Who we are

Photos


• Group member photos are at  http://picasaweb.google.com/garyatwsu/GroupMembers
• Conference, instrumentation and other photos can be found at http://picasaweb.google.com/garyatwsu
  

Current and recent members


• Gary Collins, Professor, group leader (collins at wsu.edu)
• Ben McDonald, undergraduate physics major, 2012- , using Wigner-Seitz cells to predict properties (mazterlith at yahoo.com),
  
• Qiaoming Wang, MS Physics, 2012;  jump frequencies in pseudo-binary alloys (qmwangustc at gmail.com)
  
• Justine Minish, 2010 REU summer participant, jump frequencies in pseudo-binary alloys (12jmmini at alma.edu)
  
• Lee Aspitarte, BS Physics 2011 ; REU participant summer 2011, Phase transformations in In-Zr alloys (lee.aspitarte at email.wsu.edu)
  
• Ken Dorrance, undergraduate, 2009- ; Calculation of properties of Wigner-Seitz cells (ken.dorrance at gmail.com)
  
• Xiangyu Yin (Desmond), MS Physics, 2011;  PAC studies of eutectic gallium-indium alloys (desmond2046 at gmail.com)
  
• Prastuti Singh, Pullman high school senior, 2009-10; Jump frequencies in FeGa3 phases (prastuti_singh at wsu.edu)
  
• Samantha Cawthorne, undergraduate 2009 REU summer school participant; Jump frequencies in Al4Sr and Ga4Sr phases (scawtho at clemson.edu)
  
• Megan Lockwood, undergraduate 2008 REU summer school participant; Jump frequencies in L1_2 stannides (mml at nmsu.edu)
  
• Randy Newhouse, PhD Physics, 2012, jump frequencies in binary and ternary intermetallic phases (randynewhouse at gmail.com)
  
• Ashley Dorwart, undergraduate 2007 REU summer school participant; Site preferences in Gd-Al alloys (adorwart at NebrWesleyan.edu)
• Justin Ahn, Pullman high school senior, 2007-8; Diffusion in NdIn3 (cdplayersony at hotmail.com)
  
• Xia Jiang, MS 2008; Cadmium jump frequencies in L1_2 intermetallic gallides and aluminides (jiangxia at uchicago.edu)
  
• Ben Norman, BS 2007; Honors thesis: Lattice locations of solutes in "mirror" phases  (bmnorman at umich.edu)
  
• Stephanie Lage, BS 2007.  Thesis: Dynamics of solutes in Al11R3 intermetallic phases (R= rare earth) (stephlage621 at hotmail.com)
  
• Morgan Emerson, BS 2007.  Thesis: Contact areas between Wigner-Seitz cells in complex structures (morgan_emerson at yahoo.com)
  
• Arriety Lowell, MS 2007; Site preferences in rare-earth aluminides such as Al2R (R= rare earth) (arriety at turbonet.com)
  
• Xiao Wang, MS 2006, Defects in II-VI semiconductors (xiao_wang at wsu.edu)
  
• Farida Selim, Postdoctoral associate 2005-7;  Research Assistant Professor, 2009- ;Site preference and dynamics of solutes in Ga7Pd3 and Ga7Pt3 compounds (selim at wsu.edu).
  
• John Bevington,  PhD, Materials Science, 2011;  Site preference of solutes in Al3Ti and Al3Zr phases; WIEN2k computations (jbev85 at hotmail.com).
  
• Kyle Slinker, Pullman high school senior project, 2005-6;  Site preference of solutes; Wigner-Seitz cell construction (kslink at gmail.com).
  
• Lai Wang, MS 2005:  Geometrical construction of Wigner-Seitz cells in complex crystal structures (lai_wang at wsu.edu).
  
• Phil Peterman, undergraduate participant, 2005, Numerical computation of Wigner-Seitz cells (philbert at wsu.edu).
  
• Matthew Zacate, Postdoc and Res. Asst. Prof., 1999-2004, all aspects of project.  Now Associate Professor, Physics, Northern Kentucky University and Adjunct Professor, WSU (zakatem1 at nku.edu).
• Egbert Nieuwenhuis, visiting MS student from U. Groningen, The Netherlands for nine months in 2003-4 completing the equivalent of two MS theses:
  (1) Polymorphic transformations in In2La and In2Ce;  (2) Dynamics of indium solutes in Ga7Pd3 (ernieuwenhuis at gmail.com).
• Denys Solodovnikov, graduate student 2003-4. Diffusion in several In3R compounds (R=rare earth) (densol at wsu.edu).
  
• Jipeng Wang, MS 2004.  Diffusion in LaSn3 (middle9831023 at msn.com).
  
• Li Kang, MS 2004.  Diffusion in CeIn3 (chamdoonow at hotmail.com).
• Aurélie Favrot, visiting MS student from INSA, Rennes, France for three months in summer 2003.  Diffusion in In3La (aurelie.favrot at caramail.com).
  
• Bonner Walsh, graduate participant in 2002.  Site preferences of solutes in intermetallics having the Ni2Al3 structure (bwalsh at mail.smu.edu).
• Slade Jokela, graduate participant in 2001.  Solute sites in intermetallic compounds (sjokela at wsunix.wsu.edu).
  
• Matthew Petersen, BS participant from University of Idaho in 1999. Point defects in FePd  (pete1694 at novell.uidaho.edu).
  
• Luke Shing Jen Peng, Postdoc 1998-99:  PAC studies of FeAl.  PhD 1998: Defects in FeAl and FeRh studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy.
• Harmen Thys Nieuwenhuis, visiting MS student from U. Groningen, The Netherlands for five months in 1998. Vacancy diffusion in PdIn (harmenthys at hotmail.com).
• Andrew Janssen, undergraduate participant in 1998.  Point defects in FePd (sanzu at angelfire.com).
• Mingzhong Wei, MS 1998.  Point defects in FeAl (mwei at eecs.wsu.edu).
  
• Bin Bai, PhD 1998.  Equilibrium defects at high temperature in NiAl (binbai at micron.com).
  
• Praveen Sinha, PhD 1995.  Point defects in PdIn (psinha at novashield.com).

Earlier members and where they are now


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