ASTROPHYSICS MAJORS AND INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

 
2007 - 2008
Seniors
Juniors

Zoe Buck
Senior Thesis: "The Real-Space Clustering of Galaxies around
Low-z Quasars in the SDSS Stripe 82"
Advisor: Michael Strauss

Katherine Miller
Senior Thesis: "Examining the Bullet Cluster:  Pairwise Velocity Distributions in a Large N-Body Cosmological Simulation"
Advisor: Neta Bahcall

Penny Pelton
Senior Thesis: "Identifying Galaxy-QSO Superpositions in
the SDSS"
Advisor: Michael Strauss

Valery Rashkov
Senior Thesis: "BL Lac Objects and Optically Violent Variables in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe"
Advisors: David Spergel and Michael Strauss

Gregory Snyder
Senior Thesis: "White Dwarf Colors in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Two Micron All Sky Survey: Consequences for Finding
Low-Mass Main Sequence Companions"
Advisor: Jill Knapp

Jessica Kloss
Fall JP:   "Galaxies and Their Nearest Neighbors"
Advisor:   Michael Strauss
Spring JP: "Classifying Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
Advisor: Robert Lupton

Ragnhild Lunnan
Fall JP: "Spectra of Radio-Emitting Galaxies in the SDSS"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: "Computer Self-Gravity Using a Multigrid Method"
Advisor: James Stone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



2006 - 2007
Seniors
Juniors

Zach Berta
Senior Thesis: "The Rosy Matched Filter: An Automated Red-Sequence Cluster Finder"
Advisor:  David Spergel

William Dahab
Senior Thesis: "Super-Massive Black Holes in Quasars "
Advisor: Neta Bahcall

Greg Haislip
Senior Thesis:  “Maximum BCG: Finding Clusters in Cosmos"
Advisor:  Neta Bahcall and Dave Johnson, Caltech

Kelly Halford
Senior Thesis: "Aim for the Moon, at Least if you Miss, You Will End Up Among the Stars: Determining the Pointing of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope"
Advisor: David Spergel

Lorne Hofstetter
Senior Thesis: "Portrait of the Sloan Great Wall"
Advisor: Richard Gott

Lear Janiv
Senior Thesis:  “The Local Galactic Escape Velocity: The Mass of the Milky Way ”
Advisor:  Jill Knapp

Ariel Klainerman
Senior Thesis:  “A Conformal Journey to the Center of the Earth: Extending the Map of the Universe down to the Quark”
Advisor:  Richard Gott

Blake Martin
Senior Thesis:  “The Scale Dependence of the Baryon Mass Fraction”
Advisor:  Neta Bahcall

Corey Ritter
Senior Thesis:  “Coupling the QUIET Receiver to the ACT Telescope: A Simple Two-Lens Solution”
Advisor:  Suzanne Staggs

 

Zoe Buck
Fall JP:  “Identifying Pre-Main-Sequence-Stars Using SDSS Spectroscopy”
Advisor:   Jill Knapp
Spring JP: "'Accurately Determining Galaxy Cluster Parameters using a Matched Filter Method "
Advisor: David Spergel

Katherine Miller
Fall JP:   “Why Are They Pointing at Us? Are BL Lacertae Objects Messages From Aliens at the Edge of the Universe?"
Advisor:   Michael Strauss
Spring JP: "Oh Be a Fine Girl, Kiss Me Like That "
Advisor: Jill Knapp

Penny Pelton
Fall JP: "Selecting Radio Galaxies in the SDSS"
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: "Developing Photometric Search Methods to Identify T Tauri Candidates in the Taurus Cloud "
Advisor: Jill Knapp

Valery Rashkov
Fall JP:   “The Search for Faint Galaxies in the SDSS Sky Fibers ”
Advisor:   Michael Strauss
Spring JP:  "Photometric Redshift Determinations"
Advisor:  Neta Bahcall and Ofer Lahav, UCL

Gregory Snyder
Fall JP:   “Looking for Luminous Red Galaxies Using SDSS DR5 Photometry”
Advisor:   Jim Gunn
Spring JP: "Magnetized Shock-Cloud Interactions ”
Advisor: Jim Stone

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005-2006
Seniors
Juniors

Emmett Carlson
Senior Thesis: “Life Inside a Black Hole”
Advisor: Jeremy Goodman  

Mark Daniels
Senior Thesis: “Corrective Optics for Planet Finding”
Advisor: Ruslan Belikov and David Spergel  

Maggie Kirkland
Senior Thesis: “Estimating the Number of Habitable Planets in the Galaxy”
Advisors: Neta Bahcall

Martin Niederste-Ostholt
Senior Thesis: “Alignment of Brightest Cluster Galaxies with Their Host Cluster”
Advisor: Michael Strauss

James Wray
Senior Thesis: “ High-Dispersion Spectroscopy of Europa and Enceladus: Probing the Tenuous
Atmospheres of Active Icy Moons”
Advisor: Ed Turner

 

Zach Berta
Fall JP: “From Dragons and Toads to Dopplergrams: The Science of Helioseismology”
Advisor: Aristotle Socrates
Spring JP: “Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect in Clusters”
Advisor: David Spergel

William Ezra Dahab
Fall JP: “A Method for Analyzing Bright Objects in Sloan Digital Sky Survey to Search for Bright Quasars”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: “Planets”
Advisor: Ed Turner

Greg Haislip
Fall JP: “Disk Origin for S-Stars in Galactic Center?”
Advisor: Andrew Youdin
Spring JP: “Correlatations Between Line Width, Emission Line Rations, and Luminosities of Active Galaxies”
Advisor: Michael Strauss

Kelly Halford
Fall JP: “Carbon White Dwarfs of the SDSS DR4”
Advisor: Gillian Knapp
Spring JP: “Evolution of the Temperature of the Intergalactic Medium”
Advisor: Renyue Cen

Lorne Hofstetter
Fall JP: “Searching for White Dwarfs in the Galactic Halo”
Advisor: Gillian Knapp
Spring JP: “A Search for Fossil Groups”
Advisor: Michael Strauss

Lear Janiv
Fall JP: “Cluster CMB Polarization Signal as a Tracer of Dark Energy”
Advisor: David Spergel
Spring JP: “Recycling of Metals”
Advisor: Neta Bahcall and Renyur Cen

Ariel Klainerman
Fall JP: “The ACT Project: Extracting the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect from Simulated Sky Maps”
Advisor: David Spergel
Spring JP: “Seyfert Galaxies with Broad H alpha and Narrow H beta”
Advisor: Michael Strauss

Blake Martin
Fall JP: “Intrinsically Interesting Objects of the SDSS”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: “Gaseous Halos Around Galaxies”
Advisor: Renyue Cen

Corey Ritter
Fall JP: “Exploring the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Trouble List Spectra – A Fishing Expedition”
Advisor: Michael Strauss
Spring JP: “Science Instrumentation for ACT”
Advisor: Suzanne Staggs (Physics) and Neta Bahcall

 

 

2004-2005
Seniors
Juniors

Daniel Miller
Senior Thesis: “The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapon Technology in Iran”
Advisors: Hal Feiveson (WWS) and Neta Bahcall

Joseph Munoz
Senior Thesis: “Model Dependence of the Primordial Density Perturbation Spectrum on Small Scales”
Advisors: Paul Steinhardt (Physics) and Neta Bahcall

Rob Siverd
Senior Thesis: “Small Telescope Earthshine Observation”
Advisors: Ed Turner and David Spergel

Nicholas Teh
Senior Thesis: “An Analytical Approach to Singularity Theorems in GR”
Advisors: Sergiu Klainerman (Math) and Jeremy Goodman

Emmett Carlson
Fall JP: “A Search for Halo White Dwarf Candidates Using Proper Motions from SDSS”
Advisor: Gillian Knapp
Spring JP: “Past, Present and Future in the Context of Einstein's Relativity Theories”
Advisors: Hans Halvorson (Philosophy) and Jeremy Goodman

Mark Daniels
Fall JP: “A Method for Inferring Surface Data from Planets with Variable Cloud Cover”
Advisor: Edwin L. Turner
Spring JP: “H2 Emission from HH 46/47 as Detected by Spitzer's IRAC Camera”
Advisor: Ed Jenkins

Maggie Kirkland
Fall JP: “Gravitational Microlensing in the Presence of a Planetary Disk”
Advisor: Scott Tremaine
Spring JP: “Detectability of Molecular Hydrogen with IRAC”
Advisor: Bruce Draine

Martin Niederste-Ostholt
Fall JP: “Gravitational Instability in Protoplanetary Disks”
Advisor: Andrew Youdin
Spring JP: “Galactic Escape Speed and Galactic Mass Determination ”
Advisor: Gillian Knapp and Jim Gunn

James Wray
Fall JP: “A New Technique for Galaxy Photometric Redshifts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: James E. Gunn
Spring JP: “Supercluster Properties and Evolution in a LCDM Cosmology”
Advisor: Neta Bahcall

 

2003-2004
Seniors
Juniors

Philip F. Hopkins
Senior Thesis: “Alignment of Large-Scale Structure in the Universe”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall

Madhuri Kaul
Senior Thesis: “First Field Test Measurements of CMB Polarimeter on a Chip”
Advisors: Suzanne Staggs (Physics), Neta Bahcall

Joshua Younger
Senior Thesis: “Evolution of the Cluster Correlation Function in the Standard LCDM Cosmology”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall

Daniel Miller
Fall JP: “Circumstellar Disk Theory and its Applications”
Advisor: Marc Kuchner
Spring JP: “Absolute Magnitudes and Tangential Velocities of Brown Dwarfs”
Advisor: Gillian Knapp

Joseph Munoz
Fall JP: “A Test for Residual Foregrounds in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Data with the Temperature-Polarization Correlation”
Advisor: David Spergel
Spring JP: “Geometrical Effects of Anti-de Sitter Space on the Behavior of Force-Mediating Bosons”
Advisor: Richard Gott

Rob Siverd
Fall JP: “Classification of Distant Radio Objects”
Advisor: Zeljko Ivezic
Spring JP: “Identification of BL Lacertae Objects from SDSS Spectra”
Advisor: Michael Strauss

Nicholas Teh
Fall JP: “On Conformal Symmetry”
Advisors: Igor Klebanov, Neta A. Bahcall
Spring JP: “Applications of Operator K-Theory motivated by the Bell’s Inequality in Algebraic QFT”
Advisors: Hans Halvorson (Philosophy), Neta Bahcall

 

2002-2003

Seniors Juniors

Cullen Blake
Senior Thesis: “A Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets Around Nearby L Dwarfs” and “Photometry with the Super-Wide-Field ASAS III Camera”
Advisors: Bohdan Paczynski, David N. Spergel

Joshua Schroeder
Senior Thesis: “ Carbon Stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp

Charles Steinhardt
Senior Thesis: “Constraints on Field Theoretical Models for Variation of the Fine Structure Constant”
Advisor: David N. Spergel

Philip F. Hopkins
Fall JP: “Selection of Metal-Poor Giant and RR Lyrae Stars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data”
Advisor: Zeljko Ivezic
Spring JP: “Examination of Reddened Quasars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss

Madhuri Kaul
Fall JP: “SDSS Proper Motion Survey”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp
Spring JP: “Comparison of the K + Background in MiniBooNE as Generated by the GEANT and MARS Monte Carlo Simulations”
Advisors: Andrew Bazarko (Physics), Neta A. Bahcall

Joshua D. Younger
Fall JP: “Mie Scattering in Dusty Disks: Dependence on the Inclination”
Advisor: Edwin L. Turner
Spring JP: “A Search for Cool Population II M Subdwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp

 

2001-2002

Seniors
Juniors

Julia Comerford
Senior Thesis: “Probability of Gravitational Lensing of High-Redshift Quasars”
Advisor: Zoltan Haiman

Ernie Tretkoff (Physics)
Senior Thesis: “Halo Clustering in Warm Dark Matter Models”
Advisors: Neta A. Bahcall, Paul Bode

Cullen Blake
Fall JP: “The Princeton Variability Survey”
Advisor: Bohdan Paczynski
Spring JP: “Difference Image Analysis of EXPLORE I Data”
Advisor: Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas

Joshua Schroeder
Fall JP: “Spectal Features of Carbon Stars Found in SDSS”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp
Spring JP: “Milky Way Absorption Features in Ultraviolet Spectra of Quasars 3C273 and RX J1230.8+0115”
Advisor: Edward B. Jenkins

Charles L. Steinhardt
Fall JP: “Search for Type Ia Supernovae at Large Redshifts with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: David N. Spergel
Spring JP: “Variation of the Fine Structure Constant”
Advisor: John N. Bahcall

Daniel Grin (Physics)
Fall JP: “Finding Lyman Limit Systems in the Spectra of High Redshift SDSS QSOs”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss

 

2000-2001

Seniors
Juniors

Deborah L. Freedman
Senior Thesis: “A Life Preserver for a Black Hole and Other Applications of “Q = M” Material”
Advisor: J. Richard Gott, III

Adam L. Gittes
Senior Thesis: “Violence in the Night Sky: A New Measure for Variable Star Classification”
Advisor: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Edwin J. Knerr
Senior Thesis: “Estimating the Mass of the Milky Way Galaxy”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp

Joseph J. MacAvoy
Senior Thesis: “Reusable and Expendable Launch Vehicles and the High Cost of Access to Space”
Advisors: Robert Stengel (Engineering), Jerry Grey (MAE), Neta A. Bahcall

Tind S. Ryen
Senior Thesis: “E + A Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss

Brooke D. Simmons
Senior Thesis: “An Atmosphere Detector for the Princeton I,Q,U Experiment”
Advisors: Suzanne Staggs (Physics), James E. Gunn

Julia Comerford
Fall JP: “Circular and Elliptical Orbit Estimations of a Fourth Planet Around Pulsar PSR-B1257+2”
Advisor: Bradley Hansen
Spring JP: “The Dependence of Mass-to-Light Ratio on Cluster Overdensity”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall

Kimberly Palladino (Physics)
Spring JP: “The Observed Mass-Temperature Relation in High Density Systems”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall

 

1999-2000

Seniors
Juniors

Richard S. De Simone
Senior Thesis: “The Stellar Velocity Distribution in the Solar Neighborhood”
Advisor: Scott D. Tremaine

Alex C. McDaniel
Senior Thesis: “L and T Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp

Joshua A. Pepper
Senior Thesis: “A Search for Active Nuclei and an Investigation of Galactic Color Profiles in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Images”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss

Alana L. Sette
Senior Thesis: “The Cosmic Background Radiation: A Visual Introduction”
Advisor: David N. Spergel

Kristian Finlator (Physics)
Senior Thesis: “Modeling the Near-Infrared Colors of Stars and Quasars”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss

Deborah L. Freedman
Fall JP: “Determining Properties of Gamma-Ray Bursts”
Advisors: Neta Bahcall, Eli Waxman (IAS)
Spring JP: “Constraining O and s 8 : A Concordance of Observations”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall

Adam L. Gittes
Fall JP: “Non-Isotropic Kick Velocities of Neutron Stars in Binary Systems”
Advisor: Bradley Hansen
Spring JP: “Weighing the Universe With the Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall

Edwin J. Knerr
Fall JP: “Microlensing in a Binary System”
Advisor: Bohdan Paczynski
Spring JP: “Error Analysis of the Lightcurves for QSO's 0957+561 and 2237+305”
Advisor: Edwin Turner

Joseph J. MacAvoy
Fall JP: “The Relation Between Velocity Dispersion and X-Ray Temperature in a Sample of Abell Galaxy Clusters”
Advisor: Michael J. Way
Spring JP: “Spectral Types and Variability of Stars in the Hipparcos Catalogue”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp

Tind S. Ryen
Fall JP: “Survey of Ultraviolet Interstellar Absorption Spectra”
Advisors: Edward B. Jenkins, Todd Trip
Spring JP: “Discussion of Atmospheric Modeling of Mars”
Advisors: Tullis Onstott (Geosciences), Scott D. Tremaine

Brooke D. Simmons
Fall JP: “Galactic Extinction Estimates For Comparison to the Schlegel-Finkbeiner-Davis Maps”
Advisor: David N. Spergel
Spring JP: “Galactic Extinction of Stars, Galaxies, and Quasars: Searching for Gray Dust”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss

Chris McLeavey (Physics)
Fall JP: “SZ Effect and MAP Physics”
Advisor: David N. Spergel

 

1998-1999

Seniors
Juniors

Lindsay M. Clark
Senior Thesis: “A Teacher's Guide to the Universe”
Advisor: David N. Spergel

Jason B. Goldman
Senior Thesis: “X-Ray Clusters, Baryon Fraction, and the Mass-Density of the Universe”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall

Naomi S. Bates
Fall JP: “Detection of High Velocity Clouds in Nearby Galaxies”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp

Richard DeSimone
Fall JP: “The Long Term Behavior of the Orbit of Nereid”
Advisor: Scott D. Tremaine
Spring JP: “The Distribution of Dark Matter in the Universe”
Advisors: Neta A. Bahcall, Renyue Cen

Kevin M. Ertmer
Fall JP: “The Two-Point Correlation Function and Clustering Hierarchy in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss

Alex C. McDaniel
Fall JP: “Magnetstars Made Easy: A Complete Guide to the Observational Data of Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars and Soft Gamma Repeaters”
Advisor: Bohdan Paczynski
Spring JP: “Orbital Parameters of Eclipsing Binaries From OGLE”
Advisor: Bohdan Paczynski

Joshua A. Pepper
Fall JP: “Decay Rates of GRB Afterglows”
Advisor: Bohdan Paczynski
Spring JP: “Testing Theoretical Models of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows”
Advisor: David N. Spergel

Alana L. Sette
Fall JP: “The Relation Between Mass and Temperature and Mass and Velocity Dispersion in Clusters of Galaxies”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall
Spring JP: “Mars Mission Design: A Preliminary Investigation of Orbital Mechanics for a 2003 Orbiter”
Advisors: Neta A. Bahcall, E. Choueiri (ASE).

Kristian Finlator (Physics)
Fall JP: “Position Based Matching of the SDSS and IRAS Catalogs”
Advisors: Gillian R. Knapp, Zeljko Ivezic

 

1997-1998

Juniors

Lindsay M. Clark
Fall JP: “On Possible Nearby Pre-Main Sequence Stars from Hipparcos Data”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp
Spring JP: “Teacher's Guide to the Universe”
Advisor: David N. Spergel

Jason B. Goldman
Fall JP: “An Analysis of Petrosian Quantities in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss
Spring JP: “Photometric Calibration of CCD Images of the Field 1146+111”
Advisor: Edwin L. Turner

John M. Kelly (Physics)
Spring JP: “An Analysis of Dust and Gas for Three Small Molecular Clouds”
Advisors: Gillian R. Knapp, Suzanne Staggs (Physics)

 

1996-1997

Seniors

Steve Ken Aishman
Senior Thesis: “Deviation of the Peculiar Velocity of the Local Group through Deriving the Velocity Field of the Optical Redshift Survey”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss

Alison Laurel Coil
Senior Thesis: “Molecular Gas at the Galactic Center”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp

Lauren Dana Herold
Senior Thesis: “Probing Stellar Populations with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor: David N. Spergel

Robert Andrew Simcoe
Senior Thesis: “Medium Resolution Spectral Statistics as a Test for Gravitational Lens Candidates”
Advisor: Edwin L. Turner

Patricia Saj Udomprasert
Senior Thesis: “A Study of Interstellar Dust in Early-Type Galaxies”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp

 

1995-1996

Seniors
Juniors

Ronald Kim
Senior Thesis: “Cosmological Evolution of Clusters of Galaxies”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall

Steve Aishman
Fall JP: “Infrared Fluxes from Quasars: Extinction of Quasar Light Due to Dust”
Advisor: Gillian R. Knapp
Spring JP: “A Statistical Comparison of Observational Results of 0957+561”
Advisor: Edwin L. Turner

Alison Coil
Fall JP: “Data Reduction of Spectra of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss
Spring JP: “The Baryon Mass Density Parameter”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall

Lauren Herold
Fall JP: “The Effect of Background Light in Theoretical Gravitational Microlensing Events”
Advisor: Bohdan Paczynski
Spring JP: “Testing the Copernican Principle: The Prediction of Future Longevity”
Advisor J. Richard Gott, III

Robert Simcoe
Fall JP: “Shapes and Sizes of Lyman-Alpha Forest Absorbers in a CDM +L Model”
Advisor: Renyue Cen
Spring JP: “An Analysis of the CTE Performance of Astrometric CCDs for the SDSS”
Advisor: James E. Gunn

Patricia Saj Udomprasert
Fall JP: “Study of the Morphology of Superclusters through Computer Simulations and Pencil-Beam Data”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall
Spring JP: “Far-Infrared Emission from Spiral Galaxies as an Additional Parameter in the Tully-Fisher Relation”
Advisor: Michael A. Strauss

 

1994-1995

Seniors
Juniors

Andreas Alan Berlind
Senior Thesis: “Topology of Velocity Fields on Large Scale from Cosmological Simulations”
Advisor: J. Richard Gott, III

Randi Lynn Cohen (Physics)
Senior Thesis: “Analysis of Simulated Microlensing Light Curves Produced by Invisible Star Sources”
Advisor: Bohdan Paczynski

Ronald Kim
Fall JP: “The Classification and Stability of Orbits in a Barred Galactic Potential”
Advisor: David N. Spergel
Spring JP: “The Distribution of Binary Star separations at High Galactic Latitude”
Advisor: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Sasha Malchick
Fall JP: “Some Preliminary Investigation into Optimal Observing Strategies for Determining Galactic Core Elongation from Microlensing Event Frequencies”
Advisor: Bohdan Paczynski
Spring JP: “A Revised Dielectic Function for Interstellar Silicate”
Advisor Bruce T. Draine

 

1993-1994

Seniors
Juniors

Peter Forbes Bloser
Senior Thesis: “A Measurement of the Diffuse Celestial H-Beta Background”
Advisor: Lyman Page (Physics)

Gordon Todd Richards
Senior Thesis: “Analysis of Physical Pairs of QSO Spectra”
Advisor: Edwin L. Turner

Eric West Peng
Senior Thesis: “Scatter and Bias in Gravitational Microlensing Events”
Advisor: Bohdan Paczynski

Konata Stinson Louis
Senior Thesis: “Radial Distribution of Supernovae in Spiral and Elliptical Galaxies”
Advisor: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Eric Gawiser (Physics)
Senior Thesis: “Cosmic Strings in an Open Universe”
Advisor: David N. Spergel

Matthew Headrick (Physics)
Senior Thesis: “2+1 Dimensional Spacetimes with Closed Time-like Curves”
Advisor: J. Richard Gott, III

Melissa Smith ( Woodrow-Wilson School )
Senior Thesis: “Telecommunications Policy”
Advisor: David N. Spergel


Andreas Berlind
Fall JP: “The Apparent Brightness of the Nearby Spiral Galaxy M31”
Advisor: P. Guhathakurta
Spring JP: “The Mean Separation and Richness Dependence of the Cluster Correlation Function”
Advisor: Neta A. Bahcall

Randi Lynn Cohen (Physics)
Spring JP: “Studying Blue Stragglers in the Globular Cluster M13 with the Hubble Space Telescope”
Advisor: P. Guhathakurta

 

Eric Kutner (Physics)
Spring JP: “Light Absorption and Scattering by Fluffy Dust Grains”
Advisor: Bruce T. Draine

 


ASTROPHYSICAL SCIENCES UNDERGRADUATES BY YEAR

Bucher, Jules V.D. '28
Green, Louis C. '32
Cartus, Valentine C. '37
MacCracken, Calvin D. '40
Blackadar, Alfred E. '42
Roberts, Elsey N. '42
Hopkins, William L. Jr. '47
Shaffer, Francis B. '48
Tucker, Samuel E., M.D. '52
Fletcher, Emery S. '55
Lenskold, Arthur '62
Smith, Thomas Scott '63
Sobel, Heywood '63
Richards, David W. '64
Upson, Walter Lyman '64
Henshaw, James Lyle '65
Saslaw, William C. '65
Adams, Thomas F. '66
Bachko, Nicholas Jr. '66
Davidson, Arthur F. '66
Goon, Gilbert '67
Hickok, Frederick Rains '67
Kellman, Sanford Alan '67
Moore, Daniel H. '67
Bradley, Philip A. '68
Feldman, Stuart Irwin '68
Goebel, Robert Howard '68
Kamp, Lucas W. '68
Baumann, Scott Richard '69
Braly, Kenneth Alan '69
Gallagher, John S. III '69
Oemler, Augustus '69
Van Citters, Gordon W. '69
Flannery, Brian Paul '70
Herbst, William Jr.'70
Morris, John Reel Jr. '70
Boyle, Robert James '71
Fawley, William M. '72
Pritchard, James Lee '72
Dahab, Richard Ezra '73
Hirshfeld, Alan W. '73
Strongylis, George '73
Larach, David R. '74
Pariseau, Robert S. '74
Meloy, Debra A. '75
Gardner, John '76
Hornack, Paul G. '76
Moore, Daniel Richmond '76
Schull, Peter O. Jr. '76
Shaya, Edward J. '76
Welty, Daniel E. '76
Blanchard, Norman T. '77
Mathieu, Robert David '78 (Harvard)

Taylor, William R. '80 (U. Washington )
Clack, William F. '81
Alpert, Mark Franklyn '82 (Harvard Law)
Heisler, Julia Suzannah '82 (MIT)
Spergel, David N. '82 (Harvard)
Voit, Gerard Mark '83 (CalTech)
Yorkgitis, Edward A. '83
Cunniffe, Peter Edward '84
Dickinson, Mark Everett '84 (Berkeley)
Goldberg, Richard Eric '84
Padgett, Deborah Lynn '84
Steidel, Charles Colvil '84 (CalTech)
Richmond , Michael William '86 (Berkeley)
Polk, Kevin Scott '87 (CalTech)
Vogeley, Michael Scott '87 (Harvard)
Wilcots, Eric Matthew '87
Borden, David '88
Calkins, Frederick Theodore '88
Rodrigues, Liliya L. '88
Clutz, Christopher John R '89
Hillenbrand, Lynne Anne '89 (Amherst)
Jeffrey, Scott Andrew '89
Sarlin, Scott Peter '89 (U. Colorado)
Schlegel, David James '89 (Berkeley)
Wallington, Sylvanie '89 (Harvard)
Fisher, Mark Anthony '90
Kanungo, Deepak Kishore '90
Rauch, Kevin Patrick '90
Bilodeau, Laura Anne '91
Holtz, David O. '91 (Air Force)
Miller, Neal Andrew '91 (U. NM)
Reiley, David Holmes '91 (MIT)
Heyl, Jeremy '92 ( Santa Cruz )
Bloser, Peter Forbes '94 (Harvard)
Peng, Eric West '94 (JHU)
Richards, Gordon Todd '94 (U. Chicago)
Stinson, Konata Louis '94
Berlind, Andreas Alan '95 (Ohio State)
Kim, Ronald '96 (U. Penn, Linguistics)
Malchik, Laulette Aleksan '96
Aishman, Steven Ken '97
Coil, Alison Laurel '97 (UC Berkeley)
Herold, Lauren Dana '97
Simcoe, Robert '97 (Caltech)
Udomprasert, Patricia '97 (Caltech)
Clark, Lindsay '99 (Alder Plantetarium)
Goldman, Jason '99 (JHU)
De Simone, Richard S. '00 (Wall Street)
McDaniel, Alex C. '00 (UC Santa Cruz)
Pepper, Joshua A. '00 (Ohio State)
Sette, Alana L. '00 (Science Company)

Freedman, Deborah L. '01 (Harvard)
Gittes, Adam L. '01 (Wall Street)
Kneer, Edwin J. '01 (Law School)
MacAvoy, Joseph J. '01 (Wm & Mary Law)
Ryen, Tind S. '01(Science Policy)
Simmons, Brooke D. '01 (Yale)
Comerford, Julia '02 (UC Berkeley)
Blake, Cullen '03 (Harvard)
Schroeder, Joshua '03 (Univ. Colorado)
Steinhardt, Charles '03 (Harvard)
Hopkins, Philip, F '04 (Harvarad)
Kaul, Madhuri, '04 (U Penn)
Younger, Joshua, A, '04 (UC Santa Cruz)
Miller, Daniel '05 (State Department)
Munoz, Joseph '05 (Harvard)
Siverd, Rob '05 (Ohio)
Teh, Nicholas '05 (Philosophy)
Carlson, Emmett '06 (teaching science)
Daniels, Mark '06 (MAE, Princeton)
Kirkland, Maggie '06 (Cornell, Neurobiology)
Niederste-Ostholt, Martin '06 (Cambridge)
Wray, James '06 (Cornell, Planetary Sciences)
Berta, Zach '07 (Harvard)
Dahab, William Ezra '07 (Wall Street)
Haislip, Greg '07 (Naval Officers Program)
Halford, Kelly '07 (UCLA)
Hofstetter, Lorne '07 (GE's Global Research Center)
Janiv, Lear '07 (Goldman Sachs)
Klainerman, Ariel '07 (Finances/Consulting Sector)
Martin, Blake '07 (Rice)
Ritter, Corey '07 (Army)
Buck, Zoe '08
Miller, Katherine '08
Pelton, Penny '08
Rashkov, Valery '08
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