The Thirteenth Annual Sigma Pi Sigma Undergraduate Physics Research Symposium was held on November 8, 2024 in the physics building. We had a variety of both oral and poster presentations detailing multiple areas of physics.

Event information!

Prizes were given to the best three presentations and posters. We would like to congratulate the following students for their outstanding performance:

• Oral: 1st - Quentin; 2nd - Kieran ; 3rd - Jackson
• Name: Quentin Simmons
• Title: A Doping Study of a Candidate High Temperature Non-centrosymmetric Superconductor: REBaCuBO5
• Name: Kieran Wall
• Title: Hunting For Dark Matter with the LDMX Experiment
• Name: Jackson Glass

• Title: Learning Spin Ice Manifold with Boltzmann Machines

• Poster: 1st - Xena
• Name: Xena Fortune-Bashee
• Title: Constraining GMC Evolution and Lifetime via Tuning-Fork Analysis

We would also like to give special thanks to all of our judges and participants as well as both the physics and astronomy departments as a whole for dedicating their time to make this symposium possible.