Rebecca Lim worked with the Quantum Monte Carlo group for four semesters during the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years.
In the Fall 2020, she focused on studying fundamental concepts of nuclear physics through assigned readings that were discussed in weekly meetings. Rebecca produced detailed notes written in LaTeX that will be used as lecture material for a future introductory nuclear physics course. She also learned the basics of Python programming.
In the Spring 2021, Rebecca wrote Python codes to analyze momentum and spatial distributions in light nuclei obtained from Quantum Monte Carlo calculations.
During the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, Rebecca worked on her senior thesis, “Constructing a single-layer, feed-forward neural network to calculate the S-wave phase shift for the two-body scattering problem.”