2011-Dept of Physics - Carnegie Mellon University

Physics PhDs in academic year ending in 2011

Student

Thesis Title

Bandura, Kevin
Advisor:   Jeff Peterson
Pathfinder for a Neutral Hydrogen Dark Energy Survey
Bereau, Tristan
Advisor:   Markus Deserno
Unconstrained Structure Formation in Coarse-Grained Protein Simulations
Dey, Biplab
Advisor:   Curtis Meyer
Differential Cross Section and Polarization Extractions for gamma p going to phi p Using CLAS at Jefferson Lab, Towards a Partial Wave Analysis in Search of Missing Baryon Resonances
Dickson, Ryan
Advisor:   Reinhard Schumacher
Photoproduction of the f_1(1285)/eta(1295) Mesons Using CLAS at Jefferson Lab
Evarts, Eric
Advisor:   Sara Majetich
Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy Analysis of Sub-30 nm Magnetic Tunnel Junction
Hogg, Charles
Advisor:   Sara Majetich
Pattern Transfer from Nanoparticle Arrays
Li, Shiu Fai (Frankie)
Advisor:   Robert Suter
Imaging of Orientation and Geometry in Microstructures: Development and Applications of High Energy X-ray Diffraction Microscopy
Looi, Shiang Yong
Advisor:   Robert Griffiths
Quantum Error Correction Using Stabilizer States and Graph States
Luxmi
Advisor:   Randy Feenstra
Structural Studies of Epitaxial Graphene Formed on SiC{0001} Surfaces
Moriya, Kei
Advisor:   Reinhard Schumacher
Measurement of the Lineshape, Differential Photoproduction Cross Section, Spin and Parity of the Lambda(1405) Using CLAS at Jefferson Lab
Sauerwine, Benjamin
Advisor:   Michael Widom
Secondary Structure Models of Nucleic Acid Folding Kinetics
Seymour-Parno, Diana
Advisor:   Gregg Franklin
Measurements of the Double-Spin Asymmetry A1 on Helium-3: Toward a Precise Measurement of the Neutron A1
Thome, James
Advisor:   James Russ
A Measurement of Helicity-Frame Spin Alignment of Inclusive Upsilon(nS) Mesons in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.96 TeV
Wong, Chik Him (Ricky)
Advisor:   Colin Morningstar
The Stochastic Laplacian Heaviside Method in Lattice QCD and its First Applications to Hadron Spectroscopy
Zheng, Peng
Advisor:   David Greve
High Temperature Langasite Surface Acoustic Wave Sensors