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ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
After half a century of development, the technology of silicon-based electronic devices is gradually approaching its limits. Devices such as computers and cell phones start to require more p…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Magnetic reconnection is a phenomenon that drives solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections on the sun's surface. A strong enough CME is capable of damaging electrical equipment, disrupting co…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Quantum computing has significant potential to generate unparalleled innovations in lattice modeling, encryption schemes, protein folding, prime factorization, and countless other fields of…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Galaxy mergers play an integral role in galaxy formation and evolution, and with many large upcoming surveys, a reliable and efficient method of identifying mergers is crucial to their study…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum accelerometers, valued for their high sensitivity and potential use in space technology, measure acceleration with matter-light interferometry, outperforming conventional models. To…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Solar eclipses are exciting but short-lived events that rarely occur in populated areas. The astronomy enthusiast might therefore be interested in knowing where they must go to observe some…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
In 2013, an 18 meter sized asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia, injuring ~1100 people– it went undetected! Small asteroids are often missed due to their faintness. In fa…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Magneto-optical traps (MOTs) stand out as essential tools in the field of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (AMO), enabling physicists to trap and manipulate atoms through the use of op…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
The pace of asteroid discovery surpasses the rate at which their physical properties can be analyzed. To date, phase curves, which are crucial for asteroid characterization, have been genera…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Precession and nutation in dynamical systems have been of long-standing research interest. Manifesting in systems as diverse as spinning tops to celestial bodies like planets, understanding…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
We have found a law that connects the speed variation of a body to the throw of part of his mass, using the principle of conservation of momentum. Our results can be used to prove that accel…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Soft robotics has immense potential to transform fields like healthcare and exploration due to the superior adaptability of soft robots compared to traditional rigid robots. Their inherently…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Currently, fusion reactors run on deuterium, which is very abundant, and tritium, which is almost nonexistent on earth. Tritium’s scarcity poses one of the greatest barriers to efficient fus…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that serve as the most precise clocks in the universe. Millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which have a spin period of less than 10 ms, are espe…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
My research examines if the Krebs Cycle molecules could be formed in the simulated interstellar medium, which would support the extraterrestrial origin of life theory. This theory suggests t…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
The star formation rate (SFR)-stellar mass (M*) relation of galaxies has long been a subject of research interest in astronomy. Why do galaxies with similar stellar masses have different sta…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
When hydrocarbon is heated to its decomposition temperature pyrolytic graphite can be crystalized in ordered layers. This material has an unusual characteristic. It can levitate above a cheq…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
The Euler’s Magnetic Pendulum system consists of a uniform cylindrical rod suspended within a magnetic potential field beneath a horizontal plane. Typically, when a relevant pendulum motion…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
It has been widely recognized that whoever controls the development of novel materials controls technologies that evolve from them. The science and technology of materials synthesis are at t…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
The transit method is versatile; it has been critical in not only the discovery of over four thousand Milky Way exoplanets but also the impressive discovery in galaxy Messier 51 of M51-ULS-1…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Inspired by the James Webb Space Telescopes, this study uses the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Early Data Release 1 (DESI EDR1) to examine the influence of local environments on galax…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
In the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), dense and extreme conditions render molecules that typically act as tracers for processes associated with star formation in the interstellar…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Variable stars are important cosmic distance indicators and they help us find key parameters like the Hubble constant, the rate of expansion of the Universe. Compared to periodic variables l…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
A quasi-stellar radio source, or quasar, is a type of active galactic nucleus (AGN). Quasars are important tools in helping astrophysicists better understand the formation and evolution of g…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is currently under construction and is set to conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) when complete. The LSST will catalog the entire night s…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
The ever increasing demand for Big Data processing, ubiquitous in almost all fields of science, has become exceedingly resource intensive for endeavors such as CERN and LIGO. CERN alone prod…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
In automated exoplanet classification utilizing transit photometry data and deep learning, there is a disparity in the performance and training data of TESS models compared to Kepler models.…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
Jet tagging is a classification problem in high-energy physics experiments that aims to identify the collimated sprays of subatomic particles, jets, from particle collisions and ‘tag’ them t…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Accurately determining the number of exoplanets in planetary systems is essential for gaining insight into planetary formation, the search for potentially habitable exoplanets, and the desig…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Flageolet harmonics is a playing technique on bowed string instruments, in which a player lightly touches a nodal point on a string with their finger. Previous studies have reported that the…