Supported Students

Doctoral students

• Weijian (Lucy) Lin (PhD 2024), Thesis: Machine Learning Applications for Improving Accelerator Operations, chairperson of PhD committee and supervisor of dissertation: Georg H. Hoffstaetter
• Nilanjan Banerjee (PhD 2020), Thesis: Towards more efficient accelerating RF systems: Superconducting Energy Recovery LINACs and thermometry of high Q cavities, chairperson of PhD committee and supervisor of dissertation: Georg H. Hoffstaetter
• William Lou (PhD 2020), Thesis: Beam Breakup Instability and Coherent Synchrotron Radiation Limits of the Particle Accelerator CBETA, chairperson of PhD committee and supervisor of dissertation: Georg H. Hoffstaetter
• Steven Full (PhD 2017), Thesis: Ion Trapping in High Intensity LINACs, chairperson of PhD committee and supervisor of dissertation: Georg H. Hoffstaetter
• Chris E. Mayes (PhD 2009), Thesis: Energy Recovery Linear Accelerator Lattice Design &Coherent Synchrotron Radiation, chairperson of PhD committee and supervisor of dissertation: Georg H. Hoffstaetter
• Richard Helms (PhD 2007), collaborated on nonlinear evaluation of Beam Position Monitor data, Thesis: Studies for CESR-TA: A low-emittance test accelerator at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, chairperson of PhD committee: David Rubin
• Bjoern Schmekel (2005), collaborated on the beam-beam effect and Coherent Synchrotron Radiation, Thesis: Collisionless Beam-Radiation Processes in the Laborator and Astrophysics, chairperson of PhD committee: Ira Wasserman
• Ilya Agapov (2005), collaborated on longitudinal bunched beam echos, Thesis: Mechanisms of loss of high energy protons from the bunched beams in storage rings, chairperson of PhD committee: Ursula van Rienen
• Mathias Vogt (2000), joint supervision with Dr. Desmond Barber, Thesis: Bounds on the Maximum Attainable Equilibrium Spin Polarization of Protons at High Energy in HERA, supervising full professor: Gustav Kramer

Master Degrees

• Yang Hao Lau (2008), Wake field compensation, recipient of the David Delano Clark award for the best Master in Engineering project in 2008, handed out by the department of Applied Engineering and Physics at Cornell University
• Yi Xie (2007), Short-range wakefield calculations for the ion clearing electrodes in the Cornell Energy Recovery Linac
• Changsheng Song (2006), Beam-breakup instability and sensitivity to field errors in ERLs
• Joseph Choi (2005), Phase-space propagatin in ERLs

Collaborating Graduate Students

• Sam Posen (2009 - )
• Michael Ehrlichmann (2008 - )
• Mike Saelim (2008)
• Christian Spethmann (2007)
• Greg Stiesberg (2006)

Undergraduate Research Experience

• Joel Thompson (2008-2009), Bunch compression for a short-pulse mode in Cornell's ERL
• Christopher Macgahan(2008), Ion distributions around electron beams
• Udom Sae-Ueng (2008), Simulations of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR)
• Michael Martin (2007), An graduate-lab experiment in accelerator physics
• Brandon Buckly (2007), Coupler kicks and their compensation
• Vaibhav Kukreja (2006), Electron Field-Emission in the ERL-Electron Source and the Projection Model
• Shaan Qamar (2005), Coupler kick simulations
• Nabil Igbal (2004), A test stand for beam-position measurements
• Tomohiko Tanabe (2004), Syncrotron radiation shielding in SRF linacs
• Andrew Schwarzkopf (2004), Beam-position monitor errors
• Igor Senderovich (2004), Electrode design adjustments to a high voltage electron gun
• Jonathan Bergknoff (2004), Communication between C++ and FORTRAN for a beam-dynamics library
• Gideon Alon (2003), Beam-Breakup Instabilities

Students for REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates)

• Eric Edwards (2008), Time-of-flight Identification of Ions in CESR and ERL
• Robin Bjorkquist (2008), Evaluation of a New Cavity Focusing Theory
• Adra (Tory) Carr (2006), Coherent Synchrotron Radiation
• Vaibhav Kukreja (2005), Field-Emission Properties in the ERL-Electron Source
• Chanisha Martin (2004), Ground-motion measurements for potential ERL sites
• Christopher Chan (2004), Beam position monitor test stand
• Beau Meredith (2003), Pick-up calibration in CESR beam position monitors
• Charalambos (Bobby) Koupparis (2003), Determination of ERL optics with undulators

Diploma theses

• Nichtlineare Effekte der Spindynamik in Protonenbeschleunigern,
  Christoph Weisbaecker, supervising full professor: Harald Rose (1998), DESY-THESIS-1999-019
  Talk on 19th of May 1999
• Manipulation des Öffnungsfehlers bei der elektronenoptischen Abbildung schwacher Phasenobjekte,
  Achim Hohl, supervising full professor: Harald Rose (1998)

Highschool interns (through the Ithaca learning Web)

• Alexander Naydich (2006), Wiki oranization for WBS structures
• Shaan Qamar (2004), Emittance growth from coupler ckicks
• Anton Kriksunov (2003), Optimizers for particle-optics simulations

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