Explore this list of previous physics projects from Fall 2021 to get an idea of what projects have been done under a specific supervisor.
Note that projects change from semester to semester so the projects you find during your search may be drastically different from the ones listed here.
Also, note that the professors listed here are only a small subset of the supervisors that you can work with. Learn more about where to find supervisors on How to Apply.
| Project Title | Faculty Supervisor |
|---|---|
| Analyzing Results of Student Performance to Improve Teaching Methods | David Pritchard |
| Novel Photonic Structures for the Next Generation of Medical Imaging Devices | Marin Soljacic |
| 3D-Printed Inverse-Designed Metaoptics | Marin Soljacic |
| Designing a Multi-Depth Hyperspectral Camera using Nanophotonic Inverse-Design and ANNs | Marin Soljacic |
| Discovering Dynamical Parameters by Interpreting Echo State Networks | Marin Soljacic |
| Neural-Symbolic Regression for Social Science and Dynamical Systems | Marin Soljacic |
| Improvement of Neural Network-Based Symbolic Regression in Deep Learning | Marin Soljacic |
| Deep Learning for Graphene Device Fabrication | Long Ju |
| Building a Cryogenic AFM | Long Ju |
| Generation of Frequency-tunable, Phase-synchronous AC Signals | Raymond Ashoori |
| 2-D Magnetization Investigation of Trihalide Magnets | Riccardo Comin |
| Synthesis of Mn Doped FeSn, and Optimization of Ni3In Crystal Vapor Transport | Joseph Checkelsky |
| Thermoelectric measurements in Magic-Angle Bilayer Graphene | Pablo Jarillo-Herrero |
| Analyzing super-critical electron-hole current in graphene | Leonid Levitov |
| Kinetics of two-dimensional Fermi liquids | Leonid Levitov |
| Time Fractals in Bloch Electron Dynamic | Leonid Levitov |
| Tensor Network Simulation of One-Dimensional Quantum Phases | Xiao-Gang Wen |
| The edge of fermionic topological orders | Xiao-Gang Wen |
| Normalizing Flows for Real Phi4 Theory | Phiala Shanahan |
| Numerical Inverse Problems in Lattice QCD | Phiala Shanahan |
| Flow models for lattice quantum field theories | Phiala Shanahan |
| Machine Learning for Lattice Field Theory | Phiala Shanahan |
| Time-Independent Perturbation Theory | Barton Zwiebach |
| Glauber Interactions and Reggeization | Iain Stewart |
| Continued Theory and Hardware Development for the Vacuum - Cavity Upgrade | Vladan Vuletic |
| Characterizing the Expected Behavior of Non-Poissonian Template Fitting | Tracy Slatyer |
| Millisecond pulsar luminosity functions required to reproduce the Galactic Center Excess | Tracy Slatyer |
| Evidence for Gamma-Ray Point Sources in the Galactic Center Excess | Tracy Slatyer |
| Analyzing the formation of primordial black holes and their properties, after reheating, using numerical methods | Alan Guth |
| Continuation of the Simulation of Primordial Black Holes through Hybrid Inflation | Alan Guth |
| Massless Neutrino and Primordial Black Hole Formation | David Kaiser |
| Formation of Primordial Black Holes Resulting From Hybrid Inflation | David Kaiser |
| Development of Data Plotting Tools for Analyzed Images | Wolfgang Ketterle |
| The Construction of an IGBT System and Optical Setups | Richard Fletcher |
| Designing Shutters for Laser Control in Quantum Gas Experiment | Richard Fletcher |
| Constructing Quantum Logic Gates in Fermion Pair Register | Soonwon Choi |
| CMS Open Data - Dimuon Resonance Search | Jesse Thaler |
| How Charming is the Higgs Boson? | Markus Klute |
| Searching for Axion-Like Particles at LHCb | Michael Williams |
| Searching for dark photons with the Dark Sectors Working Group | Phil Harris |
| Using machine learning algorithms to detect boosted Higgs to tau-antitau decays | Phil Harris |
| Analyzing Gravitational Wave Data | Phil Harris |
| Identifying Bottom Quarks within the Trigger System - LNS | Phil Harris |
| H-BB Tagging Algorithm | Phil Harris |
| Optimizing 2D Qubit Array Flux Cross-talk Calibration | William Oliver |
| Measuring Cryostat Vibration for Understanding Errors in Trapped-Ion Experiments | Isaac Chuang |
| Continuous-Variable Quantum Computation | Isaac Chuang |
| Stabilizing the radial mode frequencies of trapped ions for quantum computing | Isaac Chuang |
| Designing Quantum Algorithms for Electronic Structure Theory | Isaac Chuang |
| Redesigning the Role and Scope of Monte Carlo Simulations in Particle Physics | Yen-Jie Lee |
| Design and simulations of a novel experimental setup for precision studies of radioactive molecules | Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz |
| Control of laser systems and vacuum systems for precision experiments with exotic atoms | Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz |
| Laser Stabilization System in Novel Physics Experiment | Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz |
| Development of computational tools for the study of radioactive molecules | Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz |
| Studying the health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons | Robert Redwine |
| A Study on Indoors Muon Detection and its Limitations | Peter Fisher |
| Passive Coherent Location with multiple illuminators of opportunity | Peter Fisher |
| Detecting Collisions between Primordial Black Holes and Stars | Peter Fisher |
| Studying the Noise Limit of Signal Amplifiers | Peter Fisher |
| Electron-Ion Collider Detector Visualization | Or Hen |
| Neurosymbolic Regression | Or Hen |
| Calibration and Fabrication of GAPS Si(Li) Detectors | Kerstin Perez (no longer at MIT) |
| Developing X-ray Optics for IAXO | Kerstin Perez (no longer at MIT) |
| Antideuteron Sensitivity for the GAPS Experiment | Kerstin Perez (no longer at MIT) |
| Cosmic Interference in Quantum Circuits | Joseph Formaggio |
| Quantum Networking Test-Bed | Joseph Formaggio |
| Applying the Leggett Garg Inequality to Solar Neutrinos | Joseph Formaggio |
| Halo Signals at ABRACADABRA | Lindley Winslow |
| Characterizing different Noise Features using A Broadband/Resonant Approach to Cosmic Axion Detection with an Amplifying B-field Ring Apparatus (ABRACADABRA) data | Lindley Winslow |
| Visualization of large-scale US particle collider detector | Lindley Winslow |
| Electrothermal Modeling of A TES-based Bolometer | Lindley Winslow |
| Computationally Simulating Non-Neutral Plasma Dynamics | Nuno Loureiro |
| Computationally Simulating Non-Neutral Plasma Dynamics | Nuno Loureiro |
| Theoretical and computational studies of turbulence and magnetic reconnection in plasmas | Nuno Loureiro |
| Understanding the Spread of Dark Matter in the Illustris TNG-100 Simulation | Mark Vogelsberger |
| Lyman-Alpha Transmission in the THESAN Cosmic Reionization Simulations | Mark Vogelsberger |
| Escape Fractions from the THESAN Simulation | Mark Vogelsberger |
| Fast Millisecond Flares from Cygnus X-1 | Deepto Chakrabarty |
| On the single-event-based identification of primordial black holes at cosmological distances | Salvatore Vitale |
| Planning optical telescope follow-up observations of fast radio bursts | Kiyoshi Masui |
| Dark Matter Mergers | Lina Necib |
| Kinematic clustering of ultra-faint dwarf galaxy remnants | Anna Frebel |
| WINTER Software Development | Robert Simcoe |
| Exploring the Short Timescale Infrared Universe with Palomar Gattini-IR | Robert Simcoe |
| Astrophysics Projects Confirming TESS Transits on a New Robotic Telescope | Robert Simcoe |
| Investigation of Stellar activity of Chandra Cool Targets (CCTs) with TESS and Chandra data | Hans Guenther |
| Properties of Exoplanets in Wide Binary Systems | Andrew Vanderburg |
| Testing the SETI hypothesis for stars with highly unusual radioactive elements | Andrew Vanderburg |
| Determining the rarity of stars with similar properties to HD 101065 (Przybylski's Star) | Andrew Vanderburg |
| Mysterious Objects Hidden in Known Data | George Ricker |
| Processing Observations from TESS | George Ricker |
| Exploring the dependence of hot Jupiter occurrence rates on stellar parameters | George Ricker |
| Tidal Disruption Events and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) | George Ricker |