Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, June 2003

DIVISION OF BIOLOGY

Yên Kim Buì (Biology) B.A., Pomona College 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Genetic Analysis of LET-23 Mediated IP₃ Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Bruce Seymour Burkemper (Biology) B.A., University of Vermont 1989.
Thesis: Biochemical Characterization of Drosophila Receptor Tyrosine Phosphatases.

Grace C. Chang (Computation and Neural Systems) B.S., Stanford University 1992; M.S.,1994.
Thesis: Neural Representation of Surface Ordering in Visual Areas V1,V2 and MT.

Deepshikha Datta (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.Sc., University of Delhi 1996.
Thesis: Protein-Ligand Interactions: Docking, Design and Conformation Change.

Andrew Josef Ewald (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S., Haverford College 1997.
Thesis: The Molecular Control of Cell Movements during Early Vertebrate Development.

Martha Kirouac (Biology) B.S., Union College 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: cis-Regulatory Control of Three Cell Fate-Specific Genes in Vulval Organogenesis of C. elegans and C. briggsae.

Chunhui Mo (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S., Peking University 1994.
Thesis: Synaptic Learning Rules for Local Synaptic Interactions: Theory and Application to Direction Selectivity.

Cindy María Quezada (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S., University of California, Davis 1995.
Thesis: Histidine Phosphorylation in Bacterial Chemotaxis.

Carlo Joseph Quiñónez (Biology) B.S., San Diego State University 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Theory and Design of Relaxometric Probes.

Christopher Ashby Voigt (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S.E., University of Michigan 1998.
Thesis: Computationally Optimizing the Directed Evolution of Proteins.

Qiao Zhou (Biology) B.S., Qingdao Ocean University 1993; M.S., Boston University 1997.
Thesis: Glial Cell Development in the Vertebrate Central Nervous System.

DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Ravinder Abrol (Chemistry) B.S., Hans Raj College 1993; M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 1995.
Thesis: Theory of Electronically Nonadiabatic Quantum Reaction Dynamics.

Lily Joy Ackerman (Chemistry) B.S., Illinois State University 1999.
Thesis: Ancillary Ligand Effects in Niobocene Olefin Hydride Complexes and Hydrocarbon Oxidation by Palladium(II) Complexes.

Daniel Ephraim Austin (Chemistry) B.S., Brigham Young University 1998.
Thesis: Impact-Ionization Mass Spectrometry of Cosmic Dust.

Christopher W. Bielawski (Chemistry) B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1997.
Thesis: Tailoring Polymer Synthesis with Designer Ruthenium Catalysts.

Elizabeth Marshall Boon (Chemistry) A.B., Kenyon College 1997.
Thesis: Electrochemical Sensors Based on DNA-Mediated Charge Transport Chemistry.

Gabriel Shaw Brandt (Chemistry) B.A., Reed College 1992.
Thesis: Site-Specific Incorporation of Synthetic Amino Acids into Functioning Ion Channels.

Shawn M. Briglin (Chemistry) B.A., B.S., University of Rochester 1997.
Thesis: Spatial, Temporal, and Chemical Aspects of Vapor Detection Using Conductive Composite Chemically Sensitive Resistors.

Arnab Kumar Chatterjee (Chemistry) B.A., Northwestern University 1997.
Thesis: Investigations into the Selectivity of Olefin Cross-Metathesis Using Ruthenium Alkylidene Catalysts: Electronic and Steric Matching of Substrates.

Timothy Casey Cheng (Chemistry) B.S., University of Toronto 1996.
Thesis: Investigations into the Enzymology and Biotechnology of the Hyperthermophilic Carboxypeptidase (PfuCP) from the Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

Lance Eric Christensen (Chemistry) B.S., University of Chicago 1996.
Thesis: Laboratory Studies of Atmospherically Important Gas-Phase Peroxy Radical Reactions.

Alexander Robert Dunn (Chemistry) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Sensitizer-linked Substrates as Probes of Heme Enzyme Structure and Catalysis.

Shachi S. Gosavi (Chemistry) M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 1995.
Thesis: Electron Transfer at Metal Surfaces.

Jason Knowles Holt (Chemical Engineering) B.S., University of California, Irvine 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition of Silicon and Silicon Nitride for Photovoltaics: Experiments, Simulations, and Applications.

John Michael Joern (Chemical Engineering) B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1998.
Thesis: Engineering Dioxygenases by Laboratory Evolution: A Comparison of Evolutionary Search Strategies.

Agnes Juang (Chemistry) B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara 1997.
Thesis: Effects of Surface Modification on Charge-Carrier Dynamics at Semiconductor Interfaces.

Ryan Roy Julian (Chemistry) B.S., University of Utah 1999.
Thesis: Molecular Recognition of Biomolecules in the Gas Phase.

David Randall Kent IV (Chemistry) B.A., Texas A&M University 1999.
Thesis: New Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithms to Efficiently Utilize Massively Parallel Computers.

Garett Michael Leskowitz (Chemistry) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1988.
Thesis: Force-Detected Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Independent of Field Gradients.

Lintong Li (Chemistry) B.S., Beijing Medical University 1994; M.S., Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1997.
Thesis: The Tethered Agonist Approach to Mapping Ion-Channel Proteins - Toward a Structural Model for the Agonist-Binding Site of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor.

Shuwei Li (Chemistry) B.S., Peking University 1994; M.S., Boston University 1997.
Thesis: In Vitro Selection of mRNA-Display Libraries Containing Unnatural Amino Acids.

Julia G. Lyubovitsky (Chemistry) B.S., New York University 1997.
Thesis: Mapping the Cytochrome C Folding Landscape.

Joshua Ahab Maurer (Chemistry) B.A., M.A., Clark University 1995.
Thesis: I. Structure-Function Analysis of the Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance. II. Design of Novel Magnetic Materials using Crystal Engineering.

Alexandre Edouard Meier (Chemistry) Diplôme d’Ingénieur, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 1996.
Thesis: Gallium and Chromium Corroles.

Jeremiah Edward Miller (Chemistry) B.Sc., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1998.
Thesis: Radical Formation and Electron Transfer in Biological Molecules.

John Philip Morgan (Chemistry) B.S., Haverford College 1997.
Thesis: Ruthenium-Based Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Coordinated with N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Synthesis and Applications.

Athanasios Nenes (Chemical Engineering) Diploma, National Technical University of Athens 1993; M.S., University of Miami 1997.
Thesis: Toward an Understanding of the Indirect Climatic Effect of Aerosols.

Victor Clay Rucker (Chemistry) B.S., Southeastern Louisiana University 1995; B.S., Tulane University 1998.
Thesis: Detection of DNA by Sequence Specific Fluorescent Polyamides.

Lianhong Sun (Chemistry) B.S., Inner Mongolia University 1994; M.S., Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics 1997.
Thesis: Engineering Galactose Oxidase to Increase Expression Level in E. coli, Enhance Thermostability and Introduce Novel Activities.

Todd Addison Thorsen (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S., University of California, San Diego 1992; M.Ph., University of California, Berkeley 1997.
Thesis: Microfluidic Technologies for High-Throughput Screening Applications.

Christopher Ryan Treadway (Chemistry) B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign 1996.
Thesis: Spectroscopic Characterization of DNA-Mediated Charge Transfer.

Tina Maria Trnka (Chemistry) B.A., Columbia University 1997.
Thesis: Catalysts for Olefin Meta
Thesis: Ruthenium Alkylidene Complexes with Phosphine and N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands.

Jian Wang (Chemical Engineering) B.S., University of Science and Technology of China 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Instrument Development and Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosol Physical Properties through Airborne Measurement.

William Amine Wehbi (Chemistry) B.S., University of Arizona 1997.
Thesis: Amino Acid Radicals in Rhenium-Modified Copper Proteins.

Deqiang Zhang (Chemistry and Computer Science) B.S., University of Science and Technology of China 1993; M.S., Chinese Academy of Science 1996.
Thesis: Structure-Based Design of Mutant Proteins: I. Molecular Docking Studies of Amino Acid Binding to Wild-Type Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases. II. Structure-Based Design of Mutant Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases for Non-Natural Amino Acid Incorporation.

DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES

William B.G. Agassounon (Electrical Engineering) Diplôme d’Ingénieur, École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Électrotechnique et Électronique 1999; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Modeling Artificial, Mobile Swarm Systems.

Marco Arienti (Aeronautics and Applied and Computational Mathematics) M.S., Politecnico di Milano 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: A Numerical and Analytical Study of Detonation Diffraction.

Joanna Maria Austin (Aeronautics and Applied Mathematics) B.E., B.S., University of Queensland 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: The Role of Instability in Gaseous Detonation.

Prakash Viththal Bhave (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 1998; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Air Pollution at the Single-Particle Level: Integrating Atmospheric Measurements with Mathematical Models.

Vanessa Sabrina Camelo (Civil Engineering) B.S., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Dynamic Characteristics of Woodframe Buildings.

Xavier Cartoixà Soler (Applied Physics) Licenciat en Fisica, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Theoretical Methods for Spintronics in Semiconductors with Applications.

Chun Tung Cheung (Electrical Engineering) B.E., The University of Hong Kong 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis:Waveguide Packaging of Quasi-Optical Grid Amplifiers.

Calum Ronald Inneas Chisholm (Materials Science) B.S.,Yale University 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2001.
Thesis: Superprotonic Phase Transitions in Solid Acids: Parameters Affecting the Presence and Stability of Superprotonic Transitions in the MH_nXO₄ Family of Compounds (X=S,Se,P,As; M=Li,Na,K,NH₄,Rb,Cs).

Razvan C. Fetecau (Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.S., University “Al. I. Cuza” 1997; M.S., The University of Bucharest 1998.
Thesis: Variational Methods for Nonsmooth Mechanics.

Massimo Franceschetti (Electrical Engineering) Laurea, Università di Napoli Federico II 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Wireless Networks, from Collective Behavior to the Physics of Propagation.

Martha Anne Gallivan (Mechanical Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems) B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Modeling and Control of Epitaxial Thin Film Growth.

Jason Allan Graetz (Materials Science) B.A., Occidental College 1998; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Electronic Environments and Electrochemical Properties in Lithium Storage Materials.

Andrei Yakovlevich Greenberg (Applied and Computational Mathematics) M.S., Moscow State University 1997.
Thesis: Chebyshev Spectral Method for Singular Moving Boundary Problems with Application to Finance.

Eitan Grinspun (Computer Science) B.S., University of Toronto 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: The Basis Refinement Method.

Andrew C. Guyader (Civil Engineering) B.S., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: A Statistical Approach to Equivalent Linearization with Application to Performance-Based Engineering.

Jay C. Hanan (Materials Science) B.S. (Chemistry and Engineering Physics), Oklahoma Christian University 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Damage Evolution in Uniaxial SiC Fiber Reinforced Ti Matrix Composites.

Anil Nirmal Hirani (Computer Science and Control and Dynamical Systems and Mathematics) M.Sc., Birla Institute of Technology and Science 1986; M.S., Stanford University 1988; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Discrete Exterior Calculus.

Elizabeth Anne Howard (Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.S., Kansas State University 1990.
Thesis: A Front Tracking Method for Modelling Thermal Growth.

Patrick Hung (Mechanical Engineering) B.A.Sc., University of Waterloo 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Algorithms for Reaction Mechanism Reduction and Numerical Simulation of Detonations Initiated by Projectiles.

E. McKay Hyde (Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.A., University of Utah 1997.
Thesis: Fast, High-Order Methods for Scattering by Inhomogeneous Media.

Gustavo Joseph (Mechanical Engineering) Ing., Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Collisional Dynamics of Macroscopic Particles in a Viscous Fluid.

Jason Christopher Kastner (Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.S., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 1992; M.S., 1997.
Thesis: Modeling a Hox Gene Network Stochastic Simulation with Experimental Perturbation.

Aamod Khandekar (Electrical Engineering) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 1998; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Graph-based Codes and Iterative Decoding.

Marisol Koslowski (Aeronautics and Materials Science) Licenciado en Ciencias Fisica, Universidad de Buenos Aires 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: A Phase-Field Model of Dislocations in Ductile Single Crystals.

Sanjay Kumar (Aeronautics and Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 1994; M.Tech.,1996.
Thesis: An Experimental Investigation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability.

Hyon-Jee Lee (Materials Science) B.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 1996; M.S., 1998.
Thesis: Molecular Dynamics Studies of Metallic Glasses.

Francois Lekien (Control and Dynamical Systems) Ingenieur, Université Libre de Bruxelles 1999.
Thesis: Time-Dependent Dynamical Systems and Geophysical Flows.

Guillaume Lessard (Electrical Engineering) B.Sc.A., Université Laval 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Apertureless Near-Field Optical Microscopy for Fluorescence Imaging.

Fok-Yan Thomas Leung (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., Queen’s University 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Elucidation of the Origins of Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosols by Isotopic Methods.

Adrián José Lew (Aeronautics and Applied and Computational Mathematics) Nuclear Engineer, Instituto Balseiro 1998; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Variational Time Integrators in Computational Solid Mechanics.

Marko Loncar (Electrical Engineering) B.S.E.E., University of Belgrade 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Nanophotonic Devices Based On Planar Photonic Crystals.

Stefan Alexander Maier (Applied Physics) Vordiplom, Technische Universität München 1998; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Guiding of Electromagnetic Energy in Subwavelength Periodic Metal Structures.

Richard James Mason (Mechanical Engineering) A.B., Harvard College 1992.
Thesis: Fluid Locomotion and Trajectory Planning for Shape-Changing Robots.

Konstantin Matveev (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 1994; M.S., 1996.
Thesis: Thermoacoustic Instabilities in the Rijke Tube: Experiments and Modeling.

Sean Patrick Mauch (Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Efficient Algorithms for Solving Static Hamilton-Jacobi Equations.

Ellis Fan-Chuin Meng (Electrical Engineering) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1997; M.S., 1998.
Thesis: MEMS Technology and Devices for a Micro Fluid Dosing System.

Mark Bradley Milam (Control and Dynamical Systems) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1988; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1991.
Thesis: Real-Time Optimal Trajectory Generation for Constrained Dynamical Systems.

Shayan Mookherjea (Electrical Engineering and Physics) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1999; S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Coupled-resonator Optical Waveguides and Multiplexed Solitons.

Matthew A. Morgan (Electrical Engineering) B.S., University of Virginia 1999; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2001.
Thesis: Millimeter-Wave MMICs and Applications.

Georgios Panotopoulos (Electrical Engineering and Social Science) Diploma, National Technical University of Athens 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Holographic Information Systems.

Tait Sherman Pottebaum (Aeronautics and Planetary Science) B.S., University of Southern California 1998; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: The Relationship between Near-wake Structure and Heat Transfer for an Oscillating Circular Cylinder in Cross-flow.

Edward J. Preisler (Applied Physics) B.S., University of California, San Diego 1998.
Thesis: Investigation of Novel Semiconductor Heterostructure Systems: I. Cerium Oxide/Silicon Heterostructures. II. 6.1 Å Semiconductor-Based Avalanche Photodiodes.

James Edward Radford (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1993; M.S., 1993.
Thesis: Symmetry, Reduction and Swimming in a Perfect Fluid.

Deborah Hannah Santamore (Applied Physics) B.S., North Carolina State University 1995; M.S., University of Maryland, College Park 1997.
Thesis: Quantum Transport and Dynamics of Phonons in Mesoscopic Systems.

Yang Song (Electrical Engineering) B.Eng., Tsinghua University 1993; M.S., 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: A Probabilistic Approach to Human Motion Detection and Labeling.

Pururav Thoutireddy (Aeronautics and Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.Tech., Kakatiya University 1991; M.E., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1997.
Thesis: Variational Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Method.

Patricio Antonio Vela (Control and Dynamical Systems) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Averaging and Control of Nonlinear Systems.

Xiaoou Wang (Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science) B.E., Tsinghua University 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Set Mapping in the Method of Imprecision.

Zoë Justine Wood (Computer Science) B.S., University of California, Santa Cruz 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Computational Topology Algorithms for Discrete 2-manifolds.

Hui Wu (Electrical Engineering) B.E., Tsinghua University 1996; M.S., 1998; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2001.
Thesis: Signal Generation and Processing in High-Frequency/High-Speed Silicon- Based Integrated Circuits.

Yunping Yang (Electrical Engineering) B.S.; B.E., Tsinghua University 1991; M.S., Tsinghua University 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Holographic Recording and Dynamic Range Improvement in Lithium Niobate Crystals.

Qian Zhao (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Tsinghua University 1998; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Network Source Coding: Theory and Code Design for Broadcast and Multiple Access Networks.

DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND PLANETARY SCIENCES

Joseph A. Akins (Geology) B.S., University of Connecticut 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Dynamic Compression of Minerals in the M_gO-FeO-SiO₂ System.

Shane Byrne (Planetary Science and Astronomy) M.Sc., University of Wales 1998; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2001.
Thesis: History and Current Processes of the Martian Polar Layered Deposits.

Lori K. Fenton (Planetary Science and Electrical Engineering) B.S., University of Maryland, College Park 1996.
Thesis: Aeolian Processes on Mars: Atmospheric Modeling and GIS Analysis.

Elizabeth Ann Johnson (Geochemistry) B.A., Rice University 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Hydrogen in Nominally Anhydrous Crustal Minerals.

Zhiming Kuang (Planetary Science and Applied Computation) B.S., Peking University 1996.
Thesis: I. Remote Spectroscopic Measurements of Atmospheric HDO/H₂O and Column CO₂. II. Interannual Variations of the Earth’s Reflectance.

Benjamin F. Lane (Planetary Science and Astronomy) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: High-Precision Infra-Red Stellar Interferometry.

Jing Liu (Geology) B.S., Nanjing University 1991; M.S., Institute of Geology, State Seismological Bureau 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Part I. Slip Behavior of the San Andreas Fault Through Several Earthquake Cycles. Part II. A Structural Interpretation of the Aftershock “Cloud” of the 1992 M_w 7.3 Landers Earthquake.

Shengnian Luo (Geophysics) B.S., University of Science and Technology of China 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2001.
Thesis: I.The Heterogeneities at the Core-Mantle and Inner-Core Boundaries from PKP Phases. II.The Static and Dynamic Behavior of Silica at High Pressures.

Danny Hilman Natawidjaja (Geology) B.Sc., Bandung Institute of Technology 1984; M.S., University of Auckland 1992; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Neotectonics of the Sumatran Fault and Paleogeodesy of the Sumatran Subduction Zone.

Matthew Earl Pritchard (Geophysics and Planetary Science) B.A., University of Chicago 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Recent Crustal Deformation in West-Central South America.

Benjamin Paul Weiss (Planetary Science and Geology) B.A., Amherst College 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2001.
Thesis: Martian Paleomagnetism with the SQUID Microscope.

DIVISION OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Serena Guarnaschelli (Social Science) Laurea, Bocconi University 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Essays on Uncertainty: An Axiomatization and Economic Applications.

Christopher S. Hoag (Social Science) B.A., Amherst College 1998.
Thesis: Three Episodes in Nineteenth Century United States Banking and Finance.

Ben Klemens (Social Science) B.A., University of Chicago 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2001.
Thesis: Information Aggregation, with Application to Monotone Ordering,Advocacy, and Conviviality.

Elizabeth Maggie Penn (Social Science) B.A., University of California, Berkeley 1999; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2001.
Thesis: Cooperation and Social Choice: How Foresight Can Induce Fairness.

Catherine H.Wilson (Social Science) B.A., University of Pennsylvania 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Political Information, Institutions and Citizen Participation in American Politics.

Kathryn Marie Zeiler (Social Science) B.Sc., Indiana University 1991; M.Sc., Golden State University 1995; J.D., University of Southern California Law School 1999; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Medical Malpractice and Contract Disclosure: A Study of the Effects of Legal Rules on Behavior in Health Care Markets.

DIVISION OF PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY

Joseph R. Buck, Jr. (Physics) B.S., Pennsylvania State University 1996.
Thesis: Cavity QED in Microsphere and Fabry-Perot Cavities.

John Kenneth Cartwright (Astronomy) B.S., Indiana University 1994; S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Polarization Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager.

Adam M. Chandler (Physics) A.B., College of the Holy Cross 1992.
Thesis: Pulsar Searches: From Radio to Gamma-Rays.

Yanbei Chen (Physics) B.S., Peking University 1999.
Thesis: Topics of LIGO Physics: Quantum Noise in Advanced Interferometers and Template Banks for Compact-Binary Inspirals.

Kenneth B. Cooper (Physics) A.B., Harvard College 1997.
Thesis: New Phases of Two-Dimensional Electrons in Excited Landau Levels.

Chu-Chen Fu (Physics) B.A., Northwestern University 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Spin-polarized Quasiparticle Transport in Cuprate Superconductors.

Darrell Harrington (Physics) B.S. (Physics), University of Saskatchewan 1992; B.S. (Mathematics), 1993.
Thesis: Physics and Applications of Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS).

Michael David Hartl (Physics) A.B., Harvard College 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Dynamics of Spinning Compact Binaries in General Relativity.

Peter Byungho Lee (Physics) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 1998; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: D-Branes in Anti-de-Sitter Space.

Yuk Tung Liu (Physics) B.S., The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1995; M.Phil., 1997.
Thesis: Dynamical Stability of Nascent Neutron Stars.

Theresa Wan-Zhen Lynn (Physics) A.B., Harvard-Radcliffe College 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1999.
Thesis: Measurement and Control of Individual Quanta in Cavity QED.

Yajun Mei (Mathematics and Electrical Engineering) B.S., Peking University 1996.
Thesis: Asymptotically Optimal Methods for Sequential Change-Point Detection.

Jongwon Park (Physics) B.S., Seoul National University 1996.
Thesis: String/Gauge Duality and Penrose Limit.

Tina Pavlin (Physics) A.B., Princeton University 1997; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Hyperpolarized Gas Polarimetry and Imaging at Low Magnetic Field.

Patricia Marie Purdue (Physics) A.B., M.A., Bryn Mawr College 1995.
Thesis: Topics in LIGO-Related Physics: Interferometric Speed Meters and Tidal Work.

Shanti Raja Rao (Physics) B.S., University of Washington 1997.
Thesis: Mirror Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors.

Marcus Christian Runyan (Physics) B.A., University of California, Berkeley 1994.
Thesis: A Search for Galaxy Clusters Using the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect.

Alice Eve Shapley (Astronomy) A.B., Harvard-Radcliffe College 1997.
Thesis: Detailed Astrophysical Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies.

Federico Maximiliano Spedalieri (Physics) Licenciado en Ciencias, University of Buenos Aires 1994.
Thesis: Characterizing Entanglement in Quantum Information.

Werner Man-Li Sun (Physics) A.B., Harvard College 1994.
Thesis: Observation of B→K⁰_sπ⁺π^- and B → K*(862)^+/- π ^-/+and Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in B → K*(862)^+/- π ^-/+.

Lei Xia (Physics) B.S., Peking University 1996.
Thesis: Search for Scalar Leptons at LEP with the L3 Detector.

Andrej Zlatos (Mathematics) M.S., Comenius University 1999.
Thesis: Sum Rules and the Szegö Condition for Jacobi Matrices.