Students

The full list of people of the Nuclear Physics Group is here. Students doing their theses with me are below.

Graduate Students

Ota Kukral
Graduate Student
CMS Experiment at LHC.
Interests: Quarkonium suppression.
Santona Tuli
Graduate Student
CMS Experiment at LHC.
Interests: Upsilons in Cold Nuclear Matter.
Graham Waegel
Graduate Student
CMS Experiment at LHC.
Interests: Upsilon correlations.
Jared Jay
Graduate Student
CMS Experiment at LHC.
Interests: Upsilon azimuthal anisotropy.

Group Members Presenting Results

Rylan Conway At QM12

Rylan Conway, Two-Particle jet-like Correlations from CMS. Quark Matter 2012.

Guillermo Breto Rangel at QM12

Guillermo Breto Rangel, Bottomonium Suppression from CMS. Quark Matter 2012.

Evan Sangaline, Charged particle spectra in the RHIC beam energy scan from STAR. Quark Matter 2012.

Anthony Kesich, Upsilons from STAR. Hard Probes 2012.

Rosi Reed, Upsilons from STAR. Quark Matter 2011.

Jorge Robles, Weak bosons from CMS. Quark Matter 2011.


Graduates

Chad Flores
Ph.D. 2017.
CMS Experiment at CERN.
Thesis: Strong Suppression of Upsilon Excited States in Pb+Pb Collisions at sqrt( sNN) = 5.02 TeV with the CMS Detector.

Product Engineer at Lam Research

Rylan Conway
Ph.D. 2015
CMS Experiment at CERN.
Thesis: Jet-quenching signatures from very-high pT dihadron correlations in PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV with the CMS detector.

Software Development Engineer at Amazon.

Michael Gardner
Ph.D. 2014
CMS Experiment at CERN.
Thesis: Z boson production in PbPb in dimuon and dielectron channels.

Data Scientist at Reddit.

Anthony Kesich
Ph.D. 2014
STAR Experiment at RHIC.
Thesis: Upsilon production in d+Au, Au+Au

Software Engineer at Facebook.

Guillermo Breto Rangel
Ph.D. 2014
CMS Experiment at CERN.
Thesis: Upsilon production and suppression in PbPb.

Senior Data Scientist at Bloomberg.

Jorge Robles
Ph.D. 2011.
CMS Experiment at CERN
Thesis: Z0 production in Pb+Pb collisions at CMS.

Systems Engineer, Decision Sciences. Physics Lab Instructor, Southwestern College.
Rosi Reed
Ph. D., 2011.
STAR Experiment at RHIC.
Thesis: Upsilon production at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV in p+p and Au+Au collisions at STAR.

Professor at Lehigh University.


Other Members, Past and Present

Postdocs

  • Sevil Salur (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2009-2011). Faculty member, Rutgers University.
  • Haidong Liu. (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2008-2010.) Faculty member, Zhengzhou University.
  • Debasish Das. (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2007-2009.)
  • Pibero Djawotho. (Postdoctoral Scholar, Indiana University, 2004-2006.) Postdoctoral Scholar, Texas A&M University.

Undergraduate Students.

  • Maine Christos (REU Summer Student 2017) REU paper.
  • Daniel Dilone (REU Summer Student 2015) REU Paper.
  • Alex Dorsett, UC Davis. Senior Honor's Thesis.
  • Brandon McKinzie (REU Summer Student 2014). Undergraduate at UC Berkeley. REU paper.
  • Erin Hodson (REU Summer Student 2014). Undergraduate at UT El Paso.
  • Jessica Howard, UC Davis
  • Bethany Baldwin Pulcini, UC Davis
  • Joshua Rowan, UC Davis
  • Luis Arturo Aleman, Mexico REU Summer Student 2014.
  • Magdalena Jimenez, UC Davis.
  • Gabriel Bonilla, UC Davis Senior Thesis
  • Alex Blaine, UC Davis
  • Jesus Rives, UC Davis. Graduate student at Rutgers.
  • Alberto Candela, Mexico REU Summer Student 2013.
  • Kyle Bilton, REU Summer Student 2013.
  • Vincent Carpenter. UC Davis
  • Todd Kinghorn. UC Davis. Graduate student at UC Davis.
  • Rachel Domagalski. (REU Summer Student, 2012). Undergraduate at UC Berkeley.
  • Gregory Wimsatt. UC Davis. Graduate student at UC Davis.
  • Kurt Hill. UC Davis. Graduate Student at University of Colorado, Boulder.
  • Andrew Peterson. UC Davis. Graduate Student, The Ohio State University.
  • Cameron Mattie. (REU Summer Student, 2011). Undergraduate at University of Kentucky.
  • Max Bright (REU Summer Student, 2010).
  • Christopher Flores. (REU Summer Student, 2009). Graduate Student, UC Davis. (Nuclear Group. Back to being a member!)
  • Colin McEnroe. (Undergraduate student, 2007-2008). Engineer, Apple Inc.
  • Matt Caulfield. (REU Summer Student, 2008). Graduate Student, UC Davis. (High Energy Group)
  • Evan Sangaline (REU Summer Student, 2007. Ph.D. 2014)
  • Suzanne Pittman. (REU Summer Student, 2006.) Graduate Student, Harvard University.