Several Department of Physics and Astronomy students were candidates for degrees at the University of Iowa Fall Commencement ceremonies on Dec. 20 and 22.
Fall 2024 doctoral degree recipients listed with their dissertation title, advisor, and their future plans:
Connor Feltman
Alfven wave-particle acceleration near the ionosphere: a rocket-borne investigation
PhD Advisor: Greg Howes
Employment: Postdoctoral Scholar; University of Iowa
Jacob Fruchtman
Statistical analyses of the multi-scale spatial and temporal variation of martian bow shock and magnetosheath structure
PhD received Fall 2024
PhD Advisor: Jasper Halekas
Employment: Undecided
Jacob McLaughlin
Investigation of ion dynamics and acoustic wave propagation in dipole-confined plasma
PhD received Fall 2024
PhD Advisor: Fred Skiff
Employment: Postdoctoral Scholar; West Virginia University
Summer 2024 PhDs:
- Tyler Grover
Black Holes and Radiative Degrees of Freedom of Thomas - Whithead Gravity
PhD Advisor: Vincent Rodgers
Employment: Undecided - Kenton Greene
A New Fluxgate Magnetometer Design Applied For Spaceborne Studies of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
PhD Advisor: David Miles
Employment: Undecided - Punit Sharma
Search for a Cp-Odd Higgs Boson Decaying Into a CP-Even Higgs Boson and a Z-Boson in the LLTT and VVBB Final States
PhD Advisor: Usha Mallik
Employment: Undecided
Fall 2024 Master's Degrees:
Ian Masson: MS Physics
Daniel Pette: MS Physics
Jonatan Posligua: MS Physics
Candidates for bachelor's degrees:
Summer 2024
Erin O’Rourke: BA Physics
Fall 2024
Emily Andrews: BA Physics
Rebekah Brown: BA Physics
Hao Dong: BA Physics
Trenton Hogue: BA Physics
Andrew Milne: BA Physics, BS Astronomy, Honors in the Major (Astronomy), Chemistry Minor