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



   Entering Class of 2000

Andrew Berglund Mabuchi Dartmouth
thesis: 6/2007 "Feedback Control of Brownian Motion for Single-Particle Fluorescence Spectroscopy"
employment: NIST, Gaithersburg (MD)
Parsa Bonderson Preskill UCLA
thesis: 6/2007 "Non-Abelian Anyons and Interferometry"
employment: Microsoft Station Q
Latham Boyle Kamionkowski Harvard
thesis: ---
employment: PhD Princeton, Post-doc, CITA
Martin Centurion Psaltis U of Michigan
thesis: 6/2005 "Study of the Nonlinear Propagation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses"
employment: Post-doctoral fellowship; Center for Physics of Information, Caltech
Chin-Wen James Chou Kimble National Taiwan U
thesis: 6/2006 "Towards a Quantum Network with Atomic Ensembles"
employment: Post-doc, Caltech
Matthew Dorsten Wise Ohio State U
thesis: 6/2006 "Topics in Heavy Particle Effective Theories"
employment: Post-doc, Caltech; Pacific Investment Management Company, Newport Beach
Megan Eckart Harrison Berkeley
thesis: 6/2007 "Resolving the X-Ray Sky in this Generation and the Next"
employment: Post-doc, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland
Oleg Evnin Schwarz Rostov State U
thesis: 6/2006 "On Quantum Interacting Embedded Geometrical Objects of Various Dimensions"
employment: Post-doc, Caltech
Hua Fang Thorne Peking U
thesis: 6/2007 "Topics in Gravitational Physics: Tidal coupling in Gravitational Wave Searches and Mach's Principle"
employment: n/a
Lars-Erik Hannelius McKeown U of Helsinki
thesis:
employment:
Alexander Hubbard Cornell
thesis: ---
employment:
Melissa Kelly Macalester College
thesis: Transferred to APh
employment:
Michael Kesden Kamionkowski Princeton
thesis: 6/2005 "To the Horizon and Beyond: Weak Lensing of the CMB and Binary Inspirals into Horizonless Objects"
employment: Post-doctoral appointment, CITA, Toronto, Canada
Inna Kozinsky Roukes Harvard
thesis: 6/2007 "Nonlinear Nanoelectromechanical Systems
employment: Bosch Research Center, Palo Alto, California
Christopher Lee Wise/Ramsey-Musolf Reed College
thesis: 6/2005 "Probing Physics and the Standard Model and Beyond with Electroweak Baryogenesis and Effective theories of the Strong Interactions"
employment: Post-doc, U of Washington
Nathan Lundblad Libbrecht Berkeley
thesis: 6/2006 "All-optical spinor Bose-Einstein Condensation and the spinor dynamics-driven atom laser"
employment: NRC post-doc, NIST, Maryland
Michael O'Kelly Carnegie Mellon U
thesis: ---
employment:
Ryan Ogliore Stone Claremont McKenna College
thesis: 6/2007 "The Sulfur, Argon, and Calcium Isotopic Composition of the Galactic Cosmic Ray Source"
employment: Post-doc, UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab; Stardust Mission
Takuya Okuda Ooguri Kyoto U
thesis: 6/2005 "Large N Dualities in Topological String Theory"
employment: Kavli Institute, UCSB
Victor Palmer Texas Tech U
thesis: ---
employment:
Yi Pan Thorne Peking U
thesis: 6/2006 "Topics of LIGO physics: Template Banks for Inspiral of Precessing compact binarys, and Design of the Signal-Recycling Cavity for Advanced LIGO"
employment: Post-doc, University of Maryland-College Park
Benjamin Rahn Mabuchi Harvard
thesis: ---
employment:
David Sand Ellis UCLA
thesis: 6/2006 "On the Distribution of Dark Matter in Clusters of Galaxies"
employment: Post-doc, University of Arizona, Chandra Fellowship
John Stockton Mabuchi Stanford
thesis: 6/2007 "Continuous Quantum Measurement of Cold Alkali-Atom Spins"
employment: Post-doc, Stanford
Devin Sullivan Carnegie Mellon U
thesis: ---
employment:
Ian Swanson Schwarz College of William and Mary
thesis: 6/2005 "Superstring Holography and Integrability in AdS5 x S5"
employment: IAS, Princeton
Akira Villar Libbrecht Berkeley
thesis:
employment:
Paul Wiggins R. Phillips Cornell
thesis: 6/2005 "Biology Beyond Biochemistry: The Mechanics of Life"
employment: Fellow, Whitehead Institute, MIT
Ki Won Yoon Lange Berkeley
thesis:
employment:
Valentin Zhigulin Cross Berkeley
thesis: 6/2004 "Multiple-Scale Dynamics in Neural Systems: Learning, Synchronization and Network Oscillations"
employment: Post-doc, MIT

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