BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

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Habit Formation in Children: Evidence from Incentives for Healthy Eating

Joseph Price

Large set of field experiments designed to increase fruit/veggie consumption at school; main project is about the impact of incentives on healthy eating
Earthquake Resistant Buildings

Paul Richards

Discovering economical alternatives to high performance earthquake systems
Security

Kent Seamons

Research interests: Easy Secure data sharing; and, privacy
Medical Geography

Chantel Sloan

Research Interests: How is your health influenced by where you live; infectious disease spread; pediatric respiratory illnesses; air pollution; health disparities; gene x environments interactions
Gendered Responses to Negative Feedback

Olga B. Stoddard

Graphical representation of gendered responses to negative feedback
Heterogeneous Catalysis, Conversion of Biofuels and CO2

Kara Stowers

Areas of Interest: Metal catalyst synthesis and characterization, Organic transformations, Mechanistic studies, Heterogeneous phase catalysis
Brain Health Depends on Heart and Vascular Health

Evan Thacker

Research Interests: Chronic diseases & cognition; Cardiometabolic health factors & cognition; reducing cognitive decline through maintaining cardiovascular health; and, neuroimaging to understand mechanisms of vascular influences on cognition
Community-Based Experiential Learning

Greg Thompson

Interests: Educational Anthropology, Community-Based Experiential Learning
Computational Creativity: Machines as Colleagues

Dan A. Ventura

"The philosophy, science and engineering of computational systems which, by taking on particular responsibilities, exhibit behaviors that unbiased observers would deem to be creative."
Isospectral Network Transformations

Ben Webb

Areas of Interest: Dynamical Systems & Applications; Dynamics of Networks; Particle Dynamics on Lattices; and, Spectral Estimates & Dynamics
BYU MATH: ACME

Jared Anthony Webb

Skill sets of ACME students, ACME Model, and Probability and Data science
Helper T Cell Role in Immunity to Infection

Scott Weber

I am an immunologist using molecular, biochemical, and cellular techniques to understand T cell activation and improve the immune response to infection.
Applied Mathematics and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Jared P. Whitehead

Variational Bounds on Turbulent Quantities: Rayleigh-Benard Convection; and, Asymptotic limits of rapid rotation and strong stratification: climate and weather.
Mechanism of Assembly of Cell Signaling Complexes

Barry M. Willardson

Cell Signaling Networks, G Protein Signaling Cycle, Targeting other Signaling Complexes
Morris Argyle Research Interests

Morris D. Argyle

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Energy
Research: Cell-free Synthetic Biology

Bradley Charles Bundy

Goal: Economical Production and Optimization of Biological Machinery
Crystal Symmetries and Structure

Branton Campbell

Employ x-ray and neutron scattering data to discover how the useful properties of a material depend on its atomic structure and defects. Recent work on nanoporous catalysts, alloys, multiferroics, magnetocalorics, piezoelectrics, and superconductors.
Expertise in Computational Perception

Ryan Farrell

Research areas: Fine-grained Object Recognition, Computer Vision
Electron Microscopy--Imaging and Analysis

Jeffrey Farrer

Electron Microscopy: Application and uses of various electron microscopes and other instruments and techniques
Applications of Topology and Geometry

Denise M. Halverson

Compiling problems involving applications of topology and geometry in engineering and the sciences
Alternate Reality Games for STEM Learning

Derek L. Hansen

Informal STEM Learning through alternate reality games
Building Physical Models Via Compressed Sensing

Gus L.W. Hart

Areas of Interest: Model building; Statistical mechanics; Combinatorial searches; Group theory and symmetry; Monte Carlo; High performance computing; Python; Transparent conductors; Free energy and thermodynamic modeling; Computational materials science; Topological insulators; Lattice gas models; compressed sensing; and, Scientific software
Help Me by Letting Me Help You

Matthew Heaton

Research Interests: My research comes from your research; I really like: spatio-temporal statistics, Bayesian stuff, computer model calibrations, extremes, and other; and, what others in my department like: factor models, microarrays, text mining, bioinformatics, clustering, protein structures, censoring, cancer genomics, dentistry, text mining, sports, and more.
Catalysis, Kinetics, Reaction Engineering

William Hecker

Areas of interest: Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, Iron and Cobalt catalyst preparation, Kinetic modeling, catalyst deactivation, fixed bed reactor model, IR spectroscopy
Jamie Jensen Research Interests

Jamie Jensen

Focus of Study: The development and transferability of scientific reasoning skills; appropriate assessment techniques; effective strategies for constructivist teaching in the STEM classroom; and, strategies to enhance STEM retention.