{"id":20,"date":"2011-06-02T14:18:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/"},"modified":"2016-08-10T14:06:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:06:38","slug":"students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/students\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aine Connolly\u00a0’17<\/strong><\/p>\n

URSI 2014 Participant. \u00a0Aine performed ultrafast optical measurements of surface acoustic waves on TiN nanostructures. \u00a0She presented her work at the 2015 APS Meeting in San Antonio, TX, was co-author of a 2015 article in Journal of Applied Physics, has performed research at Argonne and Sandia National Labs, and is currently\u00a0a rising senior physics major at Vassar.<\/p>\n

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Mohammed Abdelaziz ’16, Sushant Mahat ’16, Molly James ’17<\/strong><\/p>\n

URSI 2015 Participants-Pictured with Brian Daly. \u00a0Mohammed performed computational modeling of thermal transport in thin films, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Physics at New York University. \u00a0Sushant performed several years of research in the lab. \u00a0He presented his work at the 2015 APS Meeting in San Antonio, TX, was co-author of a 2015 article in Journal of Applied Physics, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Materials Science at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. \u00a0Molly is a rising senior who has also done research in Oceanography at UC San Diego.<\/p>\n

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Matteo Bjornsson\u00a0’15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second from the right, picture at The Alamo. \u00a0URSI 2013 Participant. \u00a0Matteo performed coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations\u00a0of surface acoustic waves on TiN nanostructures. \u00a0He\u00a0presented his work at the 2015 APS Meeting in San Antonio, TX, and was co-author of a 2015 article in Journal of Applied Physics.<\/p>\n

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Steffi Muhanji\u00a0’15<\/strong><\/p>\n

On right in picture. URSI 2013 Participant. \u00a0Steffi revised the data acquisition software for the ultrafast optical experiment. \u00a0She is presently pursuing a second bachelor’s degree in Energy Systems at Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n

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Joseph Andrade ’14 <\/strong>; Karl Spuhler ’14 ; Bryan Rachmilowitz ’14<\/strong><\/p>\n

URSI 2011 Participants.\u00a0 Performed ultrafast optical measurements of thin films. \u00a0Joe presented his work at the April MRS Meeting in 2013 in San Francisco, CA, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Physics at SUNY Stony Brook. \u00a0Karl is currently pursuing a PhD in Medical Physics at SUNY Stony Brook . \u00a0Bryan presented his work at the April MRS Meeting in 2013 in San Francisco, CA and was co-author of a 2015 article in Journal of Applied Physics. \u00a0He is currently pursuing a PhD in Physics at Boston College<\/p>\n

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Nishan Subedi ’12<\/strong><\/p>\n

URSI Participant: 2010.\u00a0 Upgraded data fitting algorithms for Time-Domain Thermoreflectance Measurements using MATLAB. \u00a0Nishan is currently a Software Engineer at Etsy in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n

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\nLauren Olasov ’11<\/strong><\/p>\n

URSI Participant: 2009, 2010. Upgraded a new vacuum system that contains a magnetron sputter coater.\u00a0 Grew nanometer sized aluminum films on various substrates and characterized their properties using the ultrafast laser system.\u00a0 Measured thermal conductivity and sound velocity of a-SiC:H and a-SiN films.\u00a0 Lauren is co-author of “Thermal conductivity and sound velocity measurements of plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposited a-SiC:H thin films” Thin Solid Films (2011), doi:10.1016\/j.tsf.2011.05.014.\u00a0 She presented her work at the 2011 APS March Meeting in Dallas. \u00a0She is currently an Associate Software Engineer at Under Armour in Baltimore, MD.\"\"<\/a>
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Donald Hondongwa ’11<\/strong><\/p>\n

URSI participant: 2008, 2009, 2010.\u00a0 Performed ultrafast optical pump probe measurements, improved optical setup, and improved data acquisition software using LabView.\u00a0 Measured thermal conductivity and sound velocity of CNx<\/sub> and a-SiC:H films.\u00a0 Measured ultrasonic attenuation in a-Si:H and nc-Si:H films.\u00a0 Donald is co-author of two peer reviewed articles: \u201cUltrasonic Attenuation in Amorphous Silicon at 50 and 100 GHz,\u201d published in Physical Review B 83, 121303R (2011), and “Thermal conductivity and sound velocity measurements of plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposited a-SiC:H thin films” Thin Solid Films (2011), doi:10.1016\/j.tsf.2011.05.014.\u00a0 Donald presented his work at the APS March Meeting in Portland in 2010 and in Dallas in 2011. \u00a0He is currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Dartmouth College.\"\"<\/a>
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Mark Durniak ’11<\/strong><\/p>\n

URSI participant in the summer of 2008.\u00a0 Constructed ellipsometry and prism coupling experiments for thin film characterization.\u00a0 Conducted extensive data analysis programs using Mathematica.\u00a0 Winner of a 2010 Goldwater Fellowship.\u00a0 Mark went on to obtain\u00a0a PhD in Materials Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.<\/p>\n

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Yanjun Lin ’10<\/strong><\/p>\n

URSI participant in the summer of 2009.\u00a0 Performed finite element solutions of nanoscale heat transport using COMSOL Multiphysics software.\u00a0 Integrated extensive Mathematica and Matlab components into the computational research.\u00a0 Yanjun went on to obtain\u00a0a\u00a0PhD\u00a0in economics from\u00a0Oxford University.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Palaich ’09<\/strong><\/p>\n

URSI Participant in the summers of 2007 and 2008. Performed finite-element simulations of thermal transport in nanostructures. She presented her work at the 2008 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Yale University and at the 4th Annual COMSOL conference in Boston, MA in 2008. Performed ultrafast optical pump-probe measurements on hydrogenated amorphous carbon films (a-C:H). Co-authored \u201cOptical pump-probe measurements of sound velocity and thermal conductivity of hydrogenated amorphous carbon films\u201d published in Journal of Applied Physics 104, 033508 (2008). Sarah is currently pursuing a PhD in Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences\u00a0at UCLA.<\/p>\n

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Jake Arlein ’09<\/strong><\/p>\n

URSI Participant in summer of 2007.\u00a0\u00a0 Performed ultrafast optical pump probe measurements on hydrogenated amorphous carbon films (a-C:H) and improved data acquisition software using LabView. Co-authored \u201cOptical pump-probe measurements of sound velocity and thermal conductivity of hydrogenated amorphous carbon films\u201d published in Journal of Applied Physics 104, 033508 (2008).\u00a0 Jake is now a Partner at\u00a0Environmental Business Solutions in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

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Matt Rosenfeld ’07<\/strong><\/p>\n

URSI Participant in the summer of 2006. Assisted in the construction of an ultrafast optical pump-probe experiment. Wrote data acquisition software using LabView. Matt received the Master\u2019s Degree in Mechanical Engineering: Energy from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently\u00a0CEO of Third Power, an energy storage startup company.<\/p>\n

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Aine Connolly ’17<\/p>\n

URSI 2014 Participant. Aine performed ultrafast optical measurements of surface acoustic waves on TiN nanostructures. She presented her work at the 2015 APS Meeting in San Antonio, TX, was co-author of a 2015 article in Journal of Applied Physics, has performed research at Argonne and Sandia National Labs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":919,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}