GROUP MEMBERS

Clockwise from center (atop pump): Susanna Widicus Weaver, Brian Tom, Ben McCall, Brett McGuire, Bogdan Negru, Michael Wiczer, Christian Luca, Jason Gerlach, Brian Brumfield, Andrew Mills, Nick Indriolo.

The group is pictured around our newest vacuum pump, a Roots blower system from Leybold that is capable of evacuating 7500 cubic feet per minute. This system will be used to generate the <1E-5 atmosphere conditions necessary for the experiments in the source chamber for our ion beam.

Prof. Ben McCall
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001
B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1995

Dr. Susanna Widicus Weaver
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2005
B.S., Illinois Wesleyan University, 2000

Mr. Brian Brumfield
M.S., Wright State University, 2005
B.S., Wright State University, 2004

Mr. Andrew Mills
B.S., Brigham Young University, 2005

Mr. Nick Indriolo
B.S. Astronomy, Case Western Reserve University, 2005

Mr. Brian Tom
M.S. Physics, Air Force Institute of Technology, 2006
B.S., University of California at San Diego, 1991

Mr. Christian Luca
B.S., Stony Brook University, 2006

Mr. Kyle Crabtree
B.S., Ball State University, 2006

Mr. Michael Wiczer
B.S., Engineering Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009 (expected)

Mr. Brett McGuire
B.S., Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009 (expected)

Former Group Members