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Graduate Program Alumni
 
Graduate Student Statistics
    Yale aims to enroll 3 new students in the graduate program in astronomy per year; in the past 10 years, 8 women and 20 men have matriculated. Since 1999 we have two additional places reserved in each class for students in the Yale/Chile Joint PhD Program. Of the 28 students who have enrolled since 1990, 21 have either received the PhD or are still in the program, 3 transferred to other PhD programs in astronomy, and 5 dropped out of astronomy prior to receiving the PhD. Average length of completion for the PhD has been just under 6 years, almost one year below the national average.

Students are supported by the University for the first two years, and by Research Assistantships and Teaching Assistantships thereafter. Funding is guaranteed for students in good standing for 6 years. Entering students can expect to teach for a total of no more than 4 semesters during their graduate careers. Below we list Yale PhDs in Astronomy, or in Physics with primary academic advisor from the Astronomy Department, going back to 1990. The thesis title and current job are listed.

 
Yale Astronomy Alumni
Year Name Current Position Thesis Title
2007Eric MurphyPostdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of TechnologyStar Formation, Dust Heating, and Cosmic Ray Electron Cooling: A Far-Infrared and Radio Study of Nearby Galaxies
2006Zhao, BingAssociate Professor, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R.ChinaOptical studies of dynamically interesting objects in Galactic globular clusters with Hubble Space Telescope
2006Hugh CrowlFCAD Research/Education Fellow Ph.D., University of MA, AmherstGalaxy Transformation in the Virgo Cluster: Gas Stripping and Stellar Population Evolution
2006Dipankar MaitraPostdoctoral researcher Sterrenkundig Instituut, Anton Pannekoek, Univ. of AmsterdamState Transition in Soft X-Ray Transients To Be or Not To Be
2005Jong-Hak WooPostdoctoral Research Associate , UC Santa BarbaraActive Black Holes and the Evolution of Their Host Galaxies
2004Andres EscalaParticle Astrophysics at SLACThe Role of Gas in the Merging of Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
2003Rebeccah WinnickTo Be UpdatedMetallicity Distributions in the Draco, Ursa Minor and Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
2003Katherine RhodeAssistant Professor of Astronomy, Indiana UniversityA Wide-field Survey of the Globular Cluster Systems of Elliptical and Spiral Galaxies
2002Reed MeyerPost-doctoral fellow, Rochester Institute of TechnologyBinary Star Speckle Photometry and Astrophysical Implications
2002Anna Katherina VivasResearcher, CIDAA Survey of RR Lyrae Stars in the Halo of the Milky Way
2001Thomas MaccaroneUniversity of SouthamptonConstraints on Black Hole Emission Mechanisms
2001Raj JainMerrill LynchMultiwavelength Observations of Black Hole and Neutron Star X-Ray Binaries
2001Bruce RoscherrPrediction CompanySelect Radiation Transfer Problems In Astrophysics
2000Volker BrommAssistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Texas at AustinStar Formation in the Early Universe
1999Shardha JogeeUniversity of Texas at AustinMolecular Lines and Star Formation in the Inner Kpc of Starbursts and Non- Starbursts
1999Chris Sabbeypost-doc, Cambridge UniversityThe Low Redshift Quaser-Quaser Correlation Function from an Extragalactic H-Alpha Emission Line Survey to Z=0.4
1998Yas Hashimoto post-doc, PotsdamThe Influence of Environment on the Properties of Galaxies
1998Dana Casetti -DinescuVisiting Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan University & Research Scientist , Yale University Globular Cluster Orbits: Implications for the Formation of the Galaxy
1998Alison Sills Assistant Professor, McMaster UniversityStellar Collisions: Probing the Dynamics and Populations in Globular Clusters
1997Sydney BarnesAssistant Astronomer, Lowell ObservatoryThe Rotational Evolution of Young Solar-Type Stars
1997Rebecca KoopmannAsst. Professor, Union CollegeEnvironmental Effects on the Morphology and Massive Star Formation in 93 Virgo Cluster and Isolated Galaxies
1997Eric RubensteinSenior Scientist at AFR, Inc.The Search for Main Sequence Binary Stars in Galactic Globular Clusters
1996Sukyoung Yi Yonsei UniversityThe Origin of the UV Upturn in Elliptical Galaxies
1996Jerome Orosz Associate Professor, San Diego State UniversityOptical Observations of Black Hole X-ray Novae
1995Rene Mendez Staff Scientist, ESOA Semi-Empirical Model for the Distribution of Star Counts, Color, and Kinematical Properties of Stars in the Milky Way
1995Guo Xinjian Sys Progrmr Lib Proj Academic Media & Technology ITS, Yale UniversityGalactic Structure, Kinematics & Chemical Abundances from UBV Photometry & Absolute Proper Motions to B=22.5 Toward the South Galactic Pole
1994Douglas Tucker Staff Scientist, Sloan Project, Fermilab An Observational Study of Galaxies and Their Environments on Large Scales
1993Y-C KimFull Professor of Astronomy, Yonsei University, KoreaStellar Photospheric Convection and Its Effect on Spectral Line Assymetry
1993TJ Lydon Medical DoctorThe Application of Numerical Simulations and Convection to Stellar Interiors
1993Jamie HowardTeacherThe Effects of Rotation on the Evolution of 15-30 Mo Stars
1993Esther ZirbelAssociate Research Professor, Tufts UniversityThe Environments of Radio Galaxies
1993Brian ChaboyerAsst. Professor, Dartmouth College Effects of Microscopic Diffusion and Rotational Mixing on Stellar Models
1993Ata Sarajedini Asst. Professor Univ. of FloridaGlobular Cluster Photometry Near the Turnoff
1993Andrew LaydenAsst. Professor Bowling Green UniversityThe Metallicities and Kinematics of the Local RR Lyrae Variables
1991Clayton Heller Asst. Professor Georgia Southern Univ. Encounters With Protostellar Disks
1990Jo-Ann Eder Staff Scientist, Arecibo Observatory, Retired (Montana)S0 Galaxies: Their Gas Content, Structure and Environment
1990Constantine DeliyannisAsst. Professor Indiana U. Primordial Lithium, Stellar Evolution and Cosmology