Onofrio Research Group - Michael Brown-Hayes

Michael Brown-Hayes
Graduate Student
6127 Wilder laboratory
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755

Education:
Dartmouth College: Hanover, NH. 2002-2007. (successful Ph.D defense 16th Nov. 2007).
Earlham College: B.A.(Physics) 2002. (College and Departmental Honors)

Research/Interests:
Computational analysis and modeling of cooling dynamics in trapped atom systems.
Ultracold dilute atomic Fermi-Bose mixtures, working towards fermionic superfluidity.
Casimir effect and forces in the 1-10 mmeter range.
Quantum mechanics of macroscopic and mesoscopic resonators at low temperatures.
Mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), as seen in a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

Recent Publications:
M. Brown-Hayes, Q. Wei, C. Presilla, R. Onofrio, "Thermodynamical approaches to efficient sympathetic cooling in ultracold Fermi-Bose atomic mixtures", submitted to Phy. Rev. A.

M. Brown-Hayes, Q. Wei, W.J. Kim, R. Onofrio, "Development of an apparatus for cooling ⁶Li-⁸⁷Rb Fermi-Bose mixtures in a light-assisted magnetic trap," Laser Physics vol.17, no.4, 514. (2007).

M. Brown-Hayes, et al. "Thermal and dissipative effects in Casimir physics," J. Phys. A 39, 6195 (2006).

M. Brown-Hayes, D.A.R. Dalvit, F.D. Mazzitelli, W.J. Kim, and R. Onofrio, “Towards a precision measurement of the Casimir force in a cylinder-plane geometry,” Phys. Rev. A 72, 052102 (2005)

M. Brown-Hayes and R. Onofrio, “Optimal cooling strategies for magnetically trapped atomic Fermi-Bose mixtures,” Phys. Rev. A 70, 063614 (2004)

L. A. Riley, P. D. Cottle, M. Brown-Hayes, W. T. Cluff, J. D. Fox, N. Keeley, F. W. Letson, R. A. Kaye, K. W. Kemper, M. T. McEllistrem, S. L. Tabor, J. M. Thompson, and D. Walker, “Lifetime of the state and densities for the transition in 18Ne,” Phys. Rev. C 68, 044309 (2003)

Honors and Awards:
•    Gordon Hull Fellowship 2006-2007.
•    NSF-GAANN Fellowship, 2005-2006.
•    Dartmouth Teaching Fellowship, 2002 –2004.
•    Physics & Astronomy Chair’s Teaching Award, 2004.
•    Russell A. Lawall Physics Award for Creative Research, 2001.
•    Wilkinson Scholarship, 1998 – 2002.
•    Earlham Presidential Honors Scholarship, 1998 – 2002.

Memberships:
•    American Physics Society (APS)
•    Society of Physics Students (SPS)
•    New England Society of Physics Teachers (NESPT)
•    Phi Beta Kappa (2002).

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College