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Commencement 2008
Former Vice President
and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Al Gore, the keynote speaker. |
The 111th commencement at Carnegie Mellon University took place May 17-18, 2008.
Al Gore, former Vice President and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner, delivered the keynote address at the
main ceremony on the morning of Sunday, May 18 in Gesling Stadium, urging
graduates to be among the "next American heroes". Carnegie Mellon
Professor and alumnus Randy Pausch also made a surprise appearance on stage,
telling students to "find your passion and follow it."
The hooding ceremony for Doctor of Philosophy in Physics occurred
during the evening of Saturday, May 17.
The distribution of diplomas took place in Wean Hall 7500 during the afternoon
of Sunday, May 18. The degrees in physics conferred during the ceremony are
listed below.
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Dr. Kwangzoo Chung (center) receives his
Doctoral diploma from Prof. Stephen Garoff (left) and Prof. Manfred Paulini
(right).
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Dr. Sandeep Gaan
(center) receives his Doctoral diploma from Prof. Manfred Paulini (left) and
Prof. Stephen Garoff (right). |
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
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Kwangzoo Chung | | Thesis title: |
Hadronic Production of psi(2S) Cross Section and Polarization | | Advisor: |
James Russ |
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Alexander Fore | | Thesis title: |
Lattice Boltzmann Models for Binary Solutions: Models for Diffusion between
Species with Unequal Masses and Models for Flow of Immiscible Species in a Hele-Shaw
Cell
| | Advisor: |
Robert Sekerka |
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Sandeep Gaan | | Thesis title: |
Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Molecular Thin Films and Semiconductor
Nanostructures
| | Advisor: |
Randall M. Feenstra |
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Panchapakesan Ganesh | | Thesis title: |
First-Principles Study of Liquid and Amorphous Metals | | Advisor: |
Michael Widom
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Zebulun Krahn
| | Thesis title: |
A Partial Wave Analysis of Eta and Etaprime Meson Photoproduction using CLAS at
Jefferson Lab | | Advisor: |
Curtis Meyer
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Shu Nie | | Thesis title: |
Morphology and Electronic Properties of Silicon Carbide Surfaces | | Advisor: |
Randall M. Feenstra
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Raphael Alejandro Porto Pereira | | Thesis title: |
An Effective Field Theory of Gravity for Spinning Extended Objects | | Advisor: |
Ira Z. Rothstein
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Seamus Patrick Riordan | | Thesis title: |
Measurements of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q2=1.7 and 3.5 GeV2 | | Advisor: |
Gregg B. Franklin
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Madhur Sachan | | Thesis title: |
Magnetostatic Interactions in Highly Ordered Self-assembled Structures of
\epsilon-Co Nanoparticles | | Advisor: |
Sara Majetich
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Vladimir M. Stojanovic
| | Thesis title: |
Novel Ordered States of Matter in Ultracold Atomic Gases | | Advisor: |
W. Vincent Liu
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Michael Earl Watkins | | Thesis title: |
Inclusive Measurement of Upsilon (1S) Decays to Open Charm Hadrons | | Advisor: |
Roy Briere |
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Michael Williams | | Thesis title: |
Measurement of Differential Cross Sections and Spin Density Matrix Elements
along with a Partial Wave Analysis for gamma p->p omega using CLAS at Jefferson
Lab | | Advisor: |
Curtis A. Meyer |
Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Physics
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Ahmet Kaya
| | Thesis title: |
Experimental Measurements of the Magnetic Recording Head High Frequency
Response and Comparison to Quantitative Models | | Advisor: |
James A. Bain
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Eric Evarts
(center) receives his Masters diploma from Prof. Manfred Paulini (left) and
Prof. Stephen Garoff (right). |
Master of Science in Physics
Bora Akgun
Tristan Bereau
Ryan Booth
Chien-Yi Chen
Eric Evarts
Haw Zan Goh
Yueh-Feng Liu
Duff Neill
Siddarth Shenoy
Nishtha Srivastava
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Laurel Farmer (second
from left) receives her Bachelors diploma from Profs. Garoff (left), Ghosh
(second from right), and Luokkala (right).
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Bachelor of Arts in Physics
|
Oliver A. Han | |
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Adam Michael Schloss | (and Master of Science in Public Policy and
Management, expected May 2009) |
Bachelor of Science in Physics
| Noel McCay Berman |
| Stephen Thomas Brunner |
| Christopher P. Brust | |
| Daniel Richard Carmody |
| Jonathan D. Eckel |
| Kate Eckerle |
| Jerome Clark McHale | |
| Cara Nicole Palermo | |
| Federico Damian Pineda |
| Joseph Francis Slade IV |
| Jonathan Mark Stahlman | |
| Brian George Tice | |
| Holt Browning Wilkins | |
| Seda Avetisian | (Minor in
French and Francophone Studies) |
| Nicholas C. Dobbs | (Minor in
Computer Science) |
| Kelly L. Duncan | (Minor in Mathematical
Studies) |
| Sean Martin Gilroy | (Minor in Mathematical Sciences) |
| Heeyong Kang | (Minors in
Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Studies) |
| Nathan G. Morrison | (Minors
in German and Mathematical Sciences) |
| Gregory Peim | (Minor in
Mathematical Sciences) |
| Joshua S. Schiffrin | (Minor
in Mathematical Sciences) |
| Christof J. Schoenborn |
(Minor in Psychology) |
| Gregory J. Zborowski | (Minor
in Engineering Studies) |
| Levi B. Boyles | (Additional
Major in Computer Science) |
| Gregory Lewis Hallenbeck |
(Additional Major in Computer Science) |
| Alexander James Rutgers |
(Additional Major in International Relations) |
| Hayley Logan Finley | (Astrophysics track
with a Minor in French and Francophone Studies) |
| Joshua Ilany | (Astrophysics track) |
| Stephen Conrad Schweizer | (Astrophysics track) |
| Anja Weyant | (Astrophysics track) |
| Laurel M. Farmer | (Biophysics track) |
| David B. Huston | (Computational
Physics track) |
| Garrett Mitchell | (Computational
Physics track) |
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Antonio Russo (second
from left) receives two Bachelors diplomas from Profs. Garoff (left), Ghosh
(second from right), and Luokkala (right).
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Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematical Sciences
David E. Baker (expected August 2008)
Antonio Enrico Russo
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Physics
Kevin R. Costello
Bachelor of Science in Physics and a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese
Dorothy Florence Holland-Minkley
Minor in Physics
Joseph M. Arizpe
John T. Bauman
Samuel R. Burnett
Jason R. Cohen
Kyle E. Comer
Mizel Djukic
Jeffrey W. Grafton
Carl E. Lecompte
Justin F. Li
Paul D. McKenney
Mathew D. Nulph
Helder Rocha
Martin J. Rosenberg
Michael J. Sanphy
Samantha N. Spath
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Dorothy Holland-Minkley
(center) receives her awards from Prof. Hugh Young (left) and Prof. Barry
Luokkala (right). |
Honors and Awards
Noel McKay Berman
College Honors
Stephen Thomas Brunner
University Honors
College Honors
Daniel Richard Carmody
University Honors
College Honors
Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Beta Kappa
Ryan Bradley Comes
University Honors
College Honors
Phi Beta Kappa
Kevin R. Costello
University Honors
Kate Eckerle
University Honors
Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Beta Kappa
Laurel M. Farmer
University Honors
Hayley Logan Finley
College Honors
Gregory Lewis Hallenbeck
University Honors
Phi Beta Kappa
Dorothy Florence Holland-Minkley
University Honors
Phi Beta Kappa
Nathan G. Morrison
University Honors
College Honors
Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Beta Kappa
Federico Damian Pineda
University Honors
College Honors
Antonio Enrico Russo
University Honors
College Honors
Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Beta Kappa
Joshua S. Schiffrin
University Honors
Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Beta Kappa
Jonathan Mark Stahlman
University Honors
College Honors
Phi Beta Kappa
Brian George Tice
University Honors
College Honors
Anja Weyant
University Honors
College Honors
Holt Browning Wilkins
College Honors
Richard E. Cutkosky Award
Jonathan Stahlman
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Degree recipients pose for a group photograph.
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