Research Experience

Los Alamos National Laboratory

--Undergraduate Researcher: Complex Systems Group (T-13/CNLS)

Missouri S&T

--Undergraduate Researcher: Mesoscoptic Optics Group

University of Notre Dame

--Research Experience for Undergraduates: Project GRAND

Publications

Peer Reviewed

--Mapping the evolution of scientific ideas,

  Mark Herrera, David C. Roberts, and Natali Gulbahce, PLoS One (submitted)

--Trench waveguide in photonic crystal slab structures,

  M. Herrera and A. Yamilov, Optics Express (submitted).

--Dual-Periodic Photonic Crystal Structures,

  A. Yamilov and M. Herrera, chapter contribution to appear in Advances in Lasers and Electro-Optics

--Slow-light effect in dual-periodic photonic lattice

  A.Yamilov, M. R. Herrera and M. F. Bertino

  Opt. Soc. Am. B 25, 599-608 (2008)

Conference Proceedings/ Publications

  --A study of the Forbush Decrease event of September 11, 2005 with GRAND

  J. Poirier, M. Herrera, P. Hemphill, C. D’Andrea

  Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference

  --Status report on Project GRAND
  J. Poirier, C. D'Andrea, E. Fidler,  J. Gress, M. Herrera, P. Hemphill, C. 

  Swartzendruber,Proceedings of the 30th  International Cosmic Ray Conference

  --Complex Networks and Scientific Ideas: The Road to Revolution

  M. Herrera, D. Roberts, N. Gulbahce

  Los Alamos Summer School 2007 Research Reports,Volume 9, 67-74

Presentations

The Slow Light Effect in Modulated Photonic Crystals, Mark Herrera, Massimo Bertino,

Alexey Yamilov

--University of Missouri-Rolla Undergraduate Research Conference, April 2007

--University of Missouri- St. Louis, UMR-UMSL Joint Meeting

--Missouri Academy of Science Annual Meeting

Light Propagation through a Dual-Periodic One-Dimensional Photonic Crystal, Mark Herrera,

Massimo Bertino, Alexey Yamilov

--Argonne National Laboratory, October 2006

--University of Missouri-Rolla Undergraduate Research Conference, April 2006

Complex Networks and Scientific Ideas: The Road to Revolution

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

--2007 LANL Student Symposium

--The Center for Non-Linear Studies (T-CNLS) Symposium

Waveguiding in photonic crystal slab with variable thickness, Mark Herrera, Alexey Yamilov

--Frontiers in Optics 2007, San Jose CA, September 2007

--Argonne National Laboratory, October 2007