Graduate Student News – 2011

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January 2011 – December 2011

  • September 28, 2011:
    Congratulations to Joel Greenberg (G05) and Rachel Greenberg on the birth of their daughter, Madelyn Elise Greenberg, was born at 10:38 am on 9/28/11.
  • September 28, 2011:
    Yingyi Zhang (G06) won the "People's Choice" of the 2nd annual Mahato Memorial Image Contest.
    Cold Fermi Atoms
    September 12, 2011:
    Hung-Ming Tsai (G06) defended his Final Examination and his Thesis, and he passed. Congratulations! His advisor is Prof. Berndt Mueller.
    August 28, 2011: Physics Picnic 2011
    See more pictures if you're in phy,tunl, and fel domains.
  • August 19, 2011: The New Students!
    Front row:
    Yao-Lung Fang, Weizheng Zhou, Kristen Collar, Cat Marcoux, Maura Lynch, Jonah Bernhard, Wil Lupinski, and Donna Ruger (DGSA).

    Rear row:
    Arman Margaryan, Zepeng Li, Xuefei Yan, Adamos Kafkarkou, Forrest Friesen, Timm von Puttkamer, David Bjergaard, Meg Shea, and Kyle Kalutkiewicz.
    • July 12, 2011:
    Botao Jia (G04) defended his Final Examination and his Thesis, and he passed. Congratulations! His advisor is Prof. Ying Wu.
    May 15, 2011: Physics Diploma Ceremony 2011

    Richard Palmer (DGS), Nasser Demir (G04), Adam Sokolow (G05), Dan Gauthier (Chair)     		The Department of Physics and the Department of Mathematics Diploma Ceremony.
    Prof Lisa Randall (Harvard) gave a talk in the Ceremony.
    May 11, 2011:
    Kevin Claytor (G09) participated in an outreach project – the Science of Lasers for 3rd graders.
    See more pictures on facebook.
    May 4, 2011:
    Georgios Laskaris (G08) passed his preliminary exam. His advisor is Prof. Haiyan Gao.
    May 3, 2011:
    Ben Cerio (G08) passed his preliminary exam. His advisor is Prof. Ashutosh Kotwal.
    May 1–3, 2011:
    Jon Mueller (G09) and Prof Henry Weller gave a press conference at the APS April meeting in Anaheim, CA. This event have brought into focus the national security research at TUNL and HIGS.
    April 25–28, 2011:
    Jon Mueller (G09) was named the best student presenter award for the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) Academic Research Initiative (ARI) Meeting and awarded a signed copy of Radiation Detection and Measurement.
    April 26, 2011:
    Xin Qian (G03) is the winner of the 2011 Jefferson Lab Thesis Prize Award. Xin is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech.
    April 20, 2011:
    Min Huang (G08) is the winner of the 2011-2012 Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) Fellowship awardee.
    April 19, 2011:
    Hannah Guilbert (G08) passed her preliminary exam. Her advisor is Prof. Dan Gauthier.
    April 12, 2011:
    Yu Song (G08) passed her preliminary exam. Her advisor is Prof. Sridhar Raghavachari (Neurobiology).
    April 8, 2011: Get-Together Dinner
    A mentor-mentee get-together dinner.
    April 5, 2011:
    Qiujian Ye (G08) passed his preliminary exam. His advisor is Prof. Haiyan Gao.
    April 5, 2011:
    Min Huang (G08) passed her preliminary exam. Her advisor is Prof. Haiyan Gao.
    April 4, 2011:
    Adam Sokolow (G05) defended his Final Examination and his Thesis, and he passed. Congratulations! His advisor is Prof. Glenn Edwards.
    April 4, 2011:
    Taritree Wongjirad (G08) passed his preliminary exam. His advisor is Prof. Kate Scholberg.
    March 31, 2011:
    Yu Zeng (G05) got the Universities Research Association Visiting Scholarship for his work on the precise W boson mass measurement at Fermilab.
    March 16, 2011:
    Abe Clark (G08) passed his preliminary exam. His advisor is Prof. Bob Behringer.
    January 21, 2011:
    Huaixiu Zheng (G08) passed his preliminary exam. His advisor is Prof. Harold Baranger.

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