Society of Physics Students at UVA

A group of physics majors focused on community, public outreach, and academic excellence.

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New Updates! This is a list of professors looking for students. See the resources page for more information!

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Xiaochao Zheng - Various projects

David Nichols - Visualizing curved spacetime around colliding black holes

Chris Neu - Identifying exotic forms of matter through machine learning

Craig Group - Experimental Particle Physics

Jeffrey Teo - Topological phases in electronic matter

Despina Louca - Louca's Research

Cass Sackett - Various projects

Stefan Baessler - Various project at UVa and sometimes ORNL, ILL, and Fermilab

Craig Dukes - Fabrication of a High Efficiency Cosmic Ray Veto for the Mu2e Experiment

Joe Poon - Thermoelectrics and Spintronics

Marija Vucelja - Escape faster than the Kramer's escape problem

Peter Schauss - Variety of experimental and simulation projects

Blaine Norum - Study of two-nucleon systems

Dima Pesin - Chiral hydrodynamics in crystals

Krishni Wijesooriya - To predict cardiac toxicity due to lung radiation treatments

Bob Hirosky - Particle detectors, real-time data processing, physics studies

Mool Gupta - Mool Gupta-Beaming Energy on Mars

Gai-Wei Chern - Machine Learning Models for Physics

Dustin Keller - Multiple Projects

Cristina Mantilla-Suarez - LDMX simulation studies / Higgs decays with AI / etc