Postdocs: Pierluigi Contucci, Oscar
Bolina, Daniel Ueltschi, Wolfgang Spitzer, Jean-Bernard Bru,
Tom Michoel, Bob Sims, Yoshiko Ogata, Motohisa Fukuda,
Sven Bachmann.
PhD students:
Shannon Starr, Justin Abbott,
Jeremy Clark, Ram Puri, Max McCoskey, Spiros
Michalakis, Jaideep Mulherkar,
Hillel Raz,Stephen Ng.
Master
students: Li Lei, Nigie
Shi, Austin Calder, Katy Marchand.
Undergraduate
students: Amanda Young.
Postdocs
Pierluigi Contucci. Period at Davis:
07/1998-12/2000, Current position: Associate Professor Department of
Mathematics, University of Bologna.
Email: contucci@dm.unibo.it
Web: http://www.dm.unibo.it/~contucci
Oscar Bolina. Period at Davis:
06/1998-06/2001.
Current position: Kaplan, China.
Email: oscarb@kaplanshinyway.com
Daniel Ueltschi. Period at Davis:
07/2001-06/2003. Current Position: Associate Professor, Mathematics Institute,
University of Warwick.
Email: daniel@ueltschi.org
Web: http://www.ueltschi.org/
Wolfgang Spitzer. Period at Davis:
07/2000-06/2003. Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Erlangen.
Email: Wolfgang.Spitzer@physik.uni-erlangen.de
Web: http://www.theorie1.physik.uni-erlangen.de/spitzer/main.html
Jean-Bernard Bru. Period at Davis:
07/2000-06/2001.
Current position: Ikerbasque Research Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU,
Leioa, Spain.
Email: jb.bru@ikerbasque.org
Tom Michoel. Period at Davis:
09/2001-08/2002.
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders,
Bioinformatics & Evolutionary Genomics
Department of Plant Systems Biology
VIB, Ghent University.
Email: tom.michoel@psb.ugent.be
Web: http://www.psb.ugent.be/~tomic/
Bob Sims.
Period at Davis 01/2005-09/2007.
Email: rsimsdrb@gmail.com
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona.
Web: http://math.arizona.edu/~rsims/
Yoshiko Ogata. Period at Davis: 07/2005-06/2006.
Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Tokyo.
Email: ogata@math.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Motohisa Fukuda. Period at Davis: 07/2007- .
Email: motofukuda@hotmail.com
Sven Bachmann.
Period at Davis: 07/2009- .
Email: svenbac@math.ucdavis.edu
PhD Students
Shannon Starr: PhD June 2001. Dissertation: Some
properties for the low lying spectrum of the ferromagnetic quantum XXZ
spin system. Position after PhD: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
Princeton
University. Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Rochester.
Email: sstarr@math.rochester.edu
.
Web:
http://www.math.rochester.edu/people/faculty/sstarr/
Justin Abbott: PhD June 2003. Dissertation:
Low
temperature results for the Heisenberg XXZ and XY models.
Position after PhD: Actuary, Cigna, Hartford CT. Next position: Sr
Systems Engineer, Raytheon, El Segundo, CA. Current
position: Modeling Scientist with Science Application International
Corporation (SAIC). See his
profile.
Email: JUSTIN.J.ABBOTT@saic.com
Jeremy Clark: PhD June 2007.
Dissertation: Weak Coupling Limit for a Tracer Particale with Rapid Scatterings
by Light particles with Point Interactions.
Current Position: Postdoc, Instituut voor Theoretisch Fysica, K.U. Leuven.
Email: jeremy@math.ucdavis.edu
Ram Puri: in progress.
Email: puri@math.ucdavis.edu
Web: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~puri/
Spiros Michalakis: PhD August 2008.
Dissertation: Entanglement and ground states of gapped Hamiltonians.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Email: spiros@math.ucdavis.edu
Jaideep Mulherkar: PhD June 2009.
Dissertation: Some Properties of the Ferromagnetic XXZ Spin Chain and Their
Applications to Quantum Computation.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information
and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, India.
Email: jmulherkar@math.ucdavis.edu
Hillel Raz: PhD June 2009.
Dissertation: Lieb-Robinson Bounds in the Anharmonic Lattice.
Current Position: Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, University of Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Email: hraz@math.ucdavis.edu
Stephen Ng: in progress.
Email: stephenng@math.ucdavis.edu
Master Students
Li Lei: MS Applied Mathematics. Thesis:
The Low Energy Spectrum of the Spin
1/2 Heisenberg XXZ Chain in a Pinning Field.
Nigie Shi: MS Applied Mathematics. Thesis:
Time-Dependent Solutions of a
Discrete Schrodinger's Equation.
Current position: PhD program in Applied Statistics, UC
Riverside.
Austin Calder: MS Applied Mathematics. Thesis:
A Search for Finitely Correlated States via
a Density Matrix Renormalization Group Analysis.
Email: the.degenerate.subspace@gmail.com
Current Position: National Security Agency.
Katy Marchand: MS Applied Mathematics, June 2008. Thesis:
A Method for Estimating the Entropy Rate
of Hidden Markov Processes.
Email: kmarchand@ucdavis.edu
Current Position: Woodland Christian Highschool.
Undergraduate Students
Amanda Young: BS 2008, Highest Honors, Thesis:
An Approach to Bounding the Spectral Gap Above
the Ground State of a Quantum Spin Chain.
Current position: PhD program in Math, U Washington.
Email: amyoung@u.washington.edu