Conducting research can be a challenging endeavor. I was not sure what to expect when I began researching with Professor Hong’s group this year; all I knew is that I was interested in the work. When I first began working on my project this semester, I took a long time to do everything, because I…

I took the Honors Physics 2 course, PHYS 0476, with Dr. Hong in the spring of my freshman year. I remember going to one of his first office hours in the beginning of the semester and asking him about his research. It was not my intention to start researching with him, as I already had…

This semester, I will be working on a project with Dr. Tae Min Hong in the Department of Physics and Astronomy for the ATLAS Experiment, which is one of the four main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. To understand what my specific project entails and why it is important,…