Spring 2025
Archival home page for QuERY 2025 at Bellaire High School.
Past session topics and schedule
| Date | Speaker | Core concept | Special topic(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/13/25 | Trisha Madhavan (Harvard) | Waves | Color centers in diamond |
| 2/20/25 | Anant Kale (Harvard), Andy Danbury (MIT), Jiatong Yang (MIT) | Small group activity - Interference | Bubbles, audio engineering |
| 2/27/25 | Victor Huang (Harvard) | Quantum Wavefunctions | Scanning Tunneling Microscopy |
| 3/6/25 | Elizabeth Park (Harvard), Gavin Smith (Harvard), Philip Shenk (Harvard) | Small group activity - Quantization | Boomwhacker modes, atoms, spectroscopy |
| 3/13/25 | Spring break | Spring break | Spring break |
| 3/20/25 | Kate Azar (MIT) | Superposition | Superconducting qubits |
| 3/27/25 | - | Small group activity - Entanglement | CHSH game |
| 4/3/25 | Greg Kahanamoku-Meyer (MIT) | Quantum information | Cryptography, algorithms |
| 4/10/25 | - | Project start | - |
| 4/17/25 | - | Project week | - |
| 4/24/25 | - | Project week | - |
| 5/1/25 | - | Project week | - |
| 5/8/25 | - | Project week (optional) | - |
| 5/15/25 | - | Project week (optional) | - |
| 5/19/25 | - | Poster session | - |
Student Projects
Group 1
- Team name: Banana Cloud
- Poster: Visualizing Cosmic Rays with a Cloud Chamber
Group 2
- Team name: Lionel
- Poster: Ising Model for Simulation of Magnetic Order
Group 3
- Team name: Flying Pig
- Poster: Temperature Dependence of Superconductivity and Band Gap
Group 4
- Team name: Braggin Rights
- Poster: Optical Microcavities in Distributed Bragg Reflectors
Group 5
- Team name: Superconductivity
- Poster: Superconducting Levitation with YBCO and Liquid Nitrogen
Group 6
- Team name: Chiquen Pineapple Lovers
- Poster: Determining Frequency Anomalies in Gravitational Waves with LIGO Data
Group 7
- Team name: LEDs
- Poster: Investigating LED Thermochromatism
Group 8
- Team name: BCS
- Poster: Simulation and Discussion of Superconductivity: Cooper Pairing and Beyond
Group 9
- Team name: Planck
- Poster: Measuring Planck’s Constant Through LEDs
Group 10
- Team name: Bunsen Burnouts
- Poster: Lattice Dynamics and Band Gaps: Exploring Material Properties Through Simulation
Group 11
- Team name: Grover
- Poster: Investigating Grover’s Algorithm
Group 12
- Team name: NV
- Poster: NV Center Diamond Imaging
Bellaire Teaching Support
- Reena Chopra
- Gary Johnson
TACC Support
