Andrew Olson

Wargame Modeling US-China competition over military applications of AI and the role of different national innovation bases.

As lightly light hearted take on the not so light hearted topic of immigration and child seperation

A educational piece on the outcry around Chinese scientist He Jiang experiments editing human embryos.

Produces and Co-hosts the Launch Sequence Podcast. A comedy program about college, "kids now days," and young adulthood.

Written account of the Thomas Fire published in the Westmont's Parent News Letter

Winning blog submission for at Values and Capitalism Summer Honors Program

A reflection essay comparing American Conceptions of Space and the realities of West Bank Life. Composed durning the first half of my stay in Bethlehem durning my study abroad in the region Spring of 2017

The fluorescence of naphthalene molecules that were vapor deposited as an amorphous adlayer on a clean, well-defined surface of was marked by an intense excimer emission that persisted with rising temperature until desorption. Prior to desorption, the Al2O3 adlayer underwent a minimal disorder-to-order transition that resulted in a very weak molecular fluorescence. When a floppy molecule of sufficient size such as n-octane was made to percolate and desorb through the naphthalene adlayer, the… Show more

The fluorescence of naphthalene molecules that were vapor deposited as an amorphous adlayer on a clean, well-defined surface of was marked by an intense excimer emission that persisted with rising temperature until desorption. Prior to desorption, the Al2O3 adlayer underwent a minimal disorder-to-order transition that resulted in a very weak molecular fluorescence. When a floppy molecule of sufficient size such as n-octane was made to percolate and desorb through the naphthalene adlayer, the alkane induced a disorder-to-order transition in the naphthalene adlayer that resulted in a blue-shifted molecular fluorescence. The branched structural isomers of n-octane also disturbed the adlayer during desorption to induce the disorder-to-order transition, but to a much lesser degree. Show less

The effect of an organic adlayer, naphthalene, on the desorption energy for a homologous series of 1-chloroalkane is reported. The multilayer desorption energy of 1-chloroalkane increased by ~ 5 kJ/mol per methylene bridge. When naphthalene was deposited above the chloroalkane as a bilayer, the desorption energy of the chloroalkanes increased by ~ 3 kJ/mol per methylene bridge. The desorption energy of chloropropane was raised the most from that of the multilayer by ~ 9 kJ/mol when naphthalene… Show more

The effect of an organic adlayer, naphthalene, on the desorption energy for a homologous series of 1-chloroalkane is reported. The multilayer desorption energy of 1-chloroalkane increased by ~ 5 kJ/mol per methylene bridge. When naphthalene was deposited above the chloroalkane as a bilayer, the desorption energy of the chloroalkanes increased by ~ 3 kJ/mol per methylene bridge. The desorption energy of chloropropane was raised the most from that of the multilayer by ~ 9 kJ/mol when naphthalene was deposited above it and 1-chloroheptane was affected the least. The observed trend has tentatively been attributed to the gradual melting and the formation of molecular clusters in the naphthalene adlayer at temperatures > ~200 K that allowed the desorption of the
chloroalkane. Show less