Physics Students win Three Science Alliance GATE Awards

The UT Science Alliance has long supported graduate students through assistantships and fellowships, and three physics graduate students are among the 2020-2021 class of Graduate Advancement, Training and Education (GATE) program awardees. The initiative helps strengthen meritorious, collaborative research between the university and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. GATE awardees receive a 12-month appointment, including a stipend, tuition waiver, and health insurance.

Rajesh Ghimire’s research focuses on instrumentation development, data acquisition, and analysis of large data sets to better understand nuclear reactions. An understanding of nuclear reactions can lead to developing an understanding of nucleosynthetic processes in deep cosmos. Rajesh hopes to use this work to expand his expertise in experimental nuclear physics.

Adrien Green’s work centers on the development of secure quantum communications, or the introduction of the laws of quantum mechanics into encryption to develop more secure means of communication. He hopes his work will contribute to the innovation necessary to make such technology widely accessible to the greater public.

The study of turbulence has implications in an array of real-world scenarios, from transportation to medicine. Xin Wen’s research seeks to effectively quantify and test turbulent flow through the use of liquid helium. He plans to engage in multiple collaborations on this work, including with ORNL, the Joint Institute for Computational Studies, and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

(Courtesy of UT Science Alliance)