Student Collaborators

Undergraduate students

• 1997-1998 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
  • John Wambaugh (University of Michigan; now at Duke University)
    Superconducting fluxon pump and lenses.
    

• 1998 REU
  • Amit Mehta (Cornell University; now at UIUC)
    Horton analysis of riverlike networks of vortices.
    

• 1999 Minority Undergraduate Research Program in Physical Sciences (MURPPS)
  • Omari Fuller (Contra Costa College; now at Columbia University)
    Atomic friction.
    
  • Rogelio Lepe (Sacramento City College)
    Threshold dynamics in spring-block models at the edge of motion.
    
  • Yolanda Marchante-Ortiz (Solano Community College; now at UC-Berkeley)
    Detection of non-visible planets by star perturbation.
    
  • Carla Rivera (University of California - Davis)
    Orbital stability and the three-body problem.
    

• Summer 2003
  • Jeff Drocco (Notre Dame; after went to grad school in physis at Princeton, Phd 2011)
    Jamming in granular media
    

• Summer 2007
  • Niall Mangan (Clarkson University; currently in graduate school at Harvard)
    Intermittency and nonlinear dynamics in ac driven vortices
    

• Summer 2008
  • Evan Groopman (Washington University in St Louis; currently in graduate school at Washington University in St Louis)
    Jamming in the presence of obstacles
    

• Summer 2009
  • Adam Iaizzi (Ithaca College; currently in graduate school at Boston University)
    Dynamics of stripe forming systems
    

• Summer 2010
  • Chris Bairnsfather (Purdue University; currently in graduate school at Purdue)
    Dynamics of layered systems with quenched disorder
    

  • Thuc Mai (Syrcuse University; currently in graduate school at Ohio State)
    Guided motion of individual and collective swimmers in funnel arrays