Samiullah at Truman

Research students [Hey, if you are on this list, drop me a line and tell me what you are doing now.]

Isaac Angert, "Characterizing a High-Tc superconductor," Fall 2008 and Spring 2009.

Matt Olsen, , "Sonoluminescence," Fall 2007, Spring 2008.

Sean Bergsted, Matt Olsen and Chad Pepmiller, "Sonoluminescence," Fall 2006 and Spring 2007.

Uchenna Edeh, "Conductance of a two-dimensional Tellurium/Aluminum thin layer," Spring 2004.

Phil Schiff, Sarah Smith, Christopher Cook and J. D. Lloyd, "Building a Scanning Tunneling Microscope,"Fall 2003 and Spring 2004.

Sarah Smith and Kevin Hayworth, "Building a Scanning Tunneling Microscope," Spring 2003.

Elizabeth Douglas, "Diffraction of ultrasound through a circular aperture," Spring, Summer and Fall 2003.

Christopher Cook, "Building a seismometer for use in Scanning Tunneling Microscope," Fall 2002.

Charles Weaver III, "Thin layer deposition of Tellurium in a vacuum deposition system," Fall 2002.

Michael Peterson and Tim Flanagan, "Inverse Radon Trnasformation and the Imaging Problem," Spring 2001 and Fall 2001.

Timothy Flanagan, "Determining the Young’s modulus of heart tissue," Fall 2001.

Timothy Flanagan, "Determining the anisotropy of heart tissue through ultrasound velocity measurements," Spring 2001 - Fall 2001. (Presentation by Tim Flanagan at NCUR - 2002.)

Amy Humrich, "Non-destructive testing of amylose content of genetically-modified corn through the determination of integrated back-scattering cross-section ," Fall 2000.

Jonathan Klaas, " Scattering of ultrasound through a diffraction grating ," Fall 2000.

Jeffry Pride, "Construction of a diffraction grating to mimic layered fibrous structure of the heart tissue," Fall 2000.

5Mustafa Doctor, "Study of transmission of ultrasound through layered structure: the physical role of layering ," Fall 2000.

Kenneth Boyce, "End correction in the resonance of air column," Fall 1999 and Spring 2000. Gave presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2000.

James Duran and Kenneth Boyce, "Testing the homogeneity of the universe based on observations on the galaxy distribution ," Fall 1997 and Spring 1998. James Duran gave presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Truman State University, Spring 2000.

Shawn Connoly, "Electrodynamics of the heart tissue," Summer 1997.

Jennifer Wilcox, "The EPR paradox and Bell’s Inequality in Quantum Mechanics," Spring 1996 andSummer 1996.

Jon Mallard, "The exact solution of the full Foucault pendulum problem," Fall 1995.

Robert Dowell, "Building of a Hallway display model of Foucault pendulum," Fall 1995.

Michael Walters, "Bending of light near a massive object," Fall 1994 and Spring 1995. Gave presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, 1995.

Vijay Kumar, "Building of a Hallway display model of a Foucault pendulum," and "The exact solution of the Foucault pendulum problem," Fall 1994 and Spring 1995. Presented his work at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Truman State University, Spring 1995.

Eric Barnes, "Do the anomalous rotation of galaxies suggest an r-dependence of Newton’s gravitational constant?" Fall 1994 and Spring 1995. Presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Truman State University, Spring 1995 and at the annual meeting of the Missouri Academy of Science, Spring

1995. Published in the Journal of Undergraduate Research in Physics, Vol. 14 (2), 51 (1996).

Venkat Bhashyam, "Re-derivation of the Cable equation for transmission of neuronal signal through a cylindrical neuron?" Fall 1994 and Spring 1995. Presented at the Physics Colloquium, Truman State University, Spring 1995. Published in the Journal of Undergraduate Research in Physics, Vol. 14 (2), 60 (1996).

Venkat Bhashyam, "Non-hedgehog solution of the classical Skyrme model," presented at the Argonne National Laboratory, Fall 1994. (in collaboration with Dr. Rolnick)

Adam Zygmunt, "Finite Element Method in the study of Wannier states," Fall 1993 and Spring 1994. Presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, 1994.

Venkat Bhashyam, "Vibrational modes in an N-atom system," Fall 1993. Presented at the Fall meeting of the Missouri Association of the Physics Teachers, 1993.

Greg Bostrom, "Application of Finite Element Methods to Quantum Mechanics," Fall 1992 and Spring 1993. Presented at the annual meeting of the Missouri Academy of Science (1993), and won second place award.

Ken Myers, "Corrections to planetary motion due to relativistic effects," Spring 1992.

Greg Bostrom, "Electrostatics by Mathematica˝o," Spring 1992. Presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Truman State University, Spring 1992.

T. J. Fields, "Derivation of a two-neuron evolution equation in a competitive neural network," Spring1991.