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The Kapteyn-Murnane Group

Principal Investigators - Group Leader

  • Margaret Murnane

    Dr. Margaret Murnane is a Fellow at JILA and a member of the Department of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado. She received her B.S and M.S. degrees from University College Cork, Ireland, and her Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, and joined the faculty of physics at Washington State University in 1990....

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  • Henry Kapteyn

    Dr. Henry C. Kapteyn has been a Professor at the Department of Physics and a Fellow of JILA, at the University of Colorado since 1999. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at the University of Michigan, and an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Physics at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in...

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Senior Scientists and Research Professors

  • Jorge Nicolás (Nico) Hernandez Charpak, Assistant Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer

    Nico joined STROBE as the Assistant Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer in October 2017. STROBE, an NSF Science and Technology Center, aims to advance real-time functional imaging by advancing and combining different imaging modalities (visible light, X-ray, nano-probe, electron microscopy, among others). He focuses on...

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  • Michael Gerrity, Senior Scientist

    Michael graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 with a B.S. in Physics where he worked in Todd Ditmire's group on the Texas Petawatt laser. He joined the KM group in January of 2008 and works on scaling high harmonic sources to higher photon energies. In his free time he spends a lot of time in the mountains around Boulder.

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Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Begoña Abad Mayor

    Begoña joined Kapteyn-Murnane group as a Research Associate in September 2016. She obtained her BSc degree in Physics and MSc Degree in Applied Physics with major orientation in nanomaterials in 2011 from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). She joined the Thermoelectric Materials group at Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid belonging to Spanish National Research Council (...

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  • Amitava Adak

    Amitava grew up at a rural area in the eastern part of India. He earned his BSc degree in Physics from Jadavpur University, India in 2009. After that he completed his MSc in Physics and PhD in Ultrafast Dynamics in High Intensity Femtosecond Laser-Plasma Interaction from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India in 2015. He joined the KM group in March...

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  • Chen-Ting Liao

    Ting grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. He received his B.S. in atmospheric and space sciences, and his M.S. degree in physics at the National Central University in Taiwan. While there, he studied plasma physics. After working in industries for a while, he moved to the University of Arizona in 2010 to pursue his Ph.D. degree in the College of Optical Sciences. In Arizona, he worked with Prof. Arvinder...

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  • William Peters

    Bill grew up in Colorado Springs, CO and has not strayed too far from home, moving all the way to Boulder to graduate with a BA in biochemistry in 2004. He then moved to CU-Denver to pursue an MS (awarded in 2008) in organic chemistry under Douglas Dyckes. In the Dyckes group he worked on the synthesis of a novel biomimetic bis-amino acid and grew accustomed to smelly solvents. Before...

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  • Xun Shi

    Xun grew up in Anhui, China. He graduated from Wuhan University in 2010 with a B.S. in physics. He then moved to the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences to pursue a Ph.D. with Prof. Hong Ding. His Ph.D. thesis is about angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study of the Fe-based superconductors. Xun joined the Kapteyn-Murnane group as a research associate in February...

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Graduate Students

  • Charlie Bevis

    Charlie was not born, but very much bred in Boulder, Colorado. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder for his undergraduate studies where he worked with Prof. Steve Cundiff, studying nonlinear interactions between matter and ultrashort laser pulses. In 2011, Charlie graduated at the top of his class, summa cum laude, with distinction with a BA in physics and a minor in mathematics....

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  • Adam Blonsky

    Adam grew up in Wausau, Wisconsin and earned his Bachelors in Physics, Math, and Astrophysics at the University of Wisconsin Madison in the spring of 2015. While there he did biomaterials research with Pupa Gilbert on nacre and other hard biominerals. In the fall of 2015 he started the Ph.D. program at CU Boulder in Physics. The following summer he joined the KM group and now focuses on...

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  • Nathan Brooks

    Nathan grew up just a few miles from Boulder in Superior, Colorado. He attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, graduating summa cum laude in 2016 with a B.S. in Physics and minor in Computer Science. As an undergraduate, he worked as a software engineer for the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory as part of the OSIRIS-REx NASA mission, and researched atomic polarizabilities via atom...

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  • David Couch

    David grew up near Nashville, TN and attended Rice University in Houston, TX, graduating with a B.S. in chemical physics and a B.A. in psychology. As an undergraduate, he worked on fluorescence of molecules in order to study cold chemical reactions. David joined the KM group as a graduate student in July, 2013. His hobbies include hiking, skiing, drumming, and reading fantasy novels.

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  • Kevin Dorney

    Kevin Dorney grew up in Enon, Ohio, a small rural town outside of the city of Dayton. Originally attracted to biological, “squishy” things, he pursued undergraduate studies at Wright State University (WSU), earning bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Chemistry in 2012. Shortly after graduating, he found himself more attracted to the physical side of science, and continued his education by...

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  • Jennifer Ellis

    Jennifer grew up in Austin, TX. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in both physics and astronomy. Her undergraduate research was primarily in astronomy, studying white dwarf stars. After realizing she loved the more hands on aspects of experimental research she decided to pursue a PhD in physics, and joined the KM group in the summer of 2012. When not in the lab...

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  • Yuka Esashi

    Yuka is from Kyoto, Japan. She received her B.A. in Physics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 2017. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the characterization and generation of non-diffracting beams. She started her Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado Boulder and joined the Kapteyn-Murnane group in fall of 2017, where she is currently working in the imaging team. When not in the...

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  • Travis Frazer

    Travis grew up in Big Creek, a small mountain town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.  He pursued undergraduate studies at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, graduating summa cum laude in 2013 with a B.S. in physics, and a minor in math.  While at Cal Poly, Travis performed experimental research on novel optical dipole traps for quantum computation applications, and theoretical research on...

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  • Christian Gentry

    Christian attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ where he received a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics with magna cum laude honors. During his undergraduate years, he worked with Weigang Wang on nanosphere lithography for use in studying magnetic materials. He also spent some time working on graphene as well as soft-condensed matter simulations. He began his PhD program at the...

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  • Guan Gui

    Guan comes from Hefei, China and received his B.S. in physics from Peking University in 2016. During his undergraduate time, he worked on design and fabrication of Organic LED device. When he found more interest in ultrafast laser experiment, he joined the KM group in the summer of 2016. Now he is working in the molecule lab.  Guan likes many kinds of indoor and outdoor sports, including...

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  • Peter Johnsen

    Peter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in physics from Princeton University. He was a political studies fellow at the Hudson Institute and wrote his undergraduate thesis on quantum nonlinear optics in superconducting circuits with Professor Andrew Houck. After graduating, Peter joined a small startup as a data scientist, but left to begin...

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  • Robert Karl

    Robert grew up in Redding, Connecticut. He then made his way to Rochester, New York to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology. While there, he studied the dynamics of silver crystals in electrochemical systems using X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy. In the spring of 2014, he graduated summa cum laude honors with a B.S. in Physics with minors in Mathematics, Optical Science, and...

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  • Johua Knobloch

    Joshua spent his childhood living and working on a family farm in rural Illinois. In the fall of 2010, he enrolled at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana; in addition to classes, he worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant for the beginning physics courses, and he designed and constructed a project which utilized seismic diffraction to monitor fluid invasion in fracture apertures...

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  • Drew Morrill

    Drew grew up in the Pacific Northwestern corner of Washington State. He graduated from Brown University in 2013 with a degree in chemical physics, and joined the CU Boulder physics Ph.D. program in the summer of 2016. In the interim three years, he worked as a research assistant at the Max-Born-Institut in Berlin, Germany and at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, and traveled...

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  • Quynh Nguyen

    Quynh graduated magna cum laude from Temple University in 2014 with a B.S. in Chemistry. As an undergraduate, she studied the excited state dynamics of DNA fluorescent base analogues using ab initio methods. Post-graduation, she worked on optical lattices and theoretical modeling of thin lubricant films at the Institute for Molecular Science in Japan and Argonne National Lab. She started...

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  • Christina Porter

    Christina is from Portland Oregon and completed her B.A. degree in Physics at Reed College in 2013. She is interested in novel imaging techniques, especially with applications in biology and chemistry. She received an M.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in 2014, where her research was on mid-infrared microscopy capable of sub-wavelength resolution using a super-...

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  • Phoebe Tengdin

    Phoebe received her B.A. in physics from Mount Holyoke College in 2013. During her undergraduate years she worked on various research projects including magnetospheric dynamics, nanowire fabrication, and organic photovoltaics. In the fall of 2013, she started her Ph.D. in Optics in the Electrical Engineering department at CU. During her first few years at CU she worked with Dana Anderson's...

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  • Bin Wang

    Bin Wang grew up in Yellow Mountain in China. He pursued undergraduate studies at University of Science and Technology of China. While there, he performed theoretical research on spin transportation in Double-Quantum-Dot systems. After graduating in 2016 with a B.S. in physics with honors, he joined the KM group in the fall of 2016 to work on nanoimaging. Outside of science, Bin enjoys reading...

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  • Wenjing You

    Wenjing grew up in Yangzhou, China and graduated with B.S. in Physics at Nanjing University in 2015. She joined the KM group in the summer of 2016. She is now focusing her research on photoemission spectroscopy. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and hiking.

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  • Yingchao Zhang

    Yingchao grew up in Qingdao, China. He went to Xian Jiaotong University and received Bachelor of Science degree there in 2016. During his undergraduate study, he studied low dimensional materials using optical techniques such as near field optical microscope. Now, he works on angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and tries to reveal the novel properties of quantum materials....

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  • Dmitriy Zusin

    Dmitriy received his B.S. in Physics from the Belarusian State University in Minsk, Belarus in 2009. His undergraduate thesis focused on Bessel beam propagation in anisotropic crystals. Upon graduation and through the summer of 2012, Dmitriy worked at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, where he was studying diode-pumped continuous-wave (CW) Raman lasers. In the fall of 2010 and the...

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Undergraduate Students

  • Dylan Zollinger

    Dylan Zollinger grew up in Pleasanton, California, which is 40 minutes east of San Francisco. After he attended high school, he attended Chabot and Las Positas Community Colleges and competed for the Chabot Track Team. After two years, he graduated with an Associative of Arts Degree with an Emphasis in Math and Science with summa cum laude honors. From there he transferred to CU Boulder as a...

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Kapteyn-Murnane Group Alumni

Alphabetically by Surname

Adra (Tory) Carr
Current Affiliation:
IBM
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Daniel Adams, Research Professor
Current Affiliation:
Colorado School of Mines
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Paul Arpin
Current Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Scientist, University of Toronto
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Sterling Backus
Current Affiliation:
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), KMLabs
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Alon Bahabad
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physical Electronics, Tel-Aviv University
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Randy Bartels
Current Affiliation:
Professor, Colorado State University
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Michael Bauer
Current Affiliation:
Associate Professor, University of Kiel
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Zenghu Chang
Current Affiliation:
Professor, University of Central Florida
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Cong Chen
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Ming-Chang Chen
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, National Tsing-Hua University
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Scott Christiansen
Current Affiliation:
Business Development, Phoenix Nuclear Labs, LLC
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Oren Cohen
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Technion
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Seth Cousin
Current Affiliation:
KMLabs
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Chengyuan Ding
Current Affiliation:
Cymer
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Franklin Dollar
Current Affiliation:
Asst. Professor, University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
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Charles Durfee
Current Affiliation:
Professor, Colorado School of Mines
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Tingting Fan
Current Affiliation:
Product Development Engineer at KLA-Tencor
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Alison Ferris
Current Affiliation:
Undergraduate, Columbia University
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Etienne Gagnon
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College
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Ben Galloway
Current Affiliation:
R&D Optical Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories
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Dennis Gardner
Current Affiliation:
Alaire Technologies and NRL
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David Gaudiosi
Current Affiliation:
Staff Applications Engineer at Coherent Inc.
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Dominique Gaudyn
Current Affiliation:
Test Engineer at Amazon Prime Air
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Erez Gershgoren
Current Affiliation:
Boston University
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Emily Gibson
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor - Bioengineering
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Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan
Current Affiliation:
Surya Conversions
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Patrik Grychtol
Current Affiliation:
European XFEL
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Daniel Hickstein
Current Affiliation:
NIST
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Craig Hogle
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Kathy Hoogeboom-Pot
Current Affiliation:
Intel, Santa Clara
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Donna Howland
Current Affiliation:
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
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Chung-Po Huang
Current Affiliation:
Qualcomm
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Ellen Keister
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Earlham College
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Ronny Knut
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Chan La-o-vorakiat
Current Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Singapore
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Tim Lei
Current Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, University of Denver
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Wen Li
Current Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Wayne State University
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Qing Li
Current Affiliation:
KLA Tencor
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Ariel Libertun
Current Affiliation:
Principal at BD4STEM, ECEE
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Robynne Lock
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University - Commerce
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Amy Lytle
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Physics, Franklin & Marshall College
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Chris Manusco
Current Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Michigan State University
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Leigh Martin
Current Affiliation:
Graduate student, Berkeley
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Stefan Mathias
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Piotr Matyba
Current Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Umea University, Dept of Physics
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Luis Miaja-Avila
Current Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Researcher, NIST
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Lino Misoguti
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Institute of Physics of Sao Carlos, Brazil
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Damiano Nardi
Current Affiliation:
PTD Yield Engineer, Intel
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Ariel Paul
Current Affiliation:
Development Coordinator at PhET Interactive Simulations
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Justin Peatross
Current Affiliation:
Professor, Brigham Young University
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Tenio Popmintchev
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego
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Dimitar Popmintchev
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Predrag Ranitovic
Current Affiliation:
Researcher - Physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Daisy Raymondson
Current Affiliation:
Customer Solutions Engineering Manager, KMLabs
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Kendall Read
Current Affiliation:
Marketing Consultant at MicroPhage, Inc.
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Tyler Reichanadter
Current Affiliation:
JILA/University of Colorado
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Andrew Rundquist
Current Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Physics at Hamline University
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Guido Saathoff
Current Affiliation:
Max Plank Institute, Garching
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Richard Sandberg
Current Affiliation:
Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratories
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Arvinder Sandhu
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
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Miranda Schatten
Current Affiliation:
TRW
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Matt Seaberg
Current Affiliation:
Associate Staff Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Elisabeth Shanblatt
Current Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Mayo Clinic
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Vandana Sharma
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor in Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad
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Robert Shelton
Current Affiliation:
Nomadics Inc.
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Mark Siemens
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Physics, University of Denver
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Greg Taft
Current Affiliation:
Visiting Associate Professor at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University
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Zhensheng Tao
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Carson Teale
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Isabell Thomann
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
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Sarah Thomson
Current Affiliation:
CTI Laser Inc. (Lockheed)
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Ra'anan Tobey
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, University of Groningen
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Emrah Turgut
Current Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University
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Adrienne Van Allen
Current Affiliation:
Undergraduate, Stanford University
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Nicholas Wagner
Current Affiliation:
NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, NCAR
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Tom Weinacht
Current Affiliation:
Associate Professor, SUNY Stony Brook
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Laura Wooldridge
Current Affiliation:
JILA/University of Colorado at Boulder
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Andrea Wuest
Current Affiliation:
SEMATECH
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Wei Xiong
Current Affiliation:
Assistant Prof., University of Ca, San Diego
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Xiaoshi Zhang
Current Affiliation:
Scientist and Production manager at KMlabs
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Bosheng Zhang
Current Affiliation:
Trader of photons for information and energy at KLA-Tencor
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Xibin Zhou
Current Affiliation:
Senior Engineer, SEMATECH
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