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



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 GroupContact
[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)
1998Brian WilliamsCarlton College
1999Natalya MorrowEastern Michigan University
2000Martin CenturionUniversity of Michigan
2001Robert FletcherGeorgia Tech
2002Maroof Khan
2003Alex PovilusUniversity of Michigan
2003Anne LewisWilliams College
2003Robert SchabingerUniversity of Michigan
2004Alex PovilusUniversity of Michigan
2004Kevin VogelUniversity of Nebraska at Kearney
2005Peter LandryUniversity of Michigan
2005Erik SchomburgUniversity of Michigan
2005Roy WilsonColby College
2006Robert van WesepUniversity of Michigan
2006Katie CrimminsUniversity of Michigan
2006Mallory WalkerUniversity of Evansville
2007Katie CrimminsUniversity of Michigan
2007Varun VaidyaUniversity of Michigan
2007Juwon LeeUniversity of Michigan
2008Jordan MontgomeryGordon College
2008Yuru Louise NiuWittenberg University
2009Stefan ZigoUniversity of Michigan
2009Karl LundquistUniversity of Michigan

Summer High School Students--NASA-SHARP Program:
1999Jonathon Frey
1999Mengesha Tekle
1999Judy Kwak
2000Anthuannete Realica
2000Emmiluze Rodriguez
2001Niviann Blondet
2001Vilas Rao
2002Kyle Renshaw