Undergraduate Students Mentored/Advised at Duke
Alejandro Cortese (graduated 2012)
  • Honors thesis: Technique for Anomalously Charged Particle Searches at ATLAS (pdf file)
  • Physics grad student at Cornell, 2012 - present
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    Ariana Minot (graduated 2010)
  • Recipient of a 2010 Fulbright Scholarship to study in France for a year working on the LHC
  • Grad student at Harvard in Applied Math, 2011 - present
  • Honors thesis: Inclusive study of high-P_T electron-muon events at ATLAS, and performance studies of the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker (pdf file)
  • Article on Ariana's 2009 summer at CERN
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    John Phillips (graduated 2010)
  • Physics grad student at UC Irvine, 2010 - present
  • Honors thesis: Using high-P_T electron-muon events to measure the top-antitop cross section at ATLAS (pdf file)
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    M. Stephen M. Smith (graduated 2009)
  • Physics grad student at UC San Diego, 2009 - present
  • Honors thesis: A Global Dilepton Analysis in the eμ Channel Using 3.0 fb^-1 of CDF Data (pdf file)
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    Richard Wall (graduated 2007)
  • Physics grad student at Yale, 2007 - present, working on ATLAS at the LHC
  • Honors thesis: Performance Studies of the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker Barrel using SR1 Cosmics Data (pdf file)