Name: Meheboob Alam
Degree / Institution: Ph.D. 1998 / Indian Institute of Science, India
Current Employment: Faculty Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research
Research Interests:
Granular Matter -- Continuum Modeling and MD Simulation. Hydrodynamic and Constitutive Instabilities in Granular Flows. Hydrodynamic Stability -- Bifurcation Theory and Chaos. Fluid Mechanics at Micro- and Nano-scales.

Previous Graduate Students:

Name: Steven Dahl, Ph. D. 
Project: "Investigation of the Fundamental Behavior of Particulate Flows with Continuous
Size Distributions"
Current Employment: British Petroleum – Greater Prudhoe Bay Reservoir Engineering (Anchorage, AK)

Name: Michael W. Weber,  Ph. D. 
Project: "Simulation of Granular and Gas-Solid Fluidized Systems with Cohesive Particles"
Current Employment: Post-doctoral researcher with Prof. Robin Shandas, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado

Name: Jennifer K. Walsh,  Ph. D. 
Project: "Thermophoretic Deposition of Aerosol Particles in Laminar Tube Flow with Mixed Convection" co-advised by Professor Alan Weimer
Current Employment: 

Name: Casey S. Carney,  Ph. D. 
Project: "Rapid Decomposition of Nickel Oxalate Powders" co-advised by Professor Alan Weimer
Current Employment: Post-doctoral researcher with Prof. Alan Weimer, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado

Name: Advait Kantak,  Ph. D. 
Project: "Wet Particle Collisions" co-advised by Professor Robert Davis
Current Employment: Process Engineer, Intel (Portland, OR) 

Previous Undergraduate Group Members:

Name: Elsa Birch
Project: "Measurement of collision properties using Newton's cradle"
Institution: University of Colorado

Name: Dorota Tran
Project: "Simulation of Bubbles in Gas-Fluidized Beds"
Institution: University of Colorado

Name: Andrea Stevens
Project: "Species segregation in a binary gas-fluidized bed"
Institution: University of Colorado

Name: Heather Woods
Project: "Segregation in a fluidized bed"
Institution: University of Colorado

Name: Matthew Lehr
Project: "Segregation in a fluidized bed"
Institution: Colorado School of Mines

Name: Joseph Duncan
Project: "Low-velocity impacts into regolith"
Institution: Bucknell University

Name: Drew Stevens
Project: "Comparison of soft-sphere models to measurements of collision properties
during normal impacts"
Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder

Name: Laura Crawford
Project: "Low Velocity Impacts into Regolith: Simulation vs. Experiment"
Institution: University of Florida, Gainesville

Name: Houston Frost
Project: "Design of Particle Technology Modules"
Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder

Name: Matthew Condiotti
Project: "Design of Particle Technology Modules"
Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder

Name: Michael Detamore
Project: "Scale-Up of High Velocity Fluidized Systems"
Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder

Name: Kimberly Frender
Project: "Scale-Up of High Velocity Fluidized Systems"
Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder

Name: Mark David Michaels
Project: "Development of Tutorials Covering the Partial Differential Equations Toolbox in Matlab 5.3"
Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder

Name: Samaria Moore
Project: "Development of Experiments for Thermophoretic Deposition in Vertical Tube Flow"
Institution: Washington University in St. Louis

Name: Manuel Najar
Project: "Modeling Downward Gas-Solid Flow in a Vertical Tube"
Institution: University of California, Berkeley

Name: Melinda Roskos
Project: "Discrete Particle Simulations of Hard Sphere Systems with a Velocity-Dependent Coefficient of Restitution"
Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder

Name: Mike Swanson
Project: "Scale-Up of High Velocity Fluidized Systems"
Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder