This year’s SESAPS meeting was held on the beautiful campus of James Madison University and featured an outstanding group of scientists from across the entire southeastern region.
We had 45 undergraduate oral presentations and 54 undergraduate posters competing for this year’s undergraduate awards, all of them truly outstanding, making us proud of our students and the selection process a tough job.
A huge shout-out to all our 31 volunteer judges for taking the time to review each presentation—we couldn’t have done it without you!
Below is the list of this year's awardees. Congratulations to ALL of you for an outstanding job presenting your research!
Best Undergraduate Poster
Madison Lamb-Lott, Troy University
An Environmentally Safe Alternating Field Electrospinning Fabrication and Physical Crosslinking Alternative for Polymer-Based Nanofibrous Scaffolds.
Best Undergraduate Poster - Honorable Mention
Lincoln Potts, Western Kentucky University
Development of BaF2 Gamma Detectors for Large Angle Gamma Array
Ramson Munoz Morales Florida International University
First Principles Datasets for Machine Learning Force Fields of High Entropy Alloys
Edmund Garcia University of Mary Washington
Modeling Intermediate-Scale Outflow Dynamics of η Carinae
Best Undergraduate Talk
Kieran Wall, University of Virginia
GNN Semantic Segmentation of Neutrino Interactions in DUNE's TMS
Best Undergraduate Talk - Honorable Mention
Taylor Conner, University of Virginia
An Overview of Detector Module Assembly for the Barrel Timing Layer of the HL-LHC Upgrade for the CMS Experiment
Emily Centamore University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
Machine Learning and Image Processing for Automatic Visual Inspection
Grant Baker University of Virginia
Towards Characterizing the Biophysical Landscape of Immune Cells with a Novel Modular Toolbox