Stuff that might comprise of a Ph.D.

• Coupling of Silicon Nanocrystals to Plasmonic Grating modes (MARCO IFC meeting, Oct. 2008)
• Coupling of Erbium Doped Silicon Nitride to Photonic Crystal Cavity (MARCO IFC meeting, Oct. 2008)

Stuff I didn't work hard on:

• Term paper on nanoparticles for solar energy converstion, 3/2009
• Term paper on theorectical predictions for a SiGe multi-Quantum Well modulator, 6/2008
• Organic Electronics, Term Paper, Spring 2005
• Investigations of Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA) in Two Dimensional Lattices. Caltech SURF, under Prof. John Preskill, Robert Raussendorf, 10/2004.
• Characterization and Numerical Analysis of Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs). Caltech/JPL, under Inseob Hahn, Peter Day, Prof. David Goodstein, 10/2003.
• Fabrication and Characterization of Photonic Crystal Waveguides: experiments with channel-dropping characteristics of waveguide defects. Caltech SURF, under Prof. Axel Scherer, Marco Loncar, 10/2002.

On the back burner:

• Presentation on Fuel Cells, 2/2009
• Model of multi-period new and used car market. 6/2003
• Modeling US/China/Taiwan Relations as a Three-Player Game. 12/2004

Talks:

• Dielectric Metallic Ring Structure as Surface Plasmon Lens 3/2006