2018 - 2019 Graduates

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2020 Graduates will be included in the next edition of Interactions!

Graduates.

Fall 2018

Physics PhD

  • Mumtaz Murat Arik
    Advisor: John Cerne
    Thesis Title: “Infrared and visible magneto-optical studies of large area monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides”
  • Chun Pui Kwan
    Advisor: Jonathan Bird
    Thesis Title: “Conduction mechanisms in bulk and thin-film crystalline chromia”
  • Rahul Munshi
    Advisor: Arnd Pralle
    Thesis Title: “Magnetothermal neuromodulation”
  • Imtiaz Tanveer
    Advisor: Bruce McCombe
    Thesis Title: “THz magneto-optical study of high mobility CdMnTe Quantum wells: spin-orbit and many-body effects” 
  • Peiyao Zhang
    Advisor: Athos Petrou
    Thesis Title: “Magneto-optical studies of Mn doped II-VI group semiconductor nanostructures” 

Physics Bachelor’s (BS)

  • Hannah Waldo

Physics Master’s (MS)

  • Nargess Arabchigavkani
  • Jeremy Baron
  • Stephen Muehlemann
  • Sushree Tripathy

Spring 2019

Physics PhD

  • Guo Deng
    Advisor: Gino Biondini
    Thesis: “Small dispersion limits for integrable nonlinear wave equations with periodic initial conditions”
  • Abhishek Goswami
    Advisor: Jonathan Dimock
    Thesis: “Mass gap in weakly coupled abelian Higgs on a unit lattice”
  • Sushree Tripathy
    Advisor:  Wenjun Zheng
    Thesis: “A study of structure versus function at the neurotransmitter binding site in nicotinic receptors” 
  • Han Wen
    Advisor: Wenjun Zheng
    Thesis: “Decrypting the heat activation mechanism of TRPV1 channel by molecular dynamics simulation” 
  • Chuan Zhao
    Advisor: Hao Zeng
    Thesis: “Magnetic control in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides” 

Physics Bachelor’s (BS)

  • Lincoln Boyle
  • Jose Escobar
  • Lucas Kotz
  • Bianca Nino
  • Julia Quebral
  • Edward Schwartz
  • Tyler Siskar
  • Jingpeng Xu

Physics Master’s (MS)

  • Claudio Barros
  • Shen Hua Hsu
  • Lei Wang
  • Xiguang Yang

Summer 2019

Physics PhD

  • Ahmed Ali Ali
    Advisor: Sambandamurthy Ganapathy
    Thesis Title: “Noise spectroscopy study in low dimensional materials”
  • Yanting Deng
    Advisor: Andrea Markelz
    Thesis Title: “Uncovering the internal structural dynamics of proteins by stationary sample anisotropic Terahertz microscopy”  
  • Ruifeng Dong
    Advisor: Dejan Stojkovic
    Thesis Title: “Strong Gravity: signatures of new possibilities”
  • Hsuan Hao Fan
    Advisor: Eckhard Krotscheck
    Thesis Title: “Pairing phenomena from low-density Fermi gases to neutron star matter”
  • Charles Harrington
    Advisor: Ia Iashvili
    Thesis Title: “Search for ttbar resonances in the dilepton channel in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV”
  • Syed Hasan
    Advisor: Doreen Wackeroth
    Thesis Title: “Calculation of mixed QCD-Electroweak corrections to Drell-Yan processes”
  • Rahul Kashyap
    Advisor: Surajit Sen
    Thesis Title: “Strongly nonlinear processes in many-body systems” 
  • Bahareh Kilcoyne
    Advisor: Ia Iashvili
    Thesis Title: “Search for ttbar resonances in the dilepton channel at CMS using the polarization information”
  • Tenzin Norden
    Advisor: Athos Petrou
    Thesis Title: "Magneto-optical studies of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides"
  • Anshul Saini
    Advisor: Dejan Stojkovic
    Thesis Title: “Quantum effects in weak and strong gravity regimes”
  • Gaofeng Xu
    Advisor: Igor Zutic
    Thesis Title: “Spin-dependent phenomena: from lasers to transition metal dichalcogenides” 
Graduates.

Physics Master’s (MS)

  • Han Ding
  • Michael Morse
  • Alireza Jalouli
  • Matthew Schiavi