Left to right: Xiang Cheng, Heinrich Jaeger, John Royer, Klara Elteto, Thu Tran, Laura Adams, Eric Corwin

Current group members (March 2008):

Igor Belovorodov (Research Professional): granular electronic systems, nanoscale superconductors and magnets, quantum nanodevices, spin-based electronics

Eric Brown (Kadanoff-Rice Postdoctoral Fellow): shear-thickening in colloidal suspensions

graduate students

Xiang Cheng: slowly sheared granular systems, granular "fluids"

Bryan Conyers: granular jets

Ellen Martinsek: granular "fluids"

Carlos Orellana: shear-thickening in colloidal suspensions

John Royer: granular jets, clustering in granular streams

undergraduate students

Dan Evans: clustering in granular streams

Nicholas Laszlo Frazer: simulations of nanoparticle membranes

Dylan Murphy: shear-thickening in colloidal suspensions

Dave Smith: shear-thickening in colloidal suspensions

Adam Weis: suspended nanoparticle arrays

Group Alumni:

former postdocs

Laura Adams (Research Associate, Univesity of Maryland, Physics Department); Terry Bigioni (Asst. Professor, Chemistry, U Toledo); Edward Ehrichs (AMD); Georges Debregeas (Collège de France, Paris, France); Xiao-Min Lin (Scientist, Argonne Nat’l Lab); Ward Lopes (Mt. Holyoke Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics); Edmund Nowak (Assoc. Prof., Physics, U Delaware); Allan W. Smith (NIST, Gaithersburg); Rena Zieve (Assoc. Prof. Physics, UC Davis)

former graduate students

Thu Bach Tran (Ph.D. 2007; Intel Corporation); Eric Corwin (Ph.D. 2007; postdoc, New York University); Klara Elteto (Ph.D. 2007; MRSEC Administrator, Northwestern University); Matthias Möbius (Ph.D. 2006; postdoc, Leiden University, The Netherlands); Nathan Mueggenburg (Ph.D. 2004; Asst. Prof. Physics, Lake Forest College); Raghuveer Parthasarathy (Ph.D. 2002; postdoc Berkely; Asst. Prof. Physics, U Oregon); Dan Mueth (Ph.D. 2001; Chief Technical Officer at Arryx, Inc.), Ward Lopes (Ph.D. 2001; senior scientist at Arryx; Mt. Holyoke Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics; Asst. Prof. Physics, Williams College), Milica Medved (Ph.D. 2000; Research Associate (Assistant Professor) in Radiology, UofC), Dan Blair (S.M. 2000; Ph.D at Clark Univ.; postdoc Harvard; Asst. Prof. Physics Georgetown Univ.), Fernando Villaruel (M.S. 1999; Staff Engineer, Cisco), Solveig Anders (Ph.D. 1999; postdoc U Vienna; scientist at Institut für Physikalische Hochtechnologie Jena), Terry Morkved (Ph.D. 1997; postdoc at U Minnesota; Imation), Mei Lu (M.S. 1996), James Knight (Ph.D. 1996; postdoc at Princeton; now at Citadel), Li Liu (Ph.D. 1995).

recent long-term visitors

2008: Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (experiments on force chains in 2-D); 2007: Virginia Estevez, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC), Spain (simulations of electron transport through nano-particle arrays)