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Current students<\/h3>\n

Yazen Oubari ’26<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas Tsekerides ’26<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ahmed Moussa ’27<\/strong> (ADRF fellow)<\/p>\n

Winter Study 2022<\/h3>\n

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(left to right: Da-Yeon Koh ’24, Jonathan Geller ’24, Katie Brockmeyer ’24, Isabel Bushway ’23, Benny Weng ’22)<\/p>\n

Former thesis students<\/h3>\n

Quinn Wilson ’24<\/strong><\/p>\n

Senior thesis:\u00a0 Optimization of a Chirped Pulse Amplifier and Characterization of Ultrafast Pulses<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Jonathan Geller ’24<\/strong> Physics PhD program at MIT (Fall 2024-)<\/p>\n

Senior thesis:\u00a0 Theory, Production, and Characterization of Tungsten Nanoemitter Tips as Ultrafast Electron Sources<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Katya Ulyanov ’24<\/strong> Physics PhD program at McGill University (Fall 2024-)<\/p>\n

Senior thesis:\u00a0 Optimization of a Large Mode Area Yb:fiber Chirped-Pulse Amplifier for Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Experiments<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Benny Weng ’22<\/strong> Applied Physics PhD program at Stanford University (Fall 2022–)<\/p>\n

Senior thesis:\u00a0Construction and Characterization of an Yb:fiber Chirped Pulse Amplifier toward Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Experiments<\/em><\/p>\n

Ilana Albert ’21<\/strong> Physics PhD program at Northeastern University (Fall 2021– )<\/p>\n

Senior thesis: Exploration of graphene: A study into its properties and creation<\/em><\/p>\n

Declan Daly ’21<\/strong> Physics PhD program at the University of Maryland (Fall 2021–)<\/p>\n

Senior thesis: Frequency resolved optical gating: measuring the world’s smallest ruler<\/em><\/p>\n

Joshua Reynolds ’21<\/strong> Applied Physics PhD program at Stanford University (Fall 2021–)<\/p>\n

Senior thesis: Mode-locked fiber lasers for ultrafast electron diffraction experiments<\/em><\/p>\n

Heather Kurtz ’20<\/strong> Associate Scientist at Sinovia Technologies (2020-2022), Materials Science PhD program at Northwestern University (Fall 2022–)<\/p>\n

Senior thesis: Ultrafast, ultrasmall, ultrathin: nanoemitter sources and graphite samples for ultrafast electron diffraction<\/em><\/p>\n

Iona Binnie ’19<\/span><\/strong> Physics PhD program at University of Colorado, Boulder (Fall 2019– ), NSF GRF
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Senior thesis: Progress towards ultrafast electron diffraction with nanoemitter sources<\/em><\/p>\n

Emily Stump ’18\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Physics PhD program at Cornell University (Fall 2019– ), NSF GRF
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Senior thesis: Development of laser systems towards ultrafast electron diffraction<\/em><\/p>\n

Former student projects…<\/h3>\n

Summer 2021<\/em> Nelly Lin-Schweitzer ’21<\/strong> simulated electrostatic deflectors<\/p>\n

Summer 2018<\/em>\u00a0Patrick Postec ’21<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Abdullah Nasir ’20<\/strong>\u00a0designed an ultrahigh vacuum system for electron source characterization.<\/p>\n

Summer 2017<\/em>\u00a0Ian Shen ’19<\/strong> worked on spectrometer control with LabVIEW.<\/p>\n

Spring 2017<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Kirby Gordon ’20<\/strong> and\u00a0Sam Wischnewsky ’20<\/strong> set up a titanium sapphire oscillator. \u00a0Sam also designed and machined parts for the etching station under the supervision of Michael Taylor in the Bronfman Science Center workshop.<\/p>\n

Summer 2016<\/em> Ellery Galvin ’18<\/strong>\u00a0and Iona Binnie ’19<\/strong> built an etching station for producing tungsten field emitters.<\/p>\n

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Current students Yazen Oubari ’26 Thomas Tsekerides ’26 Ahmed Moussa ’27 (ADRF fellow) Winter Study 2022 (left to right: Da-Yeon Koh ’24, Jonathan Geller ’24, Katie Brockmeyer ’24, Isabel Bushway ’23, Benny Weng ’22) Former thesis students Quinn Wilson ’24 Senior thesis:\u00a0 Optimization of a Chirped Pulse Amplifier and Characterization of Ultrafast Pulses Jonathan Geller … Continue reading People<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/electron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/electron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/electron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/electron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/electron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":91,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/electron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/electron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/electron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}