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Shengnan Huang
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PhD thesis (PhD): Topological Defects in Confined Nematic Liquid Crystal Systems and the Transitions Between Them
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Completed his PhD in summer 2019
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Michael S. Dimitriyev
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PhD thesis (PDF): Function Through Form in Soft Matter: The Influence of Bounded Geometries in Heated Gels and Fluctuating Proteins
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Completed his PhD in summer 2017
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Soon to begin as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech
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Benjamin Loewe
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PhD thesis (PDF): Bridges Between Quantum and Classical Mechanics: Directed Polymers, Flocking and Transitionless Quantum Driving
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Completed his PhD in summer 2017
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Left to become a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at Syracuse University
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D. Zeb Rocklin
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PhD thesis (PDF): Directed-Polymer Systems Explored Via Their Quantum Analogs
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Completed his PhD in summer 2013
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Left to become a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Michigan
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Now Kavli Institute at Cornell / Bethe Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell University (2016-2017)
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Will join the Georgia Institute of Technology as a professor in the School of Physics (August 2017)
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Bing Sui Lu
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PhD thesis (PDF): Statistical Physics of Isotropic-Genesis Nematic Elastomers
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Completed his PhD in summer 2012
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Left to become a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Natural Sciences at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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Now a postdoctoral fellow in Biophysics and Condensed Matter Physics at the Institut Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Sarang Gopalakrishnan
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PhD thesis (PDF): Photon-Mediated Emergent Phenomena in Optical Cavities
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Completed his PhD in summer 2012
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Left to begin a Harvard Quantum Optics Center Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Physics at Harvard University
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Then Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology
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Now a professor in the Department of Engineering and Physics at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate College of the City University of New York
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David G. Ferguson
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PhD thesis (PDF): Explorations of Domain Walls and Half Quantum Vortices in Unconventional Superconductors
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Completed his PhD in summer 2011
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Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University
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Now with Northrop Gruman Electronic Systems, Department of Emerging Technologies
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Florin Bora
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PhD thesis (PDF): Quantized Vortices in Arbitrary Dimensions and the Normal-to-Superfluid Phase Transition
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Completed his PhD in January 2010
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Left to join Bloomberg L.P., New York, NY
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Xiaoming Mao
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PhD thesis (PDF): Statistical Physics of Soft Random Solids: Vulcanization, Heterogeneity, and Elasticity
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Completed her PhD in August 2008
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Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania
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Now a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Michigan
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David Pekker
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PhD thesis (PDF): Topological Excitations and Dissipation in Superconductors and Superfluids Having Multiply Connected Geometries
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Completed his PhD in July 2007
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Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at Harvard University
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Then Lee A. DuBridge Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology
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Now a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh
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Swagatam Mukhopadhyay
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PhD thesis (PDF): Critical Properties of the Emergent Random Solid at the Vulcanization/Gelation Transition
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Completed his PhD in July 2005
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Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of California-Santa Barbara
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Now a postdoctoral researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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Tzu-Chieh Wei
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PhD thesis (PDF): Quantum Entanglement: Geometric Quantification and Applications to Multi-Partite States and Quantum Phase Transitions
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Completed his PhD in September 2004
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After postdoctoral research in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, left to become a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Canada
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Now a professor in the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University
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Inanc Adagideli
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PhD thesis (in PostScript or PDF): Semiclassical Approaches to Quantal Andreev Billiards and Other Topics in Inhomogeneous Superconductivity
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Completed his PhD in September 2001
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Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands
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Now Erdal Inonu Chair in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Daniel E. Sheehy
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PhD thesis (in PostScript): Topics in High-Temperature Superconductivity
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Completed his PhD in July 2001
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Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of British Columbia in Canada
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Now a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University
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Weiqun Peng
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PhD thesis (in PostScript or PDF): The Vulcanization Transition -- A Statistical Mechanical Perspective
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Completed his PhD in May 2001
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Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of California San Diego
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Now a professor in the Department of Physics at The George Washington University, Washington DC
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Konstantin A. Shakhnovich
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PhD thesis (in PostScript): The Statistical Mechanics of Continuous Random Networks
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Completed his PhD in April 2001
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Now a managing director with Goldman-Sachs Company, New York, NY
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Horacio E. Castillo
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PhD thesis (in PostScript or PDF): Statistical Mechanics of the Amorphous Solid State of Randomly Crosslinked Macromolecules
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Completed his PhD in Summer 1998
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Left to become a postdoctoral research associate at L'Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France
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Now a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
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Martin Zapotocky
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PDF thesis (in PDF): Role of Topological Defects and Textures in the Kinetics of Phase Ordering
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Completed his PhD in August 1996
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Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania
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Now a permament member of the Institute of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague
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Martin B. Tarlie
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PhD thesis (in PDF) and abstract (in PDF): Nonequilibrium Properties of Mesoscopic Superconducting Rings
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Completed his PhD in August 1995
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Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago
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Now with GMO Investment Management, Boston, MA)
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Peter D. Olmsted
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PhD thesis (in PostScript): The Effect of Shear Flow on the Isotropic--Nematic Transition in Liquid Crystals
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Completed his PhD in August 1991
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Left to become a postdoctoral researcher at Exxon Research in New Jersey
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Now Ives Professor of Physics at Georgetown University