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2009

-Spring

Bhupathi, Pradeep Chair: Yoonseok Lee "Construction of an Ultralow Temperature Cryostat and Transverse Acoustic Spectroscopy in Superfluid Helium-3 in Compressed Aerogels"
Datta, Saiti Chair: Stephen Hill "Studying the Effects of Interplay between Anisotropy and Exchange in Molecular Nanomagnets"
Douglas, Andrew Chair: Khandker Muttalib "Electron Transport near the Anderson Transition"
Lee, Jinho Chair: David Reitze "Dense Quantized Magneto-Plasmas in High Magnetic Fields Probed by Ultrafast Lasers"
Narayanan, Ranjani Chair: Stephen Hagen "Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopic Studies of Rate-Limiting Events in Protein Folding and Binding"
Sindhikara, Daniel Chair: Adrian Roitberg "A Sampling of Molecular Dynamics"
Singh, Guneeta Chair: Art Hebard "Size Effects in Phase Separated Manganite Nanostructures"
Stambaugh, Corey Chair: Ho Bun Chan "Fluctuation Phenomenon in a Nonlinear Microelectromechanical Oscillator"
Yoo, Chi-Deuk Chair: Alan Dorsey "Phenomenology of Supersolids"

-Summer

Arenas, Daniel Chair: David Tanner "The content of ETD will be sent to ProQuest/UMI at the end of the above embargo period"
Burns, Michael Chair: Konstantin Matchev "Model-Independent Mass and Spin Determination for a Sequential Decay with a Jet and Two Leptons"
Heston, Nathan Chair: David Tanner "Conjugated Polymers in Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices"
Misra, Rajiv Chair: Art Hebard "Experiments on Electron Interaction and Localization in Disordered Magnetic Thin Films"
Vega, Michael Ian Chair: Steven Detweiler "The Dynamics of Point Particles around Black Holes"


2008

-Spring

Angle, Jesse Chair: John Yelton "Gamma Background Studies for the Xenon Experiment Using a High-Purity Germanium Detector"
Chen, Wei Chair: Peter Hirschfeld "Disorder and Correlations in Metallic Cuprates"
Dhakal, Tara Chair: Amlan Biswas "Manipulating the Magnetic Domains of Hole-Doped Manganites by Using Electric Field"
Lane, Brian Chair: Kevin Ingersent "Conductances in the Two-Impurity Anderson Model"
Margankunte, Naveen Chair: David Tanner "Infrared Spectroscopy of Complex Oxides of Phase Separated Manganites and Electron Doped Cuprates"
Selcuk, Sinan Chair: Arthur Hebard "Optical Studies of Subwavelength Structures"
Wang, Xiaoming Chair: David Reitze "Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopic Study of Semiconductors in High Magnetic Fields"
Watson, Glenn Chair: John Klauder "Affine Quantization of Metric Variables"

-Summer

Kahya, Emre Chair: Richard Woodard "Quantum Gravitational Correction to Scalar Field Equations during Inflation"
Kim, Sung-Soo Chair: Pierre Ramond "Light-Cone Formulation of Maximally Supersymmetric Theories in Superspace"
Pinera, Lester Chair: Andrey Korytov "Measurement of Event Shapes in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV"
Wu, Zhuangchun Chair: Andrew Rinzler "Tunable Contact Barrier of Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Films for Electrical Contact to Semiconductors and Polymers"
Yun, Sung Hee Chair: Amlan Biswas "Effect of Disorder in Cuprates and Manganites"

-Fall

Cao, Chao Chair: Hai-Ping Cheng "First-Principles and Multi-Scale Modeling of Nano-Scale Systems"
Kar, Deepak Chair: Richard Field "Using Drell-Yan to Probe the Underlying Event in Run II at Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF)"


2007

-Spring

Balaraman, Anand Chair: Jim Fry "Cell Count Moments in the Halo Model"
Choi, Hyunchang Chair: Yoonseok Lee "Acoustic Study of Disordered Liquid 3He in High-Porosity Silica Aerogel"
Drozdetskiy, Alexey Chair: Guenakh Mitselmakher Co-Chair: Andrey Korytov "Standard Model Higgs Boson Discovery Potential in the Decay Channel H -> ZZ(*) -> 4 mu with the CMS Detector"
Liu, Shu-Chen Chair: Gary Ihas "Quantum Turbulence: Decay of Grid Turbulence in a Dissipationless Fluid"
Rotundu, Costel Chair: Bohdan Andraka "Novel Heavy Fermion Behavior in Praseodymium-Based Materials: Experimental Study of PrOs4Sb12"
Shankar, Karthik Chair: Bernard Whiting "Black Hole Evaporation: Validity of Quasi-Static Approximation"

-Summer

Lungu, Gheorghe Chair: Jacobo Konigsberg "Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the All Hadronic Channel at the Tevatron"
Miao, Shun-Pei Chair: Richard Woodard "The Fermion Self-Energy during Inflation"
Natarajan, Aravind Chair: Pierre Sikivie "Inner Caustics of Cold Dark Matter Halos"
Price, Lawrence Chair: Bernard Whiting "Developments in the Perturbation Theory of Algebraically Special Spacetimes"
Qiu, Jian Chair: Charles Thorn "Renormalization of Gauge Theory on the Light Cone World Sheet"

-Fall

Jindariani, Sergo Chair: Andrey Korytov "Fragmentation of Jets Produced in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at a Center-of-Mass Energy 1.96 TeV"
Lawrence, Jonathan Chair: Stephen Hill "Comprehensive High Frequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Studies of Single Molecule Magnets"
Little, Jeffrey Scott Chair: John Klauder "Quantization of Constraints Using the Projection Operator Formalism"
Patel, Rukshana Chair: John Yelton "First Observation and Measurements of chi_cJ Decays into Two Charged and Two Neutral Hadrons"
Wu, Wan 2007 Chair: David Tanner Co-Chair: David Reitze "Instrumentation of the Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detector -Triple Pendulum Suspension and Electro-Optical Modulator"
Zhang, Haidong Chair: David Tanner Co-Chair: Chris Stanton "Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of Magnetic Semiconductors and Superconductors"

2006

-Spring

Baskaran, Aparna Chair: Jim Dufty “Statistical Mechanics and Linear Response for a Granular Fluid”
Cruz, Rachel Chair: Guido Mueller Co-Chair: David Reitze “Development of the UF LISA Benchtop Simulator for Time Delay Interferometry”
Mitra, Partha Chair: Art Hebard “Disorder, Itinerant Ferromagnetism, and the Anomalous Hall Effect in Two Dimensions”
Nesbitt, Jeremy Chair: Art Hebard “Aging in Tunnel Junctions and Magnetocapacitance of Semiconductors”
Park, Ju-Hyun Chair: Mark Meisel “Magneto-Structural and Magneto-Optical Studies of Prussian Blue Analogs”
Potlia, Vijay Chair: John Yelton “Search for Radiative Decays of Upsilon(1S) into Eta and Eta-Prime”
Rairigh, Ryan Chair: Art Hebard “Colossal Magnetocapacitance and Scale-Invariant Dielectric Response in Mixed-Phase Manganites”
Wise, Stacy Chair: David Tanner “Sensitivity Enhancement in Future Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors”
Xu, Shengbo Chair: David Reitze “Characterizing and Controlling Extreme Optical Nonlinearities in Photonic Crystal Fibers”

-Summer

Duffy, Leanne Chair: Pierre Sikivie “High Resolution Search for Dark Matter Axions in Milky Way Halo Substructure”
Kong, Kyoungchul Chair: Konstantin Matchev “Phenomenology of Universal Extra Dimensions”
Necula, Valentin Chair: Guenakh Mitselmakher Co-Chair: Jacobo Konigsberg “Search for Heavy Resonances Decaying into tt Pairs”
Saha, Ronojoy Chair: Dimitrii Maslov “Manifestations of One-Dimensional Electronic Correlations in Higher Dimensional Systems”
Scurlock, Bobby Chair: Darin Acosta “Compact Muon Solenoid Discovery Potential for the Minimal Supergravity Model of Supersymmetry in Single Muon Events with Jets and Large Missing Transverse Energy in Proton-Proton Collisions at Center-of-Mass Energy 14 TEV”
Woo, Kwangje Chair: David Tanner “Transmission Properties of Sub-Wavelength Hole Arrays in Metal Films”

-Fall

Group, Robert Chair: Rick Field Co-Chair: Konstantin Matchev “Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section Using the Midpoint Algorithm in Run II at the Collidor Detector at Fermilab (CDF)”
Gudmundsson, Skuli Chair: Charles Thorn “Studies of Lightcone World Sheet Dynamics in Perturbation Theory and with Monte Carlo
Simulations”
Ramanathan, Vidya Chair: David Reitze “Development and Characterization of a High Average Power, Single-Stage Regenerative Chirped Pulse Amplifier”
Sherline, Todd Chair: Yasumasa Takano “Antiferromagnetism in Cesium Tetrabromocuprate (II) and Body-Centered-Cubic Solid Helium Three”
Siegel, Ethan Chair: Jim Fry “Cosmological Perturbations and Their Effects on the Universe: from Inflation to Acceleration”
Thorpe, James Ira Chair: Guido Mueller “Laboratory Studies of Arm-Locking Using the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Simulator at the University of Florida”

2005

Ananth, Sudarshan Chair: Pierre Ramond "Maximally Supersymmetric Theories in Light-Cone Superspace"
Chen, Minghan Chair: David Tanner “Optical Studies of High Temperature Superconductors and Electronic Dielectric Materials”
Cruz, Alberto Chair: Rick Field "Using Max/Min Transverse Regions to Study the Underlying Event in Run2 at the Tevatron"
Gangadharaiah, Suhas Chair: Dimitrii Maslov "Interacting Fermions in Two Dimensions: Effective Mass, Specific Heat, and Singularities in Perturbation Theory"
Kim, Dong-Hoon Chair: Steven Detweiler "Radiation Reaction in Curved Spacetime"
Klironomos, Filippos Chair: Alan Dorsey "Tunneling between Two Dimensional Electron Systems in a High Magnetic Field and Crystalline Phases of a Two Dimensional Electron System in a Magnetic Field"
Mallik, Aditi Chair: James Dufty "Multi-Scale Modeling of Solids as a Composite of Quantum Mechanical (QM) and Classical Mechanical (CM) Domains"
Martin, Gregory Chair: Dimitrii Maslov “Quantum Magneto-Oscillations in Two-Dimensional, Disordered, Interacting, Electron Systems”
Mixson, Daniel Chair: Greg Stewart "Differing Roles of Disorder: Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in UCu5-xNix and Curie Temperature Enhancement in UCu2Si2-xGex (note subscripts in formulas)"
Nikolou, Maria Chair: David Tanner “In-situ Spectroscopic Studies of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Conjugated Polymers in Electrochromic Devices”
Oakley, Jennifer Ann Chair: Andrew Rinzler "Charge Induced Actuation in Carbon Nanotubes and Resistance Changes in Carbon Nanotube Networks"
Pi, Haifeng Chair: Paul Avery “Reconstruction of Missing Transverse Energy and Prospect of Searching for Higgs Boson Produced via Vector Boson Fusion in Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment”
Pronko, Alexandre Chair: Andrey Korytov "Fragmentation of Quark and Gluon Jets in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Center-of-Mass Energy of 1.8 TeV"
Soussa, Marc Chair: Richard Woodard "Modified Gravity Theories: Alternatives to the Missing Mass and Missing Energy Problems"
Sun, Yongke Chair: Chris Stanton “Theoretical Studies of the Electronic, Magneto-Optical, and Transport Properties of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors”
Takahashi, Susumu Chair: Stephen Hill “Angle-Dependent High Magnetic Field Microwave Spectroscopy of Low Dimensional Conductors and Superconductors”
Zhu, Lingyin Chair: Peter Hirschfeld "Quasiparticle Interference and the Local Electronic Structure of Disordered d-Wave Superconductors"
Zhu, Wuming Chair: Sam Trickey "Numerical and Exact Density Functional Studies of Light Atoms in Strong Magnetic Fields"

2004

Breva Newell, Luis Chair: John Yelton "Decays of the Upsilon(1S) into a Photon and Two Charged Hadrons"
Cooney, James Chair: James Fry "Rotational Velocities in Large Scale Structure"
Du, Xu Chair: Art Hebard "Magnetotransport and Tunneling Study of the Semimetals Bismuth and Graphite"
Henderson, Thomas Chair: Rodney Bartlett "Short-Range Correlation in Molecular Physics: The Basis Set Problem and the Correlation Hole"
Khan, Abu Mohammed Chair: Pierre Ramond "The Continuous Spin Representations of the Poincare and Super-Poincare Groups and Their Construction by Inonu-Wigner Group Contraction"
Liu, Rongliang Chair: Christopher Stanton "Theoretical Studies of Coherent Optic and Acoustic Phonons in GaN/InGaN Heterostructures"
Manescu, Cornelius Chair: Jeff Krause "Controlling and Probing Atoms and Molecules with Ultrafast Laser Pulses"
Ozarslan, Evren Chair: Tom Mareci "Developments in Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with Applications to Neural Tissue"
Pabit, Sersita Chair: Stephen Hagen "Fast Dynamics in Protein Folding: Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Absorbance Studies of Polypeptide Reconfigurations"
Tashiro, Hidenori Chair: David Tanner "Time-Resolved Infrared Studies of Superconducting Molybdenum-Germanium Thin Films"
Thorndyke, Brian Chair: David Micha "Quantum Dynamics of Finite Atomic and Molecular Systems Through Density Matrix Methods"
Tsybychev, Dimitri Chair: Darin Acosta "Search for First-Generation Leptoquarks in the Jets and Missing Transverse Energy Topology in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Center-of-Mass Energy 1.96 TeV"
Wang, Linlin Chair: Hai-Ping Cheng "A Computational Study of Surface Adsorption and Desorption"
Wint, Andrew Chair: David Tanner "Search for an Infrared Electro-Optic Effect in Thin High Temperature Superconducting Films"
Wrighton, Jeffrey Chair: James Dufty "Charge Correlation Effects in the Broadening of Spectral Lines from Highly Charged Radiators"
Zhang, Chun Chair: Hai-Ping Cheng "Transport Properties at Nano Scales via First Principles Studies"

2003

Chen, Zhihong Chair: Andrew Rinzler "Electric Field Induced Transparency Modulation in Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Ultra-Thin Films and a Method to Separate Metallic and Semiconducting Nanotubes"
Du, Maohua Chair: Hai-Ping Cheng "Theoretical Modeling and Design of Complex Materials"
Klironomos, Alexios Chair: Alan Dorsey "Structural Transitions of the Vortex Lattice in Anisotropic Superconductors and Fingering Instability of Electron Droplets in an Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field"
Messaritaki, Eirini Chair: Steven Detweiler "Radiation Reaction on Moving Particles in General Relativity"
Onemli, Vakif Chair: Pierre Sikivie "Gravitational Lensing by Dark Matter Caustics"
Qiu, LinLin Chair: Stephen Hagen "Laser Induced Temperature Jump Investigations of Fast Protein Folding Dynamics"

2002

Baker, Brian Chair: Steven Detweiler "Variational principles in general relativity"
McCarthy, Kevin Chair: Art Hebard "Magnetocapacitance: a probe of spin dependent potentials"
Theodoropoulou, Nikoleta Chair: Art Hebard "Experimental Studies of Spin Dependent Phenomena in Giant Magnetoresistance (Gmr) and Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor (Dms) Systems"
Xiong, Xiaozhen Chair: Pierre Ramond "Noncommutative Field Theories, Solitons and Superalgebra"

2001

Blass, Anatol Chair: Yngve Öhrn "Quasiclassifcal and semiclassical methods in molecular scattering dynamics"
Boychev, Vladimir Chair: David Tanner Co-Chair: Art Hebard "Far-infrared studies of superconducting thin films and Fabry-Perot resonators made of such films"
Choy, TatSang Chair: Selman Hershfield "Electron transport theory in magnetic nanostructures"
Delker, Thomas Chair: David Reitze "Demonstration of a prototype dual-recycled cavity-enhanced Michelson interferometer for gravitational wave detection"
Getty, Stephanie Chair: Art Hebard "Electron transport studies of the ferromagnetic semiconductor calcium hexaboride"
Gunderson, Mark Chair: Charles Hooper Co-Chair: James Dufty "Strong collisions in the electron broadening of spectral lines from charged radiators in hot, dense plasmas"
Haas, Richard Chair: Richard Field "The underlying event in hard scattering collisions of proton and antiproton at 1.8 TEV"
Hudspeth, Quentin Chair: Art Hebard "Characterization of two carbon-sixty systems: electron-doped carbon-sixty monolayers on thin-film metal underlayers, and composite films of carbon-sixty nickel"
Hwang, Jungseek Chair: David Tanner "Electrochemical spectroscopy of conjugated polymers"
Moores, Mark Chair: David Reitze "Adaptive control of the propagation of ultrafast light through random and nonlinear media"
Patamia, Steven Chair: Pradeep Kumar "Spectrum and properties of mesoscopic surface-coupled phonons in rectangular wires"
Pietri, Richard Chair: Bohdan Andraka "Magnetism and the kondo effect in cerium heavy-fermion compounds cerium-aluminum-3 and cerium-lead-3"
Pogorelov, Ilya Chair: Henry Kandrup "Phase space transport and the continuum limit in nonlinear Hamiltonians systems"
Prescott, Craig Chair: John Yelton "Search for mixing in the neutral D meson system with decays into CP even eigenstates"
Safonov, Alexei Chair: Andrey Korytov Co-Chair: Guenkah Mitselmakher "Jet fragmentation and predictions of the resummed perturbative QCD"

2000

Efimov, Anatoly Chair: David Reitze "Adaptive control of lasers and their interactions with matter using femtosecond pulse shaping"
Hudspeth, Heather Chair: Fred Sharifi "Electron Tunneling Measurements on Ferromagnetically Doped Lanthanum Manganite Films"
Junkel, Gwyneth Chair: Charles Hooper "Second-order, full Coloumb electron broadening calculations for multi-electron radiators in hot, dense plasmas: a focus on dense plasma line shifts"
Matsunaga, Naoki Chair: Dwight Adams "Magnetic Susceptibility and Pressure Measurements in Helium-Three Nano-Clusters"
O'Neil, Eric Chair: Henry Kandrup "Hamiltonian structure and stability of relativistic gravitational theories"
Paul, Bruce Chair: Kevin Ingersent "A study of three-impurity Kondo model"
Pengpan, Teparksorn Chair: Pierre Ramond "Equal rank embedding and its related construction to superconformal
field theories"
Qerushi, Artan Chair: H. Monkhorst "Particle and Energy Transport in a Field Reversed Configuration"
Rubiera, Antonio Chair: John Yelton "Exclusive measurements in B D N N X"
Watson, Brian Chair: Mark Meisel "Quantum transitions in antiferromagnets and liquid helium-3"

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