Graduate Students of Robert B. Hallock
Hallock Group Ph.D. Recipients, and Current Students
NAME - (Thesis Defense Date, Ph.D. Degree Date) - Subject Area
Dissertation Title
First Position; Current Position (to the best of my knowledge)
- Ephraim Flint - (8/15/74, 9/1/74) - Helium Film Flow
Studies of Superfluid Film Phenomena
Postdoc (John Daunt), Stevens Institute; Principle Member Technical Staff, C.S. Draper Laboratory
- Edward Lazarus - (1/28/76, 5/22/76) - Light Scattering - Bulk Helium
Rayleigh Linewidth Measurements in Liquid Helium
Postdoc, Rochester; Professional Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Robert Galkiewicz - (8/20/76, 2/1/77) - Helium Film Persistent Currents
Saturated Superfluid 4He Film Flow: The Behavior of Atkins Oscillations
and
Third Sound in the Presence of Persistent Currents
Postdoc, Umass (Polymers); 3M Corporation
- William Nelson - (3/30/76, 9/1/77) - Thermal Conductivity of Beryllium
Thermal and Electrical Transport Measurements in Single Crystal Beryllium at Low Temperatures
Staff Scientist, Texas Instruments; same
- Barry Weiss - (8/25/77, 9/1/77) - X-Ray Scattering - Bulk Helium
X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Helium Four
MTS, ATT-Bell Labs; MTS, Bellcore
- Howard Robkoff - (8/24/79, 9/1/79) - X-Ray Scattering - Bulk Helium
A Study of the Structure of Liquid Helium by X-Ray Scattering
Assistant Professor, Mt. Holyoke College; Analyst, New York Bank
- David Ekholm - (12/18/79, 2/1/80) - Helium Film Persistent Currents
Properties of Persistent Currents in Unsaturated 4He and 3He - 4He Mixture
Films
MTS, ATT-Bell Labs; same (deceased, 8/2/2008)
- Fotis Kehayias - (12/20/79, 2/1/80) - Helium Film flow
Static and Dynamic Properties of Saturated 4He Films
Postdoc, Maryland; Physicist, Climatronics
- Jon Maps - (8/27/82, 9/1/82) - Helium Films - Kosterlitz Thouless
Superfluid Onset and Thermal Transport in Thin Helium Films
Postdoc, University of Massachusetts; Assistant Professor (and Department Head), U. Minnesota, Duluth
- Fred Ellis - (8/27/82, 2/1/83) - Helium Mixture Films - Third Sound
Third Sound Experiments and Phase Separation in 3He - 4He Mixture Films
Postdoc, University of Washington; Professor of Physics and and for a number of years Chairman, Wesleyan Univ.
- Richard Heinrichs - (1/7/85, 5/25/85) - Helium Mixture Films - Third Sound
Third Sound Resonance Studies of 3He - 4He Mixture Films
Postdoc (Guenter Ahlers), UC Santa Barbara; Group Leader, Laser and Sensor Applications Group, Lincoln Labs
- James Valles - (10/5/87, 2/1/88) - Helium Mixture Films - NMR, Third Sound
NMR and Third Sound Studies of Dilute 3He - 4He Mixture Films
Postdoc (Robert Dynes) - ATT Bell Labs; Professor of Physics (and for several years Department Head), Brown Univ.
- Douglas Smith - (8/5/88, 9/1/88) - Helium Films - Third Sound
The Behavior of 4He Films on Structured Substrates
Postdoc, NBS; Physicist, Material Measurement Laboratory, NIST (retired)
- Kimberly Godshalk - (9/12/89, 2/1/90) - Helium Films - Capillary Condensation
The Properties of 4He in Porous Systems: The Kosterlitz-Thouless
Transition
and Capillary Condensation
Physicist, Tektronix; same
- Robert Dionne - (5/23/90, 9/1/90) - Helium Films - Kosterlitz Thouless
Experimental Study of 4He Film flow at the Kosterlitz-Thouless
Transition
and Wetting in 4He Films near T-lambda.
High School Teaching; Physicist, Janis Research
- Charles Mayo - (11/19/90, 2/1/91) - Macromolecular Adsorption
Development of Surface Plasmon Oscillations as a Probe of Macromolecular
Adsorption
Postdoc, Harvard; Medical Physicist, Mayo Clinic (that's right, at the Mayo Clinic!)
- Robert Higley - (12/21/90, 2/1/91) - Helium Mixture Films - NMR
NMR Measurements of the Evolution of 3He from 2D to 3D in 3He - 4He Mixture
Films
Consulting; same
- William Tiernan - (7/23/92, 9/1/92) - Superconductivity - High Tc
Studies of the Superconducting Behavior of Polycryatalline YBa2Cu3O7-x
Visiting Assistant Professor, Trinity College; Professor,
Colorado Mesa University
- Donald Sprague - (10/30/92, 2/1/93) - Helium Mixture Films - NMR
An NMR Study of the Statics and Dynamics of Thin Helium Films
Postdoc (William Halperin), Northwestern University; Principal Software Development Lead, Microsoft Corporation
- Kurt Ketola - (10/28/94, 2/1/95) - Helium Films - Wetting
Wetting Behavior of 4He and 3He - 4He Mixtures on a Cesium Surface
Postdoc (Humphrey Maris), Brown University; Senior Scientist, Raytheon Corp.
- J. Richard Rahn - (12/18/95, 2/1/96) - Macromolecular Adsorption
Adsorption of Macromolecules onto Functionalized Surfaces
Postdoc, George Washington University; JRR Consulting
- Rasheed Joshi - (2/21/96, 5/25/96) - Superconductivity - High Tc
Investigations of the Superconducting Transition in Polycrystalline YBa2Cu3O7-x
Avesta Inc.; JA - Founder/Principal at JA - Intelligent Energy Services
- Peter Sheldon - (4/18/96, 5/25/96) - Helium Mixture Films - NMR, Third Sound
NMR and Third Sound Studies of 3He - 4He Mixtures on a Nuclepore Substrate
Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University; Professor and Chair,
Randolph College
- Michael Lilly - (10/21/96, 2/1/97) - Helium Films - Capillary Condensation, Hysteresis,
Avalanches; Third Sound, Collisions
Hysteretic Capillary Condensation and Avalanche Phenomena of 4He in Nuclepore
Postdoc (Jim Eisenstein), Caltech; Chief Scientist, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories
- Winfried Teizer - (8/19/98, 9/1/98) - Helium Films - Adsorption, Quartz Crystal Microbalance, Carbon Nanotubes
4He Adsorption to Fullerenes
Postdoc (Robert Dynes), UC San Diego; Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
- Paul Finley - (1/13/99, May 1999) - Helium Films - Mixture Film Experiments
4He and 3He-4He Mixture Films on Nuclepore and H2
Postdoc (Liu/Ahlers), Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Project Engineer, Ball Aerospace Corp.
- Theresa Moreau - (8/18/00, September 2000) - Helium Films, Wetting, Third Sound
Third Sound Study of the Wetting of Rubidium by Helium
Visiting Assistant Professor, Amherst College; Assistant Professor and Department Chair, Providence College
- Adrienne Wootters - (2/26/02, May 2002) - Helium Films, Hysteresis, Avalanches
Behavior of Superfluid Helium in Porous Materials
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts; Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, MCLA
- Justin Herrmann - (12/21/03, February 2004) - Helium Films, Localization
Third Sound in Multiply Scattering Media: A Search for Classical Wave Localization
Consultant in Computerization; Quantitative Analyst, Citigroup, London
- Yung Ho Kahng - (6/25/04, February 2005) - Helium Films,
Adsorption, Carbon Nanotubes
Adsorption to Carbon Nanotubes
Postdoc, Tufts University; Associate Professor, Chonnam National University, Korea.
- Dwight Luhman - (3/23/06, May 2006) - Helium Films, third sound, Kosterlitz-Thouless
on Disordered Surfaces
Studies of Helium Films on Disordered and Patterned Substrates
Postdoc (Daniel Tsui), Princeton University; Sandia, Albuquerque, NM
- John Cummings - (7/10/09, September 2009) - Helium Films, Kosterlitz-Thouless
Bilayer Bolometers to Kosterlitz-Thouless: A Study of Helium Films
Director of Low Temperatrure, Janis Research Corp.; MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Michael Ray - (9/22/10, February 2011) - Solid Helium
Experiments on Solid 4He
Postdocs (Richard Packard, then David Hall), UC Berkeley; Assistant Professor, California State University, Sacramento, CA.