Steven Tarr earned a BS in Physics from Brandeis in 2019. Steven is currently a fifth-year graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics. He recently published an article in Physical Review Letters -one of the country’s most prestigious physics journals. His publication was featured both on the cover of the journal and as an Editors’ Suggestion. His article, Probing Hydrodynamic Fluctuation-Induced Forces with an Oscillating Robot, explores dynamics of an oscillating, free-floating robot that generates radially expanding gravity-capillary waves at a fluid surface.