Porter, Frank C.

Committee Member — 80 thesises

• Wrean, Patricia Rose — 19F(α,n)22Na, 22Ne(p,n)22Na, and the Role of their Inverses in the Destruction of 22Na (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Covrig, Silviu Doru — A Measurement of Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the G0 Experiment in Forward Mode (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pershey, Daniel Stephen — A Measurement of νe Appearance and νμ Disappearance Neutrino Oscillations with the NOvA Experiment (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mastromarino, Peter A. — A Precision Low-Energy Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle in Møller Scattering (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goggin, Lisa Maria — A Search for Gravitational Waves from Perturbed Black Hole Ringdowns in LIGO Data (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lu, Wenwen — A Study of Bhabha Scattering at the Z Resonance (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Edwards, Charles David, Jr. — A Study of Exclusive Final States in Radiative ψ Decays (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lipeles, Elliot — A Study of the Fully Differential Inclusive Semileptonic B Meson Decay Rate (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Richman, Jeffrey David — A Study of the Iota in Radiative J/PSI Decays (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hauser, Jay — A Systematic Study of the Decays of Charmed D Mesons (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shen, Chia-Hsien — Aspects of Effective Field Theories from Scattering Amplitudes (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fornal, Bartosz — Baryon Number Violation beyond the Standard Model (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goldberger, Walter D. — Brane Models and the Hierarchy Problem (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Park, Chan Youn — Branes and Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Popescu, Costin Radu — Branes, Brane Actions and Applications to Field Theory (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Engel, Kevin Thomas — Charged Pion Contribution to the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon (2013, 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.))
• Blatnik, Marie Ann — Creating the Electric and Magnetic Fields for the nEDM@SNS Experiment (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dvoretskii, Alexei — Dalitz Plot Analysis of the Decay B± → K±K±K∓ (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cook, Brian M. — Development and Testing of a Detector to Study Neutrino Oscillations at Palo Verde (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Orchanian, Mhair-Armen Hagop — Electron Neutrino Appearance in the MINOS Experiment (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zheng, Stephan Tao — Exploiting Structure for Scalable and Robust Deep Learning (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Tzu-Chen — From Building Blocks to Theories: EFThedron and a Haagerup TFT (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Du, Song Ming — Fundamental Physics Through Gravitational Waves: From No-Hair Theorem to Quantum Structures of Black Holes (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Douglas, Michael Ronald — G/H Conformal Field Theory (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Skerritt, Paul Michael — Geometric Quantization and Foliation Reduction (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Muldoon, Mark Raphael — Ghosts of Order on the Frontier of Chaos (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wessling, Margaret Ellen — Heavy Pentaquarks in the Diquark Model and the Large Nc Expansion (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Jie — Holomorphic Anomaly Equations in Topological String Theory (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Gang — In Search of Slow-moving Ionizing Massive Particles (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Arrington, John R. — Inclusive Electron Scattering from Nuclei at x > 1 and High Q² (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lipstein, Arthur Elias — Integrability of N = 6 Chern-Simons theory (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Martin, Olivier — Large N Gauge Theory at Strong Coupling with Chiral Fermion (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Willett, Brian M. — Localization and Dualities in Three Dimensional Superconformal Field Theories (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yaakov, Itamar — Localization of Gauge Theories on the Three-Sphere (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Samuel, Alexander — Measurement of Branching Fractions and Mass Spectra in B → Kππγ Decays (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Jae Hong — Measurement of R(D) and R(D*) Using Semileptonic Tags and Hadronic τ Decays (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ongmongkolkul, Piti — Measurement of the Direct CP Asymmetry in b→sγ via Sum of Exclusive B Meson Decays Using the BABAR Detector (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelsey, Michael Henderson — Measurement of the Leptonic Branching Fraction of the Dₛ Meson and Determination of Its Decay Constant (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jensen, John Steffen — Measurement of the Neutron (³He) Spin Structure Function at Low Q²: A Connection between the Bjorken and Drell-Hearn-Gerasimov Sum Rules (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Doll, David Andrew — Measurement of the Rare Transition b→sγ Using the Complete BABAR Data Set (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Raj, Varun Ranga — Measuring Neutrino Oscillations with NOvA and T2K (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chao, Daniel Shuteh — Measuring R(D()) for B → ‾D()τν_τ using Semileptonic Tags and Tau Decays to Hadrons (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Borokhov, Vadim Aleksandrovich — Monopole Operators and Mirror Symmetry in Three-Dimensional Gauge Theories (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Patel, Apoorva Dayaram — Monte-Carlo Renormalisation Group for Lattice QCD (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sellgren, Kristen — Near Infrared Studies of Reflection Nebulae (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schmid, Riccardo — New Search for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Using Ultracold Neutrons at the Spallation Neutron Source (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Werner Man-Li — Observation of B → K⁰ₛ π⁺ π⁻ and B → K*(892)⁺⁻π⁻⁺ and Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in B → K*(892)⁺⁻π⁻⁺ (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rey, Soo-Jong — On the BRST Invariance of String Theory (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shia, Run-Lie — Partially Coherent Wave Scattering and Radiative Transfer: An Integral Equation Approach (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• López-Yglesias, Xerxes F. — Physical Investigations of Small Particles: (I) Aerosol Particle Charging and Flux Enhancement and (II) Whispering Gallery Mode Sensing (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yuan, Junhua — Progress Towards a High Precision Measurement of the Neutron Spin–Electron Angular Correlation in Polarized Neutron ß Decay with Ultra-Cold Neutrons (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Edward Tann — Radiative Leptonic B Decays (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Testa, Adriano M. — Ripples from the Early Universe to the Present (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Piatenko, Timofei — Search for B → (ρ/ω)γ decays at BABAR (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Yunxuan — Search for Beyond Standard Model Physics at BaBar (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Borrel, Léo L. — Search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation at the Mu2e Experiment (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Timciuc, Vladlen — Search for Heavy Neutral Resonances in the Dielectron Channel with the CMS Detector at the LHC (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ma, Yousi — Search for Signatures of Extra Dimensions in the Diphoton Mass Spectrum with the CMS Detector (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kolawa, Adam — Semianalytical Calculation of the O⁺⁺ Glueball Mass in Su(2) Gauge Theory (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tang, Hongxing — Semiconductor Magnetoelectronics for Spintronics and Suspended 2DEG for Mechanoelectronics (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mason, James Edward — Signal Extraction and Optical Design for an Advanced Gravitational Wave Interferometer (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rufat, Dzhelil Sabahatin — Spectral Exterior Calculus and its Implementation (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kaifu, Hiroki — Structural and Dynamical Correlations Linked to Smaller Thermal Resistance at a Classical Liquid/Solid Interface (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shao, Wenjin — Studies and Applications of Hyperpolarized ¹²⁹-Xe (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ouellette, Stephen Michael — SU(3) Chiral Symmetry in Non-Relativistic Field Theory (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chang, Yen-Yung — SuperCDMS HVeV Run 2 Low-Mass Dark Matter Search, Highly Multiplexed Phonon-Mediated Particle Detector with Kinetic Inductance Detector, and the Blackbody Radiation in Cryogenic Experiments (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bandrés Motola, Miguel Angel — Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories and Their String Theory Duals (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bashkirov, Denis — Symmetries in Three-Dimensional Superconformal Quantum Field Theories (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhu, Yanong — The Decay Properties of the ψ(3770) (1989, 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.))
• Carter, Paul Whitton — The HERMES Experiment. I. Analyzing Powers in Pion Electroproduction. II. The Aerogel Radiator of the HERMES RICH (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Adler, Mark — The Persistence of Charm in the Relentless Decay of Beauty (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goroff, Marc Howard — The Ultraviolet Divergences of Einstein Gravity (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chung, Hee Joong — Three-Dimensional Superconformal Field Theory, Chern-Simons Theorv, and Their Correspondence (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Park, Chang-Soon — Topics in Supersymmetry Breaking and Gauge/Gravity Dualities (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vyas, Ketan D. — Topics in Topological and Holomorphic Quantum Field Theory (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Setter, Kevin Luke — Topological Quantum Field Theory and the Geometric Langlands Correspondence (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Yi — Topological Sigma Models and Generalized Geometries (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Koller, Jeffrey George — Yang-Mills Theory in Six-Dimensional Superspace (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))