Recent PhD Graduates

Sam Cormack​
Thesis:  Fundamental and Emergent Scalar Fields in Cosmology
Advisor: Marcelo Gleiser

Seth Cohen
Thesis:  Structures and star formation in galaxy clusters
Advisor: Ryan Hickox

Spencer Hatch
Thesis: Stormtime and Interplanetary Magnetic Field Drivers of Wave and Particle Acceleration Processes in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Transition Region
Advisor: James LaBelle

Nan Jiang​
Thesis:  Stability of Physical Systems: A Configurational Entropic Approach
Advisor: Marcelo Gleiser

Erin O'Malley
Thesis: The Mystery of Globular Clusters: Uncovering the complexities of Their Evolution
Advisor: Brian Chaboyer

Ben Zhu
Thesis:  Global 3D Two-Fluid Simulations of Turbulent Transport at Tokamak Edge Region
Advisor: Barrett Rogers

Evan Miller
Thesis: Magnetogenesis Through Relativistic Velocity Shear
Advisor: Barrett Rogers

Dustin Fisher
Thesis: 3D Two-Fluid Simulations of Turbulence in LAPD
Advisor: Barrett Rogers

Zhen Yang
Thesis: Superconducting Single Electron Transistor for Charge Sensing in Si/SiGe-Based Quantum Dots
Advisor: Alex Rimberg

Shou Wu
Thesis: Whistler Chorus Waves: Linear Theory and Nonlinear Simulations in Dipole Geometry 
Advisor: Richard Denton

Philip Fernandes
Thesis: Measuring the Seeds of Thermal Ion Outflow
Advisor: Kristina Lynch

Zan Li
Thesis: Investigation of EMIC Wave Scattering as the Cause for Relativistic Electron Precipitation: A Quantitative Comparison of Simulation with Observations
Advisor: Robyn Millan

Chien-Ting Chen
Thesis: The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes and Connections to Star Formation in Galaxies
Advisor: Ryan Hickox

Jannis Bielefeld
Thesis: The Impact of Weakly Coupled Fields on the Accelerated Expansion and its Observables
Advisor: Robert Caldwell

Rongxaio Zhang
Thesis: Cherenkov Imaging and Biochemical Sensing in Vivo During Radiation Therapy
Advisor: Brian Pogue

Daniel Reeves
Thesis: Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Biomedical Applications
Advisor: John Weaver

Idan Ginsburg
Thesis: On the Nature of Hypervelocity Stars
Advisor: Gary Wegner

Dane Owen
Thesis: A Computational Study of Radio Relics in Galaxy Cluster Mergers
Advisor: Gary Wegner

Fei Chen
Thesis: The Cavity-Embedded-Cooper Pair Transistor
Advisor: Alex Rimberg

Gregory Feiden
Thesis: Dartmouth Magnetic Evolutionary Stellar Tracks and Relations
Advisor: Brian Chaboyer

Mingyun Yuan
Thesis: Silicon/Silicon –Germanium Quantum Dots with Single-Electron Transistor Charge Sensors
Advisor: Alex Rimberg

Joel Stettenheim
Thesis: Macroscopic Manifestations and Coherent Manipulations of Quantum Mesoscopic Systems
Advisor: Alex Rimberg

James Lundberg
Thesis: Observations and Analysis of High Photon Bursts From Lightning
Advisor: Robyn Millan

Shusa Deng
Thesis: Dynamical scaling behavior in non-equilibrium quantum phase transitions
Advisor: Lorenza Viola

Ryan Johnson
Thesis: The nature of core gas sloshing in galaxy clusters
Advisor: Gary Wegner

Dan Milisavljevic
Thesis: Kinematic and chemical properties of core-collapse supernova ejecta
Advisor: Robert Fesen

Laura Gilbert Remus
Thesis: Damping and decoherence of a nanomechanical resonator due to two-level systems
Advisor: Miles Blencowe

David Sicilia
Thesis: Analytical characterization of scalar-field oscillons in quartic potentials
Advisor: Marcelo Gleiser

Christopher Colpitts
Thesis: Examinations of Structured Dispersive Features of Auroral HF Waves Observed with Sounding Rockets
Advisor: James LaBelle

Scott Daniel
Thesis: Gravitational Slip as a Test of Alternative Gravity Theories
Advisor: Robert Caldwell

Andrea Kunder
Thesis: RR Lyrae Stars as Tracers of Stellar Populations in the Galactic Bulge and Satellite Galaxies
Advisor: Brian Chaboyer

Rebecca Lindstrom
Thesis: Detectability of the Late-Time Departure from Exponential Decay of Metastable Quantum Systems and Impacts of an Environment
Advisor: Jay Lawrence

Jeremy Ouellette
Thesis: Dayside Magnetic Reconnection in Global Simulations of Earth's Magnetosphere
Advisor: Barrett Rogers

Jia Wang
Thesis: Broadband Near-Infrared Tomography for Breast Cancer Imaging
Advisor: Brian Pogue

Aaron Dotter
Thesis: Self-Consistent Stellar Evolution Models with Applications to Milky Way Globular Clusters and Population Synthesis
Advisor: Brian Chaboyer

Robert Michell
Thesis: Examining Auroral Downward-Current Region Processes Using Ground-Based Data
Advisor: Kristina Lynch

Michael Brown-Hayes
Thesis: Development of an Apparatus for Simultaneous Trapping of Lithium-6 and Rubidium-87 Fermi-Bose Mixtures
Advisor: Roberto Onofrio

Woo-Joong Kim
Thesis: Towards the Experimental Verification of Macroscopic Phenomena in Quantum Electrodynamics
Advisor: Roberto Onofrio

Xin Wang
Thesis: Estimation of Effective Scatterer Size and Number Density in Near-Infrared Tomography
Advisor: Brian Pogue

Shengyi Ye
Thesis: Structure in Auroral Radio Emissions
Advisor: James LaBelle

Peng Peng Yu
Thesis: Studies of the Limiting Behavior of the Liu-Yau Quasi-Local Energy
Advisor: Robert Caldwell

Jenica Nelan
Thesis: Early-Type Galaxies in a Cluster Environment: Characteristics of the Stellar Populations and Sources of X-Ray Emission
Advisor: Gary Wegner

Dan Patnaude
Thesis: Modeling of Shocks in Young and Old Supernova Remnants
Advisor: Rob Fesen

Marilia Samara
Thesis: Sounding Rocket Investigations of Whistler, Upper Hybrid and Langmuir Waves in the Auroral Ionosphere
Advisor: James LaBelle

Yong Zhang
Thesis: Sensitivity of Single-electron Transistor-Based Displacement Detector and Fabrication of Single-Electron Transistor Using Au Nanoparticles
Advisor: Miles Blencowe