Graduate Students (Current):
PhD candidate(work: on solitary waves)
PhD candidate, JD student (joint with G.S. Baker, Geology at Univ of Tennessee)
PhD candidate (work: on dynamics of competing systems, battles, diseases)
PhD candidate (work: small granular systems)
Former Members of the Group:
Thomas D. Blersch
MA 1997
Victoria Tehan (Keil)
MS 1999 (Delphi-Harrison)
PhD 2000 (Assistant Professor, Physics, University of Texas at El Paso)
MS 2003 (PhD, Astronomy, University of Wuerzburg, 2006, High School Math, Physics & Rowing Teacher, Germany)
PhD 2007 (Scientist at US Army Res Labs, Aberdeen PG)
Undergraduates (Current):
Avner Averman, McNair Scholar with Surajit Sen (McNair Mentor)
Pursuing BS, Physics
Project: Battle Studies
2007-Now
Justin Reynard,
Pursuing BS, Physics & Chemistry
Projects: Dust flow simulations, Study of the physics of bowling
2007-Now
Aaron T. Festinger
Pursuing BS, Physics
Project: Impulse penetration in 3D beds
2008-Now
Former Members of the Group
Adam Sokolow,
BS, Physics & Mathematics, SUNY-Buffalo, 2005, currently pursuing PhD as a Graduate Fellow, Physics Department, Duke University
Projects: Dust growth in environments, Shock absorption in loaded tapered chains
(received outstanding research award of the College of Arts & Sciences, SUNY-Buffalo for his work on secondary solitary waves, April 2005)
2002-2006
Jacob H. Miner,
pursuing BS, Physics
Projects: Size distribution measurements of particulates in a fluid through the filtration process, Quasi-equilibrium studies in granular systems
2003-2003
Emily G. Bittle,
Project: Controlling the production of solitary waves in Hertz chains
left SUNY-Buffalo in 2004 to continue her BS at SUNY-Geneseo but continued to collaborate
Now a Ph.D student at University of Kentucky
2001-2004
Dorian DiCocco,
BS, Mechanical Engineering
Project: Fabrication of tapered chain shock absorbers
2004-2005
Kristie Beamer,
BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Project: Fabrication of tapered chain shock absorbers
2004-2005
James D. Wright
Impulse propagation in granular chains
1997-1998 (exchange student from University of Kent at Canterbury)
Cynthia J. Rudin,
Worked on avalanches in granular media
PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics at Princeton University, Research Staff at Columbia University.
1995-1996
Arvin Chang, UB NYSSISM Student from Yorktown Heights, NY
Worked on relaxation of nonlinear oscillators
BS in Computer Science from Harvard University in 2001, works for a Silicon Valley startup.
1998
David J. Schummer,
Worked on topological defects in 2D systems
Graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy from SUNY-Buffalo in 1999.
1996
Tony Ng,
Worked on relaxation of nonlinear oscillators
Completed his B.S. in Physics from Stanford University in 2000.
1995
at Michigan State University (1990-1993)
James C. Phillips
Worked on non-convergent infinite continued fractions (currently a scientist at Beckman Inst, University of Illinois, Urbana)
Mr. Phillips was a finalist (among the 5 top nominees) in the Apker Award Competition of the American Physical Society on the basis of work done under my supervision. He presented an invited talk at the APS Washington Meeting in April 1993 on the research he did under my supervision. Apker Award is given to the outstanding undergraduate in Physics in the United States.
1992