Duke Physics

Graduate Alumni and Alumnae, by Advisor

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Baranger  Behringer  Benson  Bertozzi  Biedenharn  Bilpuch  Chandrasekharan  Cusson  De Lucia  De Lucia/Herbst  DeBraeckeleer  Edwards  Evans  Everitt  Finkelstein  Fortney  Gao  Gauthier  Goshaw  Goshaw/Walker  Greenside  Han  Howell  Johnson  Kotwal  Kruse  Lin  Litvinenko  Madey  Matveev  Mehen  Meyer  Mueller  O'Shea  Oh  Palmer  Phillips  Plesser  Roberson  Robinson  Samei  Smith  Socolar  Springer  Teitsworth  Thomas  Tornow  Walker  Walter  Walter/Tornow  Weller 

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Baranger

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Vorojtsov, Serguei	Ph.D.	2005	Quantum Dots: Coulomb Blockade, Mesoscopic Fluctuations, and Qubit Decoherence
Kaul, Ribhu	Ph.D.	2006	Interacting Electrons and Quenched Randomness: Mesoscopic Kondo Problem to the Kondo Lattice
Priyadarshee, Anand	Ph.D.	2006	Quantum Critical Behavior of Hard Core Boson

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Behringer

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Gao, Hong	Ph.D.	1987
Baxter, George W.	Ph.D.	1990
Leone, Richard A.	MA	1991
Metcalfe, Guy	Ph.D.	1991
Anderson, Karen	Ph.D.	1994
Olafsen, Jeffrey	Ph.D.	1994
Shattuck, Mark	Ph.D.	1995
Fiering, Jason	MS	1996
VanDoorn, Eric	Ph.D.	1996
Miller, Brian	Ph.D.	1997
Howell, Daniel	Ph.D.	1999
Carey, Michael	Ph.D.	2000
Painter, Benjamin	Ph.D.	2000
Steen, Mark	Ph.D.	2000
Dutt, Meenakshi	Ph.D.	2002
Geng, Junfei	Ph.D.	2003
Hartley, Robert	Ph.D.	2003
Majmudar, Trushant	Ph.D.	2006	Experimental Study of Granular Systems Under Compression and Shear via Grain-Scale Contact Force Measurements
Uehara, Jun	MS	2006	Vertically Vibrated Powder
Wambaugh, John	Ph.D.	2006	The Physics of Dense Granular Matter
Mukhopadhyay, Shomeek	Ph.D.	2007	Dynamics of Driven Contact Lines
Yu, Peidong	Ph.D.	2008	Stick-slip in a 2D Granular Medium

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Benson

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Hooper, Brett	Ph.D.	1995

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Bertozzi

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Chuang, Yao-Li	Ph.D.	2006	Stability and Scalability of 2D Swarming Patterns

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Biedenharn

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Han, Jia-Liang	Ph.D.	1987
Schramm, Alec	Ph.D.	1987
Ciftci, A. Kenan	Ph.D.	1991

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Bilpuch

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Vanhoy, Jeffrey	Ph.D.	1986
Warthen, Barry	Ph.D.	1987
Brooks, William K.	Ph.D.	1988
Fowler, Craig S.	MA	1988
Bull, Jeffrey S.	Ph.D.	1989
Smith, Bart W.	Ph.D.	1989
Keeter, Kara	Ph.D.	1990
Wallace, Paul	Ph.D.	1996

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Chandrasekharan

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Jiang, Fu-Jiun	Ph.D.	2006	The Phase Diagram of Two Color Lattice QCD at Strong Coupling
Cecile, D.J.	Ph.D.	2008	Modeling Pions on the Lattice

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Cusson

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Bai, Joseph	Ph.D.	1987

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De Lucia

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Skatrud, David J.	Ph.D.	1984
Booker, Randy	Ph.D.	1986
McCormick, Rodney	Ph.D.	1987
Crownover, Richard L.	Ph.D.	1988
Althouse, James M.	MA	1989
Willey, Daniel	Ph.D.	1989
Anderson, Todd	Ph.D.	1990
Everitt, Henry	Ph.D.	1990
Goyette, Thomas M.	Ph.D.	1990
Galloway, Eric	Ph.D.	1993
Holton, Jerome	Ph.D.	1993
Pape, Travis	Ph.D.	1993
Pearson, John	Ph.D.	1995
Guo, Wei	Ph.D.	1996
Flatin, Daniel	Ph.D.	1997

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De Lucia/Herbst

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Plummer, Grant	Ph.D.	1985

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DeBraeckeleer

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Hornish, Michael	Ph.D.	2002

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Edwards

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Tokutake, Yoichiro	Ph.D.	2003
Ko, Hyun-Kyung	MA	2006

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Evans

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Alnowaiser, Aziz	MA	1984

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Everitt

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Ozgur, Umit	Ph.D.	2003
Lee, Chang-Won	Ph.D.	2006	Energy Transfer and Relaxation Dynamics of Europium-doped GaN
Choi, Soojeong	Ph.D.	2007	Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of Group-III Adatom Kinetics on III-N Semiconductor Surfaces
Foreman, John	Ph.D.	2009	Photoexcited Emission Efficiencies of Zinc Oxide

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Finkelstein

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Park, Sung Ha	Ph.D.	2005	Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures and DNA-Templated Silver Nanowires
Makarovski, Alex	Ph.D.	2006	Nanoscale Transport In Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Doubly Degenerate Orbitals
Prior, Matthew	Ph.D.	2006	Low Temperature Scanning Probe Microscopy of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes

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Fortney

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
McCrory, Elliott	Ph.D.	1986
Turkington, Timothy G.	Ph.D.	1989
Shen, Qifeng	Ph.D.	1992
Tesarek, Richard	Ph.D.	1993
Wei, Chao	Ph.D.	1996

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Gao

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Ye, Qiang (Alan)	Ph.D.	2008	3He Relaxation Time Measurementsat Low Temperatures for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment (NEDM) Experiment

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Gauthier

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Concannon, Hope	Ph.D.	1996
Sukow, David	Ph.D.	1997
Wick, Douglas	MA	1997
Brown, William	Ph.D.	1999
Hall, G. Martin	Ph.D.	1999
Stenner, Michael	Ph.D.	2004
Jeong, Heejeong	Ph.D.	2006	Direct Observation of Optical Precursors in a Region of Anomalous Dispersion
Berger, Carolyn	Ph.D.	2008	Evidence for an Unfolded Border-Collision Bifurcation in Paced Cardiac Tissue
Callan, Kristine	MS	2008	Broadband Chaos Generated in a Time-Delayed Opto-Electronic Device
Dawes, Andrew	Ph.D.	2008	Using Transverse Optical Patterns for Ultra-low-light All-optical Switching
Dobrovolny, Hana	Ph.D.	2008	Spatial Variation of Cardiac Restitution and the Onset of Alternans

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Goshaw

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Wild, Charles	Ph.D.	1987
Mendez, Grace	Ph.D.	1989
Carter, Thomas G.	Ph.D.	1990
Loomis, Charles	Ph.D.	1992
Hauger, Suzanne	Ph.D.	1995
Yin, Malie	Ph.D.	1997
Dittmann, Jay	Ph.D.	1998
Brozovic, Marina	Ph.D.	2002
Kirby, Michael	Ph.D.	2004	Measurement of W+gamma Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at root (s)=1.96TeV
Deng, Jianrong	Ph.D.	2008	Measurement of Z + Photon Production and Search for Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings in Proton-Antiproton Collision at S=1.96 TeV

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Goshaw/Walker

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Palounek, Andrea	Ph.D.	1984

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Greenside

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Egolf, David	Ph.D.	1994
Zielke, David	Ph.D.	1994
Strain, Matthew	MS	1997
Zoldi, Scott	Ph.D.	1998
Li, Meng-Ru	Ph.D.	2006	Propagation of Bursts through Noisy Heterogenious Synfire Chains: A Theoretical Study with Application to the Songbird Nucleus HVC

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Han

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Walsh, James	Ph.D.	1985
Chung, Charles	MA	1993

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Howell

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Setze, Henry Ross	Ph.D.	1994
Salinas-Meneses, Frank	Ph.D.	1998
Crowell, Alexander	Ph.D.	2001
Tajima, Shigeyuki	Ph.D.	2003
Macri, Robert	Ph.D.	2004	Star-Configuration Cross-Section Measurements of Neutron-Induced Deuteron Breakup at 10.3 and 13.0 MeV
Kiser, Matthew	Ph.D.	2008	Development of a System for Real-Time Measurements of Metabolite Transport in Plants Using Short-Lived Positron-Emitting Radiotracers

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Johnson

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Reed, Louise	MA	1993
Gvalani, Girish	MA	1994
Engelhardt, Robert	Ph.D.	1995
Chen, Xiu-Hao (Josette)	Ph.D.	1999
Ferri, John	MA	2001
Wymore, Allison	Ph.D.	2001

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Kotwal

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Gerberich, Heather	Ph.D.	2004	Search for Excited or Exotic Electron Production Using the Dielectron + Photon Signature at CDF in Run II
Shekhar, Ravi	MS	2009	A Search for the Higgs Boson in the ZH Dilepton Decay Channel at CDF II

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Kruse

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Carron Montero, Sebastian	Ph.D.	2006	Measurement of the tt, WW and Z->tau tau Production Cross Sections in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Hidas, Dean	Ph.D.	2008	Search For Standard Model Higgs Bosons Decaying to W-Boson Pairs in pp Collisions at SQRT(s) = 1.96 TeV

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Lin

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Marts, Bard	Ph.D.	2007	Dynamics and Pattern Formation in a Parametrically Forced Oscillatory Reaction-diffusion System

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Litvinenko

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Wu, Ying	Ph.D.	1995
Park, Seong Hee	Ph.D.	2000
Chalut, Kevin	Ph.D.	2005	SVD-Based Tomography and Its Application to Electron Beam Data in Duke OK-4
Longhi, Emily	Ph.D.	2006	Coherent Harmonic Generation in Storage Ring Free Electron Lasers
Roychowdhury, Samadrita	Ph.D.	2006	High Brightness Electron and Photon Beams

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Madey

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Barnett, Genevieve	Ph.D.	1994
McKee, Chad	Ph.D.	1994
Burnham, Bentley	Ph.D.	1995
Johnson, Lewis	Ph.D.	1998
Chen, Teng	Ph.D.	1999
Denbeaux, Gregory	Ph.D.	1999

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Matveev

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Tretiakov, Oleg	Ph.D.	2005	Theory of Decay of Metastable States in Resonant Tunneling Structures

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Mehen

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Hu, Jie	Ph.D.	2009	Effective Field Theory for Doubly Heavy Baryons and Lattice QCD

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Meyer

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Calkins, Myron	Ph.D.	1985
Agosta, Charles	Ph.D.	1986
Dingus, Michael	Ph.D.	1986
Banke, Richard	Ph.D.	1987
Wang, Suwen	Ph.D.	1989
Zhong, Fang	Ph.D.	1989
Li, Xiaoyv	Ph.D.	1990
Howald, Carl D.	Ph.D.	1991
Tuttle, Joshua	Ph.D.	1991
Clarkson, David	Ph.D.	1992
Qin, Xi	Ph.D.	1993
Murphy, Daniel	Ph.D.	1994
Kogan, Andrei	Ph.D.	2000

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Mueller

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Rau, Jochen	Ph.D.	1993
Gong, Chengqian	Ph.D.	1994
Prescod, Andru	MS	1997
Strickland, Michael	Ph.D.	1997
Hu, Chao-ran	Ph.D.	1998
Neufeld, R. Bryon	Ph.D.	2009	The Response of Hot QCD Matter to Hard Probes

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O'Shea

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Ponds, Michelle	MA	1996
Neuman, Charles	Ph.D.	2001

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Oh

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Cooke, Jay W.	MA	1989
Wesson, Dennis K.	Ph.D.	1990
Lancaster, Justin	Ph.D.	2003

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Palmer

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Ye, Jun	Ph.D.	1992

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Phillips

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Cronin-Hennessy, Daniel	Ph.D.	1997
Lautenschlager, Steven	Ph.D.	1999

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Plesser

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Zeigler, Julie	MA	2004
Melnikov, Ilarion V.	Ph.D.	2005	Application of Topological Field Theory to String Propagation on Non-Trivial Backgrounds
Rinke, Sven	Ph.D.	2006	Worldsheet Approach to Strings and D-Branes
Dunn, Alan	MA	2008	Two-dimensional String Theory and Flux Vacua

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Roberson

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Wagenaar, Douglas	Ph.D.	1985
Zhu, Xianshou	Ph.D.	1991
Wilburn, Scott	Ph.D.	1993
Huffman, Paul	Ph.D.	1995
Crawford, Bret	Ph.D.	1997

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Robinson

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Winter, Thomas C.	MA	1985

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Samei

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Hoe, Chee Liang	MA	2006
Saunders, Robert	Ph.D.	2006	Impact of Physical Measures of Image Quality on Diagnosis

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Smith

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Kundtz, Nathan B	Ph.D.	2009	Advances in Complex Electromagnetic Media

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Socolar

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Bleich, Michael	Ph.D.	1997
Harrington, Ilan	Ph.D.	2004	Stabilizing High-Dimensional Dynamical Systems Using Time-Delayed Feedback
Tighe, Brian	Ph.D.	2006	Force Distributions and Stress Response in Granualar Materials
Norrell, Hans	Ph.D.	2009	Network Dynamics and Systems Biology

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Springer

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Bunton, T. Brian	Ph.D.	2007	Hadron Mass Dependence of Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory

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Teitsworth

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Turley, Peter	Ph.D.	1994
Bergmann, Michael	Ph.D.	1996
Wallis, Corinne	Ph.D.	1996
Blue, Linda	Ph.D.	1997

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Thomas

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Laverty, Patrick	Ph.D.	1992
Gardner, Jeffrey	Ph.D.	1993
Schnurr, Carl	Ph.D.	1994
Bacon, Allan	Ph.D.	1995
Marable, Michael	Ph.D.	1995
Baird, Chris	MA	1996
Zhao, Hongzhi	Ph.D.	1997
Savard, Thomas	Ph.D.	1998
Lu, Zehuang	Ph.D.	1999
Wax, Adam	Ph.D.	1999
O'Hara, Kenneth	Ph.D.	2000
Granade, Stephen	Ph.D.	2002
Lee, Kim Fook	Ph.D.	2002
Blakely, Jonathan	Ph.D.	2003
Gehm, Michael	Ph.D.	2003
Hemmer, Staci	MA	2003
Reil, Frank	Ph.D.	2003
Kinast, Joe	Ph.D.	2006	Thermodynamics and Superfluidity of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas
Clancy, Bason	Ph.D.	2008	Hydrodynamics of a Rotating Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas
Luo, Le	Ph.D.	2008	Entropy and Superfluid Critical Parameters of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

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Tornow

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Braun, Richard	Ph.D.	1998
Gonzalez-Trotter, Dinko	Ph.D.	1998
Neidel, Elizabeth	MS	2001
Hutcheson, Anthony	MS	2002
Hutcheson, Anthony	Ph.D.	2008	Neutron-Induced Partial Gamma-Ray Cross-Section Measurements on Uranium

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Walker

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Ferguson, Merl	Ph.D.	1985

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Walter

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Murphy, Ronald Kim	Ph.D.	1984
Honore, Gerard	Ph.D.	1986
Pedroni, Ronald	Ph.D.	1986
Baird, Kenneth	MA	1987
Pfutzner, Harold	Ph.D.	1987
Roberts, Mark	Ph.D.	1988
Felsher, Paul	Ph.D.	1991
Nagadi, Mahmoud	Ph.D.	1992
Weisel, Gary	Ph.D.	1992
Al-Ohali, Muhammad	Ph.D.	1993
Chen, Qiankun	Ph.D.	1998

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Walter/Tornow

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
Roper, Christopher	Ph.D.	1998

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Weller

Name	Degree	Awarded	Thesis Title
August, Robert	Ph.D.	1984
Mitev, George	Ph.D.	1985
Langenbrunner, James	Ph.D.	1989
Riley, John	Ph.D.	1989
Whitton, R. Mark	Ph.D.	1989
Balbes, Mark	Ph.D.	1992
Kramer, Laird	Ph.D.	1992
Williams, J. Zandy	Ph.D.	1992
Pujara, Kunal	MA	1993
Schmid, Greg	Ph.D.	1995
Godwin, Mark	Ph.D.	1996
Rice, Bryan	Ph.D.	1998
Wulf, Eric	Ph.D.	1999
Schreiber, Eric	Ph.D.	2000
Canon, R. Shane	Ph.D.	2001
Crowley, Brendon	MS	2001
Nelson, Stephen	Ph.D.	2002
Sabourov, Konstantin	Ph.D.	2003
Kapudere, Turan	MA	2004
Sabourov, Amanda	Ph.D.	2006	Understanding $^7$Li(d,n)$^8$Be Reaction at Astrophysically Relevant Energies
Blackston, Matthew	Ph.D.	2007	High Precision Analyzing Power Measurement for the d(g,n)p Reaction at 14 and 16 MeV

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