Recent Ph.D. Recipients

2009

Jaison A. Novick, "Chaotic Scattering in an Open Vase-shaped Cavity: Topological, Numerical, and Experimental Results." Advisor: John Delos, Postdoctoral Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory.

Brian A. Glover, "Topics in Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model." Advisor: Joshua Erlich,

Karl W. Kuschner, "A Bayesian Network Approach to Feature Selection in Mass Spectrometry Data." Advisor: Eugene Tracy, Research Scientist.

Jay P. Paquette, "The Effect of Realistic Focal Conditions on Strong-field Double Ionization." Advisor: Jan Chaloupka, Sr. Systems Engineer, Raytheon, Woburn, MA.                          

Peter R. Harris, "Laser Desorption from a Room Temperature Ionic Liquid," Advisor: William Cooke, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Robert G. Fersch, Jr., "Measurement of Inclusive Double-Spin Asymmetries and Polarized Structure Functions for the Proton, "Advisor: Griffioen, Keith, Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics, University of Kentucky

Sarah Phillips, "Measurement of the Strange Quark Contribution to the Vector Structure of the Proton," Advisors: Allison Lung/David Armstrong, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, University of New Hampshire

2008

Erin K. De Pree, "As Particles Collide: Extra Dimensions and Heavy Leptons," Advisor: Marc Sher, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Christopher R. Schleif, "The Semiclassical Description of the Energy Spectrum of Hydrogen in Near Perpendicular Electric and Magnetic Fields," Advisor: John Delos, Postdoctoral Fellow, U.California, Merced

Brian R. Keating, "Methods for Stabilizing High Reynolds Number Lattice Boltzmann Simulations,"   Advisor:  George Vahala, Employment: Research Scientist,  Neuroscience & MR Research Program, Dept. of Medicine, Univ. Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

Andrew Stephen Richardson, "Topics in Mode Conversion Theory and the Group Theoretical Foundations of Path Integrals," Advisor: Gene Tracy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Plasma Science & Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hendra Kwee,"Correction of Finite-Size Errors in Many-Body Electronic Structure Calculations," Advisor: Henry Krakauer, Employment- Head of Training Division, Indonesia Physics Olympiad Team, Tangerang, Indonesia.

2007

Dandan Mao, "First-principles Calculations of Electric Field Gradients in Complex Perovskites," Advisor: Henry Krakauer

Yuanyuan Huang, "Effects of Molecular Motion on Deuteron Magic Angle Spinning NMR Spectra," Advisor: Robert Vold, Ph.D. program in Finance, GeorgeWashingtonUniversity.

Vincent Anthony Sulkosky, "The Spin Structure of  3He and the Neutron at Low Q2: A Measurement of the Generalized GDH Integrand" Advisor: Todd Averett,   Postdoctoral Fellow, Jefferson National Lab

Joshua Moss, "Measurement of the Branching Fraction for  in the High Mππ Invariant Mass Region" Adivsor: John Kane, Postdoctoral Fellow, OSU,CERN

Jennifer Ann Inman, "Fluorescence Imaging Study of Free and Impinging Supersonic Jets: Jet Structure and Turbulent Transition" Advisor: Paul Danehy, NASA, Langley Research Center

Stephanie Bailey, "Parity-Violation in Elastic Electron Scattering: A First Measurement of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry at Q²=0.631 (GeV/c)² at Backward Angle" Advisor: David Armstrong, NCI Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiology, Stanford University

2006

Christopher Tennant, "Studies of Energy Recovery Linacs at Jefferson Laboratory: 1 GeV Demonstration of Energy Recovery at CEBAF and Studies of the Multipass, Multibunch Beam Breakup Instability in the 10 kW FEL Upgrade Driver" Advisors: Nikolitsa Merminga/Keith Griffioen, Staff Scientist 1, Jefferson National Laboratory

Bryan James Moffit, "Elastic Scattering of Longitudinally Polarized Electrons from Helium-4:  A Measurement of G at Q² = 0.1 (GeV)^2" (subtitle written:  A measurement of G_E^s at Q^2 = 0.1 (GeV)^2) Advisor: David Armstrong, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Keoki Seu, "Static and Ultrafast MOKE Studies of Exchange-biased Cobalt Systems" Advisor: Anne C. Reilly, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Univ. of Oregon and the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Mingyao Zhu, "Carbon Nanosheets and CNT by RF PECVD" Advisor: Dennis Manos, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Physics, College of William and Mary

Yuxin Dai, "Internal Magnetic Field Distribution of a Type II High T_c Superconductor with Non-conducting Inclusions" Advisor: William J. Kossler

David Anderson, "Studies in CPT Violations and 331 Models" (Advisor: Marc Sher), Visiting Assistant Professor, Albion College

Hailong Huang, "Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy of Half-Metallic Chromium Dioxide " (Advisor: Anne Reilly), Quantronix Corporation, East Setauket, NY

Haijian Chen, "Automated Peak Identification for a Time-of-Flight Mass Spectroscopy" (Advisor: Eugene R. Tracy), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Physics, College of William and Mary

Herry Kwee, "Spectroscopy, Production and Decays of Pentaquarks" (Advisor: Christopher D. Carone), Postdoctoral Research Associate, Arizona State University

Jeffrey Secrest "Measurement of Electroweak Asymmetries in Polarized-Electron Scattering at 0.1 < Q² < 0.5 (GeV/c)²" (Advisor: Allison Lung) Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania

2005

Cornel Butuceanu, "Quasi-Elastic Electron Scattering from a High-Momentum Nucleon in Deuterium" (Advisor: Keith Griffioen)

William Brouwer, "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Relaxor Ferroelectrics" (Advisor: Gina Hoatson), Postdoctoral position at Pennsylvania State University

Shannon Watson, "Impact of Large Scale Substrate Roughness on Giant Magnetoresistive Thin Films" (Advisor:  Anne Reilly), Postdoctoral position at National Institute of Standards and Technology, Maryland

Malliga Suewattana, "Monte Carlo Simulations of Ferroelectric Crystal Growth and Molecular Electronic Structure of Atoms and Molecules" (Advisor: Shiwei Zhang), Postdoctoral position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Justin Conroy,  "Modifications of Spacetime and Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model" (Advisor: Christopher Carone) Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics Department, SUNY Fredonia

Wirawan Purwanto, "Quantum Monte Carlo Method for Boson Ground States: Application to Trapped Bosons with Attractive and Repulsive Interactions" (Advisor: Shiwei Zhang) Postdoctoral Fellow @ William and Mary

Sheng Peng , "Ultraviolet Sources for Advanced Applications in The Vacuum UV and Near UV" (Advisor: Dennis Manos) Research Scientist at CW Optics, Inc.

2004 

Vahagn Nazaryan, "Studies of Noncommutative Field Theory and of Pentaquarks" (Advisor: C Carlson) Postdoctoral Fellow, College of William and Mary

Wei Yang, Characterization of the Transient Behaviors in a Colliding Pulse Mode-locked (CPM) Laser (Advisor: W. Cooke), Postdoctoral Research Associate, UVA, Physics Department

Christopher Kulp, Control of Integrable Hamiltonian Systems and Degenerate Bifurcations (Advisor: E. R. Tracy) Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Eastern Kentucky University

Jeffrey McIntire, Application of Effective Field Theory to the Study of Hypernuclei (Advisor: J. D. Walecka) Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana U.

Andrew Norman, Measurement of the Branching Fraction for K⁰_L -> µ⁺µ^-e⁺e⁺ (Advisor: J.R. Kane) Postdoctoral Fellow, U. Virginia.

2003

Kevin M. Kramer, The Search for Higher Twist Effects in the Neutron Spin-Structure Function g₂ⁿ(x,Q²) (Advisor: T.D. Averett) Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke U.

Angus Ian Duncan MacNab, Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: The Development of Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Dissipative Systems (Advisor: G. Vahala) Postdoctoral Fellow, U. Maryland.

Wendy Sara Vogan, The Effect of an Adsorbate Upon Secondary Emission Properties of Low-Energy Ion Bombarded Metallic and Semiconductor Substrates (Advisor: R.L. Champion) National Security Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Lab, P-23 division.

Marco Antonio Huertas, Applications of Effective Field Theory/Density Functional Theory to Ground-State Properties of Nuclei Far from Stability (Advisor: J.D. Walecka) Research Associate, Applied Science, William & Mary

Wesley Jason Gammon, Chemical Bonding of Hard and Elastic Carbon-Nitride Films: an XPS, NMR, Nanoindentation, and Computational Study (Advisor: A. Reilly) Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Science, William & Mary

Donghua Zhou, Multinuclear NMR Studies of Relaxor Ferroelectrics, (Advisor: G. Hoatson), Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University

2002

Pibero Djawotho, Measurement of the Neutron (³He) Spin Structure Functions at low Q²: A Connection between the Bjorken and Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Sum Rule (Advisor: J.M. Finn)

Jessica H.D. Clark, The Ortho-Para Transition in Muonic Molecular Hydrogen (Advisor: D.S. Armstrong) Public Outreach Specialist, American Physical Society

Xuewen Wan, Effects of Longitudinal Disorder on the Magnetic Field Distribution in Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈^+* (Advisor: W.J. Kossler) Physics Faculty, Petersburg Public Schools, Petersburg VA

Zhigang Wu, First-Principles Calculations of Piezoelectricity and Polarization Rotation in PZT 50/50 (Advisor: H. Krakauer) Postdoctoral Fellow, Geophysical Lab at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC

Eeric Allman, The Ground State of Two-dimensional Hubbard-Like Models (Advisor: S. Zhang) Research Scientist, SFA, Naval Research Lab

Olivier Gayou, Proton Form Factors: Measurement of the Proton Form Factors Ratio up to Q²=5.6 GeV² by Recoil Polarimetry (Advisor: C.F. Perdrisat) Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT

2001

Hovanes Egiyan, Single pi⁺ Electroproduction in the First and Second Resonance Regions Using CLAS (Advisor: K. Griffioen) Postdoctoral Fellow, Jefferson Lab

Gary A. Rutledge, Measurement of the Strange Sea of the Proton (Advisors: D.S. Armstrong and J.M. Finn) Postdoctoral Fellow, TRIUMF and U. Manitoba

Zoltan Batiz, QCD, Deep Inelastic Scattering, Confinement and Quark-Hadron Duality in 1+1 Dimensions (Advisor: F. Gross) Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Physics of Fundamental Interactions, Insituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal

Shuquan Nie, Phenomenology of the SU(2)_L x SU(2)_I x U(1)_Y x U(1)_Y' Model (Advisor: M. Sher) Postdoctoral Fellow, Concordia U.

Alfredo Aranda, Topics in Physics Beyond the Standard Model (Advisor: C.D. Carone) Professor, Universidad de Colima (Mexico)

2000

Jonathan Curley, Redistribution of Rydberg Staes by Terahertz Radiation (Advisor: W. Cooke) Scientist, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren VA

Christian Wahlquist, Studies in Hard Pion Photoproduction (Advisor: C. Carlson) Programmer/Analyst, 3G International

Dongmei Wang, The Absorption Spectrum of the Hydrogen Atom in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields (Advisor: J.B. Delos) Research Scientist (Senior Technical Manager, Networking Research Department ) AT & T Shannon Research Lab, Florham Park NJ

Paul M. King, Precision Measurements of the Proton and Deuteron Polarized Structure Functions (Advisor: K.A. Griffioen) Postdoctoral Fellow, U. Maryland

Paolo Amore, The Modifications of the Nucleon Properties in the Nuclear Medium (Advisor: J.D. Walecka) Professor, Universidad de Colima (Mexico)

1999

Russell A. Wincheski, Characterization of the Physical Properties of Iron Polyimide Nanocomposites (Advisor: W.J. Kossler) Aerospace Technologist, NASA Langley Research Center

Christopher LaSota, Structural Instabilities in SrTiO₃ From First-Principles Calculations (Advisor: H. Krakauer) Teaching physics at Kenyon college as a visiting assistant professor

Deonna Faye Woolard, Thermoelastic and Photoelastic Full-Field Stress Measurement (Advisor: M. Hinders) Associate Professor, Randolph-Macon College

Kevin M. Hern, Decay Search for the Supersymmetric R⁰(gg) Hadron via the Channel R⁰ -> pi⁺pi^-photino (Advisor: M. Eckhause) High Performance Technologies, Inc.

Alan C. Coleman, Electroproduction of Omega(783) Mesons using CLAS at Jefferson Lab (Advisor: H. Funsten) Analyst, Systems Planning & Analysis, Inc.

Darren M. Wah, Turbulence in Binary Fluid Flow Systems: A Lattice Boltzmann Approach (Advisor: G. Vahala) High Performance Technologies, Inc.

Krishni Wijesooriya, First (e ,e'p ) Measurement of Polarization Transfer in a Complex Nucleus: ¹⁶O. (Advisor: J.M. Finn) Postdoctoral Research Associate, Argonne National Lab

Gary M. Prezeau, One Loop Corrections to an Hadronic Model with Vector Mesons. (Advisor: J.D. Walecka) Postdoctoral Research Associate, Hampton U./TJNAF

Samuel J. Varner, Experimental and Computational Techniques in Carbon-13 NMR. (Advisor: G. Hoatson) Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Chicago

1998

David G. Meekins, Coherent Neutral Pion Photoproduction on the Deuteron at Intermediate Energies. (Advisor: R. Carlini) Staff Scientist (Targets Group), Jefferson Lab

Michael A. Uzzo, The Stability of the Quark-Antiquark Systems of Mesons: A Study of the Validity of the Spectator, Dirac, and Salpeter Equations. (Advisor: F. Gross) Research Scientist, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Scott G. Walton, The Role of Adsorbed Oxygen in Secondary Emission from Metallic Substrates. (Advisor: R. Champion) Postdoctoral Research Associate, SFA, Inc. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

Bryan E. Barmore, Some Applications of Mean Field Theory to Strong Interaction Physics. (Advisor: J.D. Walecka) Postdoctoral Research Associate, U. of Tennesse and Oak Ridge National Lab.

Christopher S. Armstrong, Electroproduction of the S₁₁(1535) Resonance at High Momentum Transfer. (Advisors: J.M. Finn and R. Carlini) Postdoctoral Research Associate, Jefferson Lab.

Brian L. Peko, Low Energy Collisions of Molecular Ions with Hydrogen, Methane, and Freon. (Advisor: R. Champion) Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Denver.

Christopher C. Hoff, A Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in the Neutral Kaon System. (Advisor: R.E. Welsh) Programmer/Analyst, 3GI-Maximus

Daniela Steinbach, Optimization of a Pixelized Gamma-Ray Imager for Scintimammography. (Advisor: S. Majewski) Instructor, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

Robert D. Martin III, First Observation of the Very Rare Decay K_L⁰ --> e⁺e^-. (Advisor: R.E. Welsh) Vice President, Global Application Software, Hypercom Corporation

1997

David Lee Morgan, Searches for Exotic Matter. (Advisor: M. Sher), Professor of Physics at The New School, New York, NY

Kelly Ann Herbst, The Tower of States Model: An Exploration of the Effect of Higher-Order Resonances on the Nucleon-Nucleon System. (Advisor: F. Gross) Planetarium Instructor, Virginia Living Museum

Min Soe, Thermal Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Variable Prandtl Number Turbulent Flows. (Advisor: G. Vahala) Assistant Professor, Oklahoma Panhandle State.

Gregory D. Dorata, CP Violation in K-Long Decays. (Advisor: M. Sher)

John Christopher Tucek, Collision-Induced Secondary-Electron and Negative-Ion Emission from Metallic Surfaces. (Advisor: R. Champion) Postdoctoral Research Associate, Argonne National Lab.

Marco J. Brown, Selective Inversion Pulses in Solid State Deuteron NMR. (Advisor: G L Hoatson) Software Engineer, Chekmate Electronics, Inc., Roswell, Georgia

April H. Baugher, Microstructural Characterization of an Ultra-High Performance Polyimide. (Advisor: W. Kossler) Analytical Lab Supervisor, Hexcel Corporation

Michael S. West, Radiation-Induced Luminescence of Terbium-Doped Silicate Glasses. (Advisor: W. Winfree) Physicist/Optical Engineer, Mentor Technologies, Inc

Philip T. Spickler, Solar Infrared Relative Intensity Data from the Halogen Occultation Experiment. (Advisor: D. Benner) Assistant Professor, Division of Mathematics & Physical Science, Ferrum College, Virginia

Agus Ananda, Propagation of Rayleigh Wave in Thin Films. (Advisor: B. Smith) CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation).

1996

Sergei M. Ananyan, Electroweak Interactions and Exchange Currents in Nuclei. (Advisor: J D Walecka) Postdoctoral Research Associate, Indiana University

Rhett J. Woo, First Measurement of the Induced Proton Polarization, P_n, in the ¹²C(e,e'p) Reaction. (Advisor: J M Finn) Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manitoba

Justin I. McIntyre, A Comparison of the Polarization Observables for the d(e,e'p) and p(e,e'p) Reactions at Quasi-Free Kinematics. (Advisor: J M Finn) Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab

Christopher Haas, The Projector Basis Method for Electronic Bandstructure Calculations. (Advisor: H. Krakauer) Manager of Programming and Engineering, Worldweb, Ltd.

Richard L. Kahler, The Strong Force: Two Calculations of Strong Interaction Phenomena. (Advisor: F. Gross) Head of Science Department, Physics & Chemistry Teacher, St. Margaret's High School, Tappahannock, Virginia.

Michael D. Seale, Propagation of Guided Acoustic Waves in Composite Media. (Advisor: B.T. Smith) Assistant Professor, Marietta College

Xian-Zhu Tang, Transport in Chaotic Systems. (Advisor: A.H. Boozer) Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Physics, William and Mary.

1995

Chengzhang Wang, First Principles Linear Response Calculations of Lattice Dynamics. (Advisor: H. Krakauer> Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Physics, William and Mary.

Bernhard W. Bach, Search for Metastability in 2S Muonic Neon. (Advisor: R. Siegel) Software Engineer, Hyperfine Inc., Boulder CO.

Maciek Sasinowski, A deltaf Monte Carlo Method to Calculate Parameters in Fusion Plasmas. (Advisor: A.H. Boozer) CEO of The Institute for Computational Genomics, Inc. (INCOGEN)

Alexis Kambis, A Numerical Model of the Global Carbon Cycle to Predict Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations, (Advisor: J Levine) Research Scientist, SSAI (Science Systems and Applications Inc.), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD

Zenghai Li, Beam Dynamics in the CEBAF Superconducting Cavities (Advisor: J Bisognano) Postdoctoral Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford CA.

Terri L. Lazarus, The Characterization of the Radiative Energy Transfer Process Among Ho3+ Ions in Y3Al5O12, (Advisor: G Armagan) Research Scientist , Laser Technology and Applications, NASA Langley Research Center, VA

1994

David W. Viel, Muon Transfer from Muonic Deuterium to Carbon. (Advisor: R. Siegel) Software Engineer, Intermetric Inc., McClean VA

Anthony B. Wakely, Glueball Wave Functions and Production Cross Sections, (Advisor: C. Carlson) Operations Research Analyist, E-OIR Measurements.

N. Eric Cheung, Polarization Transfer Coefficient Measurements in the Deuteron Breakup Reaction H(d,p)X at 2.1 GeV. (Advisor: C. Perdrisat) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh.

Allan J. Greer, Jr., Low Internal Magnetic Fields in Anisotropic Superconductors. (Advisor: W.J. Kossler) Associate Professor, Gonzaga University,

James A. Fedchak, Collisions of Atomic Hydrogen with O,S, Na and Halogen Anions at Low Energies (Advisor: R. Champion) Postdoctoral Research Associate, Argonne National Lab.

Jing Gao, Photoabsorption Spectra of Hydrogen and Alkali Atoms in Electric Fields. (Advisor: J. Delos) Assistant Professor, Kean College, NJ

Yohanes Surya, A Relativistic Model of Pion Nucleon Scattering and Pion Photopro duction in a Single Nucleon, (Advisor: F. Gross) Director, Science Publishing Company, Indonesia.

Tak Y. Tse, Deuteron Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Molecular Motion in Solids. (Advisor, G. Hoatson) Engineer for CSM, Inc., Singapore