Graduate Students, Their Thesis Titles and Where They Went

(updated 1 August 2007)

(Eventually pdf versions will be available here. They are currently available under "publications".)

Dr. Daniel Farkas - "An Optical Reference and Frequency Comb for Improved Spectroscopy of Helium" - 1 November 2006.
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University

Dr. Andrew Speck - "Two Techniques to Produce Cold Antihydrogen" - 23 May 2005
Junior Fellow, Rowland Institute, Cambridge, MA

Dr. Brian Odom - "Fully Quantum Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment" - 14 September 2004
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Chicago

Dr. Tanya Zelevinsky - "Helium 23P Fine Structure Measurement in a Discharge Cell" - 13 September 2004
University of Colorado, Boulder JILA Fellowship

Dr. Nathaniel Bowden - "Production of Cold Antihydrogen during the Positron Cooling of Antiprotons" - 4 October 2003
Sandia National Laboratory, CA.

Dr. Paul Oxley - "Antimatter Plasmas and Resonantly Induced Antihydrogen Production" - 3 October 2003
Research Associate at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Brian R. D'Urso - "Cooling and Self-Excitation of a One-Electron Oscillator" - 5 May 2003
Became a postdoc at Oak Ridge National Lab, TN

Dr. John K. Estrada - "Cold Trapped Positrons and Progress to Cold Antihydrogen" - 31 January 2002
Sandia National Laboratory, CA.

Dr. Peter S. Yesley - "The Road to Antihydrogen" - 1 October 2001
Cinesite, London, United Kingdom

Carla M. Levy - "Laser Spectroscopy in a Discharge Cell of the 23P Fine Structure of Helium" - August 1999
Discontinued Ph.D. studies to attend law school at New York University.

Dr. Steven E. Peil - "Quantum Jumps Between Fock States of an Ultracold Electron Cyclotron Oscillator" - 11 May 1998
Became an NRC postdoc at the National Institutes of Science and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, working with Bill Phillips and Steve Rolston.

Dr. Anton Khabbaz - "A Measurement of the Antiproton and Proton Charge-to-Mass Ratios Using Two Simultaneously Trapped Ions" - 17 February 1998
Became a postdoc at Lucent Technologies and Princeton University working in neuroscience.

Dr. Lisa Lapidus - "Synchronization and Stochastic Behavior of Electrons in a Penning Trap" - 23 January 1998
Became a postdoc in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health.

Dr. David S. Hall - "Positrons, Antiprotons and Interactions for Antihydrogen" - 15 July 1997
Became a postdoc working with Eric Cornell and Carl Weiman on Bose Condensation at the JILA (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics). He bacame a faculty member at Amherst College in 1999.

Dr. Daphna Enzer - "Dressed Coherent States of a Damped Anharmonic Oscillator" - 21 May 1996
Was hired to do optics research as a member of the technical staff of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Dr. Jesse Wen - "Measurement of the 4He 23P Fine Structure" - 18 January 1996
Became a postdoc working at the National Institutes of Science and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Dr. David F. Phillips - "A Precision Comparison of the Charge-to-Mass Ratios of the Antiproton and Proton" - 17 January 1996
Became a post doc working with Ron Walsworth at the Center for Astrophysics of Harvard University, working on cryogenic hydrogen masers and noble gas masers.

Dr. Ching-Hua Tseng - "Parametric Dark Detection of a Single Electron in a Penning Trap" - 9 February 1995
Became a post doc woking with Ron Walsworth at the Harvard Center for Astrophyics and at the Brigham and Womens Hospital, working on using laser-polarized neon atoms to make magnetic resonance images of lungs and other body cavities.

Dr. Loren Haarsma - "Accumulating Positrons in an Ion Trap"- 6 May 1994
Became a postdoc in the Department of Physiology at Tufts Medical School to study the biophysics of membranes. He became a faculty member at Calvin College in 1999.

Dr. Joseph Tan - "Cooperative Behavior in Cavity-cooled, Parametrically-pumped Electron Oscillators" - 24 August 1992
Became a postdoc working with John Bollinger and David Wineland at the National Institute of Science and Technology in Bolder, Colorado, to observe Bragg scattering from laser-cooled and trapped ion plasmas.

Julian Gröbner - "Proton Antiproton Inertial Mass Comparison in a High Precision Penning Trap" - (Leopold-Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Diploma Thesis - October 1991.)

Dr. Robert Tjoelker - "Antiprotons in a Penning Trap: A New Measurement of the Inertial Mass" - 26 September 1990
Became a member of the scientific staff of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working to develop better clocks and frequency standards.

Dr. Xiang Fei - "Trapping Low Energy Antiprotons in an Ion Trap" - 10 May 1990
Became a postdoc working with Vernon Hughes on Muonium physics at Yale University.