2017

• Matthew Brorby

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Astronomy and Astrophysics
  Advisor(s): Philip E. Kaaret
  Dissertation Title: X-ray Binaries in Local Analogs to the First Galaxies
• Zechariah Gelzer

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Particle Physics
  Advisor(s): Yannick Meurice
  Dissertation Title: Lattice Gauge Theories Within and Beyond the Standard Model
• Zachary Haralson

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Plasma Physics
  Advisor(s): John A. Goree
  Dissertation Title: Viscious Transport in Liquid-Like Two-Dimensional Dusty Plasmas
• Maksat Haytmyradov

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Particle Physics
  Advisor(s): Jane M. Nachtman
  Dissertation Title: The First Observation of Y(1S) Pair Production and Hadron Calorimetry Upgrade at CMS
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  Sarker Anik Iqbal

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Photonics and Quantum Electronics
  Advisor(s): Michael E. Flatté
  Dissertation Title: Effects of Interactions in Field-Induced Resonances in Electron Gases and Superfluids
• Viktor Khristenko

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Particle Physics
  Advisor(s): Yasar Onel
  Dissertation Title: A Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the μ+μ- Decay Channel in PP Collisions at sqrt(S) = 13 TEV in CMS, Calibration of CMS Hadron Forward Calorimeter, and Simulations of Modern Calori
  Initial Job Placement: CERN, Switzerland
• Dominic Ludovici

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Astronomy and Astrophysics
  Advisor(s): Cornelia C. Lang
  Dissertation Title: Radio Studies of the Galactic Center, Developing Spectroscopic Instrumentation for Robotic Telescopes, and Creating Active Learning Astronomy Laboratory Activities
• Minh Luu

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Particle Physics
  Advisor(s): Mary Hall Reno
  Dissertation Title: Tau Neutrino Propagation Through Earth: Structure Function Parametrization and Dipole Model
• Sean Mattingly

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Plasma Physics
  Advisor(s): Frederick N. Skiff
  Dissertation Title: Velocity Space Degrees of Freedon of Plasma Fluctuations
• Russell Ricker

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Photonics and Quantum Electronics
  Advisor(s): John P. Prineas
  Dissertation Title: Advances in INAS/GASB Type-II Superlattice Light-Emitting Diode Arrays
• Brett Scheiner

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Plasma Physics
  Advisor(s): Scott D. Baalrud
  Dissertation Title: Theory and Simulation of Electron Sheaths and Anode Spots in Low Pressure Plasmas
• James Schroeder

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Plasma Physics
  Advisor(s): Frederick N. Skiff
  Dissertation Title: Exploring the Alfvén-wave Acceleration of Auroral Electrons in the Laboratory
  Initial Job Placement: Postdoc position, University of Iowa
• Emrah Tiras

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Particle Physics
  Advisor(s): Yasar Onel
  Dissertation Title: Search for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos in ee + jets Events with the CMS Detector in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV & Research and Development Students for Photodetectors and Calorimeters at LHC and Future Colliders
• Judah Unmuth-Yockey

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Particle Physics
  Advisor(s): Yannick Meurice
  Dissertation Title: The Tensor Renormalization Group and Applications to Quantum Simulation with Optical Lattices with Cold Atoms
• Yifei Wang

  Graduation Year: 2017
  Area: Photonics and Quantum Electronics
  Advisor(s): Markus Wohlgenannt
  Dissertation Title: A Study of Magnetic Field Effect in Orgaic Semiconductor Devices