Physics & Astronomy

Jean-Francois VAN HUELE

Current students:                                                                 Research Night Slide: Prashanna Simkhada is studying the connection between entanglement and superposition Ryan Sayer (MS) is studying algebraic methods for quantum dynamics and connections with classical chaos

Recent student theses:

Bailey HSU  (PhD dissertation 2010)

Nathan STEIGER (Honors thesis 2010)

Adam HALL (Senior thesis 2009)

Lucas EARL (Senior thesis 2008)

Explorations in Quantum Relativity

(Lucas tutors physics and math at UVU until the start of his mission for the LDS church)

Mark TRANSTRUM (Honor's thesis 2006)  

Quantum mechanics in Snyder space

(Mark is now a PhD student at Cornell University)

Vern HART (Senior thesis 2006)  

Airy wave packets as quantum solutions for recovering classical trajectories

(Vern now teaches physics in Texas, and will start graduate school soon)

Jared STENSON (MS thesis 2005)   

Representations for understanding the Stern-Gerlach effect

(Jared is now a PhD student at Oregon State University)

Daniel JAMES (Senior thesis 2004)  

A Semi-classical study of electron blurring in the longitudinal Stern-Gerlach magnet

(James is now a financial consultant in Seattle Washington)

Jason EVANS (MS thesis 2004)  

On the variability of the fine structure constant

(Jason is now a PhD student at the University of Michigan)

Philip DU TOIT (Honor's thesis 2000)    

Spin current: the contribution of spin to the probability current for nonrelativistic particles

(Philip is now a PhD student in control and dynamical systems at the California Institute of Technology)