Weeks Lab People

People:

Dandan

Quim

James

Ken

Kazem

Gary

Rei

Jenn

Zach

Vikram

Eric

For email address in table below, replace / with @.

Name	Current project	Phone (404)	Email
Dandan Chen (grad student)	sheared suspensions	712-8669 / 727-9169	dchen / physics.emory.edu
Joaquim Clara-Rahola (postdoc)	sheared emulsions	727-4163	jclararahola / physics.emory.edu
James Davidheiser (grad student)	chaotic fluid flows	727-8592	jdavidh / emory.edu
Ken Desmond (grad student)	microrheology	727-4149	kdesmond / physics.emory.edu
Kazem Edmond (grad student)	confined glass transition	712-8669 / 712-9169	kedmond / physics.emory.edu
Gary Hunter (grad student)	colloidal gels	712-8669	glhunte / emory.edu
Rei Kurita (postdoc)	sheared suspensions	727-8592	rkurita1115 / gmail.com
Jenn Lynch (undergrad) all day MF, Wed til 2:30, Thu 2:30 onwards	aging in colloidal glasses	727-7105	jmlynch / learnlink.emory.edu
Zach Nadler (undergrad) M 10-4, W 10-2, F 10-4	2D colloidal phases	727-7105	znadler / learnlink.emory.edu
Vikram Prasad (postdoc)	2D colloidal systems	727-4149	vprasad / physics.emory.edu
Eric Weeks (PI)	writing papers & teaching	727-4479	weeks / physics.emory.edu

Current Collaborators:

• Victor Breedveld & Jun Sato at Georgia Tech
• Claudio Chamon at Boston University
• Luca Cipelletti at Université Montpellier 22
• Leticia Cugliandolo at Univ. Curie - Paris VI
• Scott Franklin at RIT
• Justin Gallivan & Shana Topp at Emory (Chemistry)
• James Kindt & Ana West at Emory (Chemistry)
• Jennifer Lewis at U of Illinois / Urbana-Champaign
• Stefan Lutz & Kitty LingFeng Liu at Emory (Chemistry)
• Andrew Lyon at Georgia Tech
• David Lynn and Drew Palmer at Emory (Chemistry)
• Ali Mohraz at UC Irvine
• Dave Pine and Mark Elsesser at NYU
• Wilson Poon, Rut Besseling, & Lucio Isa at Univ. Edinburgh
• Peter Schiffer & Igor Veretennikov at Penn State & Notre Dame, respectively (2005)
• Phil Segre at Emory (physics)
• Michio Tokuyama & Takayuki Narumi at Tohoku University
• Arjun Yodh, Zexin Zhang, & Peter Yunker at U Penn

Recent Past Collaborators:

• Horacio Castillo & Azita Parsaeian at Ohio University (2007)
• John Crocker at the University of Pennsylvania (2007)
• Thomas Fischer & Prajna Dhar at University of Bayreuth & FSU (2008)
• Jim Gilchrist at Lehigh (2005)
• Stephan Koehler at Worcester Polytechnic Inst. (2006)
• Hang Lu at Georgia Tech (2006)
• Carlos Martinez at Purdue (2005)
• Jeff Morris at CCNY (2007)
• Jim Snyder & Pahk Thepchatri at Emory (Chemistry) (2005)
• David Weitz at Harvard (2007)

Past people:

• Gianguido Cianci, Fall '01 - Summer '08 -- magbeads, aging
  Ph.D. in physics, May '08. Currently: in Chicago, starting postdoc soon at Northwestern U
• Pearl Young, Fall '07 - Summer '08 -- emulsions
  Currently: undergrad at Emory
• Jakub Otwinowski, Fall '07 - Spring '08 -- diffusion and glass transition
  Currently: grad student at Emory, working with Stefan Boettcher
• Cara Hageman, Fall '07 - Spring '08 -- 2D colloidal phases
  Currently: undergrad at Emory, Fall '08 studying abroad in Spain
• Tiffany Soo, Spring '07 - Spring '08 -- colloidal gels
  Currently: undergrad in Emory's Goizueta Business School.
• Denis Semwogerere, Spring '04 - Summer '07 -- flowing colloids
  Currently: in Toronto, soon to be data analyst for the Shopping Channel
• Scott Franklin, Summer '06 - Summer '07 -- colloidal glass transition
  Currently: Associate Professor of Physics at RIT
• Takayuki Narumi, Summer '07 -- colloidal glass transition
  Currently: PhD student at Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
• Lov Goel, Spring '06 - Spring '07 -- poking colloidal glasses
  B.A. in physics, May '07. Currently: law school at UC Davis
• Jin Ha Kim, Spring '06 - Fall '06 -- hydraulic jump & biopolymer gels
  Last seen: in Atlanta
• Daniel Real, Summer '06 -- brownian motion
  Currently: undergrad at Oxford College (Emory)
• Cortney Crane, Fall '05 - Summer '06 -- emulsion glasses
  B.S. in physics, May '08. Currently: UVA grad school in materials science & engineering; Fall '06 in Australia
• Jessica Hernandez-Guzman, Fall '05 & Spring '06 -- colloidal crystals
  Currently: working in Warncke lab toward PhD
• Tsondue Samphel, Summer '03 thru Fall '03, Spring '05 thru Spring '06 -- colloidal gels
  B.S. in physics, May '06. Currently: grad school at Emory ILA; famous translator
• Ben Bluth, Fall '04 thru Spring '06 -- poking colloidal glasses
  B.A. in physics from Emory, May '07. Currently: med school at UCLA; summer '06 in Spain
• Sabrina Rainwater, Fall '05 -- binary colloidal glasses
  B.S. in math from Emory, May '07. Currently: U of Maryland for grad school in math
• Ted Brzinski, Fall '02 thru Summer '05 -- emulsion glasses
  B.S. in physics, May '05. Currently: UPenn for grad school in physics
• Jason Hay, Spring '05 thru Summer '05 -- poking colloidal glasses
  B.S. in physics, Georgia Tech, Dec '04. Currently: grad school in science policy, George Washington Univ.
• Carrie Nugent, Summer '04 & Summer '05 -- confined colloidal glasses
  B.S. in physics, Bucknell Univ., May '05. Currently: UCLA, grad school in Geophysics & Space Physics program
• Joe Saldana, Fall '04 & Spring '05 -- confined colloidal glasses
  Last seen: in Atlanta
• Kevin Welsher, Fall '04 & Spring '05 -- colloidal crystals
  B.S. in chemistry & B.A. in physics, May '05. Currently: Stanford for grad school in chemistry
• Brad Andrews, Summer '04 thru Fall '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  last seen: at UIC for a master's in 2ndary science ed
• Rachel Courtland, Summer '01 thru Summer '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  M.S. in physics, August '04. Currently: MS in Science Communication, UC-Santa Cruz, 2007; was intern journalist at Nature Spring '08; starting June '08 she'll work for New Scientist.
• Susannah (Cooke) Lomant, Summer '03 & Summer '04 -- colloids and jamming
  Currently: Teaching at Georgia Perimeter College
• Piotr Habdas, Dec '01 thru Summer '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  Currently: Professor of physics at St. Joseph's University
• Doug Anderson, Summer/Fall '01 & Summer '03 thru Summer '04 -- microscopic colloidal flow
  
  B.A. in physics from Emory, May '03. MA in classics from UGA '07. Currently: working on MA in New Testament in Boston
• David Schaar, Summer '02 - Spring '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  M.S. in physics from Emory, Dec '03. Currently: teaching science at Decatur High School
• Amy Franciscovich, Spring '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  B.S. in chemistry from Emory, Dec '06. Currently: working at Emory; heading to Harvard Med School Fall 2008
• Christina Wallace, Spring '03 thru Summer '03 -- aging of colloidal glasses
  B.A. in theater studies & math, May '05. Currently: Harvard Business School, earning MBA; focus on non-profit management. NYC.
• Shanshan Wu, Fall '02 thru Summer '03 -- poking colloidal glasses
  M.S. in physics from Emory, July 2003. Currently: earning Ph.D. at Brown University
• Hetal Patel, Summer '01 thru Spring '03 -- bumpy walls
  B.A. in chemistry & history from Emory, May '03. Currently: med school in New Jersey
• Raul Gonzalez, Spring '03 -- emulsion glasses
  B.A. in chemistry from Emory, May '04. Currently: student at Medical College of Georgia
• Tracy Lipps, Spring '03 -- aging of colloidal glasses
  B.S. in biology, May '05. Last seen: heading for med school (maybe at Duke?)
• Martin Frank, Fall '01 thru Fall '02 -- microscopic colloidal flow
  B.S. in physics, May '05. Currently: physics grad student at Baylor
• Gabriel Charvat, Summer '02 -- size-changing colloids
  M.S. in physics from Emory, May '04. Currently: grad student at Georgia State (finance)
• Bayard Bavetta, Spring/Summer '02 -- hard disk simulations
  B.S. in CS from Emory, May '02; M.S. in CS from Emory, Aug '03
• Charlotte Hollinger, Summer '02 -- emulsion glasses
  
  B.S. in chemistry & biology from Emory, May '03. Currently: vet school in Philadelphia
• Meredith McTernan, Summer/Fall '01 -- bumpy walls, binary glasses
  B.S. in physics from Emory, May '02. Last seen: working in New York City
• Andrew Levitt, Summer '01 -- poking colloidal glasses
  
  B.S. in physics from U of Toronto, Nov. '03. Currently: After graduation, worked as engineer in Montreal, then Tuscon. Now in San Francisco doing technical writing (7/06)