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Gas Disks and Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Radio Galaxies

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Acknowledgments<br />

First I would like, of course, to thank my parents, Jenny <strong>and</strong> Peter, <strong>and</strong> my entire<br />

family. I must also thank my scientific collaborators, without whom this thesis would<br />

not have been even remotely possible: Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, Stefi Baum, Jacquel<strong>in</strong>e<br />

van Gorkom, Chris O’Dea, Roel<strong>and</strong> van der Marel, Tim de Zeeuw, <strong>and</strong> Marcella<br />

Carollo. I also thank many wonderful astronomers for discussions on these topics -<br />

<strong>in</strong> particular Aaron Barth <strong>and</strong> Dave Axon, <strong>and</strong> also Johann Knapen, Luis Ho <strong>and</strong><br />

Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann for organiz<strong>in</strong>g fantastic conferences that have taken me<br />

from start to f<strong>in</strong>ish of this thesis.<br />

Everyone that I have known <strong>in</strong> the astronomy department, you have been fantastic.<br />

In particular thanks to Aeree Chung <strong>and</strong> Stephen Muchovej, your friendship is very<br />

important to me... <strong>and</strong> we will always have Rio! I also want to give particular thanks<br />

to Millie Kramer-Garcia for be<strong>in</strong>g possibly the most outst<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g, amaz<strong>in</strong>g, awesome<br />

department adm<strong>in</strong>istrator <strong>in</strong> the history of the entire universe. Probably without you<br />

none of us graduate students would make it past one week of grad school.<br />

Mark Wa<strong>in</strong>er, Simon Stam, Daniel Baker <strong>and</strong> Alex Vitti – thank you guys so<br />

much for always keep<strong>in</strong>g me go<strong>in</strong>g, <strong>and</strong> for keep<strong>in</strong>g me smil<strong>in</strong>g. Your friendship has<br />

been outst<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g, <strong>and</strong> I will value it forever.<br />

I want to thank fantastic friends that I have had through the years – Ethan<br />

Hurdus, Neil Corbett, Jon Doyle, Stuart Laverack, Eileen Bra<strong>in</strong>, Jackie Bletcher,<br />

Jonathan Bletcher, Adam Pogash, Daniel Pogash, Carrie Johnston, Lucy Edge, Abi<br />

Bralee, Tzu-Ch<strong>in</strong>g Chang, Andy Jacobowitz, Karen Vanl<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>gham, Ben Clissold,<br />

Solomon Meltser, G<strong>in</strong>a Brissenden, <strong>and</strong> John Drury – Just for be<strong>in</strong>g amaz<strong>in</strong>g people.<br />

Gareth Repton, Jon Soyt, Matt Schoen, Steven Turner, Adam Simon, Daniel<br />

Bryer, Eric Lun<strong>in</strong>, Ariel Stukal<strong>in</strong>, Cliff Shapiro, Seth Kahn, Scott Menke, Ben Silverman,<br />

James Dawson, Isaac Gerste<strong>in</strong>, Peter Plant, Freddie Claro, Stephen Conlon,<br />

Brian Bol<strong>in</strong>, Alex Chval, Andrew Prouty, T.J. Wagner, Jake Sk<strong>in</strong>ner, Michael<br />

Seiler, Billie Swift, Heather Groch, Dan Balick, Tim Mendenko, Jeff W<strong>in</strong>cek, Charles<br />

Stanton-Jones, Eilat Glikman, Suvi Gezari, Andreea Petric, Jen Donovan, Mark Dijkstra,<br />

Sarah Tuttle, Ben Johnson, <strong>and</strong> Antara Basu-Zych – You guys rule! (James<br />

Dawson, you have been the man through the last few weeks of gett<strong>in</strong>g this dissertation<br />

written - Thanks dude).<br />

Everyone else I didn’t have space to write about – Thank you all too!!<br />

Thank you.<br />

xiii

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