Thirteen Physics and Astronomy students presented posters at the Fall Undergraduate Research Festival (FURF) on Nov. 6 at the University Capitol Centre.

The Office of Undergraduate Research hosts FURF, held in celebration and recognition of undergraduate researchers' contributions to research, scholarly, and creative work at the University of Iowa. It is a low-stress platform for undergraduate students to practice communicating their research, scholarly, and creative work to a broad audience. Every aspect of this event, from poster design to presentation, to fielding questions, is designed to help students hone research communication skills.

Minou Emmad and Andrew Milne will be awarded a $100 prize for having the top Physics and Astronomy posters.

Physics and Astronomy students who presented posters are listed below with their majors, faculty mentor(s), and poster title:

Andrew Milne (Astronomy, Physics, Fall 24)
Mentor:  George Hospodarsky 
A Survey of Jovian Long Dispersion Lightning Whistlers as Detected by Juno Waves

Grace Paxton (Physics, Astronomy, Spring 26)
Mentor(s): Jane Nachtman/Yasar Onel 
Timing Adjustments and Data Collection in EOS Detectors

Rafael Jensen (Physics, Astronomy, Spring 24)
Mentor:  Allison Jaynes 
Analyzing Low Electron Densities in Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belts

Landen Freeman (B.S. Physics, Math, Spring 27) and Eduardo Sandoval (B.S. Physics, Math, Spring 27)
Mentor:  Vincent Rodgers
Gravitational Orbits and Dark Matter Arising from String Theory

Zeke Young (Physics, Astronomy, Spring 25)
Mentor: Jane Nachtman
Single Fiber PMT Illumination in the EOS Detector

Aditya Venkatesh (Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Spring 25)
Mentor:  Yannick Meurice
Study of phase shift extraction in a finite square well and bump potentials

Emilie Andrews (Physics, Fall 24)
Mentor:  Jane Nachtman 
Thermodynamic GCN: Towards Thermodynamically Efficient Artificial Intelligence

Minou Emmad (Physics, Computer Science, Math, Spring 27)
Mentor: John Prineas
Analyzing Optical Properties of Nanostructured Semiconductors

Noah Wessels (Physics, Math, Spring 25)
Mentor:  Denis Candido 
Magnons in Twisted Moiré 2D Magnet

Augustin Heitman (Physics, Astronomy, Math, Summer 26)
Mentos:  Jane Nachtman and Yasar Onel 
Use of CAEN DT5790 Module in Data Acquisition from Muon Telescopes

Mary Haag (Physics and Astronomy, Spring 25)
Mentor:  Allison Jaynes 
Comparison Verification of a Machine Learning Algorithm for Detecting Aurora

Emerson Peters (Physics & Linguistics, Spring 25)
Mentor(s):  Ethan Kutlu/Osama Khalid (Linguistics/Linguistics)
Toolkit for acoustic-phonetic analysis of naturalistic speech data

Landon Moran (Physics, Spring 27)
Mentor:  Thomas Folland 
Mechanical Exfoliation of 2D Materials *and their Spectra