Congratulations to three graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy who successfully defended their doctoral theses in July!

The students (with thesis title and thesis committee) were:

Diksha Garg: "OPC-UA Server for Inner Tracker of Atlas Experiment and Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino Propagation Through Earth Using Nupyprop." Thesis Committee: Mary Hall Reno (Advisor), Usha Mallik, Vincent Rodgers, Stefania Stucci, and Carlos A. Arguelles. 

Yueguang Shi: "Ferri-Magnetic Organic Semi-Conductors and Lanthanides, a Density Functional Approach" Thesis Committee: Michael Flatte (Advisor) Craig Pryor, Denis Candido, and Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin.

Dustin Swarm: "Data-driven Exploration in X-ray Astronomy: Investigating Intermediate Polar Candidates Found Among Unusual Objects Selected by an Unsupervised Outlier Identification Algorithm" Committee: Casey DeRoo (Advisor) Kenneth Gayley, Keri Hoadley, Cornelia Lang, and Shea Brown.