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Recent Ph.D. Recipients

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 RĂ™.

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

 

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