Group Members

| From left to right: | Kelly Younge |
Mallory Traxler |
Rachel Sapiro |
Cornelius Hempel |
Rahul Mhaskar |
Varun Vaidya |
Aaron Reinhard |
Rui Zhang |
Andrew Schwarzkopf |
Brenton Knuffman |
Eric Paradis |
Professor Georg Raithel |
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| Principal investigator: | Georg Raithel | graithel@umich.edu | ||
| Post-docs: | ||||
| 2009- | Erik Power | eppower@umich.edu | Spiral Guide | |
| 2009- | Betty Slama | bslama@umich.edu | Bio-Lattice | |
| Graduate Students: | ||||
| 2008- | Andrew Schwarzkopf | adschw@umich.edu | Tip | |
| 2008- | David Anderson | anderda@umich.edu | BEC | |
| 2007- | Eric Paradis | eparadis@umich.edu | High-B | |
| 2007- | Kelly Younge | kyounge@umich.edu | Dipole-Blockade,Cryo-MOT | |
| 2007- | Mallory Traxler | traxlerm@umich.edu | Atom Laser | |
| 2005- | Rachel Sapiro | resapiro@umich.edu | Optical Lattices, BEC | |
| 2009- | Sarah Anderson | andsare@umich.edu | Cryo-MOT | |
| Undergraduate Students: | ||||
| 2009- | Karl Lundquist | klundqui@umich.edu | Atom Laser | |
| 2009- | Stefan Zigo | szigo@umich.edu | High-B | |
| 2009- | Steven Moses | samoses@umich.edu | Atom Laser | |
Former Group Members | ||||
| Years in Group | Contact [Current Affiliation] | Projects | ||
| Former Grad Students: | ||||
| 1997-2000 | Subrata Dutta | sdutta@umich.edu | Optical Lattices | |
| Torsten Geppert | University of Freiburg, Germany | |||
| 1998-2002 | Kevin Teo | kteo@radiology.ucsf.edu [Radiology, UCSF] |
Wave-Guide, Dipole-Blockade | |
| 2001-2002 | Michael Gastner | Los Alamos | ||
| 1998-2003 | David Feldbaum | feldbaum@umich.edu [Los Alamos Ntl. Labs] |
Dipole-Blockade | |
| 2003 | Huijun Kong | huijunk@umich.edu [Prof. Uher's Lab] |
Cryo-MOT | |
| 2003-2004 | Eberhard Hansis | ehansis@umich.edu [Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany] |
High-B | |
| 1999-2004 | Alisa Walz-Flannigan | alisaiw@umich.edu [Johns Hopkins University] |
Cryo-MOT | |
| 2000-2005 | Natalya Morrow | morrown@umich.edu [Medical College of Wisconsin] |
Optical Lattices | |
| 2005 | Xuhuai Zhang | zhangxh@umich.edu [Prof. Forrest's Lab] |
High-B | |
| 2002-2006 | Spencer Olson | olsonse@umich.edu [NRL] |
Atom Laser, Buzzer-MOT | |
| 2003-2006 | Jae-Hoon Choi | jaec@umich.edu [MIT] |
High-B | |
| 2001-2007 | Tara Cubel Liebisch | tcubel@umich.edu [NIST, Colorado] |
Dipole-Blockade | |
| 2002-2008 | Rui Zhang | rzz@umich.edu [Harvard] |
Optical Lattices, BEC | |
| 2004-2008 | Aaron Reinhard | aaronwr@umich.edu [Penn State] |
Dipole-Blockade | |
| 2002-2008 | Rahul Mhaskar | rmhaskar@umich.edu [Harvard] |
Atom Laser, Buzzer-MOT | |
| 2004-2008 | Brenton Knuffman | knuffman@umich.edu [NIST, Maryland] |
Cryo-MOT, High-B | |
| 2008-2009 | Melinda Morang | morangm@umich.edu [UofM School of Natural Resources and Environment] |
Atom Laser | |
| 2007-2009 | Cornelius Hempel | hempel@umich.edu [Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austria] |
Atom Laser, High-B | |
| Former Post-docs: | ||||
| 2002-2003 | Kevin Teo | teobk@umich.edu [U. Maryland] |
Dipole-Blockade, Atom Laser, Wave-Guide, Buzzer-MOT | |
| 2000-2004 | Jeffrey Guest | jrguest@anl.gov [Argonne Ntl. Labs] |
High-B, Atom Laser, Cryo-MOT, Buzzer-MOT | |
| 2007-2008 | Mudessar Shah | shahmude@umich.edu [Michigan State University] |
High-B | |
| Former Undergrads: | ||||
| 2001-2005 | Alex Povilus | povilus@berkeley.edu | High-B, Buzzer-MOT | |
| 2006 | Robert van Wesep | rvanwes@umich.edu | Atom Laser | |
| 2006-2008 | Katie Crimmins | otaku@umich.edu | Cryo-MOT | |
| 2007-2009 | Varun Vaidya | varunvai@umich.edu | Atom Laser | |
| Summer REU Students: (REU presentations) | ||||
| 1998 | Brian Williams | Carlton College | ||
| 1999 | Natalya Morrow | Eastern Michigan University | ||
| 2000 | Martin Centurion | University of Michigan | ||
| 2001 | Robert Fletcher | Georgia Tech | ||
| 2002 | Maroof Khan | |||
| 2003 | Alex Povilus | University of Michigan | ||
| 2003 | Anne Lewis | Williams College | ||
| 2003 | Robert Schabinger | University of Michigan | ||
| 2004 | Alex Povilus | University of Michigan | ||
| 2004 | Kevin Vogel | University of Nebraska at Kearney | ||
| 2005 | Peter Landry | University of Michigan | ||
| 2005 | Erik Schomburg | University of Michigan | ||
| 2005 | Roy Wilson | Colby College | ||
| 2006 | Robert van Wesep | University of Michigan | ||
| 2006 | Katie Crimmins | University of Michigan | ||
| 2006 | Mallory Walker | University of Evansville | ||
| 2007 | Katie Crimmins | University of Michigan | ||
| 2007 | Varun Vaidya | University of Michigan | ||
| 2007 | Juwon Lee | University of Michigan | ||
| 2008 | Jordan Montgomery | Gordon College | ||
| 2008 | Yuru Louise Niu | Wittenberg University | ||
| 2009 | Stefan Zigo | University of Michigan | ||
| 2009 | Karl Lundquist | University of Michigan | ||
| Summer High School Students--NASA-SHARP Program: | ||||
| 1999 | Jonathon Frey | |||
| 1999 | Mengesha Tekle | |||
| 1999 | Judy Kwak | |||
| 2000 | Anthuannete Realica | |||
| 2000 | Emmiluze Rodriguez | |||
| 2001 | Niviann Blondet | |||
| 2001 | Vilas Rao | |||
| 2002 | Kyle Renshaw | |||