| Year |
Author |
Title |
| 2012 |
Junlin Liang |
"An Experimental Study of Nonclassical Effects in Two-photon Interferometry"
Advisor: Dr. Todd Pittman |
| 2012 |
Sanjit Karmakar |
"Ghost Imaging with Sunlight"
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Sanjit is now a post-doctoral researcher at UMBC. |
| 2011 |
R. Chris Wilson |
"Multivariate Retrieval of Carbon Monoxide"
Advisor: Dr. Hoff
Chris is now a post-doctoral researcher at the Jet Propulsion Lab. |
| 2011 |
Debra Wicks Kollonige |
"The Impact of Upper Tropospheric Dynamics on Surface Air Quality over the United States"
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Debra is now a post-doctoral scholar at Penn State University. |
| 2011 |
Aboubakar Traore |
"Measurement of the nonlinear refractive index of TeO2 fiber by using IGA technique"
Advisor: Dr. Johnson
Aboubakar is working at Sigmaspace Corporation. |
| 2011 |
Sheng Liu |
"Investigation of Carrier Dynamics and Nonlinear Effects in Quantum Cascade Lasers using Femtosecond Mid-Infrared Pulses"
Advisor: Dr. Johnson
Sheng is now a post-doctoral scholar at Sandia National Labs. |
| 2011 |
Samuel Trahan |
"Multi-Scale Analysis of Observations of Tropical Cyclones with Applications to High-Resolution Hurrican Modeling"
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Sam is a researcher at NOAA. |
| 2010 |
Yu Zhou |
"Multiphoton Coherence of Thermal Light"
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Yu is an Associate Professor at Jiao Tong University. |
| 2010 |
Hao You |
"Theoretical Study of Quantum Computation with Non Linear Optics"
Advisor: Dr. Franson
Hao is now a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Georgia. |
| 2010 |
Vincenzo Tamma |
"Theoretical and Experimental Study of a New Algorithm for Factoring Numbers"
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Vincenzo is now a post-doctoral fellow at Ulm University in Germany. |
| 2010 |
Paul Cunningham |
"Optical Pump Terahertz Probe Studies of Semiconducting Polymers"
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Paul has accepted an NRC postdoc at the US Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC. |
| 2010 |
Colin McLaughlin |
"Electro-Optic Polymers for Terahertz Applications"
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Colin is a researcher at the US Naval Research Laboratories in Wasnington, DC. |
| 2010 |
Raymond Edziah |
"Nonlinear Optical Properties of Novel Forms of Enriched Carbon Disulfide"
Advisor: Dr. Johnson
Raymond is now a post-doctoral researcher in Electrical Engineering at UMBC. |
| 2009 |
Robinson Kuis |
"Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Nonlinear Optical and Dispersive Properties of Conventional and Photonic Crystal Fibers"
Advisor: Dr. Johnson
Rob is an R & D Program Manager at IRFlex in Danville, VA. |
| 2009 |
Nathan Kurtz |
"Application of satellite laser altimetry data to studies of sea ice properties and processes"
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Nathan is a PostDoc at NASA
Goddard working in the Cryospheric Processes Branch. |
| 2009 |
Mengsteab Weldegaber |
"Investigation of Stable and Unstable Boundary Layer Phenomena Using Observations and a Numerical Weather Prediction Model"
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Mengs is now a PostDoc Research Associate in the
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Davis. |
| 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
Antonia is a Research Scientist at NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research in Camp Springs, MD. |
| 2008 |
Jeffrey Warner |
"Displacement Damage-Induced Electrical and Structural Effects in Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells Following Ion Irradiation"
Advisor: Dr. Summers
Jeff is a Research Scientist at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC. |
| 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, MD. |
| 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, MD. |
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 an Assistant Professor in Physics at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, MD. |
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, PA. |
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, MD. |
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, VA. |
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, NJ. |
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
Feng Liu is now a Research Scientist 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, MD. |
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 is now an Associate Professor in Physics at Pohang University in Korea. |
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 |
"Dopant 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 is now a Research Scientist at JPL in Pasadena, CA . |
1996 |
Darren N. Bly |
"A Theoretical Study of the Electromigration Wind Force at Metal Surfaces"
Advisor: Dr. Rous
Darren left UMBC to become a Visiting Assistant Professor at Western Maryland College. |
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 |
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 Physics Department at Grove City College in Grove City, PA. |
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 |