Phinney, E. Sterl

Committee Member — 85 thesises

• Becker, George Dana — A High-Resolution Study of the High-Redshift Intergalactic Medium (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cartwright, John Kenneth — A Limit on the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (2003, 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.))
• Ali-Haimoud, Yacine — A New Spin on Primordial Hydrogen Recombination and a Refined Model for Spinning Dust Radiation (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Myers, Steven Theodore — A Search for Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background on Angular Scales of 1 to 30 Arcminutes (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smith, Sheryl Leigh — A Search for Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binary Stars Using the Caltech 40 Meter Gravity Wave Detector (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jensen-Clem, Rebecca Marie — A Toolbox for Exoplanet Exploration (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rich, Robert Michael — Abundances and Kinematics of K Giants in the Galactic Nuclear Bulge (1986, 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.))
• Murchikova, Elena M. — Astrophysical Applications of Quantum Mechanics (2018, 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.))
• Bode, Jason Nathaniel — Black Hole Mergers and Their Electromagnetic Counterparts (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kasliwal, Mansi Manoj — Bridging the Gap: Elusive Explosions in the Local Universe (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sharma, Yashvi — Chasing Metamorphic Supernovae with Zwicky Transient Facility, SEDM-KP, and AI (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiang, Eugene — Circumstellar and circumplanetary disks (2000, 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.))
• Ma, Linhao — Dissipative Dynamics of Stars, Planets, and Black Holes (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Soliman, Nadine Hany — Dust in Astrophysical Systems: Impacts on Dynamics, Plasma Physics, and Thermochemistry (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hartl, Michael David — Dynamics of Spinning Compact Binaries in General Relativity (2003, 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.))
• Zhai, Xiang — Experimental, Numerical and Analytical Studies of the MHD-Driven Plasma Jet, Instabilities and Waves (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zucker, Michael Edward — Experiments with a Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Antenna (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mooley, Kunal Prakash — Exploring the Dynamic Radio Sky: The Search for Slow Transients with the VLA (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hunt, Matthew Philip — Faint Optically Selected AGN at z = 3 (2004, 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.))
• Handmer, Casey John — Gauge Invariant Spectral Cauchy Characteristic Extraction of Gravitational Waves in Computational General Relativity (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Udomprasert, Patricia Simcoe — H₀ from Cosmic Background Imager Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect in Nearby Clusters. (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yao, Yuhan — High Energy Transients Powered by Black Holes (2023, 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.))
• Jencson, Jacob Edmund — Hunting for Hidden Explosions: Exploring the Transient Infrared Sky with the Spitzer Space Telescope (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yadlapalli Yurk, Nitika — Interferometric Millimeter Observations of the High Energy Universe (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sollitt, Luke — Ionic Charge States of Solar Energetic Particles (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Porter, Alain Cheyney — Isophotometry of Brightest Elliptical Galaxies in Rich Clusters (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Ge — Localized Fast Radio Bursts Using DSA-110 (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bogosavljević, Milan — Lyman Continuum and Lyman α Emission from Galaxies at High Redshift (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Haimin — Magnetic Fields and Supergranule Velocity Fields on the Quiet Sun (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Philhour, Byron Jacob — Measurement of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (2002, 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.))
• Baker, Andrew Jordan — Molecular Gas in Nearby Active Galactic Nuclei (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kraus, Adam L. — Multiple Star Formation (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pineda, John Sebastian — Multiwavelength Characterization of the Brown Dwarf Auroral Phenomenon - Establishing the Nature of the Electrodynamic Engine (2017, 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.))
• Findeisen, Krzysztof — New Insights from Aperiodic Variability of Young Stars (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Yoonsoo — Numerical Modeling of High-energy Transients from Black Holes and Neutron Stars (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lind, Kevin Robert — Observations and Gas Dynamics of Extragalactic Radio Jets (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Simcoe, Robert Andrew — Observations of Intergalactic Heavy-Element Enrichment in the Early Universe (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Corder, Stuartt Allan — Optimizing Image Fidelity with Arrays (2009, 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.))
• Yoon, Young Dae — Probing the Progression, Properties, and Progenies of Magnetic Reconnection (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Coppi, Paolo Severo — Radiative processes in active galactic nuclei (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jacoby, Bryan Anthony — Recycled Pulsars (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Finn, Lee Samuel — Relativistic Stellar Pulsations (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eastwood, Michael William — Searching for the Cosmic Dawn with the Hyperfine Structure Transition of Hydrogen (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rui, Nicholas Zhao — Seismic Probes of Stellar Mergers and Magnetism (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dong, Dillon Zhejun — Shocks, Jets, and Emerging Nebulae: Direct Detection and Characterization of Extragalactic Radio Transients in the VLA Sky Survey (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yurtsever, Ulvi Hamit — Singularities and Horizons in the Collisions of Gravitational Waves (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Knop, Robert A., Jr. — Spatially Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of Seyfert Galaxies (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Biehle, Garrett T. — Studies of stars with neutron cores and of x-ray binaries displaying quasi-periodic oscillations (1993, 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.))
• Wegg, Christopher — The Dynamics of White Dwarfs, Black Holes and Stellar Cusps (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cenko, Stephen Bradley — The Energetics and Environments of Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cameron, Patrick Brian — The Formation and Evolution of Neutron Stars: Astrometry, Timing, and Transients (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Han, Mingsheng — The I-band Tully-Fisher relation and large-scale motions in the universe (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Finger, Mark Harold — The Imaging of Extra-Galactic Low-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources: Prospects, Techniques, and Instrumentation (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Samantha Chloe — The Interplay of Waves and Stellar Evolution (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ho, Anna Yen Qin — The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Soderberg, Alicia Margarita — The Many Facets of Cosmic Explosions (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bochenek, Christopher David — The Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morris, Michael Scott — The R +ɛR² Cosmology (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Richards, Joseph Lee — The Radio Variability of Gamma-Ray Blazars (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Villadsen, Jacqueline Rose — The Search for Stellar Coronal Mass Ejections (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mandel, Ilya — The Three Ss of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Sources, Signals, Searches (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kesden, Michael Henry — To the Horizon and Beyond:Weak Lensing of the CMB and Binary Inspirals into Horizonless Objects (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Connor, Evan Patrick — Topics in Core-Collapse Supernova Theory: The Formation of Black Holes and the Transport of Neutrinos (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flanagan, Eanna E. — Topics in general relativity : the hoop conjecture and theoretical aspects of gravitational wave detection (1994, 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.))
• Lithwick, Yoram — Topics in MHD Turbulence (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Yang — Understanding the Plasma Universe through Laboratory Experiments and Related Models (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scherbak, Peter John — Unstable and Stable Mass Transfer in Stellar Binaries: From Common Envelopes to Circumbinary Outflows (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))