Past members of W&M Experimental High Energy Physics Group

A listing of past members of the experimental high energy physics group at W&M.

Emeritus Faculty

Prof. Morty Eckhause
Prof. John Kane
Prof. Bob Welsh

Postdoctoral Scholars

Dr. Edgar Valencia (2016 – 2019)
Dr. Alex Radovic (2013 – 2018)
Dr. Mark Mathis (2010 – 2012)
Dr. Joe Walding (2010 – 2012)
Dr. Francisco Yumiceva (2004 – 2006)

Ph.D. students

Dr. Anne Norrick ‘18
Dr. Ji Liu ‘17
Dr. Leo Aliaga ‘16
Dr. Joshua DeVan ‘16
Dr. Dun Zhang ‘16
Dr. Alena DeVan ‘15
Dr. Stephen Coleman ‘11

Masters Students

Lauren Liegey ‘17
Rita Schneider ‘06

Senior Thesis

Derek Fang (senior thesis ‘20) DUNE U/V board production industrialization
Sydney Ostrom (senior thesis ‘20) Analysis of hadronic punch through in MINERvA test beam data
Jessica Sydnor (honors thesis ‘19) Calibration of the MINERvA high energy test beam
[2018 Frank Hohl Memorial Award]
Kevin Nelson (honors thesis ‘18) Muon tracking, calibration and pion charge ex-
change cross-sections in the LARIAT TPC
[2017 E. G. Clark Memorial Scholarship, 2018 Don Harrison Award]
Ashley Yoon, Ridge Poole, William Fesjian (EPAD senior project ‘18) Detector camera for DUNE
Yiyang Liu (senior thesis ‘18) MINERvA double differential inclusive muon neutrino charged-current cross section
Paola Vidal (honors thesis ‘18) Studies of the NuMI flux prediction; constraining
the NuMI flux by combining horn-on and -off data
Benjamin Kinkaid (honors thesis ‘17) Portable Battery Powered NIM Logic Pulse
Generator
Ciaran Buteux (senior thesis ‘17) A full-scale high voltage test for the protoDUNE detector
Will Bergen (honors thesis ‘15)
[2013 F. Holn Memorial Physics Award, 2014 E. Gary Clark Award, 2015 Don Harrison Award, 2015 Thomas Jefferson Prize in Natural Philosophy]
Cora Karmitsos (honors thesis ‘15) Composition of the FTBF beam via time of flight
Matthew Stephens (senior thesis ‘14) Design, implementation, and performance
of an FPGA based trigger for LARIAT
Matthew Loftus (honors thesis ’13) Investigation of Radiation Detectors with Silicon Photomultiplier Readout
Matthew Coleman (senior thesis ’11) GEM detector development
Aaron Kearns (senior thesis ‘11) Testing optical fibers for the PCAL detector for CLAS12
Colton O’Connor (honors thesis ‘10) Analysis of data from the MINERvA engineering run and the MINERvA test beam detector
[2010 Alumni Award]
Mathew Kantner (senior thesis ‘10) Quality testing of the MINERvA outer detector scintillator towers and the Mtest test beam detector
Andrew Leister (honors thesis ‘09) The MINERvA Test Beam Experiment
[2008 E. Gary Clark Memorial Scholarship, 2009 Don Harrison Award]
Aaron Krajeski (senior thesis ‘09) Quality and Testing of the MINERvA Scintillation Counters
Ian Howley (senior thesis ‘08) A Test of MINERvA Detector Planes in the SOS Spectrometer at JLAB and a Test Beam Detector
Kelly Sassin (honors thesis ‘07) Assembly Processes for Scintillator Planes in the MINERvA Neutrino Detector
Brian Wolthuis (senior thesis ‘07) Development of Scintillation Counters for the MINERvA Detector
Kelly Sassin (honors thesis ‘07) Assembly Processes for Scintillator Planes in the MINERvA Neutrino Detector
Daniel Damiani (honors thesis ‘06) Momentum Analysis of Cosmogenic Muons in the MINOS Detectors
[2006 Alumni Award]
Meghan Snyder (senior thesis ’06) Design of the Scintillator Counters for the MINERvA Neutrino Detector

Undergraduate research students

Chuning (“Laura”) Xiao (2019)
Sydney Ostrom (2017 – 2019) Monroe Scholar
Devin Moore (2016 – 2017)
Paola Vidal (2016)
Jessica Sydnor (2016)
Kevin Nelson (2015 – 2017)
David Wood (2015)
Matthew Stephens (2013)
Cora Karmitsos (2013 – 2014)
Will Bergen (2011– 2014) Monroe Scholar
Michael Jiang (2011) Monroe Scholar
Mathew Loftus (2011 – 2012)
Matthew Coleman (2010 - 2011)
Danny Brooker 2010
Sabina Samipour (2009)
Alexandra Volpert (2008 – 2009)
Emily Goodale (2008 – 2009)
David Edmondson (2008 – 2009)
Aaron Krajeski (2008 – 2009)
Bruce Pollock (2008 – 2009)
Andrew Leister (2008)
Colton O'Conner (2007 – 2008) Murray 1693 Scholar
Ian Howley (2007)
Kevin Sapp (2007 – 2008)
Kelly Sassin (2006)
Trevor Harrison (2007)
Daniel East (2005 – 2006)
Daniel Damiani (2005)
Meghan Snyder (2004 – 2005)
Keith Bechtol (2004 – 2005)
2006 E. Gary Clark Memorial Scholarship, 2007 Don Harrison Award