2006-Dept of Physics - Carnegie Mellon University

Physics PhDs in academic year ending in 2006

Student

Thesis Title

Ding, Yi
Advisor:   Sara Majetich
Phase Transformation of FePt Nanoparticles
Dong, Yang
Advisor:   Randy Feenstra
Nanoscale Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces
Draganov, Dimitar
Advisor:   Robert Suter
Transition Region and Precursing Films of Polymer Melts
Gibson, Karen
Advisor:   Manfred Paulini
Measurement of the Relative Fragmentation Fractions of B Hadrons
Giurgiu, Gavril
Advisor:   Manfred Paulini
B Flavor Tagging Calibration and Search for Bs0 Oscillations in Semileptonic Decays with the CDF Detector at Fermilab
Hennessy, Daniel
Advisor:   Robert Suter
Three Dimensional X-Ray Diffraction Microscope Studies of Bulk Materials Microstructure
Kim, Young-Rae
Advisor:   Rupert Croft
New Probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Kulkarni, Gauri
Advisor:   Robert Nichol
Measurements and Models of the three Point Correlation Function of Luminous Rd Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Lichtl, Adam
Advisor:   Colin Morningstar
Quantum Operator Design for Lattice Baryon Spectroscopy
Tanase, Mihaela
Advisor:   Zhu Laughlin
Electron Microscopy Characterization and Structure Optimization of FePt Self-Assembled Nanoparticles for Ultrahigh-Density Magnetic Data Storage
Varanasi, Kalyani
Advisor:   Steve Garoff
Dynamic Wetting at Receding Contact Lines of Soluble Surfactant Solutions: Hydrodynamics and Molecular Assemblies
Xiao, Changshi
Advisor:   Robert Suter
A Microstructure Reconstruction Approach for Three Dimensional X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy