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



   Entering Class of 1998

Jessica Arlett Roukes Queen's Univ.
thesis: 6/2006 "Properties of Piezoresistive Silicon Nano-scale Cantilevers with Applications to BioNEMS"
employment: Post-doc, Caltech
Andrew Chatto Goodstein Yale
thesis: 6/2006 "Experiments on the Self-Organized Critical State of 4He"
employment: Post-doc, Brown University
Ching-Tzu Chen Yeh National Taiwan U
thesis: 6/2006 "Scanning Tunneling spectroscopy Studies of High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors"
employment:
Keng-Hwee Chiam Cross U of Michigan
thesis: 6/2004 "Spatiotemporal Chaos in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection"
employment: Sr. Research Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing (Singapore)
Alexei Dvoretski Hitlin Novosibirsk State U
thesis: 6/2006 "Dalitz Plot Analysis of the Decay B+->K+K+K-"
employment: SIG Financial Group, Philadelphia
James W. Harrington Preskill Duke U
thesis: 6/2004"Analysis of Quantum Error-Correcting Codes: Simplectic Lattice Codes and Toric Codes"
employment: Technical staff, Los Alamos National Lab
William C. Jones Lange Princeton
thesis: 6/2005 "A Measurement of the Temperature and Polarization Anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation"
employment: Post-doc, Caltech
Vishesh Khemani Dartmouth
thesis: ---
employment:
Melinda Kellogg Eisenstein UC Santa Barbara
thesis: 6/2005 "Excitonic Superfluidity in a Bilayer Two-Dimensional Electron System"
employment: Post-doc, MIT
Brett Kornfeld Columbia U
thesis: ---
employment:
Peter B. Lee Ooguri Caltech
thesis: 6/2003 "D-branes in Anti-de-Sitter Space"
employment: Lehman Brothers investment company
Yi Li Kapustin Caltech
thesis: 6/2005 "Topological Sigma Models and Generalized Geometries"
employment: Post-doc, Rutgers U
Matias Libedinsky U of Chile
thesis: ---
employment:
Theng Lok U of Texas
thesis: ---
employment:
Jason McKeever Kimble U of Toronto
thesis: 6/2004 "Trapped Atoms in Cavity QED for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information"
employment: Post-doc, France
Bret Naylor Zmuidzinas UC San Diego
thesis: 6/2008
employment:
Dmitry Novikov U of Warwick
thesis: ---
employment:
Jongwon Park Ooguri Seoul National U
thesis: 6/2003 "String/Gauge Duality and Penrose Limit"
employment: Post-doc, U of Chicago
David  Patterson Harvard
thesis: ---
employment:
Tina Pavlin Hughes Princeton
thesis: 6/2003 "Hyperpolarized Gas Polarimetry and Imaging at Low Magnetic Field"
employment: postdoc, Harvard; Research scientist, Norwegian U of Science & Technology
Alexander Putiline Wise MIPT
thesis:
employment:
Yasser Rathore Blandford Middlebury College
thesis: 6/2005 "Resonant Excitation of White Dwarf Oscillations in Compact Object Binaries"
employment: Investment banking, New York City
Paul Skerritt Marsden University College Dublin
thesis:
employment:
Ian Spielman Eisenstein U of Oklahoma
thesis: 6/2004 "Evidence for the Josephson Effect in Quantum Hall Bilayers"
employment: NIST, Maryland
Robert Strittmatter McGill U of Arizona
thesis: 6/2004 "Development of Micro-electromechanical Systems in GaN"
employment:
Michele Vallisneri Thorne U of Parma
thesis: 6/2002 "Modeling and Detecting Gravitational Waves from Compact Stellar Objects"
employment: Postdoc, JPL; Research Scientist, JPL
Xinkai Wu Schwarz Peking U
thesis: 6/2004 "Testing Gauge/Gravity Duality: The Eleven Dimensional PP-Wave"
employment: Post-doc, U of Kentucky
Junhua Yuan Filippone USTC
thesis: 6/2006 "Progress towards a High Precision Measurement of the Neutron Spin-Electron Angular Correlation in Polarized Neutron B Decay with Ultra-Cold Neutrons"
employment: Post-doc, Harvard

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