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PhD Theses
This listing is currently under construction and for the moment includes theses from 2018 onwards. You can find theses from 2009-2017 here.
| Date of Defense | Student | Advisor | Thesis Title | Where did they go next? |
| 9 August, 2019 | Connor Behan | Leonardo Rastelli | Bootstrapping Continuous Families of Conformal Field Theories | |
| 7 August, 2019 | Irina Petrushina | Vladimir Litvinenko | The Chilling Recount of an Unexpected Discovery: First Observations of the Plasma-Cascade Instability in the Coherent Electron Cooling Experiment | |
| 7 August, 2019 | HyeYun Park | Dmitri Tsybychev, Andrei Nomerotski | Measuring Mass and Structure of the Universe with LSST: Importance of Precise Photometric Redshift Estimation and CCD SensorEffects | |
| 31 July, 2019 | Moshe Kellerstein | Jacobus Verbaarschot | Exploring the Anatomy of QCD and Related Strongly Coupled Theories | Data Science |
| 1 July, 2019 | Christopher Hayes | John Hobbs | Search for Exotic Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson in the bbμμ Final State with the ATLAS Detector | |
| 14 June, 2019 | Saebyeok Jeong | Nikita Nekrasov | Studies on Correspondences in Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories | Postdoc Rutgers |
| 17 May, 2019 | Jiawei Zhang | Mengkun Liu | Infrared and Terahertz Near-Field Imaging of 3d and 4d Correlated Transition Metal Oxides | Postdoc Argonne National Laboratory |
| 8 May, 2019 | Angelik Field-Pollatou | Partha Mitra | Image Anaysis for the Mouse Brain Architecture Project | |
| 26 April, 2019 | Yiqian Xu | Joanna Kiryluk | Measurement of High Energy Neutrino Interaction Cross Section Using Neutrino-Induced Electromagnetic and Hadronic Showers Observed in Five Years of IceCube Data | Analyst at Goldman Sachs |
| 15 April, 2019 | T atiana Konstantinova | Yimei Zhu | Electron-Electron Interactions in Functional Materials Studied by Ultrafast Electron Diffraction | Data Science |
| 4 March, 2019 | Mingliang Zhou | Jiangyong Jia | Study of Particle Correlation and Fluctuation from High Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions to Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC with the ATLAS Detector. | Data Science at Facebook |
| 22 January, 2019 | Yue Hang Leung | Axel Drees | Measurement of μμ pairs from charm, bottom and Drell-Yan in p+p and p+Au collisons at √s NN = 200 GeV with the PHENIX detector at RHIC. | Postdoc UC Berkeley |
| 3 December, 2018 | Bertus Jordaan | Eden Figueroa | Building a Cross-Cavity Node for Quantum Processing Networks | Postdoc ETHZ |
| 20 November, 2018 | Gabriel Santucci | Michael Wilking / Chang-Kee Jung | Search for p → \bar K + in Super-Kamiokande | Postdoc York University |
| 19 November, 2018 | Zoya Vallari | Chang-Kee Jung | Measurment of Neutral Curent Single \pi^0 Interaction Rate on Water in the Neutrino Beam at the Near Detector of T2K | Postdoc Caltech |
| 6 September, 2018 | Adith Ramamurti | Edward Shuryak | Recent Progress in Understanding the Role of Monopoles in QCD | Research Physicist, Naval Research Laboratory |
| 17 August, 2018 | Simon Divilov | Marivi Fernandez Serra | Understanding Up-Down Asymmetry in Ferroelectric Oxide Materials | Postdoc UAM Madrid |
| 15 August, 2018 | Oumarou Njoya | Krishna Kumar | Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of Xe-134 with EXO-200 and Development of Laser-Driven In-Situ Electron Lifetime Monitoring for nEXO | P ostdoc Stony Brook |
| 13 August, 2018 | Serpil Yalcin Kuzu | Ayben Karasu Uysal | Study of Delta(1232) and Delta^{--}(1232)and Resonance Production in p-Pb Collisions at \sqrt(s_{NN}) = 5.02 TeV with the ALICE Detector at the LHC | Postdoc KTO Karatay University |
| 13 August, 2018 | Spencer Horton | Thomas Weinacht | Photoionizaton as a Probe of Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics | BAE systems, Boston |
| 13 August, 2018 | Yizhuang Liu | Ismail Zahed | Nonperturbaive Studies in QCD | Postdoc TD Lee Institute |
| 3 August, 2018 | Mark Mace | Dima Kharzeev | Infrared Dynamics of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories out of Equilibrium | Postdoc Jyvaskyla, Finland |
| 30 July, 2018 | Ludwig Krinner | Dominik Schneble | Exploring Spontaneous Emission Phenomena Using Ultracold Atomic Matter Waves | Postdoc Braunschweig |
| 27 July, 2018 | Mehdi Namazi | Eden Figueroa | A Scalable Room-Temperature Quantum Processing Network | Postdoc Yale |
| 25 July, 2018 | Donald Wilcox | Alan Calder | The Single Degenerate Progenitor Scenario for Type Ia Supernova and the Convective Urca Process | Postdoc Lawrence Livermore |
| 16 July, 2018 | Xiaoyue Li | Chang-Kee Jung | A Joint Analysis of T2K Beam Neutrino and Super-Kamiokande Sub-GeV Atmospheric Neutrino Data | Postdoc Munich |
| 25 June, 2018 | Abhiahodh Prakash | Tz u-Chieh Wei | Aspects of Global Symmetry in Quantum Many-Body Systems | Simons Fellow, ICTS -Tata Institute |
| 7 May, 2018 | Kuo-Wei Huang | Christopher Herzog | Anomalies, Entanglement and Boundary Geometry in Conformal Field Theory | Postdoc Boston University |
| 10 May, 2018 | Ningqian Song | Concha Gonzalez-Garcia | Extraterrestial Neutrinos as Probes of Their Sources and Interactions | Postdoc Queen's University, Kingston |
| 7 May, 2018 | Hans Niederhauasen | Joanna Kyriluk | Measurement of the High Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Flux Using Electron and Tau Neutrinos Observed in Four Years of IceCube Data | Postdoc MPI Munich |
| 2 May, 2018 | Yanliang Shi | Robert Shrock | Study of Chiral Gauge Theories and Heavy-Quark Hadrons | Postdoc Cold Spring Harbor |
| 2 May, 2018 | Xinan Zhou | Leonardo Rastelli | Holographic Mellin Amplitudes | Postdoc Princeton |
| 26 April, 2018 | J ean Paul Nery | Philip Allen | Renormalization of Electronic Propertiesof Semiconductors from Electron-Phonon Intereaction | Postdoc Sapienza Rom |
| 19 April, 2018 | Gongjun Choi | Robert Shrock | Study of Renormalization Scheme Transformations and RG Flow of Asymptotically Free Theories | Postdoc TD Lee Instiute / U Chicag |
| 10 April, 2018 | Taeho Ryu | Rosalba Perna | Study of formation of Binary Black Holes, their interactions with surroundings and their mergers | Postdoc John Hopkins |
| 15 December, 2017 | Vladimir Khachatryan | Thomas Hemmick / Axel Drees | The Quark Gluon Plasma probed by Low Momentum Direct Photons in Au +Au Collisions at √s NN = 62.4 GeV and √s NN = 39 GeV Beam Energies | P ostdoc Stony Brook |
| 13 September, 2017 | Alyssa Montalbano | John Hobbs | Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced with an Associated W Boson and Decaying to a Pair of Top Quarks at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector | Postdoc Boston University |
| 15 August, 2017 | Huijun Ge | Barbara Jacak / Axel Drees | Jet-Medium Interactions via Direct Photon-Hadron Correlation Measurements in Au-Au Collisions at √s = 200 GeV | |
| 10 August, 2017 | Adrian Soto | Marivi Fernandez Serra | Simulating Complex Problems in Condensed Matter Physics: from Liquid Water to Dark Matter -- Electron Interactions | Data Science at DataCamp |
| 4 August, 2017 | Hualong Gervais | George Sterman | Soft Radiation Theorems at All Loop order in Quantum Field Theory | Bloomberg |
| 10 July, 2017 | Rasmus Larsen | Edward Shuryak | Description of Gauge Theory Phenomena from Topological Objects | Postdoc BNL |
| 2 August, 2017 | Nicolas Tarantino | Lukasz Fidkowski | Exactly Solvable Models for Topological Phases of Matter | Postdoc University of Berlin |
| 3 July, 2017 | Xinyu Zhang | Nikita Nekrasov | Exprloring the BPS/CFT Correspondence | Postdoc Rutgers |
| 14 June, 2017 | Arthur Zhao | Thomas Weinacht | Ionic Dynamics in Molecular Strong Field Ionization | Postdoc Neuroscience Janelia |
| 13 June, 2017 | Harikrishnan Ramani | Patrick Meade | Higgs Collider Phenomenology: Important Backgrounds, Naturalness Probes and the Electreoweak Phase | Postdoc Berkeley |
| 12 May, 2017 | Naveen Prabhakar | Nikita Nekrasov | Nonperturbative Studies in Supersymmetric Field Theories via String Theory | Postdoc TIFR Mumbai |
| 24 May, 2017 | Yihong Wang | Christopher Herzog | Applications of 2D CFT: Entaglement and Soft Theorem | |
| 12 May, 2017 | Martin Polacek | Warren Siegel | Aspects of T-Dually Extended Superspaces | Insight Data Science |
| 8 March, 2017 | Yachao Qian | Ismail Zahed | Spin and QCD Instanton and Stringy Pomeron | Developer at Wolfram |