Poster Archive
Faculty Sponsor: Erika Franklin Fowler Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Recent increases in mass shootings have resulted in more political discussions about guns and subsequently gun laws. As a result, researchers have focused on analyzing political ads as a way to examine the discourse in reference to these issues. Our data set was the … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Meng-ju Renee Sher Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Silicon (Si) semiconductors has been used in a broad range of fields including photodetection devices and solar cells. Nevertheless, intrinsic Si solar cells can only absorb light with wavelengths shorter than near-infrared wavelengths. Adding deep level impurities into intrinsic Si will help facilitate electron … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Pavel Oleinikov Abstract: Pairwise comparisons produce a diagonal line of matches and are originally used in homology. This method is extended to text similarity detections in programming languages as well as large collections of texts. The tokenization of texts allows dynamic programming such as Global Alignment to detect similar texts while running … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Tsampikos Kottos, Physics Department Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: We develop computational tools for the design of electromagnetic waveform shaping protocols with enhanced capabilities to target electronic elements embedded inside complex enclosures. Existing schemes require linear scattering conditions and rely on wave interference effects that are generated when monochromatic radiation is injected … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Lisa Dombrowski Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: The project focused on finding out the reasons that contributed to the appearance and decline of Chinatown movie theaters and their financial health from 1940 to 2000 in Los Angeles. Using demographic census data and other datasets, we want to identify factors that could be … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Andrew H. Quintman Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Milarepa is a Tibetan Siddha who was famous for his legendary revenge story as a youth and for becoming a Buddhist later in his life. He is also one of the most influential Yogis of Tibet. This research focuses on his footpath throughout his … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Balazs Zelity Abstract: Economists have hypothesized that there is a relationship between seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and consumer feelings about the economy, often measured indirectly through stock market performance. However, not much research has been done on the relationship between SAD and the more direct measure of consumer confidence. The purpose of this … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Balazs Zelity Abstract: When an investor invests in another economy, they chose whether to repatriate their profit to their origin country or reinvest it in a host country. The reinvestment rate is the ratio of of the reinvestment to the total amount of the reinvestment and the repatriation. This project aims to … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Grossman, Economics Department Abstract: The stock market volatility can be measured by the implied volatility of options. To analyze the British stock market volatility before and after the NYSE stock market crash in 1929, we looked into the options price data across different sectors in the British stock market and calculated the … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Karl David Boulware Abstract: The impacts of COVID 19 have disproportionately affected people of colour, especially African Americans. My project gives a broader view on the time use of the people most disrupted during the height of the pandemic. By using 2020 microdata files from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) conducted by … Read more