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Recent PhD Graduates

Winton Brown (2010)

Advisor: Lorenza Viola

Thesis: "Random Quantum Dynamics: From Random Quantum Circuits to Quantum Chaos"

Hwa Jung Kang (2010)

Advisor: Gary Wegner

Thesis: "Cosmic Velocity Flows in the Large Scale with SDSS DR7 Early Type Galaxies"

Nicholas Bunch (2010)

Advisor: James LaBelle

Thesis: "Ground Based Studies of Auroral Medium Frequency Burst Radio Emissions"

Micaho Dombrowski (2010)

Advisor: James LaBelle

Thesis: "Sounding-Rocket Investigations of Auroral Plasma-Wave Phenomena"

Yonggang Hu (2010)

Advisor: Richard Denton

Thesis: "Hybrid Code Simulation of Electromagnetic Ion Cyclonic Waves in Curvilinear Coordinates"

Sumire Kobayashi (2010)

Advisor: Barrett Rogers

Thesis: "Gyrokinetic Simulations of Closed Field Line Systems"

Paul Nation (2010)

Advisor: Miles Blencowe

Thesis: "Quantum Dynamics of Nonlinear Cavity Systems"

Sara Walker (2010)

Advisor: Marcelo Gleiser

Thesis: "Theoretical Models for the Emergence of Biomolecular Homochirality"

Qun Wei (2010)

Advisor: Roberto Onofrio /
Kristina Lynch

Thesis: " Macroscopic Quantum Vacuum Effects Due to Boundary Conditions"

Weiwei Xue, (2010)

Advisor: Alex Rimberg

Thesis: "On-Chip Superconducting LC Matching Networks and Coplanar Waveguides for Radio-Frequency Single Electron Transistors"

Christopher Colpitts (2009)

Advisor: James LaBelle

Thesis: "Examinations of Structured Dispersive Features of Auroral HF Waves Observed with Sounding Rockets"

Scott Daniel (2009)

Advisor: Robert Caldwell

Thesis: "Gravitational Slip as a Test of Alternative Gravity Theories"

Jessica Hewitt (2009)

Advisor: Robyn Millan

Thesis: "BARREL Piggyback Test Flight Observations of Energetic Electron Precipitation"

Andrea Kunder (2009)

Advisor: Brian Chaboyer

Thesis: "RR Lyrae Stars as Tracers of Stellar Populations in the Galactic Bulge and Satellite Galaxies"

Rebecca Lindstrom (2009)

Advisor: Jay Lawrence

Thesis: "Detectability of the Late-Time Departure from Exponential Decay of Metastable Quantum Systems and Impacts of an Environment"

Jeremy Ouellette (2009)

Advisor: Barrett Rogers

Thesis: "Dayside Magnetic Reconnection in Global Simulations of Earth's Magnetosphere"

Jia Wang (2009)

Advisor: Brian Pogue

Thesis: "Broadband Near-Infrared Tomography for Breast Cancer Imaging"

Timothy Gilheart (2008)

Advisor: Alex Rimberg

Thesis: "Developing Robust Fabrication of Si/SiGe Quantum Dots with Integrated RF-SET Charge Detectors"

Christopher Peters (2008)

Advisor: John Thorstensen

Thesis: "Kinematics and Space Densities for the Local Cataclysmic Variable Population"

Brian Sullivan (2008)

Advisor: Barrett Rogers

Thesis: "The Scaling of Forced Magnetic Reconnection in Two and Three Dimensions"

Joel Thorarinson (2008)

Advisor: Marcelo Gleiser

Thesis: "Emergent Coherent Structures in Non-Equilibrium Field Theory"

Aaron Dotter (2007)

Advisor: Brian Chaboyer

Thesis: "Self-Consistent Stellar Evolution Models with Applications to Milky Way Globular Clusters and Population Synthesis"

Robert Michell (2007)

Advisor: Kristina Lynch

Thesis: "Examining Auroral Downward-Current Region Processes Using Ground-Based Data"

Xin Wang (2007)

Advisor: Brian Pogue

Thesis: "Estimation of Effective Scatterer Size and Number Density in Near-Infrared Tomography"

Shengyi Ye (2007)

Advisor: James LaBelle

Thesis: "Structure in Auroral Radio Emissions"

Peng Peng Yu (2007)

Advisor: Robert Caldwell

Thesis: "Studies of the Limiting Behavior of the Liu-Yau Quasi-Local Energy"

Kristin Frederick-Frost (2006)

Advisor: Kristina Lynch

Thesis: "In SITU and Laboratory Measurements of Cold Plasmas"

Kyoung-Joo Hwang (2006)

Advisor: Kristina Lynch

Thesis: "Structure, Evolution, and Boundary Conditions for Auroral Downward Current Region Potential Drops"

Nathaniel Paust (2006)

Advisor: Brian Chaboyer

Thesis: "Testing Stellar Evolution Models with Globular Clusters"

Jenica Nelan (2005)

Advisor: Gary Wegner

Thesis: "Early-Type Galaxies in a Cluster Environment: Characteristics of the Stellar Populations and Sources of X-Ray Emission"

Dan Patnaude (2005)

Advisor: Rob Fesen

Thesis: "Modeling of Shocks in Young and Old Supernova Remnants"

Marilia Samara (2005)

Advisor: James LaBelle

Thesis: "Sounding Rocket Investigations of Whistler, Upper Hybrid and Langmuir Waves in the Auroral Ionosphere"

Yong Zhang (2005)

Advisor: Miles Blencowe

Thesis: "Sensitivity of Single-electron Transistor-Based Displacement Detector and Fabrication of Single-Electron Transistor Using Au Nanoparticles"

Israel Owens (2004)

Advisor: James Brownell

Thesis: "Superradiant Cerenkov Source: Theory and Experiment"

Kara Perry (2004)

Advisor: Mary Hudson

Thesis: "Radial Diffusion of Radiation Belt Electrons in Three Dimensions"