2008

Bethany Cobb Ph.D.

Current Position

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

Thesis Title

Long-term observations of gamma-ray bursts: The complex connection between gamma-ray bursts and supernovae

Jeffrey van Duyne

2007

Eric Murphy

Current Position

Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology

Thesis Title

Star Formation, Dust Heating, and Cosmic Ray Electron Cooling: A Far-Infrared and Radio Study of Nearby Galaxies

Ryan Quadri

Current Position

Nova Fellow, University of Leiden

Thesis Title

To be updated…

2006

Hugh Crowl

Current Position

FCAD Research/Education Fellow Ph.D., University of MA, Amherst

Thesis Title

Galaxy Transformation in the Virgo Cluster: Gas Stripping and Stellar Population Evolution

Dipankar Maitra

Current Position

Postdoctoral researcher Sterrenkundig Instituut, Anton Pannekoek, Univ. of Amsterdam

Thesis Title

Amsterdam State Transition in Soft X-Ray Transients To Be or Not To Be

Bing Zhao

Current Position

Associate Professor, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

Thesis Title

Optical studies of dynamically interesting objects in Galactic globular clusters with Hubble Space Telescope

2005

Juan Cortes

Current Position

Postdoc, ASTE telescope, U. de Chile

Thesis Title

To be updated…

Ezequiel Treister

Current Position

Chandra fellow, ESO, Chile

Thesis Title

To be updated…

Jong-Hak Woo

Current Position

Postdoctoral Research Associate , UC Santa Barbara

Thesis Title

Active Black Holes and the Evolution of Their Host Galaxies

2004

Andres Escala

Current Position

Particle Astrophysics at SLAC

Thesis Title

The Role of Gas in the Merging of Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei

2003

Katherine Rhode

Current Position

Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Indiana University

Thesis Title

A Wide-field Survey of the Globular Cluster Systems of Elliptical and Spiral Galaxies

Rebeccah Winnick

Current Position

To be updated…

Thesis Title

Metallicity Distributions in the Draco, Ursa Minor and Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

2002

Reed Meyer

Current Position

Post-doctoral fellow, Rochester Institute of Technology

Thesis Title

Binary Star Speckle Photometry and Astrophysical Implications

Anna Katherina Vivas

Current Position

Researcher, CIDA, Venezuela

Thesis Title

A Survey of RR Lyrae Stars in the Halo of the Milky Way

2001

Raj Jain

Current Position

Merrill Lynch

Thesis Title

Multiwavelength Observations of Black Hole and Neutron Star X-Ray Binaries

Thomas Maccarone

Current Position

Lecturer, University of Southampton, U.K.

Thesis Title

Constraints on Black Hole Emission Mechanisms

Bruce Roscherr

Current Position

Prediction Company

Thesis Title

Select Radiation Transfer Problems In Astrophysics

2000

Volker Bromm

Current Position

Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin

Thesis Title

Star Formation in the Early Universe