Meeting with a faculty mentor

Students should prepare for a meeting with a faculty mentor by knowing their current schedule and their plans for the future. Students should visit faculty mentors during their office hours.

Assignments by last name are intended for initial visits. Students are encouraged to work with the same faculty mentor over the course of their academic career, when feasible.

Note: During the summer, faculty mentors do not hold weekly office hours. Please email your faculty mentor for assistance.

Faculty Mentor Office Hours & Zoom Links

 

EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: A-C)

Colin West Portrait

Colin West

Associate Teaching Professor • EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: A-C)
Physics
Office Hours: Wednesday and Friday 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. • Visit Buff Portal Advising for Zoom Link • Research Interests Dr. West's background is in computational quantum theory. He is interested in the interface between quantum systems and classical computing, including classical simulation of many-body quantum systems, classical computing in quantum cryptography, and quantum approaches to problems in classical computing and complexity theory. Dr. West also maintains an association with...

EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: D-H)

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Michael Litos

Assistant Professor • EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: D-H) • Director - Center for Integrated Plasma Studies (CIPS)
Physics
Office Hours: Please email michael.litos@colorado.edu to schedule an appointment • Visit Buff Portal Advising for Zoom link • Research Interests: Plasma, Lasers, and Beams Group: We conduct experimental research at the intersection of plasma, laser, and beam physics, with an emphasis on plasma wakefield acceleration. This research program combines local experiments at CU with collaborative work carried out at national laboratories.

EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: I-L)

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Henry Kapteyn

Professor • Fellow - JILA • EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: I-L)
Physics
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 1:30pm - 2:30pm • Visit Buff Portal Advising for Zoom link • Research Interests: Ultrafast laser technology, ultrafast dynamics in Molecular and materials systems, and development of tabletop coherent x-ray sources. My primary interest is in developing-- and making use of-- new tabletop "x-ray laser" light sources. 20 years ago, the process of "high order harmonic generation" (HHG) was discovered, where an intense short pulse...

EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: M-O)

Charles Rogers portrait

Charles Rogers

Professor • EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: M-O) • Director - Faculty Success & Engagement
Physics
Office Hours: Tuesday 10:15 - 11:45 a.m. or by appointment • Visit Buff Portal Advising for Zoom link • Research Interests: Our group works in the general area of experimental condensed matter physics of thin films and very small systems. Presently, the group is working on the nanoelectromechanical behavior of nanowires and fabricated electromechanical structures, buried interfaces in photovoltaic systems, and surface molecular dipole systems. Nanoscale objects are made with...

EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: P-S)

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Sascha Kempf

Associate Professor • LASP • EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: P-S)
Physics
Office Hours: Friday 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. • Visit Buff Portal Advising for Zoom link • Research Interests: Dr. Kempf specializes in dust detectors and analysis with CCLDAS.

EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: T-W)

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Thomas Schibli

Professor • Adjunct Fellow - JILA • EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: T-W)
Physics
Office Hours: Monday 4:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. • Visit Buff Portal Advising for Zoom link • Research Interests: We strive to advance science and technology in the fields of optics and photonics through advanced functional materials, novel laser systems and measurement techniques. Light has played an important role during the development of many topics in modern physics. Atomic, molecular, optical (AMO) physics certainly relies strongly on steady developments in...

EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: A-Z)

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Heather Lewandowski

Professor • Associate Chair - Engineering Physics • EPEN Faculty Mentor (Student's Last Name: A-Z)
Physics
Office Hours: Visit Buff Portal Advising for office hours and Zoom link • Research Interests: My group studies collisions and reactions of simple cold molecules. Our ultimate goal is to understand the quantum mechanical processes involved in making and breaking a chemical bond. We aim to control the reacting molecules external and internal degrees of freedom in the quantum regime. To accomplish this control, we slow down a supersonically cooled...