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Chicago Astronomy Degree Recipients: 2000 - 2009 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 2009 Robert Friedman, Ph.D. Thesis: "Measuring the Small Angular Scale Anisotropy with the QUaD Telescope" Fabian Schmidt, Ph.D. Thesis: "Structure Formation in Braneworld Cosmology" Tonia Venters, Ph.D. Thesis: "Cascades of VHE Gamma Rays from Blazars and the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background" John Zuhone, Ph.D. Thesis: "Simulations of Binary Galaxy Cluster Mergers: Modeling Real Clusters and Exploring Parameter Spaces" 2008 Carlos E. Cunha, Ph.D. Thesis: "Cross-Calibration of Cluster Mass-Observables and Dark Energy" Sarah M. Hansen, Ph.D. Thesis: "Correlating Optical and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Measurements of Galaxy Clusters in the SZA Survey" Larry Kirby, Ph.D. Thesis: "DR21 Main: A collapsing cloud" Anibal Medina, Ph.D. Thesis: "Phenomenology of Warped Extra Dimensions" Hiroaki Oyaizu, Ph.D. Thesis: "N-body simulations of modified gravity" Vasileios Paschalidis, Ph.D. Thesis: "3 + 1 Formulations of General Relativity" Ivo Seitenzahl, Ph.D. Thesis: "On the energetics, initiation of detonations, and nucleosynthesis of Type Ia supernovae in the gravitationally confined detonation model" 2007 Jonathan Mitchell, Ph.D. Thesis: "The Climate Dynamics of Titan" Andrew Puckett, Ph.D. Thesis: "A Catalog of Slow-Moving Objects Extracted from the SDSS: Compilation and" Douglas Rudd, Ph.D. Thesis: "Scatter in the Galaxy Cluster Mass-Observable Relations" 2006 Eun-Joo "Sein" Ahn, Ph.D. Thesis: "Early stages of ultra high energy cosmic ray air showers as a diagnostic of exotic primaries" Jacqueline Chen, Ph.D. Thesis: "The Galaxy Cross-Correlation Function as a Probe of the Spatial Distribution of Galactic Satellites" Zhaoming Ma, Ph.D. Thesis: "Matter Power Spectrum 101" Fang Peng, Ph.D. Thesis: "Sedimentation and type I X-ray bursts" 2005 Samuel LaRoque, Ph.D. Thesis: "Constraints on Cluster Structure & Cosmology from X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect Properties of Galaxy Clusters" Daisuke Nagai, Ph.D. Thesis: "Sunyaev-Zeldovich Scaling Relations in Cosmological Cluster Simulations" Argyro Tasitsiomi, Ph.D. Thesis: "Lyman-alpha radiative transfer in cosmological simulations and application to a z [approximate] 8 Ly-alpha emitter" 2004 Jonathan Dursi, Ph.D. Thesis: "The instabilities of astrophysical flames" Eugene Lim, Ph.D. Thesis: "Can We See Lorentz-Violating Vector Fields in the CMB?" Andrea Mignone, Ph.D. Thesis: "The dynamics of radiative shock waves: Linear and nonlinear evolution" Brian C. Wilhite, Ph.D. Thesis: "Spectral Variability of Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II. The C IV Line" 2003 Thomas Crawford, Ph.D. Thesis: "Mapping the Southern Polar Cap with a Balloon-borne Millimeter-wave Telescope" John Everett, Ph.D. Thesis: "Two-phase models of disk-driven outflows in active galactic nuclei with combined hydromagnetic and radiative driving" Craig Wiegert 2002 Christoforos Mallouris, Ph.D. Thesis: "The line of sight toward the SMC star Sk 108" Ryan Scranton, Ph.D. Thesis: "Testing the halo model against the SDSS photometric survey" Craig E. Tyler, Ph.D. Thesis: "Particle dark matter constraints from the Draco dwarf galaxy" 2001 Joseph A. Biello, Ph.D. Thesis: "Layer formation in semiconvection" Gilbert P. Holder, Ph.D. Thesis: "Galaxy clusters and cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and weak lensing" Benjamin J. McCall, Ph.D. Thesis: "Spectroscopy of trihydrogen(+) in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas" Erik D. Reese, Ph.D. Thesis: "Determining the cosmic distance scale from interferometric measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect" Constance M. Rockosi, Ph.D. Thesis: "Detection and analysis of the tidal tails around the globular cluster Palomar 5 in the SDSS commissioning data" John E. Vaillancourt, Ph.D. Thesis: "The far-infrared/submillimeter polarization spectrum of molecular clouds and analysis based on temperature maps of Orion" 2000 Jeffrey B. Jewell, Ph.D. Thesis: "Applications of random field models to the analysis of the cosmic microwave background" Michael E. Joffre, Ph.D. Thesis: "Comparison of weak gravitational lensing to x-ray beta models in three nearby clusters" Lucia Munoz-Franco, Ph.D. Thesis: "The effect of mass accretion rate on the burst oscillations in 4U 1728-34" Luisa M. Rebull, Ph.D. Thesis: "Rotation of young low-mass stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster flanking fields" Daniel E. Reichart, Ph.D. Thesis: "The gamma-ray burst/supernova connection, a distance estimator for gamma-ray bursts, and modeling gamma-ray burst afterglows" Gordon T. Richards, Ph.D. Thesis: "Intrinsic absorption lines in radio-selected quasars" Scott A. Severson, Ph.D. Thesis: "Death of a comet: SPIREX observations of the collision of SL9 with Jupiter" Aparna Venkatesan, Ph.D. Thesis: "The optical depth to reionization as a probe of cosmological and astrophysical parameters" Yuan-Nan Young, Ph.D. Thesis: "Numerical studies of double-diffusive convection and miscible Rayleigh-Taylor instability" Michael A. Zingale, Ph.D. Thesis: "Helium detonations on neutron stars"

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