Dan Steck, PhD
1998 Hertz Fellow
Daniel Steck received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Dayton in 1995. The following fall, he joined the research group of Prof. Mark Raizen in the Department of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin to perform his dissertation research on atomic dynamics in optical lattices.
Graduate Studies
University of Texas
Physics
Quantum Chaos, Transport, and Decoherence in Atom Optics
Undergraduate Studies
University of Dayton
Awards
2003, Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in Astrophysics, American Physical Society
2002, Hertz Thesis Prize, Fannie & John Hertz Foundation