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Chicago Astronomy Degree Recipients: 2010 - 2019 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 2019 Vadim Semenov, Ph.D. Thesis: "How Galaxies Form Stars: the Connection between Local and Global Star Formation in Galaxies" Fakhri Zahedy, Ph.D. Thesis: "Multi-Pronged Studies of Diffuse Halo Gas around Massive Quiescent Galaxies" 2018 Zubair Abdulla, Ph.D. Thesis: "Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect Observations of X-ray Cavities in Galaxy Clusters" Ross Cawthon, Ph.D. Thesis: "Effects of Redshift Uncertainty on Cross-Correlations of CMB Lensing and Galaxy Surveys" Cameron Jia Liang, Ph.D. Thesis: "Multiphase Gaseous Halos around Galaxies" Ian Remming, Ph.D. Thesis: "The Propagation of Flame Fronts Through Inhomogeneously Magnetized Plasma" 2017 Megan Bedell, Ph.D. Thesis: "Illuminating the Origins of Planets with Solar Twins" Hsin-Yu Chen, Ph.D. Thesis: "Multi-messenger Astronomy with Advanced LIGO-Virgo" Michael Florian, Ph.D. Thesis: "Measurements of Morphology in Strongly Lensed Galaxies in the Image Plane" Dylan Hatt, Ph.D. Thesis: "On the Population II Distance Scale: The Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances to Local Galaxies" Alessandro Manzotti, Ph.D. Thesis: "Unveiling the early Universe: delensing the Cosmic Microwave Background with galaxy surveys" Sean M. Mills, Ph.D. Thesis: "Detecting and Interpreting the Dynamical Evolution of Transiting Multiplanet Systems" Laura Mocanu, Ph.D. Thesis: "Measuring the cosmic microwave background gravitational lensing potential and its power spectrum with SPTpol" 2016 Sean Johnson, Ph.D. Thesis: "Studies of the relationship between galaxies and the inter/circum-galactic medium" Alexander A. Kaurov, Ph.D. Thesis: "Challenges in theoretical modeling of cosmic reionization" Laura Kreidberg, Ph.D. Thesis: "Snapshots of Faraway Places: Intensive Atmosphere Characterization of Extrasolar Planets" Jonathan Richardson, Ph.D. Thesis: "Experimental Constraints on the Exotic Shearing of Space-Time" 2015 Louis Abramson, Ph.D. Thesis: "Assessing and Understanding Diversity in Galaxy Star Formation Histories" Vinicius Miranda Braganca, Ph.D. Thesis: "Probing Inflation with the Cosmic Microwave Background" Benedikt Diemer, Ph.D. Thesis: "On the (non-)universality of halo density profiles" Ke Fang, Ph.D. Thesis: "Newborn Pulsars as Highest-Energy Cosmic Accelerators" Jennifer Helsby, Ph.D. Thesis: "Clustering-based redshifts for the Dark Energy Survey" Yun-Hsin Huang 2014 Eric Baxter, Ph.D. Thesis: "Measuring Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Galaxy Clusters" Alan Zablocki, Ph.D. Thesis: "Constraining Neutrinos and Dark Energy with the Angular Clustering of Galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey" 2013 Alissa Bans, Ph.D. Thesis: "Large-scale Magnetic Fields in Protoplanetary Disks" Abigail Crites, Ph.D. Thesis: "A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization with SPTpol" Nicholas Hollon Yeun-Jin Kim, Ph.D. Thesis: "The effect of the nuclear burning during the deflagration on the final observables in Supernovae type Ia" Krista Martocci, Ph.D. Thesis: "Dynamo Action in Taylor Couette Flow" Christopher Sheehy, Ph.D. Thesis: "Progress towards a detection of inflationary B-modes with the BICEP2 and KECK array polarimeters" 2012 Christopher Greer, Ph.D. Thesis: "Calibrating Optical Richness using Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations" Samuel Leitner, Ph.D. Thesis: "The Star Formation History of Disk Galaxies & Implications for Simulations" Melanie Simet, Ph.D. Thesis: "Galaxy cluster center detection methods with weak lensing" Gregory Vesper Eva Wuyts, Ph.D. Thesis: "A Magnified View of High Redshift Star Formation" 2011 Matthew Bayliss, Ph.D. Thesis: "Broadband Photometry of 105 Giant Arcs: Redshift Distribution Constraints and Implications for Giant Arc Statistics" Asantha R. Cooray Jean-Rene Gauthier, Ph.D. Thesis: "A comprehensive study of the cool gas content of massive dark matter halos" Megan Gralla, Ph.D. Thesis: "Radio Sources in Galaxy Clusters" Ryan Hennessy Elizabeth P. Hicks, Ph.D. Thesis: "Rayleigh-Taylor Unstable Flames: the Competition between Burning, Gravity and Self-Generated Flow" Zosia Krusberg, Ph.D. Thesis: "The phenomenology of maverick dark matter" Erin Martell Reid Sherman, Ph.D. Thesis: "Investigation of Molecular Cloud Structure around Infrared Bubbles: CARMA Observations of N14, N22, and N74" 2010 Lauren Grodnicki, Ph.D. Thesis: "Luminous halos surrounding edge-on disk galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey" Justin Johnsen Valentin Kostov, Ph.D. Thesis: "Average luminosity distance in inhomogeneous universes" Callum Lamb Erwin Lau, Ph.D. Thesis: "Characterizing galaxy clusters with gravitational potential" Felipe Marin, Ph.D. Thesis: "The large-scale three-point correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies" Seth Teitler, Ph.D. Thesis: "Global self-similar protostellar disk/wind models"

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