Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.

Committee Member — 60 thesises

• Grossman, Erich Nathan — A Far-Infrared Heterodyne Spectrometer for Airborne Astronomy (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Plant, Kathryn Annette — A New Sensor for Milky-Way Particle Accelerators: The Standalone-Radio Cosmic Ray Detector at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cody, Ann Marie — A Search for Pulsation in Young Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jensen-Clem, Rebecca Marie — A Toolbox for Exoplanet Exploration (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anderson, Marin Mallory — Adventures Through Time and Phase Space: Characterizing the Dynamic Radio Sky, From MHz to GHz, From Seconds to Years (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tendulkar, Shriharsh Prakash — Beyond the Blur: Construction and Characterization of the First Autonomous AO System and an AO Survev of Magnetar Proper Motions (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kasliwal, Mansi Manoj — Bridging the Gap: Elusive Explosions in the Local Universe (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Metchev, Stanimir Angelov — Brown Dwarf Companions to Young Solar Analogs: An Adaptive Optics Survey Using Palomar and Keck (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sharma, Yashvi — Chasing Metamorphic Supernovae with Zwicky Transient Facility, SEDM-KP, and AI (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rodriguez, Antonio Cuevas — Compact Object Binaries in the Multiwavelength and Time Domain Sky (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kao, Melodie Minyu — Constraining Substellar Magnetic Dynamos using Brown Dwarf Radio Aurorae (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cao, Yi — Cosmic Explosions: Observations Of Infant Hydrogen-Free Supernovae Towards An Understanding Of Their Parent Systems (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Berger, Edo — Cosmic Explosions: The Beasts and Their Lair (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nakajima, Tadashi — Diffraction-Limited Imaging on the 200-Inch Telescope (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Somalwar, Jean J. — Expanding the Landscape of Tidal Disruption Events (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mooley, Kunal Prakash — Exploring the Dynamic Radio Sky: The Search for Slow Transients with the VLA (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levitan, David Benjamin — Finding Needles in the Haystack: A Search for AM CVn Systems Using the Palomar Transient Factory (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yost, Sarah Anne — Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows: Constraining Physical Parameters and Fireball Model Assumptions (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pérez Muñoz, Laura María — Grain Growth in Protoplanetary Disks (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eisner, Joshua Aaron — High Angular Resolution Studies of the Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yao, Yuhan — High Energy Transients Powered by Black Holes (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sandhu, Jagmit Singh — High Precision Dual Frequency Timing of Millisecond Pulsars (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lane, Benjamin Frederick — High-Precision Infra-Red Stellar Interferometry (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pearlman, Aaron Benjamin — Hunting for Fast Radio Transients in the Local Universe and Pulsars Toward the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reisenegger, Tassilo Andreas — Hydrodynamics of neutron star interiors and laboratory superfluids (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weinberg, Nevin Nachum — I. Ash Injection and Exposure During Radius Expansion Type I X-Ray Bursts. II. Stellar Dynamics at the Galactic Center. III. Weak Gravitational Lensing by Dark Matter Concentrations (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Porter, Alain Cheyney — Isophotometry of Brightest Elliptical Galaxies in Rich Clusters (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mazin, Benjamin A. — Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kleiser, Io K. — Modeling Rapidly Fading Supernovae as Nickel-Free Core-Collapse Explosions of Extended Helium Stars (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Canzian, Blaise J. — Molecular Gas and Star Formation in the Central Regions of Virgo Spiral Galaxies (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Richers, Sherwood Andrew, III — Neutrino Radiation Transport and Other Topics in High Energy Density Astrophysics (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhalerao, Varun B. — Neutron Stars and NuSTAR: A Systematic Survey of Neutron Star Masses in High Mass X-ray Binaries & Characterization of CdZnTe Detectors for NuSTAR (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kern, Brian Daniel — Optical Pulse-Phased Observations of Faint Pulsars with a Phase-Binning CCD Camera (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bilgi, Pavaman — Optimization of CCD Charge Transfer for Ground and Space-Based Astronomy (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Corder, Stuartt Allan — Optimizing Image Fidelity with Arrays (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lippuner, Jonas — r-Process Nucleosynthesis in Neutron Star Mergers with the New Nuclear Reaction Network SkyNet (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jacoby, Bryan Anthony — Recycled Pulsars (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eastwood, Michael William — Searching for the Cosmic Dawn with the Hyperfine Structure Transition of Hydrogen (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bouchez, Antonin Henri — Seasonal Trends in Titan’s Atmosphere: Haze, Wind, and Clouds (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Busch, Michael William — Shapes and Spins of Near-Earth Asteroids (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duggan, Gina Elizabeth — Signatures of the r-Process in Ancient Stellar Populations Using Barium Abundances (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Waszczak, Adam — Solar System Small-Body Demographics with the Palomar Transient Factory Survey (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kaplan, David Lior Ariel — The Diversity of Neutron Stars: Nearby Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars and the Compact Central Objects in Supernova Remnants (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cenko, Stephen Bradley — The Energetics and Environments of Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Das, Kaustav Kashyap — The Faint and the Furious: Probing the Low-Mass End of Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Zwicky Transient Facility (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cameron, Patrick Brian — The Formation and Evolution of Neutron Stars: Astrometry, Timing, and Transients (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ho, Anna Yen Qin — The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Karambelkar, Viraj — The Landscape of Stellar Mergers with Time-Domain Surveys (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mishra, Abhilash — The Low-Frequency Frontier: Cosmology with Future 21cm Experiments (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Soderberg, Alicia Margarita — The Many Facets of Cosmic Explosions (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Singer, Leo Pound — The Needle in the 100 deg² Haystack: The Hunt for Binary Neutron Star Mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bochenek, Christopher David — The Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Max-Moerbeck Astudillo, Walter Kennerth — The Relationship Between the Radio and Gamma-Ray Emission of Blazars (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Villadsen, Jacqueline Rose — The Search for Stellar Coronal Mass Ejections (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• De, Kishalay — The Whisper and the Bang: Cosmic Fireworks in the Lives of Compact Binaries (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bloom, Joshua Simon — Toward an Understanding of the Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burdge, Kevin Brian — Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars: Shedding Light on the Population of Galactic Gravitational Wave Sources (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bottom, Michael — Two Roads to Planet Detection (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wiktorowicz, Sloane John — Unambiguous Black Hole Mass from Polarimetry and Application to Hot Jupiters (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Collins, Benjamin Forster — Understanding the Solar System with Numerical Simulations and Lévy Flights (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))