JOSE AUMENTADO
B.S. PHYSICS `94, just started a postdoctoral position at NIST/Boulder, working on the single electron transistor (SET) capacitance standard. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern in September, 1999 and moved to Boulder in October, 2000.
CHRIS W. BOGART
B.S. PHYSICS `83, is working as a Senior Software Architect for Veridian Information Solutions in Northern Virginia.
MICHAEL BRINKMEIER
M.S. PHYSICS `92, was elected as a Member of Parliament of the German state Northrhine-Westfalia. His work field is in politics, the internet and the new economy. Prior to the May election, he served as a consultant at McKinsey & Co., Inc. From 1993 - 1997, he worked for the nobel laureate Manfred Eigen at the Max-Planck Institute for biophysical chemistry in Göttingen (Ph.D. 1996) and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. His Ph.D. thesis is about Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy.
DAVID R. BROWN
B.A. ASTRONOMY `63, has lived in Wheaton, Maryland for the past 21 years with his wife and four children, working in the aerospace industry. David currently works for Computer Sciences Corporation at Goddard Space Flight Center as a section manager in the Flight Dynamics Facility. His section supports approximately 25 scientific satellites by providing orbit determination for the in-orbit satellites, maneuver planning for a subset of the satellites and mission design for proposed satellites. They support missions in low-earth orbit, in geosynchronous orbit (GOES), and in libration point orbits at L1 in the sun-earth system and at L2 in the earth-moon system.
DAVID CASTIGLIONE
B.S. PHYSICS `85, is a System Engineer doing test planning on the National Missile Defense Ground Based Interceptor program in Huntsville, Alabama. Life outside of work is spent with his beautiful wife, Jerene and their two wonderful children.
KATARINA CICAK
B.S. PHYSICS `97,is a fourth year physics graduate student in the Ph.D. program at Cornell University. She is working under the supervision of Professor Robert Thorne in experimental condensed matter physics on transport properties of charge density waves (CDWs). She absolutely loves it in Ithaca. Waterfalls, parks, lakes and gorges make for a different scenery from Los Angeles.
DAVID COHEN
M.A. PHYSICS `94, is finishing up his Ph.D. in the USC EE-electrophysics department under Dr. A. Levi. His thesis topic is "Lithium Niobate microphotonic resonators" and should be finished early next year.
DIMITRIS A. DERVOS
M.A. PHYSICS `82, in 1982 Dimitris switched his subject area to Information Technology. Today, his academic and research interests include database systems and information retrieval/mining. He works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Technology at the Technology Educational Institute (I.E.I.) in Thessaloniki, Grecce.
J.K. DICKENS
B.A. PHYSICS `55, M.A. PHYSICS `62, PH.D. PHYSICS `63, let us know that due to our last newsletter, he's heard from a long-lost colleague.
GÖKHAM ESIRGEN
M.A. PHYSICS `95, PH.D. PHYSICS `97, finished his postdoc work at the University of Georgia last year and is currently a postdoc at the University of California, Davis in their physics department. He is also a participating guest at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
EDWARD R. `NED' FLOYD
M.S. PHYSICS `65, PH.D. PHYSICS `71, remains retired. However, he has published two papers this year, "Classical limit of the trajectory representation of quantum mechanics, loss of information, and residual indeterminacy", Int. J. Mod.Phys. A 15, 1363-1378 (2000), quant-ph/9907092 and "Reflection time and the Goos-H\"anchen effect for reflection by a semi-infinite rectangular barrier", Found.Phys.Lett. 13,235-251 (2000), quant-ph/9708007.
MARK GIAMPAPA
B.S. ASTRONOMY `76, is the Deputy Director for the National Solar Observatory. His current research program emphasizes studies of solar-type stars, very low mass stars and brown dwarfs. The facilities utilized in this research include telescopes on Kitt Peak, Arizona, and the Chandra X-ray satellite observatory.
GUNTER GIGAS
M.S. PHYSICS `59, PH.D. PHYSICS `63, came to USC from AiResearch Los Angeles, where he was Group Leader of the High Altitude Laboratory. After receiving his doctorate on the 32 MeV Linear Proton Accelerator, he joined Atomics International as supervisor of the Radiation Effects Research Group. Gunter then joined JPL/Cal Tech as a research scientist for systems design of the Voyager Spacecraft. NASA presented his group an achievement award; "For outstanding achievement in creating the most advanced and capable interplanetary spacecraft ever flown, making possible the spectacular scientific investigations of the Jupiter and Saturn planetary systems and extended operations toward Uranus, Neptune and the Heliopause". After leaving JPL, he earned his M.D. degree, became Board Certified and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Medicine. After private practice in Los Angeles, he is semi-retired but maintains an active interest in the applications of physics to medicine.
JACKIE ALAN GIULIANO
B.A. ASTRONOMY `77, was employed by NASA at JPL in Pasadena upon graduation. For the next 20 years, he worked as a mission planner on Voyager, Galileo, the Space Station and Project Topex. He then managed an educational outreach program for the Outer Planets/Solar Probe Project. In 1998, he received his Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from the Union Institute School of Graduate Studies. After leaving JPL in 1992, he taught Astronomy and Environmental Sciences at Antioch University, Los Angeles, the University of Phoenix and West Los Angeles College. In November 1999, Jackie moved to Seattle, Washington as the Professor for Space and Earth Science Education and Multi-Media Designer for The Space Foundation, a space exploration support organization in Colorado.
RICHARD A. GUDMUNDSEN
PH.D. PHYSICS `53, has recently published a science and religion book, "Scientific Inquiry Applied to the Gospel of Jesus Christ", Bonneville Books. The book is distributed by Cedar Fort, Inc., Springville, Utah and deals with the nature of the universe in the transfinite superset of God's Eternity.
CLINT `DOC' HARPER
M.A. PHYSICS `73, PH.D. PHYSICS `76, is the Department Head of Physics and Astronomy at Moorpark College, Moorpark, California. He writes, records and performs children's music with the Sunshine Band. Doc also keeps busy professionally teaching short courses for technicians and engineers through SPIE and has a video course and CD-ROM in optics for engineers that SPIE markets worldwide.
DON HAVENS
B.S. PHYSICS `69, M.A. PHYSICS `72, lives in Irvine, California with his wife Kay and two children. He is currently working for Rockwell.
QIANG LUO
PH.D. PHYSICS `93, has concentrated his main efforts to teaching since he started in Peking University in 1998. While the teaching is going very well, he is experiencing pressure to initiate research and be published. Recently, the department decided to concentrate on computational physics. Qiang's plan is to continue his research program at USC. He is also exploring the possibility of collaboration with others, both inside his department and outside.
EDWARD MAJKOWSKI
B.S. ASTRONOMY `87, married Adriana Ferri in May, 1999. They now reside in Fairfax, Virginia, where Ed works as a contractor at NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. as a Senior Systems Engineer/Windows NT Technical Lead, providing IT support for the Headquarters Server Architecture (HSA) and networking infrastructure. He also provides backup UNIX support for the email systems. Ed has worked at NASA Headquarters since August 1995.
JUSTIN O'BRIEN
M.A. PHYSICS `89, moved to New York City in 1997 after attending music school in Seattle, Washington where he studied jazz guitar. He lives on the Upper East Side in Manhattan and is Director of Financial Application Development for Forbes.com, where he's been for almost two years.
ROSHAN L. SHARMA
M.S. PHYSICS `55, has been teaching "Telecommunications Network Design" at Southern Methodist University in Dallas since 1993. The course now uses his 1997 book, "Network Design Using EcoNets", published by Intl. Thomson Computer Press in Boston and his user-friendly network design software called EcoNets.
KONSTADINOS SFETSOS PH.D. PHYSICS `93, has held the position as Maitre Assistant at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland since October 1999. He is married and has three children.
DAVID SUMIDA M.A. PHYSICS `79, PH.D. PHYSICS `84, appeared on the June 1999 cover of the nation's top Laser trade magazine "Laser Focus World". The cover story addressed the topic of High Power Yb:YAG Lasers. In Spring 2000, he served on an open house committee at HRL Laboratories to host a party honoring the 40th anniversary of the Laser., which was invented at the HRL Malibu laboratory.
NANSHENG TANG
PH.D. PHYSICS `94, has been with 3D Systems, Inc. in Valencia, California since April 1997. He is Manager of Manufacturing and recently has been in charge of a new product line.
PHILLIP WISE
B.S. PHYSICS `76, M.D. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, `82, is a urologist in San Diego. He has been married for 14 years and has three children, the youngest of which has autism. His interest is male infertility, vasectomy reversals and prostate cancer. Phillip is the vice president of the California Urologist Association and the vice chair of the Commission on Legislation in the California Medical Association. For fun, he still plays the guitar and snow ski's, however, not at the same time.
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