PhD Theses

This listing is currently under construction and for the moment includes theses from 2018 onwards. You can find theses from 2009-2017 here.

Date of Defense	Student	Advisor	Thesis Title	Where did they go next?
9 August, 2019	Connor Behan	Leonardo Rastelli	Bootstrapping Continuous Families of Conformal Field Theories
7 August, 2019	Irina Petrushina	Vladimir Litvinenko	The Chilling Recount of an Unexpected Discovery: First Observations of the Plasma-Cascade Instability in the Coherent Electron Cooling Experiment
7 August, 2019	HyeYun Park	Dmitri Tsybychev, Andrei Nomerotski	Measuring Mass and Structure of the Universe with LSST: Importance of Precise Photometric Redshift Estimation and CCD SensorEffects
31 July, 2019	Moshe Kellerstein	Jacobus Verbaarschot	Exploring the Anatomy of QCD and Related Strongly Coupled Theories	Data Science
1 July, 2019	Christopher Hayes	John Hobbs	Search for Exotic Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson in the bbμμ Final State with the ATLAS Detector
14 June, 2019	Saebyeok Jeong	Nikita Nekrasov	Studies on Correspondences in Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories	Postdoc Rutgers
17 May, 2019	Jiawei Zhang	Mengkun Liu	Infrared and Terahertz Near-Field Imaging of 3d and 4d Correlated Transition Metal Oxides	Postdoc Argonne National Laboratory
8 May, 2019	Angelik Field-Pollatou	Partha Mitra	Image Anaysis for the Mouse Brain Architecture Project
26 April, 2019	Yiqian Xu	Joanna Kiryluk	Measurement of High Energy Neutrino Interaction Cross Section Using Neutrino-Induced Electromagnetic and Hadronic Showers Observed in Five Years of IceCube Data	Analyst at Goldman Sachs
15 April, 2019	Tatiana Konstantinova	Yimei Zhu	Electron-Electron Interactions in Functional Materials Studied by Ultrafast Electron Diffraction	Data Science
4 March, 2019	Mingliang Zhou	Jiangyong Jia	Study of Particle Correlation and Fluctuation from High Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions to Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC with the ATLAS Detector.	Data Science at Facebook
22 January, 2019	Yue Hang Leung	Axel Drees	Measurement of μμ pairs from charm, bottom and Drell-Yan in p+p and p+Au collisons at √s_NN = 200 GeV with the PHENIX detector at RHIC.	Postdoc UC Berkeley
3 December, 2018	Bertus Jordaan	Eden Figueroa	Building a Cross-Cavity Node for Quantum Processing Networks	Postdoc ETHZ
20 November, 2018	Gabriel Santucci	Michael Wilking / Chang-Kee Jung	Search for p → \bar K⁺ in Super-Kamiokande	Postdoc York University
19 November, 2018	Zoya Vallari	Chang-Kee Jung	Measurment of Neutral Curent Single \pi^0 Interaction Rate on Water in the Neutrino Beam at the Near Detector of T2K	Postdoc Caltech
6 September, 2018	Adith Ramamurti	Edward Shuryak	Recent Progress in Understanding the Role of Monopoles in QCD	Research Physicist, Naval Research Laboratory
17 August, 2018	Simon Divilov	Marivi Fernandez Serra	Understanding Up-Down Asymmetry in Ferroelectric Oxide Materials	Postdoc UAM Madrid
15 August, 2018	Oumarou Njoya	Krishna Kumar	Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of Xe-134 with EXO-200 and Development of Laser-Driven In-Situ Electron Lifetime Monitoring for nEXO	Postdoc Stony Brook
13 August, 2018	Serpil Yalcin Kuzu	Ayben Karasu Uysal	Study of Delta(1232) and Delta^{--}(1232)and Resonance Production in p-Pb Collisions at \sqrt(s_{NN}) = 5.02 TeV with the ALICE Detector at the LHC	Postdoc KTO Karatay University
13 August, 2018	Spencer Horton	Thomas Weinacht	Photoionizaton as a Probe of Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics	BAE systems, Boston
13 August, 2018	Yizhuang Liu	Ismail Zahed	Nonperturbaive Studies in QCD	Postdoc TD Lee Institute
3 August, 2018	Mark Mace	Dima Kharzeev	Infrared Dynamics of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories out of Equilibrium	Postdoc Jyvaskyla, Finland
30 July, 2018	Ludwig Krinner	Dominik Schneble	Exploring Spontaneous Emission Phenomena Using Ultracold Atomic Matter Waves	Postdoc Braunschweig
27 July, 2018	Mehdi Namazi	Eden Figueroa	A Scalable Room-Temperature Quantum Processing Network	Postdoc Yale
25 July, 2018	Donald Wilcox	Alan Calder	The Single Degenerate Progenitor Scenario for Type Ia Supernova and the Convective Urca Process	Postdoc Lawrence Livermore
16 July, 2018	Xiaoyue Li	Chang-Kee Jung	A Joint Analysis of T2K Beam Neutrino and Super-Kamiokande Sub-GeV Atmospheric Neutrino Data	Postdoc Munich
25 June, 2018	Abhiahodh Prakash	Tzu-Chieh Wei	Aspects of Global Symmetry in Quantum Many-Body Systems	Simons Fellow, ICTS -Tata Institute
7 May, 2018	Kuo-Wei Huang	Christopher Herzog	Anomalies, Entanglement and Boundary Geometry in Conformal Field Theory	Postdoc Boston University
10 May, 2018	Ningqian Song	Concha Gonzalez-Garcia	Extraterrestial Neutrinos as Probes of Their Sources and Interactions	Postdoc Queen's University, Kingston
7 May, 2018	Hans Niederhauasen	Joanna Kyriluk	Measurement of the High Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Flux Using Electron and Tau Neutrinos Observed in Four Years of IceCube Data	Postdoc MPI Munich
2 May, 2018	Yanliang Shi	Robert Shrock	Study of Chiral Gauge Theories and Heavy-Quark Hadrons	Postdoc Cold Spring Harbor
2 May, 2018	Xinan Zhou	Leonardo Rastelli	Holographic Mellin Amplitudes	Postdoc Princeton
26 April, 2018	Jean Paul Nery	Philip Allen	Renormalization of Electronic Propertiesof Semiconductors from Electron-Phonon Intereaction	Postdoc Sapienza Rom
19 April, 2018	Gongjun Choi	Robert Shrock	Study of Renormalization Scheme Transformations and RG Flow of Asymptotically Free Theories	Postdoc TD Lee Instiute / U Chicag
10 April, 2018	Taeho Ryu	Rosalba Perna	Study of formation of Binary Black Holes, their interactions with surroundings and their mergers	Postdoc John Hopkins
15 December, 2017	Vladimir Khachatryan	Thomas Hemmick / Axel Drees	The Quark Gluon Plasma probed by Low Momentum Direct Photons in Au⁺Au Collisions at √s_NN = 62.4 GeV and √s_NN = 39 GeV Beam Energies	Postdoc Stony Brook
13 September, 2017	Alyssa Montalbano	John Hobbs	Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced with an Associated W Boson and Decaying to a Pair of Top Quarks at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector	Postdoc Boston University
15 August, 2017	Huijun Ge	Barbara Jacak / Axel Drees	Jet-Medium Interactions via Direct Photon-Hadron Correlation Measurements in Au-Au Collisions at √s = 200 GeV
10 August, 2017	Adrian Soto	Marivi Fernandez Serra	Simulating Complex Problems in Condensed Matter Physics: from Liquid Water to Dark Matter -- Electron Interactions	Data Science at DataCamp
4 August, 2017	Hualong Gervais	George Sterman	Soft Radiation Theorems at All Loop order in Quantum Field Theory	Bloomberg
10 July, 2017	Rasmus Larsen	Edward Shuryak	Description of Gauge Theory Phenomena from Topological Objects	Postdoc BNL
2 August, 2017	Nicolas Tarantino	Lukasz Fidkowski	Exactly Solvable Models for Topological Phases of Matter	Postdoc University of Berlin
3 July, 2017	Xinyu Zhang	Nikita Nekrasov	Exprloring the BPS/CFT Correspondence	Postdoc Rutgers
14 June, 2017	Arthur Zhao	Thomas Weinacht	Ionic Dynamics in Molecular Strong Field Ionization	Postdoc Neuroscience Janelia
13 June, 2017	Harikrishnan Ramani	Patrick Meade	Higgs Collider Phenomenology: Important Backgrounds, Naturalness Probes and the Electreoweak Phase	Postdoc Berkeley
12 May, 2017	Naveen Prabhakar	Nikita Nekrasov	Nonperturbative Studies in Supersymmetric Field Theories via String Theory	Postdoc TIFR Mumbai
24 May, 2017	Yihong Wang	Christopher Herzog	Applications of 2D CFT: Entaglement and Soft Theorem
12 May, 2017	Martin Polacek	Warren Siegel	Aspects of T-Dually Extended Superspaces	Insight Data Science
8 March, 2017	Yachao Qian	Ismail Zahed	Spin and QCD Instanton and Stringy Pomeron	Developer at Wolfram

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PhD Theses