PhD Thesis Defenses: 2008

May 2008: May 13, 2008 | 1:00 pm | RI 180
Larry Kirby: DR21 Main: A
Advisor: Roger H. Hildebrand; May 15, 2008 | 1:30 pm | AAC 123
Vasileios Paschalidis: 3 + 1 Formulations of General Relativity
Advisor: Alexei Khokhlov
June 2008: June 5, 2008 | 1:30 pm | RI 480
Hiroaki Oyaizu: N-body Simulations of
Advisor: Andrey V. Kravtsov; June 13, 2008 | 10:00 am | LASR Conference Room
Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins: Revealing Dark Matter Substructure with Anisotropies in the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background
Advisor: Angela V. Olinto; June 19, 2008 | 10:30 am | RI 180
Anibal Medina: Phenomenology of Warped Extra Dimensions
Advisor: Carlos Wagner (Physics)
July 2008: July 29, 2008 | 1:30 pm | AAC 123
Marcos Lima: Non-linear Structure in Modified Action Theories of Gravity
Advisors: Joshua A. Frieman, Wayne Hu; July 31, 2008 | 2:00 pm | AAC 123
Carlos E. Cunha: Cross-Calibration of Cluster Mass-Observables and Dark Energy
Advisor: Joshua A. Frieman
August 2008: August 1, 2008 | 11:00 am | AAC 123
Sarah M. Hansen: Correlating Optical and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Measurements of Galaxy Clusters in the SZA Survey
Advisor: Stephan S. Meyer; August 24, 2008 | 10:00 am | AAC 123 / Actual Year 2007
Andrew Puckett: A Catalog of Slow-Moving Objects Extracted from the SDSS: Compilation and
Advisor: Richard G. Kron

Defense Date	Thesis Title	Graduate Student
May 13, 2008	DR21 Main: A	Larry Kirby
May 15, 2008	3 + 1 Formulations of General Relativity	Vasileios Paschalidis
June 5, 2008	N-body Simulations of	Hiroaki Oyaizu
June 13, 2008	Revealing Dark Matter Substructure with Anisotropies in the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background	Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins
June 19, 2008	Phenomenology of Warped Extra Dimensions	Anibal Medina
July 29, 2008	Non-linear Structure in Modified Action Theories of Gravity	Marcos Lima
July 31, 2008	Cross-Calibration of Cluster Mass-Observables and Dark Energy	Carlos E. Cunha
August 1, 2008	Correlating Optical and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Measurements of Galaxy Clusters in the SZA Survey	Sarah M. Hansen
August 24, 2008	A Catalog of Slow-Moving Objects Extracted from the SDSS: Compilation and	Andrew Puckett