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All phone numbers are in area code 612 unless otherwise noted.
 | Name | Contact Info | Areas of Interest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron West Summer Term TA | west0927 @ umn.edu | |
| Aasmund Folkestad Physics Grad Student | folke098 @ umn.edu | ||
| Aditya Dhumuntarao Summer Program | TATEH 301-01 (office) dhumu002 @ umn.edu | Gravity, Ricci Flows, Black Hole Thermodynamics, AdS/CFT, and Phase Transitions. |
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| Agniva Ghosh Summer Term TA | TATEH 201-02 (office) ghosh116 @ umn.edu | Theoretical Cosmology, Gravitational Lensing, Dark Matter |
| Alexander Reineck Physics Grad Student | reine315 @ umn.edu | |
| Alexander Criswell Summer Term TA | crisw015 @ umn.edu | ||
| Alexander Gilman Summer Term RA | PAN 351 (office) gilma080 @ umn.edu | |
| Alexander Hamill Summer Term RA | TATEH Tate 301-03 (office) hamil483 @ umn.edu | |
| Alexandros Papageorgiou Summer Term TA | TATEH 201-01 (office) papag008 @ umn.edu | High Energy Physics, Cosmology |
| Allan Straub Physics Grad Student | WMSONH 130F (office), 612-624-4364 straub @ physics.umn.edu | Particle Physics | |
| Amartyajyoti Saha Physics Grad Student | AMUNDH 137E (office) sahax031 @ umn.edu | |
| Andrew Miller Summer Term RA | TATEH 201-01 (office) amiller @ physics.umn.edu | Theoretical Particle Physics |
| Andrew Evans Summer Term RA | PAN 424 (office) PAN 432 (lab) aevans @ physics.umn.edu | ||
| Angel Mancebo Summer Term RA | PAN 420 (office) mance012 @ umn.edu | Biophysics |
| Argha Banerjee Physics Grad Student | TATEH 201-01 (office) baner124 @ umn.edu | |
| Aritra Lahiri Physics Grad Student | lahir018 @ umn.edu | ||
| Aritra De Summer Term RA | dexxx019 @ umn.edu | |
| Asset Khakimzhan Physics Grad Student | PAN 484 (lab) khaki005 @ umn.edu | |
| Avery Garon Summer Term TA , Summer Term RA | TATEH 201-08 (office) garo0040 @ umn.edu | Extragalactic astronomy, radio galaxies, galaxy clusters |
| Axel Gross Physics Grad Student | TATEH 301-03 (office) gros0408 @ umn.edu | |
| Biqiong Yu Physics Grad Student | PAN 252 (office) yuxx0292 @ umn.edu | |
| Bo Xiong Summer Term RA | xion1301 @ umn.edu | |
| Boyi Yang Physics Grad Student | PAN 234 (office), 612-301-1155 yang @ physics.umn.edu | Ionic Liquid Doping of High Tc Cuprates |
| Brenda Knauber Summer Term RA | PAN 221 (office) PAN 381 (lab) knaub008 @ umn.edu | Experimental Condensed Matter Physics |
| Brendan King Physics Grad Student | king0690 @ umn.edu | ||
| Brett Heischmidt Summer Term RA | PAN 217 (office) heisc002 @ umn.edu | Condensed Matter Experiment: device physics, spin transport, low-dimensional systems |
| Brian O'Neill Astrophysics Grad Student | 626-1841 oneill @ astro.umn.edu | Astronomy | |
| Cesar Ascencio Physics Grad Student | ascen009 @ umn.edu | Condensed Matter Theory. |
| Chao-Hsiang Sheu Physics Grad Student | TATEH 301-04 (office) sheu0007 @ umn.edu | |
| Che-Hsu Li Physics Grad Student | lixx4605 @ umn.edu | Theoretical physics. The measurement problem in quantum mechanics, decoherence approach, the arrow of time problem, entanglement and emergence, it from qubit, high energy physics, supersymmetry, dark matter and cosmology, ER=EPR(?) |
| Chi-Huei Lin Physics Grad Student | TATEH 301-05 (office) lin00042 @ umn.edu | |
| Chiou Yang Tan Physics Grad Student | TATEH 301-05 (office) tanxx634 @ umn.edu | |
| Christopher Geach Summer Term RA | PAN 314 (office), 626-9149 geach003 @ umn.edu | Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization |
| Christopher Angert Summer Term RA | PAN 414 (office), 301-2327 PAN 485 (lab) angert @ physics.umn.edu | Biophysics, instrumentation for time-correlated single photon counting |
| Christopher Nolting Summer Term TA | TATEH 201-02 (office) nolt0040 @ umn.edu | Numerical Simulation, Radio Galaxies, Dynamics of the Intracluster Medium, Galactic Dark Matter Halos, Exoplanetary Searches |
| Cody Schimming Summer Term RA | TATEH 301-02 (office) schim111 @ umn.edu | |
| Cody Carr Summer Term RA | FRASERH 345c (office) carrx200 @ umn.edu | Cosmology, Particle Physics, Galactic Evolution, Mathematical Physics |
| Congxin Qiu Physics Grad Student | 625-7819 cqiu @ physics.umn.edu | Astrophysics and Cosmology | |
| Dan Phan Summer Term RA | phanx266 @ umn.edu | |
| Daniel Schubring Summer Term RA | TATEH 201-01 (office) schub071 @ umn.edu | Theoretical physics, particles and fields |
| Daniel Shaffer Physics Grad Student | shaff159 @ umn.edu | |
| Daniel Deeter Physics Grad Student | deete008 @ umn.edu | ||
| David Harrison Summer Term RA | PAN 221 (office) PAN 10 (lab) harrison @ physics.umn.edu | Magnetism, Spin Glasses, Electronic Noise |
| Dayu Zhai Physics Grad Student | TATEH 301-05 (office) zhai0019 @ umn.edu | |
| Dehua Wang Physics Grad Student | dwang @ physics.umn.edu | |
| Derek Sincavage Summer Term RA | sinca001 @ umn.edu | |
| Dmitrii Torbunov Summer Term RA | PAN 332 (office) torbu001 @ umn.edu | ||
| Dmitry Chichinadze Summer Term RA | TATEH 201-03 (office) chich013 @ umn.edu | |
| Dominic Adams Summer Term TA , Summer Term RA | adams900 @ umn.edu | ||
| Dominique Gautreau Physics Grad Student | gautr004 @ umn.edu | |
| Drew Johnson Physics Grad Student | joh14894 @ umn.edu | |
| Erik Floden Physics Grad Student | flode012 @ umn.edu | ||
| Erik Floden Physics Grad Student | flode012 @ umn.edu | |
| Evan Moen Summer Term TA | TATEH 201-09 (office) moenx359 @ umn.edu | |
| Ezra Day-Roberts Physics Grad Student | TATEH 201-09 (office) dayrober @ physics.umn.edu | ||
| Fawzi Abusalma Physics Grad Student | PAN 355 (office) PAN 450 (lab) abusa011 @ umn.edu | |
| Fei Chen Research Assistant | TATEH 201-09 (office) chen4577 @ umn.edu | |
| Foster Thompson Physics Grad Student | thom7385 @ umn.edu | ||
| Gino Graziano Summer Term RA | PAN 217 (office) graziano @ physics.umn.edu | Condensed Matter |
| Grantland Hall Summer Term TA | PAN 382C (office) ghall @ umn.edu | Early Universe Physics, Computational Methods |
| Han Yu Summer Term RA | yu000068 @ umn.edu | ||
| Hanteng Wang Physics Grad Student | TATEH 201-05 (office) wang6243 @ umn.edu | |
| Hao Zhang Physics Grad Student | zhan6302 @ umn.edu | ||
| Harison Wiesman Physics Grad Student | TATEH 301-08 (office) TATEH 350 (lab) wiesm010 @ umn.edu | Geophysics - Rock & Mineral Physics, Planetary Sciences |
| Hayley Williams Astrophysics Grad Student | will5099 @ umn.edu | ||
| Hsiu-Chung Yeh Summer Term RA | TATEH 30104 (office) yehxx129 @ umn.edu | |
| Huaqing Mao Summer Term RA | WALIB 431 (office) maoxx225 @ umn.edu | Computational Astrophysics, Stellar Evolution | |
| Jack Nelson Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant | PAN 324 (office) nels8013 @ umn.edu | |
| Jackson Olsen Research Assistant | TATEH 301-01 (office) olsen791 @ umn.edu | |
| Jacob Ritz Summer Term RA | PAN 420 (office) ritz0037 @ umn.edu | |
| Jacob Schulze Physics Grad Student | TATEH 301-07 (office) schu3788 @ umn.edu | |
| James Etheridge Summer Term RA | ether030 @ umn.edu | |
| James Delles Physics Grad Student | 624-2836 jdelles @ physics.umn.edu | |
| James Cheshire Summer Term TA , Summer Term RA | PAN 320 (office) PAN 382C (lab), 612-625-1802 cheshire @ umn.edu | Observational cosmology, cosmic microwave background |
| Jared Hennen Summer Term RA | PAN 414 (office) henne405 @ umn.edu | Biophysics, protein interactions at cellular membranes. |
| Jarrett Brown Summer Term RA | PAN 332 (office), 624-0511 PAN 450 (lab) brow4278 @ umn.edu | Experimental High Energy Physics |
| Jennifer Freedburg Physics Grad Student | PAN 221 (office) freed114 @ umn.edu | |
| Jessie Duncan Physics Grad Student | dunca369 @ umn.edu | |
| Jett Priewe Research Collaborator | TATEH 201-08 (office) priewe @ astro.umn.edu | ||
| Jie Yang Physics Grad Student | 624-1838 jyang @ physics.umn.edu | Education | |
| Jin-Ah Kim Summer Term TA , Summer Term RA | kim00513 @ umn.edu | ||
| Joe Meese Physics Grad Student | TATEH 301-04 (office) meese022 @ umn.edu | |
| John Kohler Summer Term RA | PAN 414 (office) kohler @ physics.umn.edu | ||
| Joseph Joe Summer Term RA | joexx048 @ umn.edu | |
| Joshua Hiltbrand Summer Term RA | PAN 424 (office) hiltbran @ umn.edu | |
| Juan Tigre Lazo Summer Term RA | TATEH 301-08 (office) tigre001 @ umn.edu | |
| Juan Velasco Physics Grad Student | TATEH 301-05 (office) velas102 @ umn.edu | |
| Juliana Vievering Physics Grad Student | TATEH 201-15 (office) TATEH 255 (lab) vieverin @ physics.umn.edu | |
| Justin Willmert Summer Term RA | PAN 320 (office), 612-301-1467 PAN 382 (lab), 612-625-1802 willmert @ physics.umn.edu | algorithms, bicep3, cmb, computational physics, cosmology, keck array, polarization |
| Kan-Ting Tsai Summer Term RA | PAN 376 (lab) tsai0082 @ umn.edu | 2D material and gate-defined nanostructure. |
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| Karl Young Astrophysics Grad Student | PAN 314 (office), 626-9149 kyoung @ astro.umn.edu | Astronomical instrumentation, CMB observations, mm-wave optics, mm-wave detectors, anti-reflection coatings |
| Kate Ciampa Summer Term RA | PAN 450 (lab) ciamp009 @ umn.edu | Particle Physics | |
| Kaylee Ganser Physics Grad Student | PAN 244 (office) gans0075 @ umn.edu | |
| Kenny Lau Summer Term RA | PAN 320 (office), 612-301-1467 PAN 382C (lab), 612-625-1802 kennylau @ umn.edu | Cosmology, CMB |
| Kexin Feng Summer Term RA | TATEH 301-04 (office) fengx463 @ umn.edu | |
| Konstantin Davydov Physics Grad Student | davyd007 @ umn.edu | |
| Lauren Laufman Summer Term TA | TATEH 201-08 (office) laufm008 @ umn.edu | |
| Liangtai Xing Physics Grad Student | xing0027 @ umn.edu | ||
| Lis Stolik Valor Physics Grad Student | stoli005 @ umn.edu | |
| Mark Rustad Physics Grad Student | PAN 417 (office) NHH 5-290 (lab) rustad @ physics.umn.edu | Calcium transport in heart cells; Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR); Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations |
| Matthew Green Summer Term RA | gree2430 @ umn.edu | |
| Matthew Gomer Summer Term TA | TATEH 201-04 (office) gomer @ astro.umn.edu | Gravitational Lensing, Relativity & Cosmology, Structure of Galaxies | |
| Mengqun Li Summer Term RA | TATEH 301-02 (office) lixx3269 @ umn.edu | condensed matter physics |
| Mengxing Ye Summer Term RA | TATEH 201-03 (office) yexxx396 @ umn.edu | I am interested in condensed matter theory, particularly, strongly correlated systems and topological phases. |
| Michael Revering Summer Term RA | rever025 @ umn.edu | |
| Michael Makmur Summer Term TA , Summer Term RA | makmu002 @ umn.edu | ||
| Michael Crumrine Summer Term RA | PAN 382-C (lab), 612-625-1802 PAN 320 (office) crumrine @ umn.edu | CMB Polarization |
| Michael Mullen Physics Grad Student | CMRR 1-220 (office) mulle399 @ umn.edu | NMR, MRI |
| Michael Sammon Physics Grad Student | TATEH 201-05 (office) sammo017 @ umn.edu | |
| Minh Nguyen Summer Term TA | TATEH 201-001 (office) nguy1642 @ umn.edu | High energy theory and phenomenology. |
| Mohammad Abrar Wadud Summer Term RA | wadud @ physics.umn.edu | ||
| Narayana Sri Sharan Banagiri Summer Term RA | PAN 317 (office) banag002 @ umn.edu | |
| Nathan Bosch Summer Term RA | bosch088 @ umn.edu | |
| Nathan Eggen Summer Term TA , Summer Term RA | TATEH 201-04 (office) eggen091 @ umn.edu | ||
| Neil Schroeder Summer Term RA | PAN 432 (office), 612-624-7861 schr1077 @ umn.edu | Modelling radiation damage in lead-tungstate crystals, Applications of Machine Learning in Physics |
| Nicholas Mast Physics Grad Student | PAN 324 (office), 612-301-1818 PAN 43 (lab), 612-624-6046 mastx027 @ umn.edu | Cosmology, Particle Physics |
| Nicholas Lewellyn Summer Term RA | PAN 234 (office) lewel019 @ umn.edu | Experimental Condensed Matter |
| Noah Rogers Summer Term RA | TATEH 301-02 (office) roge0291 @ umn.edu | |
| Olesya Koroteeva Physics Grad Student | TATEH 201-01 (office) koro0032 @ umn.edu | Condensed Matter |
| Pamela Sooriyan Physics Grad Student | soor0002 @ umn.edu | ||
| Paul Keller Physics Grad Student | kell1377 @ umn.edu | |
| Peter Grul Physics Grad Student | TATEH 201-15 (office) grul @ physics.umn.edu | Computational plasma physics, interaction of charged particles with plasma waves in the solar wind | |
| Peter Hansen Physics Grad Student | PAN 424 (office), 624-1534 phansen @ physics.umn.edu | |
| Peter Stoeckl Physics Grad Student | stoec034 @ umn.edu | |
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| Praharsh Suryadevara Physics Grad Student | surya031 @ umn.edu | |
| Protyush Sahu Physics Grad Student | KHKH 6-186 (office) sahux026 @ umn.edu | Spintronics, Magnetism | |
| Qi Wen Summer Term RA | PAN 314 (office) wenxx181 @ umn.edu | Cosmology |
| Qianyi Sheng Summer Term RA | sheng084 @ umn.edu | |
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| Rafid Mahbub Summer Term TA | TATEH 301-01 (office) mahbu004 @ umn.edu | Primordial black holes as dark matter; inflationary cosmology |
| Ragnar Stefansson Physics Grad Student | PAN 420 (office) PAN 481 (lab) stefa134 @ umn.edu | |
| Reese Petersen Summer Term RA | PAN 432 (office) pet00831 @ umn.edu | fundamental forces and particles, applied physics, device physics, nuclear reactor technology, condensed matter, materials engineering |
| Rich Ormiston Summer Term RA | PAN 317 (office) PAN 053 (lab) ormiston @ umn.edu | |
| Richard Spieker Physics Grad Student | spiek022 @ umn.edu | |
| Richard Diurba Summer Term RA | diurb001 @ umn.edu | |
| Robert Sponsel Summer Term TA | PAN 221 (office) spons009 @ umn.edu | |
| Rohith Saradhy Summer Term RA | sarad005 @ umn.edu | |
| Ryan Marshall Summer Term TA | PAN 484 (lab), 612-626-8085 PAN 484 (lab) marshall @ physics.umn.edu | |
| Safana Ismael Physics Grad Student | PAN 414 (office) ismae003 @ umn.edu | ||
| Sajna Hameed Summer Term RA | PAN 246 (office) PAN 264 (lab) hamee007 @ umn.edu | Random Matrix Theory, Condensed Matter Physics |
| Santosh Adhikari Summer Term RA | PAN 420 (office) adhik019 @ umn.edu | Biophysics |
| Sarunas Verner Summer Term RA | nedzi002 @ umn.edu | ||
| Saumitran Kasturirangan Research Assistant | TATEH 201-07 (office) kastu007 @ umn.edu | Condensed Matter Theory |
| Scott Dossa Physics Grad Student | AMUNDH 241 (office) doss0032 @ umn.edu | Simulating crystal growth |
| Sean Bruton Summer Term TA , Summer Term RA | 201-08 Tate (office) bruto012 @ umn.edu | Astronomy | |
| Shuhui Luo Physics Grad Student | TATEH 201‐07 (office) luo @ physics.umn.edu | |
| Siddarth Reddy Karuka Summer Term RA | PAN 414 (office) karuk001 @ umn.edu | Biophysics, Medical Physics |
| Sourabh Chauhan Summer Term TA | TATEH 210-04 (office) sourabh @ astro.umn.edu | Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology |
| Stephen McMillan Physics Grad Student | TATEH 301-04 (office) mcmil291 @ umn.edu | |
| Subhodip Saha Physics Grad Student | saha0073 @ umn.edu | Experimental condensed matter physics |
| Susmita Singh Physics Grad Student | singh893 @ umn.edu | |
| Tanzid Sultan Summer Term RA | TATEH 201-02 (office) sulta055 @ umn.edu | |
| Theodore Jacobson Physics Grad Student | TATEH 301-03 (office) jaco2585 @ umn.edu | High energy theory |
| Thomas Welle Summer Term RA | TATEH 301-1 (office) welle203 @ umn.edu | |
| Thomas Eichlersmith Physics Grad Student | eichl008 @ umn.edu | |
| Thomas Peterson Physics Grad Student | KHKH 6-186 (office) pete9290 @ umn.edu | |
| Tianbai Cui Physics Grad Student | TATEH 201-09 (office) cuixx105 @ umn.edu | |
| Trevor Knuth Summer Term TA | TATEH 201-15 (office) TATEH 255 (lab) knuth063 @ umn.edu | Solar physics, X-ray instrumentation, solar eruptive events | |
| Virginia Gali Summer Term TA | gali0051 @ umn.edu | ||
| William Peria Summer Term RA | PAN 225 (office) peria004 @ umn.edu | Magnetization dynamics in epitaxial Heusler films: ultrafast optical and microwave detection |
| Xi Zhang Summer Term RA | PAN 232 (office) zhan5856 @ umn.edu | |
| Xiaojun Fu Physics Grad Student | PAN 232 (office) fuxxx366 @ umn.edu | |
| Xuzhe Ying Summer Term RA | TATEH 201-05 (office) yingx052 @ umn.edu | Condensed matter theory |
| Yahor Savich Physics Grad Student | PAN 217 (office) savic004 @ umn.edu | Theoretical condensed matter physics |
| Yang Yang Summer Term RA | TATEH 201-09 (office) yang5990 @ umn.edu | |
| Yao Meng Physics Grad Student | 625-1084 mengx084 @ umn.edu | Biophysics | |
| Yevhen Kurianovych Summer Term RA | WMSONH 130K (office), 624-3809 kuria014 @ umn.edu | Supersymmetric field theories, non-perturbative solutions and topological defects, AdS/CFT correspondence, topological phases in condensed matter |
| Yi Huang Physics Grad Student | huan1756 @ umn.edu | |
| Yijia Liu Physics Grad Student | liux1267 @ umn.edu | ||
| Yilikal Ayino Summer Term RA | PAN 217 (office) PAN 353 (lab) ayino001 @ umn.edu | |
| Yiming Wu Summer Term RA | TATEH 201-03 (office) wuxx1693 @ umn.edu | |
| Yixian Zhang Physics Grad Student | zhan6327 @ umn.edu | ||
| Yu-Heng Lin Summer Term RA | lin00025 @ umn.edu | |
| Yusuf Buyukdag Physics Grad Student | TATEH 201-01 (office) buyuk007 @ umn.edu | AdS/CFT correspondence -- partial compositeness, supersymmetry, extra dimensions, Physics beyond the Standard Model |
| Yuting Wang Summer Term TA | TATEH 201-05 (office) ywang @ physics.umn.edu | ||
| Zachary Lesko Summer Term RA | PAN 432 (office), 626-7764 lesk0030 @ umn.edu | |
| Zachary Anderson Summer Term RA | PAN 252 (office) PAN 264 (lab) and01942 @ umn.edu | |
| Zachary Robinson Physics Grad Student | TATEH 201-05 (office) MECHE L122 (lab) robi0835 @ umn.edu | Charge and energy transport in nanocrystal films: metal-insulator transition and optical properties |
| Zachary Williams Research Professional | will5092 @ umn.edu | ||
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| Zedong Yang Summer Term RA | PAN 217 (office) PAN 353 (lab) yang4302 @ umn.edu | |
| Zewei Xiong Summer Term RA | TATEH 301-01 (office) xion1278 @ umn.edu | Neutrino oscillations. Nuclear astrophysics and nucleosynthesis. Core-collapse supernova and binary system merger. |
| Zhen Jiang Research Assistant | PAN 225 (office) PAN 283 (lab) jiang968 @ umn.edu | |
| Ziyan Yang Summer Term RA | PAN 323 (office) PAN 51 (lab) yang5991 @ umn.edu | Cosmology |