Former UGS

Seniors:

2011-2012

Rachael Alexandroff

Senior Thesis: "Discovery of High Redshift Obscured Quasars in SDSS-III BOSS and Further Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Investigation"

Advisor: Michael Strauss

Post Graduate: Johns Hopkins University Graduate School, Astronomy

Matt DiDonato

Senior Thesis: "Astronomy Asa Vehicle for High School Science Education"

Advisor: Neta Bahcall

Post Graduate: NASA Endeavor Fellowship: Columbia University, Teaching
                    College Graduate School, STEM
                    Physics/Astrophysics Education/Teaching at Haddonfield
                    Memorial High School, NJ

Juan Farfan

Senior Thesis: "Supernovae Gamma-Ray Line & Hard X-Ray Continuum Emissions"

Advisor: Adam Burrows

Post Graduate: Private Industry

Margaret Shaw

Senior Thesis: "A Novel Thrust Measurement Method For Plasma Rockets with Magnetic Nozzles Using B-field Measurements"

Advisor: Jeremy Goodman and Edgar Choueiri (MAE)

Post Graduate: MIT Graduate School, Astronomy

Mary (Shangjun) Zhang

Senior Thesis: "Baryons, Mass, and Light in the Universe"

Advisor: Neta Bahcall

Post Graduate: Harvard University Graduate School, Astronomy

Juniors:

2011-2012

Lehman Garrison

Fall JP: "Scaling the Memory Wall: Filtering in TRISTAN-MP"

Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky

Spring JP: "An Online Adaptive Algorithm for High-Resolution Mapping with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle"

Advisor: Chris Clark (COS)

Allison Hume

Fall JP: "Cluster Mass versus Richness Relation"

Advisor: Neta Bahcall

Spring JP:

Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky

Daniel Minkin

Fall JP: “A Review of the Literature Concerning NGC 6791 and a Need for New Calibrations Concerning He-Flash Avoidance in White Dwarfs”

Advisor: James Gunn

Spring JP: "An Analysis of He-Flash Avoidance in White Dwarfs"

Advisor: James Gunn

Carolina Nunez

Fall JP: "Simulations of the X-Ray Sky"

Advisor: David Spergel

Spring JP:

Advisor: Michael Strauss

Prachi Parihar

Fall JP: "Observation of the 21 cm line"

Advisor: Daniel Marlow (PHY)

Spring JP:

Advisor: Michael Strauss

Joel Zinn

Fall JP: "Gravitational Lenses in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Luminous Red Galaxy Sample"

Advisor: Michael Strauss

Spring JP:

Advisor: Richard Gott

Seniors:

2010-2011

Jared Crooks

Senior Thesis: "Funding the Future: A Study of the Astronomy & Astrophysics Decadal Survey and the Budgetary Process"

Advisor: David Spergel

Post Graduate: Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public &
International Affairs, MPA, Science Policy

Michael Gordon

Senior Thesis: "In Search of Asymmetry in ACT-detected SZ Clusters"

Advisor: Lyman Page

Post Graduate: Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Research

Nicholas Hand

Senior Thesis: "Detection of the Thermal and Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects in Halos Associated with Luminous Red Galaxies"

Advisor: David Spergel

Post Graduate: Berkeley Fellowship, UC Berkeley Graduate School, Astronomy

Michael Medeiros

Senior Thesis: "Supermassive Black Holes and their Hosts: Quasars and Galaxies"

Advisor: Neta Bahcall

Post Graduate: First Manhattan Consulting Group - NYC, Consultant

Andrew Peck

Senior Thesis: "On the Injection of Particles into Fermi Acceleration in Collisionless Shocks"

Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky

Post Graduate: Private Sector Position

Zachary Slepian

Senior Thesis: "Slow Roll Dark Energy"

Advisor: Richard Gott

Post Graduate: Harvard University Graduate School, Astronomy

Aaron Smargon

Senior Thesis: "A Hanbury Brown-Twiss-Inspired Analysis of Coronagraphic Images"

Advisor: Jason Fleischer (EE), Jeremy Kasdin (MAE), Neta Bahcall

Post Graduate: Start-Up Co.

Sarah Wellons

Senior Thesis: "Simulations of External Shocks in Gamma-Ray Bursts"

Advisor: Anatoly Spitkovsky

Post Graduate: NSF Fellowship Harvard University Graduate School, Astronomy

Juniors:

2010-2011

Rachael Alexandroff

Fall JP: “Comparing the True Masses of Two Exoplanets Based on a Radial Velocity Measurement of Their M sin(i) Values”

Advisor: Ed Turner

Spring JP: “A Search for High Redshift Type II Quasars from the SDSS BOSS Survey"

Advisor: Michael Strauss

Matt DiDonato

Fall JP: “Examining the Colors of SDSS Quasar Host Galaxies”

Advisor: Michael Strauss

Spring JP: “Supermassive Black Holes in Quasars”

Advisor: Neta Bahcall

Daniel Minkin

Fall JP: “A Review of the Literature Concerning NGC 6791 and a Need for New Calibrations Concerning He-Flash Avoidance in White Dwarfs”

Advisor: Jim Gunn

Spring JP: “Analysis of NGC 6791 and a Need for New Calibrations Concerning He-Flash Avoidance in White Dwarfs”

Advisor: Jim Gunn

Margaret Shaw

Fall JP: “The Effect of a Minimum Detectable Velocity Amplitude on the Msin(i)

Distribution of Exoplanets in RV Surveys”

Advisor: Ed Turner

Spring JP: “Modeling Telluric H2 0 Absorption: Prospects for Precise RV Measurements of
Low-mass Stars”

Advisor: Cullen Blake

Mary (Shangjun) Zhang

Fall JP: “Dust Extinction of Galaxies as a Function of Inclination”

Advisor: Michael Strauss

Spring JP: "Magnetic Activity in Dwarf M Stars with White Dwarf Companions"

Advisor: Gillian Knapp

2009-2010

Courtney Dressing

Senior Thesis: "New Frontiers in Exoplanet Detection: High Contrast Imaging With Subaru"

Advisor: Edwin Turner and Michael McElwain

Post Graduate: Harvard Graduate School, Astronomy

Rebecca Harper

Senior Thesis: "Statistical Comparison of Binary Stars and Planetary Systems"

Advisor: J. Richard Gott

Post Graduate: Int'l. Economic Development

Ted Price

Senior Thesis: "Examining SDSS Extended Quasars at High Redshift and Unresolved Quasars at Low Redshift"

Advisor: Michael Strauss

Post Graduate: U of Southern CA, MBA

Bilhuda Rasheed

Senior Thesis: "Where Are the Missing Baryons in Clusters? "

Advisor: Neta Bahcall

Post Graduate: Energy and Environmental Project in Pakistan

Kathryn Silverio

Senior Thesis: "Characterizing the Emission From Interstellar Dust at Microwave" Frequencies

Advisor: David Spergel and Aurelien Fraisse

Post Graduate: UC Berkeley Graduate School, Astronomy

Hassen Yesuf

Senior Thesis: "Dynamical Mass Estimates of the Sloan Great Wall"

Advisor: J. Richard Gott

Post Graduate: UCSC Graduate School, Astronomy

2008 - 2009

Seniors

Name:	Jessica Kloss
Senior Thesis:	“Intrinsic Galaxy Alignments”
Advisor:	David Spergel
Post Graduate:	Graduate School in Science Journalism, Boston University

Name:	Ragnhild Lunnan
Senior Thesis:	“Topology of Luminous Red Galaxies”
Advisor:	Richard Gott
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University

Juniors

Name:	Courtney Dressing
Fall JP:	“Activity of M Dwarfs in White Dwarf – M Dwarf Binary Systems"
Advisor:	Jill Knapp
Spring JP:	“Habitable Planets: The Effects of Eccentricity”
Advisor:	Dave Spiegel

Name:	Rebecca Harper
Fall JP:	“Conceptions of Center and Light Metaphysics in Robert Grosseteste’s De Luce”
Advisor:	Vance Smith (ENG) and Neta Bahcall (AST)
Spring JP:	“Fragmentation of ‘Killer’ Asteroid”
Advisor:	Christopher Chyba

Name:	Michael Medeiros
Fall JP:	“Designing and Building a Custom Fourier Transform Spectrometer”
Advisor:	Suzanne Staggs (PHY)
Spring JP:	“Optimizing Athena: Implementing Super Time Stepping for Numerical Integration”
Advisor:	James Stone

Name:	Ted Price
Fall JP:	“Accretion Discs with Power-Law Viscosities”
Advisor:	Roman Rafikov
Spring JP:	“Financial Market Volatilities”
Advisors:	Neta Bahcall (Astro) and Ronnie Sircar (ORFE)

Name:	Bilhuda Rasheed
Fall JP:	“Giant Planets as Loaded Polytropes”
Advisor:	Roman Rafikov
Spring JP:	“Radioactive Dating Methods”
Advisor:	Adam Burrows

Name:	Kathryn Silverio
Fall JP:	“Can TiO Explain Thermal Inversions in the Upper Atmospheres of Irradiated Giant Planets?”
Advisor:	Adam Burrows
Spring JP:	“Sub-Structure in Clusters of Galaxies Using SDSS”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss

Name:	Hassen Yesuf
Fall JP:	“High-Redshift Narrow Line Seyfert Galaxies 1 from SDSS”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss
Spring JP:	“Measuring Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Using Clusters of Galaxies”
Advisor:	Neta Bahcall

2007-2008

Seniors

Name:	Zoe Buck
Senior Thesis:	“Cross-correlation of Galaxies and Quasars in SDSS Stripe 82”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss
Post Graduate:	Science Journalism for a year, then graduate school

Name:	Katherine Miller
Senior Thesis:	“Quantifying the Bullet Cluster: Pairwise Velocity Distributions in N-Body Cosmological Simulations”
Advisor:	Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate	Science Education and Outreach

Name:	Penny Pelton
Senior Thesis:	“Identifying Galaxy-QSO Superpositions in the SDSS”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss
Post Graduate:	Analyst for Princeton Consultants

Name:	Valery Rashkov
Senior Thesis:	“Variability in Sloan’s Equatorial Stripe: A Search for Optically Violent Variable Objects”
Advisor:	David Spergel and Michael Strauss
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, UC, Santa Cruz

Name:	Gregory Snyder
Senior Thesis:	“White Dwarf Companions: Colors in SDSS and 2MASS”
Advisor:	Jill Knapp
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard Astronomy PHD program

Juniors

Name:	Jessica Kloss
Fall JP:	“Galaxies and Their Nearest Neighbors”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss
Spring JP:	“Classifying Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor:	Robert Lupton

Name:	Ragnhild Lunnan
Fall JP:	“Spectroscopic Properties of Radio Galaxies in the SDSS”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss
Spring JP:	“Computer Self-Gravity Using a Multigrid Method”
Advisor:	James Stone

2006-2007

Seniors

Name:	Zach Berta
Senior Thesis:	"The Rosy Matched Filter: An Automated Red-Sequence Cluster Finder"
Advisor:	David Spergel
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University

Name:	William Dahab
Senior Thesis:	"Super-Massive Black Holes in Quasars "
Advisor:	Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate:	Wall Street Analyst

Name:	Greg Haislip
Senior Thesis:	“Maximum BCG: Finding Clusters in COSMOS"
Advisor:	Neta Bahcall and Dave Johnson, Caltech
Post Graduate:	Naval Officers Program, Intelligence and Cryptology

Name:	Kelly Halford
Senior Thesis:	"Aim For The Moon, At Least If You Miss, You Will End Up Among The Stars: Determining The Pointing Of The Atacama Cosmology Telescope"
Advisor:	David Spergel
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, UCLA

Name:	Lorne Hofstetter
Senior Thesis:	“Portrait of the Sloan Great Wall”
Advisor:	Richard Gott
Post Graduate:	General Electric’s Global Research Center; and graduate school in engineering

Name:	Lear Janiv
Senior Thesis:	“The Local Galactic Escape Velocity: The Mass of the Milky Way”
Advisor:	Jill Knapp
Post Graduate:	Goldman Sachs, Credit Derivates Trader

Name:	Ariel Klainerman
Senior Thesis:	“A Conformal Journey to the Center of the Earth: Extending the Map of the Universe Down to the Quark”
Advisor:	Richard Gott
Post Graduate:	Finances/Consulting Sector ; Air Force

Name:	Blake Martin
Senior Thesis:	“The Scale Dependence of The Baryon Mass Fraction”
Advisor:	Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate:	Medical School

Name:	Corey Ritter
Senior Thesis:	“Coupling the QUIET Receiver to the ACT Telescope: A Simple Two-Lens Solution”
Advisor:	Suzanne Staggs
Post Graduate:	Military, Army

Juniors

Name:	Zoe Buck
Fall JP:	“Identifying Pre-Main-Sequence-Stars Using SDSS Spectroscopy”
Advisor:	Jill Knapp
Spring JP:	"Accurately Determining Galaxy Cluster Parameters using a Matched Filter Method"
Advisor:	David Spergel

Name:	Katherine Miller
Fall JP:	“Why Are They Pointing at Us? Are BL-Lac Objects Messages from Aliens at the Edge of the Universe?"
Advisor:	Michael Strauss
Spring JP:	"Oh Be a Fine Girl, Kiss Me Like That "
Advisor:	Jill Knapp

Name:	Penny Pelton
Fall JP:	"Selecting Radio Galaxies in the SDSS"
Advisor:	Michael Strauss
Spring JP:	"Developing Photometric Search Methods to Identify T Tauri Candidates in the Taurus Cloud"
Advisor:	Jill Knapp

Name:	Valery Rashkov
Fall JP:	“The Search for Faint Galaxies in the SDSS Sky Fibers ”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss
Spring JP:	“Photometric Redshift Determinations”
Advisor:	Neta Bahcall and Ofer Lahav, UCL

Name:	Gregory Snyder
Fall JP:	“Looking for Luminous Red Galaxies Using SDSS DR5 Photometry”
Advisor:	Jim Gunn
Spring JP:	"Magnetized Shock-Cloud Interactions ”
Advisor:	Jim Stone

2005-2006

Seniors

Name:	Emmett Carlson
Senior Thesis:	“Hybrid Universes Formed by Matching Schwarzschild Solutions to Incomplete Spherical Solutions”
Advisor:	Jeremy Goodman
Post Graduate:	Teaching Math/Physics

Name:	Mark Daniels
Senior Thesis:	“A Modular Diffraction Simulator for use in the Terrestrial Planet Finder Laboratory”
Advisor:	David Spergel (Astrophysical Sciences) and Ruslan Belikov (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, MAE, Princeton University.

Name:	Maggie Kirkland
Senior Thesis:	“Estimating the Number of Habitable Planets in the Galaxy”
Advisor:	Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate:	Graduate School,Cornell University, Neurobiology and Behavior

Name:	Martin Niederste-Ostholt
Senior Thesis:	“Alignment of Brightest Cluster Galaxies with their Host Clusters”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, Cambridge University, Institute of Astronomy

Name:	James Wray
Senior Thesis:	“High-Dispersion Spectroscopy of Europa and Enceladus: Probing the Tenuous Atmospheres of Active Icy Moons”
Advisor:	Ed Turner
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astronomy,Planetary Science, Cornell University

Juniors

Name:	Zach Berta
Fall JP:	“From Dragons and Toads to Dopplegrams: The Science of Helioseismology”
Advisor:	Aristotle Socrates
Spring JP:	“Work in Progress on the Detection of Galaxy Clusters”
Advisor:	David Spergel

Name:	William Ezra Dahab
Fall JP:	“A Method for Analyzing Bright Objects in Sloan Digital Sky Survey to Search or Bright Quasars”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss
Spring JP:	“Lifetime of Meteors in Planetary Systems, with Relation to Lithopanspermia”
Advisor:	Ed Turner

Name:	Greg Haislip
Fall JP:	“Disk Origin for S-Stars in Galactic Center?”
Advisor:	Andrew Youdin
Spring JP:	“Examining the Relationship between H Luminosity, [OIII] Luminosity, Spectral Line Width, and Other Relevant Spectral Line Strengths in AGN and Starburst Galaxies”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss

Name:	Kelly Halford
Fall JP:	“Carbon White Dwarfs of the SDSS DR4”
Advisor:	Gillian Knapp
Spring JP:	“Temperature Evolution in the Intergalactic Medium”
Advisor:	Renyue Cen

Name:	Lorne Hofstetter
Fall JP:	“Searching for White Dwarfs in the Galactic Halo”
Advisor:	Gillian Knapp
Spring JP:	“Characterizing the Environment of Low Redshift Luminous Red Galaxies”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss

Name:	Lear Janiv
Fall JP:	“Cluster CMB Polarization Signal as a Tracer of Dark Energy”
Advisor:	David Spergel
Spring JP:	“Density Dependant Metal Distribution as a Function of Redshift”
Advisor:	Neta Bahcall and Renyue Cen

Name:	Ariel Klainerman
Fall JP:	“The ACT Project: Extracting the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect from Simulated Sky Maps”
Advisor:	David Spergel
Spring JP:	“What is the Probability that a Highly Redshifted AGN with Narrow H is Type I"
Advisor:	Michael Strauss

Name:	Blake Martin
Fall JP:	“Intrinsically Interesting Objects of the SDSS”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss
Spring JP:	“Gaseous Halos Around Galaxies”
Advisor:	Renyue Cen

Name:	Corey Ritter
Fall JP:	“Exploring the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Trouble List Spectra – A Fishing Expedition”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss
Spring JP:	“Magnetic Shielding in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
Advisor:	Suzanne Staggs

2004-2005

Seniors

Name:	Daniel Miller
Senior Thesis:	“The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapon Technology in Iran”
Advisor:	Hal Feiveson (WWS) and Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate:	State Department

Name:	Joseph Muñoz
Senior Thesis:	“Model Dependence of the Primordial Density Perturbation Spectrum on Small Scales”
Advisor:	Paul Steinhardt (Physics) and Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University

Name:	Rob Siverd
Senior Thesis:	“Small Telescope Earthshine Observation”
Advisor:	Ed Turner and David Spergel
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astronomy, Ohio State University

Name:	Nicolas Teh
Senior Thesis:	“An Analytical Approach to Singularity Theorems in GR”
Advisor:	Sergiu Klainerman (Math) and Jeremy Goodman
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh

Juniors

Name:	Emmett Carlson
Fall JP:	“A Search for Halo White Dwarf Candidates Using Proper Motion from SDSS”
Advisor:	Gillian Knapp
Spring JP:	“Paradoxes Involving Time Travel”
Advisor:	Hans Halvorson (Philosophy) and J. Richard Gott

Name:	Mark Daniels
Fall JP:	“A Method for Inferring Surface Data from Planets with Variable Cloud Cover”
Advisor:	Edwin L. Turner
Spring JP:	“Determining Properties of Hydrogen Clouds Using Quasars as Light Sources”
Advisor:	Ed Jenkins

Name:	Maggie Kirkland
Fall JP:	“Gravitational Microlensing in the Presence of a Planetary Disk”
Advisor:	Scott Tremaine
Spring JP:	“Detectability of Molecular Hydrogen with IRAC”
Advisor:	Bruce Draine

Name:	Martin Niederste-Ostholt
Fall JP:	“Gravitational Instability in Protoplanetary Disks”
Advisor:	Andrew Youdin
Spring JP:	“Searching for Stars that are Escaping the Galaxy”
Advisor:	Gillian Knapp

Name:	James Wray
Fall JP:	“A New Technique for Galaxy Photometric Redshifts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor:	James E. Gunn
Spring JP:	“Simulation Studies of Supercluster Properties and Evolution”
Advisor:	Neta Bahcall

2003-2004

Seniors

Name:	Philip F. Hopkins
Senior Thesis:	“Cluster Alignments and Ellipticities in LCDM Cosmology”
Advisor:	Neta A. Bahcall
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University

Name:	Madhuri Kaul
Senior Thesis:	“Emissivity of Stacked Corrugated Feed Horn”
Advisor:	Suzanne Staggs, Neta Bahcall
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, University of Pennsylvania

Name:	Joshua Younger
Senior Thesis:	“Large-Scale Structure in LCDM Cosmology”
Advisor:	Neta A. Bahcall
Post Graduate:	Graduate Schooll, Astrophysics, Harvard

Juniors

Name:	Daniel Miller
Fall JP:	“Circumstellar Disk Theory and its Applications”
Advisor:	Marc Kuchner
Spring JP:	“Absolute Magnitudes and Tangential Velocities of Brown Dwarfs”
Advisor:	Gillian Knapp

Name:	Joseph Muñoz
Fall JP:	“A Test for Residual Foregrounds in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Data with the Temperature-Polarization Correlation”
Advisor:	David Spergel
Spring JP:	“Geometrical Effects of Anti-de Sitter Space on the Behavior of Force-Mediating Bosons”
Advisor:	Richard Gott

Name:	Rob Siverd
Fall JP:	“Classification of Distant Radio Objects”
Advisor:	Zeljko Ivezic
Spring JP:	“Identification of BL Lacertae Objects from SDSS Spectra”
Advisor:	Michael Strauss

Name:	Nicholas Teh
Fall JP:	“On Conformal Symmetry”
Advisor:	Igor Klebanov, Neta A. Bahcall
Spring JP:	“Applications of Operator K-Theory motivated by the Bell’s Inequality in Algebraic QFT”
Advisor:	Hans Halvorson, Neta Bahcall

2002-2003

Seniors

Name:	Cullen Blake
Senior Thesis:	“A Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets Around Nearby L Dwarfs” “Photometry with the Super-Wide-Field ASAS III Camera”
Advisor:	Bohdan Paczynski, David N. Spergel
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University

Name:	Joshua Schroeder
Senior Thesis:	“Carbon Stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor:	Gillian R. Knapp
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, University of Colorado

Name:	Charles Steinhardt
Senior Thesis:	“Constraints on Field Theoretical Models for Variation of the Fine Structure Constant”’
Advisor:	David N. Spergel
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University

Juniors

Name:	Philip F. Hopkins
Fall JP:	“Selection of Metal-Poor Giant and RR Lyrae Stars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data”
Advisor:	Zeljko Ivezic
Spring JP:	“Examination of Reddened Quasars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data”
Advisor:	Michael A. Strauss

Name:	Madhuri Kaul
Fall JP:	“SDSS Proper Motion Survey”
Advisor:	Gillian R. Knapp
Spring JP:	“Comparison of the K+ Background in MiniBooNE as Generated by the GEANT and MARS Monte Carlo Simulations”
Advisor:	Andrew Bazarko (Physics), Neta A. Bahcall

Name:	Joshua D. Younger
Fall JP:	“Mie Scattering in Dusty Disks: Dependence on the Inclination”
Advisor:	Edwin L. Turner
Spring JP:	“A Search for Cool Population II M Subdwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor:	Gillian R. Knapp

2001-2002

Seniors

Name:	Julia Comerford
Senior Thesis:	“Probability of Gravitational Lensing of High-Redshift Quasars”
Advisor:	Zoltan Haiman
Post Graduate:	Graduate Student, Astrophyics, University of California, Berkeley

Name:	Ernie Tretkoff (Physics)
Senior Thesis:	“Halo Clustering in Warm Dark Matter Models”
Advisor:	Neta A. Bahcall, Paul Bode
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, University of California, Santa Cruz (Science Writing)

Juniors

Name:	Cullen Blake
Fall JP:	“The Princeton Variability Survey”
Advisor:	Bohdan Paczynski
Spring JP:	“Difference Image Analysis of EXPLORE I Data”
Advisor:	Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas

Name:	Joshua Schroeder
Fall JP:	“Spectal Features of Carbon Stars Found in SDSS”
Advisor:	Gillian R. Knapp
Spring JP:	“Milky Way Absorption Features in Ultraviolet Spectra of Quasars 3C273 and RX “Milky Way Absorption Features in Ultraviolet Spectra of Quasars 3C273 and RX"
Advisor:	Edward B. Jenkins

Name:	Charles L. Steinhardt
Fall JP:	“Search for Type Ia Supernovae at Large Redshifts with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor:	David N. Spergel
Spring JP:	“Variation of the Fine Structure Constant”
Advisor:	John N. Bahcall

Name:	Daniel Grin (Physics)
Fall JP:	“Finding Lyman Limit Systems in the Spectra of High Redshift SDSS QSOs”
Advisor:	Michael A. Strauss
Spring JP:
Advisor:

2000-2001

Seniors

Name:	Deborah L. Freedman
Senior Thesis:	“A Life Preserver for a Black Hole and Other Applications of “Q = M” Material”
Advisor:	J. Richard Gott, III
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, Harvard University

Name:	Deborah L. Freedman
Senior Thesis:	“Violence in the Night Sky: A New Measure for Variable Star Classification”
Advisor:	Neil deGrasse Tyson
Post Graduate:	Wall Street

Name:	Edwin J. Knerr
Senior Thesis:	“Estimating the Mass of the Milky Way Galaxy”
Advisor:	Gillian R. Knapp
Post Graduate:	Law School

Name:	Joseph J. MacAvoy
Senior Thesis:	“Reusable and Expendable Launch Vehicles and the High Cost of Access to Space”
Advisor:	Robert Stengel (Engineering), Jerry Grey (MAE), Neta A. Bahcall
Post Graduate:	Policy/Law School (William and Mary Law School)

Name:	Tind S. Ryen
Senior Thesis:	“E + A Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor:	Michael A. Strauss
Post Graduate:	Science Policy Program

Name:	Brooke D. Simmons
Senior Thesis:	“An Atmosphere Detector for the Princeton I,Q,U Experiment”
Advisor:	Suzanne Staggs (Physics), James E. Gunn
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, Yale University

Juniors

Name:	Julia Comerford
Fall JP:	“Circular and Elliptical Orbit Estimations of a Fourth Planet Around Pulsar PSR-B1257+2”
Advisor:	Bradley Hansen
Spring JP:	“The Dependence of Mass-to-Light Ratio on Cluster Overdensity”
Advisor:	Neta A. Bahcall

Name:	Kimberly Palladino (Physics)
Fall JP:	“The Observed Mass-Temperature Relation in High Density Systems”
Advisor:	Neta A. Bahcall
Spring JP:
Advisor:

1999-2000

Seniors

Name:	Richard S. De Simone
Senior Thesis:	“The Stellar Velocity Distribution in the Solar Neighborhood”
Advisor:	Scott D. Tremaine
Post Graduate:	Tower Research Capitals

Name:	Alex C. McDaniel
Senior Thesis:	“L and T Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Advisor:	Gillian R. Knapp
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Name:	Joshua A. Pepper
Senior Thesis:	“A Search for Active Nuclei and an Investigation of Galactic Color Profiles in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Images”
Advisor:	Michael A. Strauss
Post Graduate:	Graduate School, Astrophysics, Ohio State University

Name:	Alana L. Sette
Senior Thesis:	“The Cosmic Background Radiation: A Visual Introduction”
Advisor:	David N. Spergel
Post Graduate:	Science/Engineering Company

Name:	Kristian Finlator (Physics)
Senior Thesis:	“Modeling the Near-Infrared Colors of Stars and Quasars”
Advisor:	Michael A. Strauss
Post Graduate:

Juniors

Name:	Deborah L. Freedman
Fall JP:	“Determining Properties of Gamma-Ray Bursts”
Advisor:	Neta Bahcall, Eli Waxman
Spring JP:	“Constraining Ω and σ8: A Concordance of Observations”
Advisor:	Neta A. Bahcall

Name:	Adam L. Gittes
Fall JP:	“Non-Isotropic Kick Velocities of Neutron Stars in Binary Systems”
Advisor:	Bradley Hansen
Spring JP:	“Weighing the Universe With the Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect”
Advisor:	Neta A. Bahcall

Name:	Edwin J. Knerr
Fall JP:	“Microlensing in a Binary System”
Advisor:	Bohdan Paczynski
Spring JP:	“Error Analysis of the Lightcurves for QSO's 0957+561 and 2237+305”
Advisor:	Edwin Turner

Name:	Joseph J. MacAvoy
Fall JP:	“The Relation Between Velocity Dispersion and X-Ray Temperature in a Sample of Abell Galaxy Clusters”
Advisor:	Michael J. Way
Spring JP:	“Spectral Types and Variability of Stars in the Hipparcos Catalogue”
Advisor:	Gillian R. Knapp

Name:	Tind S. Ryen
Fall JP:	“Survey of Ultraviolet Interstellar Absorption Spectra”
Advisor:	Edward B. Jenkins, Todd Tripp
Spring JP:	“Discussion of Atmospheric Modeling of Mars”
Advisor:	Tullis Onstott (Geosciences), Scott D. Tremaine

Name:	Brooke D. Simmons
Fall JP:	“Galactic Extinction Estimates For Comparison to the Schlegel-Finkbeiner-Davis Maps”
Advisor:	David N. Spergel
Spring JP:	“Galactic Extinction of Stars, Galaxies, and Quasars: Searching for Gray Dust”
Advisor:	Michael A. Strauss

Name:	Chris McLeavey (Physics)
Fall JP:	“SZ Effect and MAP Physics”
Advisor:	David N. Spergel
Spring JP:
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