Astronomy Department

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2026

• Prusinski, Nikolaus Zen — The Geometry and Kinematics of Baryonic Feedback (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhuang, Zhuyun — Multi-Element Abundances as Probes of Galaxy Growth Across Cosmic Time (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2025

• Rodriguez, Antonio Cuevas — Compact Object Binaries in the Multiwavelength and Time Domain Sky (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Soliman, Nadine Hany — Dust in Astrophysical Systems: Impacts on Dynamics, Plasma Physics, and Thermochemistry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2024

• Li, Zhihui — Unveiling the Structure of the Circumgalactic Medium of High-Redshift Galaxies via Emission and Absorption Lines (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yadlapalli Yurk, Nitika — Interferometric Millimeter Observations of the High Energy Universe (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2023

• Dong, Dillon Zhejun — Shocks, Jets, and Emerging Nebulae: Direct Detection and Characterization of Extragalactic Radio Transients in the VLA Sky Survey (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mohamed Soliman, Ahmed Mohamed — BICEP Array Detectors and Instrumentation at 30/40 GHz: Design, Performance, and Deployment to the South Pole for Constraining Primordial Gravitational Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Guochao — Understanding the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxies with Intensity Mapping (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2022

• de los Reyes, Mithi Alexa Caballes (Mia) — Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Universe as Probes of Stellar and Galactic Evolution (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2021

• Bochenek, Christopher David — The Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xu, Yanjun — Probing the Inner Accretion Flow Properties Around Black Holes with X-ray Observations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2020

• Anderson, Dana Eklund — Tracking Volatile Elements in Protoplanetary Disks and on Planetary Surfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duggan, Gina Elizabeth — Signatures of the r-Process in Ancient Stellar Populations Using Barium Abundances (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Giesler, Matthew David — Probing the Nature of Black Holes with Gravitational Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jencson, Jacob Edmund — Hunting for Hidden Explosions: Exploring the Transient Infrared Sky with the Spitzer Space Telescope (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leask, Ellen Kathleen — Investigating the Evolution of Surface Water on Mars through Spectroscopy of Secondary Minerals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2019

• Anderson, Marin Mallory — Adventures Through Time and Phase Space: Characterizing the Dynamic Radio Sky, From MHz to GHz, From Seconds to Years (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barenfeld, Scott Alexander — New Insights into Circumstellar Disk Evolution in the Era of ALMA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barkett, Kevin Michael Canice — Computational Methods for Gravitational Wave Physics: Spectral Cauchy-Characteristic Extraction and Tidal Splicing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bilgi, Pavaman — Optimization of CCD Charge Transfer for Ground and Space-Based Astronomy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Du, Song Ming — Fundamental Physics Through Gravitational Waves: From No-Hair Theorem to Quantum Structures of Black Holes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eastwood, Michael William — Searching for the Cosmic Dawn with the Hyperfine Structure Transition of Hydrogen (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grudić, Michael Yvan — The Role of Stellar Feedback in Star Cluster Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Helou, Bassam Mohamad — Testing Alternative Theories of Quantum Mechanics with Optomechanics, and Effective Modes for Gaussian Linear Optomechanics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kleiser, Io K. — Modeling Rapidly Fading Supernovae as Nickel-Free Core-Collapse Explosions of Extended Helium Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leethochawalit, Nicha — Spectroscopy of Galaxies: Evolution of Escape Fractions, Metallicity Gradients and Stellar Metallicity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Okounkova, Maria — Numerical Relativity Beyond General Relativity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Orr, Matthew Edward — Spatially Resolved Star Formation in Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations: Understanding the Role of Feedback in Scaling Relations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schmitz, Denise Marie — A Perturbative Model for the Intrinsic Alignments of Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Su, Kung-Yi — Stellar Feedback, AGN Feedback and Fluid Microphysics in Galaxy Evolution (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thomas, Nancy Helen — Remotely Sensing Aqueous Alteration on Mars: Innovative Statistical and Analytical Methods for Large Spectral Datasets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Varma, Vadapalli Vijay S. — Black Hole Simulations: From Supercomputers to Your Laptop (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2018

• Bryan, Marta Levesque — Lurking in the Shadows: Wide-Separation Gas Giants as Tracers of Planet Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Buhler, Peter Benjamin — Measuring and Modeling the Interplay between Planetary Orbits, Interiors, Surfaces, and Atmospheres (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Buz, Jennifer — Macro Mars to Micro Mars: Mapping Minerals and Magnetization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carroll, Paul Brandon — Laboratory and Astronomical Rotational Spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cornell, Brett Durcan — A Dark Matter Search Using the Final SuperCDMS Soudan Dataset and the Development of a Large-Format, Highly-Multiplexed, Athermal-Phonon-Mediated Particle Detector (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• David, Trevor Justin — On the Evolutionary Pathways of Stars and Extrasolar Planets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guszejnov, Dávid — On the Origin of Scales and Scaling Laws in Star Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hui, Howard — Measuring the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with BICEP3 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lanz, Alicia Elaine — Studying the Extragalactic Background Light with the Second Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment, CIBER-2 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ma, Xiangcheng — Understanding Galaxy Formation and Evolution with Realistic Simulations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mishra, Abhilash — The Low-Frequency Frontier: Cosmology with Future 21cm Experiments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Monroe, Ryan McKay — Gigahertz Bandwidth and Nanosecond Timescales: New Frontiers in Radio Astronomy Through Peak Performance Signal Processing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Murchikova, Elena M. — Astrophysical Applications of Quantum Mechanics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pang, Belinda Heyun — Theoretical Foundations for Quantum Measurement in a General Relativistic Framework (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Piskorz, Danielle F. — Exploring Exoplanets' Spectroscopic Secrets: Clues on the Migration and Formation of Hot Jupiters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Quinn, Daven Patel — Regional Structural Geology of Earth and Mars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sonka, Rita Frances — Characterization and Improvement of the Thermal Stability of TES Bolometers (Senior thesis (Major))
• Spalding, Christopher — The Primordial Origin and Dynamical Sculpting of Close-In Planetary System Architectures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Strom, Allison Leigh — Unveiling the Physical Conditions in Star-Forming Galaxies at the Peak of Galaxy Assembly (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wong, Ian Yu — Probing the Trojan-Hilda-KBO Connection: An Empirical Test of Dynamical Instability Models of Solar System Evolution (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2017

• Balokovic, Mislav — Unveiling the Structure of Active Galactic Nuclei with Hard X-ray Spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Finneran, Ian Alan — Terahertz and Microwave Spectroscopy of Liquids and Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jensen-Clem, Rebecca Marie — A Toolbox for Exoplanet Exploration (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kao, Melodie Minyu — Constraining Substellar Magnetic Dynamos using Brown Dwarf Radio Aurorae (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kher, Aditya Shreyas — Superconducting Nonlinear Kinetic Inductance Devices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lapôtre, Mathieu Gaetan Andre — Sedimentary Processes on Earth and Mars: Canyon Erosion, Sand-Ripple Formation, and Mineral Composition (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Cheng — Convection in Planetary Atmospheres: Titan's Haze, Saturn's Storm and Jupiter's Water (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lingner, Nicole Renate — The Faint Intergalactic-Medium Redshifted Emission Balloon: FIREBall-2 Scientific Camera and Cooling System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Montet, Benjamin Tyler — Low-Mass Stars and Their Companions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ngo, Henry Hoang Khoi — Formation and Migration Histories of Giant Exoplanets in Multi-stellar Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oklopčić, Antonija — Radiative Processes in Astrophysical Gases: From the Intergalactic and Interstellar Medium to Exoplanetary Atmospheres (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pan, Lu — Insights into the Geologic History of Mars’ Northern Lowlands from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pineda, John Sebastian — Multiwavelength Characterization of the Brown Dwarf Auroral Phenomenon - Establishing the Nature of the Electrodynamic Engine (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Villadsen, Jacqueline Rose — The Search for Stellar Coronal Mass Ejections (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2016

• Belli, Sirio — Deep Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Galaxies: the Physical Growth of Passive Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bottom, Michael — Two Roads to Planet Detection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cao, Yi — Cosmic Explosions: Observations Of Infant Hydrogen-Free Supernovae Towards An Understanding Of Their Parent Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Good, Jacob Thomas — Design and Applications of a Decade-Spanning Terahertz Frequency Comb Spectrometer: Doppler-limited Rotational Spectroscopy of Methanol and Methanol-OD (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Manohar, Swarnima — Lurking in ULIRGs: Molecular Gas in local Merging Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Siegel, Seth Robert — A Multiwavelength Study of the Intracluster Medium and the Characterization of the Multiwavelength Sub/millimeter Inductance Camera (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Su, Yubo — Simulation Pipeline for Velocity Field Measurements using the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (Senior thesis (Major))
• Su, Zhan — High-Latitude Ocean Convection and Gyre Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2015

• Allodi, Marco Alberto — On Ultrafast Time-Domain TeraHertz Spectroscopy in the Condensed Phase: Linear Spectroscopic Measurements of Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics of Astrochemical Ice Analogs and Nonlinear TeraHertz Kerr Effect Measurements of Vibrational Quantum Beats (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duan, Ran — Instrumentation for Kinetic-Inductance-Detector-Based Submillimeter Radio Astronomy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Findeisen, Krzysztof — New Insights from Aperiodic Variability of Young Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Handmer, Casey John — Gauge Invariant Spectral Cauchy Characteristic Extraction of Gravitational Waves in Computational General Relativity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jermyn, Adam Sean — The Atmospheric Dynamics of Pulsar Companions (Senior thesis (Major))
• Ji, Chenguang — Design of Antenna-Coupled Lumped-Element Titanium Nitride KIDs for LongWavelength Multi-Band Continuum Imaging (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kammer, Joshua Andrew — Analyses of Planetary Atmospheres Across the Spectrum: From Titan to Exoplanets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luan, Jing — Toward Understanding Astrophysical Phenomena (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McGuire, Brett Andrew — Time-Domain TeraHertz Spectroscopy and Observational Probes of Prebiotic Interstellar Gas and Ice Chemistry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mooley, Kunal Prakash — Exploring the Dynamic Radio Sky: The Search for Slow Transients with the VLA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schenker, Matthew Aaron — Did Galaxies Reionize the Universe? (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shiu, Corwin — Design Considerations to Improving Sensitivity in Superspec: an Onchip KID-Based, Mm-Wave Spectrometer (Senior thesis (Major))
• Singer, Leo Pound — The Needle in the 100 deg² Haystack: The Hunt for Binary Neutron Star Mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Teply, Grant Paul — Measurement of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with the BICEP2 and Keck Array Telescopes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trainor, Ryan Francis — Faint Galaxies in the Megaparsec-Scale Environments of Hyperluminous QSOs at Redshifts 2 < z < 3 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Waszczak, Adam — Solar System Small-Body Demographics with the Palomar Transient Factory Survey (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Ke — Volatiles in Protoplanetary Disks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2014

• Holland, Daniel Brian — Design, Construction, and Applications of a High-Resolution Terahertz Time-Domain Spectrometer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lockwood, Alexandra Charlotte — Understanding Planet Formation through High Precision Photometry and Spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morton, Timothy Davies — Demographic Studies of Extrasolar Planets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mukherjee, Eric S. — How Far from Jerusalem? Tropical Customs and the Question of Race in the Book of John Mandeville (Senior thesis (Major))
• Stevenson, Matthew Alan — Observational and Theoretical Advances in Cosmological Foreground Emission (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 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tucker, Rebecca Suzanne — Characterization of Detectors and Instrument Systematics for the SPIDER CMB Polarimeter (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Da — The Madden-Julian Oscillation: Observation, Modeling, and Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Fan — Tools for the Study of Dynamical Spacetimes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2013

• Aikin, Randol Wallace — Testing Inflationary Cosmology with the BICEP1 and BICEP2 Experiments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chaudhuri, Saptarshi — Measurement, Simulation, and Design of the Dispersion-Engineered Traveling-Wave Kinetic Inductance Amplifier (Senior thesis (Major))
• Czakon, Nicole Gisela — Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Observations Using Large-Format Millimeter Arrays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gluščević, Vera — CMB as a Probe of New Physics and Old Times (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hong, Ting — Brownian Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors and Single Photon Optomechanics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, Tucker A. — Detailed Properties of High Redshift Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelley, Matthew James — Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy of Amino Acids and Sugars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levitan, David Benjamin — Finding Needles in the Haystack: A Search for AM CVn Systems Using the Palomar Transient Factory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Max-Moerbeck Astudillo, Walter Kennerth — The Relationship Between the Radio and Gamma-Ray Emission of Blazars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Newman, Andrew Burch — Dark Matter and the Assembly History of Massive Galaxies and Clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pérez Muñoz, Laura María — Grain Growth in Protoplanetary Disks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rudie, Gwen Charlena — The Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Medium Surrounding Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts 2<z<3 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wegg, Christopher — The Dynamics of White Dwarfs, Black Holes and Stellar Cusps (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wernis, Rebecca Ann — Characterizing a Resonator Bolometer Array (Senior thesis (Major))
• Yang, Huan — Topics in Gravitational-Wave Science: Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics and Black Hole Physics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zimmerman, Aaron Benjamin — Topics in Black Hole Perturbation Theory and the Visualization of Curved Spacetime (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2012

• Ahmed, Zeeshan — A Dark-Matter Search Using the Final CDMS II Dataset and a Novel Detector of Surface Radiocontamination (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Batygin, Konstantin — Orbits and Interiors of Planets (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 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brevik, Justus Albert — Searching for Primordial Gravitational Waves at Degree Scales from the South Pole (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cody, Ann Marie — A Search for Pulsation in Young Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gonçalves, Thiago Signorini — Topics in Galaxy Evolution: Early Star Formation and Quenching (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krause, Anna Elisabeth — Topics in Large-Scale Structure (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Samuel Kuhnman — Three Paths to Particle Dark Matter (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Matuszewski, Mateusz Konrad — The Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon and the Cosmic Web Imager: Two Integral Field Spectrographs Designed to Study Emission from the Intergalactic Medium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moore, David Craig — A Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search and the Development of Highly Multiplexed Phonon-Mediated Particle Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nichols, David Andrew — Visualizing, Approximating, and Understanding Black-Hole Binaries (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Noroozian, Omid — Superconducting Microwave Resonator Arrays for Submillimeter/Far-infrared Imaging (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Richards, Joseph Lee — The Radio Variability of Gamma-Ray Blazars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trangsrud, Amy Ruth — The SPIDER CMB Polarimeter (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tseliakhovich, Dmitriy — The Cosmic Stories: Beginning, Evolution and Present Days of the Universe (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2011

• Ali-Haimoud, Yacine — A New Spin on Primordial Hydrogen Recombination and a Refined Model for Spinning Dust Radiation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Binder, Gary Allen — The Importance of Compact-Object Spin in Extreme and Intermediate-Mass Ratio Inspirals (Senior thesis (Major))
• Bode, Jason Nathaniel — Black Hole Mergers and Their Electromagnetic Counterparts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cohen, Michael Isaac — Topics in Gravitation – Numerical Simulations of Event Horizons and Parameter Estimation for LISA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Karkare, Kirit Sukrit — A Ku-Band Polarimeter for the Owens Valley Radio Observatory 40-Meter Telescope (Senior thesis (Major))
• Kasliwal, Mansi Manoj — Bridging the Gap: Elusive Explosions in the Local Universe (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schwamb, Megan E. — Beyond Sedna: Probing the Distant Solar System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sullivan, Ian Sorensen — CIBER: A Near-Infrared Probe of the Epoch of Reionization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sumner, Matthew Casey — Optimizing End-to-End System Performance for Millimeter and Submillimeter Spectroscopy of Protostars: Wideband Heterodyne Receivers and Sideband-Deconvolution Techniques for Rapid Molecular-Line Surveys (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2010

• Bogosavljević, Milan — Lyman Continuum and Lyman α Emission from Galaxies at High Redshift (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Braakman, Rogier — Gas-Phase Terahertz Spectroscopy and the Study of Complex Interstellar Chemistry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Busch, Michael William — Shapes and Spins of Near-Earth Asteroids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grin, Daniel — The Lukewarm Frontier: Some Cosmological Consequences of 'Low Energy' Physics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kraus, Adam L. — Multiple Star Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2009

• Boyle, Michael — Accurate Gravitational Waveforms from Binary Black-hole Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brobeck, Elina — Measurement of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with CHICOS (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cameron, Patrick Brian — The Formation and Evolution of Neutron Stars: Astrometry, Timing, and Transients (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cenko, Stephen Bradley — The Energetics and Environments of Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Corder, Stuartt Allan — Optimizing Image Fidelity with Arrays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Law, David Richard — The Kiloparsec-Scale Structure and Kinematics of High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Chao — Topics in Theoretical Astrophysics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Menéndez-Delmestre, Karín — The Luminous, the Massive and the Dusty: A Near- to Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Submillimeter Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ragozzine, Darin Alan — Orbital Dynamics of Kuiper Belt Object Satellites, a Kuiper Belt Family, and Extra-Solar Planet Interiors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Salyk, Colette Vanessa — Molecular Spectroscopy of Planet-Forming Regions in Circumstellar Disks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schlichting, Hilke Elisabeth — Understanding the Origin of Planetary Systems: Studying the Kuiper Belt and the Dynamics of Planet Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stark, Daniel Paul — Observing Galaxy Formation in the First Two Billion Years (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wiktorowicz, Sloane John — Unambiguous Black Hole Mass from Polarimetry and Application to Hot Jupiters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2008

• Barkume, Kristina Marie — Surface Properties of Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, Joanna Margaret — Childhood to Adolescence: Dust and Gas Clearing in Protoplanetary Disks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Chi Ming Hubert — Development of Hard X-ray Imaging Detectors for the High Energy Focusing Telescope (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Christopher, Micol Huw — Young, Massive Star Clusters in the Antennae (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Enoch, Melissa Lanae — Molecular Clouds and Star Formation: A Multiwavelength Study of Perseus, Serpens, and Ophiuchus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gao, Jiansong — The Physics of Superconducting Microwave Resonators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hainline, Laura Jeannine — Multi-Wavelength Properties of Submillimeter-Selected Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kumar, Shwetank — Submillimeter Wave Camera Using A Novel Photon Detector Technology (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mandel, Ilya — The Three Ss of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Sources, Signals, Searches (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moran, Sean Michael — Understanding the Physical Processes Driving Galaxy Evolution in Clusters: A Case Study of Two z ~ 0.5 Galaxy Clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Naylor, Bret Justin — Broadband Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy with Z-Spec: An Unbiased Molecular-Line Survey of the Starburst Galaxy M82 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Donovan, Francis Thomas — The Detection and Exploration of Planets from the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sayers, Jack — A Search for Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies on Arcminute Scales (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schaller, Emily Lauren — I. Seasonal Changes in Titan’s Cloud Activity. II. Volatile Ices on Outer Solar System Objects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Slesnick, Catherine Louise — 1-10 Myr-Old Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Nearby Star Forming Regions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suyu, Sherry Hsuan — Dissecting the Gravitational Lens B1608+656: Implications for the Hubble Constant (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2007

• Becker, George Dana — A High-Resolution Study of the High-Redshift Intergalactic Medium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bondarescu, Mihai — Topics in General Relativity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cossel, Kevin — Laser Offset Stabilization for Broadly Tunable TeraHertz (THz) Frequency Generation (Senior thesis (Major))
• Eckart, Megan Elizabeth — Measurements of X-Ray Selected AGN and Novel Superconducting X-Ray Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fang, Hua — Topics in Gravitational Physics: Tidal Coupling in Gravitational Wave Searches and Mach’s Principle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Liming — Dynamics of the Jovian Atmosphere from Observation and Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lovelace, Geoffrey Mark — Topics in Gravitational-Wave Physics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morris, Bradford S. — Charge-Exchange Collision Dynamics and Ion Engine Grid Geometry Optimization (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 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Soderberg, Alicia Margarita — The Many Facets of Cosmic Explosions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Min — Submillimeter Surveys of Galaxy Samples (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2006

• Basu, Shabari — Simulations of the Martian Dust Cycle with a General Circulation Model (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bundy, Kevin A. — The Mass Assembly History of Field Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Erb, Dawn Karuna — The Properties of Star-Forming Galaxies at z ~ 2: Kinematics, Stellar Populations, and Metallicities (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kovács, Attila — SHARC-2 350 Micron Observations of Distant Submillimeter Selected Galaxies and Techniques for the Optimal Analysis and Observing of Weak Signals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liang, Mao-Chang — Chemical and Dynamical Processes in the Atmospheres of I. Ancient and Present-Day Earth, II. Jupiter and Galileo Satellite, III. Extrasolar “Hot Jupiters” (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Junjun — Interaction of Magnetic Field and Flow in the Outer Shells of Giant Planets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Metchev, Stanimir Angelov — Brown Dwarf Companions to Young Solar Analogs: An Adaptive Optics Survey Using Palomar and Keck (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pan, Margaret Whei-Jie — Slices of Theoretical Astrophysics: Solar System Dynamics and Relativistic Explosions (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 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reddy, Naveen Ananta — A Multi-Wavelength Census of Star Formation at Redshift z ~ 2 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zukin, Phillip Gregory — Astrophysical Blastwaves (Senior thesis (Major))

2005

• Eisner, Joshua Aaron — High Angular Resolution Studies of the Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Farmer, Alison Jane — Adventures in Theoretical Astrophysics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jacoby, Bryan Anthony — Recycled Pulsars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kapinus, Vadym A. — Photophysical Properties of Protonated Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mazin, Benjamin A. — Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weinberg, Nevin Nachum — I. Ash Injection and Exposure During Radius Expansion Type I X-Ray Bursts. II. Stellar Dynamics at the Galactic Center. III. Weak Gravitational Lensing by Dark Matter Concentrations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Widicus Weaver, Susanna Leigh — Rotational Spectroscopy and Observational Astronomy of Prebiotic Molecules (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2004

• Berger, Edo — Cosmic Explosions: The Beasts and Their Lair (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bouchez, Antonin Henri — Seasonal Trends in Titan’s Atmosphere: Haze, Wind, and Clouds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hunt, Matthew Philip — Faint Optically Selected AGN at z = 3 (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 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kessler, Jacqueline Elizabeth — Gas and Dust Chemistry in Planet-Forming Disks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Shaughnessy, Richard William — Topics in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Santos, Michael Robert — Galaxy Formation Near the Epoch of Reionization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Selman, Fernando Javier — The Initial Mass Function and Star-Formation History in the 30 Doradus Super-Association (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sievers, Jonathan LeRoy — Data Analysis of and Results from Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background with the Cosmic Background Imager (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Simcoe, Robert Andrew — Observations of Intergalactic Heavy-Element Enrichment in the Early Universe (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Udomprasert, Patricia Simcoe — H₀ from Cosmic Background Imager Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect in Nearby Clusters. (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Huiqun Helen — Global Observations of Martian Clouds with the Mars Orbiter Camera of the Mars Global Surveyor Spacecraft (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2003

• Cartwright, John Kenneth — A Limit on the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chandler, Adam Matthew — Pulsar Searches: From Radio to Gamma-Rays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Yanbei — Topics of LIGO Physics: Quantum Noise in Advanced Interferometers and Template Banks for Compact-Binary Inspirals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fenton, Lori Kay — Aeolian Processes on Mars: Atmospheric Modeling and GIS Analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hartl, Michael David — Dynamics of Spinning Compact Binaries in General Relativity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelly, Melissa Ann — Some New Measurements of the Ground and v₂ = 1 States of HDO in the Region 200 – 750 GHz (Master's thesis)
• Liu, Yuk Tung — Dynamical Stability of Nascent Neutron Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Purdue, Patricia Marie — Topics in LIGO-Related Physics: Interferometric Speed Meters and Tidal Work (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shapley, Alice Eve — Detailed Astrophysical Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2002

• Adelberger, Kurt Ludvig — Star Formation and Structure Formation between Redshifts 1 < z < 4 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Alvi, Kashif Siddiq — Topics in General Relativity: Binary Black Holes and Hyperbolic Formulations of Einstein's Equations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bloom, Joshua Simon — Toward an Understanding of the Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burgasser, Adam Jonathan — The Discovery and Characterization of Methane-bearing Brown Dwarfs and the Definition of the T Spectral Class (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dyudina, Ulyana Anatolyevna — Light Scattering in the Clouds on Jupiter (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kern, Brian Daniel — Optical Pulse-Phased Observations of Faint Pulsars with a Phase-Binning CCD Camera (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lithwick, Yoram — Topics in MHD Turbulence (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mao, Peter Hsih-Jen — Hard X-Ray Observations of the Extragalactic Sky: The High Energy Focusing Telescope and the Serendipitous Extragalactic X-ray Source Identification Survey (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vallisneri, Michele — Modeling and Detecting Gravitational Waves from Compact Stellar Objects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ward, John Strawn — Observations of Carbon Monoxide in the Starburst Galaxy M82 with a 690 GHz Wide Spectral Bandwidth Receiver (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2001

• Gal, Roy R. — The Northern Sky Optical Cluster Survey: Galaxy Clusters from Five Thousand Square Degrees of DPOSS (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jenet, Fredrick August — High Time Resolution Observations of Radio Pulsars: The First Detection of Coherent Emission (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kuchner, Marc Jason — Exozodiacal Dust (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Yuan-Tai — Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport Modeling in the Outer Solar System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maron, Jason L. — Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moyer, Elisabeth Jeanne Bailey — Tracers of Rapid Transport in the Lower Stratosphere (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pankine, Alexey Anatolyevich — Low Order Model of Martian Circulation and Interannual Variability of Global Dust Storms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Qi, Chunhua — Aperture Synthesis Studies of the Chemical Composition of Protoplanetary Disks and Comets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sandhu, Jagmit Singh — High Precision Dual Frequency Timing of Millisecond Pulsars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Toigo, Anthony Domenick — Behavior of Dust in the Martian Atmosphere (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2000

• Baker, Andrew Jordan — Molecular Gas in Nearby Active Galactic Nuclei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Behr, Bradford B. — A New Spin on Horizontal-Branch Stars: Anomalous Abundances and Rapid Rotation Rates (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chattopadhyay, Goutam — Dual polarized and balanced receivers at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiang, Eugene — Circumstellar and circumplanetary disks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Creighton, Teviet David — From the Big Bang to Tumbleweeds: Analysis of Signals from Relic Gravitons, Neutron Stars, and Terrestrial Gravitational Noise in Gravitational Wave Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kollmeier, Juna Ariele — On the Kinematics of Galaxies and Associated QSO Absorption Systems (Senior thesis (Major))
• Krasnopolsky, Ruben — Hydromagnetic astrophysical outflows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luo, Chiyan — Millimeter Wave Loss in Superconducting Striplines (Senior thesis (Major))
• Murphy, Thomas Williams, Jr. — Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: Power Sources and Ages Along the Merger Sequence (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1999

• Benford, Dominic James — Broadband submillimeter instrumentation for the detection of distant galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fassnacht, Christopher D. — Determining the distance scale with CLASS: studies of two new gravitational lenses and a measurement of the Hubble constant (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kass, David M. — Change in the Martian Atmosphere (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levin, Yuri — Topics in Physics and Astrophysics of LIGO (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oppenheimer, Ben R. — Direct Detection of Brown Dwarf Companions of Nearby Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1998

• Bernstein, Rebecca A. — The HST/LCO measurement of the mean flux of the extragalactic background light (3000-8000Å) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gizis, John Evangelos — M Subdwarfs and the Population II Luminosity Function (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hughes, Scott Alexander — Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Aspects of the Theory of Binary Sources and Interferometric Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Koh, Danny Towsian — Continuous Long Term Observations of Accreting Pulsars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leitch, Erik M. — A measurement of anisotropy in the microwave background on 7'-22' scales (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lyutikov, Maxim — Coherent emission mechanisms in radio pulsars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mahajan, Sanjoy Sondhi — Order of Magnitude Physics: A Textbook with Applications to the Retinal Rod and the Density of Prime Numbers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ogle, Patrick Michael — Polarization and Structure of Broad Absorption Line Quasi-Stellar Objects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Owen, Benjamin James — Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pahre, Michael Andrew — Elliptical galaxies : structure, stellar content, and evolution (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vasavada, Ashwin R. — I. Temperatures of polar ice deposits on mercury and the moon. II. Jovian atmospheric dynamics from Galileo imaging (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Yanqin — Excitation and Saturation of White Dwarf Pulsation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1997

• Akeson, Rachel Lynn — Millimeter Interferometric Polarimetry of Magnetic Field Structure in Protostellar Condensations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Asimow, Paul David — A Thermodynamic Model of Adiabatic Melting of the Mantle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bin, Mei — Low-noise THz Niobium SIS Mixers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bryant, Peter M. — High-resolution observations of the molecular gas in luminous infrared galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hunter, Todd Russell — A submillimeter imaging survey of ultracompact HII regions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jiang, Yibo — Decadal evolution of atmospheric ozone and remote sensing of tropospheric ozone (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kennefick, Daniel John — Radiation Reaction in Binary Systems in General Relativity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Knop, Robert A., Jr. — Spatially Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of Seyfert Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Labrador, Allan Wayne — Measurement of the Galactic Cosmic Ray Antiproton Flux from 0.25 GeV to 3.11 GeV with the Isotope Matter Antimatter Experiment (IMAX) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ryan, Fintan Danh — Searching for Black Holes and Other Massive, Compact Bodies Using the Gravitational Waves from Binary Inspirals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1996

• Chakrabarty, Deepto — Hard X-Ray Detection and Timing of Accretion-Powered Pulsars with BATSE (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hansen, Bradley Miles Stougaard — The ages, speeds and offspring of pulsars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Larkin, James Edwin — Near Infrared Spectroscopy of LINER Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Putney, Angela — Magnetic white dwarf stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Small, Todd Andrew — The Norris survey of the Corona Borealis supercluster (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stockman, Paul Alan — Microwave and Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of Water-Containing, Hydrogen-Bonded Dimers: Vibrational, Rotational, and Tunneling Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vasisht, Gautam — Many faces of young neutron stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yan, Lin — Binary stars in globular clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1995

• Apostolatos, Theocaris A. — Topics in general relativity : naked singularities, and theoretical aspects of gravitational waves from merging compact binaries (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Groesbeck, Todd Dickson — The Contribution of Molecular Line Emission to Broadband Flux Measurements at Millimeter and Submillimeter Wavelengths (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Koerner, David — The kinematics of circumstellar disks around T Tauri stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McMuldroch, Stuart — The Circumstellar Environments of FU Orionis Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peri, Michal Leah — Asteroseismological observations of eta Cassiopeiae A with the Palomar east arm echelle spectrograph (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rauch, Kevin Patrick — Black holes and accretion disks in active galactic nuclei : microlensing, caustics, and collisional stellar dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ray, Paul Shelton — High-sensitivity searches for radio pulsars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schoelkopf, Robert J. — Studies of noise in Josephson-effect mixers and their potential for submillimeter heterodyne detection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thompson, David — Surveys for primeval galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weir, William Nicholas — Automated analysis of the Digitized Second Palomar Sky Survey : system design, implementation, and initial results (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xu, Wenge — The first Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI survey (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1994

• Banfield, Donald J. — A dynamical history of the inner Neptunian satellites and Martian weather : Viking observations and M.O. data assimilation techniques (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flanagan, Eanna E. — Topics in general relativity : the hoop conjecture and theoretical aspects of gravitational wave detection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Herbig, Thomas — A measurement of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in the coma cluster of galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Horowitz, Irwin Kenneth — Evolution of emission line galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Jeongwoo — Study of solar microwave radiation using multifrequency data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leroy, Stephen Sylvain — Convectively generated internal gravity waves in Venus's middle atmosphere : momentum transport and radio scintillations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marković, Dragoljub — Black holes in the early universe, in compact binaries, and as energy sources inside solar-type stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Navarro, Jose — A wide bandwidth pulsar timing machine (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roth, Joshua — Constraints upon the cosmological density parameter from Tully-Fisher observations of IRAS galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Willette, Gregory Thomas — Stochastic excitation of the solar oscillations by turbulent convection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Young, Kenneth Harbour — Submillimeter and infrared studies of mass lost by asymptotic giant branch stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1993

• Anderson, Stuart Bruce — A study of recycled pulsars in globular clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Biehle, Garrett T. — Studies of stars with neutron cores and of x-ray binaries displaying quasi-periodic oscillations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Büttgenbach, Thomas H. — Quasi-optical sis receivers and astrophysical observations at submillimeter wavelengths (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ghez, Andrea Mia — The Multiplicity of T Tauri Stars in the Star Forming Regions Taurus-Auriga and Ophiucus-Scorpius: A 2.2 µm Speckle Imaging Survey (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reisenegger, Tassilo Andreas — Hydrodynamics of neutron star interiors and laboratory superfluids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Santee, Michelle — The thermal structure, dust loading, and meridional transport in the Martian atmosphere during late southern summer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tinney, Christopher G. — The faintest stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1992

• Achterberg, Richard Karl — Numerical Simulation of Baroclinic Jovian Vortices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnston, Helen Margaret — Compact objects in the disk and globular clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Klinkhammer, Gunnar Ulrich — Multiply connected spacetimes and closed timelike curves in semiclassical gravity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Padgett, Deborah Lynne — Photospheric abundance analysis of low mass pre-main sequence stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Palmer, David M. — Gamma-ray imaging observations of Supernova 1987A (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sigurdsson, Steinn — Dynamics of neutron stars and binaries in globular clusters or, Ménages à trois: revitalizing burnt out degenerates through partner swapping (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• van Putten, Maurice H. P. M. — MHD in divergence form : a computational method for astrophysical flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zuo, Lin — QSO Absorption Lines and the Ionizing Field at High Redshifts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1991

• Carico, David Paul — Properties of infrared-luminous galaxies, or, how I spent seven summer vacations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Coppi, Paolo Severo — Radiative processes in active galactic nuclei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Han, Mingsheng — The I-band Tully-Fisher relation and large-scale motions in the universe (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Picard, Alain — The large scale structure of the universe (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rand, Richard J. — The relationship between the density wave, molecular gas and star formation in M51 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Salmon, John K. — Parallel hierarchical N-body methods (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stapelfeldt, Karl Roald — A multiwavelength observational investigation of Herbig-Haro objects and their exciting stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stern, Jeffrey Aaron — Fabrication and testing of NbN/MgO/NbN tunnel junctions for use as high-frequency heterodyne detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1990

• Budge, Kent Grimmett — A Non-LTE Analysis of a Sample of O Stars Selected from Galactic OB Associations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Canzian, Blaise J. — Molecular Gas and Star Formation in the Central Regions of Virgo Spiral Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Michael Coleman — Radiative transfer in very strong magnetic fields (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Myers, Steven Theodore — A Search for Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background on Angular Scales of 1 to 30 Arcminutes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Steidel, Charles Colville — Spectroscopic Observations of High Redshift QSOs: Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium at Early Epochs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wilson, Christine Diana — Star formation and the interstellar medium in M33 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Xiao-He — Multipole moments in general relativity and dynamical perturbations of black-hole magnetospheres (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1989

• Barsony, Mary Anne — Outflows in High Mass Star-Forming Regions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dowling, Timothy Edward — A Dynamical Study of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yurtsever, Ulvi Hamit — Singularities and Horizons in the Collisions of Gravitational Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zucker, Michael Edward — Experiments with a Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Antenna (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1988

• Braunstein, Samuel Leon — Novel Quantum States and Measurements (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Finger, Mark Harold — The Imaging of Extra-Galactic Low-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources: Prospects, Techniques, and Instrumentation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grossman, Erich Nathan — A Far-Infrared Heterodyne Spectrometer for Airborne Astronomy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kumar, Pawan — Excitation and Damping of Solar P-Modes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McCarthy, James K. — Echelle Spectroscopy of the Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morris, Michael Scott — The R +ɛR² Cosmology (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ojakangas, Gregory Wayne — I. Episodic Volcanism of Tidally Heated Satellites with an Application to Io. II. Thermal State of an Ice Shell on Europa. III. Polar Wander of a Synchronously Rotating Satellite with Application to Europa (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Porter, Alain Cheyney — Isophotometry of Brightest Elliptical Galaxies in Rich Clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Haimin — Magnetic Fields and Supergranule Velocity Fields on the Quiet Sun (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wengler, Michael James — Heterodyne Detection with Superconducting Tunnel Diodes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1987

• Chou, Dean-Yi — Development and Evolution of Magnetic Fields in Active Regions on the Sun (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Edelson, Richard Allen — Broadband Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Finn, Lee Samuel — Relativistic Stellar Pulsations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Friedson, Andrew James — I. Meridional Energy Balance of Uranus. II. Viscosity of Rock-Ice Mixtures. III. The Thermosphere of Titan (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kirk, Randolph Livingstone — I. Thermal Evolution of Ganymede and Implications for Surface Features. II. Magnetohydrodynamic Constraints on Deep Zonal Flow in the Giant Planets. III. A Fast Finite-Element Algorithm for Two-Dimensional Photoclinometry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lind, Kevin Robert — Observations and Gas Dynamics of Extragalactic Radio Jets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rudy, Donald James — Mars: High Resolution VLA Observations at Wavelengths of 2 and 6 cm and Derived Properties (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1986

• Biretta, John Anthony — Investigations of Radio Jets in M87, 3C273, and 3C345 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blake, Geoffrey A. — On the Chemical Composition of Interstellar Molecular Clouds: A Millimeter and Submillimeter Spectral Line Survey of OMC-1 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hough, David Hans — Parsec-Scale Structure in the Nuclei of Double-Lobed Radio Quasars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rich, Robert Michael — Abundances and Kinematics of K Giants in the Galactic Nuclear Bulge (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1985

• Fillmore, James Arthur — A Study on the Formation and Dynamics of Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sahai, Raghvendra — Circumstellar Shells of Late-Type Stars: a Study at Millimeter and Infrared Wavelengths (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schumaker, Bonny Laura — Theoretical Investigations in Nonlinear Quantum Optics, Theory of Measurement, and Pulsations of General Relativistic Models of Neutron Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suen, Wai Mo — Dynamical Electromagnetic Fields Near Black Holes and Multipole Moments of Stationary, General Relativistic Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1984

• Filippenko, Alexei Vladimir — Physical Conditions in Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lichten, Stephen Morris — Turbulence and Mass Motion in Galactic Molecular Clouds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Macdonald, Douglas Alan — Black-Hole Electrodynamics (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 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Saha, Abhijit — A Survey of Halo RR Lyrae Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1983

• Berriman, Graham Bruce — Visible and Infrared Studies of Cataclysmic Variable Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Borne, Kirk Daniel — The Structure and Evolution of Interacting Binary Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gürsel, Halis Yekta — Stability of Spherically Symmetric, Charged Black Holes and Multipole Moments for Stationary Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Horne, Keith Douglas — Eclipse Mapping of Accretion Disks in Cataclysmic Binaries (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Malkan, Matthew Arnold — The Physical Nature of the Continuum in Active Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pier, Jeffrey Ross — A Study of A- and B-Type Stars in the Southern Galactic Halo (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Simon, Richard Stanley — Nuclear Structure of Quasars at 329 Megahertz (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1982

• Flammang, Richard Alan — Stationary Spherical Optically Thick Accretion into Black Holes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Redman, Russell Ormond — The Orientation and Sizes of Molecular Clouds in the Galaxy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schneider, Donald P. — CCD Observations of Clusters of Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sebok, William Lawrence — Use of an Automated Photographic Object Detection System to Analyse the Effect of Magnitude on the Angular Correlation Function of Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1981

• Linfield, Roger Paul — Studies of Compact Extragalactic Radio Sources (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rabin, Douglas Mark — Studies of Stellar Populations: Star Clusters in M3l, the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wade, Richard Alan — Spectroscopy and Spectrophotometry of Cataclysmic Variable Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• 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 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yee, Howard Kwong Chew — Optical Spectral Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1980

• Cimerman, Menachem — A Study of Hydroxyl Masers in the Circumstellar Envelopes of Long Period Variable Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hoessel, John Greg — The Photometric Properties of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kent, Stephen Matthew — Interactions Between Galaxies and a Hot Medium in Rich Clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zimmermann, Mark Edward — Studies on Gravitational Waves and Stars with Neutron Cores (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1979

• Caves, Carlton Morris — Theoretical Investigations of Experimental Gravitation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• LaBonte, Barry James — Studies of Chromospheric Activity Observed in Hα and D₃ (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nicholson, Philip David — 1. Tidal Synchronization of the Rotation of Early Main Sequence Stars in Close Binaries. 2. The Rings of Uranus: Results of the 1978 April 10 Occultation. 3. On the Resonance Theory of the Rings of Uranus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Romney, Jonathan Daniel MacLeish — Fine-Scale Structure of the Neutral Hydrogen Absorption in NGC1275 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Young, Peter John — Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1978

• Alcock, Charles — I. Small Angle Scattering of Radiation. II. Molecular Emission Lines Around Evolved Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• De Logi, Walter K. — Electromagnetic Wave Generation and Propagation in Gravitational Fields (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Elias, Jonathan H. — Infrared Studies of Two Dark Clouds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sargent, Anneila Isabel — Molecular Clouds and Star Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1977

• Green, Richard Frederick — A Complete Sample of White Dwarfs, Hot Subdwarfs, and Quasars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huchra, John Peter — The Nature of Markarian Galaxies and Studies of Star Formation In Blue Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kovács, Sándor János, Jr. — The Generation of Gravitational Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Melnick, Jorge — The Structure of Giant Extragalactic HII Regions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1976

• Bagnuolo, William G., Jr. — The Stellar Composition and Evolution of Irregular and Other Late-Type Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hickson, Paul — The Structure of Clusters of Galaxies and the Angular Size-Redshift Test (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kormendy, John — Brightness Distributions in Compact and Normal Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Page, Don Nelson — Accretion Into and Emission from Black Holes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pigg, Jay Cee — A Limit on the Inhomogeneity of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation at an Angular Scale of 1.25 Arcmin (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reid, Mark Jonathan — The Structure of Hydroxyl Masers and Circumstellar Envelopes of Long Period Variable Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Turner, Edwin Lewis — Binary Galaxies and Groups of Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Turnrose, Barry Edmund — The Stellar Content of the Nuclear Regions of Sc Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Williams, Theodore Burton — Stellar Populations and Velocity Dispersions of Ten Nearby Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Willner, Steven Paul — Compact Infrared Sources: NGC 7538 and the Galactic Center (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1975

• Chu, Kwong Wah — HI Observations of Dust Clouds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kirshner, Robert Paul — Spectrophotometry of Supernovae and their Remnants (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1974

• Bieging, John Harold — Aperture Synthesis Observations of OH Absorption in the Galactic Center (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Callahan, Philip Sidney — Observation of the Solar-Wind Turbulence Near the Sun (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, David Li — Frameworks for Analyzing and Testing Theories of Gravity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lightman, Alan Paige — I. Time-Dependent Accretion Disks Around Compact Objects and II. Theoretical Frameworks for Analyzing and Testing Gravitation Theories (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oemler, Augustus, Jr. — The Systematic Properties of Clusters of Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shaffer, David Bruce — The Structure of Compact Radio Sources at 10.7 GHz (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shectman, Stephen Alan — Clusters of Galaxies and the Cosmic Light (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sorkin, Rafael D. — Development of Simplectic Methods for the Metrical and Electromagnetic Fields (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Teukolsky, Saul Arno — Perturbations of a Rotating Black Hole (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Veeder, Glenn John, Jr. — Temperatures and Luminosities of M Type Dwarfs from Infrared Photometry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1973

• Dykla, John Joseph — Conserved Quantities and the Formation of Black Holes in the Brans-Dicke Theory of Gravitation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Greisen, Eric Winslow — Aperture Synthesis of Interstellar Neutral Hydrogen in Absorption (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kwan, John Ying-Kuen — Polarization Properties of Astrophysical Masers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ni, Wei-Tou — Metric Theories of Gravity and their Astrophysical Implications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Press, William Henry — Applications of Black-Hole Perturbation Techniques (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Purcell, George Harber — The Structure of Compact Radio Sources at 606 MHz (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shields, Gregory Alan — Ionization Structure and Emission Line Intensities of Seyfert Galaxy Nuclei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ward, William Roger — I. The Formation of Planetesimals. II. Tidal Friction and Generalized Cassini's Laws in the Solar System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1972

• Adelman, Saul Joseph — A Study of Twenty-One Sharp-Lined Non-Variable Cool Peculiar A Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Christensen, Clark Gardner — The Synthesis of Composite Spectra: A Study of Four Globular Clusters of the Galaxy, Five Globular Clusters of M31 and the Nucleus of NGC 205 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oinas, Valdar — Analysis of Normal and Strong-Lined K-Type Dwarf and Giant Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Persson, Sven Eric — Interpretation of the Neutral Helium Triplet Spectrum in Planetary Nebulae (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schutz, Bernard Frederick, Jr. — Relativistic Velocity: Potential Hydrodynamics and Stellar Stability (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shostak, Gerson Seth — Aperture Synthesis Observations of Neutral Hydrogen in Three Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yip, Ka Bing Winson — Synthesis of the Polarization Properties of Cygnus A at 8300 and 9600 Megahertz (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1971

• Cohen, Judith Gamora — The Lithium Isotope Ratio in F and G Field Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Frogel, Jay Albert — Infrared Spectra of Late-Type Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Price, Richard Henry — Nonspherical Perturbation of Relativistic Gravitational Collapse (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shipman, Henry Longfellow — White Dwarfs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weistrop, Donna Etta — Characteristics of Disk and Halo Populations Derived from Photographic Photometry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Will, Clifford Martin — Theoretical Frameworks for Testing Relativistic Gravity. The Parametrized Post-Newtonian Formalism (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1970

• Defouw, Richard John — Thermal Instability and the Convective Stability of Stellar Chromospheres (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Keeley, Douglas Allan — Static and Dynamical Models of Long-Period Variable Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Michaud, Georges Joseph — I. Diffusion Processes in A-PEC Stars. II. Nucleosynthesis in Si Burning (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Connell, Robert West — The Stellar Content of M82 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Osmer, Patrick Stewart — The Atmospheres of the F Supergiants (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peterson, Arsine Victoria — A Spectroscopic Investigation of Four O-Type Subdwarfs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sramek, Richard Anthony — The Brightness Distribution of Core-Halo Radio Sources (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Webber, John Clinton — The Molecular Spectrum of Sunspots (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1969

• Anderson, Kurt Steven Jarl — A Spectrophotometric Study of Seyfert Nuclei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burke, William Lionel — The Coupling of Gravitational Radiation to Nonrelativistic Sources (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ipser, James Reid — The Stability of Relativistic, Spherically Symmetric Star Clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jacobs, Kenneth Charles — Bianchi Type I Cosmological Models (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peterson, Bruce Alrick — A Study of Absorption and Reddening Using Absolute Magnitudes and Colors of Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1968

• Anderson, Christopher Marlowe — The Interstellar Extinction of Stars in H II Regions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Larson, Richard Bondo — Dynamics of a Collapsing Protostar (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scargle, Jeffrey Drexel — Activity in the Crab Nebula (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trimble, Virginia Louise — Motions and Structure of the Filamentary Envelope of the Crab Nebula (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1967

• Castor, John Irvin — Atmospheric Dynamics in a Model RR Lyrae Star (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fomalont, Edward Berel — The East-West Structure of Radio Sources at 1425 MHz (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1966

• Chandra, Subhash — A Study of Spectroscopic and Kinematic Characteristics of Peculiar A-Type Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gunn, James Edward — A Mathematical Framework for Discussing the Statistical Distribution of Galaxies in Space and its Cosmological Implications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kayser, Susan Elizabeth — Photometry in the Nearby Irregular Galaxy, NGC 6822 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1965

• Berge, Glenn LeRoy — An Interferometric Study of Jupiter's Decimeter Radio Emission (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Divine, Theodore Neil — Structure and Evolution of Model Helium Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trafton, Laurence Munro — A Study of the Energy Balance in the Atmospheres of the Major Planets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1964

• Arpigny, Claude — A Study of Molecular and Physical Processes in Comets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Clark, Barry Gillespie — The Twenty-One Centimeter Hydrogen Line in Absorption (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Méndez, Manuel E. — The Spectrophotometry of the Orion Nebula (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mihalas, Dimitri Manuel — Model Atmosphere Studies of Early Type Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Norton, Robert Henry — HeH⁺ in Model Stellar Atmospheres (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1963

• Parker, Robert Allan Ridley — The Physical Conditions Pertaining to Some Possible Supernova Remnants (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1962

• Wildey, Robert LeRoy — The Stellar Content of the Perseus Galactic Arm in the Region of h and Chi Persei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wilson, Robert Woodrow — Observations of the Galactic Plane at 960 Mc/s (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1961

• Harris, Daniel Everett — The Continuous Spectra of Radio Sources with Particular Reference to Non-Thermal Galactic Sources (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1959

• Bonsack, Walter Karl — The Abundance of Lithium in the Atmospberes of Cool Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Melbourne, William Geary — Line Blanketing Effects on Middle-Type Main-Sequence and Sub-Dwarf Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1958

• Tifft, William Grant — Multicolor Photoelectric Photometry of Bright Extragalactic Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wallerstein, George — Spectra of Population II Cepheid Variable Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1957

• Abell, George Ogden — The Distribution of Rich Clusters of Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1956

• Mathis, John Samuel — The Abundance of Helium Relative to Hydrogen in the Orion Nebula (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1955

• Stewart, John Charles — A Quantitative Analysis of the Atmospheres of Three Peculiar Low-Luminosity B Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1954

• Parker, James Mervin — Profiles and Wavelength of Spectrum Lines in the Solar Chromosphere (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1953

• Arp, Halton Christian — Variable Stars with Periods Greater than One Day in Globular Clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sandage, Allan Rex — A Study of the Globular Cluster M3 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1952

• Abt, Helmut Arthur — An Analysis of the Variable Star, W Virginis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Young, Richard Davidson — The R-F Thermal Radiation from the Sun (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1950

• Hill, Armin John — Relative f-Values of Selected lines in the Absorption Spectrum of Chromium I (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1935

• Johnson, Josef Jerome — Visual Measurements of the Polarization of the Solar Corona (Dissertation (Ph.D.))