| 2001-2002
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
| Tyson Aflalo |
Conscious Inference: An Approach to Feynman's (not so)
Famous Challenge |
| Nicholas Blount |
Radiation from Accelerating Superluminal Charge Distributions |
| Matthew Buchanan |
An Object of Balance |
| Patrick Clunis |
The Quantum Triangular Barbershop: Applying the Methods
of Feynman to the Wedge Potential |
| Andrew DeMond |
The Physics of Bacterial Motitlity: Computer Modelling
of Signal Transduction Networks |
| Ryan Gaffney |
|
| Rudy Gilmore |
Quintessence and Cosmological Dynamics |
| Camas Goble |
A Study of RR Lyrae Variable Stars |
| Kirsten Hacker |
Local Fields of Random Metal-Dielectric Films |
| Harold Haggard |
Conservation, Symmetry and Noether |
| Emily Johnson |
The Solar-Terrestrial Radio Dance |
| Hayden McGuinness |
Aspects of Microtubule Lattice Dynamics |
| Jeffrey Meier |
Approximation Techniques for the Analysis of Quantum
Mechanical Systems |
| Dustin Moore |
Computed Neutron Tomography |
| Daniel Muldrew (Math/Physics) |
Quantum Computation: A Study of Quantum Algorithms |
| Kater Murch |
The Classical Dynamics of Hoses |
| Nicholas Nussbaum |
Searching for Polymorphism in Phosphorothioate DNA |
| Michael Perry (Math/Physics) |
The Negative Hydrogen Ion in Quantum Mechanics |
| Andrew Skillman |
Normal Mode Analysis of the Clathrin Cage and Other
Semi-Rigid Systems |
| 2000-2001
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
 |
| Arturo Alarcon |
Pattern formation on the
surface of a ferrofluid |
| Dietrich Dehlinger |
Entangled Photon Detection |
| Jacob Fenton |
The Crying of LIGO-Hanford:
Correlated Noise in the Washington Desert |
| Jonathan Lee Fertig |
A Photometric Period Analysis
of the Population II d Scuti - SX Phe Variable Stars
XX Cygni and DY Pegasi |
| Kevin Fortier |
Quantization of Conductance
in Nanowires |
| Keisuke Hasegawa |
The Riccati Equation and
its Applications in Physics |
| Sean Holman |
The Acoustic Casimir Effect |
| Catherine Klebl |
The Interaction of Light
and Ultrasound |
| David Kramer |
Laser Noise Induced Rubidium
Spectroscopy |
| David Lai |
Estimating Hubble's constant
and the Age of the Universe |
| Benjamin Lillie |
CP Violation |
| Jason Martinez |
Classical and Quantum Features
of a Localized Wave Packet in a Coulombic Potential |
| Laura Morrill |
The Quartic Potential and
the Quantum Zeta Function |
| Dante Nakazawa |
Placing Tidal Constraints
on the Masses of Extrasolar Planets |
| Lawrence Price |
Bargmann-Wigner and Rarita-Schwinger:
A Study of the Bargmann-Wigner Formalism and its Application
to Spin 3/2 |
| Ryan Richter (Math/Physics) |
Robust Chaos and Random
Number Generation |
| Stephen Schuh |
Fingerprint Recognition
Using Holography: A Project In Optical Computing |
| Jana Smith |
The Reed College Atom Trap:
A Magneto-Optical Trap for Rubidium |
| Toban Antal Szuts |
The Electron-Hole Liquid
in Silicon |
| Alexander Paul Tornow |
A Look at Snell's Law Using
Feynman's Path-Integral Formalism |
| 1999-2000
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
|
| Alexander Y. Avanesov |
Temperature-Dependent Phase
Transitions of Egg Phosphatidylcholine, Observed Via
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy |
| Jessica Grace Brannigan |
Boundary Conditions and
Coarsening in Aqueous Foam Drainage |
| Laura J. Cox |
Size Distribution of Fragmented
Mercury Droplets |
| Joshua Franz Einsle |
A Mechanical Analog to
Phase Transitions Using the Landau Theory |
| Amaria Sandis George |
Fluid-like Properties of
Granular Materials: Drag Force Measurements |
| Jonah Nathan Gollub |
Radiation from Superluminally
Moving Sources |
| Adam Fraser Halverson |
The Inverse Scattering
Transform and the Korteweg-de Vries Equation |
| Elan Everts Dai Ming Ho |
Radiative Forces for Two
Body Systems: Mechanical Analogies to the Casimir Effect |
| Sean Marcus Kellogg |
History, Theory, and Design
of the Reed Magneto-Optical Trap |
| Jan Kristian Larsen |
The Quantum-Mechanical
Adiabatic Theorem |
| Katherine Crystal Martin |
Optical Tweezers: Theory,
Application, and Construction |
| Emilia Sue Olson |
Time Resolved Imaging of
Caveolae at the Cell Surface Using Evanescent Wave Microscopy
and a FRET Based Technique |
| Walter William Reisner |
Laser Light Scattering
from Thermally Excited Capillary Waves: Experimental
Investigation and Review of Fundamental Theory |
| Matthew David Shaw |
Stochastic Multiresonance |
| Michael Raymond Solontoi |
Observation and Orbital
Determination of Near-Earth Asteroid 1627 Ivar |
| Daniel Uvanovic |
How Would Change Distribute
Inside a Conductor if Coulomb's Law Were Not Inverse-Square? |
| Johanna Andrea Zaid van
Giffen |
Computer-Generated Holography |
| 1998-1999
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
|
| Frederic Nathan Bahnson |
Magneto-Optical Traps for
Neutral Atoms; Theory and Application |
| Kevin Scott Dilley |
Nanometer-Scale Surface
Modifications Using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
| Benjamin Sewell Jaffe |
3/2 Columbia |
| Jeremy Lucas Kasper |
Two Force CentersL The
Quantum Mechanics of the Singly-Ionized Hydrogen Molecule |
| Victor Anthony Kumar |
Issues of Consteraint in
Quantum Mechanics |
| Joseph Mark Lebow |
1/f-like Noise: Granual
Particle Flow in a Vertical Pipe |
| Michael Shane Noel |
3/2 Columbia |
| Aric Jedediah Stasch |
Flutter and Tumble: Dynamics
of Falling Rods in Two-Dimensional Fluid Environment |
| Benjamin Michael Thoma |
Secure Communication via
Synchronized Lorenz Systems |
| Zoe Damiana VanHoover |
Observation of Hydration
Effects in Membrane Constituents via FTIR Spectroscopy |
| 1997-1998
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
|
| Jonathan Austin Adams |
Neutrino Oscillations in
Dense Media |
| John William Bannister |
Approaching Reversibility
in a Thermal Engine |
| Patricia Hope Bennett |
The Silicon Exciton |
| Ian Robert Coddington |
Construction of a Magneto-Optical
Trap for Rubidium |
| Alona Jean Davis |
Raman Sprectroscopic Studies
of Normal Mode Vibrations in Streched Fiber and Rupprecht
Film Samples of DNA |
| Jonathan Robert Dodson |
Near Resonant Control and
Synchronization of Chua's Circuit |
| Brian Doner Halbert |
Gamma Induced Radiation
Damage in DNA Using FTIR Spectroscopy |
| Sasha Hinkley |
Charged Particle Motion
in the Fields of Magnetic Monopoles and Dipoles |
| William Joseph Holloway |
Fabrication of Characterization
of Thin Film Copper indium Diselenide |
| Leslie Linnea Johnsson |
The Catastrophic and Chaotic
Behavior of the Zeeman Catastrophe Machine |
| Renee-Louise Dineo Latiolais |
Examination of the Surface
of Io as a Conductor of the Flux Tube Current Using
Decametric Emissions of Sources A, B, and C, the Wobbling
Flux Tube and Global Mosaics of the Surface of Io |
| Emily Patrice McDaniel |
Magnetic Levitation With
Permanent Magnets: The Levitron |
| Wayland Jonathan Oong |
3/2 program with Columbia
|
| Richard Michael Rezinas |
Raman spectroscopy of deoxyribonucleic
acids |
| Peter Merrell Schuh |
Turbulent Convection in
Stars: An Examination of Mixing Length Theory and its
Variations |
| Stephen Patrick Walborn |
Time-independent Perturbation
Theory in Quantum Mechanics |
| 1996-1997
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
|
| Amir Ghasem Alagheband |
3/2 Caltech |
| Matthew David Curcio |
Study of the Wave Equation
and Applications to Minimization Problems |
| Jay Britton Ewing |
Microwave Transmission
Measurements of the Triangular Lattice Photonic Bandgap
Structure |
| Joel Stephen Franklin |
Integrating Factors in
Classical Mechanics |
| Clay M. Kasow |
Phase Control of Chaos
in Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators |
| Christopher Scott Melhus |
Self-Shielding Effects
of Medical Radioisotopes |
| David Maurice Moore |
Enhancements to N-body
Algorithms |
| Brendan Francis Murphy |
Zeeman Quantum Beats in
Fluorescence of Atomic Rb |
| Teresa Oñate Napili |
Laser Cooling and Atom
Trapping: A Magneto-Optical Trap for Rubidium |
| Derek Scott Owen |
Minimum Uncertainty Spin
States |
| Miranda Margaret Pearce |
Fragment Size Distribution
of Shattered Objects |
| Valerie Julia Risk |
3/2 program with Columbia |
| Benaiah Divoky Schrag |
Photoelectron Spectroscopy
inside a Photomultiplier Tube |
| Byron Denny Smiley |
Spectroscopic Investigation
of Single Bubble Sonoluminescence |
| Emile David Snyder |
Oscillon Hunting on a Shoestring |
| Mark Clemens Sorensen |
3/2 Caltech |
| Owen Peter Vajk |
Perpendicular Magnetic
Anisotropy in Thin Film Cobalt-Palladium Alloys |
| David Andrew
VanNewkirk |
Countersteering
or The Art of Turning the Wrong Way |
| 1995-1996
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
|
| Ayesha Ahmad |
The Effect of Side-Walls
on the Pattern Formation in Surface-Tension Driven Bènard
Convection |
| Erin Marie Anthony |
Modeling the Hyperfine
Energy |
| Forest Grady Atkinson |
Diode Laser Stabilization |
| David Andrew Copeland |
An Estimate of the Stability
of a Molecular Cloud |
| Arin Paul Epstein |
3/2 program with Columbia |
| Baylor Tarrant Fox |
Clunk versus Twang: Collisions
of Spheres, Cylinders, and Models with Internal Degrees
of Freedom |
| Katherine Gray Henson |
Stochastic Resonance in
Two Monostable Systems |
| Joon-Tae Kim |
3/2 with Columbia |
| Matthew Benjamin Kleban |
Covariant Electrodynamics
and the Wilson and Wilson Experiment |
| Katharine Karla Reeves |
An Exploration of the Structure
of Phosphorothioate DNA Using FTIR Spectroscopy |
| Eli Snyder |
EulerŒs Problem: the
Problem of Two Centers |
| 1994-1995
GRADUATES |
THESIS
TITLE |
|
| Ali Alagheband |
3/2 program: California
Institute of Technology |
| Zafaryab Ali Khan |
3/2 program: California
Institute of Technology |
| Jefferson Osborn Crowder |
A Study of Variable Stars
with Light and Temperature Curves of the Star Polaris |
| Alvin Julian Daniel |
3/2 program - CALTECH |
| Jeremy James Faludi |
The Sound of Science: building
an active sound cancellation device |
| Andrew Christopher Funk |
Sub Shot Noise Light from
High Efficiency Semi-Conductor Emitters |
| Jason Darold Gayton |
Thermal Conductivity of
Binary Gas Mixtures |
| J. Kristopher Quill Hyde |
3/2 program R.P.I. |
| Noah Iliinsky |
Electron-Hole Pair Recombination
Rates in an Irradiated Silicon Semiconductor |
| Kevin Paul Kraft |
3/2 Program CALT |
| Bertrand Michael Laubsch |
Synchrony in Conservative,
Coupled Oscillators |
| Skye M. Malcolm |
3/2 Program RPI |
| Benjamin Stephen Palmer |
Photoluminescence Studies
of Silicon Clusters |
| Darrell Frank Schroeter |
Electron Relaxation in
a Quantum Dot by Defect-Assisted Tunneling |
| Aaron Philip Weber |
3/2 program Columbia |
| Eric Lee Woods |
3/2 program RPI |
