Graduate Alumni
Ben Olsen
Ph.D. 2011—Optical Pumping and Spectroscopy of Alkali Vapors in Magnetic Fields
Now a postdoctoral fellow in physics at Rice University in Houston, TX.
Email: bolsen
Natalie Kostinski
Ph.D. 2011—Sodium Laser Guidestar and Other Aspects of Optical Signal Processing
Now a staff researcher at Livermore National Labs
Email: nkostins
Tian Xia
Ph.D. 2010—Polarization and hyperfine transitions of metastable 129Xe in discharge cells
and pressure shift of Cs in Neon
Now a postoctoral fellow in physics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI.
Fei Gong
Ph.D. 2008—New Physics and Technology for Spin-polarized Alkali-metal Atoms
Now a postoctoral fellow in applied physics at Harvard.
Brian Patton
Ph.D. 2007—NMR Studies of Angular Momentum Transfer and Nuclear Spin Relaxation
Now a postoctoral fellow in the Budker group at U.C. Berkeley.
Amber Post
Ph.D. 2006—Studies of Atomic Clock Resonances in Miniature Vapor Cells
Now a postdoctoral fellow in the time and frequency group at NIST in Boulder.
Yuan-Yu Jau
Ph.D. 2005—New Studies of Optical Pumping, Spin Resonances, and Spin Exchange in Mixtures of Inert Gases and Alkali-Metal Vapors
Now a researcher at Sandia National Labs.
Daniel Walter
Ph.D. 2002—Optical Probes of Angular Momentum and Energy Transport in Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping Systems
Chris Erickson
Ph.D. 2000—Measurements of the magnetic Field Dependence of the Spin Relaxation Rate in Alkali Metal Vapors
Karen Sauer
Ph.D. 1998—Laser-Polarized Liquid Xenon
Now associate professor of physics at George Mason University
Brian Saam
Ph.D. 1996—Pulse-NMR Studies of Spin Relaxation Relevant to Laser-Polarized Noble Gases
Now associate professor of physics at The University of Utah
Bastiaan Driehuys
Ph.D. 1995—Surface Physics and New Applications Using Laser-Polarized $^{129}$Xe
Now assistant professor at the Center for In Vivo Microscopy at Duke University
Undergraduate Alumni
Robert Marsland III
B.S. in Physics 2011.
Ivana Dimitrova
B.S. in Physics 2010.
John Barry
B.A. in Physics 2006—Density Matrix Modelling of Optically Pumped Alkali-Metal Vapors with a Focus on Appropriate Treatment of Diffusion
David Sachs
B.A. in Physics 2002—Cryogenic Collection of Hyperpolarized $^{129}$Xe Using a Permanent High-Field Halbach Magnet
Ming Hsu
B.A. in Physics 1999—A Study of Sol-Gel Coated Cells for Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping
Visitor Alumni
Amit Ben-Kish
Professor of physics at Technion.
Other Group Alumni
Traci Miller
Administrative Assistant
Now a staff member in the Electrical Engineering department.
Regina Savadge
Administrative Assistant
Now a higher-up staff member in the Physics department.
Steven Morgan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Now postdoctoral fellow at École Normale Supérieure in France
Nick Kuzma
Postdoctoral Fellow
Now associate professor in biomedical engineering at Rochester University
Mike Romalis
Ph.D. 1997 (Advisor Gordon Cates)—Laser Polarized $^3$He Target Used for a Precision Measurement of the Neutron Spin Structure
Now professor of physics at Princeton University
Hunter Middleton
Ph.D. 1994 (Advisor Gordon Cates)—The Spin Structure of the Neutron Determined Using a Polarized $^3$He Target
Warren Griffith
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