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Astrophysics Graduates |
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Name |
Thesis Title |
Date Awarded |
Subsequent Positions |
| Sheehan Ahmed |
An Investigation Into The Effects Of Baryons On Satellite Galaxies In Cosmological Simulations |
August 2017 |
Visiting faculty, Lafayette College |
| Carl Mitchell |
Constraining Spiral Galaxy Mass Distributions with the RSS Imaging Spectroscopy Nearby Galaxy Survey |
October 2016 |
Private sector (Microsoft, Seattle, WA) |
| Amruta Deshpande |
Galaxy Clusters: X-Ray Contributions to Multi-Wavelength Cluster Studies in the Era of Mass Sensitive Cluster Surveys |
May 2016 |
Private sector (Fellow at Data Incubator, New York, NY) |
| Luke Hovey |
A Kinematic Study of 0509-67.5, the Second Youngest Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and its Astrophysical Implications |
January 2016 |
Postdoc, Los Alamos |
| Brandon Patel |
Type Ia Supernovae: Their Progenitors and Use as Cosmological Probes |
January 2015 |
Private sector |
| Amitpal Tagore |
Uncertainties in Pixel-based Source
Reconstruction for Gravitationally Lensed
Objects and Applications to Lensed Galaxies |
October 2014 |
Postdoc, University of Manchester
Private sector (Fellow at Data Incubator, New York, NY) |
| Michael Berry |
The Evolution of Neutral Gas in Star-Forming Galaxies Across Cosmic Time |
October 2014 |
Private sector (Amazon, Seattle, WA) |
| Curtis McCully |
New Insights into Peculiar Thermonuclear Supernovae and Line of Sight Effects in Gravitational Lensing |
May 2014 |
Postdoc, Las Cumbres Observatory/UC Santa Barbara |
|
Michael Solway |
Stellar Radial Migration and Thick Disks in Spiral Galaxies |
October 2013 |
Private sector (Reelio, New York, NY) |
| Bob
Lindner |
The Growth of Massive Galaxies and Clusters at High Redshift |
October 2013 |
Postdoc, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Private sector (Veda Data Solutions, Madison, WI) |
|
Chelsea Sharon |
Molecular Gas in Dusty High-Redshift Galaxies |
May 2013 |
1st Postdoc, Cornell University
2nd Postdoc, McMaster University
Faculty, Yale-NUS College |
|
Ross Fadely |
Multi-wavelength Applications of Gravitational Lensing |
October 2010 |
1st Postdoc, Haverford College
2nd Postdoc, NYU
Private sector (Artificial Intelligence Lead, Insight Data Science, New York, NY |
| Ricardo Zánmar Sánchez |
Measuring Mass: Non-circular motions of gas in disk galaxies and radial velocities of stars in a globular cluster |
October 2009 |
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Italy |
| Naseem Rangwala |
Fabry-Perot Studies of the Milky Way Bar:
Kinematics, Chemical Composition and Instrumentation |
May 2009 |
1st Postdoc, U. Colorado, Boulder
2nd Postdoc, NASA Ames
Research Scientist with Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA Ames |
Neelima Sehgal |
Measuring the Growth of Structuure with Multi-Wavelength
Surveys of Galaxy Clusters |
May 2008 |
Postdoc, KITP, Stanford University
Faculty, SUNY Stony Brook |
| Arthur Congdon |
Probing Small-Scale Structure in Galaxies With Strong
Gravitational Lensing |
May 2008 |
Postdoc, JPL, Pasadena |
| Ioana Monica Hasegan |
Faint Stellar Systems in the Virgo Cluster:
The Connection between Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters |
January 2007 |
Postdoc in medical imaging, Toronto |
| Jessica Sawyer Warren |
X-Ray Spectral Variations in Supernova
Remnants |
October 2006 |
Purdue University - North Central |
| Juntai Shen |
Dynamical Studies of Two Common Features
in Spiral Galaxies: Bars and Warps |
October 2005 |
Harlan J. Smith Fellow, University of Texas
Faculty, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory |
| Matthew Francis |
From Structure Evolution to Gauge Theories: Topics in
Gravitational and Cosmological Physics |
May 2005 |
Assistant Prof. Lambuth University, Tennessee
Freelance Science Writer |
| Jianxiang Wang |
Steady State and Time-dependent Loss Cones in Galactic Nuclei |
October 2004 |
Private sector |
| Vincent Jacobs |
Long-lived lopsided modes of annular disks orbiting a central mass |
October 2004 |
Private sector |
| Andrés Jordán |
Studies of Extragalactic Globular Clusters |
October 2004 |
ESO Postdoctoral Fellow Clay Fellow, Harvard
Faculty, P.U. Catolica de Chile |
| Arend Sluis |
Planetary Nebulae and the Dynamics of Early-Type Galaxies |
January 2004 |
2MASS Postdoc,
U Mass, Amherst
Private sector |
| Bingrong Xie |
Studies of the Central Regions in Globular Clusters:
Kinematics Mass Modeling, and a Search for Binary Stars |
October 2003 |
Visitor, MPI, Munich
Science Journal Editor, Beijing, China |
| Cara Rakowski |
X-ray Studies of Supernova Remnants |
October 2003 |
Harvard Postdoctoral Fellow
Naval Research Lab, Washington DC
US Patent Office, Alexandria, VA |
|
Milos Milosavljevic |
Dynamics of Massive Black Hole Binaries in Galactic Nuclei |
October 2002 |
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow, CalTech
Hubble Fellow, CalTech
Faculty U Texas, Austin |
| Andrew Mack |
Topics in Early Universe Cosmology |
October 2002 |
Private sector |
| Mingyan Poon |
A Self-consistent Study of Triaxial Black Hole Nuclei |
October 2002 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University |
| Victor Debattista |
The Interaction of Dark Matter with Galaxy Disks:
Bars and Warps |
October 1998 |
Postdocs at
U Basel then U Zurich
Brooks Fellow, U Washington, Seattle
Faculty University of Central Lancashire |
| Benjamin Weiner |
The Dynamics of Barred Spiral Galaxies: Masses and
Pattern Speeds |
January 1998 |
Postdoc: Obs. Carnegie Inst. Wash
Postdoc: UC Santa Cruz
Postdoc: U Maryland, College Park
Associate Astronomer, Steward Obs |
| Tema Fridman |
Dynamics of Triaxial Elliptical Galaxies with Cusps |
January 1997 |
Research Asst. Rutgers Chemistry |
| Benoit Tremblay |
Structure and Dynamics of Early-type Galaxies |
January 1997 |
Medical Image processing, U. Penn
Private sector, Toronto, Canada |
| Povilas Palunas |
The Distribution of Mass and Light in Spiral Galaxies and
the Maximum Disk Hypothesis |
October 1996 |
Postdoc, GSFC
Research Associate, McDonald Observatory
Staff astronomer, Las Campanas Observatory, Chile |
| Roy Jones |
Structural Parameters and Stellar Populations of the
Galactic Globular Clusters M13 and NGC 6535 |
May 1995 |
Private sector |
| Slawomir Piatek |
Mass-to-light Ratios in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies and
Globular Clusters |
October 1994 |
Senior University Lecturer at New Jersey Inst. Tech. |
| Karl Gebhardt |
Dynamics of Globular Clusters |
October 1994 |
Postdoc, U Michigan Hubble Fellow, UCSC
Faculty U Texas at Austin |
| Paul Papenhausen |
The Search for Mass Segregation in Star Clusters of the
Magellanic Clouds |
Jan 1994 |
Adjunct professor at St John's University |
| Bruce Altner |
Ultraviolet Properties of Hot Stars in Globular Clusters |
Oct 1988 |
Chief Systems Engineer, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham MD |
| Chris Shrader |
Extra-Galactic X-Ray Sources and the Diffuse X-Ray Background |
Oct 1985 |
Astrophysicist, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
