Undergraduates
Physics
- Olivia Birney (advisor Laura Havener), “Building a photon isolation environment to test High Rate Picosecond Photodetectors (HRPPDs) for the Electron-Proton/Ion Collider (ePIC) experiment”. Second major History.
- Maddi Brown (advisor Laura Havener)
- Richard Lin (advisor Laura Havener), “Probing Color Reconnection and Underlying Event Dynamics using Energy Correlators”
- Cleber Redondo (advisor Laura Havener), “Construction of Neutron and Gamma Shielding for HRPPD Irradiation Tests”
- Langdan Zhu (advisor Helen Caines), “Light Yield Characterization of Scintillating Tiles Using SiPM Gain Calibration for the ePIC LFH Calorimeter”
Physics & Philosophy
- Sam Friedman (advisor Helen Caines), “Geiger Counters and the Particle Problem: Pragmatic Limits of QFT Ontology”
- Ingrid Rodríguez Vila (advisor Reina Maruyama), “Electron Detection Algorithm for the RAY Experiment”.
- Jaden Uram (advisor Jack Harris), “Fabricating a Glass Microbubble Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator”
Physics (Intensive)
- Lilia Chatalbasheva (advisor Laura Havener), “Thermal Model of the Underlying Event Background in Heavy-Ion Collisions for Jet Analyses”. Second major Economics.
- Edos Herwegh Vonk (advisor David Moore), “Optimising Feedback Cooling on an Optically Trapped Nanoparticle”. Second major Philosophy.
- Ethan Martinez (advisor Sarah Demers), “Reconstructing Tau Leptons in a 10 TeV Muon Collider”
- Nikita Mazotov (advisor Sarah Demers)
- George Ploumis Mechanical Engineering (advisor Sarah Demers), “Exploring a lower muon threshold for Higgs→ττ triggers in a search for Charge-Parity Violation”. Second major Physics (Intensive).
- Iffat Zarif (advisor Sarah Demers), “Development of a Photon Filter for the Mu2e Experiment”
We also congratulate the following former members of Wright Lab who are graduating in the class of 2026: graduate students Andy Ding and Joseph Lap; and undergraduates Emily Peng, Éle Donegan, and Quinn Ennis.