Congratulations to all AP 2020 graduates!
Congratulations to all Applied Physics 2020 Ph.D. & M.S. graduates! The list of graduates with thesis titles is below.
Doctor of Philosophy, Applied Physics
Victoria Borish
Advisor: Associate Professor Monika Schleier-Smith, Physics
“Many-body spin dynamics with Rydberg-dressed atoms”
Matthew Storm Bull
Advisor: Associate Professor Manu Prakash, Bioengineering
“Out of many, one: Distilling the physics of behavior across scales for animal without a brain”
Yuan Chen
Advisor: Professor Thomas P. Devereaux, Photon Science Directorate and Materials Science and Engineering
“Theory and applications of time-resolved resonant inelastic x-ray scattering”
Johanna C. Palmstrom
Advisor: Professor Ian Randal Fisher, Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering (By Courtesy)
“Elastoresistance of iron based superconductors”
Slavko N. Rebec
Advisor: Professor Zhi-Xun Shen, Photon Science Directorate, Applied Physics, and Physics
“Surfaces and Interfaces: A Case Study of FeSe and SrTiO3”
Nicholas Rolston
Advisor: Professor Reinhold Dauskardt, Materials Science and Engineering and Surgery (By Courtesy)
“Correlating Mechanical Properties with Reliability to Design Robust and Scalable Perovskite Solar Modules”
Elliott Rosenberg
Advisor: Professor Ian Randal Fisher, Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering (By Courtesy)
“Multipolar order and fluctuations in TmAg2 and YbRu2Ge2”
Aaron Sharpe
Advisor: Professor David Goldhaber-Gordon, Physics and Applied Physics (By Courtesy)
“Ferromagnetism in twisted bilayer graphene”
Joshua A.W. Straquadine
Advisor: Professor Ian Randal Fisher, Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering (By Courtesy)
“Evolution of the charge density wave state in the rare-earth tritellurides under uniaxial stress and disorder”
Logan W Su
Advisor: Professor Jelena Vuckovic, Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics (By Courtesy)
“Computational Nanophotonic Design: Frameworks and Applications”
Katherine Sytwu
Advisor: Associate Professor Jennifer Dionne, Materials Science and Engineering and Radiology (By Courtesy)
“Optically controlling nanoparticle phase transition dynamics with plasmonics”
Jeremy D. Witmer
Advisor: Assistant Professor Amir Safavi-Naeini, Applied Physics
“Electro-Optic Devices for Quantum Transduction”
Master of Science, Applied Physics
Christopher James Crissman
Advisor: Professor Steven Block, Applied Physics and Biology
Debadri Das
Advisor: Professor Mike Dunne, Photon Science Directorate and Energy Sciences
Yijing Huang
Advisor: Professor David A. Reis, Photon Science Directorate and Applied Physics
Bharat Kuchhal
Advisor: Professor Hideo Mabuchi, Applied Physics
Jingrong Lin
Advisor: Professor Mike Dunne, Photon Science Directorate and Energy Sciences
Sultan Malik
Advisor: Professor Steven Block, Applied Physics and Biology
Johanna C. Palmstrom
Advisor: Professor Ian Randal Fisher, Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering (By Courtesy)
Katherine Sytwu
Advisor: Associate Professor Jennifer Dionne, Materials Science and Engineering and Radiology (By Courtesy)
Jeremy D. Witmer
Advisor: Assistant Professor Amir Safavi-Naeini, Applied Physics
Chen Wu
Advisor: Professor Mike Dunne, Photon Science Directorate and Energy Sciences
Liang Xu
Advisor: Professor Hideo Mabuchi, Applied Physics
Master of Science, Applied and Engineering Physics
Lena Faith Blackmon
Advisor: Professor Yuri Suzuki, Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering (By Courtesy)
Zhanpei Fang
Advisor: Professor Yuri Suzuki, Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering (By Courtesy)
Scott Lambert
Advisor: Professor Yuri Suzuki, Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering (By Courtesy)
Sean Mullane
Advisor: Professor Yuri Suzuki, Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering (By Courtesy)
Jacob Rebec
Advisor: Professor Yuri Suzuki, Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering (By Courtesy)
George Sivulka
Advisor: Professor Yuri Suzuki, Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering (By Courtesy)
Pieter-Jan Stas
Advisor: Professor Yuri Suzuki, Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering (By Courtesy)
Master of Science, Computational and Mathematical Engineering
Yuan Chen
Advisor: Professor Thomas P. Devereaux, Photon Science Directorate and Materials Science and Engineering
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering
Slavko N. Rebec
Advisor: Professor Zhi-Xun Shen, Photon Science Directorate, Applied Physics, and Physics