPA or better in

upper-division major courses. Phi Beta Kappa – Oregon Six representative Phi Beta Kappa Members-Elect

Congratulations Graduates Class of 2020!

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

Michael H. Schill, President

Patrick C. Phillips, Provost and Senior Vice President

Bruce Blonigen, Tykeson Dean of Arts and Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences

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