Undergraduate Research Assistant
June 2026 - Present
Using neutron interferometry to search for the symmetron dark energy field. Modifying a Python-based nonlinear PDE solver and modeling symmetron field distributions under varying gas densities and vacuum boundary conditions, with a focus on predicting field behavior within the experimental apparatus.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Designed and developed laboratory instrumentation with a group. Held personal responsibility for circuit design, current and field modeling, hardware implementation, and the writing/review of literature, with a focus on minimizing magnetic fields in a sample chamber via electromagnetic circuitry.
September 2025 - May 2026
My physics research is conducted under W. Michael Snow, Professor of Physics, funded through the Cox Research Scholars Program, and associated with IU’s CEEM, the Center for Exploration of Energy & Matter.
Directed Reading Program
Studying the use of differential forms in electricity and magnetism. Applying differential geometry and tensor calculus to the structure of electromagnetic theory in the interest of understanding DeRahm, Chern-Simons, and Gauge theory, the Yang-Mills equations, and related topics.
LEMMA
Studied Brownian motion as a time-reversible continuous-time, continuous-space Markov process.