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



   Entering Class of 1999

Charlene Ahn Preskill Harvard
thesis: 6/2004 "Extending Quantum Error Correction: New Continuous Measurement Protocols and Improved Fault-Tolerant Overhead"
employment:
Michael Armen Mabuchi UC Berkeley
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employment:
Klejda Bega Hughes Caltech
thesis: 6/2004 "Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle in Møller Scattering
employment:
Kevin Birnbaum Kimble Stanford
thesis: 6/2005 "Cavity QED with Multilevel Atoms"
employment:
Andreea Boca Kimble Harvard
thesis: 6/2005 "Experiments in Cavity QED: Exploring the Interaction of Quantized Light with a Single Trapped Atom"
employment: Post-doc, Caltech
Vadim Borokhov Kapustin Cornell
thesis: 6/2004 "Monopole Operators and Mirror Symmetry in Three-Dimensional Gauge Theories"
employment: Post-doc, Jerusalem U
Avery Broderick Blandford SUNY Stony Brook
thesis: 6/2004 "Radiative Transfer in Accreting Environments"
employment: ITC Fellow, Harvard
James Chakan Harvard
thesis: ---
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Chi Ming H. Chen Harrison MIT
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Yanbei Chen Thorne Peking U
thesis: 6/2003 "Topics of LIGO physics: quantum noise in advanced interferometers and template banks for compact-binary inspirals"
employment: Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany; Asst. Professor of Physics, Caltech
Calin Ciocarlie Schwarz Caltech
thesis: 6/2004 "D-Brane Actions and N=2 Supergravity Solutions"
employment:
Theodore Corcovilos Yeh U of Tennessee
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David Farnham Caltech
thesis: ---
employment:
Kok Win Goh Kimble Wesleyan U
thesis: ---
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Stephan Ichiriu McGill Indiana U
thesis: 6/2005 "Investigation of Spin Injection in Semiconductors: Theory and Experiment"
employment:
Gary Mark Jones Hughes U of Kentucky
thesis: 6/2004 "A Precision Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle in Møller Scattering at Low Q 2"
employment: Staff scientist, MIT; Lincoln Labs technical staff
Hok Kong Lee Schwarz Oxford
thesis: 6/2005 "Gauge Theory and Supergravity Duality in Plane Wave Background"
employment: Asst. Professor, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
Benjamin Lev Mabuchi Princeton
thesis: 6/2006 "Magnetic Microtraps for Cavity QED, Bose-Einstein Condensates, and Atom Optics"
employment: Postdoc, NRC, JILA/NIST, Boulder,CO
Peter Mastromarino Hughes Princeton
thesis: 6/2004 "A Precision Low-Energy Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle in Møller Scattering"
employment: Staff scientist, MIT; Lincoln Labs technical staff
Tristan McLoughlin Schwarz Trinity College
thesis: 6/2005 "Near-Penrose Limit of AdS/CFT"
employment: Post-doc, Pennsylvania State U
Stefan Mihalas Kennedy West U of Timisoara
thesis: 6/2006 "Auantative Model of Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II Activation"
employment: Post-doc, Johns-Hopkins University
Carlos Mochon Preskill MIT
thesis: 6/2005 "From Non-Abelian Anyons to Quantum Computation to Coin-Flipping by Telephone"
employment: Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada
Wenjin Shao Hughes USTC
thesis: 6/2004 "Studies and Applications of Hyperpolarized 129-Xe"
employment: Brion Technologies, Inc.
Daniel Wagenaar Pine King's College London
thesis: 6/2006 "Development and control of Epileptiform Bursting in Dissociated Cortical Cultures"
employment: Post-doc, UC San Diego, Biology Department
Guodong Wang Hughes USTC
thesis: 6/2004 "Polarizing 3 He by Spin Exchange with Potassium"
employment: Post-doc, Caltech
Margaret Wessling Wise Amherst College
thesis: 6/2005 "Heavy Pentaquark in the Diquark Model and the Large Nc Expansion"
employment: Pierce College, California
Min Yang Phillips Duke U
thesis: 6/2007 "Submillimeter Surveys of Dusty Galaxies"
employment: Post-doc, Caltech

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