Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, June 2000

DIVISION OF BIOLOGY

Tara Lynn Chapman (Biochemistry) B.S. (Chemistry), B.A. (French), Arizona State University 1994.
Thesis: Biochemical Characterization of Two Cytomegalovirus MHC Class I Homologs.

Christine Wai Jun Chee-Ruiter (Computation and Neural Systems) B.S., Harvey Mudd College 1985.
Thesis: The Biological Sense of Smell: Olfactory Search Behavior and a Metabolic View for Olfactory Perception.

Wen Chen (Biology) B.S., University of Science and Technology of China 1994.
Thesis: Extragenic Suppressors of Heat Shock Activated Goa .

Chiou-Fen Chuang (Biology) B.S., Chung Shan Medical and Dental College 1990; M.S., National Yang-Ming Medical College 1992.
Thesis: Molecular Genetics of Floral Patterning in Arabidopsis Thaliana.

Marie Elizabeth Csete (Biology) A.B., Princeton University 1975; M.D., Columbia University 1979; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Less is More: Oxygen and Stem Cell Regeneration.

Susan Elizabeth Roian Egnor (Integrative Neurobiology) A.B., Bryn Mawr College 1990.
Thesis: The Role of Spectral Cues in Sound Localization by the Barn Owl.

Reid Martin Renny Feldman (Biology) A.B., Harvard College 1993
Thesis: Life is Degrading: SCF Ubiquitin Ligases–Their Components and Functions.

Aidyl Sofia Gonzalez-Serricchio (Biology) B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1993.
Thesis: Negative Regulation of Cell Fate Specification by the lin-15 Locus during Vulva Induction in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Amy Lynn Greenwood (Biology) B.A., Pomona College 1992.
Thesis: The Generation of Peripheral Neuron Diversity from Mammalian Progenitor Cells in vitro.

Mitra Jennifer Hartmann (Integrative Neurobiology) B.S., Cornell University 1990.
Thesis: The Cerebellum and Active Somatosensation: Recordings from the Granule Cell Layer of Awake, Freely-Behaving Rats.

Ching Elizabeth Ho (Computation and Neural Systems) B.Sc., The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1992; M.A., University of Virginia 1994.
Thesis: Multiple Mechanisms of Apparent Motion Perception.

Laurent Itti (Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering) Ingénieur, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications 1994.
Thesis: Models of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Visual Attention.

Tina Michelle Iverson (Biochemistry) B.S., St. John's University 1995.
Thesis: Crystallographic Investigations of Respiratory Proteins.

Clara L. Kielkopf (Biology and Chemistry) B.S., University of Louisville 1992; B.S., University of Wisconsin—Madison 1994.
Thesis: Structural Basis of DNA Recognition by Synthetic Ligands.

Chantal Smith Morgan (Biochemistry) A.B., Princeton University 1994.
Thesis: Full Sequence Design of an Alpha-Helical Protein and Investigation of the Importance of Helix Dipole and Capping Effects in Helical Protein Design.

Alice Jean Paquette (Biology) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1989; M.S., University of California, San Diego 1993.
Thesis: The Role of the Neuron-Restrictive Silencer Factor during Vertebrate Embryogenesis.

John Stylianos Pezaris (Computation and Neural Systems) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1984; S.M., 1993.
Thesis: Responses of Multiple Simultaneously Recorded Macaque Area LIP Neurons in a Memory Saccade Task.

Micah Seth Siegel (Computation and Neural Systems) B.S., Yale University 1992.
Thesis: Genetically Engineered Sensors of Cell Signaling.

Qi Sun (Biology) B.S., Fudan University 1989; M.S., Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, Academia Sinica 1992.
Thesis: Molecular Genetics of Axon Guidance in Drosophila melanogaster.

Glenn Cameron Turner (Biology) B.Sc., University of Alberta 1992.
Thesis: Functions of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Cotranslational Protein Degradation and Regulation of the UBR1 Pathway.

Minqin Wang (Biology) B.S., Fudan University 1991; M.S., 1994.
Thesis: Pattern Formation during Caenorhabditis elegans Vulval Development.

Susan Leishua Wang (Biology) B.A., University of California, Berkeley 1992.
Thesis: Turning on Death in the Fly: Regulation of Apoptosis in Drosophila melanogaster.

Patricia M. White (Developmental Biology) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1989.
Thesis: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in Autonomic Neuronal Differentiation.

DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Erika Bellmann (Chemistry) Vordiplom, Humboldt University 1992; Diplom, 1995.
Thesis: Synthesis and Characterization of Hole-Transporting and Electroluminescent Polymers.

Ryan Elwood Bremer (Chemistry) B.A., Grinnell College 1995.
Thesis: Inhibition of DNA Major Groove Binding Proteins by Hairpin Polyamides.

Matt Jeffrey Carlson (Chemistry) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1992.
Thesis: BUFF: A Biological Universal Forcefield Derived from Quantum Mechanics.

Paul James Chirik (Chemistry) B.S., Virginia Polytechnic and State University 1995.
Thesis: Ancillary Ligand Effects on Fundamental Transformations in Metallocene Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization.

Ivan Julian Dmochowski (Chemistry) A.B., Harvard College 1994.
Thesis: Probing Cytochrome P450 with Sensitizer-linked Substrates.

Delwin Lerone Elder (Chemistry) B.S., University of North Carolina 1994.
Thesis: The Use of Well-Defined Molybdenum ROMP Initiators in the Synthesis of Fluorescent Poly(arylenevinylene) Homopolymers and Copolymers.

Sean Joseph Elliott (Chemistry) B.A., Amherst College 1994.
Thesis: The Copper Centers of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase: Differentiation of C- and E-Clusters.

Kathryn Elizabeth Erkkila (Chemistry) A.B., Bryn Mawr College 1992.
Thesis: Chemical and Structural Characterization of 9,10-phenanthrenequinone Diimine Complexes of Iridium(III) and Rhodium(III) Bound to DNA.

Justin Patrick Gallivan (Chemistry) B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign 1994.
Thesis: Electrostatic Interactions in Chemistry and Biology.

David Benjamin Gordon (Chemistry) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1994.
Thesis: Combinatorial Optimization in Computational Protein Design.

Robert John Griffin (Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering Science) B.S., Tufts University 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Experimental and Computational Studies of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation.

Hui-Ming Hung (Chemistry) B.S., National Taiwan University 1993; M.S., 1995.
Thesis: Sonochemistry: The Mechanism and the Application.

Michael Garrett Johnson (Chemistry) B.A., Reed College 1992.
Thesis: Photorearrangement of Tricyclic 2,5-Cyclohexadienones in a Synthetic Route Toward the Natural Product Resiniferatoxin.

Thomas Andrew Kirkland (Chemistry) B.S., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 1993.
Thesis: Expanding the Applications of Transition Metal Alkylidenes and Alkylidynes to Organic Synthesis.

Dmitri Alexandrovich Kossakovski (Chemistry) M.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 1993.
Thesis: Scanning Probe Chemical and Topographical Microanalysis.

Guruswamy Kumaraswamy (Chemical Engineering and Chemistry) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: The Effect of Flow History on the Crystallization of Semicrystalline Polymers.

Sang-Won Lee (Chemistry) B.Sc., Korea University 1990; M.Sc., 1992.
Thesis: Fundamental Studies of the Structures and Reaction Dynamics of Gas Phase Biomolecules and Solvated Ions using FT-ICR.

Jennifer Chia-Hung Ma (Chemistry) A.B., Harvard College 1993.
Thesis: Molecular Recognition in Aqueous Media: Studies in Self-Assembly and Enzyme Mimics.

Mehrdad Mahmoudi Zarandi (Chemical Engineering) B.Sc., Isfahan University of Technology 1985, M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000.
Thesis: Steady and Pulsatile Flow in Curved Vessels.

Stephen Albert Miller (Chemistry) B.S., Stanford University 1994; M.S., 1994.
Thesis: Metallocene-Mediated Olefin Polymerization: The Effects of Distal Ligand Perturbations on Polymer Stereochemistry.

Adrian Ponce (Chemistry) B.S., Michigan State University 1993.
Thesis: Electron Tunneling in Proteins and Water.

Stephanie Monn Rogers (Chemistry) B.S., The College of William and Mary 1992.
Thesis: Reaction Dynamics of the Lowest ³A¹ and ³A¹¹ States of O(³P) + H₂.

Shelly Elese Sakiyama-Elbert (Chemical Engineering) S.B. (Biology), S.B. (Chemical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Biofunctional Polymers for the Controlled Release of Growth Factors in the Peripheral Nervous System.

Matthias Scholl (Chemistry) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Expanding the Scope of Ruthenium-Based Olefin Metathesis Catalysts.

Michael Aaron Shogren-Knaak (Chemistry) B.S., Stanford University 1994.
Thesis: Incorporating Function into Beta Beta Alpha-Motif Peptide Scaffolds.

Michael Ulman (Chemistry) B.S., Harvey Mudd College 1995.
Thesis: Selectivity, Activity and Stability of Ruthenium-Carbene Based Olefin Metathesis Initiators.

DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE

Brad Thomas Aagaard (Civil Engineering) B.S., Harvey Mudd College 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Finite-Element Simulations of Earthquakes.

Ali Adibi (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Shiraz University 1990; M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology 1993.
Thesis: Persistent Holographic Storage in Photorefractive Crystals.

Srinivas Mandayam Aji (Electrical Engineering and Mathematics) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Graphical Models and Iterative Decoding.

David S. Babcock (Electrical Engineering) B.S., The Pennsylvania State University 1992; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1993.
Thesis: Intelligent Control Using Generalizing Case-Based Reasoning with Neural Networks.

Zvonimir Z. Bandic (Applied Physics) B.S., University of Belgrade 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Novel Devices Employing Epitaxial Wide Bandgap Semiconductors: Physics, Electronics and Materials Characterization.

Mark Adrian Brady (Aeronautics and Computer Science) B.S., University of California, San Diego 1993.
Thesis: Regularized Vortex Sheet Evolution in Three Dimensions.

Goutam Chattopadhyay (Electrical Engineering) B.E., University of Calcutta 1987; M.S., University of Virginia 1994.
Thesis: Dual Polarized and Balanced Receivers at Millimeter and Submillimeter Wavelengths.

Hou-Pu Chou (Electrical Engineering) B.S., National Taiwan University 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Microfabricated Devices for Rapid DNA Diagnostics.

Donald R. Collins (Environmental Engineering and Planetary Science) B. S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute 1994.
Thesis: Characterization of the Physical Properties of Atmospheric Aerosols through Airborne Sampling.

Cynthia Evors Daniell (Electrical Engineering) B.S., University of Southern Alabama 1985; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1988.
Thesis: Object Recognition in Compressed Imagery.

John Frank Davis (Electrical Engineering) B.S.E., Arizona State University 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Low-Cost, Industrial Class-E Power Amplifiers with Sine-Wave Drive.

Blythe Chadwick Deckman (Electrical Engineering) B.S., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Active Quasi-Optics and Measurements.

Amish S. Desai (Electrical Engineering) B.S., University of California, Los Angeles 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Micromachined Devices for an Airborne Bio-Particle Analysis System.

Ognjen Djekic (Electrical Engineering) B.S., University of Maryland at College Park 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Optimization and Miniaturization of Microprocessor Power Supplies.

Michael Andrew Gibson (Computation and Neural Systems) B.S. (Computer Science), B.S. (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Carnegie Mellon University 1995.
Thesis: Computational Methods for Stochastic Biological Systems.

Luis Filipe Domingues Gonçalves (Computation and Neural Systems) B.A.Sc., University of Waterloo 1991; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1992.
Thesis: Automatic Observation and Synthesis of Human Motion.

Reid R. Harrison (Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering) B.S., University of Florida 1994.
Thesis: An Analog VLSI Motion Sensor Based on the Fly Visual System.

Alexandr Ikriannikov (Electrical Engineering) Engineer-Physicist, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute 1992; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: New Developments in Single Phase Power Factor Correction.

Ayhan Irfanoglu (Civil Engineering) B.S., Middle East Technical University 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1994.
Thesis: Structural Design Under Seismic Risk Using Multiple Performance Objectives.

Michel E. Jabbour (Applied Mechanics) Licence de Mécanique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie 1992; Maîtrise de Mécanique, 1993.
Thesis: Modeling of Chemical Vapor Deposition of Thin Solid Films.

David S. Jeon (Aeronautics) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1994.
Thesis: On Cylinders Undergoing One- and Two-Degree of Freedom Forced Vibrations in a Steady Flow.

Anna Karion (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., Yale University 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Couette Flows of Granular Materials: Mixing, Rheology, and Energy Dissipation.

Sanza Nkashama Tsilobo Kazadi (Computation and Neural Systems) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Swarm Engineering.

Penelope E. Kneebone (Environmental Engineering Science and Chemistry) B.Sc., University of Otago 1995.
Thesis: Arsenic Geochemistry in a Geothermally Impacted System: The Los Angeles Aqueduct.

Reginald Kai Ming Lee (Applied Physics) B.A.Sc., University of Toronto 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Lasing and Modified Spontaneous Emission in Photonic Crystal Structures and Microcavities.

Lifang Li (Electrical Engineering) B.S. Tsinghua University 1993; M.S., 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Adaptive Receiver Design and Optimal Resource Allocation Strategies for Fading Channels.

Ying Li (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., Tsinghua University 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Tsunamis: Non-Breaking and Breaking Solitary Wave Run-Up.

Daqi Lu (Applied Physics) B.S., University of Science and Technology of China 1991.
Thesis: Theoretical Studies of the Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials.

Amit Manwani (Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 1994.
Thesis: Information-theoretic Analysis of Neuronal Communication.

Kyu Sung Min (Materials Science) B.S., University of California, Los Angeles 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Synthesis and Properties of Light-Emitting Si-Based Nanostructures.

Petrus Joannes Joseph Moeleker (Aeronautics and Physics) Econametrics, Erasus Universiteit Rotterdam 1995; Engineer, Technische Universiteit Delft 1996.
Thesis: The Filtered Advection-Diffusion Equation: Lagrangian Methods and Modeling.

Kamran Mohseni (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine 1993.
Thesis: A: Universality in Vortex Formation. B: Evaluation of Mach Wave Radiation Mechanisms in a Supersonic Jet.

Mario Enrique Munich (Electrical Engineering) Ingeniero Electricista, Universidad Nacional de Rosario 1991; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1994.
Thesis: Visual Input for Pen-Based Computers.

Kenji Oguni (Applied Mechanics) B.Eng., University of Tokyo 1994; M.Eng., 1996.
Thesis: Micromechanical Aspects of Failure in Unidirectional Fiber Reinforced Composites.

Peter Jungsoo Park (Applied Mathematics) A.B., Harvard College 1994; S.M., 1994.
Thesis: Multiscale Numerical Methods for the Singularly Perturbed Convection-Diffusion Equation.

Pablo A. Parrilo (Control and Dynamical Systems) Ingeniero Electronico, Universidad de Buenos Aires 1994.
Thesis: Structured Semidefinite Programs and Semialgebraic Geometry Methods in Robustness and Optimization.

Sergey Pekarsky (Control and Dynamical Systems) B.Sc., Tomsk State University 1992; M.Sc., Weizmann Institute of Science 1996.
Thesis: Discrete Reduction of Mechanical Systems and Multisymplectic Geometry of Continuum Mechanics.

Eva Maria Peral Sanchez (Electrical Engineering) Ingeniero Superior de Telecomunicaciones, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1998.
Thesis: Some Issues Relevant to Propagation of Lightwave Signals in Optical Fiber.

Wendong Qu (Engineering Science) B.S., Ocean University of Qingdao; M.S., 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Studies on Nonlinear Dispersive Water Waves.

Stefan Schlamp (Aeronautics and Computation and Neural Systems) B.S., Stuttgart University 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Laser-Induced Thermal Acoustic Velocimetry.

Eric Schultz (Aeronautics and Planetary Science) B.S., Pennsylvania State University 1995; M.S., University of Washington 1997.
Thesis: Detonation Diffraction through an Abrupt Area Expansion.

Hui (Helen) Si (Applied Mathematics) B.S., Tsinghua University 1994.
Thesis: Numerical Study of Interfacial Flow with Surface Tension in Two and Three Dimensions.

James Norman Smith (Environmental Engineering Science and Chemistry) B.S., Harvey Mudd College 1984.
Thesis: A. Computational Chemistry Applied to the Analysis of Air Pollution Reaction Mechanisms. B. Fundamental Studies of Droplet Evaporation and Discharge Dynamics in Electrospray Ionization.

Grant Douglas Swenson (Aeronautics and Chemistry) B.S., University of Southern California 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1994.
Thesis: Numerical Simulations of Combustion Instabilities in Gas Turbine Combustors, with Applications.

Tobias Voelkl (Aeronautics and Applied Mathematics) Vordiplom, Technische Universitat Munchen 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: A Physical-Space Version of the Stretched-Vortex Subgrid-Stress Model for Large-Eddy Simulation of Incompressible Flow.

Xu Wang (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Zhejiang University 1990; M.S., Tsinghua University 1993; M.S., Syracuse University 1995; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Optoelectronic Devices for Optical Memory Systems.

Xuan-Qi Wang (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Tsinghua University 1989; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Integrated Parylene Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS).

Yong Wang (Control and Dynamical Systems) B.S., Peking University 1991; M.S., 1994.
Thesis: Effects of Actuator Limits in Bifurcation Control with Applications to Active Control of Fluid Instabilities in Turbomachinery.

Rolf Markus Weber (Computation and Neural Systems) Vordiplom, Rheinische-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen 1991; Magistère d'Informatique, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon 1995.
Thesis: Unsupervised Learning of Models for Object Recognition.

Jiajun Wen (Computation and Neural Systems) B.S., University of Science and Technology of China 1993.
Thesis: What You Can See Outside the Focus of Attention.

Charles Kincaid Witham (Materials Science) M.S., Duke University 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: The Effects of Alloy Chemistry on the Electrochemical and Hydriding Properties of Ni-Substituted LaNi₅.

Joyce Yuen-Wah Wong (Electrical Engineering) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1995; M.S., 1996.
Thesis: Perpendicular Patterned Media for High Density Magnetic Storage.

Shuyun Wu (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University 1987; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Integrated Polysilicon Thermistors for Microfluidic Sensing.

Jimmy Yee (Applied Physics) B.S., Cornell University 1991; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1993.
Thesis: Experimental Investigations in Spheromaks: Injection into a Tokamak and Formation in an Unbounded Environment.

Xiaoyun Zhu (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Tsinghua University 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Hard vs. Soft Bounds in Probabilistic Robustness Analysis and Generalized Source Coding and Optimal Web Layout Design.

DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND PLANETARY SCIENCES

Elizabeth Warner Holt (Geochemistry) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1991; M.S., Stanford University 1993.
Thesis: ¹⁸O/¹⁶O Studies of Short-Lived (10—25 year), Fumarolic (>500ºC) Meteoric-Hydrothermal Events in the Outflow Sheets of Ash-Flow Tuffs.

Anton Borisovich Ivanov (Planetary Science and Computer Science) Engineer, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute 1994.
Thesis: Some Aspects of the Martian Climate in the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) Investigation.

Mark Stephen Roulston (Planetary Science) B.A., Cambridge University 1994.
Thesis: Construction of Low Dimensional Models of El Niño-Southern Oscillation Using Empirical Orthogonal Functions.

DIVISION OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Frederick Jason Boehmke (Social Science) B.A., Washington University 1995.
Thesis: Beyond the Ballot: The Influence of Direct Democracy on Interest Group Behavior.

Alvaro S. González Staffa (Social Science) B.A., University of Washington 1988; M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1991; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Essays on the Industrial Organization of Telecommunications and Network Industries.

Anthony Mark Kwasnica (Social Science) B.A., University of Arizona 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Asymmetric Information and Cooperation.

Roberto Antonio Weber (Social Science) B.A., Texas A&M University 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1996.
Thesis: Interdependence in Laboratory Groups and Organizations.

DIVISION OF PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY

Tihomir Zlatev Asparouhov (Mathematics) M.S., University of Sofia 1995.
Thesis: Sequential Fixed Width Confidence Intervals.

Andrew Jordan Baker (Astronomy) B.A., Harvard College 1994.
Thesis: Molecular Gas in Nearby Active Galactic Nuclei.

Bradford B. Behr (Astronomy) B. A., Williams College 1992.
Thesis: A New Spin on Horizontal-Branch Stars: Anomalous Abundances and Rapid Rotation Rates.

Eugene Chiang (Astronomy) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Circumstellar and Circumplanetary Disks.

Teviet David Creighton (Physics) B.S., University of Calgary 1994.
Thesis: From the Big Bang to Tumbleweeds: Analysis of Signals from Relic Gravitons, Neutron Stars, and Terrestrial Gravitational Noise in Gravitational Wave Detectors.

Andrea Paulina Dvoredsky (Physics) B.S., University of Maryland, College Park 1993.
Thesis: Investigations of Novel Effects in Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering.

Christina J. Hood (Physics) B.Sc., University of Otago 1993.
Thesis: Real-Time Measurement and Trapping of Single Atoms by Single Photons.

Oleg Kovrijkine (Mathematics) B.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 1993; M.A., 1995.
Thesis: Some Estimates of Fourier Transforms.

Ruben Krasnopolsky (Physics) Licenciado, Universidad de Buenos Aires 1991.
Thesis: Hydromagnetic Astrophysical Outflows.

Ushma Kriplani (Physics) B.Sc., St. Xavier's College 1986; M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 1988; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1991.
Thesis: Kinematic Mössbauer Diffraction in ⁵⁷Fe.

Tao Li (Mathematics) B.S., Peking University 1995.
Thesis: Immersed Surfaces, Dehn Surgery and Essential Laminations.

Thomas Williams Murphy, Jr. (Physics) B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology 1993; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: Power Sources and Ages Along the Merger Sequence.

Malik Rakhmanov (Physics) M.S., Moscow State University 1989.
Thesis: Dynamics of Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors.

Arthur George Street (Physics) B.S., University of Sydney 1994; M.S., California Institute of Technology 1997.
Thesis: Understanding and Designing Protein Beta-Sheets.

David William Vernooy (Physics) B.Sc., Queen's University 1994.
Thesis: Cold Atoms in Cavity QED for Quantum Information Processing.

William Joseph Weber, IV (Physics) B.S., Stanford University 1992.
Thesis: Thermodynamic Study of Coadsorption: Kr/CCl₄ and CH₄/CCl₄ on Graphite.