In order to deepen their understanding of modern physical concepts, students participating in TASS are required to complete a group research paper prior to the travelling component of the program. The research papers written this year by the American students participating in TASS can be found below.

• Dark Matter and Dark Energy
  Haena-Young Lee, Raymond Lin, Alex Mangiafico, Matthew Yu
  
  
• Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
  Ethan Holland, Noah Levine, Eric Lu, Brian Morris, Aaron Szabo
  
  
• Neutrinos
  Ji-Hyuk Bae, Karina Chang, Patrick Chao, Vishnu Dharmaraj, Arnold Mong
  
  
• Particle Detectors and Accelerators
  Jeremy Du, Noah Fang, Cynthia Liu, Victoria Tsai, Rona Yu
  
  
• The Standard Model
  Gabriella Han, Matthew Fu, Benjamin Ruben, Eileen Stauffer