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Senior Experience Seminar Series in Physics - 2025

Brian Cambray
Beyond ‘Opposites Attract’: Building Understanding Through Gamifying Magnetic Fields
Despite being commonplace objects and tools, magnets can be difficult to understand, especially for those entering higher level physics. In this talk, I will discuss my efforts to develop an interactive method for building a stronger understanding of magnetic properties. This presentation will follow my journey into understanding and performing the creation of stable magnetic traps. I will then demonstrate how I used this to develop a game as an engaging method for others to build a stronger understanding of magnetic interactions.

Eugene Segbefia
Image Transmission Through a Multimode Fiber Cable
Multimode optical fiber cables offer the potential for quick and convenient optical transport of images which has significant applications in neuro-imaging and communication. Decoding the speckle pattern image output from these cables efficiently is an outstanding challenge. In this project, we explore methods involving the use of neural networks.

Lief Li
Calming the Billow Cloud: the Diocotron Instability in Electron Plasmas
Instabilities in continuous media are important to study for practical applications, and instabilities in fusion plasmas cause loss of energy and fuel, increasing the cost. In my talk, I will explore the Kelvin-Helmholtz (diocotron) instability in a non-neutral plasma, as an effort towards a fundamental understanding of plasma instabilities. I will present the theory framework for this problem, which is beneficial for audience interested in plasma physics, continuum mechanics and problem-solving in physics.

Location:	Youngchild 121
Contact:	Matthew Stoneking matthew.r.stoneking@lawrence.edu
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