PhD Student Theses

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

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