Alumni | 2009 - 2000
2009
Andrew Cantrell
Thesis Title
Phase Shifts and Nonelliposoidal Light Curves: Challenges from Mass Determinations in X-ray Binary Stars
2008
Bethany Cobb
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
2007
Eric Murphy
Current Position
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Sciences
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
Clustering of Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe
2006
Hugh Crowl
Current Position
Columbia Science Fellow in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Thesis Title
Galaxy Transformation in the Virgo Cluster: Gas Stripping and Stellar Population Evolution
Dipankar Maitra
Current Position
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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
ALMA Universidad de Chile Camino al Observatorio
Thesis Title
To be updated…
Ezequiel Treister
Current Position
Assistant Professor University de Concepcion
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
Executive Director Morgan Stanley
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
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