Recent Recipients of the PhD
2008
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
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
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
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 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
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 Tc Superconductor with Non-conducting Inclusions" Advisor: William J. Kossler
DAVID ANDERSON, "Studies in CPT Violations and 331 Models" (Advisor: Marc Sher), Albion College, Visiting Assistant Professor
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
JEFF 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 K0L
-> 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) Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry Dept, University of Illinois
(Urbana-Champaign)
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
ERIC 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),
personal webpage: http://cgic.ucol.mx/~fefo/
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), personal
webpage: http://docente.ucol.mx/~paolo/
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 -http://physics.kenyon.edu/people/lasota/lasota.html
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. PRÉZEAU, 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
KL0 --> 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,
Pn, 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
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