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



   Entering Class of 1995

Mina Aganagic Schwarz Caltech
thesis: 6/1999 "String Theory on Calabi-Yau Manifolds: Topics in Geometry and Physics"
employment: Postdoc, Harvard; Assistant Professor University of Washington
Derrick Bass Phinney Harvard
thesis: ---
employment:
Robert Andrew Beach Jr. McGill Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo
thesis: 6/2001 "Column III Nitride Growth, Characterization and Devices"
employment: scientist, JPL
Adam Chandler Prince U of Massachusetts
thesis: 6/2003 "Pulsar Searches: from Radio to Gamma-Rays"
employment: Aerospace Corporation
John Cortese Preskill Worcester Polytechnic Institute
thesis: 6/2004 "Quantum Information Theory - Classical Communication over Quantum Channels"
employment:
Brendan P. Crill Lange Brown U
thesis: 6/2001 "A Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background with a Long Duration Balloon-Borne Receiver"
employment: Temporary Lecturer, Pasadena City College; Postdoc, Caltech; Visiting Associate, Caltech; full-time lecturer, Cal State- San Bernardino; Asst. Prof, Cal State-Dominquez Hills
Martin Gremm
thesis: 6/1998 "Aspects Of Heavy Quark Physics"
employment: Partner Pivor Point Advisors (hedge fund)
John Steffen Jensen Hughes Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo
thesis: 6/2001 "Measurement of the Neutron (3He) Spin Structure Function at Low Q2: A Connection between the Bjorken and Drell-Hearn-Gerasimov Sum Rules"
employment: Industry
Elliot Lipeles Weinstein U of Chicago
thesis: 6/2004 "A Study of the Fully Differential Inclusive Semileptonic B-meson Decay Rate"
employment: Post-doc, UC San Diego
Yoram Lithwick Preskill U of Toronto
thesis: 6/2002 "Topics in MHD Turbulence"
employment: Postdoc, UC Berkeley
Peter Mao Harrison MIT
thesis: 6/2002 "Hard X-ray Observations of the Extragalactic Sky:  The High Energy Focusing Telescope and the Serendipitous Extragalactic X-ray  Source Identification Survey"
employment: UCLA working on the Stardust mission
Kyongkun Oh Northwestern U
thesis: ---
employment:
Byron Philhour Lange UC Berkeley
thesis: 6/2002 "Measurement of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background"
employment:  teacher, St. Ignatius College Prep in San Francisco
Eugene Pivovarov Preskill St. Petersburg State U
thesis: 6/2002 "Aspects of Non-Fermi liquid Metals"
employment: Rice U
Ian Sammis Zirin
thesis: not completed
employment: MacAddict magazine
Anna Shapiro Weinstein Hillsdale College
thesis: ---
employment:
Iain Stewart Wise U of Manitoba
thesis: 6/1999  "Applications of Chiral Perturbation Theory in Reactions with Heavy Particles"
employment: Research Asst. Professor, University of Washington; Postdoc, UC San Diego; Asst. Professor, MIT
Shufong Su
thesis: Did not matriculate
employment:
Werner Sun Weinstein Harvard
thesis: 6/2003 "Observation of B→K0sπ+π- and B → K*(862)+/- π -/+ and Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in B → K*(862)+/- π -/+"
employment: Postdoc, Cornell
Yong Xu Yariv Tsinghua U
thesis 06/2001 "Analytical and Numerical Studies of Waveguiding and Coupling in Periodic Dielectric Materials"
employment: Postdoc, Caltech
Georgios Zamanakos Goddard U of Athens
thesis: 6/2002 "A Fast and Accurate Analytical Method for the Computation of Solvent Effects in Molecular Simulations"
employment:

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