Recent Ph.D. Recipients
Hardcopies of all dissertations are available at the Physics library. Scanned copies are available through UMI ProQuest (which requires an institutional subscription). Locally hosted final copies are linked below where available. Listed is the first position of employment after graduation.
2024Ryan A. Chaban, Advisor Mordijck "Experimental Studies of Neutral Particles and the Isotope Effect in the Edge of Tokamak Plasmas" ARPA-E Fellow, Department of Energy
2023
Siyuan Chen, Advisor Zhang/Rossi “Ab initio Computations of Structural Properties in Solids by Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo” Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago
Andrew Dallas Hurley, Advisor Stevens “Partial Wave Analysis of Strange Mesons Decaying to K+p+p- in the Reaction ƴp → K+p+p- ^(1520) and the Commissioning of the GlueX DIRC Detector”Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Richard Murijono Tung Ming Reksoatmodjo Advisor Mordijck “Edge Fueling and Neutral Density Studies of the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak Using the SOLPS-ITER Code” Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Zhi-Yu Xiao Advisor Zhang/Rossi “From the Hubbard Model to Coulomb Interactions: Quantum Monte Carlo Computations in Strongly Correlated Systems” Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Luis Alberto Zazueta Reyes, Advisor Kordosky “Constraining of the MINERvA Medium Energy Neutrino Flux Using Neutrino-Electron Scattering” Postdoctoral Research Associate, Syracuse University, NY
2022
Amy Nicole Filkins, "Inclusive and Inelastic Scattering in Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions" Postdoctoral position, Syracuse University in NY
Hao Xu, Advisor Zhang/Rossi "Investigation of Stripes, Spin Density Waves and Superconductivity in the Ground State of the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model"
Md Tanjib Atique Khan, Advisors Richards/Orginos "Calculation of Gluon PDF in the Nucleon using Pseudo-PDF Formalism with Wilson Flow Technique in LQCD" Advisors: K. Orginos and D. Richards, Faculty position, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Dhaka
Patrick McArdle Advisor: Qazilbash “Broadband Infrared Microspectroscopy and Nanospectroscopy of Local Material Properties: Experiment and Modeling.” National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at Boulder, Colorado
Archana Radhakrishnan Advisor: Dudek “Radiative Width of K*(892) from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics.” Postdoctoral Research Associate, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Amy Marie Schertz Advisor: Stevens “Partial Wave Analysis of the ꙍp- Final State Photoproduced at GlueX.” Postdoctoral Research Associate, LHCb, ELTE Budapest, Hungary
Savannah Lea Cuozzo Advisor: Mikhailov “Quantum Sensing for Low-Light Imaging.” Postdoctoral Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories
Joseph Jude Cuozzo Advisor: Rossi “Electronic Transport in Topological Superconducting Heterostructures.” Harry S. Truman, Sandia National Laboratories
2021
Shuangli Du, "AC & DC Zeeman Interferometric Sensing with Ultracold Trapped Atoms on Chip" Advisor: S. Aubin
Colin Egerer, "Forward & Off-Forward Parton Distributions from Lattice QCD" Advisors: D. Richards and K. Orginos, Postdoc, Jefferson Lab Theory Division
Timothy Hayward, "Dihadron Beam Spin Asymmetries on an Unpolarized Hydrogen Target with CLAS12" Advisor: K. Griffioen, Postdoc, University of Connecticut, Jefferson Lab
Christopher Johnson, "Excited J- - Resonances in Meson-Meson Scattering from Lattice QCD" Advisor: J. Dudek, Postdoc at GSI Darmstadt
David Lahneman, "Light Matter Interactions in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Geometries" Advisor: M. Qazilbash
Andrew Rotunno, "Radiofrequency AC Zeeman Trapping for Neutral Atoms" Advisor: S. Aubin
Yiyu Zhou, "Proton Spin Structure from Simultaneous Monte Carlo Global QCD Analysis" Advisor: W. Melnitchouk, Postdoc at UCLA/South China Normal University
2020
Adam Carl Chiciak, "Competing and Cooperating Orders in the Three-Band Hubbard Model:
A Comprehensive Quantum Monte Carlo and Generalized Hartree-Fock Study" Advisor: S. Zhang
Jason Andrew Creeden, "Growth Engineering and Characterization of Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films for Ultraviolet Detection" Advisors: R. A. Lukaszew & I. Novikova
Christopher S. A. Hendriks, "A First-Principles Study of the Nature of the Insulating Gap in VO2" Advisor: H. Krakauer
Scott Eric Madaras, "Insulator to Metal Transition Dynamics of Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films" Advisor: R. A. Lukaszew
Denise Erin McKaig, "Quantitative Analysis of Blood Pressure Waveforms of ICU Patients that Have Experienced a Hemorrhage Event" Advisor: J. Delos
Marco Antonio Merchand Medina, "Study of Scalar Extensions for Physics Beyond the Standard Model" Advisor: M. Sher
Matthew Perry Nerem, "Experiments and Theory on Dynamical Hamiltonian Monodromy" Advisor: J. Delos
Nikunjkumar Prajapati, "Development of Quantum Information Tools Based on Multi- Photon Raman Processes in Rb Vapor" Advisor: I. Novikova
2019
Scott Kevin Barcus, "Extraction and Parametrization of Isobaric Trinucleon Elastic Cross Sections and Form Factors" Advisor: T. Averett
Shikha Chandra Chaurasia, "Beyond the Standard Model: Flavor Symmetry, Nonperturbative Unification, Quantum Gravity, and Dark Matter" Advisor: C. Carone
William Winsor Dickinson, "Interfacial Forces of 2D Materials at the Oil–Water Interface" Advisor: H. Schniepp
Brandon Kyle Eskridge , "Local Embedding and Effective Downfolding in the Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo Method" Advisor: H. Krakauer
Michael Chaim Freid, "Topics in Proton Structure: BSM Answers to its Radius Puzzle and Lattice Subtleties within its Momentum Distribution" Advisor: C. Carlson
Yohanes Satrio Gani, "Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional van der Waals Systems" Advisor: E. Rossi
Joseph Matheson Karpie, "The Extraction of Parton Distributions from Lattice QCD" Advisor: K. Orginos
Andrew James Pyle, "Scattering a Bose-Einstein Condensate off a Modulated Barrier" Advisor: S. Aubin
