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Year Author Title
2009 Mengsteab Weldegaber " Investigation of Stable and Unstable Boundary Layer Phenomena Using Observations and a Numerical Weather Prediction Model"
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Mengs will be a post-doctoral researcher working with Dr. Sparling this summer.
2009 Jianning Zeng "Extended Emission Surrounding Nearby Seyfert Galaxies"
Advisor: Dr. George
Jianning is currently a software testing engineer for the National Weather Service
2009 Timothy Bole "A Study of the Effects of Electromigration on Structures at the Nanoscale"
Advisor: Dr. Rous
2008 Antonia Gambacorta "Temperature Change And Water Vapor Feedback In The Atmosphere. A Comprehensive Assessment Using The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Instrument On NASA Aqua Satellite"
Advisor: Dr. Strow
2008 Jeffrey Warner "Displacement Damage-Induced Electrical and Structural Effects in Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells Following Ion Irradiation"
Advisor: Dr. Summers
2008 Andrew Bunch "Step Dynamics and the Morphological Evolution of Nanostructures"
Advisor: Dr. Rous
2008 Justin Hackley "Initial HfO2 Growth on Si(100) and GaAs(100) Substrates using TEMAH+H2O and TDMAH+H2O ALD Processes"
Advisor: Dr. Gougousi
Justin is now a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences in College Park, Maryland.
2008 Mark Stephen "Fiber-Based Laser Transmitter and Laser Spectroscopy of the Oxygen A-Band for Remote Detection of Atmospheric Pressure"
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Mark is a research scientist at NASA Goddard in the Lasers and Electro-Optics Branch.

2007

Eric Maddy

"Investigation of Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Atmospheric CO2 from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)"
Advisor: Dr. McMillian
Eric is a research scientist at QSS Division of Perot Systems in Lanham, Maryland.

2007

Raymond Rogers

"Raman LIDAR Measurements of Hygroscopic Effects on Aerosol Extinctions "
Advisor: Dr. Hoff
Ray has taken a research scientist position with working with NASA Langley on LIDAR research.

2007

Felicita Russo

"An Investigation of Raman LIDAR Aerosol Measurements and Their Application to the Study of the Aerosol Indirect Effect "
Advisor: Dr. Hoff
Felicita has returned to Italy to take a research position in Napoli.

2007

Jianming Wen

"Transverse Correlation in Entangled Photons and Light-Matter Interactions "
Advisor: Dr. Rubin
Jianming is a Research Associate in the Physics Department at the Univ. of Virginia.

2006

Michelle Comer

"Retrieving Carbon Monoxide Abundance From Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)"
Advisor: Dr. McMillian
Michelle has taken a post-doc position at UMBC, working on K-12 science education.

2006

Eric Moore

"Plastic Strain and Grain Size Effects in Surface Roughness of a Model Aluminum Alloy"
Advisor: Dr. Reno
Eric is now in a post-doc teaching position at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland.

2006

Sulakshana Thanvanthri

"Quantum Coherence Effects in Light-Matter Interactions"
Advisor: Dr. Rubin
Sue left UMBC to take up a post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Physics at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

2006

Rundong Wan

"Determination of the Structure and Composition of the Low Miller Index Surfaces of NiP and AgAu Binary Alloys Using Low-Energy Electron Diffraction"
Advisor: Dr. Rous
Rundong has accepted a post-doctoral position in the Physics Department at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania.

2006

Hai Zhang

"A Global ETA Model on Quasi-Uniform Grids"
Advisor: Dr. McMillian
Hai Zhang has accepted a research position in the NASA/UMBC GEST center.

2006

Giuliano Scarcelli

"Two-Photon Correlation Phenomena"
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Giuliano left UMBC to accept a post-doctoral position at the Harvard University Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

2006

Megan Leahy-Hoppa

"Terahertz Spectroscopy and Molecular Modeling of Nonlinear Polymers"
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Megan has taken a post-doctoral position at the Applied Physics Laboratories of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland.

2005

Dylan Powell

"Snow on Sea Ice: Microwave Remote Sensing and Its Impact on Antarctic Sea Ice"
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Dylan has accepted a position as a research scientist at Lockheed Martin Corporation in Fairfax, Virginia.

2005

Alexander Sinyukov

"Electro-Optic Polymers for Terahertz Applications"
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Alex has accepted a post-doctoral position in the Physics Department at NJIT in Newark, New Jersy.

2005

Alejandra Valencia

"High-Accuracy Timing and Positioning using Entanged Photon Pairs"
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Alejandra accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Photonics Science in Barcelona, Spain.

2004

Milena D'Angelo

"Quantum Imaging"
Advisors: Dr. Shih & Dr. Rubin
Milena left UMBC to take up a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship at LENS (the European Laboratory of Nonlinear Spetroscropy) in Sesto Fiorentino (near Florence), Italy.

2004

Daniel Hudson

"Galaxy Cluster Merger Dynamics: Relating Merger Shocks to Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Cluster Substructure"
Advisor: Dr. Henriksen
Danny left UMBC to join the Emmy Noether Research Group at the Institute for Astrophysics, Bonn University, Germany.

2004

Paul Poli

"Assimilation of Global Positioning System Radio Occultation Measurements into Numerical Weather Forecast Systems"
Advisor: Dr. Hoff
After graduation Paul returned to Meteo France as a 'Checheur Scientifique'.

2004

Feng Liu

"Design and Fabrication of Dual-Side Waveguide-Based Optical Demultiplexers"
Advisor: Dr. Worchesky
After graduation Feng Liu took a Post-doc position doing Biophysics at Columbia University, New York, NY.

2004

Kurt Lightner

"Tropospheric Ozone Retrievals Using An Uplooking Infrared Interferometer"
Advisor: Dr. McMillan

2003

Bryan Jacobs

"Linear Optics Approach to Quantum Information Processing"
Advisor: Dr. Rubin
Brian is now a Staff Scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Labs in Laurel, Maryland.

2002

Jason Cheng

"Theoretical and Experiemental Studies of Surface Physics: Theory of Surface Electromigration Wind Force Felt by Na adatom on Na (110) Slipped Surface; Magnetic Order-disorder Phase Transition of Antiferomagnetic Nb Thin Films on Ag (COL)"
Advisor: Dr. Watson

2001

Yoon-Ho Kim

"Two-Photon Quantum Entanglement"
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Yoon-Ho went to Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Knoville, Tennessee as a research scientist to start a new group in quantum optics.

2000

David N. Whiteman

"Investigaiton of Cloud Properties using a Raman Lidar"
Advisor: Dr. Melfi
David left UMBC to join the Laser Remote Sensing Branch (Raman Lidar Group) of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.

2000

David G. Simpson

"Analysis of Low-Energy Electron Diffraction I-V Spectra using Artificail Neural Networks"
Advisor: Dr. Rous
David left UMBC to become Flight Software Senior Designer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.

1999

Timothy E. Keller

"Multi-Photon Entanglement from Pulsed Pump Spontaneous Down-Conversion"
Advisor: Dr. Rubin

1999

Shane Strutz

"Dopent Mobility and the Performance of Nonlinear Optical Polymers"
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Shane left UMBC for a position of Physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC.

1997

Dimitry Strekalov

"Biphoton Optics"
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Dimitry left UMBC for a Postdoctoral position at New York University.

1996

Darren N. Bly

"A Theoretical Study of the Electromigration Wind Force at Metal Surfaces"
Advisor: Dr. Rous
Darren left UMBC to become a Teacher at Winchester High School.

1996

Michael J. Panunto

"The Effect of Electric Fields on the Formation and Anealings of Stable Radiation Induced Defects in InP Semiconductor Junctions"
Advisor: Dr. Summers
Darren left UMBC to become a Visiting Assistant Professor at Western Maryland College.

1996

Shane C. Brower

"Activation Volumes Associated with Chromophore Reorientation in Corona Poled Polymers: Their Physical Significance and Relationship to Stability"
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Shane is now the Chair of the Phsyics Department at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania.

1996

Todd Pittman

"Two-photon Quantum Entanglement from Type II Spontaneous Parametric Down-conversion"
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Todd is now an Associate Professor in the Physics Department at UMBC.

1996

David Tobin

"Infared Spectral Lineshapes of Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide"
Advisor: Dr. Strow
David left UMBC to become a Research Scientist at The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

1995

David M. Hartley

"Theory of Negative Ion Resonance in Molecules on Surfaces"
Advisor: Dr. Rous
David left UMBC to become a Research Scientist at Dynamics Techonology, Inc.

1995

Scott R. Messenger

"Electron- & Gamma- Induced Displacement Damage Effects in InP Semiconductor Devices"
Advisor: Dr. Summers
Scott left UMBC to work for SFA, Inc.

1994

Robert J. Walters

"A Study of the Annealing of Radiation-Induced Defects in Indum Phosphide Solar Cells"
Advisor: Dr. Summers
Robert left UMBC to become a Research Physicist at the the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC

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