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Abigail Poteshman

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Program Year:
4
University:
University of Chicago
Field of Study:
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Advisor:
Giulia Galli
Degree(s):
B.A. Physics and Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 2020

Practicum Experience(s)

Argonne National Laboratory (2024)

Practicum Supervisor(s):
F. Joseph
Heremans
Practicum Title:
Trans-dimensional Bayesian model selection and parameter estimation for high-throughput characterization of spin defects in semiconductors

Argonne National Laboratory (2023)

Practicum Supervisor(s):
F. Joseph
Heremans
Practicum Title:
Automatic characterization of random spin baths in semiconductors

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2022)

Practicum Supervisor(s):
Jeffrey
Neaton
Practicum Title:
Method development for high-throughput polarization calculations

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Fellow Poster
: Leveraging Topological Constraints to Accelerate Spontaneous Electric Polarization Calculations (
2024
)
Fellow Poster
: Comparing Ab Initio Methods to Calculate Polarization for High-Throughput Screening of Ferroelectric Materials (
2023
)
Fellow Poster
: Automatic Characterization of Random Nuclear Spin Baths (
2022
)

Publications

AN Poteshman, M Ouellet, LC Bassett, & DS Bassett. Network structure and dynamics of effective models of non-equilibrium quantum transport. Physical Review Research, 5(2):023125, 2023.

AJ Hanrahan, BE Sylvester, MT Chang, A Elzein, J Gao, W Han, Y Liu, SP Gao, AM Jones, A Ahmad, MH Nissan, C Nimura, AN Poteshman, Z Yao, Y Gao, HC Wise, W Hu, EI Gavrila, A Gorelick, D Xu, S Tiwari, A Viale, O Abdel-Wahab, T Merghoub, MF Berger, N Rosen, BS Taylor, & DB Solit. Leveraging systematic functional analysis to benchmark an in silico framework to identify driver versus passenger MEK mutants in cancer. Cancer Research, 80(19):4233-4243, 2020.

AN Poteshman, L Papadopoulos, E Tang, DS Bassett, & LC Bassett. (2019) Network architecture of energy landscapes in mesoscopic quantum systems. New Journal of Physics, 21(12):123049, 2019.

Awards

University of Chicago McCormick Fellowship, 2020
Rose Undergraduate Research Award, 2020
William E. Stephens Memorial Prize, 2020
NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, 2020
Goldwater Scholar, 2019
Phi Beta Kappa, 2019
University Scholar, 2018
Benjamin Franklin Scholar, 2016