2011 Trident Scholars

Ψ MIDN 1/C JAMES E. BERG (5th Company)

Major: Mathematics (Honors)
Advisor: Assistant Professor Max D. Wakefield, Mathematics Department
Title: Subspace Arrangement Codes and Cryptosystems

MIDN 1/C ALEXANDER J. BUCK (3rd Company)

Major: Aerospace Engineering
Advisor: CDR Robert E. Stevens, USN, Aerospace Engineering Department
Title: An Approach to Optimal Control of Electrodynamic Tethers in a Stochastically Varying Drag Environment

MIDN 1/C DANIEL W. CHAN (24th Company)
Major: Economics (Honors)
Advisor: Assistant Professor Katherine A. Smith, Economics Department
Advisor: Assistant Professor Ahmed Rahman, Economics Department
Advisor: Assistant Professor Darrell J. Glaser, Economics Department
Title: Evidence of Product Differentiation in the Microfinance Industry

MIDN 1/C NICHOLAS C. DUNN (14th Company)

Major: Aerospace Engineering
Advisor: CDR R. Joseph Watkins, USN, Aerospace Engineering Department
Advisor: Visiting Professor Craig E. Steidle, Aerospace Engineering Department
Title: Directed Energy Beam Jitter Mitigation Using the Line-of-Sight Reference Frame

MIDN 1/C GRANT A. MORGAN (20th Company)

Major: Physics
Advisor: Assistant Professor Richard Witt, Physics Department
Title: System Size and Energy Dependence of Strangeness Production in 22 GeV Cu+Cu Collisions at RHIC

MIDN 1/C EOWYN E. PEDICINI (17th Company)

Major: Chemistry
Advisor: Associate Professor Daryl J. Hartley, Physics Department
Advisor: LT Brian J. Cummings, USN, Chemistry Department
Title: Search for the Exotic Wobbling Mode in ¹⁷¹Re

MIDN 1/C ANDREW J. STEPHENSON (27th Company)

Major: Information Technology
Advisor: Visiting Professor Eric J. Harder, Computer Science Department
Advisor: CDR Patrick J. Vincent, USN, Computer Science Department
Title: Sinkhole Avoidance Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

MIDN 1/C JACOB M. STEVENS-HAAS (25th Company)

Major: Quantitative Economics
Advisor: Assistant Professor Katherine A. Smith, Economics Department
Advisor: Assistant Professor Leah Jager, Mathematics Department
Title: Can Interest-Free Finance Mitigate the Frequency and Amplitude of the Business Cycle and Crises?

MIDN 1/C STEVEN C. YEE (3rd Company)

Major: Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Associate Professor Deborah M. Mechtel, Electrical Engineering Department
Advisor: Assistant Professor Samara L. Firebaugh, Electrical Engineering Department
Advisor: Harry K. Charles, Office of the Naval Research Distinguished Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Title: Reconfigurable Microstrip Antennas Using Variable Reactive Microelectromechanical Systems