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The Senior Program

All senior physics students work collaboratively with faculty members on research projects as part of the Senior Program. This intensive one-semester project combines original scientific research with reading and understanding the scientific literature. It culminates in a senior thesis that is defended in a series of oral presentations. The Senior Program reflects Hamilton's commitment to a strong grounding in writing and public speaking.

Recent projects in physics include:

  • Modernizing Pulse NMR Code: Transition from IGOR to Python
  • Code Improvements and Stress Analysis of Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in a Simulated Magnetically Arrested Accretion Disk
  • Characterizing a Microfluidic Device for Sorting Nanodiamonds
  • Artificial Cytoplasm: Observing Anomalous Diffusion & Progress Towards Drift-Reduction
  • Measuring B Field Gradients using a Compact Gradiometer
  • Quantifying Noise in Measurements of Faraday Rotation in Unpolarized Rubidium
  • Exploring Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities in Thin Magnetically Arrested Disks Around Black Holes
  • High Precision Current Measurements to Stabilize NMR Power Supply Output
  • Heating in Residential Homes with Heat Pumps

Contact

Department Name

Physics Department

Contact Name

Gordon Jones, Acting Chair

Office Location
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

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