HTC Physics & Astronomy Alumni: Where Are They Now?

 
Name
Major
Year
Thesis
Advisor
Higher Degrees
Current Position
Email
James (Jack) Steiner
Astrophysics
2006
Near Infrared Imaging of Starburst Galaxies in the Cores of Galaxy Clusters
McNamara

Graduate student (Astronomy), Harvard University

Jonas Beardsley
Engineering Physics
2006
Experiments Using a Cryogenic Magneto Transport System
Heremans



Joel Vaughn
Engineering Physics
2005
Design, Development, and Implementation of Transmission Electron Microscope-Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Hla



Andrew McNamara
Engineering Physics
2005
Nanolithography with an Atomic Force Microscope
Heremans/Soghomonian



Shawn Hurley
Engineering Physics
2005
A Novel Automated Optical Technique to Determine the Orientation of Biaxial Minerals in a Thin Section
Wilen



Jessica Benson
Engineering Physics
2004
Microscopy, Spectroscopy, and Manipulation of Single Molecules of Chlorophyll-a from Spinach Using a Low Temperature, Ultra High Vacuum, Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Hla

Graduate student, Imperial College, London

Forrest Bradbury
Engineering Physics
2004
Growth, Fabrication, and Characterization of Organic Field Effect Transistors
Soghomonian

Graduate student (Electrical Engineering), Princeton University
fb232399@hotmail.com
Kelsey Edwards
Engineering Physics
2004
Fabrication of Short-Channel Organic Electronic Devices Using Electron Beam Lithography
Heremans/Soghomonian

Graduate student (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering), Ohio State University
edwards.597@osu.edu
Daniel Wik Astrophysics
2003
Phase Mixing and Violent Relaxation in Galaxies: the Shell Galaxy NGC 2634 and an Application of Fisher Information Statler   Graduate student (Astronomy), University of Virginia
drw2x@xmm.astro.Virginia.EDU
Nathaniel Bishop Physics
2002
Vapor Transport Crystal Growth & Organic Field-Effect Transistors Soghomonian   Graduate student (Electrical Engineering), Princeton University nbishop@princeton.edu
Steven Allen Physics & Chemistry
2001
Luminescence of Transition and Lanthanide Metal Ions in Sputtered BN Thin Films Kordesch   Graduate student (Electrical Engineering), University of Cincinnati
allensc@email.uc.edu
Charles Fulton Physics 2001 Effect of Spin on Ballistic Electron Motion: Calculation and Measurements in Two-Dimensional Systems Ulloa/Heremans   Graduate student (Materials Sci. & Eng.), North Carolina State University ccfulton@unity.ncsu.edu
Megan Krejny Physics
2001
Design Specifications for a Variable Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope for Biological Systems Soghomonian   Graduate student (Physics), Northwestern University m-krejny@northwestern.edu
Christopher Stevenson Physics
2001
         
Derek Beck Physics 1999 Heteroepitaxial Growth of Cubic Silicon Carbide Thin Films Kordesch   Captain, USAF Derek.Beck@LOSANGELES.AF.MIL
Jonathan Day Engineering Physics 1999       LTjg, USN jettero@cox.net
Howard (Lee) Mossbacker   1999 Diagnostic Tools for Experimental Physics at Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory Opper      
Gary Steinberg Physics 1999 Relative Reality Onley M.S. (Physics), Ohio U., 2001    
Joshua Thomas Physics 1998       Technical Support Analyst, Communication Network Services, Ohio University thomasj4@ohio.edu
Sanjeev Gunawardena Engineering Physics 1997       Research Engineer, Avionics Engineering Center, Ohio University gunaward@ohio.edu
Paul Melby Physics 1997 Evaluation of Gamow-Teller Strengths in 59Ni and 40K Rapaport      
Richard Waters Physics 1997 Analysis Methods for the Study of Nebulosity in Elliptical Galaxies Shields      
Gary Davenport Physics 1997 Pion Photoproduction in the Delta Energy Region from 16O Hicks      
Katrina Illari Engineering Physics 1996 Controlling Deterministic Chaos: Numerical Simulations and Data Acquisition/Control Systems        
Julie Beegan Physics 1995 Transmission Electron Microscopy of Micron-Sized Chemical Vapor Deposited Diamond Kordesch   Graduate student (Dentistry), University of Michigan jbeegan@umich.edu
Edwin Evans Jr. Physics 1995 Effect of a Nonlocal Yukawa Interaction of the Bound State Properties of a Two and Three Fermion Bound State Elster      
David Laurence Physics 1995 Photodeexcitation of Tantalum 180 Brient/Rapaport   English Teacher, Fukuoka, Japan
 davidl@elf.coara.or.jp
William Jameson Engineering Physics 1994 Investigation into Improving the Detection Device for the Stern-Gerlach Apparatus Hicks   High school teacher, Madison WI  
Kristina McNett Physics 1994      M.S. (Chemistry), Purdue U., 1999    
Stephen Pellathy Physics 1994 An Electron Microscope to Monitor the Melting of Metals Kordesch M.S. (Applied Physics), Cornell U., 1997 Graduate student (Philosophy of Science), University of Pittsburgh pellathy@pitt.edu
Jairo Sinova Physics 1994 Radical Density Function for Liquid Mercury Using X-Ray Diffraction   Ph.D. (Physics), Indiana U. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Texas A&M Univ. sinova@physics.tamu.edu
Bryan Barmore Physics 1993 Sensitivity of Back Angle (n,p) Scattering to the Pion-Nucleon Coupling Constant Elster Ph.D. (Physics), Coll. of William & Mary, 1998 Aerospace Engineer, Aviation Operations & Evaluation, NASA/Langley Res. Ctr. bryan.e.barmore@nasa.gov
Jason Stone Physics 1993 Rapid Neutron Detection and the Lithium Glass Detector        
David Beegle Engineering Physics 1992 Hybrid Finite Element Analysis of Blunt Crack Band Propagation        
Morag Smith Engineering Physics 1992 Design of a Transport Container for Nuclear Fuel Rods     Safeguards Sci. & Tech. Group, Nonproliferation & Int'l Security Div., Los Alamos Nat'l Lab  
Fred Hall IV Physics 1991 A Computer Model of Binary Star Systems  Onley  M.S. (Plasma Physics), Univ. of Colorado, 1995
Graduate Student (Space Physics), University of Alaska at Fairbanks fh@why.gi.alaska.edu
Saurav Misra Engineering Physics 1991          
Kutbuddin Doctor Physics 1990       Postdoctoral Fellow, The Burnham Institute ksdoctor@ljcrf.edu
Gregory Stephens Physics 1990 The Effects of Gravitational Radiation on the Orbit of a Test Particle in General Relativity        
Philip Zecher Physics 1990 Energy Deposition of Energetic Silicon Atoms Within a Silicon Lattice Rapaport Ph.D. (Physics), Michigan State U. Partner, Investor Analytics LLC  
Michael Pointer Physics 1989   Onley M.S. (Physics), University of Pittsburgh, 1993 Director of Customer Support, Vivisimo, Inc. mrpointer3@comcast.net
Somit Talwar Physics 1989 Computer Generated Holography Using Vector Wave Propagation Theory     Vice President, Laser Annealing Technology Process Development and Applications, Ultratech, Inc.  
Robert Olbers Engineering Physics 1988          
Kenneth Clark Physics 1986 Energy Loss Due to Plastic Deformation        
Kenneth Shamblen Engineering Physics 1986 Design of a Data Acquisition System for a Cary 14 Spectrophotometer        
Mark Baker Physics 1985 Cross Sections in the Two-Body Sequential Decay Process   Ph.D., Harvard U.    
Kevin Bassler Physics 1985     M.S. (Physics), Carnegie Mellon U., 1987; Ph.D. (Physics), Carnegie Mellon U., 1990 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Houston bassler@uh.edu
Michael Krajnak Physics 1985 Observing Chaos in the Duffing Equation   M.S. (Space Physics), UCLA, 1991    
Eric Anderson Physics 1984          
Sin-Chnuah Cheah Physics 1984     Ph.D. (Appl. Math. & Sci. Computation), U. of Maryland, 1994    
Jayne Hoeflich Physics 1984          
Philip Hummel Physics 1984          
John Marsh Physics 1984     Ph.D. (Physics), Carnegie Mellon U. Project Manager, JDS Uniphase  
Andrew Russ Physics 1984   Lane      
Michael Shaw Physics 1984 Angular Distribution Measurements Using 16Li-Deuteron Reaction at 150 keV        
Michael Cleemput Engineering Physics 1983          
Kim Constantikes Engineering Physics 1983 Sensory and Servosystems for a Simplified Mobile Robot     Electronics Engineer, Nat'l Radio Astronomy Obs., Green Bank WV kconstan@nrao.edu
Basil Coutant Physics 1983        
Bryan Laubscher Physics 1983         blaubscher@lanl.gov
Bryan Luther Physics & Mathematics 1983     M.S. (Physics), Ohio State U., 1988; Ph.D. (Nucl. Physics), Ohio State U., 1993 Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Concordia College, Moorhead MI luther@cord.edu
York Dobyns Physics 1982 The Simulation of Motion in General and Special Relativity   Ph.D., Princeton University Princeton Experimental Anomalies Research Center ydobins@princeton.edu
William Elicson Physics 1982 The Simulation, Construction, and Testing of a Continuous-Wave Carbon Dioxide Laser        
Edward Sadowski Physics 1982 A Proton Recoil Telescope Lane      
Marc Everson Physics 1981 Microprocessor Interfacing        
Ralph Jameson Physics 1980     M.S. (Opt. Sci.), U. of Arizona, 1983; Ph.D. (Opt. Sci.), U. of Arizona, 1986 Opto-electronics Engineer, ClearAlign Ralph.Jameson@ClearAlign.com
Andrew Russ Physics 1980          
Paul Koehler Physics 1979 Differential Elastic Scattering of Neutrons from 11B Lane   Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab koehlerpe@ornl.gov
Richard Moyer Physics 1979 Optional Model Description of Proton Inelastic Scatterings from 92Mo from 25 to 45 MeV Finlay      
Jerome Weber Engineering Physics 1979 Design of a Triplet Quadrupole Spectrometer Finlay/Rapaport      
Howard Clearfield Physics 1978 Proton Induced X-ray Emission and the Development of a Proton Microprobe at Ohio University Finlay      
Andrea Bischoff Physics 1978          
Julie Sespaniak Physics 1978          
Keith Snail Physics 1978       Optical Sci. Div., Naval Research Laboratories keith.snail@nrl.navy.mil
Frederick Wamsley Physics 1978          
Joel Welling Physics 1978     Ph.D. (Physics), U. of Pittsburgh, 1983 Coordinator of Scientific Visualization, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center welling@psc.edu
Robert Wood Physics 1978   Rapaport      
Jeffrey Kirkbride Physics 1977          
Nancy Mulrine Physics 1977          
Terry Parks Physics 1977          
Deborah Roudebush Physics 1976   Finlay M.S. (Physics), Michigan State U., 1978 Science Teacher, West Springfield High School (VA) Deborah.Roudebush@fcps.edu
Linda Smith Physics 1976          
John Yurkon Physics 1976 A Positional Sensitive Detector for a Magnetic Spectrograph Rapaport M.S. (Physics), Michigan State U., 1979 Staff Physicist, Nat'l Superconducting Cyclotron Facility, Mich. State U. yurkon@nscl.msu.edu
Jonathan Tischler Physics 1975       Oak Ridge National Laboratory tischlerjz@ornl.gov

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