Physics and Astronomy Student Achievements 2007-2008


Grants, Fellowships and Awards

Name of StudentName of AwardAward Amount (US$)Granting InstitutionLocation
Boyle, KieranPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral StudentsStony Brook UniversityStony Brook, NY
Boyle, Kieran2007 RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting Best Poster AwardRHIC & AGS Annual Users GroupBrookhaven National Laboratory
Choi, JaehyungBenjamin W. Lee Prize1000Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony BrookStony Brook, NY
Dahms, TorstenNUPHA Young Scientist Award at Quark Matter 2008600Nuclear Physics A, ElsevierAmsterdam, Netherlands
Faherty, JackieAmerican Museum of Natural History Graduate Student Fellowship24000American Museum of Natural History79th Street and CPW New York, NY 10024
Gadway, BryceAPS Leroy Apker Award7000American Physical SocietyOne Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740
Holt, JeremyPresident's Award for Distinguished Doctoral Students500SUNY, Stony Brook
Huang, Yu-tinPeter Kahn Fellowship 700Stony Brook Physics Dept.
Moreno-mendez, EnriqueDoctoral Training Programme2,700ECT*Trento, Italy
Pertot, DanielDAMOP 2007 Student Travel Support400APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Vavilkin, Tatjana IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship15500Caltech / IPACIPAC , Pasadena

Publications/Reports/Reviews

Name of StudentList of AuthorsYearTitle of PublicationTitle of JournalVolumePage Number
Blaga, Cosmin ioanColosimo P., Doumy G., Blaga C. I., Wheeler J., Hauri C., Catoire F., Tate J., Chirla R., March A. M., Paulus G. G., Muller H. G., Agostini P., DiMauro L. F.2008Scaling strong-field interactions towards the classical limitNature Physics4386
Boyle, KieranAdare, A. et al.2007Inclusive cross-section and double helicity asymmetry for pi0 production in p + p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV: Implications for the polarized gluon distribution in the protonPhys. Rev. D76051106
Choi, JaehyungChoi, J., Lee, S., Lee, S.2008Near Horizon Analysis of Extremal AdS5 Black HolesJournal of High Energy Physics0805002
Clow, StephenTrallero-Herrero, C., Clow, S., Bergeman, T., Weinacht, T.2008Stong Field Coherent Control of Atomic Population TransferJournal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics41074014
Dahms, TorstenDahms, T. (for the PHENIX Collaboration)2007Measurement of photons via conversion pairs in Au+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC.Proceedings of the 23rd Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics127
Dahms, TorstenPHENIX CollaborationsubmittedDilepton mass spectra in p+p collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV and the contribution from open charmPhysics Letters BN/AN/A
Dusling, KevinDusling, K. and Teaney, D.2008Simulating elliptic flow with viscous hydrodynamicsPhysical Review C77034905
Herner, KennethT. Adams, Q. An, K.M. Black, T. Bose, N.J. Buchanan, S. Caron, D. K. Cho, S. Choi, A. Das, M. Das, H. Dong, W. Earle, H. Evans, S.N. Fatakia, L. Feligioni, T. Fitzpatrick, E. Hazen, U. Heintz, K. Herner, J.D. Hobbs, D. Khatidze, W.M. Lee, S.L. Linn, M. Narain, C. Pancake, N. Parashar, E. Popkov, H.B. Prosper, G. Redner, M. P. Sanders, S. Sengupta, B. Smart, L. Sonnenschein, G. Steinbruck, W. Taylor, S. Ansermet-Tentindo, H. D. Wahl, T. Wijnen, J. Wittlin, J. Wu, S. X. Wu, A. Zabi, J. ZhuThe D0 RunII Impact Parameter TriggerNuclear Instruments and Methods ANANA
Holt, JeremyHolt, J. D., Pietralla, N., Holt, J. W., Kuo, T. T. S., Rainovski, G.2007Microscopic restoration of proton-neutron mixed symmetry in weakly collective nucleiPhys. Rev. C76034325
Holt, JeremyHolt, J.W., Brown, G. E., Kuo, T. T. S., Holt, J. D., Machleidt, R.2008Shell model description of the carbon-14 dating beta decay with Brown-Rho-scaled NN interactionsPhys. Rev. Lett.100062501
Holzner, Christiande Jonge M.D., Vogt S., Legnini D., McNulty I., Rau C., Paterson D., Hornberger B., Holzner C. and Jacobsen C.2007A method for phase reconstruction from measurements obtained using a configured detector with a scanning transmission X-ray microscopeNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A582218-220
Holzner, ChristianHornberger B., de Jonge M.D., Feser M., Holl P., Holzner C., Jacobsen C., Legnini D., Paterson D., Rehak P., Strüder L. and Vogt S.acceptedDifferential phase contrast with a segmented detector in a scanning X-ray microprobeJournal of Synchrotron RadiationN/AN/A
Holzner, Christiande Jonge M.D., Hornberger B., Holzner C., Legnini D., Paterson D., McNulty I., Jacobsen C. and Vogt S.acceptedQuantitative phase imaging with a scanning transmission x-ray microscopePhysical Review LettersN/AN/A
Hornberger, BenjaminHornberger B., de Jonge M. D., Feser M., Holl P., Holzner C., Jacobsen C., Legini D., Paterson D., Rehak P., Strueder L., Vogt S.2008Differential phase contrast with a segmented detector in a scanning X-ray microprobeJournal of Synchrotron Radiation15355-362
Huang, Yu-tinYu-tin huang, Warren Siegel2007 Running anti-de Sitter radius from QCD-like strings.JHEP0709112
Lepzelter, DavidLepzelter, D., Wang, J.2008Exact probabilistic solution of spatial dependent stochastics and associated spatial potential landscape for the bicoid proteinPhysical Review E77041917
Lin, ShuLin, S; Shuryak, E2007 Stress tensor of static dipoles in strongly coupled N = 4 gauge theoryPhys Rev D76085014
Lin, ShuLin, S; Shuryak, E2008Toward the AdS/CFT gravity dual for high energy collisions. II. The stress tensor on the boundaryPhys Rev D77085014
Longobardi, LuigiBennett, D.A., Longobardi, L., Patel, V., Chen, W., Lukens, J.E.2007rf-SQUID qubit readout using a fast flux pulseSuperconductor Science and Technology20S445-S449
Moreno-mendez, EnriqueBrown, G.E., Lee, C.-H., Moreno Mendez, E.2007GRBs and Hypernova Explosions of Some Galactic SourcesAstrophysical Journal671L41
Nichols, SarahPearson, B.J., Nichols, S.R., and Weinacht, T.C.2007Molecular fragmentation driven by ultrafast dynamic ionic resonancesJournal of Chemical Physics127131101
Patu, IonelOvidiu I . Patu2007Free Energy of the Eight Vertex Model with an Odd Number of Lattice SitesJ. Stat. Mech. P09007
Patu, IonelOvidiu I. Patu, Vladimir E. Korepin, Dmitri V. Averin2008One-Dimensional Impenetrable Anyons in Thermal Equilibrium. I. Anyonic Generalization of Lenard's FormulaJ. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41145006
Patu, IonelOvidiu I. Patu, Vladimir E. Korepin, Dmitri V. Averin2007Correlation Functions of One-Dimensional Lieb-Liniger AnyonsJ. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 14963-14984
Rameau, JonathanNoh H.-J., Koh H., Oh S.-J., Park J.-H., Kim H.-D., Rameau J.D., Valla T., Kidd T.E.2008Spin-orbit interaction effect in the electronic structure of Bi2Te3European Physics Letters8157006
Sun, TaoInfrared Properties of FerropericlasePhysical Review B77134303
Vavilkin, Tatjana A. S. Evans, T. Vavilkin, J. Pizagno, F. Modica, J. M. Mazzarella, K. Iwasawa, J. H. Howell, J. A. Surace, L. Armus, A. O. Petric, H. W. W. Spoon, J. E. Barnes, T. A. Suer, D. B. Sanders, B. Chan, and S. Lord2008Off-Nuclear Star Formation and Obscured Activity in the Luminous Infrared Galaxy NGC 2623The Astrophysical Journal LettersVolume 675, Issue 2Page L69–L72
Xu, YingKorepin, V. E. Xu, Y.2007Binary Quantum SearchProceedings of SPIE (Quantum Information and Computation V)Vol. 6573N/A
Xu, YingKorepin, V. E. Xu, Y.2007Hierarchical Quantum SearchInternational Journal of Modern Physics BVol. 21, No. 315187-5205

Public External Presentations

Name of StudentList of AuthorsYearTitle of PresentationName of MeetingLocation
Berlijn, TomT. Berlijn, W. Yin, W. Ku2007Symmetry Respecting Wannier Functions: Gapless Charge Density Waves in 2H-Tase2 CECAM Wannier WorkshopLyon
Berlijn, TomT. Berlijn, W. Yin, W. Ku2008Phonon softening and displacement pattern in commensurate charge density wave 2H-Tase2APS March MeetingNew Orleans
Berlijn, TomT. Berlijn, W. Yin, W. Ku2007Symmetry Respecting Wannier Functions: Gapless Charge Density Waves in 2H-Tase2 CMSN PCSCS Coordination MeetingDavis
Boyle, KieranBoyle, K. for the PHENIX Collaboration2007Recent PHENIX Results2007 RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY
Boyle, KieranBoyle, K. for the PHENIX Collaboration2007Accessing Gluon Polarization through the Measurement of Double Helicity Asymmetry in Neutral Pion Production in Polarized pp Collisions [POSTER]2007 RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY
Chen, Chin-haoChen, C. H. (for PHENIX collabration)2007Decomposition of awayside components of dijet correlation in Au+Au collisions at $sqrt{S_{NN}}=200$ GeVAPS DNP Meeting Newport News, Virginia
Chen, Chin-haoChen, C. H. (for PHENIX collabration)2008Decomposition of awayside components of dijet correlation in Au+Au collisions at $sqrt{S_{NN}}=200$ GeV at PHENIXAPS April MeetingSt. Louis, Missouri
Dahms, TorstenDahms, T.2007Measurements of the dilepton continuum in p+p collisions at the PHENIX experiment at RHICAPS Division of Nuclear Physics, Fall MeetingNewport News, VA
Dahms, TorstenDahms, T.2008Measurements of thermal photons in heavy ion collisions with PHENIXQuark Matter - 20th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus Nucleus CollisionsJaipur, India
Dahms, TorstenDahms, T.2008Measurements of thermal photons and the dielectron continuum with PHENIXHot and Dense Matter in the RHIC-LHC EraMumbai, India
Dusling, Kevin2007Thermal Dimuon Yields: Comparison with NA60 results at 158 GeV/nucleonWorkshop on Electromagnetic Probes of Strongly Interacting ECT* at Villa Tambosi, Trento, Italy
Faherty, JackieFaherty, J., Burgasser, A., Cruz, K., Shara, M., Walter, F.2007The Brown Dwark Kinematics ProjectInternational Astronomical Union Symposim 248Shanghai, China
Gadway, BryceGADWAY, B.R. , GALVEZ, E.J.2007Testing Hidden-Variable Theorems with Single PhotonsDLS of APS - LS XXIIISan Jose, CA
Gadway, BryceGADWAY, B.R.2008Testing Hidden-Variable Theorems with Single-Photon Entangled StatesAPS March MeetingNew Orleans, LA
Goodson, JeremiahYurkewicz, A., Goodson, J.J.2008Muon corrections[in MET]Hadronic Calibration WorkshopTucson, Arizona
Herner, KennethHERNER, K.2008A Search for SuperSymmetric Higgs Bosons in btautau Final StatesAmerican Physical Society April MeetingSt. Louis, MO
Holt, JeremyHolt, J. W., Brown, G. E., Holt, J. D., Kuo, T. T. S.2007Medium-modified nucleon-nucleon interactionsBerkeley School of Collective DynamicsLawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA
Holt, JeremyHolt, J. W., Brown, G. E., Kuo, T. T. S., Holt, J. D., Machleidt, R.2007Carbon-14 beta decay with Brown-Rho-scaled NN interactionsNuclear Many-Body Approaches for the 21st CenturyINT, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Holt, JeremyHolt, J. W.2007Applications of medium-modified nuclear interactionsNuclear Theory SeminarRutgers University
Holt, JeremyHolt, J. W.2008In-medium nuclear interactions and the carbon-14 dating beta decayNuclear Theory SeminarTechnical University of Munich
Jan, SteinbrenerSteinbener, J.2007Theory of a unified field: Standard file formats and subroutine libraries for diffraction imagingSynchrotron Image-Data Format WorkshopBNL, Upton NY
Kamin, JasonAnderson, W.; Azmoun, B.; Chi, C.-Y.; Citron, Z.; Dubey, A.; Durham, J. M.; Fraenkel, Z.; Hemmick, T.; Kamin, J.; Kozlov, A.; Milov, A.; Naglis, M.; Pisani, R.; Ravinovich, I.; Sakaguchi, T.; Sharma, D.; Sickles, A.; Tserruya, I.; Woody, C.2007Understanding the gain characteristics of GEMs inside the PHENIX Hadron Blind DetectorIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium 2007Honolulu, HI
Longobardi, LuigiBennett, D.A., Longobardi, L., Patel, V., Chen, W., Lukens, J.E.2007RF-SQUID qubit readout with a fast flux pulseInternational Superconductive Electronics ConferenceWashington, DC
Longobardi, LuigiLongobardi, L., Bennett D.A., Patel,V., Lukens, J.E.ennett, 2008Macroscopic Resonant Tunneling Above the Crossover Temperature in a rf SQUIDAPS March MeetingNew Orleans, LA
Longobardi, LuigiBennett D.A., Longobardi, L., Patel,V., Averin, D., Lukens, J.E.2008Measurements of Decoherence in rf SQUID QubitsAPS March MeetingNew Orleans, LA
Means, NathanNathan Means2007Sivers AnalysisPHENIX FocusBNL
Moreno-mendez, EnriqueMoreno Mendez, Enrique2007Black Hole Binaries as Sources of Long Soft Gamma-Ray Burst and Hypernova ExplosionsDoctoral Training Programme: Physics of Compact StarsECT*, Trento, Italy
Nichols, SarahNichols, S.R., Pearson, B.J., and Weinacht, T.C.2007Molecular Fragmentation Driven by Ultrafast Dynamic Ionic ResonancesGordon Research Conference: Quantum Control of Light and MatterNewport, RI
Nichols, SarahWeinacht, T.C., and Nichols, S.R.2008Multidimensional wave packet dynamics in ultrafast molecular fragmentationAmerican Chemical Society National MeetingNew Orleans, LA
Patu, IonelVladimir E korepin, Ovidiu I. Patu2007XXX Spin Chain: from Bethe Solution to Open ProblemsSolvay workshop BETHE ANSATZ: 75 YEARS LATER,Brussels, Belgium
Pertot, DanielSchiller, R., Albert, S., Pertot, D., Sproles, D., Greif, D., Hansen, A., Schneble, D.2007BEC Apparatus for Optical Lattice ExperimentsDAMOP 2007Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Rameau, JonathanRameau J.D., Yang H.B., Gu G., Johnson P.D.2008A Laser Based ARPES Study of the Nodal Region of the CupratesAPS March MeetingNew Orleans
Reeves, Jason2008Neutral Atom LithographyDAMOPPenn. State University
Wei, RuiRui Wei2007Design and Performance of Reaction Plane Detector in PHENIXAPS Division of Nuclear Physics, Fall MeetingNewport News, VA
Wei, RuiRui Wei2008Azimuthal Anisotropy Measurement of Neutral Pions in 200GeV AuAu Collisions at PHENIXAPS April MeetingSt. Louis

Post-graduate Appointments

Name of StudentJob TitleHiring InstitutionLocation
Dusling, KevinResearch AssociateBrookhaven National LaboratoryUpton New York
Holt, JeremyPostdoctoral Research AssistantTechnical University of MunichGarching, Germany
Sun, TaoPostdocSISSATrieste, Italy