Quantum Science & Technologies Group

Postdocs: Past and Present

Petr Anisimov
Postdoc, Stoney Brook

Katherine Brown

Hugo Cable
Postdoc, National University of Singapore

M. Ali Can
Institute of Electronics and Cryptology

Gabriel Durkin
Staff Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center

Lucia Florescu
Visiting Researcher, University of Surrey

Marian Florescu
Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey

Kurt Jacobs
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts

Kishore Kapale
Assistant Professor, Western Illinois University

Moochan "Barnabas" Kim

Pavel Lougovski
Adjunct Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Changjun Min
Associate Professor, Nankai University

Sulakshana Thanvanthri

Dmitry Uskov
Assistant Professor, Brescia University

Christoph Wildfeuer
Postdoc, Duke University

Graduate Students: Past & Present

Bhaskar Roy Bardhan

Aravind Chiruvelli (PhD 2009)
Postdoc, University of Arizona

Argenis DaSilva (PhD 2009)

Guohui Deng (MS 2007)
Server Software Developer, Harris Corporation

Yang Gao (PhD 2010)
Assistant Professor, Xinyang Normal College

Ryan Glasser (PhD 2009)
Postdoc, NIST

Christopher Granier

Manesh Gupta

Muxin Han (MS 2008)
Postdoc, Centre de Physique Théorique

Sean Huver (PhD 2009)
Research Scientist, Telcordia

Kebei Jiang

Blane McCracken (PhD 2012)

S. Jay Olson (PhD 2008)
(Postdoc, University of Queensland)

William Plick (PhD 2010)
Postdoc, University of Vienna

Chris Richardson (PhD, 2012)

Ganesh Selvaraj (MS 2007)

Kaushik Seshadreesan

Robinjeet Singh

Sai Vinjanampathy (PhD 2010)
Postdoc, University of Massachusetts

Yi Weng, MS 2012

Zhanghan Wu (MS 2007)
PhD Student, Virginia Tech

Zhihao Xiao

Undergraduates: Past & Present

Chase Brignac
Hanna Broadus
Matthew Buras
Robert Cross (PhD Student, U. Rochester)
Bryan Gard (PhD Student, LSU)
Cole Gulino
Christopher Granier (PhD Student, LSU)
Daniel Lum (PhD Student, U Rochester)
Patrick Keiffer
Joshua Mendez
Todd Moulder
Keith Motes (PhD Student, Macquarie U.)
Tommy Naugle
Gretchen Raterman (MS Student, Duke U.)
Carl Sabottke
Sumit Sarbadhicary (PhD Student, UPenn)
Nickolas VanMeter (PhD Student, Harvard)

Quantum Science & Technologies Group Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics Louisiana State University Department of Physics & Astronomy 202 Nicholson Hall, Tower Drive Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4001 Tel: (225) 578-2163 Fax: (225) 578-0824 quantum@phys.lsu.edu	"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C. Clark (1917-2008) Jonathan P. Dowling Hearne Professor & Co-Director Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics Hwang Lee Assistant Professor & Deputy Co-Director Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics
Associated Faculty: Lai-Him Chan Theda Daniels-Race Mette Gaarde Se-Jong Kim Jimmie Lawson Tae-Woo Lee Gerard Milburn (Adjunct) Robert O'Connell A. Ravi P. Rau Yousef Salamin Kenneth Schafer Marlan Scully (Adjunct) Stephen Shipman Georgios Veronis Mark Wilde	Research: Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Photonic Band Gap & Meta Materials Quantum Information Theory Quantum Optics Quantum Computer Science Program Optical Quantum Computing Quantum Sensors Quantum Imaging Relativistic Quantum Information Theory
Postdocs: Past and Present Petr Anisimov Postdoc, Stoney Brook Katherine Brown Hugo Cable Postdoc, National University of Singapore M. Ali Can Institute of Electronics and Cryptology Gabriel Durkin Staff Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center Lucia Florescu Visiting Researcher, University of Surrey Marian Florescu Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey Kurt Jacobs Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Kishore Kapale Assistant Professor, Western Illinois University Moochan "Barnabas" Kim Pavel Lougovski Adjunct Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Changjun Min Associate Professor, Nankai University Sulakshana Thanvanthri Dmitry Uskov Assistant Professor, Brescia University Christoph Wildfeuer Postdoc, Duke University Graduate Students: Past & Present Bhaskar Roy Bardhan Aravind Chiruvelli (PhD 2009) Postdoc, University of Arizona Argenis DaSilva (PhD 2009) Guohui Deng (MS 2007) Server Software Developer, Harris Corporation Yang Gao (PhD 2010) Assistant Professor, Xinyang Normal College Ryan Glasser (PhD 2009) Postdoc, NIST Christopher Granier Manesh Gupta Muxin Han (MS 2008) Postdoc, Centre de Physique Théorique Sean Huver (PhD 2009) Research Scientist, Telcordia Kebei Jiang Blane McCracken (PhD 2012) S. Jay Olson (PhD 2008) (Postdoc, University of Queensland) William Plick (PhD 2010) Postdoc, University of Vienna Chris Richardson (PhD, 2012) Ganesh Selvaraj (MS 2007) Kaushik Seshadreesan Robinjeet Singh Sai Vinjanampathy (PhD 2010) Postdoc, University of Massachusetts Yi Weng, MS 2012 Zhanghan Wu (MS 2007) PhD Student, Virginia Tech Zhihao Xiao Undergraduates: Past & Present Chase Brignac Hanna Broadus Matthew Buras Robert Cross (PhD Student, U. Rochester) Bryan Gard (PhD Student, LSU) Cole Gulino Christopher Granier (PhD Student, LSU) Daniel Lum (PhD Student, U Rochester) Patrick Keiffer Joshua Mendez Todd Moulder Keith Motes (PhD Student, Macquarie U.) Tommy Naugle Gretchen Raterman (MS Student, Duke U.) Carl Sabottke Sumit Sarbadhicary (PhD Student, UPenn) Nickolas VanMeter (PhD Student, Harvard)	Activities: Quantum Conference Server Publications QST in the News! Workshop on Linear Optical Quantum Information Processing (LoQUIP) NSF QMHP Workshop Seminars: Physics & Astronomy Department Seminars QST & Quantum Krispy Kreme Seminars ® Schrödinger's Killer App Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer By Jonathan P. Dowling To Be Published May 2nd 2013 by Taylor & Francis – 453 pages Amazon Google Books SchrodingersKillerApp.com Taylor & Francis
Visitors: Girish Agarwal (University of Oklahoma) Hans Bachor (Australian National University) Dominic Berry (Perimeter Institute) Robert Boyd (University of Rochester) Katherine Brown (University of Leeds) Hugo Cable (National University of Singapore) M. Ali Can (NASA, JPL) Howard Carmichael (University of Auckland) Carlton Caves (University of New Mexico) Sanka Das Sarma (University of Maryland) Francesco DeMartini (University of Rome) Gabriel Durkin (NASA, Ames) Julio Gea-Banacloche (University of Arkansas) Joseph Eberly (University of Rochester) Charles Elachi (Director, NASA JPL) Matt Elliott (University of New Mexico) Claude Fabre (Ecole Normal) Marian Florescu (NASA, JPL) James Franson (UMBC) Dentcho Genov (Louisana Tech University) Chris Gerry (CUNY, Lehman College) Larry Gould (University of Hartford) Barbara Höling (CalPoly Pomona) John Howell (University of Rochester) Kurt Jacobs (University of Massachusetts) Daniel James (University of Toronto) N. Cody Jones (Stanford University) Amir Kalev (National Univeristy of Singapore) Kishore Kapale (Western Illinois University) Konrad Kieling (Imperial College) Yoon-Ho Kim (POSTECH) Pieter Kok (University of Sheffield) Igor Kulikov (NASA, JPL) Jason Lee (George Mason University) Patrick Leung (University of Queensland) Daniel Lidar (University of Southern California) Antia Lamas-Linares (National University of Singapore) Austin Lund (University of Queensland) Hal Metcalf (SUNY, Stony Brook) Eugeniy Mikhailov (William and Mary College) Casey Myers (University of Waterloo) Irina Novikova (College of William & Mary) Takafumi Ono (Osaka University) Kevin Parkin (NASA Ames) Luca Pezze (LANL) Olivier Pfister (University of Virginia) Tim Ralph (University of Queensland) Linda Reichl (University of Texas) Yuri Rostovtsov (University of North Texas) Barry Sanders (University of Calgary) Lu Sham (UCSD) Surendra Singh (University of Arkansas) John Sipe (University of Toronto) Augusto Smerzi (LANL) Malvin Teich (Boston University) S. Pete Worden (Director, NASA Ames) Reeta Yyas (University of Arkansas) Ted Wyder (CalTech) Ulvi Yurtsever (MathSense Analytics)	Links: LSU Home LSU Physics LSU Relativity (Pullin Group) Photonic Band-Gap Bibliography Photonic Band-Gap Materials Links Quantum Information Links Quantum Optics Links
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