Department of Physics Graduate Program - 103-33 - Pasadena - California - 91125



   Entering Class of 1991

Amod Agashe IIT Bombay, Stanford thesis: Did not matriculate employment:

David Beam US Navel Academy thesis: 6/1997 "Experimental Studies of the Anomalous Sign Reversal in the Vortex-State Hall Conductivity of YBa2Cu307" employment:

Kent Bradford Preskill Colorado School of Mines thesis: 6/1997 "Aspects of Non-Abelian Many Body Physics" employment: The Aerospace Corporation

Shun Chan U of Hong Kong thesis: --- employment:

Chi-Keung Chow Chinese U of Hong Kong thesis: 6/1995 "Heavy Hadrons in the Large NC Limit" employment:

William Detlefs U of Maryland thesis: --- employment:

Guanghua Gao USTC thesis: 6/1998 "Large Scale Molecular Simulations with Application to Polymers and Nano-scale Materials" employment:

Nikos Georgiades Kimble U of Pennsylvania thesis: 6/1998 "Nonclassical Excitation and Quantum Interference in a Three Level Atom" employment: Management consulting, London

John Hartman Tombrello U of Texas thesis: 6/1997 "Simulation of Surface and Material Damage During Fast Ion Penetration" employment: post-doc at Caltech w/Atwater

Makoto Hatanaka Porter thesis: --- employment: Industry

Gang He Atwater Peking U thesis: 6/1997  "Novel Group IV Alloy Semiconductor Materials" employment:

M. Lotov thesis: --- employment:

Vittu Khanna thesis: --- employment:

Xiang-Hong Lin USTC thesis: 6/1997 "Bulk Glass Formation and Crystallization of Zr-Ti Based Alloys" (Applied Physics) employment:

J. Medved thesis: --- employment:

Ranjan Mukhopadhyay Weichman IIT thesis: 6/1998 "Quantum Phase Transitions in Disordered Bose Systems" employment: post-doc, Simon Frazer Univ.

James Panetta Porter Drexel U thesis:  6/1999 "Decays of the y(2S) Meson to Baryonic Final States" employment: Staff at UPENN/SLAC

Jaemo Park Preskill Seoul National U thesis: 6/1997 "Aspects of String Dualities--Orientifolds, F-theory and Super D-branes & the M5-brane" employment: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Pohang University of Science and Technology

Bruce Pirger U of Rochester thesis: --- employment:

Anoop Prasad Weichman St. Xavier College thesis: 6/1997 "Layering Transitions, Disordered Flat Phases, Reconstruction and Roughening" employment: Financial firm on the East Coast

Malik Rakhmanov Barish Moscow State U thesis: 6/2000 "Dynamics of Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors" employment: Staff Scientist, Penn State U

Glenn Soberman Phinney SUNY Stony Brook thesis: --- employment: Aerospace

Xin Sun Nicolet Peking U thesis: 6/1997 "I: Reactively Sputtered Ti-Si-N Thin Films for Diffusion Barrier Applications; II: Oxidation, Diffusion and Crystallization of an Amorphous Zr60AI15Ni25" employment:

Quentin Turchette Kimble MIT thesis: 6/1997 "Quantum Optics with Single Atoms and Single Protons" employment: post-doc, NIST

Alycia Weinberger Soifer U of Pennsylvania thesis: 6/1998 "Speckle Imaging of the Nuclei of Six Seyfert Galaxies At Wavelengths of 2.2 [microns] and 1.6 [microns]" employment: Staff astronomer, Carnegie Institute of Washington

Eric Westwig Cornell thesis: --- employment:

Jody White Koonin MIT thesis: 6/1998 "Shell Model Monte Carlo Investigation of Nuclear Structure in Rare Earth Nuclei" employment:

Daniel Williams Stone Louisiana State U thesis: 6/1998 "Measurements of the Isotopic Composition of Solar Energetic Particles With the MAST Instrument Aboard the SAMPEX Spacecraft" employment:

Patricia Wrean Kavanagh Simon Fraser U thesis: 6/1998 "19F(a,n)22Na, 22Ne(p,n)22Na, and the Role of Their Inverses in the Destruction of 22Na" employment:

Xiaowei Zhuang thesis: Did not matriculate employment:

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