{"id":47,"date":"2023-03-07T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:09:03","slug":"group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/group\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/files\/2026\/07\/GroupPhotoJuly092026-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/files\/2026\/07\/GroupPhotoJuly092026-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/files\/2026\/07\/GroupPhotoJuly092026-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/files\/2026\/07\/GroupPhotoJuly092026-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/files\/2026\/07\/GroupPhotoJuly092026.jpg 1448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Group members from left to right: graduate student Ruchi Rathod, graduate student Jack Lennon, REU student Noah Wyatt, Dan Bardayan, graduate student Cade Dembski, faculty member Patrick O\u2019Malley graduate student Wesley Sutton, and graduate student Will von Seeger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Current Group Members<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Position<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Time Duration<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dan Bardayan<\/td><td>Professor<\/td><td>2013-present<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Patrick O&#8217;Malley<\/td><td>Assoc. Research Professor<\/td><td>2014-present<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Will von Seeger<\/td><td>graduate student<\/td><td>2021-present<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cade Dembski<\/td><td>graduate student<\/td><td>2022-present<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Wesley Sutton<\/td><td>graduate student<\/td><td>2024-present<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ruchi Rathod<\/td><td>graduate student<\/td><td>2025-present<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jack Lennon<\/td><td>graduate student<\/td><td>2025-present<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Noah Wyatt<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2026<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Past Group Members<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Position<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Time Duration<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tom Gore<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>2023-2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chevelle Boomershine<\/td><td>Ph. D.<\/td><td>2018-2025<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Scott Carmichael<\/td><td>Ph. D.<\/td><td>2018-2025<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kris Bernatonis<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>Fall 2025<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Michael Potts<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2025<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Aland Sinjari<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2024<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sydney Coil<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>2021-2024<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Pedro Luiz Domingues Magro<\/td><td>visiting graduate student<\/td><td>2023-2024<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Michael Sterba<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>2023-2024<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Melody Shimba<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2023<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Alex Temidis<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2023<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Matt Chapple<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>summer 2023, 2024<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Drew Blankstein<\/td><td>Ph. D.<\/td><td>2016-2022<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Manel Piera Garrigosa<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>summer 2022<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Samuel Thomas<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>summer 2022<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lloyd Templeton<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2022<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Graham O\u2019Donnell<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2021<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jacob Allen<\/td><td>M. S.<\/td><td>2015-2021<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Louis Caves<\/td><td>M. S.<\/td><td>2018-2020<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Matt Baines<\/td><td>M. Phys.<\/td><td>2019<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Matt Hall<\/td><td>Ph. D.<\/td><td>2014-2019<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Joe Henning<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>2019<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Austin Mitchell<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2019<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Alyssa Davis<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2019<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Noah Applegate<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2018<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sam King<\/td><td>M. Phys.<\/td><td>2017<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Emmanuel Garcia Berrios<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2017<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Gabriel Brown<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>summer 2017<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>James Cotter<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>summer 2017<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Daniel Galvao-Guerra<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>summer 2016<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ben Shadid<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>summer 2016<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ricky LeBlanc<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2016<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chris Brady<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>2016-2017<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Yingchao Zhang<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2015<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Alison Olshefke<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>summer 2015<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Will Boeschenstein<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>summer 2015<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ben Becker<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>summer 2015<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Daniel Votaw<\/td><td>REU student<\/td><td>summer 2014<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Shannon Massey<\/td><td>undergraduate<\/td><td>2014<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Group Members Name Position Time Duration Dan Bardayan Professor 2013-present Patrick O&#8217;Malley Assoc. Research Professor 2014-present Will von Seeger graduate student 2021-present Cade Dembski graduate student 2022-present Wesley Sutton graduate student 2024-present Ruchi Rathod graduate student 2025-present Jack Lennon graduate student 2025-present Noah Wyatt REU student summer 2026 Past Group Members Name Position Time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/group\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Group Members&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4484,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dan-bardayan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}