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Quantum cascade lasers are a type of semiconductor laser that operate in the mid to far infrared region. Due to their unique properties, such as compact design, fast recovery gain time and operation…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Rosy Monaghan, UG '24 (66EBF7FE) Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Stealthy hyperuniform heterostructures are a novel type of metamaterial that display photonic band gaps (PBG) and isotropy simultaneously. In this project, we have successfully designed, fabricated,…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Manuel Gallego, GS (AFAA2005) Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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This project aims to analyze the historical development of Mpala Research Centre, an ecological research institution located in Laikipia County, Kenya, and connect it to broader historical trends at…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Katie Rohrbaugh, UG '24 (53E7F75E) Department
History
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Amidst a national shift toward the acceptance of marijuana legalization, a divide emerges between the robust support for recreational marijuana legalization and the hesitant implementation of…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Milo Richardson (FF7686F0) Department
Politics
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Haiti is going through a particularly tumultuous period in its recent history marked by a complex governance crisis and the expansion of geographic and political control of gangs over Haitian…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Gil Sander Joseph, UG '25 (716B9055) Department
Sociology
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Fake news can have extremely harmful effects on society, such as increasing polarization, instilling distrust in the media and government, inciting violence, andencouraging dangerous health…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Anjali Kapoor, UG '24 (EB8536AD) Department
Computer Science
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Stable Diffusion (SD) and other AI diffusion models can generate images in seconds. These models, however, are trained on millions of images, and sometimes not all are taken with consent. This is…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Audrey Zhang, UG '25 (7A3C3CD0) Department
Art and Archaeology
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Everyone wants to know all about the Olympics, but who really knows what happens after? This project seeks to understand the lasting effects of the Olympics on urban and built space, with special…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Sally Jane (SJ) Ruybalid, GS (351011FF) Department
Architecture
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“Having Connections––Roots of the Pare Pare System on Guam” seeks to explore the historical roots of the ‘pare pare system’ on Guam, an island in the Marianas…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Seyoung Choung, UG '25 (219D978E) Department
History
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My thesis explores interactions with queer representation in literature for children and teenagers in Cork, Ireland. Recent far-right protests and library harassment in Cork reflect larger…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Allison Rose Peart, UG '24 (C04F7004) Department
Anthropology
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Territory exploration in animals is conducive to gain knowledge about investigated environments and evaluate social information driven by recognition of chemosensory cues. Previously, it was known…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Vivian Li, UG '24 (B1E3E6CA) Department
Neuroscience
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Estrogen is a sex hormone that plays different roles in the brain versus in the periphery. Notably, low levels of estrogen have been shown to be associated with spatial memory impairment and object…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Sebastian Mehrzad, UG '26, Ida Narli, UG '26 (C6410DF1) Department
Neuroscience
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This thesis defends Plato’s Allegory by arguing that physical and mental freedom are necessary for human freedom. These freedoms are necessary because they fulfill the precondition for human…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Tori Tinsley, UG '24 (90ED54C3) Department
Politics
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Congress spends close to 10,000 hours holding meetings meetings and debates where they form public policy. These meetings are especially important to organizations and businesses, who need to stay on…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Nikhil Ajjarapu, UG '24 (79BBD471) Department
Computer Science
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Liquidity regimes are an intuitive yet elusive concept. It is easy to conceptualize how markets have periods of high liquidity, where the cost of trading is low, and periods of low liquidity, where a…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Bofan Ji, UG '24 (207CEC04) Department
Economics
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Latin is difficult for machines to translate due to the language being highly inflectional and overlapping word forms frequently creating ambiguity. Even with the help of dedicated human translators,…
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May 3rd, 2024 Speaker
Natalia Tam, UG '25 (4391AAA4) Department
Computer Science
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