My undergraduate studies were performed at the The University of British Columbia. I Graduated in 1996 with a Bachelors of Science in Combined Honours Mathematics and Physics. My undergraduate thesis was performed under the instruction of Philip Stamp and involved working out the dynamics for a simple model of a quantum measurement. The model, named PISCES (for a "pair of interacting spins coupled to an environmental sea"), consists of 3 elements -- a system that is measured, an apparatus which carries out the measurement, and an environment which interacts with the other elements. Both the system and the apparatus are modelled by 2-level systems and the environment i s modelled by an oscillator bath. Technically the work involved expanding the formalism used by Caldeira and Leggett in looking at the Spin Boson Model. PISCES is a very general model and full details can be found by perusing the actual document:
Postscript version of my Undergraduate Thesis (500k)
A more sophisticated treatment of the same problem can be found at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9712215
Other noteworthy projects involve working with an experimentalist, Jeff Young. There I helped characterize some quantum-well samples using X-ray diffraction. I also did some band-structure calculations for the valence bands of a quantum well using a varient of a 4 band k.p perturbation theory. The goal of all this was to understand the transition between an exciton and a fermi-edge singularity in the optical absorption spectrom of GaAs-AlGaAs quantum wells.
Here's the manual to my band-structure calculation program
Some other work that I've helped with is a numerical calculation of e-e scattering in p-doped quantum wells. This was part of an effort to determine how the momentum distribution of electrons is influenced by strong infra-red fields, and how this distribution in turn effects the optical property of the structure. This was done in conjunction with Seyed Mostafa Sadeghi and Steven Leffler.
This work appears in:
S.M. Sadeghi, S.R. Leffler, J. Meyer, and E. Mueller, "Optical-field-dependent electron-electron scattering effects and gain generation in the intersubband transitions of n-doped quantum wells", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 10 (11), 2489-503 (1998).
If one has access to the Journal of Physics online one can get an electronic copy of this paper here.