Recent Graduates

Class of 2009

• William Ames, BS-PHYS (Honors), Advisor: Professor Novikova,"Optical Filtering with Phase Singularities"
• Jeffrey Brown, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Professor Erlich, "Running of the Coupling in the AdS/QCD Correspondence "
• Jennifer Dorand, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Professor Tracy, "Avalanche Dynamics in a Universal Amplitude Distribution for MALDI Peaks"
• Douglas Dean, BS-PHYS (Honors), Advisor: Professor Armstrong, "Construction, Analyzing of Drift Chambers for Qweak"
• Andrew Favaloro, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Professor Orginos, "Using the Ising Model to Describe Resonance Scattering"
• Joseph Goldfrank, BS-PHYS (Honors), Advisor: Professor Novikova, Honors, "Collisional Transfer of Atomic Coherence"
• Trevor Harrison, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Professor Aubin, "Mode Locked Diode Laser for Precision Optical Frequency Measurements"
• Jana Hartman, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Professor Smith, “Calcium Sparks and Calcium Homeostasis in a Hybrid Whole Cell Model”
• Aaron Krajeski, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Professor Nelson, “Production and Radiation-Source Testing of Scintillor Modules for the MINERvA Neutrino Detector”
• Allison Leich, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Professor Griffioen, “Elastic and Inelastic Photoproduction and Electroproduction of the J/ψ Particle”
• Andrew Leister, BS-PHYS (Honors), Advisor: Professor Nelson, "Construction and Calibration of MTest Detector"
• Sara Mohon, BS-PHYS (Honors), Advisor: Professor Averett, "3He Density Measurements Using Atomic Pressure Broadening"
• Robert Polackwich, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Professor Erlich, “Using TypeIa Supernovae and CMB Observations to Constrain Cosmological Parameters”
• Andrew Schmadel, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Professor Kelley, "Power Spectral Analysis of Niobium Surfaces"
• Scott Watson, BS-PHYS,Advisor: Professor Hinders, "Robotic Multi-Senor Fusion"
• Justin Winkler, BS-PHYS (Honors), Advisor: Professor Aubin, "Agile Radio Frequency Source for Hyperfine Manipulation of Ultracold Atoms"

Class of 2008

• Edward W. Baumann, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Todd Averett, "Lecture Hall Acoustics at the College of William and Mary"
• Nathan T. Belcher, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Irina Novikova, "Development of a Prototype Atomic Clock Based on Coherent Population Trapping"  
• Jori S. Byrne-Diakun, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Mark Hinders, "Conversion of Analog to Digital Forms for 19th and 20th Century Recordings"
• Mark W. Cohee, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Mark  Hinders, "A Gage for Measuring Pedal Forces on a Stationary Bicycle"
• Tanner J. Crowder, BS-PHYS/MATH (Honors), Advisor: Robert Welsh, "Fluorescent/Luminescent Imaging in Mice"
• Brian J. DeSalvo, (Honors), BS-PHYS, Advisor: Seth Aubin, "Mode-Locked Diode Laser for Precision Optical Frequency Measurements"
• Amanda L. Goehring, BS-PHYS/GBST, Advisor: William Kossler, "Fitting High Tc Superconductor Data to Theories of Vortex Pinning"
• William R. Hackeman, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Todd Averett, "Calibration of Radiation Monitors"
• Piers A. Horvath, BS-PHYS/HIST, Advisor: Marc Sher, "Perturbation Theory for the Δ (1232)"
• Ian J. Howley, BS-PHYS/MUSC, Advisor: Jeffrey Nelson, "Minerva Detector Package and Test Beam Prototyping"
• Corey A. Miller, BS-PHYS/MATH, Advisor: Mark Hinders, "Intelligent Structural Health Monitoring with Guided Ultrasonic Waves"
• Lukas D. Osborne, (Honors), BS-PHYS, Advisor: Joshua Erlich, "Using Type Ia Supernovae and Galaxy Clusters to Constrain Cosmology"
• Alvin B. Potter, BS-PHYS/INRL, Advisor: Robert Vold, "Statistical Analysis of Extra-solar Planetary Systems"
• Ashwin Rastogi, (Honors), BS-PHYS/MATH, Advisor: Christopher Carone, "A G2 Electroweak Model"
• Kevin C. Sapp, (Honors), BS-PHYS, Advisor: Carl Carlson, "Operator-Based Noncommutative Space"
• Christopher R. Silkworth, (Honors), BS-PHYS, Advisor:  Kostantinos Orginos, "Large-N Phase Transitions on the Lattice"
• James J. Street, BS-PHYS/BBA-FIN, Advisor: Rosa A. Lukaszew, "Thin Film Deposition using Sputtering"
• Jonathan T. Sutton, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Robert Welsh, "The Development of a Novel Lanthanum Bromide Scintillation Detector for SPECT Imaging"
• Chris von Hohenleiten, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Jan Chaloupka, "Detection and Analysis of Laser Beam Pointing Stability under Environmental Stresses"
• Amir K. Yazdi, BS-PHYS, Advisor: Robert Welsh, "Improvements for the Imaging of Small Animals"

Class of 2007

• Matthew Aviles, Advisor: Dr. Cooke, "The Detection of Biomolecules using TOF-SIMS"
• Michael Bagge-Hansen, Advisor: Dr. Outlaw, "Field emission modification of Carbon nanosheet by Molybdenum Carbide thin film formation"
• Keith Bechtol, Advisor: Dr. Erlich, "Constraining Photon-Axion Oscillation Model with Supernovae Data"
• Paul Black, Advisor: Dr. Averett, "Density Measurements of He3 Cells"
• Justin Deighan, Advisor: Dr. Chaloupka, "Imaging and Control of Laser Filmutation in Air"
• Danielle Dumond, Advisor: Dr. Hinders, "Mobile Robot Sensor Fusion"
• Ryan Ford, Advisor: Dr. Chaloupka, "Fourier optics and phase modulation of a laser beam"
• Christopher Hendricks, Advisor" Dr. Kossler, "Comparison between Radiation Damage Calculated with NASA-LARC'S HZETRN and with GEANT4"
• Kendra Letchworth, Advisor: Dr. Benner, "Optimization of the speed-dependent line-shape calculation"
• Andrew McGowan, Advisor: Dr. Erlich, "
• Alison Pouch, Advisor: Dr. Hinders, "Ultrasonic Classification of Emboli"
• Thomas Ruscher, Advisor: Dr. Chaloupka, "Development of a High-Speed Photographic Imaging System"
• Kelly Sassin, Advisor: Dr. Nelson, "Assembly Prototyping of the Minerva Scintillator Planes"
• Abigail Shockley, Advisor: Dr. Kossler, "Vortex Pinning in High-Tc superconductors"
• Jessica Vance, Advisor: Dr. Chaloupka, "Revamping 101 Labs"
• Patrick Vora, Advisor: Dr. Sher, "4th Generation of Quarks and leptons"
• Brian Walsh, Advisor: Dr. Armstrong, "Qweak"
• Nicholas Walsh, Advisor: Dr. Griffioen, "Transversity in Pion-Pair Production"
• Brian Wolthuis, Advisor: Dr. Nelson, Development of Scintillator Counters for the MINERvA Neutrino Detector"
• Melissa Zoller, Advisor: Dr. Chaloupka, "Revamping 101 Labs"

Class of 2006

• Jonathan Henry Boyle
• Christopher Aaron Brittin
• Daniel Joseph Burke
• Daniel Scott Damiani, The Society of the Alumni Student Undergraduate Research Award in Physics
• Peter John De Castro
• Bradley Michael DeBlois
• Nathaniel Joseph Elberfeld
• Joshua David Evans
• Graham Kurt Giovanetti
• Daniel Richard Goethel
• Amelia Seleste Greer
• Anne Josephine Guzzi
• Lloyd William Jones
• Craig Normand Labbe
• Emily M. Nugent
• Christopher Andrew O'Neill
• David Emile Vatcher Rose, E. Gary Clark Memorial Scholarship
• Meghan Colleen Snyder
• Brian Christopher Spencer, E. Gary Clark Memorial Scholarship, The Don Edward Harrison, Jr. Award for Excellence in Physics
• David Buchanan Wolcott
• Nathan Thomas Abraham, December 06
• Brett Norris Appleton, December 06
• Evan John Molinelli, December 06

Class of 2005

• Laurel Averett
• Rebekah Blount
• Erin Buckley
• Jeremy Chen
• Raymond Dickes, III
• Gregory diComo
• John DuChateau
• William Hammond
• Michael Herbst
• Adam Holman
• Jeremy McLean
• Vien Nguyen
• Aivela Rayfield
• Dillon Roach
• John Sakon
• Lena Sherbakov
• Kelly Sullivan
• William Tarantino
• Dimitar Vlassarev

Class of 2004

• Julia Cella
• Lindsay Chipman
• Peter Dolph
• Drew Donnolly
• Erin Epperson
• Jason Faulkenberry
• Paul Hansen
• Ellen Keister
• Lauren Larkin
• Kristie Loncich
• John Mallory
• Rob McFadyen
• Jack Simonson
• Aimee Slaughter
• Ian Terrell
• Frank Wells
• Kyle Wisian
• Andrew York
• James Younkin

Class of 2003

• Edith Bowers
• Paul Brewer
• Andrew Busch
• Shawn England
• Kirsten Fuoti
• Scott Hertel
• Mark Hibbard
• Josh Hippert
• Jason Hoffman
• Andrew Hucke
• Yuki Ishibashi
• Brian Koch
• Timothy Leftwich
• Marc McGuigan
• Matthew Schu
• Kevin Smith
• Frannie Swajkoski
• Jessica Ucinski

Class of 2002

• Cihan Akcay
• Sarp Akcay
• Stephanie Bailey
• Daniel Bowring
• Andrew Davis
• Rachele Dominguez
• Sam Dunn
• Andrew Fraser
• Hermonta Godwin
• Tamara Hayford
• Jenna Klotz
• Andrew Lane
• Matthew Larsen
• Christopher Mayes
• Patrick Meade
• Daniel Milkie
• Justin Miller
• James Schafer
• Haley Showman

Class of 2001

• William Ashton III
• Ken Baranowski
• Kathy-Anne Brickman
• James Buckingham, Jr.
• Hugh Carney
• David Drosdoff
• John Feldmann
• Evin Grano
• Leah Johnson
• Greg Jones
• Kevin Knott
• Eric Koskinen
• Will McBride
• Jon Mellor
• Luke Ng
• Pham Truong
• Amoreena Ranck
• Keely Schneiter
• Travis Turner
• Joshua Waterfall
• Nicholas West

Class of 2000

• Mandy Brown
• Lara Bryan
• Karen Burke
• John Cleveland
• Adam Cohen
• Heather Faltin
• Christopher Fetsch
• Adam Gurson
• Matthew Inman
• Lisa Kaufman
• Jennifer Knowles
• Dave Leichtman
• Randy Mulvaney
• Christopher Neilson
• Patrick Ryan
• Rob Saunders
• Aaron Suplizio
• Ian Swanson
• Charles Tahan
• Brian Tighe
• Ruth Van de Water
• Theodore Vecchione
• Michelle Venanzi
• Linton Wells III
• Jennifer Wilkes

Class of 1999

• Chandler Amiss
• Mark G. Finlan
• Abigail Flower
• Tesla Jeltema
• Michael L. Johnson
• Paul Larsen
• Kevin R. Leonard
• Christopher Neilson
• Daniel Reid
• Anthony Richardella
• Olivia Ryu
• Stephen Simons
• Sandy Sligh
• Wendy Vogan
• TJ Walls

Class of 1998

• Fritz Allhoff
• Robert Bergman
• Ryan J. Bubb
• Tiffany Churukian
• Alex Dubanowitz
• Molly Gale
• Anthony Holincheck
• Miles Johnston
• Alex Jones
• Mark Klingman
• Bonwoo Lee
• Yuriko Lippincott
• Arun Mangalam
• Bao Nguyen
• Ryan Perroy
• Mark Porter
• Patrick Roberts
• Jennifer Thompson
• Maura Williams

Class of 1997

• Jeremy Beker
• Nancy Bent
• Mark Bowen
• Lisa DeJong
• Tarek El-Sawy
• Rose Hickman
• Todd LaFiura
• Pablo Londero
• Matthew Mizenko
• Robin Myers
• Thomas O'Connor
• Seth Olsen
• Kevin Rehak
• Anne Steinbach
• Scott Swain
• Scott Sweeney
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Jin Yamamoto