PhD Theses of Research Students

• Michael S. Dimitriyev
  • PhD thesis (PDF): Function Through Form in Soft Matter: The Influence of Bounded Geometries in Heated Gels and Fluctuating Proteins
  • Completed his PhD in summer 2017
  • Soon to begin as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech

• Benjamin Loewe
  • PhD thesis (PDF): Bridges Between Quantum and Classical Mechanics: Directed Polymers, Flocking and Transitionless Quantum Driving
  • Completed his PhD in summer 2017
  • Left to become a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at Syracuse University

• D. Zeb Rocklin
  • PhD thesis (PDF): Directed-Polymer Systems Explored Via Their Quantum Analogs
  • Completed his PhD in summer 2013
  • Left to become a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Michigan
  • Now Kavli Institute at Cornell / Bethe Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell University (2016-2017)
  • Will join the Georgia Institute of Technology as a professor in the School of Physics (August 2017)

• Bing Sui Lu
  • PhD thesis (PDF): Statistical Physics of Isotropic-Genesis Nematic Elastomers
  • Completed his PhD in summer 2012
  • Left to become a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Natural Sciences at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • Now a postdoctoral fellow in Biophysics and Condensed Matter Physics at the Institut Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Sarang Gopalakrishnan
  • PhD thesis (PDF): Photon-Mediated Emergent Phenomena in Optical Cavities
  • Completed his PhD in summer 2012
  • Left to begin a Harvard Quantum Optics Center Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Physics at Harvard University
  • Then Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology
  • Now a professor in the Department of Engineering and Physics at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate College of the City University of New York

• David G. Ferguson
  • PhD thesis (PDF): Explorations of Domain Walls and Half Quantum Vortices in Unconventional Superconductors
  • Completed his PhD in summer 2011
  • Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University
  • Now with Northrop Gruman Electronic Systems, Department of Emerging Technologies

• Florin Bora
  • PhD thesis (PDF): Quantized Vortices in Arbitrary Dimensions and the Normal-to-Superfluid Phase Transition
  • Completed his PhD in January 2010
  • Left to join Bloomberg L.P., New York, NY

• Xiaoming Mao
  • PhD thesis (PDF): Statistical Physics of Soft Random Solids: Vulcanization, Heterogeneity, and Elasticity
  • Completed her PhD in August 2008
  • Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Now a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Michigan

• David Pekker
  • PhD thesis (PDF): Topological Excitations and Dissipation in Superconductors and Superfluids Having Multiply Connected Geometries
  • Completed his PhD in July 2007
  • Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at Harvard University
  • Then Lee A. DuBridge Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology
  • Now a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh

• Swagatam Mukhopadhyay
  • PhD thesis (PDF): Critical Properties of the Emergent Random Solid at the Vulcanization/Gelation Transition
  • Completed his PhD in July 2005
  • Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of California-Santa Barbara
  • Now a postdoctoral researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

• Tzu-Chieh Wei
  • PhD thesis (in PostScript or PDF): Quantum Entanglement: Geometric Quantification and Applications to Multi-Partite States and Quantum Phase Transitions
  • Completed his PhD in September 2004
  • After postdoctoral research in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, left to become a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Canada
  • Now a professor in the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University

• Inanc Adagideli
  • PhD thesis (in PostScript or PDF): Semiclassical Approaches to Quantal Andreev Billiards and Other Topics in Inhomogeneous Superconductivity
  • Completed his PhD in September 2001
  • Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands
  • Now Erdal Inonu Chair in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

• Daniel E. Sheehy
  • PhD thesis (in PostScript): Topics in High-Temperature Superconductivity
  • Completed his PhD in July 2001
  • Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of British Columbia in Canada
  • Now a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University

• Weiqun Peng
  • PhD thesis (in PostScript or PDF): The Vulcanization Transition -- A Statistical Mechanical Perspective
  • Completed his PhD in May 2001
  • Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of California San Diego
  • Now a professor in the Department of Physics at The George Washington University, Washington DC

• Konstantin A. Shakhnovich
  • PhD thesis (in PostScript): The Statistical Mechanics of Continuous Random Networks
  • Completed his PhD in April 2001
  • Now a managing director with Goldman-Sachs Company, New York, NY

• Horacio E. Castillo
  • PhD thesis (in PostScript or PDF): Statistical Mechanics of the Amorphous Solid State of Randomly Crosslinked Macromolecules
  • Completed his PhD in Summer 1998
  • Left to become a postdoctoral research associate at L'Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France
  • Now a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

• Martin Zapotocky
  • PDF thesis (in PDF): Role of Topological Defects and Textures in the Kinetics of Phase Ordering
  • Completed his PhD in August 1996
  • Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Now a permament member of the Institute of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague

• Martin B. Tarlie
  • PhD thesis (in PDF) and abstract (in PDF): Nonequilibrium Properties of Mesoscopic Superconducting Rings
  • Completed his PhD in August 1995
  • Left to become a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago
  • Now with GMO Investment Management, Boston, MA)

• Peter D. Olmsted
  • PhD thesis (in PostScript): The Effect of Shear Flow on the Isotropic--Nematic Transition in Liquid Crystals
  • Completed his PhD in August 1991
  • Left to become a postdoctoral researcher at Exxon Research in New Jersey
  • Now Ives Professor of Physics at Georgetown University