Thorne, Kip S.

Committee Member — 59 thesises

• Wisdom, Jack Leach — 1. The Origin of the Kirkwood Gaps: A Mapping for Asteroidal Monitor Near the 3/1 Commensurability. 2. The Resonance Overlap Criterion and the Onset of Stochastic Behavior in the Restricted Three-Body Problem (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grove, Jon Eric — A Balloon Measurement of the Isotopic Composition of Galactic Cosmic Ray Iron (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Zhaoping — A model of the olfactory bulb and beyond (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Crouch, David Dale — A Theoretical Study of the Generation of Squeezed-State Light via Degenerate Parametric Amplification (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boyle, Michael — Accurate Gravitational Waveforms from Binary Black-hole Systems (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Armen, Michael A. — Bifurcations in Single Atom Cavity QED (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Macdonald, Douglas Alan — Black-Hole Electrodynamics (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Landahl, Andrew John — Controlling Quantum Information (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nakajima, Tadashi — Diffraction-Limited Imaging on the 200-Inch Telescope (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suyu, Sherry Hsuan — Dissecting the Gravitational Lens B1608+656: Implications for the Hubble Constant (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suen, Wai Mo — Dynamical Electromagnetic Fields Near Black Holes and Multipole Moments of Stationary, General Relativistic Systems (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Yuk Tung — Dynamical Stability of Nascent Neutron Stars (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hartl, Michael David — Dynamics of Spinning Compact Binaries in General Relativity (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Youqi — Electron energy loss spectroscopic study of small molecules on transition metal surfaces (1995, 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.))
• Lipes, Richard Gwin — I. Application of Multi-Regge Theory to Production Processes. II. High Energy Model for Proton-Proton Scattering (1969, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hamidi, Shahram — Interactions of Strings Compactified on Orbifolds (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Evans, Matthew John — Lock Acquisition in Resonant Optical Interferometers (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lev, Benjamin Leonard — Magnetic Microtraps for Cavity QED, Bose-Einstein Condensates, and Atom Optics (2006, 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.))
• Braunstein, Samuel Leon — Novel Quantum States and Measurements (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fuller, George Michael — Nuclear Weak Interaction Rates During Stellar Evolution and Collapse (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chandler, Adam Matthew — Pulsar Searches: From Radio to Gamma-Rays (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mihalas, Stefan — Quantitative Model of Calcium/Calmodulin- Dependent Protein Kinase II Activation (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mijić, Milan B. — Quantum and Inflationary Cosmology with Higher Derivative Gravity (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cortese, John Anthony — Quantum Information Theory: Classical Communication Over Quantum Channels (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Santamore, Deborah Hannah — Quantum Transport and Dynamics of Phonons in Mesoscopic Systems (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bowick, Mark John — Radiative Mass Structure in Unified Models and Fermions in the Desert (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Coppi, Paolo Severo — Radiative processes in active galactic nuclei (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Broderick, Avery Earl — Radiative Transfer in Accreting Environments (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boozer, Allen David — Raman Transitions in Cavity QED (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Finn, Lee Samuel — Relativistic Stellar Pulsations (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mason, James Edward — Signal Extraction and Optical Design for an Advanced Gravitational Wave Interferometer (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Keppel, Drew Garvin — Signatures and Dynamics of Compact Binary Coalescences and a Search in LIGO’s S5 Data (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yurtsever, Ulvi Hamit — Singularities and Horizons in the Collisions of Gravitational Waves (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gürsel, Halis Yekta — Stability of Spherically Symmetric, Charged Black Holes and Multipole Moments for Stationary Systems (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flammang, Richard Alan — Stationary Spherical Optically Thick Accretion into Black Holes (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Erickcek, Adrienne Lynn — The Consequences of Modifying Fundamental Cosmological Theories (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smith, Tristan Laine — The Gravity of the Situation (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morris, Michael Scott — The R +ɛR² Cosmology (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mandel, Ilya — The Three Ss of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Sources, Signals, Searches (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schumaker, Bonny Laura — Theoretical Investigations in Nonlinear Quantum Optics, Theory of Measurement, and Pulsations of General Relativistic Models of Neutron Stars (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Redmount, Ian H. — Topics in Black-Hole Physics: Geometric Constraints on Noncollapsing, Gravitating Systems and Tidal Distortions of a Schwarzschild Black Hole (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Apostolatos, Theocaris A. — Topics in general relativity : naked singularities, and theoretical aspects of gravitational waves from merging compact binaries (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flanagan, Eanna E. — Topics in general relativity : the hoop conjecture and theoretical aspects of gravitational wave detection (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Echeverria, Fernando — Topics in general relativity theory : gravitational-wave measurements of black-hole parameters; gravitational collapse of a cylindrical body; and classical-particle evolution in the presence of closed, timelike curves (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Alvi, Kashif Siddiq — Topics in General Relativity: Binary Black Holes and Hyperbolic Formulations of Einstein's Equations (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cohen, Michael Isaac — Topics in Gravitation – Numerical Simulations of Event Horizons and Parameter Estimation for LISA (2011, 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.))
• Savov, Pavlin — Topics in Gravitational-Wave Physics (2008, 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.))
• Li, Chao — Topics in Theoretical Astrophysics (2009, 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.))
• Pan, Yi — Topics of LIGO Physics: Template Banks for the Inspiral of Precessing, Compact Binaries, and Design of the Signal-Recycling Cavity for Advanced LIGO (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sigurdson, Kris Raymond — Variations on the Standard Model of the Universe (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))