Trainers

Current Trainers

Thad Walker, PI
Zayneb Yardim, graduate student
Susan Sorenson, graduate student
Mike Bulatowicz, graduate student

Former Trainers and their Whereabouts

• • Daniel Thrasher, Continuous Comagnetometry Using Transversely Polarized Xe Isotopes, 2017, Sandia National Laboratory
  • Elena Zhivun, postdoc, Magnetometry, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Matthew Ebert, Neutral Atom Ensemble Qubits and Rydberg Blockade, 2017, IonQ
  • Joshua Weber, postdoc, NMR Exotica, UW-Madison 
  • Zack Deland, Advances in Fetal Magnetocardiography Using SERF Magnetometers, 2017, EPIC
  • Ibrahim Sulai, Magnetometry, Bucknell University
  • Anna Korver, Towards an NMR Oscillator, 2015, New Hope Tutorials
  • Matt Kauer, postdoc, magnetometry, WiPAC
  • Robert Wyllie IV, The Development of a Multichannel Atomic Magnetometer Array for Fetal Magnetocardiography, 2012, Georgia Tech Research Corportation
  • Brian R. Lancor, Studies of the Efficiency of Spin Exchange Optical Pumping, 2011, Edgewood College
  • Larry Isenhower, Demonstration of Rydberg Blockade and a Neutral Atom CNOT Gate, 2010, Abilene Christian University
  • Erich Urban, Coherent Manipulation of Single Atom Qubits Using Rydberg States, 2009, Aurora Oncology
  • Erik G. Brekke, Stimulated Emission Studies of Ultracold Rydberg Atoms, 2009, St. Norbert College
  • Jason O. Day, Progress Towards the Creation of an On-Demand Single Photon Source Using Rydberg Atoms, 2008, DOD Basic Research Office
  • Zhimin Li, Development of a Parametrically Modulated SERF Magnetometer, 2006, Northwestern University
  • Earl D. Babcock, Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping with Alkali-Metal Vapors, 2005, Forshungszentrum Julich
  • Jennifer S. Strabley, Demonstration of Dense Mesoscopic Atomic Clouds in a Holographic Atom Trap, 2004, Quantinuum Inc.
  • Bien Chann, Studies of Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping, 2003, Panasonic
  • Raymond T. R. Newell, Cold and Dense Clouds of Atoms in a Holographic Atom Trap, 2003, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Ian A. Nelson, Physics of Practical Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping, 2001, Columbia-St. Marys
  • Stephen J. Kadlecek, Spin Relaxation in Alkali Vapors, 1999, University of Pennsylvania
  • Charles Sukenik, postdoc, Cold Collisions, Old Dominion University
  • R. Scott Schappe, postdoc, Electron Collisions with MOTs, Lake Forest University
  • R. C. Nesnidal, Ultracold Collision Measurements in Low Intensity Magneto-Optical Traps, 1999, Science from Scientists
  • Samir Bali, postdoc, cold atoms, Miami University
  • R. S. Williamson, III, Magneto-Optical Trapping of Potassium Isotopes, 1997, Leonardo DRS
  • Paul Feng, Spin Polarized Spontaneous Force Traps, 1996, Stryker
  • Dominik Hoffmann, Light-induced collisions of ultracold rubidium atoms, 1996, SAIC