Work Experience

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Research papers/posters

• Realization of phase perturbations by deformable mirror towards testing statistical nonlinear optics Proceedings Volume 12939, High-Power Laser Ablation VIII; 129390V (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3012409 B. Schreyer, D. Younis, D. Kaganovich, L. A. Johnson, B. Hafizi, T. M. Antonsen Jr. (Feb. 2024)
• Rigged Horse Numbers and their Modular Periodicity Journal of Integer Sequences B. Schreyer (Aug. 2024) poster
• Schreyer, Benjamin; Younis, Daniel; Kaganovich, Dmitri; Johnson, Luke; Antonsen, Thomas; Hafizi, B. (2025). Realization of Nontrivial Partial Spatial Coherence by Deformable Mirror. Applied Optics DOI
• Stable numerical technique to calculate the bending of flexures with extreme aspect ratios

Presentations

• Weekly lecture: Intro Computational Fourier Optics (Fall semester 2024), course page
• Undergraduate colloquium Shift Symmetry in Physics and Combinatorics (Oct. 2024)
• Presented my work in Progress Report on Statistical Nonlinear Optics Projects at a Naval Research plasma physics meeting (Oct. 2023)
• Undergraduate colloquium Perturbing Laser Initial Conditions with Deformable Mirror (Mar. 2024)
• Undergraduate conference CU2MIP presentation of poster Realization of phase perturbations by deformable mirror towards testing statistical nonlinear optics (April 2024)

Selected awards

• SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship, potential contributions in optics here (2024)
• Maryland Space Grant Scholarship, adaptive optics and partial coherence (2023, 2024)
• University of Maryland Bardasis Fellowship, on communication and DEI in physics (2022-2024)

Selected course projects/fun

• When you have a laser, everything looks like a diffraction pattern here B. Schreyer
• Exploration of Fermion Representations and Hamiltonians on Quantum Computers here B. Schreyer (May 2024)

Selected personal projects

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• ESP32 LED audio visualizer grid, parallelized microphone readout/processing and display control on embedded C platform to control LED spectrogram
  
• C++, OpenGL rendering engine and parallelized newtonian physics simulation to resolve tens of thousands of sphere collisions using spatial hashing
  
• Radio controlled drone prototype structural, electronics, and control software
  

Hobbies (to first order)

• Triathlon (cycle, run, swim) with university team
• Road cycling with university team
• Through hiking on foot and bike

Picture: arriving after crossing Gotthard pass over the Alps by bike. Pictures: TeenTreks New York to Montreal bike touring!