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## 2001

BAILEY, STEPHEN JOHN, B.S. (Washington) 1995.  
*A Study of B → J/y K(\*)0 X Decays.* (Huth)

CHEN, LESTER HAO-LIN, B.S. (Duke) 1995. (Harvard) 1999.  
*Charge-Iimaging Field-Effect Transistors for Scanned Probe Microscopy.* (Westervelt)

CHOU, YI, B.S. (National Tsing Hua University) 1988. (National Tsing Hua University) 1990.  
*Developments of EXITE2 and Timing Analysis of Ultra-Compact X-ray Binaries.* (Papaliolios/Grindlay)

ERSHOV, ALEXEY, B.S. (Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology) 1996.  
*Beauty Meson Decays to Charmonium.* (Feldman)

FOX, DAVID CHARLES, A.B. (Princeton) 1991. (Harvard) 1994.  
*The Structure of Clusters of Galaxies.* (Loeb)

FUKUTO, MASAFUMI, B.S. (Oregon) 1994. (Harvard) 1997).  
*Two-Dimensional Structures and Order of Nano-Objects on the Surface of Water: Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Studies.* (Pershan)

HILL, MARC, B.S. (Illinois) 1994.  
*Experimental Studies of W-band Accelerator Structures at High Field.* (Huth)

KANNAPPAN, SHEILA, A.B. (Harvard) 1991. (Harvard, History of Science) 2001.  
*Kinematic Clues to the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies.* (Horowitz)

LAU, CHUN-NING, B.A. (Chicago) 1994. (Harvard) 1997.  
*Quantum Phase Slips in Superconducting Nanowires.* (Tinkham)

OSWALD, JOSEPH ANTON, B.S. (Duke) 1992. (Harvard) 1995.  
*Metallo-dielectric Photonic Crystal Filters for Infrared Applications.* (Verghese/Tinkham)

SCHAFFER, CHRISTOPHER BRIAN, B.S. (Florida) 1995.  
*Interaction of Femtosecond Laser Pulses with Transparent Materials.* (Mazur)

SPRADLIN, MARCUS BENJAMIN, B.A. (Princeton) 1996. (Harvard) 1999.  
*AdS2 Black Holes and Soliton Moduli Spaces.* (Strominger)

WU, CLAUDIA, Diplom (Hannover) 1991. (Harvard) 1995.  
*Femtosecond Laser-Gas-Solid Interactions.* (Mazur)

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## 2002

BOZOVIC, DOLORES, B.S. ( Stanford University ) 1995. (Harvard) 1997.  
*Defect Formation and Electron Transport in Carbon Nanotubes.* (Tinkham)

BRITTO-PACUMIO, RUTH ALEXANDRA, B.S. (MIT) 1996. (Harvard) 1998.  
*Bound States of Supersymmetric Black Holes.* (Strominger)

CACHAZO, FREDDY ALEXANDER, B.S. (Simon Bolivar University) 1996.  
*Dualities in Field Theory from Geometric Transitions in String Theory.* (Vafa)

CHOU, YI, B.S. ( National Tsing Hua University ) 1988. ( National Tsing Hua University ) 1990.  
*Developments of EXITE2 and Timing Analysis of Ultra-Compact X-ray Binaries.* (Papaliolios/Grindlay)

COLDWELL, CHARLES MICHAEL, A.B. (Harvard) 1992.  
*A Search for Interstellar Communications at Optical Wavelengths.* (Horowitz)

DUTTON, ZACHARY JOHN, B.A. (University of California Berkeley) 1996. (Harvard) 2002.  
[*Ultra-slow Stopped, and Compressed Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates.*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/dutton.pdf) (Hau)

FOX, DAVID CHARLES, A.B. ( Princeton ) 1991. (Harvard) 1994.  
*The Structure of Clusters of Galaxies.* (Shapiro)

GOEL, ANITA, B.S. (Stanford) 1995.  
*Single Molecule Dynamics of Motor Enzymes Along DNA.* (Herschbach/ Wilson)

HALL, CARTER, B.S. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.) 1996.  
*Measurement of the isolated direct photon cross section with conversions in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt (s) = 1.8 TeV.* (Franklin)

JANZEN, PAUL HENRY, B. Sc., (University of Windsor) 1992. (Harvard) 1994.  
*An Experiment to Measure Electron Impact Excitation of Ions that have Metastable States.* (Horowitz/Kohl)

KIM, Daniel Young-Joon, AB/AM (Harvard) 1995.  
*Properties of Inclusive B → psi Production.* (Wilson/Brandenburg)

LANDHUIS, DAVID PAUL, B.S. (Stanford) 1994. (Harvard) 1997.  
*Studies with Ultracold Metastable Hydrogen.* (Gabrielse/Kleppner)

LAU, CHUN-NING, B.A. ( Chicago ) 1994. (Harvard) 1997.  
*Quantum Phase Slips in Superconducting Nanowires*. (Tinkham)

LEE, CHUNGSOK, B.A. ( University of California , Berkeley ) 1995. ( Harvard University ) 2002.  
*Control and Manipulation of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Cold Atoms Using Micro-electromagnets.* (Westervelt)

 LUBENSKY, DAVID KOSLAN, A.B. ( Princeton University ) 1994. (Harvard) 1997.  
*Theoretical Studies of Polynucleotide Biophysics.* (Nelson)

MATTONI, CARLO EGON HEINRICH, A.B. ( Harvard College ) 1995. (Harvard University ) 1998.  
*Magnetic Trapping of Ultracold Neutrons Produced Using a Monochromatic Cold Neutron Beam.* (Doyle)

MCKINSEY, DANIEL NICHOLAS, B.S. (University of Michigan) 1995. (Harvard) 1998.  
*Detecting Magnetically Trapped Neutrons: Liquid Helium As a Scintillator.* (Doyle)

OZEL, FERYAL, B.S. (Columbia University) 1996.  
*The Effects of Strong Magnetic and Gravitational Fields on Emission Properties of Neutron Stars.* (Narayan)

PAUTOT, SOPHIE, B.S. (University of Bordeaux I and II) 1995. (University of Bordeaux I and II) 1996.  
Lipids behavior at dodecane-water interface. (Weitz)

PRASAD, VIKRAM, B. Tech. (Indian Institute of Technology) 1996. ( University of Pennsylvania ) 1999.  
*Weakly interacting colloid-polymer mixtures.* (Weitz)

SALWEN, NATHAN KALMAN, A.B. (Harvard) 1994.  
*Non-perturbative Methods in Modal Field Theory.* (Coleman)

SCHWARZ, JENNIFER MARIE, B.S., B.A. (University of Maryland) 1994.  
Depinning with Elastic Waves: Criticality, Hysteresis, and Even Pseudo-Hysteresis. (Fisher)

SHAW, SCOT ELMER JAMES, B.A. (Lawrence University) 1998.  
[Propagation in Smooth Random Potentials.](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/sshaw.pdf) \[PDF: ~7.44MB\] *(*Heller)

SQUIRES, TODD MICHAEL, B.S. (UCLA) 1995.  
Hydrodynamics and Electrokinetics in Colloidal and Microfluidic Systems. (Fisher/Brenner)

VOLOVICH, ANASTASIA, A.M. (Moscow State) 1998.  
Holography for Coset Spaces and Noncommutative Solitions. (Strominger)

WEINSTEIN, JONATHAN DAVID, B.S. (Caltech) 1995. (Harvard) 1998.  
Magnetic Trapping of Atomic Chromium and Molecular Calcium Monohydride. (Doyle)

 WONG, GLENN PATRICK, B.S. (Stanford) 1993. (Harvard) 1995.  
*Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiments Using Laser-Polarized Noble Gas*. (Shapiro)

YESLEY, PETER SPOOR, B.S. (MIT) 1995.  
*The Road to Antihydrogen.* (Gabrielse)

 \*YOUNKIN, REBECCA JANE, A.B. ( Mt. Holyoke ) 1993. (Harvard) 1996.  
*Surface Studies and Microstructure Fabrication Using Femtosecond.* (Mazur)

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## 2003

ASHCOM, JONATHAN BENJAMIN, B.S. (Brown University) 1996. (Harvard) 2000.  
*The role of focusing in the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with transparent materials.* (Mazur)

CHAN, IAN HIN-YUN , B.S. ( Sanford University ) 1994.  
*Quantum dot circuits: single-electron switch and few-electron quantum dots.* (Westervelt)

CREMERS, JACOB NICO HENDRIK JAN, B.S. (MIT) 1994. (Harvard) 2002.  
*Pumping and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Quantum Dots.* (Halperin)

deCARVALHO, ROBERT, B.S. (University of Arizona) 1996. (Harvard) 1999.  
*Inelastic Scattering of Magnetically Trapped Atomic Chromium.* (Doyle)

D’URSO, BRIAN RICHARD, B.S. (California Institute of Technology) 1998.  
*Cooling and Self-Excitation of a One-Electron Oscillator.* (Gabrielse)

FIETE, GREGORY ALAN, B.S. (Purdue University) 1997. (Harvard) 1999.  
*Theory of Kondo Effect in Nanoscale Systems and Studies of III-V Diluated Magnetic Semiconductors.* (Heller)

GABEL, CHRISTOPHER VAUGHN, A.B. (Princeton University) 1996.  
*The speed of the flagellar rotary motor of Escherichia coli varies linearly with protonmotive force.* (Berg)

GORDON, VERNITA DIANE, B.S. (Vanderbilt University) 1996. (Harvard) 2001.  
[*Measuring and Engineering Microscale Mechanical Responses and Properties of Bio-Relevant Materials.*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Gordon.pdf) (Weitz)

HAILU, GIRMA, B.S. (Addis Ababa University). (Addis Ababa University) 1992. (Harvard) 1999.  
*Chiral orbifold Construction of Field Theories with Extra Dimensions.* (Georgi)

HEADRICK, MATTHEW PETER, B.A. (Princeton University) 1994. (Harvard) 1998.  
*Noncummutative Solitons and Closed String Tachyons.* (Minwalla)

HUMPHREY, MARC ANDREW, B.S. (Western Michigan University). 1997 (Harvard) 2000.  
*Precision measurements with atomic hydrogen masers.* (Walsworth)

LEPORE, NATASHA, B.S. (University of Montreal)  
[*Diffraction and Localization in Quantum Billiards.*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/lepore.ps) \[Postscript: ~5.8MB\] (Heller)

LEROY, BRIAN JAMES,  
[*Imaging Coherent Electron Flow Through Semiconductor Nanostructures.*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/leroy.pdf) \[PDF: ~10.17MB\] (Westervelt)

LOPATNIKOVA, ANNA, B.S. (MIT) 1997.  
*Spontaneously symmetry-broken states in the quantum Hall regime.* (Halperin/Wen)

MADRAK, ROBYN LEIGH, B.A. (Cornell University) 1995  
[*Measurement of the LambdaB Lifetime in the Decay Mode LambdaB-> Jpsi Lambda*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Madrak.pdf)*.* (Franklin)

MALONEY, ALEXANDER DEWITT,  
[*Time-Dependent Backgrounds of String Theory*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/maloney.pdf)*.* \[PDF: ~6.73MB\] (Strominger)

MAOZ, LIAT, B.S. (Hebrew University) 1995.  
[*Supersymmetric Configurations in the Rotating D1-D5 System and PP-Waves.*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/maoz.pdf) \[PDF: ~7.16 MB\] (Maldacena/ Strominger)

MARINELLI, LUCA, Laurea ( University of Genova ) 1995. ( Harvard University ) 1997.  
*Analysis of quasiparticles in the mixed state of a d-wave superconductor and NMR in pores with surface relaxation.* (Halperin)

REFAEL, GIL, B.S. (Tel Aviv University) 1997. (Harvard) 2001.  
*Randomness, Dissipation, and Quantum Fluctuations in Spin Chains and Mesoscopic Superconductor Arrays.* (Fisher/Demler)

SHEN, NAN, B.A. (Rhode Island College) 1996.  
*Photodisruption in biological tissues using femtosecond laser pulses*. (Mazur)

TSERKOVNYAK, YAROSLAV, (University of British Columbia) 1999. (Harvard) 2001.  
[*Spin and Charge Transfer in Selected Nanostructures.*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/tserkovnyak.pdf) \[PDF: ~6.96MB\] (Halperin)

VALENTINE, MEGAN THERESA, B.S. (Leigh University) 1997. (University of Pennsylvania) 1999.  
[*Mechanical and Microstructural Properties of Biological Materials*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/valentine.pdf). \[PDF: ~3.5 MB\] (Weitz)

VANICEK, JIRI JOSEPH LADISLAV, A.B. (Harvard College). (Harvard) 2000.  
[Uniform semiclassical approximations and their applications](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Vanicek.pdf). \[PDF: 936 KB\] (Heller)

WIJNHOLT, MARTIJN PAUL, B.S. (University of Warwick) 1996.  
*Investigations in the physics of solitons in string theory.* (Vafa)

ZABOW, GARY, B.S. (University of Cape Town) 1994.  
*Charged-particle optics for neutral particles.* (Prentiss)

ZIELINSKI, LUKASZ JOZEF, B.S. (Stanford University) 1997.  
*Restriction and inhomogeneous magnetic fields in the nuclear magnetic resonance study of diffusion.* (Halperin/Sen)

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## 2004

ABRAHAM, MATHEW CHEERAN, B.S. (Haverford College) 1997 (Harvard University) 2000.  
*Hot Electron Transpoort and Current Sensing.* (Westervelt)

BOWDEN, NATHANIEL SEAN, B.S., M.S. (University of Auckland) 1996.  
*Production of Cold Antihydrogen During the Positron Cooling of Antiprotons.* (Gabrielse)

CHANG, SPENCER, B.S. (Stanford University) 1999. (Harvard) 2001.  
[*Topics in Little Higgs Physics*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/chang.pdf)*.* \[PDF: 467 KB\] (Georgi)

DZHOSYUK, SERGEI N., B.S.(Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)1995.(Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)1997.  
M*agnetic trapping of neutrons for measurement of the neutron lifetime.* (Doyle)

EGOROV, DMITRO MIKHAILOVICH, B.S. (Moscow Institute of Physics and  
Technology) 1998.  
[*Buffer-Gas Cooling of Diatomic Molecules*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Egorov.pdf)*.* \[PDF: ~4.1 MB\] (Doyle)

FIETE, ILA RANI, B.S. (University of Michigan) 1997. (Harvard University) 2000.  
[*Learning and coding in biological neural networks*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Fiete.pdf)*.* (Fisher/Seung)

GARDEL, MARGARET LISE, B.A. (Brown University) 1998. (Harvard University) 2003.  
*Elasticity of F-actin Networks.* (Weitz)

HSU, MING F., A.B. ( Princeton University) 1999.  
*Charged Colloidal Particles in Non-polar Solvents and Self-assembled Colloidal Model Systems*. (Weitz)

KING, GAVIN MCLEAN, B.S. (Bates College) 1997 (Dartmouth college) 2001.  
*Probing the Longitudinal Resolution of a Solid State nanopore Microscope with Nanotubes.* (Golovchenko)

MANLEY, SULIANA, B.A.(Rice University) 1997. (Harvard University) 2001.  
*Mechanical stability of fractal colloid gels.* (Weitz)

MICHNIAK,JR.,ROBERT ALLEN, B.S. (University of Michigan) 1997. (Harvard University) 2001.  
Enhanced Buffer Gas Loading: Cooling and Trapping of Atoms with Low Effective Magnetic Moments. *(Doyle)*

MODY, AREEZ MINOO, B.S. (Caltech) 1994.  
*Thermodynamics of ultracold singly charged particles.* (Heller)

ODOM, BRIAN CARL, B.S. (Stanford University) 1995. (Harvard University) 1999.  
*Measurement of the Electron g-Factor in a Sub-Kelvin Cylindrical Cavity*. (Gabrielse)

OXLEY, PAUL KEVIN, B.A. (Oxford University) 1994.  
[Production of Slow Antihydrogen from Cold Antimatter Plasmas](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Oxley.pdf). \[PDF: ~5.9 MB\](Gabrielse)

ROESER, CHRISTOPHER ALLAN DEWALD, B.A. (University of Chicago) 1998.  
*Ultrafast Dynamics and Optical Control of Coherent Phonons in Tellurium.* (Mazur)

SHPYRKO, OLEG GRIGORY, B.S. (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) 1995.  
*Experimental X-Ray Studies of Liquid Surfaces.* (Pershan)

SON, JOHN SANG WON, B.A. (Columbia University) 1996.  
[*Superstring Theory in AdS\_3 and Plane Waves*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Son.pdf)*.* \[PDF: ~450 KB\](Minwalla)

ZELEVINSKY, TANYA, S.B. (MIT) 1999. (Harvard University) 2001.  
*Helium 2^3 P Fine Structure Measurement in a Discharge Cell.* (Gabrielse)

ZUMBÜHL, DOMINIK MAX, Diploma, M.S. (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), 1998.  
[*Coherence and Spin in GaAs Quantum Dots*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/zumbuhl.pdf)*.* \[PDF: ~2.7 MB\] (Marcus)

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## 2005

ANDRÉ, AXEL PHILIPPE, M.S. (Imperial College) 1997. (HarvardUniversity) 1999.  
*Nonclassical States of Light and Atomic Ensembles: Generation and New Applications.*(Lukin)

BIERCUK, MICHAEL JORDAN,  
*Local Gate Control in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Devices.* (Marcus)

CHEN, HAOYU HENRY, (University Maryland) 1998. (Harvard University) 2000.  
[*Surfaces in Solid Dynamics and Fluid Statics*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/thesishalf.pdf). \[PDF: ~2.5 MB\] (Brenner)

CONRAD, JACINTA CARMEL, S.B. (University of Chicago) 1999. ( Harvard University) 2002.  
*Mechanical Response and Dynamic Arrest in Colloidal Glasses and Gels.* (Weitz)

DASGUPTA, BIVASH R., B.S.C. (Presidency College) 1995. (Indian Institute of Technology) 1997.  
*Microrheology and Dynamic Light Scattering Studies of Polymer Solutions.* (Weitz)

HANCOX, CINDY IRENE, B.A. (University of California, Berkeley) 1997. ( Harvard University) 2002.  
*Magnetic trapping of transition-metal and rare-earth atoms using buffer-gas loading.* (Doyle)

HOUCK, ANDREW A., B.S.E. (Princeton University) 2000.  
*Novel Techniques Towards Nuclear Spin Detection.* (Marcus/Chuang)

LEE, HAK-HO, B.S. (Seoul National University) 1998.  
*Microelectronic/Microfluidic Hybrid System for the Manipulation of Biological Cells.* (Westervelt).

NEITZKE, ANDREW M., A.B. (Princeton University) 1998.  
*Toward a Nonperturbative Topological String.* (Vafa)

PODOLSKY, DANIEL, B.S. ( Stanford University) 1998. (Harvard University) 2000.  
*Interplay of Magnetism and Superconductivity in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems.* (Demler)

RAPPOCCIO, SALVATORE ROCCO, B.A. (Boston University ) 2000.  
*Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section in ppbar Collisions at sqrt (s) = 1.96 TeV.* (Foland)

SPECK, ANDREW J., (Williams College) 2000. (Harvard) 2002.  
[*Two Techniques Produce Slow Antihydrogen*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/speck.pdf)*.* \[PDF: ~9.2 MB\] (Gabrielse)

TEE, SHANG YOU, B.S. ( Columbia University) 1995. (Stevens Institute of Technology) 1997.  
*Velocity Fluctuations in Sedimentation and Fluidized Beds.* (Weitz)

THOMPSON, DAVID MATTOON, (Yale) 1999 B.S./M.S.  
[*Holography and Related Topics in String Theory*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/dthompson.pdf)*.* \[PDF: ~440 KB\] (Strominger)

ZHU, CHENG, B.S. ( Tsinghua University) 1996. (Chinese Science and Technology University) 1997.  
*Gas phase atomic and molecular process*. (Lukin/Dalgarno)

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## 2006

BABICH, DANIEL MICHAEL, A.B. ( Princeton University) 2002. ( Harvard University) 2005.  
*Cosmological Non-Gaussianity and Reionization*. (Loeb)

BARNETT, RYAN LEE, B.S. ( Ohio State University) 2000. ( Harvard University) 2002.  
*Studies of Strongly correlated Systems: From First Principles Computations to Effective Hamiltonians and Novel Quantum Phases.* (Demler)

BOWLES, ANITA MARIE, B.S. ( University of Colorado) 1996. ( Harvard University) 1998.  
*Stress Evolution in Thin Films of a Polymer*. (Weitz/Spaepen)

CHIJIOKE, AKOBUIJE DOUGLAS EZIANI, B.S.E. ( Duke University) 1996. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 1998.  
[*Infrared absorption of compressed hydrogen deuteride and calibration of the ruby pressure gauge*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Chijioke.pdf). \[PDF: ~2.6 MB\](Silvera)

CYRIER, MICHELLE CHRISTINE, B.S. ( University of California , Berkeley) 2000.  
*Physics From Geometry: Non-Kahler Compactifications, Black Rings and dS/CFT.* (Strominger)

DESAI, MICHAEL MANISH, B.A. ( Princeton University ) 1999. ( University of Cambridge ) 2000.  
*Evolution in Large Asexual Populations.* (Murray/Fisher)

EISAMAN, MATTHEW D, A.B. (Princeton) 2000. (Harvard University) 2004.  
*Generation, Storage and Retrieval of Nonclassical States of Light Using Atomic Ensembles.* (Lukin)

HOLLOWAY, AYANA TAMU, A.B. ( Princeton University) 1998.  
*The First Direct Limit on the t Quark Lifetime. ( Franklin)*

HOWARD, ANDREW WILLIAM, S.B. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 1998. (Harvard University) 2001.  
*Astronomical Searches for Nanosecond Optical Pulses.* (Horowitz)

HUANG, JIAN, B.S. (Jilin University, P.R.China)1998.  
*Theories of Imaging Electrons in Nanostructures.* (Heller)

JONES, GREGORY CHAPMAN, B.S. (University of Missouri, Columbia) 2001.  
*Time-dependent solutions in gravity.* (Strominger)

KILIC, CAN, B.S. ( Bogazici University) 2000.  
*Naturalness of Unknown Physics: Theoretical Models and Experimental Signatures.* (Arkani-Hamed)

 LAKADAMYALI, MELIKE, B.S. ( University of Texas , Austin ) 2001.  
*Real-Time Imaging of Viral Infection and Intracellular Transport in Live Cells.* (Zhuang)

MAHBUBANI, RAKHI, MSci (University of Bristol) 2000.  
[*Beyond the Standard Model: The Pragmatic Approach to the Gauge Hierarchy Problem*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/rakhi.pdf)*.* \[PDF: ~1.5 MB\] (Arkani-Hamed)

MARSANO, JOSEPH DANIEL, B.S. (University of Michigan) 2001. (Harvard University) 2004.  
*The Phase Structure of Yang-Mills Theories and their Gravity Duals.* (Minwalla)

NGUYEN, SCOTT VINH, B.S. (University of Texan, Austin) 2000.  
*Buffer gas loading and evaporative cooling in the multi-partial-wave regeime.* (Doyle)

PAPADODIMAS, KYRIAKOS, B.A. ( University of Athens ) 2000.  
*Phase Transitions in Large N Gauge Theories and String Theory Duals.* (Minwalla)

PARROTT, ROBERT ELLIS, B.A. (Dartmouth College) 1997. (Dartmouth College) 1999.  
*Topics in Electron Dynamics in Moderate Magnetic Fields*. (Heller)

POTOK, RONALD MICHAEL, B.S. ( University of Texas Austin) 2000.  
*Probing Many Body Effects in Semiconductor Nanostructures.* (Goldhaber-Gordon/Marcus)

RUST, MICHAEL JOSEPH, B.S. ( Harvey Mudd College ).  
*Fluorescence Techniques for Single Virus Particle Tracking and Sub-Diffraction Limit Imaging.* (Zhuang)

SAGE, JENNIFER NICOLE FUES, B.A. ( Washington University ) 1997. ( Harvard University ) 2000.  
*Measurements of Lateral Boron Diffusion in Silicon and Stress Effects on Epitaxial Growth*. (Aziz/Kaxiras)

TAYLOR, JACOB MASON, A.B. ( Harvard College ) 2000.  
*Hyperfine Interactions and Quantum Information Processing in Quantum Dots.* (Lukin)

THALER, JESSE KEMPNER, S.B. (Brown University). ( Harvard University) 2004.  
*Symmetry Breaking at the Energy Frontier*. (Arkani-Hamed)

THAMBYAHPILLAI, SHIYAMALA NAYAGI, M.S. (Imperial College) 1999.  
*Brane Worlds and Deconstruction.* (Randall)

VAISHNAV, JAY Y., B.S. (University of Maryland) 2000. ( Harvard University) 2002.  
*Topics in Low Energy Quantum Scattering Theory.* (Heller)

VITELLI, VINCENZO, B.S. (Imperial College) 2000.  
*Crystals , Liquid Crystals and Superfluid Helium on Curved Surfaces.* (Nelson)

WALKER, DEVIN GEORGE EDWARD, B.S. (Hampton University) 1998. ( Harvard University ) 2001.  
*Theories on the Origin of Mass and Dark Matter.* (Arkani-Hamed/Georgi)

WHITE, OLIVIA LAWRENCE, B.S. ( Stanford University ) 1997.  
*Towards Real Spin Glasses: Ground States and Dynamics.* (Fisher)

YIN, XI, B.S. (University of Science and Technology of China) 2001.  
*Black Holes, Anti de Sitter Space, and Topological Strings.* (Strominger)

YANG, LIANG, B.S. (Yale University) 1999. ( Harvard University) 2002.  
*Towards Precision Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime using Magnetically Trapped Neutrons.* (Doyle)

YAVIN, ITAY, B. Sc. (York University, Ontario) 2002.  
[*Spin Determination at the Large Hadron Collider.*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/yavin.pdf) \[PDF: ~662 KB\] (Arkani-Hamed)

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## 2007

CHILDRESS, LILIAN ISABEL, B.A. (Harvard College) 2001.  
*Coherent manipulation of single quantum systems in the solid state*. (Lukin)

CLARK, DAMON ALISTAIR  
*Biophysical Analysis of Thermostatic Behavior in C. elegans*. (Samuel)

ERNEBJERG, MORTEN, MPhys (University of Oxford) 2002.  
[*Field Theory Methods in Two-Dimensional and Heterotic String Theories*.](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Ernebjerg.pdf) (Strominger)

FARKAS, DANIEL MARTIN, B.S. (Yale University) 2000.  
*An Optical Reference and Frequency Comb for Improved Spectroscopy of Helium*. (Gabrielse)

GINSBERG, NAOMI SHAUNA, B.A. (University of Toronto) 2000. (Harvard University) 2002.  
*Manipulations with spatially compressed slow light pulses in Bose-Einstein condensates.* (Hau)

HOFFMAN, LAUREN K., B.S. (California Institute of Technology) 2002.  
*Orbital Dynamics in Galaxy Mergers*. (Loeb)

HUANG, LISA LI FANG, B.S. (UCLA) 1999.  
*Black Hole Attractors and Gauge Theories*. (Strominger)

HUNT, THOMAS PETER, B.S. (Stanford University) 2000.  
*Integrated Circuit / Microfluidic Chips for Dielectric Manipulation*. (Westervelt)

IMAMBEKOV, ADILET, B.S. (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) 2002.  
[*Strongly Correlated Phenomena with Ultracold Atomic Gases*.](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Imambekov.pdf) (Demler)

JAFFERIS, DANIEL LOUIS, B.S. (Yale) 2001.  
*Topological String Theory from D-Brane Bound States.* (Vafa)

JENKS, ROBERT A., B.A. (Williams College) 1998.  
[*Mechanical and neural representations of tactile information in the awake behaving rat somatosensory system*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Jenks.pdf)*.* (Stanley/Weitz)

LEBEDEV, ANDRE, B.S. (University of Virginia) 1999.  
*Ratio of Pion Kaon Production in Proton Carbon Interactions*. (Feldman)

LIU, JIAYU, B.S. (Nanjing University of China) 2002. (Harvard) 2004.  
*Microscopic origin of the elasticity of F-actin networks*. (Weitz)

MATHEY, LUDWIG GUENTER, Vordiplom (University of Heidelberg) 1998.  
*Quantum phases of low-dimensional ultra-cold atom systems.* (Castro-Neto/Halperin)

MAXWELL, STEPHEN EDWARD  
Buffer Gas Cooled Atoms and Molecules: Production, Collisional Studies, and Applications. (Doyle)

MO, YINA, B.S. (University of Science and Technology China) 2002.  
*Theoretical Studies of Growth Processes and Electronic Properties of Nanostructures on Surfaces.* (Kaxiras)

PARUCHURI, SRINIVAS S., B. S. (Cornell) 2000. (Harvard University) 2002.  
*Deformations of Free Jets*. (Brenner//Weitz)

QIAN, JIANG  
*Localization in a Finite Inhomogeneous Quantum Wire and Diffusion through Random Spheres with Partially Absorbing Surfaces.* (Halperin)

RITTER, WILLIAM GORDON, B.A. (University of Chicago) 1999.  
*Euclidean Quantum Field Theory: Curved Spacetimes and Gauge Fields.* (Jaffe)

SARAIKIN, KIRILL ANATOLYEVICH, B.S. (Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology) 1999.  
[*Black Holes, Entropy Functionals, and Topological Strings.*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Saraikin.pdf) (Vafa)

SCHULZ, ALEXIA EIRINN, B.A. (Boston University ) 1998. (Harvard University) 2000.  
*Astrophysical Probes of Dark Energy.* (White/Huth)

SCHUSTER, PHILIP CHRISTIAN, S.B. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2003. ( Harvard University ) 2006.  
*Uncovering the New Standard Model at the LHC*. (Arkani-Hamed)

SEUN, SIN MAN, B.A. (Smith College) 2000. B.E. (Dartmouth College) 2000.  
*Measurement of p-K Ratios from the NuMI Target*. (Feldman)

SHERMAN, DANIEL JOSEPH, B.A. (University of Pennsylvania ) 2001.  
*Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section with 1.12 fb -1 of pp Collisions at sqrt (s) = 1.96 TeV.* ( Franklin )

SIMONS, AARON, B.S. (California Institute of Technology) 2002.  
*Black Hole Superconformal Quantum Mechanics.* (Strominger)

SLOWE, CHRISTOPHER BRIAN, AB/AM (Harvard University).  
*Experiments and Simulations in Cooling and Trapping of a High Flux Rubidium Beam.* (Hau)

STRIEHL, PIERRE SEBASTIAN, Diploma (University of Heidelberg) 2004.  
*A high-flux cold-atom source for area-enclosing atom interferometry.* (Prentiss)

TORO, NATALIA, S.B. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2003.  
*Fundamental Physics at the Threshold of Discovery*. (Arkani-Hamed)

WISSNER-GROSS, ALEXANDER DAVID, S.B. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2003. (Harvard University ) 2004. *Physically Programmable Surfaces.* (Kaxiras)

WONG, WESLEY PHILIP, B.S. (University of British Columbia) 1999.  
[*Exploring single-molecule interactions through 3D optical trapping and tracking: from thermal noise to protein refolding*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/wong.pdf)*.* (Evans/Nelson)

ZAW, INGYIN, B.A. (Harvard College) 2001. (Harvard University) 2003.  
*Search for the Flavor Changing Neutral Current Decay t → qZ in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV.* (Franklin)

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## 2008

BRAHMS, NATHANIEL CHARLES, Sc.B. (Brown University) 2001.  
[*Trapping of 1 μβ Atoms Using Buffer Gas Loading*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Brahms.pdf)*.* (Doyle, Greytak)

BURBANK, KENDRA S., B.A. (Bryn Mawr College) 2000. (Harvard University) 2004.  
*Self-organization mechanisms in the assembly and maintenance of bipolar spindles.* (Fisher/Mitchison)

CAMPBELL, WESLEY C., B.S. (Trinity University) 2001.  
[*Magnetic Trapping of Imidogen Molecules*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/WesCampbell.pdf). (Doyle)

CHAISANGUANTHUM, KRIS SOMBOON, B.S. (Harvard University ) 2001.  
[*An Enquiry Concerning Charmless Semileptonic Decays of Bottom Mesons*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/chaisanguanthum.pdf). (Morii)

CHANG, DARRICK, B.S. (Stanford University) 2001.  
*Controlling atom-photon interactions in nano-structured media.* (Lukin)

CHOU, JOHN PAUL, A.B. (Princeton University) 2002. (Harvard University) 2006.  
*Production Cross Section Measurement using Soft Electron Tagging in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV*. (Franklin)

DEL MAESTRO, ADRIAN GIUSEPPE, B.S. (University of Waterloo) 2002, (University of  
Waterloo) 2003.  
[*The Superconductor-Metal Quantum Phase Transition in Ultra-Narrow Wires*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/DelMaestro.pdf). (Sachdev)

DI CARLO, LEONARDO, B.S. (Stanford University) 1999. (Stanford University) 2000.  
*Mesocopic Electronics Beyond DC Transport*. (Marcus)

DUNKEL, EMILY REBECCA, B.S. (University of California Los Angeles) 2001.  
*Quantum Phenomena in Condensed Phase Systems*. (Sachdev/Coker)

FINKLER, ILYA GRIGORYEVICH, B.S. (Ohio State University) 2001.  
*Nonlinear Phenomena in Two-Dimensional and Quasi-Two-Dimensional Electron Systems.* (Halperin)

FITZPATRICK, ANDREW LIAM, B.S. (University of Chicago) 2004. (Harvard University) 2005.  
*Broken Symmetries and Signatures*. (Randall)

GARG, ARTI, A.B., B.S. (Stanford University) 2000. (Stanford University) 2001. (University of Washington) 2002.  
*Microlensing Candidate Selection and Detection Efficiency for the Super MACHO Dark Matter Search*. (Stubbs)

GERSHOW, MARC HERMAN, B.S. (Stanford University) 2001.  
*Trapping Single Molecules with a Solid State Nanopore*. (Golovchenko)

GRANT, LARS, B.S. (McGill University) 2001.  
*Aspects of Quantization in AdS/CFT*. (Vafa/Minwalla)

GUICA, MONICA MARIA, B.A. (University of Chicago) 2003.  
*Supersymmetric Attractors, Topological Strings, and the M5-Brane CFT*. (Strominger)

HANNEKE, DAVID ANDREW, B.S. (Case Western) 2001. (Harvard University) 2003.  
[*Cavity Control in a Single-Electron Quantum Cyclotron: An Improved Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment.*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/hanneke.pdf) (Gabrielse)

HATCH, KRISTI RENEE, B.S. (Brigham Young University) 2004  
*Probing the mechanical stability of DNA by unzipping and rezipping the DNA at constant force.* (Prentiss)

HOHLFELD, EVAN BENJAMIN, B.S. (Stanford University) 2001.  
*Creasing, Point-bifurcations, and the Spontaneous Breakdown of Scale-invariance*. (Weitz/Mahadevan)

KATIFORI, ELENI, Ptichion (University of Athens) 2002. (Harvard University) 2004.  
*Vortices, rings and pollen grains: Elasticity and statistical physics in soft matter*. (Nelson)

LAPAN, JOSHUA MICHAEL, B.S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2002. (Harvard University) 2006.  
[*Topics in Two-Dimensional Field Theory and Heterotic String Theory*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Lapan.pdf). (Strominger)

LE SAGE, DAVID ANTHONY, B.S. (University of California Berkeley) 2002.  
*First Antihydrogen Production within a Combined Penning-Ioffe Trap*. (Gabrielse)

LI, WEI, B.S. (Peking University) 1999. (Peking University) 2002.  
*Gauge/Gravity Correspondence and Black Hole Attractors in Various Dimensions*. (Strominger)

LU, PETER JAMES, B.A. (Princeton University) 2000. (Harvard University) 2002.  
*Gelation and Phase Separation of Attractive Colloids*. (Weitz)

MUNDAY, JEREMY NATHAN, B.S. (Middle Tennessee State University) 2003. (Harvard University) 2005.  
*Attractive, repulsive, and rotational QED forces: experiments and calculations*. (Hau/Capasso)

RAJU, SUVRAT, B.S. (St. Stephen’s College) 2002. (Harvard University) 2003.  
*Supersymmetric Partition Functions in the AdS/CFT Conjecture*.  
(Arkani-Hamed/Denef/Minwalla)

RISTROPH, TRYGVE GIBBENS, B.S. (University of Texas at Austin) 1999.  
*Capture and Ionization Detection of Laser-Cooled Rubidium Atoms with a Charged Suspended Carbon Nanotube*. (Hau)

SVACHA, GEOFFRY THOMAS, B.S. (University of Michigan) 2002.  
*Nanoscale nonlinear optics using silica nanowires*. (Mazur)

TURNER, ARI M., B.A. (Princeton University) 2000.  
*Vortices Vacate Vales and other Singular Tales*. (Demler)

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## 2009

BAUMGART, MATTHEW TODD, B.S. (University of Chicago) 2002.   
*The Use of Effective Variables in High Energy Physics*. (Georgi/Arkani-Hamed)

BOEHM, JOSHUA ADAM ALPERN, B.S.E. (Case Western Reserve University) 2003. (Harvard University) 2005.  
*A Measurement of Electron Neutrino Appearance with the MINOS Experimen*t. (Feldman)

CHEUNG, CLIFFORD WAYNE, B.S. (Yale University) 2004. (Harvard University) 2006.  
*From the Action to the S-Matrix*. (Georgi/Arkani-Hamed)

DORET, STEPHEN CHARLES B.A. (Williams College) 2002, A.M. (Harvard University) 2006.  
[*A buffer-gas cooled Bose-Einstein condensate*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/doret.pdf). (Doyle)

FALK, ABRAM LOCKHART, B.A. (Swarthmore College) 2003. (Harvard University) 2004.  
*Electrical Plasmon Detection and Phase Transitions in Nanowires*. (Park)

HAFEZI, MOHAMMAD, (Sharif University of Technology, Tehran - Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) 2003. (Harvard University) 2005,  
*Strongly interacting systems in AMO physics*. (Lukin)

HECKMAN, JONATHAN JACOB, A.B. (Princeton University) 2004. (Harvard University) 2005  
*F-theory Approach to Particle Physics*. (Vafa)

HICKEN, MALCOLM STUART, B.S. (Brigham Young University) 1999. (Harvard University) 2001.  
*Doubling the Nearby Supernova Type Ia Sample*. (Stubbs/Kirshner)

HOHENSEE, MICHAEL ANDREW, B.A. (New York University) 2002. (Harvard University) 2004.  
*Testing Fundamental Lorentz Symmetries of Light*. (Walsworth)

JIANG, LIANG, B.S. (California Institute of Technology) 2004.   
T*owards Scalable Quantum Communication and Computation: Novel Approaches and Realizations*. (Lukin)

KAPLAN, JARED DANIEL, B.S. (Stanford University) 2005.  
*Aspects of Holography*. (Georgi/Arkani-Hamed)

KLEIN, MASON JOSEPH, B.S. (Calvin College) 2002.  
*Slow and Stored Light in Atomic Vapor Cells*. (Walsworth)

KRICH, JACOB JONATHAN, B.A. (Swarthmore College) 2000, MMath (Oxford University) 2003. (Harvard University) 2004.  
[*Electron and Nuclear Spins in Semiconductor Quantum Dots*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Krich.pdf). (Halperin)

LAHIRI, SUBHANEIL, M.A. (Oxford University) 2003.  
*Black holes from fluid mechanics.* (Yin/Minwalla)

LIN, YI-CHIA, B.S. (National Taiwan Normal University) 1999. (National Tsing Hua University) 2001.  
*Elasticity of Biopolymer Networks.* (Weitz)

LUO, LINJIAO, B.S. (University of Science and Technology China) 2003.  
*Thermotactic behavior in C. elegans and Drosophila larvae.* (Samuel)

PADI, MEGHA, B.S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2003.  
*A Black Hole Quartet: New Solutions and Applications to String Theory.* (Strominger)

PASTRAS, GEORGIOS, DIPLOMA (University of Patras) 2002. (Harvard University) 2004.  
*Thermal Field Theory Applications in Modern Aspects of High Energy Physics.*  (Denef/Arkani-Hamed)

PEPPER, RACHEL E., B.S. (Cambridge) 2004.  
*Splashing, Feeding, Contracting: Drop impact and fluid dynamics of* Vorticella (Stone)

SHAFEE, REBECCA, B.S. (California Institute of Technology) 2002. (Harvard University) 2004.  
*Measuring Black Hole Spin.* (Narayan/McClintock)

WANG, CHRISTINE YI-TING, B.S. (National Taiwan University) 2002. (Harvard University) 2004.  
*Multiode dynamics in Quantum Cascade Lasers: from coherent instability to mode locking.* (Hoffman/Capasso)

ZHANG, YIMING, B.S. (Peking University) 2003. (Harvard University) 2006.  
*Waves, Particles, and Interactions in Reduced Dimensions*. (Marcus)

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## 2010

BARTHEL, CHRISTIAN, Diploma (University of Kaiserslautern) 2005.  
*Control and Fast Measurement of Spin Qubits*. (Marcus)

CAVANAUGH, STEVEN, B.S. (Rutgers College) 2005. (Harvard University) 2006.  
*A Measurement of Electron Neutrino Appearance in the MINOS Experiment after Four Years of Data*. (Feldman)

CHERNG, ROBERT, WEN-CHIEH, B.S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2004.  
*Non-Equilibrium Dynamics and Novel Quantum Phases of Multicomponent Ultracold Atoms*. (Demler)

FOLETTI, SANDRA ELISABETTA, Diploma (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) 2004.  
*Manipulation and Coherence of a Two-Electron Logical Spin Qubit Using GaAs Double Quantum Dots*. (Yacoby)

GIRASH, JOHN ANDREW, B.S. (University of Western Ontario) 1990. (University of Western Ontario) 1993.  
*A Fokker-Planck Study of Dense Rotating Stellar Clusters*. (Stubbs/Field)

GOODSELL, ANNE LAUREL, B.A. (Bryn Mawr College) 2002. (Harvard University) 2004.  
*Capture of Laser-Cooled Atoms with a Carbon Nanotube*. (Hau)

GORSHKOV, ALEXEY VYACHESLAVOVICH, A.B. (Harvard College) 2004. (Harvard University) 2006.  
[*Novel Systems and Methods for Quantum Communication, Quantum Computation, and Quantum Simulation*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Gorshkov.pdf). (Lukin)

GUISE, NICHOLAS DAMIEN SUN-WO, B.S. (California Institute of Technology) 2003.  
*Spin-Flip Resolution Achieved with a One-Proton Self-Excited Oscillator.* (Gabrielse)

HARTMAN, THOMAS EDWARD, A.B. (Princeton University) 2004.  
*Extreme Black Hole Holography.* (Strominger)

HIGH, FREDRICK WILLIAM, B.A. (University of California Berkeley) 2004.  
*The Dawn of Wide-Field Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Cluster Surveys: Efficient Optical Follow-Up.* (Stubbs)

HOOGERHEIDE, DAVID PAUL, B.S. (Western Michigan University) 2004.  
*Stochastic Processes in Solid State Nanoporers.* (Golovchenko)

HUMMON, MATTHEW TAYLOR, B.A. (Amherst College) 2002, (Harvard University) 2005.  
*Magnetic trapping of atomic nitrogen and cotrapping of NH.* (Doyle)

KATS, YEVGENY, B.S. (Bar-Ilan University) 2003. (Bar-Ilan University) 2005.  
*Physics of Conformal Field Theories.* (Georgi/Arkani-Hamed)

KOROLEV, KIRILL SERGEEVICH, B.S. (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) 2004.  
*Statistical Physics of Topological Emulsions and Expanding Populations.* (Nelson)

LAIRD, EDWARD ALEXANDER, M.Phys (University of Oxford) 2002. (Harvard University) 2005.  
*Electrical Control of Quantum Dot Spin Qubits*. (Marcus)

LAROCHELLE, PHILIPPE, B.S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2003.  
*Machines and Methods for Trapping Antihydrogen.* (Gabrielse)

LI, GENE-WEI, B.S. (National Tsinghua University) 2004.  
*Single-Molecule Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Living Bacteria.* (Nelson/Xie)

MAZE RIOS, JERONIMO, B.S. (Pont Catholic University), 2002. (Pont Catholic University) 2004.  
*Quantum Manipulation of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond: from Basic Properties to Applications.* (Lukin)

PATTERSON, DAVID, A.B. (Harvard College) 1997.  
*Buffer Gas Cooled Beams and Cold Molecular Collisions.* (Doyle)

PENG, AMY WAN-CHIH, B.Sc. (University of Auckland), (Australian National University) 2005.  
*Optical Lattices with Quantum Gas Microscope*. (Greiner)

QI, YANG, B.S. (Tsinghua University) 2005.  
[*Spin and Charge Fluctuations in Strongly Correlated Systems*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Yang_Qi.pdf)*.* (Sachdev)

ROJAS, ENRIQUE ROBERTSON, B.A. (University of Pennsylvania) 2003.  
*The Physics of Tip-Growing Cells.* (Nelson/Dumais)

SEO, JIHYE, B.S. (Korea Adv. Inst. of Science & Technology) 2003. (Harvard University) 2010.  
[*D-Branes, Supersymmetry Breaking, and Neutrinos*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Seo2010.pdf). (Vafa)

SIMON, JONATHAN, B.S. (California Institute of Technology) 2004.  
*Cavity QED with Atomic Ensembles.* (Lukin/Vuletic)

SLATYER, TRACY ROBYN, Ph.B. (Australian National University) 2005. (Harvard University) 2008.  
*Signatures of a New Force in the Dark Matter Sector.* (Finkbeiner)

TAFVIZI, ANAHITA, B.S. (Sharif University of Technology) 2004.  
*Single-Molecule and Computational Studies of Protein-DNA Interactions.* (Cohen/Mirny/van Oijen)

WINKLER, MARK THOMAS, B.S.E. (Case Western Reserve) 2004.  
*Non-Equilibrium Chalcogen Concentrations in Silicon: Physical Structure, Electronic Transport, and Photovoltaic Potential.* (Mazur)

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## 2011

ANNINOS, DIONYSIOS Theodoros,B.A. (Cornell University) 2006, (Harvard University) 2008.  
*Classical and Quantum Symmetries of de Sitter Space*. (Strominger) >

BAKR, WASEEM S., B.S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2005.  
*Microscopic studies of quantum phase transitions in optical lattices*. (Greiner)

BARAK, GILAD, B.S. (Hebrew University) 2000, (Tel Aviv University) 2006.  
*Momentum resolved tunneling study of interaction effects in ID electron systems*.(Yacoby)

BARANDES, JACOB AARON, B.A. (ColumbiaUniversity) 2004.  
*Exploring Supergravity Landscapes*. (Denef)

BISWAS, RUDRO RANA, B.S. (Calcutta University) 2003, (Harvard University) 2011.  
[*Explorations in Dirac Fermions and Spin Liquids*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Biswas.pdf). (Sachdev)

CHEN, PEIQIU, B.S. (University of Science and Technology China) 2004, (Harvard University) 2005.  
*Molecular evolution and thermal adaptation*. (Nelson/Shakhnovich)

FREUDIGER, CHRISTIAN WILHELM, Diploma (Technische Universitat of München) 2005, (Harvard University) 2007.  
*Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) Microscopy*. (Zhuang/Xie)

GALLICCHIO, JASON RICHARD, B.S. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) 1999, (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) 2001.  
*A Multivariate Approach to Jet Substructure and Jet Superstructure*. (Schwartz)

GLENDAY, ALEXANDER, B.A. (Williams College) 2002.  
*Progress in Tests of Fundamental Physics Using a 3He and 129Xe Zeeman Maser*. (Stubbs/Walsworth)

GOLDMAN, JOSHUA DAVID, A.B. (Cornell University) 2002, (University of Cambridge) 2003, (Imperial College London) 2004.  
*Planar Penning Traps with Anharmonicity Compensation for Single-Electron Qubits.* (Gabrielse)

HUH, YEJIN, B.S. (Yale University) 2006, (Harvard University) 2008.  
[*Quantum Phase Transitions in d-wave Superconductors and Antiferromagnetic Kagome Lattices*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Yejin_Huh.pdf). (Sachdev)

KASHIF, LASHKAR, B.S. (Yale University) 2003.  
*Measurement of the Z boson cross-section in the dimuon channel in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV*. (Huth)

KAZ, DAVID MARTIN, B.S. (University of Arizona) 2003, (Harvard University) 2008.  
*Colloidal Particles and Liquid Interfaces: A Spectrum of Interactions.* (Manoharan)

KOLTHAMMER, WILLIAM STEVEN, B.S. (Harvey Mudd College) 2004, (Harvard University) 2006.  
*Antimatter Plasmas Within a Penning-Ioffe Trap*. (Gabrielse)

LEE-BOEHM, CORRY LOUISE, B.S.E. (University of Colorado) 2004, (Harvard University) 2011.  
*B0 Meson Decays to rho0 K\*0, f0 K\*0, and rho- K\*+, Including Higher K\* Resonances*. (Morii)

MARTINEZ-OUTSCHOORN, VERENA INGRID, B.A. (Harvard University) 2004, (Harvard University) 2007.  
*Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry of W Bosons Produced in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector*.  
(Guimaraes da Costa)

MCCONNELL, ROBERT PURYEAR, B.S. (Stanford University) 2005, (Harvard University) 2007.  
*Laser-Controlled Charge-Exchange Production of Antihydrogen*. (Gabrielse)

MCGORTY, RYAN, B.S. (University of Massachusetts) 2005, (Harvard University) 2008.  
*Colloidal Particles at Fluid Interfaces and the Interface of Colloidal Fluids*. (Manoharan)

METLITSKI, MAXIM A., B.Sc. (University of British Columbia) 2003, (University of British Columbia) 2005.  
[*Aspects of Critical Behavior of Two Dimensional Electron Systems*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Metlitski.pdf). (Sachdev)

MOON, EUN GOOK, B.S. (Seoul National University) 2005  
[*Superfluidity in Strongly Correlated Systems*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Moon.pdf). (Sachdev)

PETERSON, COURTNEY MARIE, B.S. (Georgetown University) 2002,(University of Cambridge) 2003, (Imperial College London) 2004, (Harvard University) 2007.  
*Testing Multi-Field Inflation*. (Stubbs/Tegmark)

PIELAWA, SUSANNE, Diploma (UNIVERSITY OF ULM) 2006, (Harvard University) 2009.  
[*Metastable Phases and Dynamics of Low-DimensionalStrongly-Correlated Atomic Quantum Gases*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Pielawa.pdf). (Sachdev)

PRASAD, SRIVAS, A.B. (Princeton University) 2005, (Harvard University) 2007.  
*Measurement of the Cross-Section of W Bosons Produced in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV With the ATLAS Detector*. (Guimaraes da Costa)

ROMANOWSKY, MARK, B.A. (Swarthmore College) 2003.  
*High Throughput Microfluidics for Materials Synthesis*. (Weitz)

SMITH, BEN CAMPBELL, B.A. (Harvard University) 2005.  
*Measurement of the Transverse Momentum Spectrum of W Bosons Produced at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS Detector*. (Morii)

TANJI, HARUKA, B.S. (University of Tokyo) 2002, (University of Tokyo) 2005, (Harvard University) 2009.  
*Few-Photon Nonlinearity with an Atomic Ensemble in an Optical Cavity*. (Lukin/Vuletic)

TRODAHL, HALVAR JOSEPH, B. Sc. (Victoria University) 2005, (Harvard University) 2008.  
*Low Temperature Scanning Probe Microscope for Imaging Nanometer Scale Electronic Devices.* (Westervelt)

WILLIAMS, TESS, B.Sc. (Stanford University) 2005.  
*Nanoscale Electronic Structure of Cuprate Superconductors Investigated with Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy.* (Hoffman)

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## 2012

ANDERSEN, JOSEPH, B.S. (Univ. of Queensland) 1999.  
*Investigations of the Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves and the Madden-Julian Oscillation.* (Huth)

BREDBERG, IRENE, M.PHYS., M.Sc. (Univ. of Oxford) 2006, 2007.  
*The Einstein and the Navier-Stokes Equations: Connecting the Two*. (Strominger)

CHURCHILL, HUGH, B.A., B.M. (Oberlin College) 2006.  
*Quantum Dots in Gated Nanowires and Nanotubes.* (Marcus)

CONNOLLY, COLIN  
*Inelastic Collisions of Atomic Antimony, Aluminum, Eerbium and Thulium Below*. (Doyle)

CORDOVA, CLAY, B.A. (Columbia University) 2007.  
*Supersymmetric Spectroscopy.* (Vafa)

DILLARD, COLIN, S.B. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2006.  
*Quasiparticle Tunneling and High Bias Breakdown in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.* (Kastner/Silvera)

DOWD, JASON, A.B. (Washington Univ.) 2006;(Harvard Univ.) 2008.  
*Interpreting Assessments of Student Learning in the Introductory Physics Classroom and Laboratory.* (Mazur)

GOLDSTEIN, GARRY  
*Applications of Many Body Dynamics of Solid State Systems to Quantum Metrology and Computation* (Chamon/Sachdev)

GUREVICH, YULIA, B.S. (Yale University) 2005.  
*Preliminary Measurements for an Electron EDM Experiment in ThO.* (Gabrielse)

KAGAN, MICHAEL, B.S. (Univ. of Michigan) 2006; (Harvard Univ.) 2008.  
*Measurement of the W±Z production cross section and limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings at √S = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector.* (Morii)

LIN, TONGYAN, S.B. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2007; (Harvard Univ.) 2009.  
*Signals of Particle Dark Matter.* (Finkbeiner)

McCLURE, DOUGLAS, B.A. (Harvard University) 2006; (Harvard University) 2008.  
*Interferometer-Based Studies of Quantum Hall Phenomena.* (Marcus)

MAIN, ELIZABETH, B.S.(Harvey Mudd College) 2004; (Harvard Univ.) 2006.  
*Investigating Atomic Scale Disordered Stripes in the Cuprate Superconductors with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.* (Hoffman)

MASON, DOUGLAS  
*Toward a Design Principle in Mesoscopic Systems*. (Heller/Kaxiras)

MULUNEH, MELAKU, B.A. (Swarthmore College) 2003.  
*Soft colloids from p(NIPAm-co-AAc): packing dynamics and structure.* (Weitz)

PETROV, PAVEL  
*Effect of Curvature Squared Corrections to Gravitational Action on Viscosity-to-Entropy Ratio of the Dual Gauge Theory*. (Denef)

PIVONKA, ADAM  
*Nanoscale Imaging of Phase Transitions with Scanning Force Microscopy*. (Hoffman)

REAL, ESTEBAN, A.B. (Harvard University) 2002; (Harvard University) 2007.  
*Models of visual processing by the retina.* (Meister/Franklin)

RICHERME, PHILIP, S.B. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2006; (Harvard University) 2008.  
*Trapped Antihydrogen in Its Ground State.* (Gabrielse)

SANTOS, LUIZ, B.S. (Univ. Fed. Do Espito Santo) 2004.  
*Topological Properties of Interacting Fermionic Systems.* (Chamon/Halperin)

SCHLAFLY, EDWARD, B.S. (Stanford University) 2007; (Harvard University) 2011.  
*Dust in Large Optical Surveys.* (Finkbeiner)

SETIAWAN, WIDAGDO, B.S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2007.  
*Fermi Gas Microscope*. (Greiner)

SHUVE, BRIAN, B.A.Sc. (University of Toronto) 2007; (Harvard University) 2011.  
*Dark and Light: Unifying the Origins of Dark and Visible Matter.* (Randall)

SIMMONS-DUFFIN, DAVID, A.B., A.M. (Harvard University) 2006.  
*Carving Out the Space of Conformal Field Theories.* (Randall)

TEMPEL, DAVID, B.A. (Hunter College) 2007.  
*Time-dependent density functional theory for open quantum systems and quantum computation.* (Aspuru-Guzik/Cohen)

VENKATCHALAM, VIVEK, S.B. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2006.  
*Single Electron Probes of Fractional Quantum Hall States.* (Yacoby)

VLASSAREV, DIMITAR, B.S. (William and Mary) 2005; (Harvard University) 2007.  
[*DNA Characterization with Solid-State Nanopores and Combined Carbon Nanotube across Solid-State Nanopore Sensors*](/uploads/files/thesesPDF/Vlassarev-thesis.pdf)*.* (Golovchenko)

WANG, WENQIN, B.S. (Univ. of Science and Technology of China) 2006.  
*Structures and dynamics in live bacteria revealed by super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.* (Zhuang)

WANG, YIHUA  
*Laser-Based Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy of Topological Insulators.* (Gedik / Hoffman)

WISSNER-GROSS, ZACHARY  
*Symmetry Breaking in Neuronal Development.* (Yanik /Levine)

YONG, EE HOU, B.Sc. (Stanford University) 2003.  
*Problems at the Nexus of Geometry and Soft Matter: Rings, Ribbons and Shells.* (Mahadevan)

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## 2013

ANOUS, TAREK  
*Explorations in de Sitter Space and Amorphous Black Hole Bound States in String Theory*. (Strominger)

BABADI, MEHRTASH  
*Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Artificial Quantum Matter*. (Demler)

BRUNEAUX, LUKE  
*Multiple Unnecessary Protein Sources and Cost to Growth Rate in E.coli.* (Prentiss)

CHIEN, YANG TING  
*Jet Physics at High Energy Colliders Matthew*. (Schwartz)

CHOE, HWAN SUNG  
*Choe Modulated Nanowire Structures for Exploring New Nanoprocessor Architectures and Approaches to Biosensing.* (Lieber/Cohen)

COPETE, ANTONIO  
*BAT Slew Survey (BATSS): Slew Data Analysis for the Swift-BAT Coded Aperture Imaging Telescope*. (Stubbs)

DATTA, SUJIT  
*Getting Out of a Tight Spot: Physics of Flow Through Porous Materials*. (Weitz)

DISCIACCA, JACK  
*First Single Particle Measurements of the Proton and Antiproton Magnetic Moments*. (Gabrielse)

DORR, JOSHUA  
*Quantum Jump Spectroscopy of a Single Electron in a New and Improved Apparatus*. (Gabrielse )

DZYABURA, VASILY  
*Pathways to a Metallic Hydrogen*. (Silvera)

ESPAHBODI, SAM  
*4d Spectra from BPS Quiver Dualities.* (Vafa)

FANG, JIEPING  
*New Methods to Create Multielectron Bubbles in Liquid Helium*. (Silvera)

FELDMAN, BEN  
*Measurements of Interaction-Driven States in Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene*. (Yacoby)

FOGWELL HOOGERHEIDE, SHANNON  
*Trapped Positrons for High-Precision Magnetic Moment Measurements*. (Gabrielse)

FUNG, JEROME  
*Measuring the 3D Dynamics of Multiple Colloidal Particles with Digital Holographic Microscopy*. (Manoharan)

GULLANS, MICHAEL  
*Controlling Atomic, Solid-State and Hybrid Systems for Quantum Information Processing.* (Lukin)

JAWERTH, LOUISE MARIE  
*The Mechanics of Fibrin Networks and their Alterations by Platelets*. (Weitz)

JEANTY, LAURA  
*Measurement of the WZ Production Cross Section in Proton-Proton Collision at √s = 7 TeV and Limits on Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings with the ATLAS Detector*. (Franklin)

JENSEN, KATHERINE  
*Structure and Defects of Hard-Sphere Colloidal Crystals and Glasses*. (Weitz)

KAHAWALA, DILANI S  
*Topics on Hadron Collider Physics*. (Randall)

KITAGAWA, TAKUYA  
*New Phenomena in Non-Equilibrium Quantum Physics*. (Demler)

KOU, ANGELA  
*Microscopic Properties of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect*. (Halperin)

LIN, TINA  
*Dynamics of Charged Colloids in Nonpolar Solvents*. (Weitz)

MCCORMICK, ANDREW  
*Discrete Differential Geometry and Physics of Elastic Curves*. (Mahadevan)

REDDING, JAMES  
*Medford Spin Qubits in Double and Triple Quantum Dots*. (Marcus/Yacoby)

NARAYAN, GAUTHAM  
*Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae and Preliminary Cosmological Constraints from the ESSENCE Survey*. (Stubbs)

PAN, TONY  
*Properties of Unusually Luminous Supernovae*. (Loeb)

RASTOGI, ASHWIN  
*Brane Constructions and BPS Spectra*. (Vafa)

RUEL, JONATHAN  
*Optical Spectroscopy and Velocity Dispersions of SZ-selected Galaxy Clusters*. (Stubbs)

SHER, MENG JU  
*Intermediate Band Properties of Femtosecond-Laser Hyperdoped Silicon*. (Mazur)

TANG, YIQIAO  
*Chirality of Light and Its Interaction with Chiral Matter*. (Cohen)

TAYCHATANAPAT, THITI  
*From Hopping to Ballistic Transport in Graphene-Based Electronic Devices*. (Jarillo-Herrero/Yacoby)

VISBAL, ELI   
*Future Probes of Cosmology and the High-Redshift Universe*. (Loeb)

ZELJKOVIC, ILIJA  
*Visualizing the Interplay of Structural and Electronic Disorders in High-Temperature Superconductors using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy*. (Hoffman)

ZEVI DELLA PORTA, GIOVANNI  
*Measurement of the Cross-Section for W Boson Production in Association With B-Jets in Proton-Proton Collisions at √S = 7 Tev at the LHC Using the ATLAS Detector*. (Franklin)

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## 2014

AU, YAT SHAN  
*LinkInelastic collisions of atomic thorium and molecular thorium monoxide with cold helium-3.* (Doyle)

BARR, MATTHEW  
*Coherent Scattering in Two Dimensions: Graphene and Quantum Corrals*. (Heller)

CHANG, CHI-MING  
*Higher Spin Holography.* (Yin)

CHU, YIWEN  
*Quantum optics with atom-like systems in diamond.* (Lukin)

GATANOV, TIMUR  
*Data-Driven Analysis of Mitotic Spindles*. (Needleman/Kaxiras)

GRINOLDS, MICHAEL  
*Nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic sensing using atomic defects in diamond.* (Yacoby)

GUERRA, RODRIGO  
*Elasticity of Compressed Emulsions*. (Weitz)

HERRING, PATRICK  
*LinkLow Dimensional Carbon Electronics.* (Jarillo-Herrero/Yacoby)

HESS, PAUL W.  
*LinkImproving the Limit on the Electron EDM: Data Acquisition and Systematics Studies in the ACME Experiment.* (Gabrielse)

HOU, JENNIFER  
*Dynamics in Biological Soft Materials*. (Cohen)

HUBER, FLORIAN  
*Site-Resolved Imaging with the Fermi Gas Microscope.* (Greiner)

HUTZLER, NICHOLAS  
[*A New Limit on the Electron Electric Dipole Moment*.](http://www.doylegroup.harvard.edu/files/bufferpubs/theses/nrh_thesis.pdf) (Doyle)

KESTIN, GREG  
*Light-Shell Theory Foundations.* (Georgi)

LYSOV, VYACHESLAV  
*From Petrov-Einstein to Navier-Stokes.* (Strominger)

MA, RUICHAO  
*Engineered Potentials and Dynamics of Ultracold Quantum Gases under the Microscope.* (Greiner)

MAURER, PETER  
*Coherent control of diamond defects for quantum information science and quantum sensing.* (Lukin)

NG, GIM SENG  
*Aspects of Symmetry in de Sitter Space.* (Strominger)

NICOLAISEN, LAUREN  
*Distortions in Genealogies due to Purifying Selection.* (Desai)

NURGALIEV, DANIYAR  
*A Study of the Radial and Azimuthal Gas Distribution in Massive Galaxy Clusters.* (Stubbs)

RUBIN, DOUGLAS  
*Properties of Dark Matter Halos and Novel Signatures of Baryons in Them*. (Loeb)

RUSSELL, EMILY  
*Structure and Properties of Charged Colloidal Systems.* (Weitz)

SHIELDS, BRENDAN  
*Diamond Platforms for Nanoscale Photonics and Metrology.* (Lukin)

SPAUN, BENJAMIN  
*A Ten-Fold Improvement to the Limit of the Electron Electric Dipole Moment.* (Gabrielse)

YAO, NORMAN  
*Topology, Localization, and Quantum Information in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Systems.* (Lukin)

YEE, MICHAEL  
*Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Topological Insulators and Cuprate Superconductors.* (Hoffman)

---

## 2015

BENJAMIN, DAVID ISAIAH  
*Impurity Physics in Resonant X-Ray Scattering and Ultracold Atomic Gases*. (Demler)

BEN-SHACH, GILAD  
*Theoretical Considerations for Experiments to Create and Detect Localised Majorana Modes in Electronic Systems.* (Halperin/Yacoby)

CHANG, WILLY  
*Superconducting Proximity Effect in InAs Nanowires*. (Marcus/Yacoby)

CHUNG, HYEYOUN  
*Exploring Black Hole Dynamics*. (Randall)

INCORVIA, JEAN ANNE CURRIVAN  
*Nanoscale Magnetic Materials for Energy-Efficient Spin Based Transistors.* (Westervelt)

FEIGE, ILYA ERIC ALEXANDER  
*Factorization and Precision Calculations in Particle Physics.* (Schwartz)

FRENZEL, ALEX  
*Terahertz Electrodynamics of Dirac Fermions in Graphene.* (Hoffman)

HSU, CHIA WEI  
*Novel Trapping and Scattering of Light in Resonant Nanophotonic Structures.* (Cohen)

JORGOLLI, MARSELA  
*Integrated nanoscale tools for interrogating living cells.* (Park)

KALRA, RITA RANI  
*An Improved Antihydrogen Trap.* (Gabrielse)

KOLKOWITZ, SHIMON JACOB  
*Nanoscale Sensing with Individual Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond.* (Lukin)

LAVRENTOVICH, MAXIM OLEGOVICH  
*Diffusion, Absorbing States, and Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Range Expansions and Evolution.* (Nelson)

LIU, BO  
*Selected Topics in Scattering Theory: From Chaos to Resonance.* (Heller)

LOCKHART, GUGLIELMO PAUL  
*Self-Dual Strings of Six-Dimensional SCFTs*. (Vafa)

MAGKIRIADOU, SOFIA  
Structural Color from Colloidal Glasses. (Manoharan)

MCIVER, JAMES W.  
*Nonlinear Optical and Optoelectronic Studies of Topological Insulator Surfaces.* (Hoffman)

MEISNER, AARON MICHAEL  
*Full-sky, High-resolution Maps of Interstellar Dust.* (Finkbeiner)

MERCURIO, KEVIN MICHAEL  
*A Search for the Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Vector Boson Using the ATLAS Detector at the LHC.* (Huth)

NOWOJEWSKI, ANDRZEJ KAZIMIERZ  
*Pathogen Avoidance by Caenorhabditis Elegans is a Pheromone-Mediated Collective Behavior.* (Levine)

PISKORSKI, JULIA HEGE  
*Cooling, Collisions and non-Sticking of Polyatomic Molecules in a Cryogenic Buffer Gas Cell.* (Doyle)

SAJJAD, AQIL  
*An Effective Theory on the Light Shell.* (Georgi)

SCHADE, NICHOLAS BENJAMIN  
*Self-Assembly of Plasmonic Nanoclusters for Optical Metafluids.* (Manoharan)

SHULMAN, MICHAEL DEAN  
*Entanglement and Metrology with Singlet-Triplet Qubits.* (Yacoby)

SPEARMAN, WILLIAM R.  
*Measurement of the Mass and Width of the Higgs Boson in the H to ZZ to 4l Decay Channel Using Per-Event Response Information.* (Guimaraes da Costa)

THOMPSON, JEFFREY DOUGLAS  
*A Quantum Interface Between Single Atoms and Nanophotonic Structures.* (Lukin)

WANG, TOUT TAOTAO  
*Small Diatomic Alkali Molecules at Ultracold Temperatures.* (Doyle)

WONG, CHIN LIN  
*Beam Characterization and Systematics of the Bicep2 and Keck Array Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Experiments.* (Kovac)

---

## 2016

AGARWAL, KARTIEK  
*Slow Dynamics in Quantum Matter: the Role of Dimensionality, Disorder and Dissipation.* (Demler)

ALLEN, MONICA  
*Quantum electronic transport in mesoscopic graphene devices.* (Yacoby)

CHAE, EUNMI  
*Laser Slowing of CaF Molecules and Progress towards a Dual-MOT for Li and CaF.* (Doyle)

CHOTIBUT, THIPARAT  
*Aspects of Statistical Fluctuations in Evolutionary and Population Dynamics.* (Nelson)

CHOWDHURY, DEBANJAN  
*Interplay of Broken Symmetries and Quantum Criticality in Correlated Electronic Systems.* (Sachdev)

CLARK, BRIAN  
*Search for New Physics in Dijet Invariant Mass Spectrum.* (Huth)

FARHI, DAVID  
*Jets and Metastability in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory.* (Schwartz)

FORSYTHE, MARTIN  
*Advances in Ab Initio Modeling of the Many-Body Effects of Dispersion Interactions in Functional Organic Materials.* (Aspuru-Guzik/Ni)

GOOD, BENJAMIN  
*Molecular evolution in rapidly evolving populations.* (Desai)

HART, SEAN  
*Electronic Phenomena in Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators.* (Yacoby)

HE, YANG  
*Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study on Strongly Correlated Materials.* (Hoffman)

HIGGINBOTHAM, ANDREW  
*Quantum Dots for Conventional and Topological Qubits.* (Marcus/Westervelt)

HUANG, DENNIS  
*Nanoscale Investigations of High-Temperature Superconductivity in a Single Atomic Layer of Iron Selenide.* (Hoffman)

ISAKOV, ALEXANDER  
*The Collective Action Problem in a Social and a Biophysical System.* (Mahadevan)

KLALES, ANNA  
*A classical perspective on non-diffractive disorder.* (Heller)

KOBY, TIMOTHY  
*Development of a Trajectory Model for the Analysis of Stratospheric Water Vapor.* (Anderson/Heller)

KOMAR, PETER  
*Quantum Information Science and Quantum Metrology: Novel Systems and Applications.* (Lukin)

KUCSCKO, GEORG  
*Coupled Spins in Diamond: From Quantum Control to Metrology and Many-Body Physics.* (Lukin)

LAZOVICH, TOMO  
*Observation of the Higgs boson in the WW\* channel and search for Higgs boson pair production in the bb ̅bb ̅ channel with the ATLAS detector.* (Franklin)

LEE, JUNHYUN  
*Novel quantum phase transitions in low-dimensional systems.* (Sachdev)

LIN, YING-HSUAN  
*Conformal Bootstrap in Two Dimensions.* (Yin)

LUCAS, ANDREW  
*Transport and hydrodynamics in holography, strange metals and graphene.* (Sachdev)

MACLAURIN, DOUGAL  
*Modeling, Inference and Optimization with Composable Differentiable Procedures.* (Adams/Cohen)

PARSONS, MAXWELL  
*Probing the Hubbard Model with Single-Site Resolution.* (Greiner)

PATEJ, ANNA  
*Distributions of Gas and Galaxies from Galaxy Clusters to Larger Scales.* (Eisenstein/Loeb/Finkbeiner)

PITTMAN, SUZANNE  
*The Classical-Quantum Correspondence of Polyatomic Molecules.* (Heller)

POPA, CRISTINA  
*Simulating the Cosmic Gas: From Globular Clusters to the Most Massive Haloes.* (Randall)

PORFYRIADIS, ACHILLEAS  
*Gravitational waves from the Kerr/CFT correspondence*. (Strominger)

PREISS, PHILIPP  
*Atomic Bose-Hubbard systems with single-particle control.* (Greiner)

SHAO, SHU-HENG  
*Supersymmetric Particles in Four Dimensions.* (Yin)

YEN, ANDY  
*Search for Weak Gaugino Production in Final States with One Lepton, Two b-jets Consistent with a Higgs Boson, and Missing Transverse Momentum with the ATLAS detector.* (Huth)

---

## 2017

BERCK, MATTHEW ELI  
*Reconstructing and Analyzing the Wiring Diagram of the Drosophila Larva Olfactory System.* (Samuel)

COUGHLIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM  
*Gravitational Wave Astronomy in the LSST Era.* (Stubbs)

DIMIDUK, THOMAS  
*Holographic Microscopy for Soft Matter and Biophysics.* (Manoharan)

FROST, WILLIAM THOMAS  
*Tunneling in Quantum Field Theory and the Fate of the Universe.* (Schwartz)

JERISON, ELIZABETH  
*Epistasis and Pleiotropy in Evolving Populations.* (Desai)

KAFKA, GARETH  
*A Search for Sterile Neutrinos at the NOνA Far Detector.* (Feldman)

KOSHELEVA, EKATERINA  
*Genetic Draft and Linked Selection in Rapidly Adapting Populations.* (Desai)

KOSTINSKI, SARAH VALERIE  
*Geometrical Aspects of Soft Matter and Optical Systems.* (Brenner)

KOZYRYEV, IVAN  
*Laser Cooling and Inelastic Collisions of the Polyatomic Radical SrOH.* (Doyle)

KRALL, REBECCA  
*Studies of Dark Matter and Supersymmetry.* (Reece)

KRAMER, ERIC DAVID  
*Observational Constraints on Dissipative Dark Matter.* (Randall)

LEE, LUCY EUNJU  
*Network Analysis of Transcriptome to Reveal Interactions Among Genes and Signaling Pathways.* (Levine)

LOVCHINSKY, IGOR  
*Nanoscale Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Using Individual Spin Qubits.* (Lukin)

LUPSASCA, ALEXANDRU  
*The Maximally Rotating Black Hole as a Critical Point in Astronomy.* (Strominger)

MANSURIPUR, TOBIAS  
*The Effect of Intracavity Field Variation on the Emission Properties of Quantum Cascade Lasers.* (Capasso/Yacoby)

MARANTAN, ANDREW WILLIAM  
*The Roles of Randomness in Biophysics: From Cell Growth to Behavioral Control.* (Mahadevan)

MASHIAN, NATALIE  
*Modeling the Constituents of the Early Universe.* (Loeb/Stubbs)

MAZURENKO, ANTON  
*Probing Long Range Antiferromagnetism and Dynamics in the Fermi-Hubbard Model.* (Greiner)

MITRA, PRAHAR  
*Asymptotic Symmetries in Four Dimensional Gauge and Gravity Theories.* (Strominger)

NEAGU, IULIA ALEXANDRA  
*Evolutionary Dynamics of Infection.* (Nowak/Prentiss)

PETRIK WEST, ELIZABETH  
*A Thermochemical Cryogenic Buffer Gas Beam Source of ThO for Measuring the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron.* (Doyle)

RUDELIUS, THOMAS  
*Topics in the String Landscape and the Swampland.* (Vafa)

SAKLAYEN, NABIHA  
*Laser-Activated Plasmonic Substrates for Intracellular Delivery.* (Mazur)

SIPAHIGIL, ALP  
*Quantum Optics with Diamond Color Centers Coupled to Nanophotonic Devices.* (Lukin)

SUN, SIYUAN  
*Search for the Supersymmetric Partner to the Top Quark Using Recoils Against Strong Initial State Radiation.* (Franklin)

TAI, MING ERIC  
*Microscopy of Interacting Quantum Systems.* (Greiner)

TOLLEY, EMMA  
*Search for Evidence of Dark Matter Production in Monojet Events with the ATLAS Detector.* (Morii)

WILSON, ALYSSA MICHELLE  
*New Insights on Neural Circuit Refinement in the Central Nervous System: Climbing Fiber Synapse Elimination in the Developing Mouse Cerebellum Studied with Serial-Section Scanning Electron Microscopy.* (Lichtman/Samuel)

---

## 2018

BAUCH, ERIK  
*Optimizing Solid-State Spins in Diamond for Nano- to Millimeter scale Magnetic Field Sensing.* (Walsworth)

BRACHER, DAVID OLMSTEAD  
*Development of photonic crystal cavities to enhance point defect emission in silicon carbide.* (Hu: SEAS)

CHAN, STEPHEN KAM WAH  
*Orthogonal Decompositions of Collision Events and Measurement Combinations in Standard Model $VH\\left(b\\bar{b}\\right)$ Searches with the ATLAS Detector.* (Huth)

CHATTERJEE, SHUBHAYU  
*Transport and symmetry breaking in strongly correlated matter with topological order.* (Sachdev)

CHOI, SOONWON  
*Quantum Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Many-Body Systems.* (Lukin)

CONNORS, JAKE  
*Channel Length Scaling in Microwave Graphene Field Effect Transistors.* (Kovac)

DAHLSTROM, ERIN KATRINA  
*Quantifying and modeling dynamics of heat shock detection and response in the intestine of Caenorhabditis elegans.* (Levine)

DAYLAN, TANSU  
*A Transdimensional Perspective on Dark Matter.* (Finkbeiner)

DOVZHENKO, YULIYA  
*Imaging of Condensed Matter Magnetism Using an Atomic-Sized Sensor.* (Yacoby)

EVANS, RUFFIN ELEY  
*An integrated diamond nanophotonics platform for quantum optics.* (Lukin)

FLEMING, STEPHEN  
*Probing nanopore - DNA interactions with MspA.* (Golovchenko)

FRYE, CHRISTOPHER  
*Understanding Jet Physics at Modern Particle Colliders.* (Schwartz)

FU, WENBO  
*The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and matter without quasiparticles.* (Sachdev)

GOLDMAN, MICHAEL LURIE  
*Coherent Optical Control of Atom-Like Defects in Diamond: Probing Internal Dynamics and Environmental Interactions.* (Lukin)

HE, TEMPLE MU  
*On Soft Theorems and Asymptotic Symmetries in Four Dimensions.* (Strominger)

HOYT, ROBERT  
*Understanding Catalysts with Density Functional Theory and Machine Learning.* (Kaxiras)

KAPEC, DANIEL STEVEN  
*Aspects of Symmetry in Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes.* (Strominger)

LEE, ALBERT  
*Mapping the Relationship Between Interstellar Dust and Radiation in the Milky Way.* (Finkbeiner)

LEE, JAEHYEON  
*Prediction and Inference Methods for Modern Astronomical Surveys* (Eisenstein, Finkbeiner)

LUKIN, ALEXANDER  
*Entanglement Dynamics in One Dimension -- From Quantum Thermalization to Many-Body Localization* (Greiner)

NOVITSKI, ELISE M.  
*Apparatus and Methods for a New Measurement of the Electron and Positron Magnetic Moments.* (Gabrielse)

PATHAK, ABHISHEK  
*Holography Beyond AdS/CFT: Explorations in Kerr/CFT and Higher Spin DS/CFT.* (Strominger)

PETERMAN, NEIL  
*Sequence-function models of regulatory RNA in E. coli.* (Levine)

PICK, ADI  
*Spontaneous Emission in Nanophotonics.* (Johnson: MIT)

PO, HOI CHUN  
*Keeping it Real: An Alternative Picture for Symmetry and Topology in Condensed Matter Systems.* (Vishwanath)

REN, HECHEN  
*Topological Superconductivity in Two-Dimensional Electronic Systems.* (Yacoby)

ROXLO, THOMAS  
*Opening the black box of neural nets: case studies in stop/top discrimination.* (Reece)

SHTYK, OLEKSANDR  
*Designing Singularities in Electronic Dispersions* (Chamon, Demler)

TONG, BAOJIA  
*Search for pair production of Higgs bosons in the four b quark final state with the ATLAS detector.* (Franklin)

WHITSITT, SETH  
*Universal non-local observables at strongly interacting quantum critical points.* (Sachdev)

YAN, KAI  
*Factorization in hadron collisions from effective field theory.* (Schwartz)

---

## 2019

AMATOGRILL, JESSE  
*A Fast 7Li-based Quantum Simulator* (Ketterle, Greiner)

BARON, JACOB  
*Tools for Higher Dimensional Study of the Drosophila Larval Olfactory System* (Samuel)

BUZA, VICTOR  
*Constraining Primordial Gravitational Waves Using Present and Future CMB Experiments* (Kovac)

CHAEL, ANDREW  
*Simulating and Imaging Supermassive Black Hole Accretion Flows* (Narayan, Dvorkin)

CHIU, CHRISTIE  
*Quantum Simulation of the Hubbard Model* (Greiner)

DIPETRILLO, KARRI  
*Search for Long-Lived, Massive Particles in Events with a Displaced Vertex and a Displaced Muon Using sqrt{s} = 13 TeV pp-Collisions with the ATLAS Detector* (Franklin)

FANG, SHIANG  
*Multi-scale Theoretical Modeling of Twisted van der Waals Bilayers* (Kaxiras)

GAO, PING  
*Traversable Wormholes and Regenesis* (Jafferis)

GONSKI, JULIA  
*Probing Natural Supersymmetry with Initial State Radiation: the Search for Stops and Higgsinos at ATLAS* (Morii)

HARVEY, SHANNON  
*Developing Singlet-Triplet Qubits in Gallium Arsenide as a Platform for Quantum Computing* (Yacoby)

JEFFERSON, PATRICK  
*Geometric Deconstruction of Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories* (Vafa)

KANG, MONICA JINWOO  
*Two Views on Gravity: F-theory and Holography* (Jafferis)

KATES-HARBECK, JULIAN  
*Tackling Complexity and Nonlinearity in Plasmas and Networks Using Artificial Intelligence and Analytical Methods* (Desai, Nowak)

KLEIN, ELLEN  
*Structure and Dynamics of Colloidal Clusters* (Manoharan)

LEVIN, ANDREI  
*Single-Electron Probes of Two-Dimensional Materials* (Yacoby)

LIU, XIAOMENG  
*Correlated Electron States in Coupled Graphene Double-Layer Heterostructures* (Kim)

LIU, LEE  
*Building Single Molecules – Reactions, Collisions, and Spectroscopy of Two Atoms* (Ni)

MARABLE, KATHRYN  
*Progress Towards a Sub-ppb Measurement of the Antiproton Magnetic Moment* (Gabrielse)

MARSHALL, MASON  
*New Apparatus and Methods for the Measurement of the Proton and Antiproton Magnetic Moments* (Gabrielse)

MCNAMARA, HAROLD  
*Synthetic Physiology: Manipulating and Measuring Biological Pattern Formation with Light* (Cohen)

MEMET, EDVIN  
*Parking, Puckering, and Peeling in Small Soft Systems* (Mahadevan)

MUKHAMETZHANOV, BAURZHAN  
*Bootstrapping High-Energy States in Conformal Field Theories* (Jafferis)

OLSON, JOSEPH  
*Plasticity and Firing Rate Dynamics in Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Models of Cortical Circuits* (Kreiman)

PANDA, CRISTIAN  
*Order of Magnitude Improved Limit on the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron* (Gabrielse)

PASTERSKI, SABRINA  
*Implications of Superrotations* (Strominger)

PATE, MONICA  
*Aspects of Symmetry in the Infrared* (Strominger)

PATEL, AAVISHKAR  
*Transport, Criticality, and Chaos in Fermionic Quantum Matter at Nonzero Density* (Sachdev)

PHELPS, GREGORY  
*A Dipolar Quantum Gas Microscope* (Greiner)

RISPOLI, MATTHEW  
*Microscopy of Correlations at a Non-Equilibrium Phase Transition* (Greiner)

ROLOFF, JENNIFER  
*Exploring the Standard Model and beyond with jets from proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=13 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment* (Huth)

ROWAN, MICHAEL  
*Dissipation of Magnetic Energy in Collisionless Accretion Flows* (Narayan and Morii)

SAFIRA, ARTHUR  
*NV Magnetic Noise Sensing and Quantum Information Processing, and Llevitating Micromagnets over Type-II Superconductors* (Lukin)

SHI, YICHEN  
*Analytical Steps Towards the Observation of High-Spin Black Holes* (Strominger)

THOMSON, ALEXANDRA  
*Emergent Dapless Fermions in Strongly-Correlated Phases of Matter and Quantum Critical Points* (Sachdev)

WEBB, TATIANA  
*The Nanoscale Structure of Charge Order in Cuprate Superconductor Bi2201* (Hoffman)

WESSELS, MELISSA  
*Progress Toward a Single-Electron Qubit in an Optimized Planar Penning Trap* (Gabrielse)

WILLIAMS, MOBOLAJI  
*Biomolecules, Combinatorics, and Statistical Physics* (Shakhnovich, Manoharan)

XIONG, ZHAOXI  
*Classification and Construction of Topological Phases of Quantum Matter* (Vishwanath)

ZOU, LIUJUN  
*An Odyssey in Modern Quantum Many-Body Physics* (Todadri, Sachdev)

---

## 2020

ANDEREGG, LOÏC  
*Ultracold molecules in optical arrays: from laser cooling to molecular collisions* (Doyle)

BALTHAZAR, BRUNO  
*2d String Theory and the Non-Perturbative c=1 Matrix Model* (Yin)

BARON, JACOB  
*Tools for Higher Dimensional Study of the Drosophila Larval Olfactory System* (Samuel)

BAUM, LOUIS  
*Laser cooling and 1D magneto-optical trapping of calcium monohydroxide* (Doyle)

CARR, STEPHEN  
*Moiré patterns in 2D materials* (Kaxiras)

COLLIER, SCOTT  
*Aspects of local conformal symmetry in 1+1 dimensions* (Yin)

DASGUPTA, ISHITA  
*Algorithmic approaches to ecological rationality in humans and machines* (Mahadevan)

DILLAVOU, SAMUEL  
*Hidden Dynamics of Static Friction* (Manoharan)

FLAMANT, CEDRIC  
*Methods for Converging Solutions of Differential Equations: Applying Imaginary Time Propagation to Density Functional Theory and Unsupervised Neural Networks to Dynamical Systems* (Kaxiras)

HUANG, KO-FAN (KATIE)  
*Superconducting Proximity Effect in Graphene* (Kim)

JONES, NATHAN  
*Toward Antihydrogen Spectroscopy* (Gabrielse)

KABCENELL, AARON  
*Hybrid Quantum Systems with Nitrogen Vacancy Centers and Mechanical Resonators* (Lukin)

KATES-HARBECK, JULIAN  
*Tackling complexity and nonlinearity in plasmas and networks using artificial intelligence and analytical methods* (Desai)

KIVLICHAN, IAN  
*Faster quantum simulation of quantum chemistry with tailored algorithms and Hamiltonian*s (Aspuru-Guzik, Lukin)

KLEIN, ELLEN  
*Structure and Dynamics of Colloidal Clusters* (Manoharan)

KOSOWSKY, MICHAEL  
*Topological Phenomena in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems* (Yacoby)

KUATE DEFO, RODRICK  
*Modeling Formation and Stability of Fluorescent Defects in Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors* (Kaxiras)

LEE, JONG YEON  
*Fractionalization, Emergent Gauge Dynamics, and Topology in Quantum Matter* (Vishwanath)

MARABLE, KATHRYN  
*Progress towards a sub-ppb measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment* (Gabrielse)

MCNAMARA, HAROLD  
*Synthetic Physiology: Manipulating and measuring biological pattern formation with light* (Cohen)

MEMET, EDVIN  
*Parking, puckering, and peeling in small soft systems* (Mahadevan)

NGUYEN, CHRISTIAN  
*Building quantum networks using diamond nanophotonics* (Lukin)

OLSON, JOSEPH  
*Plasticity and Firing Rate Dynamics in Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Models of Cortical Circuits* (Samuel)

ORONA, LUCAS  
*Advances In The Singlet-Triplet Spin Qubit* (Yacoby)

RACLARIU, ANA-MARIA  
*On Soft Symmetries in Gravity and Gauge Theory* (Strominger)

RAVI, AAKASH  
*Topics in precision astrophysical spectroscopy* (Dvorkin)

SHI, JING  
*Quantum Hall Effect-Mediated Josephson Junctions in Graphene* (Kim)

SHI, ZHUJUN  
*Manipulating light with multifunctional metasurfaces* (Capasso, Manoharan)

STEINBERG, JULIA  
*Universal Aspects of Quantum-Critical Dynamics In and Out of Equilibrium* (Sachdev)

WILD, DOMINIK  
*Algorithms and Platforms for Quantum Science and Technology* (Lukin)

WU, HAI-YIN  
*Biophysics of Mitotic Spindle Positioning in Caenorhabditis elegans Early Embryos* (Needleman)

YU, LI  
*Quantum Dynamics in Various Noise Scenarios* (Heller)

---

## 2021

BARKLEY, SOLOMON  
*Applying Bayesian Inference to Measurements of Colloidal Dynamics* (Manoharan)

BHASKAR, MIHIR  
*Diamond Nanophotonic Quantum Networks* (Lukin)

BINTU, BOGDAN  
*Genome-scale imaging: from the subcellular structure of chromatin to the 3D organization of the peripheral olfactory system* (Dulac, Zhuang, Nelson)

CHEN, MINGYUE  
*On knotted surfaces in R4* (Taubes, Vafa)

CHO, MINJAE  
*Aspects of string field theory* (Yin)

DIAZ RIVERO, ANA  
*Statistically Exploring Cracks in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter Model* (Dvorkin)

DWYER, BO  
*NV centers as local probes of two-dimensional materials* (Lukin)

GATES, DELILAH  
*Observational Electromagnetic Signatures of Spinning Black Holes* (Strominger)

HANNESDOTTIR, HOFIE  
*Analytic Structure and Finiteness of Scattering Amplitudes* (Schwartz)

HART, CONNOR  
*Experimental Realization of Improved Magnetic Sensing and Imaging in Ensembles of Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond* (Walsworth, Park)

HÉBERT, ANNE  
*A Dipolar Erbium Quantum Gas Microscope* (Greiner)

JI, GEOFFREY  
*Microscopic control and dynamics of a Fermi-Hubbard system* (Greiner)

JOE, ANDREW  
*Interlayer Excitons in Atomically Thin van der Waals Semiconductor Heterostructures* (Kim)

KEESLING, ALEXANDER  
*Quantum Simulation and Quantum Information Processing with Programmable Rydberg Atom Arrays* (Lukin)

KRAHN, AARON  
*Erbium gas quantum microscope* (Greiner)

LANGELLIER, NICHOLAS  
*Analytical and Statistical Models for Laboratory and Astrophysical Precision Measurements* (Walsworth, Dvorkin)

LEMMA, BEZIA  
*Hierarchical phases of filamentary active matter* (Dogic, Needleman)

LEVINE, HARRY  
*Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Simulation with Programmable Rydberg Atom Arrays* (Lukin)

LEVONIAN, DAVID  
*A Quantum Network Node Based on the Silicon Vacancy Defect in Diamond* (Lukin)

LIN, ALBERT  
*Characterizing chemosensory responses of C. elegans with multi-neuronal imaging* (Samuel)

LIU, SHANG  
*Symmetry, Topology and Entanglement in Quantum Many-Body Systems* (Vishwanath)

LIU, YU  
*Bimolecular chemistry at sub-microkelvin temperatures* (Ni)

MACHIELSE, BART  
*Electronic and Nanophotonic Integration of a Quantum Network Node in Diamond* (Lukin)

MELISSA, MATTHEW  
*Divergence and diversity in rapidly evolving populations* (Desai)

MILBOURNE, TIMOTHY  
*All Features Great and Small: Distinquishing the effects of specific magnetically active features on radial-velocity exoplanet detections* (Walsworth)

MITCHELL, JAMES  
*Investigations into Resinicolous Fungi* (Pfister, Samuel)

MONDRIK, NICHOLAS  
*Calibration Hardware and Methodology for Large Photometric Surveys* (Stubbs)

NANDE, ANJALIKA  
*Mathematical modeling of drug resistance and the transmission of SARS-CoV-2* (Hill, Desai)

PLUMMER, ABIGAIL  
*Reactions and instabilities in fluid layers and elastic sheets* (Nelson)

RODRIGUEZ, VICTOR  
*Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Aspects of Two-Dimensional String Theory* (Yin)

ROSENFELD, EMMA  
*Novel techniques for control and transduction of solid-state spin qubits* (Lukin)

SAMUTPRAPHOOT, POLNOP  
*A quantum network node based on a nanophotonic interface for atoms in optical tweezers* (Lukin)

SCHITTKO, ROBERT  
*A method of preparing individual excited eigenstates of small quantum many-body systems* (Greiner)

SCHNEIDER, ELLIOT  
*Stringy ER = EPR* (Jafferis)

SONG, XUE-YANG  
*Emergent and topological phenomena in many-body systems: Quantum spin liquids and beyond* (Vishwanath)

ST. GERMAINE, TYLER  
*Beam Systematics and Primordial Gravitational Wave Constraints from the BICEP/Keck Array CMB Experiments* (Kovac)

TORRISI, STEVEN  
*Materials Informatics for Catalyst Stability & Functionality* (Kaxiras, Kozinsky)

TURNER, MATTHEW  
*Quantum Diamond Microscopes for Biological Systems and Integrated Circuits* (Walsworth)

URBACH, ELANA  
*Nanoscale Magnetometry with Single Spin Qubits in Diamond* (Lukin)

VENKAT, SIDDHARTH  
*Modeling Excitons in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers* (Heller)

VENKATRAMANI, ADITYA  
*Quantum nonlinear optics: controlling few-photon interactions* (Lukin, Vuletić)

WANG, ANN  
*A search for long-lived particles with large ionization energy loss in the ATLAS silicon pixel detector using 139 fb^{−1} of sqrt{s} = 13 TeV pp collisions* (Franklin)

WILBURN, GREY  
*An Inverse Statistical Physics Method for Biological Sequence Analysis* (Eddy, Nelson)

XU, LINDA  
*Searching for Dark Matter in the Early and Late Universe* (Randall)

YI, KEXIN  
*Neural Symbolic Machine Reasoning in the Physical World* (Mahadevan, Finkbeiner)

YIN, JUN  
*Improving our view of the Universe using Machine Learning* (Finkbeiner)

YU, YICHAO  
*Coherent Creation of Single Molecules from Single Atoms* (Ni)

ZHANG, JESSIE  
*Assembling an array of polar molecules with full quantum-state control* (Ni)

ZHAO, FRANK  
*The Physics of High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates in van der Waals Heterostructures* (Kim)

ZHOU, LEO  
*Complexity, Algorithms, and Applications of Programmable Quantum Many-Body Systems* (Lukin)

---

## 2022

ANDERSEN, TROND  
*Local electronic and optical phenomena in two-dimensional materials* (Lukin)

ANDERSON, LAUREL  
*Electrical and thermoelectric transport in mixed-dimensional graphitic mesoscopic systems* (Kim)

AUGENBRAUN, BENJAMIN  
*Methods for Direct Laser Cooling of Polyatomic Molecules* (Doyle)

BALL, ADAM  
*Aspects of Symmetry in Four Dimensions* (Strominger)

BOETTCHER, CHARLOTTE  
*New avenues in circuit QED: from quantum information to quantum sensing* (Yacoby)

BORGNIA, DAN  
*The Measure of a Phase* (Vishwanath)

BROWNSBERGER, SASHA  
*Modest Methods on the Edge of Cosmic Revolution: Foundational Work to Test Outstanding Peculiarities in the ΛCDM Cosmology* (Randall, Stubbs)

BULLARD, BRENDON  
*The first differential cross section measurements of tt̅ produced with a W boson in pp collisions* (Morii)

CANATAR, ABDULKADIR  
*Statistical Mechanics of Generalization in Kernel Regression and Wide Neural Networks* (Pehlevan)

CESAROTTI, CARI  
*Hints of a Hidden World* (Reece)

CHALUPNIK, MICHELLE  
*Quantum and photonic information processing with non-von Neumann architectures* (Lončar)

CHEN, YU-TING  
*A Platform for Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Rydberg Atom Arrays* (Vuletić)

CONWAY, WILL  
*Biophysics of Kinetochore Microtubules in Human Mitotic Spindles* (Needleman)

DIETERLE, PAUL  
*Diffusive waves, dynamic instability, and chromosome missegregation: dimensionality, discreteness, stochasticity* (Amir)

DORDEVIC, TAMARA  
*A nanophotonic quantum interface for atoms in optical tweezers* (Lukin)

ENGELKE, REBECCA  
*Structure and Properties of Moiré Interfaces in Two Dimensional Materials* (Kim)

FAN, XING  
*An Improved Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment* (Gabrielse)

FOPPIANI, NICOLÒ  
*Testing explanations of short baseline neutrino anomalies* (Guenette)

GHEORGHE, ANDREI  
*Methods for inferring dynamical systems from biological data with applications to HIV latency and genetic drivers of aging* (Hill)

HAEFNER, JONATHAN  
*Improving Kr-83m Calibration and Energy Resolution in NEXT Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Detectors* (Guenette)

KOLCHMEYER, DAVID  
*Toy Models of Quantum Gravity* (Jafferis)

MCNAMARA, JAKE  
*The Kinematics of Quantum Gravity* (Vafa)

MENKE, TIM  
*Classical and quantum optimization of quantum processors* (Aspuru-Guzik, Oliver)

MICHAEL, MARIOS  
*Parametric resonances in Floquet materials* (Demler)

OBIED, GEORGES  
*String Theory and its Applications in Cosmology and Particle Physics* (Dvorkin, Vafa)

PARIKH, ADITYA  
*Theoretical & Phenomenological Explorations of the Dark Sector* (Reece)

PATTI, TAYLOR  
*Quantum Systems for Computation and Vice Versa* (Yelin)

PIERCE, ANDREW  
*Local thermodynamic signatures of interaction-driven topological states in graphene* (Yacoby)

PIRIE, HARRIS  
*Interacting quantum materials and their acoustic analogs* (Hoffman)

REZAI, KRISTINE  
*Probing dynamics of a two-dimensional dipolar spin ensemble* (Sushkov)

SAMAJDAR, RHINE  
*Topological and symmetry-breaking phases of strongly correlated systems: From quantum materials to ultracold atoms* (Sachdev)

SCURI, GIOVANNI  
*Quantum Optics with Excitons in Atomically Thin Semiconductors* (Park)

SHEN, YINAN  
*Mechanics of Interpenetrating Biopolymer Networks in the Cytoskeleton and Biomolecular Condensates* (Weitz)

SON, HYUNGMOK  
*Collisional Cooling and Magnetic Control of Reactions in Ultracold Spin-polarized NaLi+Na Mixture* (Ketterle)

SUSHKO, ANDREY  
*Structural imaging and electro-optical control of two dimensional semiconductors* (Lukin)

TANTIVASADAKARN, NATHANAN  
*Exploring exact dualities in lattice models of topological phases of matter* (Vishwanath)

VANDERMAUSE, JONATHAN  
*Active Learning of Bayesian Force Fields* (Kozinsky)

ZHOU, HENGYUN  
*Quantum Many-Body Physics and Quantum Metrology with Floquet-Engineered Interacting Spin Systems* (Lukin)

ZHU, ZOE  
*Multiscale Models for Incommensurate Layered Two-dimensional Materials* (Kaxiras)

---

## 2023

AGMON, NATHAN  
*D-instantons and String Field Theory* (Yin)

ANG, DANIEL  
*Progress towards an improved measurement of the electric dipole moment of the electron* (Gabrielse)

BADEA, ANTHONY  
*Search for massive particles producing all hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at the LHC with the ATLAS detector* (Huth)

BEDROYA, ALEK  
*The Swampland: from macro to micro* (Vafa)

BURCHESKY, SEAN  
*Engineered Collisions, Molecular Qubits, and Laser Cooling of Asymmetric Top Molecules* (Doyle)

CONG, IRIS  
*Quantum Machine Learning, Error Correction, and Topological Phases of Matter* (Lukin)

DAVENPORT, IAN  
*Optimal control and reinforcement learning in simple physical systems* (Mahadevan)

DEPORZIO, NICK  
*Dark Begets Light: Exploring Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Cosmology* (Dvorkin, Randall)

FAN, RUIHUA  
*Quantum entanglement and dynamics in low-dimensional quantum many-body systems* (Vishwanath)

FORTMAN, ANNE  
*Searching for heavy, charged, long-lived particles via ionization energy loss and time-of-flight in the ATLAS detector using 140.1 fb-1 of √s = 13 TeV proton-proton collision data* (Franklin)

GABAI, BARAK  
*From the S-matrix to the lattice: bootstrapping QFTs* (Yin)

GARCIA, ROY  
*Resource theory of quantum scrambling* (Jaffe)

GELLY, RYAN  
*Engineering the excitonic and photonic properties of atomically thin semiconductors* (Park)

GUO, HAOYU  
*Novel Transport Phenomena in Quantum Matter* (Sachdev)

HIMWICH, MINA  
*Aspects of Symmetry in Classical and Quantum Gravity* (Strominger)

HU, YAOWEN  
*Coupled-resonators on thin-film lithium niobate: Photonic multi-level system with electro-optic transition* (Lončar)

KHABIBOULLINE, EMIL  
*Quantum Communication and Thermalization, From Theory to Practice* (Lukin)

KIM, SOOSHIN  
*Quantum Gas Microscopy of Strongly Correlated Bosons* (Greiner)

KING, ELLA  
*Frankenstein's Tiniest Monsters: Inverse Design of Bio-inspired Function in Self-Assembling Materials* (Brenner)

LIN, ROBERT  
*Finding and building algebraic structures in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces for quantum computation and quantum information* (Jaffe)

LIU, YU  
*Spin-polarized imaging of interacting fermions in the magnetic phases of Weyl semimetal CeBi* (Hoffman)

LU, QIANSHU  
*Cosmic Laboratory of Particle Physics* (Reece)

MEISENHELDER, COLE  
*Advances in the Measurement of the Electron Electric Dipole Moment* (Gabrielse)

MENDOZA, DOUGLAS  
*Optimization Algorithms for Quantum and Digital Annealers* (Aspuru-Guzik)

MILLER, OLIVIA  
*Measuring and Assessing Introductory Students' Physics Problem-Solving Ability* (Mazur)

MORRISON, THARON  
*Towards antihydrogen spectroscopy and CW Lyman-alpha via four-wave mixing in mercury* (Gabrielse)

NARAYANAN, SRUTHI  
*Soft Travels to the Celestial Sphere* (Strominger)

NIU, LAUREN  
*Patterns and Singularities in Elastic Shells* (Mahadevan)

OCOLA, PALOMA  
*A nanophotonic device as a quantum network node for atoms in optical tweezers* (Lukin)

RABANAL BOLAÑOS, GABRIEL  
*Measuring the production of three massive vector bosons in the four-lepton channel in pp collisions at √s= 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC* (Franklin)

SENGUL, CAGAN  
*Studying Dark Matter at Sub-Galactic Scales with Strong Gravitational Lensing* (Dvorkin)

SHU, CHI  
*Quantum enhanced metrology in the optical lattice clock* (Vuletić)

SPITZIG, ALYSON  
*Using non-contact AFM to study the local doping and damping through the transition in an ultrathin VO2 film* (Hoffman)

TARAZI, HOURI  
*UV Completeness: From Quantum Field Theory to Quantum Gravity* (Vafa)

WILLIAMS, LANELL  
*What goes right and wrong during virus self assembly?* (Manoharan)

YODH, JEREMY  
*Flow of colloidal and living suspensions in confined geometries* (Mahadevan)

ZHANG, GRACE  
*Fluctuations, disorder, and geometry in soft matter* (Nelson)

---

## 2024

AGIA, NICHOLAS  
*On Low-Dimensional Black Holes in String Theory* (Jafferis)

BAO, YICHENG  
*Ultracold molecules in an optical tweezer array: From dipolar interaction to ground state cooling* (Doyle)

BLOCK, MAXWELL  
*Dynamics of Entanglement with Applications to Quantum Metrology* (Yao)

CONTRERAS, TAYLOR  
*Toward Tonne-Scale NEXT Detectors: SiPM Energy-Tracking Planes and Metalenses for Light Collection* (Guenette)

DOYLE, SPENCER  
*From Elements to Electronics: Designing Thin Film Perovskite Oxides for Technological Applications* (Mundy)

EBADI, SEPEHR  
*Quantum simulation and computation with two-dimensional arrays of neutral atoms* (Greiner)

FRASER, KATIE  
*Probing Undiscovered Particles with Theory and Data-Driven Tools* (Reece)

GHOSH, SOUMYA  
*Nonlinear Frequency Generation in Periodically Poled Thin Film Lithium Niobate* (Lončar)

HAO, ZEYU  
*Emergent Quantum Phases of Electrons in Multilayer Graphene Heterostructures* (Kim)

HARTIG, KARA  
*Wintertime Cold Extremes: Mechanisms and Teleconnections with the Stratosphere* (Tziperman)

LEE, SEUNG HWAN  
*Spin Waves as New Probes for Graphene Quantum Hall Systems* (Yacoby)

LEEMBRUGGEN, MADELYN  
*Buckling, wrinkling, and crumpling of simulated thin sheets* (Rycroft)

LI, CHENYUAN  
*Quantum Criticality and Superconductivity in Systems Without Quasiparticles* (Sachdev)

MILLER, NOAH  
*Gravity and Lw\_{1 + infinity} symmetry* (Strominger)

OZTURK, SUKRU FURKAN  
*A New Spin on the Origin of Biological Homochirality* (Sasselov)

PAN, GRACE  
*Atomic-scale design and synthesis of unconventional superconductors* (Mundy)

POLLACK, DANIEL  
*Synthesis, characterization, and chemical stability analysis of quinones for aqueous organic redox flow batteries* (Gordon)

SAYDJARI, ANDREW  
*Statistical Models of the Spatial, Kinematic, and Chemical Complexity of Dust* (Finkbeiner)

SHACKLETON, HENRY  
*Fractionalization and disorder in strongly correlated systems* (Sachdev)

SKRZYPEK, BARBARA  
*The Case of the Missing Neutrino: Astrophysical Messengers of Planck-Scale Physics* (Argüelles-Delgado)

TSANG, ARTHUR  
*Strong Lensing, Dark Perturbers, and Machine Learning* (Dvorkin)

XU, MUQING  
*Quantum phases in Fermi Hubbard systems with tunable frustration* (Greiner)

YE, BINGTIAN  
*Out-of-equilibrium many-body dynamics in Atomic, Molecular and Optical systems* (Yao)

ZAVATONE-VETH, JACOB  
*Statistical mechanics of Bayesian inference and learning in neural networks* (Pehlevan)

---

## 2025

**Anderson, Maggie**  
*Synthesis and Characterization of Frustrated Magnets as Thin Films* (Mundy)

**Araiza Bravo, Rodrigo**  
*Analog Quantum Machine Learning Models on Near-Term Devices*  (Yelin)

**Atanasov, Alex**  
*Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Learning*  (Pehlevan)

**Bagherian, Hengameh**  
*Building Beyond the Standard Model: Tools from Cosmology to Particle Theory* (Reece)

**Bhattacharya, Arindam**  
*Peering from the Parapet of Perturbative QFT*  (Schwartz)

**Bluvstein, Dolev**  
*Error-Corrected Quantum Processing with Neutral Atoms* (Lukin)

**Cain, Maddie**  
*Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Error Correction with Neutral Atoms* (Lukin)

**Chakraborty, Prish**  
*Theoretical and Observational Developments of Inflation in Cosmology* (Dvorkin)

**Chang, Dominic**  
*Measurements of Black Hole and Accretion Properties from Observations of Strong Field Gravitational Lensing* (Johnson)

**Chen, Shu-Fan**  
*Tracing the Origins: Cosmological Information in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe* (Dvorkin)

**Christos, Maine**  
*Criticality, Fractionalization, and Superconductivity in Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials* (Sachdev)

**Crawley, Erin**  
*Towards a Celestial Theory of Gravity, Gauge Theory, and Black Holes*  (Strominger)

**Delgado López, Diyaselis**  
*Neutrinos as a Gateway to the Dark Sector* (Argüelles-Delgado)

**Fenton, Eliot**  
*Understanding the Forces that Shape Evolution* (Desai)

**Ferenc Segedin, Dan**  
*Redox Engineering of Ruddlesden–Popper Nickelates: Pathways to Unconventional Superconductivity and New Materials Discovery* (Mundy)

**Frenett, Alex**  
*Motional Control of Polyatomic Molecules for Precision Measurement* (Doyle)

**Fung, Frankie**  
*Towards A Programmable Nanomechanical Interface for Mediating Spin-Spin Interactions* (Lukin)

**Grinkemeyer, Brandon**  
*Photonic Interfaces for Neutral Atom Quantum Computers* (Lukin)

**Hauser, Kevin**  
*Extending STM Capabilities: Multi-Frequency Lock-In Amplification for Closed-Cycle STM and tip-controller lattice distortions in WTe₂* (Hoffman)

**Hu, Betty**  
*Stellar Collisions in the Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes* (Loeb)

**Kamal, Helia**  
*Explorations in Quantum Error Correction and Simulation of Topological Phases*  (Yao)

**Kehris, Gustavs**  
*Probing Muon + b-Jet Resonances in pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector* (Huth)

**Knaut, Can**  
*A Quantum Memory Network Based on Diamond Nanophotonics*  (Lukin)

**Kubota, Shion**  
*Studies of Neutrinos in High Definition with LArTPC* (Guenette)

**Kwan, Joyce**  
*Quantum Gas Microscopy of the Anyon-Hubbard Model*  (Greiner)

**Ledwith, Patrick**  
*Strong Coupling Topological Phases in Moiré Bands*  (Vishwanath)

**Leitao, Nathan**  
*Universal Dynamics of Metrologically Useful Entanglement in Strongly Interacting, Disordered Many-Body Systems*  (Lukin)

**Maskara, Nishad**  
*Quantum Simulations of Chemistry and Materials with Rydberg Atom Arrays*  (Lukin)

**McClain Gomez, Abigail**  
*Near-Term Stepping Stones on the Path to Useful Quantum Computing* (Yelin)

**Melton, Walker**  
*Aspects of Symmetry for Flat Space Holography*  (Strominger)

**Mudur, Nayantara**  
*Statistical and Generative Models for Inference and Reasoning in Astrophysics and Beyond* (Finkbeiner)

**November, Benjamin**  
*Exploring 2D Quantum and Acoustic Systems Using Scanning Probes*  (Hoffman)

**Park, Core Francisco**  
*Deep Learning as a Scientific Method and a Model Organism of Intelligence*  (Samuel)

**Picard, Lewis**  
*Control, Readout and Entanglement of Molecular Qubits*  (Ni)

**Sandor, Joshua**  
*The Discrete Bootstrap for Quantum Thermodynamics*  (Yin)

**Sawaoka, Hiromitsu**  
*Laser Cooling, Optical Trapping and Zeeman-Sisyphus Deceleration of Heavy Polyatomic Molecules for Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model* (Doyle)

**Schaefer, Dali**  
*Toward High-Cooperativity Spin-Magnetomechanics with Levitated Micromagnets* (Lukin)

**Su, Lin**  
*Quantum Simulation of Dipolar Itinerant Lattice Models with Magnetic Erbium Atoms*  (Greiner)

**Sumarac, Tamara**  
*Single Atom Detection via Transparency Techniques*  (Lukin/Vuletić)

**Teng, Yanting**  
*Exploring Topological Phases in Quantum Many-Body Physics*  (Sachdev)

**Tikhanovskaya, Maria**  
*Disorder in Quantum Many-Body Physics: From Strange Metal to Spin Glass Systems* (Sachdev)

**Toyonaga, Noah**  
*Scissor Theories: Biology, Engineering, and Art* (Mahadevan)

**Vilas, Nathaniel**  
*Laser Cooling, Optical Trapping, and Quantum Control of Polyatomic Molecules* (Doyle)

**Wang, Kenneth**  
*Dual Species Atom Arrays for Quantum Simulation and Computation* (Ni)

**Zhang, Gemma**  
*Harnessing the Power of Deep Learning for Astrophysical Discoveries*  (Dvorkin)

**Zhang, Xiaoyuan**  
*Precision Measurements in Quantum Chromodynamics*  (Schwartz)

---

## 2026

**Benkendorfer, Kees**  
*Wayfinding: Searching for Hints of New Physics Using a Weakly-Supervised Anomaly Search and a Measurement of High-pT ttZ Production with the ATLAS Experiment* (Morii)  
  
**Bintz, Marcus**  
*Quantum Magnetism in Dipolar Rydberg Atom Arrays* (Yao)  
  
**Bruce, Laura**  
*The Long Game: Searches for Massive, Long-lived Particles at 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment* (Morii)  
  
**Casademunt i Bures, Helena**  
*Brain-Wide Representations of Olfactory Behavior in* C. elegans (Samuel)  
  
**Chiu, Neng-Chun**  
*Continuous Coherent Operation in a Large-Scale Neutral Atom Array Quantum Architecture* (Lukin)  
  
**Coe, Aaron**  
*Determining the Surface Ground State in YbB₆ and Developing Ultra-Sensitive Nanoscale Dissipation Measurements in Scanning Probe Microscopy* (Hoffman)  
  
**Dersy, Aurélien**  
*Learning Simplicity and Structure in Quantum Field Theory* (Schwartz)  
  
**Dolgirev, Pavel**  
*Design and Control of Strongly Correlated Quantum Matter: From Materials to Programmable Quantum Hardware* (Lukin, Demler)  
  
**Dong, Junkai**  
*Two Silhouettes of Strongly Correlated Topological Phases: Fractionalization and Crystallization* (Vishwanath)  
  
**Evered, Simon**  
*Digital Quantum Simulation and Error Correction with Atomic Processors* (Lukin)  
  
**Fernandez, Daniel**  
*Probing Short-Wavelength Magnon Scattering with Scanning NV Magnetometry* (Yacoby)  
  
**Gao, Haoyang**  
*Interaction-Enhanced Sensing in Solid-State Spin Ensembles* (Lukin)  
  
**Gomez, Felipe**  
*Advances in Information-Theoretic Differential Privacy: Composition and Calibration* (Calmon)  
  
**Guo, Jinen**  
*Advancing the Scalability Frontier of Neutral Atom Quantum Processors* (Lukin)  
  
**Hallas, Christian**  
*Laser Cooling of Polyatomic Molecules for Quantum Science* (Doyle)  
  
**Huan, Yan Qi**  
*Nuclear Spin Memories for Silicon-Vacancy Quantum Network Nodes* (Lukin)  
  
**Husain, Rabia**  
*Understanding the Standard Model and Beyond Using Computational Tools* (Reece)  
  
**Kalinowski, Marcin**  
*Towards Useful Computation with Neutral-Atom Quantum Processors* (Lukin)  
  
**Kehris, Gustavs**  
*Probing Muon + b-Jet Resonances in pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector* (Huth)  
  
**Kendrick, Lev**  
*Low-Temperature Physics in the Fermi-Hubbard Model* (Greiner)  
  
**Liu, Xiaoling**  
*Optical Probe of Electronically Correlated States in Atomically Thin Semiconductors* (Lukin)  
  
**Liu, Yufei**  
*Probing Quantum Geometric Effects in the Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator MnBi₂Te₄* (Xu)  
  
**Mazel, Benjamin**  
*String Field Theory for Nontrivial Backgrounds* (Yin)  
  
**Nasir, Abdullah**  
*Improved Optical Trapping of SrOH to Probe Ultralight Dark Matter* (Doyle)  
  
**Prembabu, Saranesh**  
*Symmetry and Topology in Correlated and Gapless Quantum Matter* (Vishwanath)  
  
**Raval, Shivam**  
*Methods for Transparency and Control in Embedding Visualizations* (Wattenberg)  
  
**Stas, Pieter-Jan**  
*Distributed Applications of a Solid State Qubit Quantum Network* (Lukin)  
  
**Stroganov, Pavel**  
*Control Infrastructure for a Continuously Operating Neutral Atom Array* (Lukin)  
  
**Tata, Neeraj**  
*Parables of Quantum Gravity* (Jafferis)  
  
**Wang, Tianli**  
*Flat-Space Holograms from the Bottom-Up and the Top-Down* (Strominger)  
  
**Wu, Weijie**  
*Quantum Enhanced Metrology with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond* (Yao)  
  
**Xiang, Katherine**  
*Optical Perturbation-Response Measurements of Molecular Biophysics* (Cohen)