including alumni and
grad pix| The Ringleader | ||
|---|---|---|
| Phil Westmoreland |  |
Ph.D. Students |
| Nicole Labbe |  |
Joined December 2006; Combustion chemistry. |
| Wenjun Li |  |
Entered September 2006; Molecular-beam mass spectrometry of flat flames. |
| Kenneth A. Smith |  |
"Developing Reactive Molecular Dynamics for Understanding Polymer Chemical Kinetics" (February 2009). |
| Sonia V. Tulyani |  |
"BEBOP, A New Reactive Potential using Bond-Energy/Bond-Order Relationships," Jointly supervised with George A. Petersson, Chemistry, Wesleyan University (Sept. 2008). Presently with United Technologies Research Center, E. Hartford, CT. |
| Aurélie Schoemann |  | "Flammability and Pyrolysis Chemistry of Standard and Novel Fire-Safe Polymers."
Advised jointly with
Richard M.
Farris (October 2005). Presently with SABIC Plastics, Pittsfield MA. |
| Matt Law |  | "Molecular-Beam Mass Spectrometry of Ethylene and Cyclohexane Flames (Aug 2005). Presently with OFS Fitel, Somerset NJ. |
| Thierry Carrière |  |
"Combustion Modeling of Ethylene/Oxygen and Allene/Oxygen Mixtures: Chemical Oxidation Mechanisms
and Numerical Solution of the Non-Adiabatic Flame Equations" (April 2004). Presently at United Technologies Research Center, E. Hartford CT. |
| Huiqing Zhang |  |
"Fire-Safe Polymers and Polymer Composites" (September 2003); jointly supervised with Prof.
Richard M.
Farris). Presently at Dow Chemical, Midland MI. |
| George E. Oulundsen, III |  |
"Experimental Kinetics of Hydrocarbon/Chlorine and Ethylene/Allene/Oxygen
Flames" (August 1999); Presently at OFS Fitel, Sturbridge MA. |
| Karin Rotem |  | "Computational Quantum Chemistry Applied to
NOx Chemistry and New Fire-Resistant
Polymers" (September 1998); Presently at Pepsico, Shanghai CHINA. |
| I. Bradford Graff |  | "New
Diagnostic Techniques for Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor
Deposition of Amorphous Hydrocarbon Films" (April 1998); Presently at Siegfried (USA), Pennsville NJ. |
| Pierre-Andre Bui-Bang-Hien |  | "Modeling Reactive Flows
near Reactive Surfaces: Catalytic Oxidation and PECVD" (March 1998); Presently at General Electric Corporate Research and Development, Schnectady NY. |
| Anuj Bhargava |  | "Measurements and Modeling of Chemistry in
C2H4
Flames" (September 1997); Presently at United Technologies Research Center, E. Hartford CT. |
| Wen Shi |  | "Fundamental Chemistry of Steam Cracking of
Propane" (September 1994); Presently at J.P. Morgan, Newark DE. |
| Roberto A. Pugliese, Jr. (See also picture) |  | "Reaction Kinetics of
Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition" (January 1993); Presently at Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis OR. |
| Scott D. Thomas |  | "Molecular-Beam Mass Spectrometry and
Mechanistic Modeling of Lean and Rich Propene Flames" (September
1992); Presently at 3M, St. Paul MN. | M.S. Students |
| Saugata Gon |  |
"Molecular-Beam Mass-Spectrometric Analyses of Hydrocarbon Flames" (Oct 2007). |
| Aude Morel |  |
"Molecular-Beam Mass Spectrometric Measurements and Modeling of Propene and Related Flames" (april
2005). Presently at Arkema, King of Prussia PA. |
| Mike Vienneau |  |
"Analyzing Levels of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Produced in Fuel-Rich Ethylene Flames" (April
2004). Presently at Parker Hannifin-Chomerics, Woburn MA. |
| Rishi Gupta |  |
"Reaction Engineering Aspects of Homogeneous Catalysis and of Combustion" (July 2003). Ph.D. 2006, University of Connecticut. Presently at Strand Life Sciences, Boston MA. |
| Taline Inguilizian |  | "Correlating Polymer Flammability
Using Measured Pyrolysis Kinetics" (February 1999); Presently at Rohm & Haas Electronic Materials, Marlborough MA. |
| Daniel J. Hennessey |  | "Applying Reaction Theory in
Modeling Ethene Flames" (September 1994); Presently at OFS Fitel, Sturbridge MA. |
| Melissa G. Michaud Wadkinson |  | "Modeling and
Measurement of Pollutants in Flames" (September 1992); Presently at Fulton Thermal Corporation, Pulaski NY. |
| Francine Communal Fayolle |
 |
"Plasma Measurements and Gas-Phase Kinetics in Silicon Deposition by
PECVD" (September 1990); Presently at le Département Génie Procédés Alimentaires, ENITIAA, Ecole Nationale des d'Ingénieurs des Industries Alimentaires et Agricoles, Nantes FRANCE. | Post-doctoral associates and visitors. |
| Young Seok Kim |  |
Post-doctoral associate: MBMS characterization of flames (2009-10). |
| Andrey Pereverzev |  |
Post-doctoral associate: Oxygen functionality for Reactive Molecular Dynamics (2008-09). |
| Hari Singh |  |
Visiting Associate Professor: Polymer decomposition chemistry (2002-2003). Presently Professor of Chemistry, Gorakhpur INDIA. |
| Stanislav I. "Stas" Stoliarov |  | Post-doctoral associate: Polymer decomposition chemistry using TGA data, computational quantum chemistry, and molecular simulations (2000-2002). Presently at the Federal Aviation Administration's Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City, NJ. |
| V. Sreedhara Rao |  | Post-doctoral associate: Predicting NOx kinetics with
computational quantum chemistry (1996-98). Presently at Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, Gurgaon INDIA. | Other group members |
| Jin Yang |  |
High-performance molecular dynamics, 2008-09. |
| Tyler Upton |  |
Undergraduate independent study and summer RA, PAH sampling, 2002. |
| Bryan Looze |  |
Undergraduate summer RA, PAH sampling, 2002. |
| Jessie Ip |  | Undergraduate independent study: Polymer decomposition (1999-2000). |
| Kerry Z. Camp |  | Undergraduate independent study: Polymer decomposition
for fire safety (1998). Presently at Welch's Foods. |
| Jeffrey W. Peterson |  | Ph.D. student: "State-to-State Energy Transfer in Chemically Activated Reactions" (1991-97). |
| Prasad Teella |  |
Molecular-beam mass spectrometry of flat flames (9/05-8/06). |
March 12, 2009 - Ken's defense: Ken at the wall and the group celebration: Andrey, Jin, Nicole, Phil, Ken, Young, Wenjun.
August 28, 2008 - Sonia Tulyani's defense: Sonia at the wall; Sonia's cake from Nicole; Sonia's committee: Scott Auerbach, George Petersson, Sonia Tulyani, Phil Westmoreland, Dimitrios Maroudas; and the group celebration: Nicole, George, Sonia, Phil, Wenjun.
October 25, 2007: Saugata at the wall and the group celebration [Nicole, Saugata, Ken, Wenjun, Phil].
October 26, 2005: Aurélie's defense - Wall-signing, the Farris and Westmoreland groups, and (not on the same day or in the same country!!!) October 7, 2006 - Aurélie and Thierry's wedding.
August 29, 2005:
Matt Law's celebratory wall-signing,
group picture
[Matt's mom, Phil, Aurélie, Ken, Matt, George Oulundsen, Saugata],
and, later on, his final wall-signing after the first two
were painted over in ELab-II.
Before the move from our old lab -- and the signed wall: left of the door and right of the door. [See Aude's informal group picture for panorama.]
August 16, 2005:
Sree Rao with the
President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam,
during his visit to
inaugurate a new 400,000-sq.ft. state-of-the-art R&D facility at
Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. in
Gurgaon, India. The President visited
representative labs from the division of medicinal chemistry, molecular
biology, pharmacology, analytical chemistry, and the computer-aided drug
discovery (which Sree is heading currently).
April 22, 2005: Aude Morel's celebratory wall-signing and informal and "formal" group pictures.
April 29, 2004: Mike Vienneau's celebratory wall-signing and group celebration.
April 23, 2004: Thierry Carrière's celebratory wall-signing and group celebration.
January 31, 2004: 22nd Annual Kinetics and Dynamics Meeting, Albany: Phil, Sonia, Aurelie, Ken, Matt, Aude.
July 24, 2003: Rishi Gupta's celebratory wall-signing.
April 30, 2003: Huiqing Zhang's celebratory wall-signing and group celebration.
May 15, 2002: Wall notes #1; Stas Stoliarov meets Wall #2; and the group.
August 20, 1999: George Oulundsen's celebratory wall-signing and group celebration.
September 11, 1998:
Karin Rotem's celebratory wall-signing...
and celebration:
[Taline Inguilizian, Karin Rotem, Thierry Carriere, Phil Westmoreland,
George Oulundsen, Kerry Camp]
April 24, 1998:
Brad Graff's celebratory wall-signing...
and celebration:
[Taline Inguilizian, George Oulundsen, Barbara Graff, Brad Graff, Thierry
Carriere, Sree Rao]
and
[Taline Inguilizian, Karin Rotem, George Oulundsen, Phil
Westmoreland (kneeling), Brad Graff, Thierry Carriere, Sree Rao].
August 7, 1997:
Anuj
Bhargava's celebratory wall-signing...
and more celebrations of a dissertation well done
[Sree Rao, Hans-Heinrich Carstensen (Exxon), Anuj Bhargava, George
Oulundsen, Lisa Yeh (Exxon)].
Last update: August 18, 2009.
Contact phil.westmoreland@ncsu.edu for
corrections.
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