Libbrecht, Kenneth George

Committee Member — 76 thesises

• Boyd, Richard Alan — A Cryogenic Trap for Neutral Atoms (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Taylor, Kelsie — A Deep Dive into the Connections Between the Renormalization Group and Deep Learning in the Ising Model (2023, Senior thesis (Major))
• Budge, Kent Grimmett — A Non-LTE Analysis of a Sample of O Stars Selected from Galactic OB Associations (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meiburg, Alexander — A System for Cancellation of Two-Level System Noise in Kinetic Inductance Devices (2018, Senior thesis (Major))
• Lundblad, Nathan Eric — All-Optical Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Spinor Dynamics-Driven Atom Laser (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pesaran, Bijan — Analysis of Neuronal Dynamics in Behaving Animals (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosenberg, Jessie C. — Applications of Micro/Nanoscale Optical Resonators: Plasmonic Photodetectors and Double-Disk Cavity Optomechanics (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bui, Thinh Quoc — Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopies for Applications of Remote Sensing, Chemical Kinetics and Detection of Radical Species (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eichenfield, Matthew S. — Cavity Optomechanics in Photonic and Phononic Crystals: Engineering the Interaction of Light and Sound at the Nanoscale (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Buck, Joseph Robert — Cavity QED in Microsphere and Fabry-Perot Cavities (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Birnbaum, Kevin Michael — Cavity QED with Multilevel Atoms (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sonka, Rita Frances — Characterization and Improvement of the Thermal Stability of TES Bolometers (2018, Senior thesis (Major))
• Wernis, Rebecca Ann — Characterizing a Resonator Bolometer Array (2013, Senior thesis (Major))
• Choi, Kyung Soo — Coherent Control of Entanglement with Atomic Ensembles (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bliss, Joshua Lovis — Collisional Studies of Ultracold Cesium (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stockton, John Kenton — Continuous Quantum Measurement of Cold Alkali-Atom Spins (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grudinin, Ivan Sergeevich — Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators for Quantum and Nonlinear Optics (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Evans, Constantine Glen — Crystals that Count! Physical Principles and Experimental Investigations of DNA Tile Self-Assembly (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yoon, Ki Won — Design and Deployment of BICEP: A Novel Small-Aperture CMB Polarimeter to Test Inflationary Cosmology (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chou, Dean-Yi — Development and Evolution of Magnetic Fields in Active Regions on the Sun (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Agrawal, Shubh — Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Closer to Stars (2022, Senior thesis (Major))
• Lin, Wei-Hsun — Dynamic Characterization of Micro-Particle Systems (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Yuk Tung — Dynamical Stability of Nascent Neutron Stars (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marshall, William K. — Dynamics of Amplitude and Phase in Semiconductor Lasers and Effects of Propagation in Dispersive Optical Fibers (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kumar, Pawan — Excitation and Damping of Solar P-Modes (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Connolly, Elizabeth Wilcut — Experiments with Toroidal Microresonators in Cavity QED (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Berglund, Andrew John — Feedback Control of Brownian Motion for Single-Particle Fluorescence Spectroscopy (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fiedler, Kevin Robert — Fundamentals of Thermocapillary Sculpting of Liquid Nanofilms and Applications to Thin Film Micro-Optics (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mathur, Sudhi — Gravitational Wave Polarizations: A Test of General Relativity Using Binary Black Hole Mergers (2020, Senior thesis (Major))
• Chalermsongsak, Tara — High Fidelity Probe and Mitigation of Mirror Thermal Fluctuations (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Shannon — Investigating Quantum Speedups through Numerical Simulations (2017, Senior thesis (Major))
• Sollitt, Luke — Ionic Charge States of Solar Energetic Particles (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nazeeri, Albert Isaac — Liquid-Induced Discharge of Polypropylene Microfiber Electret Filters (2021, Senior thesis (Major))
• Evans, Matthew John — Lock Acquisition in Resonant Optical Interferometers (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Haimin — Magnetic Fields and Supergranule Velocity Fields on the Quiet Sun (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lev, Benjamin Leonard — Magnetic Microtraps for Cavity QED, Bose-Einstein Condensates, and Atom Optics (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Clark, Benjamin Mathias — Magnetic Trapping of Atomic Tritium for Neutrino Mass Measurement (2014, Senior thesis (Major))
• Ogin, Gregory H. — Measurement of Thermo-Optic Properties of Thin Film Dielectric Coatings (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rao, Shanti Raja — Mirror Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vallisneri, Michele — Modeling and Detecting Gravitational Waves from Compact Stellar Objects (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lambert, Valere Regis Westbrooke — Multi-Model Inference Ranking and Applications to Physics at the Large Hadron Collider (2014, Senior thesis (Major))
• Li, Jarvis — Nanoelectromechanical Membranes for Multimode Mass Spectrometry (2014, Senior thesis (Major))
• Norte, Richard Alexander — Nanofabrication for On-Chip Optical Levitation, Atom-Trapping, and Superconducting Quantum Circuits (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Ann Miao — New Physics Models in the Diphoton Final State at CMS (2015, Senior thesis (Major))
• Matheny, Matthew Hayward — Nonisochronous Oscillations in Piezoelectric Nanomechanical Resonators (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiang, Hsin Cynthia — Observation of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization with BICEP (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Zhenyu — Optofluidic Dye Lasers (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barsony, Mary Anne — Outflows in High Mass Star-Forming Regions (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chandler, Adam Matthew — Pulsar Searches: From Radio to Gamma-Rays (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zlokapa, Alexander — Quantum Computing for Machine Learning and Physics Simulation (2021, Senior thesis (Major))
• Hu, Zhen — Quantum optics with cold atoms--nonlinear spectroscopy and road toward single-atom trap (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hood, Christina J. — Real-Time Measurement and Trapping of Single Atoms by Single Photons (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Finn, Lee Samuel — Relativistic Stellar Pulsations (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rathore, Yasser — Resonant Excitation of White Dwarf Oscillations in Compact Object Binaries (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scheel, Janet D. — Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Teague, Marcus Lawrence — Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopic Studies on High-Temperature Superconductors and Dirac Materials (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kopp, Gillian Baron — Search for SUSY with Delayed Photons at the Compact Muon Solenoid (2018, Senior thesis (Major))
• Mason, James Edward — Signal Extraction and Optical Design for an Advanced Gravitational Wave Interferometer (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Im, Cheolmin — Simulation of Electrohydrodynamic Distortion Relevant to Liquid Metal Ion Sources (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiam, Keng-Hwee — Spatiotemporal Chaos in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Finck, Aaron David Kiyoshi — Studies of Exciton Condensation and Transport in Quantum Hall Bilayers (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boer, Elizabeth A. — Synthesis, Passivation and Charging of Silicon Nanocrystals (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fox, Jessica Lauren — The Assembly and Testing of the Spin Dressing Magnet for the Neutron Electric Dipole Experiment (2025, Senior thesis (Major))
• Mudide, Shiva — The Limits of The Quasi-Harmonic Approximation: Anharmonicity in Germanium and the Entropy of Melting (2021, Senior thesis (Major))
• Hickerson, Kevin Peter — The Physics of Ultracold Neutrons and Fierz Interference in Beta Decay (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hodge, Kari Alison — The Search for Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of Black Hole Binary Systems in Data from the LIGO and Virgo Detectors. Or: A Dark Walk through a Random Forest (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chickering, William Elbridge — Thermopower in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fang, Hua — Topics in Gravitational Physics: Tidal Coupling in Gravitational Wave Searches and Mach’s Principle (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Shaughnessy, Richard William — Topics in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lovelace, Geoffrey Mark — Topics in Gravitational-Wave Physics (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Owen, Robert Philip — Topics in Numerical Relativity: The Periodic Standing-Wave Approximation, the Stability of Constraints in Free Evolution, and the Spin of Dynamical Black Holes (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Yanbei — Topics of LIGO Physics: Quantum Noise in Advanced Interferometers and Template Banks for Compact-Binary Inspirals (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kale, Anant M. — Towards High Fidelity Quantum Computation and Simulation with Rydberg Atoms (2020, Senior thesis (Major))
• Lin, Han-Hsin — Transient Behavior of Granular Material (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McKeever, Jason Terence Taylor — Trapped Atoms in Cavity QED for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suter, Bethany Anne — Using Graviton EFT and Massive Gravity to Compute Gravitational Potentials for Black Hole Inspirals (2020, Senior thesis (Major))