Author: Harsh BhundiyaMentors: Melany Hunt and Bruce DrolenEditor: Sherry Wang Introduction In recent years there has been increased scrutiny of lithium-ion batteries, partly because of incidents in which the batteries have been linked to harmful fires. One such incident occurred in September of 2010, when the lithium batteries inside a Boeing 747-400F cargo aircraft near…

Interviewer: Wesley Huang Trivia Favorite food: fish and broccoli Favorite music artist: Bon Iver/ Drake Favorite film director: Andrei Tarkovsky Favorite molecule: copper tetrachloride  What does your lab research? We are a physical inorganic chemistry group that blends a wide range of spectroscopic techniques with theory and computation. We do this to study the fundamental…

Interviewer: Alycia Lee Trivia Favorite book: This one is tough because I have spent my life surrounded by books. Three that have recently been on my mind are “How to write an autobiographical novel,” by Alexander Chee, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” by Milan Kundera, and “The Elegance of the Hedgehog,” by Muriel Barbery. Favorite…

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Author: Berlin Chen Mentors: Hai Nguyen, Derek Posselt Editor: Michael Yao Abstract We used Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to emulate the physics of the atmosphere in order to bypass solving partial-differential equations (PDEs) explicitly, which cuts down on computational cost. This is important because in the past, the models used to produce reliable weather forecasts…