Past Dissertations

Physics Ph.D. Degrees - Fall 2019

Halleh Balch
Optical Investigations of Intermolecular Electron Dynamics in Low Dimensional Materials

Eric Copenhaver
Tune-out measurement in lukewarm lithium with phase-patterned atom interferometry

Blagoje Djordjevic
Adviser: Stuart Bale and Carl Schroeder
Interaction of Higher-Order Laser Modes with Underdense Plasmas

Fang Fang
Explorations of spin excitations and dynamics in homonuclear and heteronuclear spin-1 atomic gases

Stephen Matthew Gilbert
Two-Dimensional Boron Nitride and Related Materials: Synthesis, Vacancy Formation, and Applications for Nanopores and Nanomachines

Benjamin Horowitz
Optimal Reconstruction of Cosmological Density Fields

Eric Hunter
Cavity and Microwave Experiments on Electron Plasma

Sean Lourette
Magnetometry and Imaging with Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Stephanie Mack
Manipulating Materials: Electronic and Topological Properties of Chemically and Structurally Complex Materials

Nityan Nair
An Exploration of Quantum Materials: From Topological Semimetals to Antiferromagnetic Memory

Chin Ong
Electronic and Optical Properties of Materials for Energy-Related Applications

Nicholas Salzetta

Brian Shevitski
Adviser: Alex Zettl and Shaul Aloni
Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning for Nanomaterials Characterization

Physics Ph.D. Degrees - Summer 2019

Christopher Akers
Entanglement and Geometry

A Search for New Physics in Multijet Final States of Pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13~TeV$ Using the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider

Kyle Boone
Improving Cosmological Distance Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae: From Pixels to Dark Energy

Steven Drapcho
Optical Studies of Electron-Phonon Interactions in Two-Dimensional and One-Dimensional Materials

Emily Duffield
Observation of the Electroweak Production of Two W Bosons with the Same Electric Charge in Association with Two Jets in Pp Collisions at Sqrt{s}=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

Neil Goeckner-wald
A Measurement of the Degree Scale B-mode CMB Angular Power Spectrum from the Polarbear Experiment

Illan Halpern
Information in, on, and from the Spacetime

Energy and Entropy in Quantum Field Theories

Zhenglu Li
Electron-Phonon Coupling from GW Perturbation Theory and Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Novel Two-Dimensional Materials

Leigh Martin
Adviser: K. Birgitta Whaley and Irfan Siddiqi
Quantum feedback for measurement and control

Sean O'Kelley
The Microstrip SQUID Amplier in the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX)

Ionut Dragos Potirniche
Many-Body Quantum Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Phases of Matter

Vinay Ramasesh
Quantum Simulation with Superconducting Circuits

Sean Ressler
Towards More Predictive Models of Galactic Center Accretion

Daniel Rizzo
Tailoring the Local Electronic Structure of Bottom-Up-Synthesized Low-Dimensional Organic Nanostructures

Clio Sleator
Adviser: Steven Boggs and Stuart Bale
Measuring the polarization of compact objects with the Compton Spectrometer and Imager

Aaron Szasz
Transport and topology in strongly correlated two-dimensional systems, using techniques from one dimension

Alex Takeda
Adviser: Vivek Shende and Mina Aganagic
Developments in the mathematics of the A-model: constructing Calabi-Yau structures and stability conditions on target categories

Yuguang Tong
Electron-Scale Processes in the Solar Wind and Magnetosphere

Physics Ph.D. Degrees - Spring 2019

Trevor Bowen
Observational Signatures of Nonlinear Interactions in the Solar Wind

Chien-I Chiang
The Accelerating Universe, the Landscape, and the Swampland

Nicolas Ferland
Adviser: Christian Bauer and Lawrence Hall
Study of large electroweak logarithms at high energy in collider experiments

Trinity Joshi
Local Probe Analysis of the Structural, Electronic, and Optical Properties of Nanomaterials

Benjamin Land
Past, Present, and Future of Solar Neutrino Detection: SNO, SNO+, and Theia

Ka Hei Leung
On Super Heat Kernel and One Loop Divergence in Conformal Supergravity

Zahra Pedramrazi
Manipulating 1D Conduction Channels; from Molecular Geometry to 2D Topology

Paul Riggins
New Probes of Axions and Ultra-Heavy Dark Matter

Niklas Roschewsky
Adviser: Sayeef Salahuddin and Frances Hellman
Spin-Orbit Torques in Ferrimagnets and Topological Insulators

Kelly Swanson
Adviser: Wim Leemans and Marjorie Shapiro
Injection and Plasma Waveguides for Multi-Stage Laser Plasma Acceleration

Erik Urban
Implementation of a Rotationally Symmetric Ring Ion Trap and Coherent Control of Rotational States

Physics Ph.D. Degrees - Fall 2018

Gregory Affeldt
Angle-resolved Photoemission Studies of a Doped Bilayer Iridate

Thomas Barter
Quantum Simulation of the Bose-Hubbard Model with Ultracold Atoms in Triangular Optical Superlattices

Sinan Can
The Mechanics of Dynein Stepping and Directionality

Ting Cao
Understanding and Controlling the Optical Properties of Quasi Two-Dimensional Materials

Eric Dodds
Statistical learning models of sensory processing and implications of biological constraints

Parker Fagrelius
Adviser: David Schlegel and Saul Perlmutter
Addressing Challenges on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

Brendan Folie
Extremely Small and Incredibly Fast: Combining Spectroscopy and Microscopy to Reveal Local Excited State Dynamics in Disordered Semiconductors

Nicholas Harrington
Constraints on Short Lived Signals at 150 GHz

Ian Hayes
Extending the Strange Metal Phenomenology of High-Tc Superconductors With High Magnetic Fields

Matthew Jaffe
Atom interferometry in an optical cavity

Katayun Kamdin
Adviser: Peter Sorensen and Daniel Mckinsey
A Search for Lightly Ionizing Particles in the LUX Detector and Research and Development For Future Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chambers

Eugene Kur