Group members, Alumni and Collaborators

Group members:

Andrew Senchuk (Ph.D. student, M.Sc from Univ. of Manitoba 2006).

Mohammad Hashemi (M.Sc student, B.S. from Sharif Univ., Iran, 2006).

Jeff Rau (3rd year but graduating undergrad, outstanding scholars project, NSERC USRA 2006-2008).

Theresa Spanjers (3rd year undergrad, Co-op student, undergraduate research 2007-2008).

Dan Trojand (3rd year undergrad, Co-op student, undergraduate research 2007-2008).

Maggie Tywoniuk (1st year undergraduate student)

Mark Sak (Ph.D. student at Wayne State)

Collaborators (PI's with whom I currently work and/or have published recently):

Coherent control and quantum information processing using Rydberg atoms and trapped-ions:

   Phil Bucksbaum (now at Stanford), Chris Monroe (now at Maryland), John Boyd  @Michigan  

Control theory of quantum systems:

   Anthony Bloch  @Michigan 

   Roger Brockett  @ Harvard 

  Bill Baylis and Renan Cabrera (now at Princeton) @ Windsor 

Nanoplasmonics/ nanobiosensors/ clinical diagnostics:

   Silvia Mittler  @ University of Western Ontario

   Bulent Mutus @ Windsor

   Roger Thibert @ Windsor (professor emeritus)

   Mordechay Sclesinger @ Windsor (professor emeritus)

Bio-medical / Health research

   Jeff Richer @ Windsor Regional Cancer Center

Alumni:   

Line Pedersen (visiting graduate student from Aarhus University, Feb. - June. 2006).

Beth Yaworsky ( outstanding scholars project, NSERC USRA 2006, now majoring in Biology).

Alex Waghorn ( outstanding scholars project 2006, now majoring in Business).

James MacAdam (Computer Science major, capstone project graduated 2007).

Darragh 'Patrick' Rooney (Graduate student, May 2005 - Aug. 2006, now doing a Ph.D in Applied Math with Dr. Tony Bloch at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor);

Ryan Murray (Senior honours thesis, graduated Aug. 2006, now doing a PhD with Drs. Wing-Ki Lu and Misha Ivanov at Waterloo/NRC);

Luc Serre (Senior honours thesis, graduated 2006, finished MS in Medical Physics at McGill University, and resident at WRCC);

Alex Vyskocil (Summer undergraduate project 2006, now a fourth year student);

Hoofar Daneshvar (graduate student, Jan.- Aug. 2005, now working with Dr. Drake); 

Ryan Booth (Outstanding scholars project Fall 2005, now in Engineering);

Adam Mills (Summer undergraduate project 2005, now in teacher's college);

Razvan Nistor (Summer graduate student 2004, now at University of Western Ontario as a Ph.D. student); 

Tom McIntosh (Senior honours thesis "Rydberg atom wave packets", graduated in 2004, now a graduate student at Queen's University).