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  Alumni
Keith Davis ADS
    Post-Graduation Employment: Digital Visualization Theater Director at Notre Dame
    Ph.D. 2007 Title: Supernova injection of short-lived radionuclides into the presolar cloud: A feasibility study
    M.S. 2003 Title: Hydrodynamics of Radioactivity Injection into the Presolar Cloud
Allen Parker ADS
    M.S. 2006 Title: Online resources for late additions to the solar nebula
    Post-Graduation Employment: US Patent Office
Abigail Daane ADS
    M.S. 2006 Title: Possible Identification of a Metal-Rich Old Moving Group: High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Candidate Members
Roggie Boone ADS
    M.S. 2006 Title: SPECTOOLS - A Website for Spectroscopy Support
Joshua Molgaard ADS
    M.S.. 2006 Title: Astronomy with Radioactivity: Tracing Galactic Star Formation with Gamma Ray Lines
    Post-Graduation Employment: Second Lt., Chemical Officer, U.S. Army.
Simon Schuler ADS
    Ph.D. 2006 Title: Chemical Abundances of Solar-Type Dwarfs in Open Clusters
    Post-Graduation Employment: NOAO Leo Goldberg Fellow (CTIO, La Serena Chile)

Jessica Crist Lair

ADS

    Ph.D. 2006 Title: An Observational Analysis of the Late Light Curves of Normal Type Ia Supernovae
    M.S. 2003 Title: Multi-Band Photometry of Type IA Supernovae
    Post-Graduation Employment: Assistant Professor at Eastern Kentucky University.

Kirin Garimella ADS
    M.S.. 2006 Title: Photons and Neutrinos of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts
    Post-Graduation Employment: . Research Assistant at Clemson University
Autumn Homewood ADS
    M.S. 2006 Title: Observation and Analysis of Gamma Ray Burst Afterglows
    Post-Graduation Employment: US Patent Office
George Calhoun Jordan IV ADS
    Ph.D. 2004 Title: Nucleosynthesis in Fast Expansions of High-Entropy, Proton-Rich Matter
    Post-Graduation Employment: Flash Center- University of Chicago.
Kevin Lindsay ADS
    M.S. 2003 Title: Optical Observations of Gamma Ray Burst Afterglows
    Post-Graduation Employment: Data Analyst, Space Telescope Science Institute.
Larry Harris
    M.S. 2003 Title: The Galactic Supernova Rate
Sanjib Gupta ADS
    Ph.D. 2002 Title: Treatment of Excited States in Nucleosynthesis
    M.S. 1999 Title: Computing the Effective Rate for the Equilibration of 26 Al
    Post-Graduation Employment: Postdoctoral position at Michigan State University
Ethan Deneault ADS
    Ph.D. 2004 Title: Formation and Growth of Large Carbon Solids in Supernovae
    Post-Graduation Employment: Visiting Professor of Astronomy & Physics, College of Charleston
Dale Theiling
    M.S. 2001
Grant Williams
    Ph.D. 2000 Title: Early-Time Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Error Boxes with the Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System (LOTIS)
    M.S. 1996 Title: Design and Implementation of a VHF Meteor Radar
Donna Mullenax
    M.S. 1999
Jeannette M. Myers
    Ph.D. 2003 Title: Galaxy Evolution: Effects of Stellar Feedback on the Dynamics of Halo Formation
    M.S. 1999 Title: The Core Helium Flash in 1.5 Solar Mass Stars with Z = 0.02 and Z = 0.004.
    Post-Graduation Employment: Faculty position, Francis Marion University at Florence, SC.
Peter Milne
    Ph.D. 1998 Title: Type Ia Supernovae & 511 keV Annihilation Radiation
    M.S. 1995 Title: Positron Escape from Supernova Ejecta
    Post-Graduation Employment: Naval Research Laboratory
Cathie Kuester
    M.S. 1998 Title: Cosmic Background Radiation
    Post-Graduation Employment: SPARTA Inc.
Tracy Dawn Krishnan
    Ph.D. 1997 Title: Factors Affecting the Nucleosynthesis of 48Ca
    M.S. 1994 Title: Simple Stellar Structure Models for Zero-Age Main Sequence Stars
Claudia Robinson
    M.S. 1997 Title:
Ken Watanabe

    Ph.D. 1996 Title: Measurement of the Diffuse Cosmic Gamma-Ray Background with SMM
    Post-Graduation Employment: NASA/GSFC & Dept. of Astronomy, University of Maryland

William Thomas Bridgman
    Ph.D. 1994 Title: Short Timescale Variability of the Hard X-Ray Flux from Cygnus X-1
    M.S. 1991 Title: K-shell Vacancies Due to Energetic Electrons in Supernovae Envelopes
    Post-Graduation Employment: The Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA/GSFC.
Ning Luo
    Ph.D. 2000 Title: Galactic Abundance Evolution of Isotopes and Applications to Cosmochemical Samples
    M.S. 1994 Title: Neutrino Background from Galactic Stars
Chris Sanderson
    M.S. 1994 Title: On the Plausibility of Supernovae as Sources of Interstellar Diamond
Neil G. Schnepf
    M.S. 1994 Title: An estimation of the contribution of pulsars to the diffuse x- ray glow from the galactic plane and the LMC
Kanchana Sethu
    M.S. 1994 Title: Modeling the equatorial ionosphere
Heng Zeng
    M.S. 1994 Title: Accretion disks around black holes
Neil E. Miller
    M.S. 1993 Title: The dynamics of galactic globular clusters
Sanjay Guha
    M.S. 1991 Title: Titanium isotopes from asymptotic giant branch stars
Mark B. Drucker
    M.S. 1989 Title: A Mathematical Technique for the Comparison of Synthetic Cluster Color-Magnitude Diagrams to Observed Cluster Color-Magnitude Diagrams
John T. Isbell
    Ph.D. 1989 Title: Neutrinos in General Relativity
Sebastian M. Pascarelle
    M.S. 1989 Title: A Technique for Dating the Ages of Intermediate-Age Star Clusters
    Post-Graduation Employment: State Univ of New York at Stony Brook Dept. of Physics & Astro.
Jeonghee Rho
    M.S. 1988 Title: Ages and Metallicities of Young Clusters as Determined from Color-Magnitude Diagram.
    Post-Graduation Employment: Centre D' Etudes Saclay Service D' Astrophysique
Ronald G. Samec
    Ph.D. 1987 Title: Photoelectric Photometry of Very Short Period Eclipsing Binary Systems and Their Light Curve Solutions
    Post-Graduation Employment: Bob Jones Univ. Dept. of Physics
William Clarence Maddox
    Ph.D. 1979 Title: Observations and Analyses of Four Eclipsing Binary Systems
    M.S. 1976 Title: A Period Study of the Eclipsing Binary System RW Tauri
John Charles Zimmerman
    Ph.D. 1976 Title: Exact Solutions in General Relativistic Cosmology
Talmadge Michael Davis
    Ph.D. 1975 Title: On the Motion of Particles in General Relativity
Wayne Eugene Moore
    Ph.D. 1972 Title: Stellar Evolution in Clusters and Galaxies
Robert Frederick Preller
    M.S. 1972 Title: Gravitational Radiation and Mass-loss

 

 

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