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



   Entering Class of 1997

Kashif Alvi Thorne UC Santa Barbara
thesis: 6/2002 "Topics in General Relativity: Binary Holes and Hyperbolic Formulations of Einstein's Equations"
employment: Lehman Brothers
A. Beresnyak
thesis: ---
employment:
Peter Bibring Harvard
thesis: ---
employment:
Charles Bloom U of Texas
thesis: ---
employment:
Edward Chen Hitlin Harvard
thesis: 6/2007 "Radiative Leptonic B decays"
employment: n/a
Kenneth B. Cooper Eisenstein Harvard
thesis: 6/2003 "New Phases of Two-Dimensional Electrons in Excited Landau Levels"
employment:
Silviu-Doru Covrig McKeown U of Bucharest
thesis: 6/2005 "A Measurement of Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the G0 Experiment in Forward Mode"
employment: Research scientist, Center for Xenon Research, U of New Hampshire
Luca Diaconescu McKeown Carleton U
thesis: 6/2005 "Applications of Effective Field Theory to Electron Scattering"
employment: Nortel Networks Telecom, Canada
Samantha Edgington Lange Princeton
thesis: 6/2004 "A Galaxy Cluster Survey using the Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect"
employment: Instructor, San Francisco State U, City College of San Francisco
Aaron Eichelberger   U of Maryland
thesis: ---
employment: Physics instructor, private school
Robert Forster Adami Harvard
thesis: 6/2006 "Population Dynamics in the Presence of Quasispecies Effects and Changing Environments"
employment: Tower Research Capital, New York City
Walter D. Goldberger Wise MIT
thesis: 6/2001 "Brane Models and the Hierarchy Problem."
employment: LBNL, Berkeley; Asst. Professor, Yale U
Donhee Ham Seoul National Univ.
thesis: PhD in Electrical Engineering
employment:
Michael Hartl Phinney Harvard
thesis: 6/2003 "Dynamics of Spinning Compact Binaries in General Relativity"
employment: Postdoc, Caltech; Self-employed web-based .com; Free-lance writer
Xue Ming Henry Huang Roukes Arizona State U
thesis: 6/2004 "Ultrahigh and Microwave Frequency Nanomechanical Systems"
employment: Post-doc, Columbia U, Senior Scientist, Nantero, Inc, Woburn, MA
James Kiger MIT
thesis: ---
employment:
Attila Kovacs Phillips Harvard
thesis: 6/2006 "SHARC-2 350 Micron Observations of Distant Submillimeter Selected Galaxies and Techniques for the Optimal Analysis and Observing of Weak Signals"
employment: Post-doc, Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany
Yuk Tung Liu Thorne Chinese U of Hong Kong
thesis: 6/2003 "Dynamical Stability of Nanscent Neutron Stars"
employment: Postdoc, U of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana
Serge Makarov St. Petersburg State U
thesis: ---
employment:
Keith Matthews Thorne UC Berkeley
thesis:
employment:
Arkadas Ozakin Gubser/Schwarz Bogazici U
thesis: 6/2004 "RG-Flows, AdS/CFT Correspondence and Stability of Black Branes"
employment: Post-doc, Princeton
A. Ozpineci Schwarz METU
thesis: ---
employment:
Shanti Rao Libbrecht U of Washington
thesis: 5/2003 "Mirror Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors"
employment: Software company
Keven Scaldeferri Wise
thesis: ---
employment:
George Shapovalov Lester
thesis: 6/2005 "Mechanosensitive Channels of Bacteria, Structure and Function"
employment: Switzerland
Luke Sollitt Stone
thesis: 6/2004 "Ionic Charge States of Solar Energetic Particles"
employment: Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Matthew Sumner Zmuidzinas
thesis:
employment:
Hongxing Tang Roukes
thesis: 6/2002 "Semiconductor Magnetoelectronics for Spintronics and Suspended 2DEG for Mechanoelectronics"
employment: Staff, Caltech

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