2012-Dept of Physics - Carnegie Mellon University

Physics PhDs in academic year ending in 2012

Student

Thesis Title

Akgun, Bora
Advisor:   Thomas Ferguson
Upsilon(nS) Cross Section Measurement in pp Collisions at 7 TeV Center of Mass Energy with the CMS Detector
Booth, Ryan
Advisor:   Sara Majetich
Inter- and Intraparticle Interactions in Magnetic Nanoparticle Systems
Chen, Chien-Yi
Advisor:   Lincoln Wolfenstein
New Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Weakly Interacting Particles
Degraf, Colin
Advisor:   Tiziana DiMatteo
Supermassive Black Holes in Cosmological Simulations
Friend, Megan
Advisor:   Brian Quinn
A Precision Measurement of the Proton Strange-Quark Form Factors at Q^2 = 0.624 GeV^2
Hefferan, Christopher
Advisor:   Robert Suter
Measurement of Annealing Phenomena in High Purity Metals with Near-Field High Energy X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy
Hu, Weihua
Advisor:   David Ricketts
Tip Based Nanofabrication Using Multi-mode Scanning Probe Microscopy
Lin, Chang-You
Advisor:   Robert Sekerka
Mean-Field Density Functional Theory of a Three-Phase Contact Line
Neill, Duff
Advisor:   Ira Rothstein
Apply Effective Field Theory to Higgs Production and Renormalizing SCETII
Shekhar, Prabhanshu
Advisor:   Mathias Loesche
Neutron Reflectometry from Interfacial Molecular Architectures: Structural Modeling and Application to Sparsely Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes
Shenoy, Siddharth
Advisor:   Mathias Loesche
Structure and Kinetics of the PTEN Tumor Suppressor: Investigation of Solution and Membrane-Associated States
Srivastava, Nishtha
Advisor:   Randy Feenstra
Interface Structure of Graphene on Silicon Carbide for Various Preparation Conditions
Yolcu, Cem
Advisor:   Markus Deserno
Effective Field Theory of Surface-Mediated Forces in Soft Matter
Yu, Li
Advisor:   Robert Griffiths
Nonlocal Quantum Gates, Graph Codes and Information Splitting