Politzer, Hugh David

Committee Member — 65 thesises

• Lau, Koon Hang — A Cerenkov-ΔΕ-Cerenkov Detector for High Energy Cosmic Ray Isotopes and an Accelerator Study of ⁴⁰Ar & ⁵⁶Fe Fragmentation (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• 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))
• Bray, Bruce D. — A Determination of the Neutron Spin Structure Function gⁿ₁ with the 1995 HERMES Data (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marshall, Zachary Louis — A Measurement of Jet Shapes in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7.0 TeV Center-of-Mass Energy with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shatz, Michael Phillip — A QCD Based Model of Hadron Hadron Scattering (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peterson, Eric Lee — A Random Walk in Physical Biology (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Richman, Jeffrey David — A Study of the Iota in Radiative J/PSI Decays (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meiburg, Alexander — A System for Cancellation of Two-Level System Noise in Kinetic Inductance Devices (2018, Senior thesis (Major))
• Harrington, James William — Analysis of Quantum Error-Correcting Codes: Symplectic Lattice Codes and Toric Codes (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bradford, Kent B. — Aspects of Non-Abelian Many Body Physics (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fornal, Bartosz — Baryon Number Violation beyond the Standard Model (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wiggins, Paul Alexander — Biology Beyond Biochemistry:The Mechanics of Life (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Popescu, Costin Radu — Branes, Brane Actions and Applications to Field Theory (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Naylor, Bret Justin — Broadband Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy with Z-Spec: An Unbiased Molecular-Line Survey of the Starburst Galaxy M82 (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Caticha, Ariel — Changes of Variables and the Renormalization Group (1985, 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))
• Sonoda, Hidenori — Chiral Anomalies and the Chiral Lagrangian (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Chengzhe — Collection of Solved Nonlinear Problems for Remote Shaping and Patterning of Liquid Structures on Flat and Curved Substrates by Electric and Thermal Fields (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rivkin, Leonid Zinovy — Damping Ring for the SLAC Linear Collider (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Agrawal, Shubh — Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Closer to Stars (2022, Senior thesis (Major))
• Greif, Jeffrey Mark — Do Helium Monolayer Films Melt by Unbinding of Dislocations? (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stone, Howard D. — Experimental Tests of QCD and Fragmentation Models in Electron-Positron Annihilation (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boudville, Wesley J. — Fluctuations Due to Object Discreteness (1988, 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))
• Chow, Chi-Keung — Heavy hadrons in the large Nc limit (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Perez, Kerstin Marie — Inclusive Jet Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7.0 TeV Center-of-Mass Energy with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Shannon — Investigating Quantum Speedups through Numerical Simulations (2017, Senior thesis (Major))
• Beckman, David Eugene — Investigations in Quantum Computing: Causality and Graph Isomorphism (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nazeeri, Albert Isaac — Liquid-Induced Discharge of Polypropylene Microfiber Electret Filters (2021, Senior thesis (Major))
• Clark, Benjamin Mathias — Magnetic Trapping of Atomic Tritium for Neutrino Mass Measurement (2014, Senior thesis (Major))
• Otto, Steve William — Monte Carlo Methods in Lattice Gauge Theories (1983, 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))
• Wang, Ann Miao — New Physics Models in the Diphoton Final State at CMS (2015, Senior thesis (Major))
• Hodas, Nathan Oken — Nonlinear Dynamics of Nanoscale Systems (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Braunstein, Samuel Leon — Novel Quantum States and Measurements (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• MacFarlane, David Brian — Nucleon Structure from Neutrino Interactions in an Iron Target with a Study of the Singlet Quark Distribution (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rey, Soo-Jong — On the BRST Invariance of String Theory (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bucher, Martin — On the theory of non-Abelian vortices and cosmic strings (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Aoyama, Hideaki — Pair Creation by Dynamic Field Configurations (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ma, Ziyang — Precision Optical Measurements of DNA Structure and Synthesis (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Butler, Malcolm Nicholas — Scaling Violations in Quasielastic Electron Scattering (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kopp, Gillian Baron — Search for SUSY with Delayed Photons at the Compact Muon Solenoid (2018, Senior thesis (Major))
• Lindner, John Florian — Spectral Gaps from Ordered to Disordered Systems (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shao, Wenjin — Studies and Applications of Hyperpolarized ¹²⁹-Xe (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chang, Yi Hua — Studies of the Evolution and Stability of the Thin Film Equation for Externally Modulated Control of Electrohydrodynamic and Thermocapillary Patterning (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Partridge, Richard Allan — Study of the ψ"(3770) Using the Crystal Ball Detector (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ouellette, Stephen Michael — SU(3) Chiral Symmetry in Non-Relativistic Field Theory (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pönisch, Volker — Subbarrier Fusion of the Oxygen Isotopes (1986, 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))
• Grayson, Paul Daniel — The DNA Ejection Process in Bacteriophage λ (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mudide, Shiva — The Limits of The Quasi-Harmonic Approximation: Anharmonicity in Germanium and the Entropy of Melting (2021, Senior thesis (Major))
• Chen, Yi-Ju — The Mechanical Genome in Regulation and Infection (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Adler, Mark — The Persistence of Charm in the Relentless Decay of Beauty (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Warr, Brian John — The Regularisation and Renormalisation of Gauge Theories (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Angus, Ian Gareth — The ΔI = 1/2 Rule and the Strong Coupling Expansion (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dorsten, Matthew Paul — Topics in Heavy Particle Effective Theories (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Terrano, Anthony Emerson — Topics in Perturbative Field Theory (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kale, Anant M. — Towards High Fidelity Quantum Computation and Simulation with Rydberg Atoms (2020, Senior thesis (Major))
• Garcia, Hernan G. — Transcriptional Regulation by the Numbers (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Siu, Byron Bong — Upper Bounds on the Magnetization of Ferromagnetic Ising Models (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suter, Bethany Anne — Using Graviton EFT and Massive Gravity to Compute Gravitational Potentials for Black Hole Inspirals (2020, Senior thesis (Major))