Goldreich, Peter Martin

Committee Member — 66 thesises

• Wisdom, Jack Leach — 1. The Origin of the Kirkwood Gaps: A Mapping for Asteroidal Monitor Near the 3/1 Commensurability. 2. The Resonance Overlap Criterion and the Onset of Stochastic Behavior in the Restricted Three-Body Problem (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Crill, Brendan Patrick — A Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background with a Long Duration Balloon-Borne Receiver (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Behr, Bradford B. — A New Spin on Horizontal-Branch Stars: Anomalous Abundances and Rapid Rotation Rates (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cimerman, Menachem — A Study of Hydroxyl Masers in the Circumstellar Envelopes of Long Period Variable Stars (1980, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fillmore, James Arthur — A Study on the Formation and Dynamics of Galaxies (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rice, Frank Randolph, III — A Very Wide Bandwidth SIS Heterodyne Receiver Design for Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Farmer, Alison Jane — Adventures in Theoretical Astrophysics (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trimberger, Stephen Mathias — Automated Performance Optimization of Custom Integrated Circuits (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiang, Eugene — Circumstellar and circumplanetary disks (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sahai, Raghvendra — Circumstellar Shells of Late-Type Stars: a Study at Millimeter and Infrared Wavelengths (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stewart, Sarah Toby — Collisional Processes Involving Icy Bodies in the Solar System (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roth, Joshua — Constraints upon the cosmological density parameter from Tully-Fisher observations of IRAS galaxies (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leroy, Stephen Sylvain — Convectively generated internal gravity waves in Venus's middle atmosphere : momentum transport and radio scintillations (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cook, Walter Richardson, III — Elemental Composition of Solar Energetic Particles (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wenkert, Daniel — Empirical Relations Between the Earth's Radiation Budget, Cloudiness, and Various Meteorological Parameters (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kumar, Pawan — Excitation and Damping of Solar P-Modes (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Yanqin — Excitation and Saturation of White Dwarf Pulsation (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kuchner, Marc Jason — Exozodiacal Dust (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nadeau, Daniel — High Spectral Resolution Observations of the Molecular Hydrogen Emission in the Orion Molecular Cloud (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jenet, Fredrick August — High Time Resolution Observations of Radio Pulsars: The First Detection of Coherent Emission (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reisenegger, Tassilo Andreas — Hydrodynamics of neutron star interiors and laboratory superfluids (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Showman, Adam Peter — I. Dynamics at the Galileo Probe Site on Jupiter and II. Orbital and Thermal Evolution of Ganymede (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ojakangas, Gregory Wayne — I. Episodic Volcanism of Tidally Heated Satellites with an Application to Io. II. Thermal State of an Ice Shell on Europa. III. Polar Wander of a Synchronously Rotating Satellite with Application to Europa (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Friedson, Andrew James — I. Meridional Energy Balance of Uranus. II. Viscosity of Rock-Ice Mixtures. III. The Thermosphere of Titan (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mills, Franklin Perry — I. Observations and Photochemical Modeling of the Venus Middle Atmosphere. II. Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy of Europa and Callisto (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jewitt, David Clifford — I. Physical Studies of Distant Comets. II. Morphologies of Planetary Nebulae (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Alcock, Charles — I. Small Angle Scattering of Radiation. II. Molecular Emission Lines Around Evolved Stars (1978, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kirk, Randolph Livingstone — I. Thermal Evolution of Ganymede and Implications for Surface Features. II. Magnetohydrodynamic Constraints on Deep Zonal Flow in the Giant Planets. III. A Fast Finite-Element Algorithm for Two-Dimensional Photoclinometry (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Junjun — Interaction of Magnetic Field and Flow in the Outer Shells of Giant Planets (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dyudina, Ulyana Anatolyevna — Light Scattering in the Clouds on Jupiter (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pankine, Alexey Anatolyevich — Low Order Model of Martian Circulation and Interannual Variability of Global Dust Storms (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Haimin — Magnetic Fields and Supergranule Velocity Fields on the Quiet Sun (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maron, Jason L. — Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rudy, Donald James — Mars: High Resolution VLA Observations at Wavelengths of 2 and 6 cm and Derived Properties (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Svitek, Tomas — Martian water frost : control of global distribution by small-scale processes (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Labrador, Allan Wayne — Measurement of the Galactic Cosmic Ray Antiproton Flux from 0.25 GeV to 3.11 GeV with the Isotope Matter Antimatter Experiment (IMAX) (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sellgren, Kristen — Near Infrared Studies of Reflection Nebulae (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Romani, Roger William — Neutron Stars Observations as Astrophysical Probes (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kern, Brian Daniel — Optical Pulse-Phased Observations of Faint Pulsars with a Phase-Binning CCD Camera (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mahajan, Sanjoy Sondhi — Order of Magnitude Physics: A Textbook with Applications to the Retinal Rod and the Density of Prime Numbers (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barsony, Mary Anne — Outflows in High Mass Star-Forming Regions (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Froidevaux, Lucien — Photochemical Modeling of the Earth's Stratosphere (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Filippenko, Alexei Vladimir — Physical Conditions in Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Coppi, Paolo Severo — Radiative processes in active galactic nuclei (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gladstone, George Randall — Radiative Transfer and Photochemistry in the Upper Atmosphere of Jupiter (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pan, Margaret Whei-Jie — Slices of Theoretical Astrophysics: Solar System Dynamics and Relativistic Explosions (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wolfram, Stephen — Some Topics in Theoretical High-Energy Physics (1980, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bent, Allison Lyn — Source Characteristics of Recent and Historic Earthquakes in Central and Southern California: Results from Forward Modeling (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gürsel, Halis Yekta — Stability of Spherically Symmetric, Charged Black Holes and Multipole Moments for Stationary Systems (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Adelberger, Kurt Ludvig — Star Formation and Structure Formation between Redshifts 1 < z < 4 (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Paige, David Abbey, Jr. — The Annual Heat Balance of the Martian Polar Caps from Viking Observations (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burgasser, Adam Jonathan — The Discovery and Characterization of Methane-bearing Brown Dwarfs and the Definition of the T Spectral Class (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lagus, Peter Leonard — The Equations of State of Hydrogen and Argon: Applications to the Jovian Interior (1974, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Han, Mingsheng — The I-band Tully-Fisher relation and large-scale motions in the universe (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Redman, Russell Ormond — The Orientation and Sizes of Molecular Clouds in the Galaxy (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Borne, Kirk Daniel — The Structure and Evolution of Interacting Binary Galaxies (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reid, Mark Jonathan — The Structure of Hydroxyl Masers and Circumstellar Envelopes of Long Period Variable Stars (1976, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hernquist, Lars Eric — Thermal and Magnetic Properties of Neutron Stars (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Betts, Bruce Harold — Thermal and visible studies of Mars using the Termoskan data set (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pechmann, Judith Burt — Thermal Tides in the Atmosphere of Venus (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lithwick, Yoram — Topics in MHD Turbulence (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luan, Jing — Toward Understanding Astrophysical Phenomena (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lichten, Stephen Morris — Turbulence and Mass Motion in Galactic Molecular Clouds (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Murphy, Thomas Williams, Jr. — Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: Power Sources and Ages Along the Merger Sequence (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zwiebach, Barton — Use of Superspace Geometry to Find All Supergravity Theories: Case of N = 4 and SO(4) Symmetry (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Porco, Carolyn C. — Voyager Observations of Saturn's Rings. 1. The Eccentric Rings at 1.29, 1.45, 1.95 and 2.27 Rₛ. 2. The Periodic Variation of Spokes (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))