Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, June 2002

When more than one field of study is listed, the first is the major, and the second and others are minors.

DIVISION OF BIOLOGY

Girish Nanda Aakalu (Biology) B.A., Johns Hopkins University 1996; M.S., 1998.
Thesis: Building the Molecular Machinery of Memory: Local Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal Neurons.

Benjamin Jacob Arthur (Computation and Neural Systems) B.S.,Trinity University 1992.
Thesis: Neural Computations Leading to Space-specific Auditory Responses in the Barn Owl.

Alejandro Bäcker (Biology and Computational and Neural Systems) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Priming, Gain Control and Coding Issues in the Locust Olfactory System.

Daniel N. Bolon (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S., Duke University 1997.
Thesis: Computational Enzyme Design.

Tianxin (Cynthia) Chen (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S.,Tsinghua University 1996.
Thesis: Regulatory Mechanisms of the Heat Shock Response.

Wonchae Choe (Biology) B.S., Kyung Hee University 1992; M.S., 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Biochemical and Biological in vivo Functions of Dna2p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Fangyong Du (Biology) B.S., Peking University 1991; M.S., 1994.
Thesis: Allosteric Activation of the Ubiquitin Ligase UBR1 by Short Peptides: Molecular Mechanisms and Physiological Functions.

David Julian Dubowitz (Computation and Neural Systems) B.A., University of Cambridge 1985; M.A., 1989; B.M., University of Oxford 1988.
Thesis: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Rhesus Macaque Monkeys.

Sebastian de la Soudière Gerety (Biology) B.S.,Tufts University 1992.
Thesis: Eph Signaling in Vascular Development.

Zsuzsa Andrea Hamburger (Biology) B.S., Purdue University 1996.
Thesis: Crystallographic Studies of Invasin, a Bacterial Adhesion Molecule from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.

Gabriel Kreiman (Biology) B.Sc., University of Buenos Aires 1996.
Thesis: On the Neuronal Activity in the Human Brain during Visual Recognition, Imagery and Binocular Rivalry.

Anthony Leonardo (Computation and Neural Systems) B.S., Carnegie Mellon University 1994.
Thesis: Neural Dynamics Underlying Complex Behavior in a Songbird.

Tanya Munnecke Moreno (Biology) B.S., University of California, San Diego 1992.
Thesis: Noelins in Neural Development.

David Rosenbluth (Computation and Neural Systems) A.B., Columbia University 1988; M.S., New York University 1991.
Thesis: Eye Position Modulation of Visual Cortex and the Sensory Set Hypothesis.

David J. Shuey (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S., Pennsylvania State University 1982.
Thesis: A Detailed Analysis of the DNA Binding Properties and the Affinity Purification of the Drosophila Heat-Shock Transcription Factor.

Pavel Strop (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S., University of Arizona 1997.
Thesis: Characterization of the Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance.

Stephanie Yeager Vernooy (Biology) B.A., Pomona College 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Identification of Apoptotic Regulators in Drosophila and their Nonapoptotic Roles in Spermatogenesis: Implications for the Existence of a “Caspase Cassette” which Regulates Diverse Biological Processes.

Mariela Zirlinger (Biology) B.S., University of Buenos Aires 1996.
Thesis: Application of Microarray, Laser Capture and Transgenic Technologies to the Study of Neural Diversity.

DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Peter Jonathan Adams (Chemical Engineering and Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., Cornell University 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Representing Tropospheric Aerosols and Their Climatic Effects in Global Models.

Xenia Amashukeli (Chemistry) Sc.B., Brown University 1997.
Thesis: Electron-Transfer Reorganization Energies of Isolated Molecules.

Jason Matthew Belitsky (Chemistry) B.A., Amherst College 1997.
Thesis: DNA Binding Polyamides in Biological Systems.

Kimberly Davis Copeland (Chemistry) B.S., Duke University 1996.
Thesis: The Reactions of Metallointercalator-Peptide Conjugates and DNA.

Michael Todd Feldmann (Chemistry and Applied Computation) B.A., Luther College 1998.
Thesis: Quantum Monte Carlo: Quest to Get Bigger, Faster, and Cheaper.

Anne Yen-Chen Fu (Chemistry) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 1996.
Thesis: Microfabricated Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorters (µFACS) for Screening Bacterial Cells.

Eva Rose Garland (Chemistry) B.A., Columbia University 1997.
Thesis: Laboratory Studies of Atmospheric Reactions Using Infrared Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy.

Doan Nguyen Hackley (Chemistry) B.Sc., Brock University 1997.
Thesis: Allosteric Inhibition of Zinc Finger Proteins by DNA Binding Polyamides.

Sven Halstenberg (Chemical Engineering) B.S., Stanford University 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Biologically Engineered Protein-graft-Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Hydrogels: A Cell-Adhesive and Plasmin-Degradable Biosynthetic Material for Tissue Repair.

Kirk Charles Hansen (Chemistry) B.S., Colorado State University 1995.
Thesis: Using Photolabile Protecting Groups for the Rapid Triggering of Fast Biological Events.

Corinna Renate Hess (Chemistry) B.S., University of Chicago 1996.
Thesis: Probing the Active Site of Amine Oxidase with Electron Tunneling Wires.

Kevin Richard Hoke (Chemistry) B.A., Rice University 1993.
Thesis: Electron Tunneling in Blue and Purple Copper Proteins.

Jennifer C. Lee (Chemistry) B.A., B.S., University of California, Berkeley 1997.
Thesis: Mapping Heme Protein Folding Landscapes.

Zenghe Liu (Chemistry) B.S., University of Science and Technology of China 1985; M.S., 1988; M.S., Baylor University 1997.
Thesis: Vanadium-Schiff Base Complexes as Catalysts for the Four-Electron Reduction of Dioxygen.

Louis Albert Madsen (Chemistry) B.A., Grinnell College 1994.
Thesis: Force-Detected NMR in a Homogeneous Field: Experiment Design, Apparatus, and Observations.

Shannon Alicia Marshall (Chemistry) B.S.,Yale University 1997.
Thesis: Stability and Conformational Specificity in Protein Design: Models for Binary Patterning and Electrostatics.

Megan Elizabeth Núñez (Chemistry) B.A., Smith College 1996.
Thesis: Oxidation of DNA by Long-range Charge Transport.

Patrick Manuel Piccione (Chemical Engineering) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Thermodynamics of Formation of Molecular Sieves.

Robert Charles Rossi (Chemistry) B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1993.
Thesis: The Electrical Properties of Nanoscale Parallel Semiconductor Interfaces.

Asimina Sierou (Chemical Engineering) Diploma, National Technical University of Athens 1996.
Thesis: Accelerated Stokesian Dynamics: Development and Application to Sheared Non-Brownian Suspensions.

A.C. Sobrero (Chemical Engineering) B.S.E., Princeton University 1978.
Thesis: Surface Structure Determination by Low-Energy Electron Diffraction.

Ganesh Subramanian (Chemical Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.S., University of Bombay 1996.
Thesis: Inertial Effects in Suspension Dynamics.

Vidyasankar Sundaresan (Chemical Engineering and Chemistry) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 1991.
Thesis: Selective Molecular Recognition in Imprinted Polymeric Adsorbents and in Biological Macromolecules.

Giyoong Tae (Chemical Engineering) B.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 1992; M.S., 1994.
Thesis: In situ Forming Hydrogels Using Self-assembly of Fluoroalkyl-ended Poly(ethylene glycol)s.

Yi Tang (Chemical Engineering and Biology) B.S., Pennsylvania State University 1997.
Thesis: Protein Engineering Using Unnatural Amino Acids: Incorporation of Leucine Analogs into Recombinant Protein in vivo.

Adam Robert Urbach (Chemistry) B.S., University of Texas at Austin 1996.
Thesis: 1:1 Motif for DNA Recognition by ß-Alanine-Linked Polyamides.

Randy M.Villahermosa (Chemistry) B.A., Occidental College 1996.
Thesis: Electron Tunneling Through Phenylene Bridges.

Clay Chia Chun Wang (Chemistry) A.B., Harvard College 1996.
Thesis: Sequence Specific Trapping of Topoisomerase I by Camptothecin Polyamide Conjugates.

Antek G.Wong-Foy (Chemistry) B.S., University of Rochester 1994.
Thesis: Ancillary Ligand Effects in Zirconium(IV) Aminoborollide and Nitrogen Chelated Pt(II) Complexes.

Nicholas R.Wurtz (Chemistry) B.A., Grinnell College 1996.
Thesis: Sequence Specific Alkylation of DNA by Polyamide-Chlorambucil Conjugates.

Andrew Peter Yeh (Chemistry) B.A., Cornell University 1996.
Thesis: Crystallographic Studies of Iron Proteins.

Tehshik Peter Yoon (Chemistry) A.B., Harvard College 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: The Acyl-Claisen Rearrangement. Development of a Novel Metal-Catalyzed Claisen Rearrangement and Enantioselective Variants of the Acyl-Claisen Rearrangement.

DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES

David Deloyd Anderson (Applied Mechanics) B.S., Utah State University 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Experimental Investigation of Quasistatic and Dynamic Fracture Properties of Titanium Alloys.

Ichiro Aoki (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Universidade Estadual de Campinas 1987.
Thesis: Distributed Active Transformer for Integrated Power Amplification.

Peter David Bogdanoff (Materials Science) B.S., Harvey Mudd College 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: The Phonon Entropy of Metals and Alloys: The Effects of Thermal and Chemical Disorder.

Dong Eui Chang (Control and Dynamical Systems) B.S., Seoul National University 1994; M.S., 1997.
Thesis: Controlled Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Systems.

Ioannis Chasiotis (Aeronautics and Materials Science) Diploma, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: The Strength of Polycrystalline Silicon at the Micro- and Nano-Scales with Applications to MEMS.

Min Chen (Computer Science) B.S., Peking University 1994; M.S., 1997.
Thesis: Mathematical Methods for Image Synthesis.

Catherine J. G. Cornu (Environmental Science and Engineering and Geochemistry) Kandidaat Burgerlijk Ingenieur, Vrije Universiteit Brussel 1992; Burgerlijk Scheikundig Ingenieur, 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Photocatalysis under Periodic Illumination.

Bogdan Craciun (Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.Sc., Universitatea ‘Al. I. Cuza’ 1996; M.Sc.,Weizmann Institute 1997.
Thesis: Phase Boundary Propagation in Heterogeneous Media.

Jeffrey D. Eldredge (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., Cornell University 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: A Dilating Vortex Particle Method for Compressible Flow with Application to Aeroacoustics.

Joseph Alexander Fax (Control and Dynamical Systems) B.S.E., Princeton University 1993.
Thesis: Optimal and Cooperative Control of Vehicle Formations.

Hanying Feng (Electrical Engineering) B.E.,Tsinghua University 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Rate Loss of Network Source Codes.

Xiaolin Feng (Electrical Engineering) B.E.,Tsinghua University; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Methods for the Analysis of Visual Motion.

Philip Malcolm Fine (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: The Contribution of Biomass Combustion to Ambient Fine Particle Concentrations in the United States.

Kevin Foltz (Electrical Engineering) B.A., B.S., Rice University 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Periodic Broadcast Scheduling for Data Distribution.

Roman Ginis (Computer Science) B.S., University of Rhode Island 1996.
Thesis: Automating Resource Management for Distributed Business Processes.

Luis González Liñero (Aeronautics) Ingeniero Mecanico Electricista, Universidad Panamericana 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Global Fracture Analysis of Laminated Composite Materials for Aerospace Structures.

Nils William Halverson (Applied Physics) B.S., Stanford University 1991; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1993.
Thesis: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Angular Power Spectrum with DASI.

Donhee Ham (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Seoul National University 1996.
Thesis: Statistical Electronics: Noise Processes in Integrated Communication Systems.

Adam Thomas Hayes (Computation and Neural Systems) A.B., Harvard College 1998. Thesis: Self-Organized Robotic System Design and Autonomous Odor Localization.

Scott David Kee (Electrical Engineering) B.S., University of Delaware 1998.
Thesis: The Class E/F Family of Harmonic-Tuned Switching Power Amplifiers.

Joseph Roland Kiniry (Computer Science) B.S., Florida State University 1992; M.S., University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Kind Theory.

Cin-Young Lee (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 1997. Thesis: Efficient Automatic Engineering Design Synthesis via Evolutionary Exploration.

Hong Liao (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., Peking University 1986; M.S., 1989; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Interactions between Tropospheric Chemistry and Aerosols in a Unified GCM Simulation.

Zhiwen Liu (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Peking University 1992; M.S., 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Optical Information Storage and Processing.

Jun Lu (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) B.S.,Tsinghua University 1992; M.S., 1995; M.S. (Mechanical Engineering) , California Institute of Technology 2000; M.S. (Electrical Engineering) , 2001.
Thesis: Mechanical Behavior of a Bulk Metallic Glass and Its Composite over a Wide Range of Strain Rates and Temperatures.

José Mumbrú (Electrical Engineering and Social Science) Engineer (Communications and Electronics) , Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Optoelectronic Circuits using Holographic Elements.

Todd David Murphey (Control and Dynamical Systems) B.S., University of Arizona 1997.
Thesis: Control of Multiple Model Systems.

Olivier Thanh Nguyen (Aeronautics and Business, Economics and Management) Diplôme d’ Ingénieur, Université de Liege 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Cohesive Models of Fatigue Crack Growth and Stress-Corrosion Cracking.

Alexander Nicholson (Computer Science) B.A.Sc., University of Toronto 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Generalization Error Estimates and Training Data Valuation.

Jeff L. Noelte (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., University of California, Riverside 1990.
Thesis: Effects of Surface Chemistry on Deposition Kinetics of Colloidal Hematite (a-Fe₂O₃) in Packed Beds of Silica Sand.

Paul Ivan Pénzes (Computer Science) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1996; M.S., 1999.
Thesis: Energy-Delay Complexity of Asynchronous Circuits.

Alberto Pesavento (Electrical Engineering and Business, Economics and Management) Laurea, Università degli Studi di Padova 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Visual Sensors for Focal Plane Computation of Image Features.

Danny Petrasek (Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.A., Bar-Ilan University 1980; M.D., University of Health Sciences, Chicago Medical School 1984.
Thesis: Diffusion-Mediated Regulation Endocrine Networks.

Teerachai Nicholas Pornsinsirirak (Electrical Engineering) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1993; M.S., Stanford University 1995.
Thesis: Parylene MEMS Technology for Adaptive Flow Control of Flapping Flight.

Prashant Kishore Purohit (Applied Mechanics) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Dynamics of Phase Transitions in Strings, Beams and Atomic Chains.

Regina Ragan (Applied Physics) B.S., University of California, Los Angeles 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Direct Energy Bandgap Group IV Alloys and Nanostructures.

Clarence Worth Rowley III (Mechanical Engineering) B.S.E., Princeton University 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Cavity Flow Oscillations.

Charles F. Spence (Applied Physics) B.S., Harvey Mudd College 1985.
Thesis: Nanobiology: Halting Steps into a Portion of Richard Feynman’s Vision.

Jennie Catherine Stephens (Environmental Science and Engineering and Science, Ethics and Society) A.B., Harvard College 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Response of Soil Mineral Weathering to Elevated Carbon Dioxide.

Lawrence H. Sverdrup (Applied Physics) B.A., Reed College 1978; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1980.
Thesis: Lower Hybrid Current Drive Experiments on the Encore Tokamak.

Luz Vianey Vela-Arevalo (Control and Dynamical Systems) B.S.,Autonomous University of Aguascalientes 1994; M.S., Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa 1996.
Thesis: Time-Frequency Analysis Based on Wavelets for Hamiltonian Systems.

Jelena Vuckovic (Electrical Engineering) B.Sc., Faculty of Electronics NIS 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Photonic Crystal Structures for Efficient Localization or Extraction of Light.

Guofeng Wang (Materials Science and Computer Science) B.E.,Tsinghua University 1995; M.S. 1997.
Thesis: First Principles Based Multiscale Modeling of Single Crystal Plasticity: Application to BCC Tantalum.

Luoyu Roy Xu (Aeronautics and Materials Science) B.S., Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 1987; M.S., 1991.
Thesis: Dynamic Failure Characteristics in Layered Materials and Structures.

Yong Xu (Electrical Engineering) B.S.,Tsinghua University 1997.
Thesis: Flexible MEMS Skin Technology for Distributed Fluidic Sensing.

Tze-Jung Yao (Electrical Engineering and Biology) B.S., National Taiwan University 1995;M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Parylene for MEMS Applications.

Ka-Veng Yuen (Civil Engineering) B.S., National Taiwan University 1997; M.S., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 1999.
Thesis: Model Selection, Identification and Robust Control for Dynamical Systems.

Weidong Zhu (Mechanical Engineering) B.S.,Tsinghua University 1991; M.S., State University of New York at Buffalo 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Nonlinearly Viscoelastic Response of Glassy Polymers.

Shiming Zhuang (Aeronautics and Materials Science) B.S., Chongqing University 1984; M.S., Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics 1988.
Thesis: Shock Wave Propagation in Periodically Layered Composites.

Daniel Marc Zimmerman (Computer Science) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1996; M.S., 1998.
Thesis: Dynamic UNITY.

DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND PLANETARY SCIENCES

Magali I. Billen (Geophysics) B.S., University of Puget Sound 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: I. Seafloor Morphology of the Osbourn Trough and Kermadec Trench and II. Multiscale Dynamics of Subduction Zones.

Ulyana Anatolyevna Dyudina (Planetary Science and Computer Science) Diploma, Moscow State University 1993.
Thesis: Light Scattering in the Clouds on Jupiter.

Chen Ji (Geophysics) B.S., Peking University 1991; M.S., Chinese Academy of Science 1994.
Thesis: Analysis of Complex Faulting:Wavelet Transform, Multiple Datasets and Realistic Fault Geometry.

Ronit Kessel (Geochemistry) B.S., Hebrew University 1992; M.Sc., 1995.
Thesis: The Activity of Chromite in Multicomponent Spinels: An Experimental Study with Implications for the Metamorphic History of Equilibrated Ordinary Chondrites.

Sujoy Mukhopadhyay (Geochemistry) B.Sc., Presidency College 1993; M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 1995.
Thesis: I. Extraterrestrial ³He in the Sedimentary Record. II. Geochemistry of Shield Stage Lavas from Kauai, Hawaii.

Julie Jeannine Nazareth (Geophysics) B.S., University of California, Los Angeles 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: The Structure of the Crust and Distribution of Earthquakes in Southern California.

Nathan Alan Niemi (Geology) B.A., Cornell University 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Extensional Tectonics in the Basin and Range Province and the Geology of the Grapevine Mountains, Death Valley Region, California and Nevada.

Michael E. Oskin (Geology) B.S., University of California, Los Angeles 1995.
Thesis: Part I.Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico, Deduced from Conjugate Rifted Margins of the Upper Delfín Basin. Part II. Active Folding and Seismic Hazard in Central Los Angeles, California.

Edwin Arthur Schauble (Geology) B.A., University of Chicago 1994.
Thesis: I. Predicting Equilibrium Stable Isotope Fractionations of Iron, Chlorine, and Chromium. II. Oxygen-isotope Investigation of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Granitoids of the Northeastern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah.

Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay (Planetary Science and Astronomy) A.B. (Astronomy and Physics) , Harvard College 1995.
Thesis: Collisional Processes Involving Icy Bodies in the Solar System.

Anupama Venkataraman (Geophysics) B.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 1994; M.Sc., 1996.
Thesis: Investigating the Mechanics of Earthquakes Using Macroscopic Seismic Parameters.

DIVISION OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Valentina Andrea Bali (Social Science) B.A., Stanford University 1993; B.S., 1994.
Thesis: The Initiative Process and the Reform of Educational Policies.

Steven Callander (Social Science) B.Com., University of New South Wales 1996.
Thesis: Voting and Electoral Competition.

Marco Casari (Social Science) D.E.S., Università Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi” 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Understanding an Economic Dilemma: Essays on Common Property Resources.

Sean Gailmard (Social Science) B.S., Indiana University, Bloomington 1996; M.S., 1997.
Thesis: Principal Agent Models of Bureaucratic and Public Decision Making.

DIVISION OF PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY

Kurt L. Adelberger (Astronomy) B.S., Harvey Mudd College 1993.
Thesis: Star Formation and Structure Formation between Redshifts One and Four.

Kashif Alvi (Physics) A.B., Harvard College 1994; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara 1997.
Thesis: Topics in General Relativity: Binary Black Holes and Hyperbolic Formulations of Einstein’s Equations.

Joshua Simon Bloom (Astronomy) A.B., Harvard College 1996.
Thesis: Toward an Understanding of the Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts.

Adam Jonathan Burgasser (Physics and Planetary Science) B.S., University of California, San Diego 1996.
Thesis: The Discovery and Characterization of Methane-bearing Brown Dwarfs and the Definition of the T Spectral Class.

Mehmet Burak Erdogan (Mathematics) B.S., Bilkent University 1994; M.S., 1997.
Thesis: Mapping Properties of Certain Averaging Operators.

Matthew John Evans (Physics) B.S., Harvey Mudd College 1996.
Thesis: Lock Acquisition in Resonant Optical Interferometers.

Robert Michael Gingrich (Physics and Computer Science) B.A., B.S., University of California, Santa Cruz 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Entanglement of Multipartite Quantum States and the Generalized Quantum Search.

Antonio Hernández Garduño (Mathematics) Licenciatura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 1994.
Thesis: Regularization of the Amended Potential around a Symmetric Configuration.

Brian Daniel Kern (Astronomy) B.S. (Astronomy and Mathematics) , Indiana University 1993;B.A., 1994.
Thesis: Optical Pulse-Phased Observations of Faint Pulsars with a Phase-Binning CCD Camera.

Sophia Kyriazopoulou (Physics) B.S., University of Thessaloniki 1988; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1990.
Thesis: A Search for Slow Magnetic Monopoles Below the Parker Bound.

Andrew John Landahl (Physics) B.S.,Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Controlling Quantum Information.

Yoram Lithwick (Physics) B.A.Sc., University of Toronto 1994; M.Sc., 1995.
Thesis: Topics in MHD Turbulence.

Peter Hsih-Jen Mao (Physics) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1994.
Thesis: Hard X-ray Observations of the Extragalactic Sky:The High Energy Focusing Telescope and the Serendipitous Extragalactic X-ray Source Identification Survey.

Robert G. Nolty (Physics) B.S. (Computer Science and Engineering Physics), Texas Tech University 1985; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1990.
Thesis: Semi-contained Interactions of Atmospheric Neutrinos in the MACRO Detector.

Janet Mary Pavelich (Mathematics) B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder 1993; M.S., University of California, Irvine 1996.
Thesis: Commuting Equivalence Relations and Scales on Differentiable Functions.

Bijan Pesaran (Physics) B.A., Cambridge University 1995.
Thesis: Analysis of Neuronal Dynamics in Behaving Animals.

Byron Jacob Philhour (Physics) A.B., University of California, Berkeley 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Measurement of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background.

Eugene Pivovarov (Physics) B.Tech., St. Petersburg State Technical University 1995.
Thesis: Aspects of Non-Fermi-liquid Metals.

Hongxing Tang (Physics) B.S., University of Science and Technology of China 1993; M.S., 1995; M.Phil., University of Hong Kong 1997.
Thesis: Semiconductor Magnetoelectronics for Spintronics and Suspended 2DEG for Mechanoelectronics.

Michele Vallisneri (Physics) Laurea, Università degli Studi di Parma 1997.
Thesis: Modeling and Detecting Gravitational Waves from Compact Stellar Objects.

Song Wang (Mathematics) B.S., Peking University 1996.
Thesis: An Effective Version of the Grunwald-Wang Theorem.

John Strawn Ward (Physics) B.S., Principia College 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Observations of Carbon Monoxide in the Starburst Galaxy M82 with a 690 GHz Wide Spectral Bandwidth Receiver.

Clinton Thomas White (Mathematics) B.S., University of Tennessee, Knoxville 1996.
Thesis: Two Cyclic Arrangement Problems in Finite Projective Geometry: Parallelisms and Two-Intersection Sets.

Ah-San Wong (Physics) B.S., California State University, Fresno 1992; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Photochemical Studies of Jupiter and Titan.

Georgios Zamanakos (Physics and Computer Science) B.S., University of Athens 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: A Fast and Accurate Analytical Method for the Computation of Solvent Effects in Molecular Simulations.