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Florida Physics News 2004
Kevin J. Kless (Adams)
MS: “Magnetic susceptibility and melting in helium-three
nanoclusters”
Mark D. Moores (Reitze)
PhD: “Adaptive control of the propagation of ultrafast light
through random and nonlinear media”
Steven E. Patamia (Kumar)
PhD: “Spectrum and properties of mesoscopic surfacecoupled
phonons in rectangular wires”
Richard Pietri (Andraka)
PhD: “Magnetism and the Kondo effect in cerium heavyfermion
compounds cerium-aluminum-3 and
cerium-lead-3”
Ilya V. Pogorelov (Kandrup)
PhD: “Phase space transport and the continuum limit in
nonlinear Hamiltonian systems”
Craig P. Prescott (Yelton)
PhD: “Search for mixing in the neutral D meson system
with decays into CP even eigenstates”
Alexei N. Safonov (Korytov)
PhD: “Jet fragmentation and predictions of the resummed
perturbative QCD”
2002
Rupal S. Amin (Tanner)
MS: “A technique for passively compensating thermally
induced modal distortions in faraday isolators for
gravitational wave detector input optics”
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Brian D. Baker (Detweiler)
PhD: “Variational principles in general relativity”
Kevin T. McCarthy (Hebard)
PhD: “Magnetocapacitance: a probe of spin dependent
potentials”
Nikoleta Theodoropoulou (Hebard)
PhD: “Experimental studies of spin dependent phenomena
in Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) and Dilute
Magnetic Semiconductor (DMS) systems”
Xiaozhen Xiong (Ramond)
PhD: “Noncommutative scalar field theories, solitons and
superalgebra”
2003
Zhihong Chen (Rinzler)
PhD: “Electron field induced transparency modulation in
single wall carbon nanotube ultra-thin films and a
method to separate metallic and semi-conducting
nanotubes”
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Mao-Hua Du (Cheng)
PhD: “Theoretical modeling and design of complex
materials”
Alexios Klironomos (Dorsey)
PhD: “Structural transitions of the vortex lattice in
anisotropic superconductors and fingering instability
of electron droplets in an inhomogenous magnetic
field”
Frank C. McDonald, Jr (Takano)
MS: “Specific heat measurements of copper benzoate”
Eirini Messaritaki (Detweiler)
PhD: “Radiation reaction on moving particles in general
relativity”
Vakif K. Onemli (Sikivie)
PhD: “Gravitational lensing by dark matter caustics”
Linlin Qiu (Hagen)
PhD: “Laser induced temperature jump investigations of
fast protein folding dynamics”
2004
Thomas Henderson (Bartlett)
PhD: “Short-range correlation in molecular physics: The
basis set problem and the correlation hole”
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Rongliang Liu (Stanton)
PhD: “Theoretical studies of coherent optic and acoustic
phonons in GaN/InGaN heterostructures”
Corneliu Manescu (Krause)
PhD: “Controlling and probing atoms and molecules with
ultrafast laser pulses”
Suzette A. Pabit (Hagen)
PhD: “Fast dynamics in protein folding: Time-resolved
fluorescence and absorbance studies of polypeptide
reconfigurations”
Bryan Thorndyke (Micha)
PhD: “Quantum dynamics of finite atomic and molecular
systems through density matrix methods”
Dmitri Tsybychev (Acosta)
PhD: “Search for first-generation leptoquarks in the jets and
missing transverse energy topology in protonantiproton
collisions at center-of-mass energy 1.96
TeV”
Linlin Wang (Cheng)
PhD: “Density functional study of adsorption of fullerenes
on metal (111) surfaces”
Jeffrey M. Wrighton (Hooper/Dufty)
PhD: “Correlation and collective effects in dense plasma
spectroscopy”
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