Weeks Lab People

People:

Dandan

Ken

Kazem

Laura

picture coming soon! Xia

Gary

picture coming soon! David

picture coming soon! Paul

picture coming soon! Justin

picture coming soon! Daniel

Nabiha

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
Ken Desmond (grad student)	microrheology, rcp, emulsions	727-4149	kdesmond / physics.emory.edu
Kazem Edmond (grad student)	confined glass transition	712-8669 / 712-9169	kedmond / physics.emory.edu
Laura Golick (grad student)	emulsions	727-7105	laura.golick / gmail.com
Xia Hong (grad student) M 9-12, 1-5; W 9-12, 2-5; F 9-12	emulsions	727-7105	hxamy728 / gmail.com
Gary Hunter (grad student)	confined glass transition, colloidal gels	727-4163	glhunte / emory.edu
David Kilgore (undergrad) hours: MW 12:30-4:30, Tu 2:30-4:30, Th 4-6	colloidal rods	727-4163	dckilgo / learnlink.emory.edu
Paul Martin (undergrad) hours:	soap films	712-8669	pcmarti / learnlink.emory.edu
Justin Pye (grad student)	soap films	727-4352	jepye / emory.edu
Daniel Real (undergrad) hours:	confined glass transition	727-4163	djreal / learnlink.emory.edu
Nabiha Saklayen (undergrad) hours: MWF 1-5 pm + weekends	confined glass transition	727-4163	nsaklay / learnlink.emory.edu
Eric Weeks (PI)	writing papers & teaching	727-4479	weeks / physics.emory.edu

Current Collaborators:

• Victor Breedveld & Jun Sato at Georgia Tech
• Luca Cipelletti at Université Montpellier 22
• John Crocker & Klebert Feitosa at the University of Pennsylvania
• Scott Franklin at RIT
• Jennifer Lewis at U of Illinois / Urbana-Champaign
• Stefan Lutz & Kitty LingFeng Liu at Emory (Chemistry)
• David Lynn, Yue Liu, and Phoebe Young at Emory (Chemistry)
• Ali Mohraz at UC Irvine
• Corey O'Hern at Yale
• 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
• 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)
• Claudio Chamon at Boston University (2008)
• Leticia Cugliandolo at Univ. Curie - Paris VI (2008)
• Thomas Fischer & Prajna Dhar at University of Bayreuth & FSU (2008)
• Justin Gallivan & Shana Topp at Emory (Chemistry) (2006)
• James Kindt & Ana West at Emory (Chemistry) (2006)
• Stephan Koehler at Worcester Polytechnic Inst. (2006)
• Hang Lu at Georgia Tech (2006)
• Jeff Morris at CCNY (2007)
• David Weitz at Harvard (2007)

Past people:

• Rei Kurita, Fall '07 - Fall '09 -- fragility simulations, rcp experiments
  Currently: Assistant professor at U. Tokyo
• Marquise Hopson, Summer '09 -- soap films
  Currently: undergrad at Vassar
• Jenn Lynch, Spring '07 - early Summer '09 -- aging in colloidal glasses
  B.S. in physics, May '09. Currently: grad school at U Penn in Fall '09
• Zach Nadler, Fall '08 - early Summer '09 -- 2D colloidal phases
  B.S. in physics, May '09. Currently: grad school at UC-Santa Cruz in Fall '09
• James Davidheiser, Summer '08 - Spring '09 -- chaotic fluid flows; dissertation
  Ph.D. in physics, May '09. Currently: heading for Colorado.
• Joaquim Clara-Rahola, Spring '07 - Spring '09 -- sheared emulsions
  Currently: Postdoctoral fellow with Alberto Fernandez-Nieves at Georgia Tech
• Vikram Prasad, Fall '04 - Winter '08/09 -- 2D colloidal systems
  Currently: Postdoctoral fellow with Victor Breedveld at Georgia Tech
• Gianguido Cianci, Fall '01 - Summer '08 -- magbeads, aging
  Ph.D. in physics, May '08. Currently: in Chicago, postdoctoral fellow 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
  B.A. in physics from Emory, Dec. 2009. Currently: in Atlanta.
• 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, 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: back in the lab!
• 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. M.S. degree in science policy from George Washington Univ. Currently: consultant for The Tauri Group.
• 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
  MS in secondary education from UIC. Currently: teaching physics and chemistry in Chicago suburbs in Fall 2009
• Rachel Courtland, Summer '01 thru Summer '04 -- poking colloidal glasses
  M.S. in physics, August '04. MS in Science Communication, UC-Santa Cruz, 2007. Was intern journalist at Nature Spring '08. Currently: working 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: student at Harvard Med School
• 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. Ph.D. in physics from Brown, 2008. Currently: in China working for McKinsey & Company.
• Hetal Patel, Summer '01 thru Spring '03 -- bumpy walls
  B.A. in chemistry & history from Emory, May '03. M.D. from St. George's Univ., 2010. Currently: finished med school, waiting for residency assignment
• Raul Gonzalez, Spring '03 -- emulsion glasses
  B.A. in chemistry from Emory, May '04. M.D. from Medical College of Georgia, 2008. Currently: resident at Emory Univ. in pathology.
• 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. M.S. in finance/non-profit finance from Georgia State, 2009. Currently: financial analysis at RaceTrac.
• Bayard Bavetta, Spring/Summer '02 -- hard disk simulations
  B.S. in CS from Emory, May '02; M.S. in CS from Emory, Aug '03; PhD in computer engineering from UF, '05.
• Charlotte Hollinger, Summer '02 -- emulsion glasses
  
  B.S. in chemistry & biology from Emory, May '03. Vetinary Medicine from U Penn 2008. Currently: resident at Michigan State Univ.
• 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, then San Francisco. Now at U Delaware studying green energy (MS program)