Herman Group News
** Scott Misner was a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) visitor in the group in the summers of 2007 and 2008. He worked with Austin Akey on the dielectrophoretic alignment of carbon nanotubes. John Thompson spent the summer as a MRSEC REU student, and worked with Dory Kramer on fracture control in electrophoretic nanocrystal films. Ivy Chen worked with Dr. Chenguang Lu on controlled formation of binary nanocrystal superlattices.
** On June 14, 2008, Mr. Shengguo Jia defended his Ph.D. thesis "Mechanism of the Electrophoretic Deposition of CdSe Nanocrystal Films and Their Mechanical Properties" and thus became Dr. Shengguo Jia.
** In September 2007, Dr. Sarbajit Banerjee (Postdoc, 2004-2007) joined the faculty of Buffalo University as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry.
** In February 2007 Herman's textbook "Physics of the Human Body" textbook is published.
** In the January 11, 2007, the "Laws of Herman" are published in Nature. This is "tongue-in-cheek" advice to graduate students doing doctoral thesis work.
** Michael (Low Kuan) Low from Seragoon Junior College Singapore was a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) visitor in the group from June-July 2006. Michael worked on the dielectrophoretic alignment of carbon nanotubes. During the summmer of 2006, Ghulam Firdaus from George Washington High School spent her second summer in the group as part of the MRSEC RET program, and worked on assembling nanocrystals. Kellen Petersen spent the summer as a MRSEC REU student, and worked on the dielectrophoretic alignment of vanadium oxide nanorods. Dr. Sylvana Mercone also entered the group as a postdoctoral scientist. She later joined the University of Paris XIII.
** In December 2005, Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger used a Herman Group image by Dr. Sarbajit Banerjee of dielectrophoretically deposited carbon nanotubes for the cover of his Columbia University holiday card.
** In May 2005, Edwin (Cher Chuan) Lim from Victoria Junior College Singapore was a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) visitor in the group from May-July 2005. Edwin worked on the dielectrophoretic alignment of carbon nanotubes.
** In December 2004, Shengguo Jia presented a talk on the 'Mechanical Properties of Electrophoretically Deposited CdSe Nanocrystal Films' at the Fall 2004 Meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston. The talk was highlighted on the MRS website and in the meeting scene email.
** In August 2004, Dr. Sarbajit Banerjee joined the Herman group as a postdoctoral scientist. He recently received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook working with Prof. Stan Wong. Dr. Banerjee will work with the Columbia Nanocenter on Molecular Transport in Molecular Nanostructures.
** In July 2004, Dr. James Dickerson (Postdoc, 2002-2004) joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
** On August 25, 2003, Mr. Mohammad Islam defended his Ph.D. thesis "Electrophoretic Deposition of Multifunctional Nanocrystal Films" and thus became Dr. Mohammad Islam. He joined Prof. Theresa Mayers's group at Penn State in September, 2003 as a postdoctoral scientist to work on nano-based devices.
** Group Students and Postdocs in the Summer of 2003
** In September 2003, Dr. Jon Spanier (Ph.D. 2001) joined the faculty of Drexel University as an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Engineering, which will soon be renamed the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Congratulations Jon! (Jon is the one wearing the tie, two pictures down.) For more details see Drexel News.
** Group Students and Postdocs in the Summer of 2002
** On July 30, 2002, Mr. Nicholas Fuller defended his Ph.D. thesis "Controlling the Relative Rates of Adlayer Formation and Removal during Etching in Inductively Coupled Plasmas" and thus became Dr. Nicholas Fuller. He joined the Plasma Processing Development group at the IBM Yorktown and Fishkill labs in September, 2002.
** On July 15, 2002, Dr. James (Jay) Dickerson joined the Herman group as a postdoctoral scientist. He recently received his Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook working with Prof. Emilio Mendez. Dr. Dickerson will work with the Columbia Nanocenter on Molecular Transport in Molecular Nanostructures.
** Nicholas Fuller has done it once again! On November 1, 2001 he was awarded the John Coburn and Harold Winters Student Award. This award is from the Plasmas Sciences and Technology Division of the American Vacuum Society and "is presented to the student whose paper is judged to be most outstanding based on technical content and quality of presentation."
** After receiving his Ph.D. in May, 2001, Dr. Jon Spanier joined Prof. Hongkun Park's group at Harvard in July 2001 as a postdoctoral scientist to work on oxide nanorods.
** Nicholas Fuller has done it again! In June, 2001 he was a named a finalist for the John Coburn and Harold Winters Student Award. This award is from the Plasmas Sciences and Technology Division of the American Vacuum Society.
** In May, 2001 Nicholas Fuller won an American Vacuum Society Graduate Research Award. This award was established to recognize and encourage excellence in graduate studies in the sciences and technologies of interest to the AVS.