Academic Year 2021-2022 Graduates
Abdelaziz, Mohammed
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Dynamics of Soft Matter in Acoustic Force Fields
Chen, Chang
Advisor: Anthony Pullen, Thesis: Modern Techniques to Probe the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
Cogulu, Egecan
Advisor: Andrew Kent, Thesis: Current Induced Spin Dynamics in Antiferromagnets
Hu, Shiyuan
Advisor: Jun Zhang, Thesis: Dynamics and transport of filaments and elongated particles in fluid flows
Jang, Hun
Advisor: Massimo Porrati, Thesis: Locally Supersymmetric Effective Field Theories of Inflation
Kotta, Erica
Advisor: Andrew Wray, Thesis: Observing Quasiparticle Interplay in Topological Quantum Materials: New Analysis Paradigms for Big Data Spectromicroscopy
Yu, Siqing
Advisor: Gregory Gabadadze, Thesis: Theory and Cosmology of Biverse Volume-Normalized Gravity
Zhang, Yucheng
Advisor: Anthony Pullen, Thesis: Tracing Cosmic Dynamics with Galaxy and CMB Lensing Observations
Academic Year 2020-2021 Graduates
Cao, Jason
Advisor: Jeremy Tinker, Thesis: Galaxy Formation Insights from Constraints on the Galaxy-Halo Connection
Caragine, Christina
Advisor: Alexandra Zidovska, Thesis: Investigating Rheological Behavior of the Human Cell Nucleus Using Intrinsic and Artificial Probes
Eaton, Jonah
Advisor: Alexandra Zidovska, Thesis: Investigating Structure and Dynamics of the Human Genome using DNA Damage as a Local Perturbation
Foit, Valentino
Advisor: Matthew Kleban, Thesis: Conformal Field Theories, Statistical Models, and their Applications in Holography
Lavini, Francesco
Advisor: Elisa Riedo, Thesis: Novel Mechanical Properties of Supported 2D Materials
Lesar, Amanda
Advisor: Marc Gershow, Thesis: Probing Innate and Learned Behaviors in Individual Larval Drosophila
Lin, Sicheng
Advisor: Jeremy Tinker, Thesis: Investigating Properties of Emission Line Galaxies
Liu, Di
Advisor: Neal Weiner, Thesis: The Naturalness Problem of th Higgs Boson
Liu, Dou
Advisor: Michael Blanton, Thesis: Finding optical Active Galactic Nuclei With Integral Field Spectroscopy
Mondino, Cristina
Advisor: Joshua Ruderman, Thesis: New Physics from Subatomic to Galactic Scales
Muzio, Marco
Advisor: Glennys Farrar, Thesis: Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Origins: A Multimessenger Study
Natsheh, Muath
Advisor: Aditi Mitra, Thesis: Critical Properties of the Floquet Time Crystal
Nguyen, Quynh M.
Advisor: Jun Zhang, Leif Ristroph(Courant), Thesis: Emergent Flows, Irreversibility and Unsteady Effects in Asymmetric and Looped Geometries
Older, Daniel
Advisor: Gregory Gabadadze, Thesis: Massive Gravity in Various Dimensions
Treado, Colleen
Advisor: Andrew Haas, Thesis: A Search for Emerging Jets at sqrt{s}=13 TeV at ATLAS Run 2
Wadekar, Digvijay
Advisor: Roman Scoccimarro, Thesis: Accelerating Cosmological Inference with Novel Analytic Methods and Machine Learning
Wang, Michael
Advisor: Alexander Grosberg, Thesis: Studies of Systems of Active, Out-of-Equilibrium Particles
Wang, Po-Jen
Advisor: Joshua Ruderman, Thesis: Exceptions in Thermal Dark Matter Freeze-Out
Wilken, Samuel
Advisor: Paul Chaikin, Thesis: Organization in Absorbing-State Phase Transitions
Xu, Junwen
Advisor: Andrew Kent, Thesis: Magnetization dynamics in multilayers with spin-orbit torques and chiral interactions
Xu, Yishuai
Advisor: Andrew Wray, Thesis: Identifying Novel Electronic Structure in Nano-Engineered Quantum Materials
Yang, Shengqi
Advisor: Anthony Pullen, Thesis: Probing Interstellar Medium and Galaxy Evolution at High Redshift with Infrared Emission Lines
Yate, Daniel
Advisor: Aditi Mitra, Thesis: Dynamics of Almost Strong Edge Modes in Spin Chains Away from Integrability
Yu, Cheuk Yin (Cedric)
Advisor: Massimo Porrati, Thesis: Chem-Simons Theory beyond Topology – Partition Functions on Manifolds with Boundary
Yuan, Joseph
Advisor: Javad Shabani, Thesis: Epitaxial Superconductor-Semiconductor Two-dimensional Systems: A New Platform for Quantum Computation
Academic Year 2019-2020 Graduates
Ben Zion, Matan Yah
Advisor: Paul Chaikin, Thesis: Colloidal Architecture Using DNA Origami
Chu, Fang-Yi
Advisor: Alexandra Zidovska, Thesis: On the Origins of Nuclear Shape Fluctuations and Role of Transcription in Chromatin Dynamics in the Human Cell Nucleus
Conkey, Peter
Advisor: Sergei Dubovsky, Thesis: QCD Flux Tubes and Glueballs, off and on the Lattice
Ferrari, Melissa
Advisor: Paul Chaikin, Thesis: Active Swimmers: Leveraging Non-Equilibrium Effects to Manipulate Microscopic Systems
He, Haowei
Advisor: Andrew Wray, Thesis: Exploring the Boundary between Strongly Correlated and Itinerant Electronic Regimes with Inelastic X-ray Spectroscopy
Hernandez Chifflet, Guzman
Advisor: Sergei Dubovsky, Thesis: The TT Deformation, Two-Dimensional Gravity and the String Description of Yang-Mills Theory
Janssen, Oliver
Advisor: Matthew Kleban, Thesis: Multiple Axion Theories and the Wave Function of the Universe
Malz, Alex
Advisor: David Hogg, Thesis: Probabilistic Analysis Methods for Cosmology Using Uncertainty-Dominated Photometric Data
Mondal, Argha
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Harnessing Topological Modes of Light with Digital Holography
Newbolt, Joel
Advisor: Jun Zhang, Thesis: On Fluid-Mediated Interactions between Flapping Swimmers
Taki, Anna-Maria
Advisor: Neal Weiner, Thesis: Astrophysical Signals of Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Tukhashvili, Giorgi
Advisor: Gregory Gabadadze, Thesis: Non-Linearly Realized Symmetries in Gravity and Holographic Models
Zheng, Wenhai
Advisor: David Pine, Thesis: Probing the Local Environment of a Colloidal Glass
Zhu, Guolong
Advisor: Paul Chaikin, Thesis: Toward DNA Activated Micro Motors
Academic Year 2018-2019 Graduates
Chen, Yizhang
Advisor: Andrew Kent, Thesis: Spin Transport in Magnetic Insulators
Hang, Jinting
Advisor: Andrew Kent, Thesis: Spin Transfer Driven Magnetization Dynamics in Spin Valves and Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Hannel, Mark
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Closing the Loop: Holographic Feedback for Soft-Matter Processes
Heinrich, Lukas
Advisor: Kyle Cranmer, Thesis: Searches for Supersymmetry, RECAST, and Contributions to Computational High Energy Physics
Karagyozov, Doycho
Advisor: Marc Gershow, Thesis: Playing Laser TAG with Larvae: Microscopy for Tracking Neurons in Moving Brains
Kohani, Shahab
Advisor: Allen Mincer, Thesis: 3D Trench Detectors for Charged Particle Tracking and Photon Science Applications
Mandyam-Doddamane, Nityasri
Advisor: Michael Blanton, Thesis: Empirical Star Formation History Estimates in Galaxy Evolution
Middleton, Christine
Advisor: David Pine, Thesis: Colloidal Assembly through Geometry and DNA Functionalization
Srinin, Watee
Advisor: Alexander Grosberg, Thesis: Non-Local and Non-Linear Rheology of Polymer Rings
Walsh, Kilian
Advisor: Jeremy Tinker, Thesis: An Exploration of New Links in the Galaxy-Halo Connection
Wang, Dun
Advisor: David Hogg, Thesis: Methods for the Calibration of Astronomical Imaging Data
Wu, Yi-Yang
Advisor: Andrew MacFadyen, Thesis: Investigating Outflow Structures of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Xie, Xiaoyi
Advisor: Andrew MacFadyen, Thesis: Numerical Simulations of the Dynamics and Radiation of Relativistic Jets from Binary Neutron Star Mergers
Yevick, Aaron
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Engineering Optical Forces in Complex Light
Zhai, Zhongxu
Advisor: Michael Blanton, Thesis: Galaxy Clustering, Large Scale Structure, and Cosmological Constraints
Academic Year 2017-2018 Graduates
Bargteil, Dylan
Advisor: Jasna Brujic, Thesis: Towards Spontaneous Self-assembly of Mesoscopic Heteropolymers
Dehghani, Hossein
Advisor: Aditi Mitra, Thesis: Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Floquet Chern Insulators
Gepner, Ruben
Advisor: Marc Gershow, Thesis: Linking Sensory Experience and Behavioral Decisions to Study the Computations of a Small Brain
Hannel, Mark
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Closing the Loop: Holographic Feedback for Soft-Matter Processes
Kohani, Shahab
Advisor: Allen Mincer, Thesis: 3D Trench Detectors for Charged Particle Tracking and Photon Science Applications
Mahdawi, Mohammad Shafi
Advisor: Glennys Farrar, Thesis: How Blind are Direct Detection Experiments to Strongly-Interacting Dark Matter?”
Middleton, Christine
Advisor: David Pine, Thesis: Colloidal Assembly through Geometry and DNA Functionalization
Ryan, Geoffrey
Advisor: Andrew MacFadyen, Thesis: Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Accretion
Tang, Yike
Advisor: Andrew MacFadyen, Thesis: Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Hole Accretion Disks
Vakili, Mohammadjavad
Advisor: David Hogg, Thesis: Methods in Computational Cosmology
Wang, Dun
Advisor: David Hogg, Thesis: Methods for the Calibration of Astronomical Imaging Data
Xie, Xiaoyi
Advisor: Andrew MacFadyen, Thesis: Numerical Simulations of the Dynamics and Radiation of Relativistic Jets from Binary Neutron Star Mergers
Zhai, Zhongxu
Advisor: Michael Blanton, Thesis: Galaxy Clustering, Large Scale Structure, and Cosmological Constraints
Zhang, Yin
Advisor: Paul Chaikin, Thesis: DNA Choreography of Droplets
Academic Year 2016-2017 Graduates
Hahn, Chang Hoon
Advisor: Michael Blanton, Thesis: Galaxies and their Host Dark Matter Structures
Hung, Yuming
Advisor: Andrew Kent, Thesis: Spin Currents and Spin Orbit Torques in Ferromagnets and Antiferromagnets
Kelleher, Colm
Advisor: Paul Chaikin, Thesis: Phase Behavior of Charged Hydorphobic Colloids on Flat and Spherical Surfaces
Lin, Jie
Advisor: Matthieu Wyart, Thesis: On the Plasticity of Amorphous Solids
Liu, Hongliang
Advisor: Jonathan Goodman/Alexander Grosberg, Thesis: Noise Induced Phenomena in Combustion
Liu, Yuqian
Advisor: Maryam Modjaz, Thesis: Supernova Classi cation and Supernova Astrophysics: Spectral Analysis of the Largest Datasets of Stripped-envelope Supernovae in the World
Mohsen, Ali
Advisor: Sergei Dubovsky, Thesis: Effective String Theory and Integrability
Sandford, Cato
Advisor: Alexander Grosberg, Thesis: Particle Sorting and Motility Out Of Equilibrium
Wang, Chen
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Holographic Characterization of Mutable Colloidal Systems
Academic Year 2015-2016 Graduates
Arabgol, Mohsen
Advisor: Sergei Dubovsky, Thesis: Experimental Observation of the Barnett Effect for Protons
Cooper, Patrick
Advisor: Sergei Dubovsky, Thesis: World Sheet Dynamics of Effective String Theory and the Gribov Ambiguity in QCD
Gorbenko, Victor
Advisor: Sergei Dubovsky, Thesis: From QCD Flux Tubes to Gravitational S-matrix and Back
Evans, Daniel
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Measuring Colloidal Charges in Low Polar Media from Statistics of Particle Trajectories
Kim, Jihun
Advisor: Massimo Porrati, Thesis: Canonical Quantization of Pure Gravity and Long String Dynamics on Three-dimensional Anti de Sitter Space
Roig, Benjamin
Advisor: Michael Blanton, Thesis: The Study of Active Galactic Nuceli and Galaxy Structure Using SDSS Spectroscopy
Storace, Stefano
Advisor: Matthew Kleban, Thesis: Field Theories at the Opposite Ends of the String: Stars in anti-de Sitter Spacetime and Conditions for Integrability on the Worldsheet of Confining Strings
Wakil Moyses, Henrique
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Statistical Mechanics of Colloidal Particles in Non-Conservative Force Fields
Yan, Le
Advisor: Matthieu Wyart, Thesis: On the Dynamics of Glassy Systems
Academic Year 2014-2015 Graduates
Luis Apolo Velez
Advisor: Massimo Porrati, Thesis: Variations on Holography from Modifications of Gravity in Anti-de Sitter
Roberto Gobbetti
Advisor: Matthew Kleban, Thesis: Dealing with a Landscape: Signatures of False Vacuum Eternal Inflation and How to End It
Loek Hooft Van Huysduynen
Advisor: Peter Nemethy, Thesis: Lepton Jets in the Atlas Experiment
Craig Lage
Advisor: Glennys Farrar, Thesis: Constrained Simulation of the Bullet Cluster
Jia Liu
Advisor: Neal Weiner, Thesis: Beyond the Minimal Dark Sector: Finding New Physics in Colliders
Marjorie Schillo
Advisor: Matthew Kleban, Thesis: Eternal Inflation, String Theory, and the Multiverse
Daniele Pinna
Advisor: Andrew Kent, Daniel Stein, Thesis: Spin-Torque Driven MacroSpin Dynamics Subject to Thermal Noise
David Ruffner
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Optical Forces in Complex Beams of Light
Jan Smrek
Advisor: Alexander Grosberg, Thesis: Fractal Properties of DNA
Daniel Foreman-Mackey
Advisor: David Hogg, Thesis: Methods for the Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets and their Population
Karthik Krishnaiyengar
Advisor: Andy Haas, Thesis: Search for Higgs Boson Decays to Neutralinos and Gravitinos Using the ATLAS Detector
Ricardo Neves
Advisor: Allen Mincer, Thesis: Study of the Transverse Energy Sum Triggers and Leptonic Background Reduction in Searches for Supersymmetry in Fully Hadronic Multijet Events at the ATLAS Experiment
Marco Tavora
Advisor: Aditi Mitra, Thesis: Prethermalization, Universal Scaling at Macroscopic Short Times, and Thermalization Following a Quantum Quench
Academic Year 2013-2014 Graduates
James Beacham
Advisor: Kyle Cranmer, Thesis: A Searches
Paul Duffell
Advisor: Andrew MacFadyen, Thesis: Moving Mesh Astrophysics
Emmanouela Filippidi
Advisor: David Pine, Thesis: Random Organization: Out-of-Equilibrium Phase Transitions in Periodically Driven Suspensions
Daniel Gopman
Advisor: Andrew Kent, Thesis: Switching Distributions in Co-Ni Nanopillars with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotrop
Fengji Hou
Advisor: David Hogg/John Goodman, Thesis: Bayesian Inference Using Stellar Radial Velocity Data
Andreas Karpf
Advisor: Tycho Sleator, Thesis: Highly Sensitive Trace Gas Detection of Molecular Species with Dense, Poorly Resolved Spectra
Sven Kreiss
Advisor: Kyle Cranmer, Thesis: Boson Discovery and First Property Measurements with the H --> ZZ* --> 4l Channel and the Combination
Bhaskar Krishantreya
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Precision Measurements of Colloidal Interactions and Dynamics
Herbert Lannon
Advisor: Jasna Brujic, Thesis: Protein Free Energy Landscapes from Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy
Arjun Narayanan
Advisor: Paul Chaikin, Thesis: Probing the Coexistence of Spin Density Wave and Superconducting Orders in Organic Superconductors
Pradeep Subedi
Advisor: Andrew Kent, Thesis: Collective Effects in Single Molecule Magnets
Kun-Ta Wu
Advisor: Paul Chaikin, Thesis: The Road to Colloidal Self-Replication
Academic Year 2012-2013 Graduates
Giga Chkareuli
Advisor: Gregory Gabadadze, Thesis: Vainshtein Mechanism in Certain Tensor-Scalar Theories
Lisa Dixon
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Search for the Nuclear Barnett Effect
George Lewis
Advisor: Kyle Cranmer, Thesis: Measurements and Searches for New Physics Using Top Quarks at the LHC
Mehrdad Mirbabayi
Advisor: Gregory Gabadadze, Thesis: Lorentz Symmetric Aether and Its Accretion Onto Black Holes
Payam Rowghanian
Advisor: Alexander Grosberg, Thesis: Electrophoretic Capture and Passage of a Polyelectrolyte Molecule through a Nanopore
Jonathan Zrake
Advisor: Andrew MacFadyen, Thesis: A Numerical Investigation of Relativistic Turbulence
Lasha Berezhiani
Advisor: Gregory Gabadadze, Thesis: On General Relativity with Massive Graviton
Keith Chan
Advisor: Roman Scoccimarro, Thesis: Large Scale Halo Bias
Lan Gong
Advisor: Daniel Stein, Thesis: Noise-Induced Rare Events in Classical Field Theories with Application to Nanowire Transitions
Tao Jiang
Advisor: David Hogg, Thesis: Galaxy Mergers and Galaxy Evolution
Ivane Jorjadze
Advisor: Jasna Brujic, Thesis: Confocal Microscopy of Jammed Matter: from Elasticity to Granular Thermodynamics
Huanlong Liu
Advisor: Andrew Kent, Thesis: Spin Transfer Driven Magnetization Dynamics in Spin Valves and Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Rob Morris
Advisor: Neal Weiner, Thesis: Indirect Detection of Inelastic and Exciting Dark Matter
Academic Year 2011-2012 Graduates
David Pirtskhalava
Advisor: Gregory Gabadadze, Thesis: Massive Gravity: Theory and Cosmology
Ning Xuan
Advisor: John Lowenstein, Thesis: Rare events in a finite 2D Ising model
Jarrett Lancaster
Advisor: Aditi Mitra, Thesis: Quench dynamics in one-dimensional quantum systems
Ronin Wu
Advisor: David Hogg, Thesis: Tracing Star Formation in the Mid-infrared
Academic Year 2010-2011 Graduates
Jeffrey Allen
Advisor: Glennys Farrar, Thesis: The Composition and Hadronic Interactions of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Jo Bovy
Advisor: David Hogg, Thesis: Dynamical Inference in the Milky Way
Chi-Wang Chan
Advisor: Jerome Percus, Thesis: Diffusion and Transport in Confined Geometry
Gabriel Chaves
Advisor: Daniel Stein, Andrew Kent, Thesis: Numerical Studies of Transition States for Magnetization Reversal of Ferromagnetic Nanostructures
Ilias Cholis
Advisor: Neal Weiner, Thesis: Searching for New Phenomena in High Energy Cosmic Rays
Grant Christopher
Advisor: Allen Mincer, Thesis: Physics from the Very-High Energy Cosmic-Ray Shadows of the Moon and Sun with Milagro
Lisa Goodenough
Advisor: Neal Weiner, Thesis: The Dark Side of the Galaxy
Eyal Kazin
Advisor: Michael Blanton, Thesis: Large-scale Clustering of Galaxies in the Universe
Abhishek Kumar
Advisor: Neal Weiner, Thesis: Topics in Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Zurab Ratiani
Advisor: Aditi Mitra, Thesis: Nonequilibrium Quantum Impurity Systems
Long Zhao
Advisor: Allen Mincer, Thesis: A Global Fitting Method to Improve Missing Transverse Energy by Hadronic Energy Scale Correction
Guangtun Zhu
Advisor: Michael Blanton, Thesis: The Star Formation History of the Universe over the Past Eight Billion Years
Adi Zolotov
Advisor: David Hogg, Thesis: The Dual Origin of Stellar Halos
Academic Year 2009-2010 Graduates
Rachel Rosen
Advisor: Gregory Gabadadze, Thesis: Charged Condensation
Ronnie Jansson
Advisor: Glennys Farrar, Thesis: The Magnetic Field of the Milky Way
Alexander Jaoshvili
Advisor: Paul Chaikin, Thesis: Experimental and Computational Analysis of Random Tetrahedral Packing with Applications
Bo Sun
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Non-Conservative Optical Forces and Brownian Vortexes
Ke Xiao
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Two-Dimensional Transport in Structured Optical Force Landscapes
Academic Year 2008-2009 Graduates
Wenyu Chen
Advisor: Andrew Kent, Thesis: Spin Transfer in Magnetic Nanopillars
Subinoy Das
Advisor: Neal Weiner, Thesis: Cosmology with Beyond Standard Model Interactions
Brian Kolterman
Advisor: Peter Nemethy, Thesis: Observation of the Large Scale Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy at TeV Energies with the Milagro Detector
Azra Krek
Advisor: Nikolaus Rajewsky, Thesis: Identification of microRNA Targets
Rakibur Rahman
Advisor: Massimo Porrati, Thesis: Interacting Massive Higher Spin Fields
Academic Year 2007-2008 Graduates
Luca Grisa
Advisor: Gregory Gabadadze, Thesis: Beyond Einstein Gravity
Pablo Jercog
Advisor: John Rinzel, Thesis: Study of different physiological components that underlie interaural time delay detection in the auditory system
Marco Polin
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Direct Measurements of Colloidal Interactions with Holographic Optical Tweezers
Sebastian Pueblas
Advisor: Roman Scoccimarro, Thesis: Dark Matter Clustering in Precision Cosmology
Academic Year 2006-2007 Graduates
Hector Martin Crocce
Advisor: Roman Scoccimarro, Thesis: Renormalized Cosmological Perturbation Theory
Sang-Hyuk Lee
Advisor: David Grier, Thesis: Brownian Motion in Complex Potential Energy Landscapes created with Light
Bin Liu
Advisor: Jerome Percus, Thesis: Two Problems on Multi-body Systems
Morad Masjedi
Advisor: David Hogg, Thesis: Massive galaxy Merging and Cosmology
Yingpang Yu
Advisor: Richard Brandt, Thesis: Elastical Dynamic System
Jinqiang Zhong
Advisor: Jun Zhang, Thesis: Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection with Freely Moving Boundary
Academic Year 2005-2006 Graduates
Rong Fan
Advisor: George Zaslavsky, Thesis: Pseudochaos and Transport
Irakli Odisharia
Advisor: Robert Kohn (CIMS), Thesis: Evolution Equation
Nicholas Sambelashvili
Advisor: David Cai (CIMS), Thesis: Nonlinear Dynamics in Spatially Extended Systems
Yanwen Shang
Advisor: Gregory Gabadadze, Thesis: Constrained Gauge Theory, Gravity and Cosmology
Alexei Tonyushkin
Advisor: Tycho Sleator, Thesis: Atom Interferometry
Gabrijela Zaharijas
Advisor: Glennys Farrar, Thesis: Alternative Approaches to Dark Matter Puzzle
Academic Year 2004-2005 Graduates
Igor Kaminetskiy
Advisor: Jerome Percus, Thesis: Two Problems of Fluids in Small Spacial Domains
Francesco Nitti
Advisor: Massimo Poratti, Thesis: Two Variations on the Theme of the Wave Function of the Universe
Alvaro Nunez
Advisor: Georgi Dvali, Thesis: Exploration of Gravity at Different Scales
Barbaros Oezyilmaz
Advisor: Andrew Kent, Thesis: Spin Transfer in Magnetic Nanopillar Junctions
Samuela Pasquali
Advisor: Jerome Percus, Thesis: Studies in Confined Biopolymers
Carlo Piccioni
Advisor: Daniel Zwanziger, Thesis: Casimir Scaling in SU (2) Lattice Gauge Theory
Jan-Willem Rombouts
Advisor: Massimo Poratti, Thesis: Infrared Modifications of Gravity
Emiliano Sefusatti
Advisor: Roman Scoccimarro, Thesis: Probing Fundamental Physics with Large-Scale Structure: from Galaxy Formation to Inflation
Sviatoslav Solganik
Advisor: Georgi Dvali, Thesis: Inflation and Gravity Models
Jianwei Zhang
Advisor: Peter Levy, Thesis: Electron Transport in Noncollinear Magnetic Multilayers
Zhengji Zhao
Advisors: Jerome Percus and Michael Overton, Thesis: The Reduced Density Matrix Method for Electronic Structure Calculations - Application of Semidefinite Programming to N-fermion Systems
Weimin Zhou
Advisor: Jerome Percus, Thesis: Thermodynamic Behavior of Electrolytes at Low Temperature
Summer 2004 Graduate
Michele Baldini
Advisors: Alan Sokal and Henry McKean (CIMS), Thesis: A New Perspective on the Invariant Measure of a Positive Recurrent Diffusion in RÙ.
Academic Year 2003-2004 Graduates
Christopher Clarke
Advisor: Edward Robinson, Thesis: Time-Dependent Generalization of Floquet Method Applied to Pulsed Interactions
Dionyssios Mintzopoulos
Advisor: George Zaslavsky, Thesis: Chaotic Dynamics of Multilevel Atom in an Undamped Cavity
Giovanni Ossola
Advisor: Alberto Sirlin, Thesis: Topics Concerning the Quantum Corrections in the Standard Model
Asya Shpiro
Advisor: Peter Levy, Thesis: Two Problems in Spin-Dependent Transport in Metallic Magnetic Multilayers
Qinghui Wang
Advisor: Jerome Percus, Thesis: Quasi-one Dimensional Classical Fluids
Jun Yan
Advisor: Jerome Percus, Thesis: Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensation
Summer 2003 Graduate
Marko Kolanovic
Advisor: Georgi Dvali, Thesis: Theories with Infinite Volume Extra Dimenions
Academic Year 2002-2003 Graduates
Federico Camia
Advisor: Charles Newman, Thesis: Stochastic Dynamics of Ising Models at Zero Temperature
Andrea Ferroglia
Advisor: Alberto Sirlin, Thesis: Topics in Precision Electroweak Physics
Lazar Fleysher
Advisor: Allen Mincer, Thesis: Search for Relic Neutralinos with Milagro
Roman Fleysher
Advisor: Peter Nemethy, Thesis: Search for Gamma-ray Emission from Galactic Plane with Milagro
Konstantin Koupstov
Advisor: John Lowenstein, Thesis: Scaling in Piecewise Linear Maps
Andrey Turlapov
Advisor: Tycho Sleator, Thesis: Manipulating and Imaging Laser-Cooled Atoms with Optical Tools