Using Unreal Engine to Find the Orientations of 3D Objects

Faculty Sponsor: Greg Voth Abstract: In a fluid mechanics lab, it is often the case that a particle’s movement through fluid must be studied in minute detail. Our lab records videos of 3D-printed particles moving in a high-volume tank of water with four high-speed cameras, and we aim to examine their motion by determining the … Read more

Why us? Factors Influencing Membership in Color Naming Clusters

Faculty Sponsor: Maryam Gooyabadi Abstract: Color is a universal concept existing in every language. While each language has its own unique characteristics, there has been found a shared pattern existing across different language groups. Studying the similarities and differences in color naming between languages could give us a clear view of some underlying shared patterns … Read more

Follow the Diagonals: Finding String Matches through Matrix Operations

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

British Stock Market Volatility: Before and After the 1929 NYSE Stock Market Crash

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