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



   Entering Class of 1993

Joshua Bliss Libbrecht Univ. of Chicago
thesis: 6/1999 "Collisional Studies of Ultracold Cesium"
employment: Intel
Paul Carter Rice Univ.
thesis: 6/1999 "The HERMES Experiment: I. Analyzing Powers in Pion Electroproduction.  II. The Aerogel Radiator of the HERMES RICH"
employment: works in Industry in Southern California
Sergey Cherkis Upsala College
thesis: 6/1998 "Three-Dimensional Gauge Theories and Gravitational Instantons from String Theory"
employment: postdoc, UCLA; postdoc, IAS
Hooman Davoudiasl MIT
thesis: 6/1998 "Applications of Chiral Symmetry"
employment: Staff Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Andrea Dvoredsky McKeown Univ. of Maryland
thesis: 6/2000 "Investigations of Novel Effects in Semi-inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering"
employment: JPL; postdoc, Caltech; owns independent consulting firm in Pasadena
Chu-Chen Fu Yeh
thesis: 6/2003 "Spin-Polarized Quasiparticle Transport in Cuprate Superconductors
employment:
Laura Grego Lange Univ. of Michigan
thesis: 6/1999 "Galaxy Cluster Gas Fractions from Interferometric Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect"
employment: Postdoc, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Postdoctoral Science Fellow, Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists
Roman Grigoriev Cross Moscow State Univ.
thesis: 6/1999  "Symmetry and Localized Control of Extended Chaotic Systems"
employment: Post-doc, U of Chicago; Assoc. Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Darrell Harrington Roukes Univ. of Saskatchewan
thesis: 6/2003 "Physics and Applications of Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS)"
employment:
Alexa Welsh  Harter Goodstein Brown Univ.
thesis: 6/2001 "The Heat Capacity of Superfluid 4He in the Presence of a Constant Heat Flux near ?"    
employment:  researcher, Georgia Tech
Scott Hughes Thorne
thesis: 6/1998 "Gravitational-Wave Astronomy Aspects Of the Theory Of Binary Sources and Interferometric Detectors"
employment: post-doc, University of Illinois at Champagne Urbana; instructor and postdoc, Caltech; postdoc ITP, UCSB, Asst. Professor MIT
Frederick August Jenet Prince MIT
thesis: 6/2001 "High Time Resolution Observations of Radio Pulsars: The First Detection of Coherent Emission."
employment: Schlumberger Corp; Postdoc, Caltech/JPL; Asst. Professor, U of Brownsville
Anton Kapustin Preskill Moscow State Univ.
thesis: 6/1997  "Topics in Heavy Quark Physics"
employment: Institute for Advanced Study; Assoc. Professor of Physics, Caltech
Ruben Krasnopolsky Blandford University de Buenos Aires
thesis: 6/2000 "Hydromagnetic Astrophysical Outflows"
employment: Postdoc, University of Chicago
Yury Levin Thorne University of Melbourne
thesis:  6/1999  "Topics in the Physics and Astrophysics of LIGO"
employment: Postdoc, UC Berkeley; Postdoc, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics; Asst. Professor, U of Leiden (Netherlands)
Yushan Li IHEP
thesis: ---
employment:
Rong Lu Peck Middlebury College
thesis: ---
employment:
Malik Magdon-Ismail Yale
thesis: 6/1998 "Supervised Learning In Probabilistic Environments" (Electrical Engineering)
employment:
Sanjoy Mahajan
thesis: 6/1998 "Order Of Magnitude Physics : A Textbook With Applications To the Retinal Rod and the Density Of Prime Numbers"
employment:
Jason L. Maron Goldreich Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
thesis: 6/2001 "Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence."
employment: Postdoc, Imperial College London; Postdoc, University of Iowa
Matthew McAdams Yariv Univ. of Illinois
thesis: 6/1998 "Semiconductor Laser Signals and Noise In Fiber Grating Systems"
employment: Management consulting
Melissa Masae Midzor Roukes Univ. of Colorado - Boulder
thesis: 6/2001 "Ferromagnetic Resonance Force Microscopy"
employment:
Thomas Murphy Soifer Georgia Inst. of Technology
thesis: 6/2000 "Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: Power Sources and Ages Along the Merger Sequence"
employment: Postdoc, University of Washington
Benjamin Owen Thorne Sonoma State Univ.
thesis: 6/1998 "Gravitational Waves From Compact Objects"
employment: postdoc Albert Einstein Institute in Germany; postdoc, U Wisconsin Milwaukee; Asst. Professor Penn State
Anastasios Vayonakis Prince Univ. of Joannina
thesis:
employment:
John Ward Zmuidzinas The Principia College
thesis: 6/2002 "Observations of Carbon Monoxide in the Starburst Galaxy M82 with a 690 GHz Wide Spectral Bandwidth Receiver
employment: Engineer, JPL
William Weber Goodstein Stanford
thesis: 6/2000 "Thermodynamic Study of Coadsorption: Kr/CCl4 and CH4/CCl4 on Graphite"
employment: Asst. Professor, U of Trento (Italy) working on LISA
Jaijun Wen USTC
thesis: Transferred to Applied Physics
employment:
Eric Westphal   Preskill Reed College
thesis: 6/1998 "Electroweak Baryogenesis Via Scalar Baryon Number Transport"
employment: Financial markets; Koch Industries, Inc.

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