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Professor Calvin W. Johnson

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PhD. students

Current:

	Hai Ah Nam, San Diego State University, Computational Science. Hai Ah is working on a joint project with Lawrence Livermore National Lab on large-dimension basis (10^8-9) shell model calculations. She is supported on a DOE Fellowship through Livermore and an ARCS scholarship.
	Rick Navarro, San Diego State University,     Computational Science.
	Eunsil Baik, San Diego State University, Computational Science. Eunsil is working on classical and quantum chaos.

Past:

Dr. Ionel Stetcu, Louisiana State University. Dissertation: “Toward a Global Microscopic Theory for Nuclear Structure: Mean Field plus Random Phase Approximation vs. Shell Model.” Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Lab

M.S. students supervised

Dennis Monday. “Analytic approximations in calculations of solar neutrino oscillators”  (November 2004)

Evan Obadashian. Currently looking at the classical and quantum mechanics of a liquid drop, as a archetypal system for the nucleus. In particular we are interested in the coupling between rotational and vibrational motion.

Senior theses supervised

W. Tyler Watkins. Thesis: “Square well binding energy in relativistic quantum mechanics” (August, 2003).

Frank Vachlin. Thesis: “Computational analysis of solitons and quasi-solitons through stability analysis” (May 2004).

Finn O’Shea. Thesis: "The parity non-conserving potential" (December 2004).

	Van Nguyen (AWIS scholar, McNair scholar, MARC scholar). "Time-integrate supernova neutrino flux from a nearby cluster" (May 2005). After spending a summer working at Los Alamos National Lab, Van is now at Columbia University fully supported by an NSF Fellowship.
	Rick Navarro. "Time-dependent nucleosynthesis reaction networks" (May 2005).  Rick is now in SDSU's Computational Science PhD program.
	Derek Padilla, Comparison of secular models for nuclear level densities (May 2007). About to start in SDSU’s MS program.

POSTDOCS SUPERVISED

Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi, October 1999-August 2002 (at Louisiana State University). PhD: University of Heidelberg. Current position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute, Pakistan.

Dr. Edgar Teran, July 2003 to October 2006.  PhD: Vanderbilt University. Current position: Industry.

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Last updated May 26, 2007