Congratulations to our 10 new PhD Candidates!

Congratulations to the 10 Physics Department graduate students who advanced into PhD Candidacy during the past year. These students were honored at the Graduate School's annual Doctoral Candidates Recognition Ceremony and Reception on November 6, 2014. Pictured are (left to right) Atmospheric Physics PhD candidate Dan Miller, Physics PhD candidate Fernando Calderon, and Professor Jason Kestner.

2014 Physics Department PhD Candidates:

Atmospheric Physics PhD Program:

Reed Espinosa, "Measurements of Scattering Matrix Elements by Imaging Nephelometer"
Mentor: Dr. Martins

Daniel Miller, "An Integrated Modeling and Observational Study of the Impact of Vertical and Horizontal Structure on Passive Cloud Remote Sensing Retrievals"
Mentor: Dr. Zhang

Daniel Orozco, "Study of the Relative Humidity Impact on Atmospheric Aerosols by Phase Function and Polarization Measurement Using the Polarized Imaging Nephelometer PI-Neph"
Mentor: Dr. Hoff

John Sullivan, "A New Differential Absorption Lidar Using Raman Cells to Measure Subhourly Variation of Tropospheric Ozone Profiles in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C.- Region"
Mentor: Dr. Hoff

Physics PhD Program:

Fernando Calderon Vargas, "Dynamically Corrected Gates for Capacitively Coupled Singlet-Triplet Qubits"
Mentor: Dr. Kestner

John Diehl, "Fiber Nonlinearities in the V - and W - Band"
Mentor: Dr. Worchesky

Alex Henegar, "Investigation of Atomic Layer Deposition of Metal Oxides on III-V Semiconductors"
Mentor: Dr. Gougousi

Garrett Hickman, "Single-Photon Cross-Phase Shifts Using Metastable Xenon in a High Finesse Optical Cavity"
Mentor: Dr. Franson

Diana Marcu, "Shedding New Light on Accreting Pulsars"
Mentor: Dr. Pottschmidt; Co-Mentor: Dr. George

Jane Sprigg, "High Visibility Sunlight Ghost Imaging"
Mentor; Dr. Shih