Degrees Awarded

Ph.D. Degrees Awarded

Spring 2000 to Spring 2002

Joonhee An -"Microscopic Theory of Magnetic Clusters and Superconducting Materials.
*Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Stephen Chamberlain - "Magnetic Properties of Rare-Earth Fluorides with KY3F10 Structure"
*Applications Engineer with Boxer Cross, Inc, Menlo Park, CA

Robert Cohen - "Magnetic and Resistivity Studies of Compounds: A14MnPn11 where A = [Ca, Sr, Ba] and Pn = [Sb, Bi]"
*Senior Process Engineer with Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA

Charles Consorte - "A New, Highly Transferable, Interatomic Potential for Silicon"
*Senior Process Engineer with Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA

Christie Devlin - "The Structure and Dynamic of Metal and Polymer Surfaces and Thin Films"
*Research Physicist at the Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Matthew Enjalran -"A Study of Magnetic Phenomena in Frustrated Spin Systems and the Effects of Disorder in Correlated FermiSystems"
*Postdoctoral Research at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Paul Freitas - "Numerical and Analytical Studies of Physical Properties of 2D Antiferromagnetic Spin Systems"
*Senior Technical Writer for Borland Software Corp., Scotts Valley, CA

Don Futaba - "Observations and Calculations of Adsorbed Organic Molecules and Surface Reactions on Metal Surfaces Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy"
*Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Tsukuba, Japan

Thomas Gutierrez - "Higher Twist Contributions to Charm and Light Gluino Production"
*Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Davis.

Michael Heffner - "Hadron Spectra in Au + Au Collisions at the BNL AGS"
*Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Christopher Hill -"Measurement of the production cross-section ratio in 106.0 ± 4.1 pb-1of data collected by CDF during Run1A+1B of the Tevatron"
*Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Scott Johnson - "The Effects of Crystal Size on the Lattice Dynamics of BaTiO3 and SrTi03 Thin Films"
*Temporary Lecturer at Sonoma State University

Alexander Kay - "Multi-Atom Resonant Photoemission and the Development of Next-Generation Software and High-Speed Detectors for Electron Spectroscopy"
*Senior Process Engineer with Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR

Jennifer Klay - "Traverse mass and rapidity spectra of poins and protons from Au+Au collisions at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron"
*Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Jonathan Link - "Study of the Decay "
*Postgraduate Researcher at UC Davis working at Fermilab

Bongjin Mun - "Probing Surfaces and Buried Interfaces by Core-Level Photo emission Excited by Soft X-ray Standing Waves"
*Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Brandon Murakami - "Low Energy Probes of Standard Model Extensions"
*Postdoctoral Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois

David Muzzall - "Design and construction of low-temperature ultrahigh vacuum STM/AFM and the effect of dosing pressure on coverage and ordered structure of Oxygen on W(110)"
*Quantitative Analyst at DRW Trading, Chicago, IL

Edward Nabighian - "Linear Optical Studies of Metal Surfaces: Diffusion, Growth and Surface Dynamics"
*Senior Process Engineer with Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA

Thomas Nielson - "Magnetic, Electrical Transport, and Hydrostatic Pressure Studies of the Heusler Alloy ( Fe1-xVx ) 3 A1"
*Senior Staff Physicist with Magne Sensors Inc., San Diego, CA

Philip Rogers - "Structural and Magnetic Studies of the Spin Chain/Spin Ladder (Na1-xCax)V2O 5"
*Logic ProductDesign Engineer with Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR

Constantinos Skordis - "The Accelerating

Universe: Models and Consequences"
*Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford University, United Kingdom

Alexander Slepoy -"Topics in Computational Statistical Mechanics"
*Postdoctoral Researcher at Sandia National Laboratory

Gayle Thayer - "The Role of Stress in Thin Alloy Films: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Invest-igation of CoAg/Ru(0001)"
*Postdoctoral Researcher with IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York

MarcusWatson-"Investigations of the Reconst-ruction and Growth on the Si(100) Surface, and Studies of an Interelectronic Correlation Function"
*Postdoctoral Research at UC Davis


Bachelor's Degrees Awarded

Honors at graduation are awarded to students who have a grade point average in the top eight percent of the college. The Departmental Citation (DC) award is given to students in recognition of their excellent academic record and undergraduate accomplishments. The Saxon-Patten Prize (SPP) in Physics is a monetary award given to a student who has achieved an excellent academic record and who shows interest and promise in continued work in physics and/or related physical sciences.

Ben Anderson BS

Ryan Anderson BS

Jonathan Arredondo BS

Michael Barnard BS
Adwarded DC

Jeanne Bonner BS

August Bosse BS
Awarded DC and SPP

Aaron Brayton BAS

Alexander Clausen BA

Daniel Clayton BS

Richard Curras BS

Matthew Dey BS

Paul Dimitriadis BS

Luke Donev BS
Awarded DC and SPP

Ryan Easton BS

Justin Ferranto BS

David Ferranto BS

Raymond Friddle BS

Adam Conrad Getchell BS
Degree in Applied Physics

Jamie Kane BS

Kevin Kelley BS
Awarded DC and SPP

Alvin William Laille BS

James Landry BS
Awarded DC and SPP

Brian Marsteller BS

December Martin BS

Timothy McIntosh BS

Benjamin Meiselman BS

Tzvetan Metodiev BS
Adwarded DC

Daniel Micsunescu BS

Davis Mobley BS
Awarded DC and SPP

Sara Morenc BA

Shawn Olson BS

Shawn Robert Olson BS
Degree in Applied Physics

Lawrence William Pack BS
Awarded SPP

Brian Patterson BS
Degree in Applied Physics

Long Pham BS
Awarded DC and SPP

Christina Pierce BS

Gabriel Prochter BS
Awarded DC and SPP

Ram Anand Puri BS

Daisy Ramondson BS
Awarded DC and SPP

Ivan Rankenburg BS
Awarded DC

Matthew Renquist BS

Stephenie Ritchey BS

Leigh Ann Ryder BA

Jason Sare BS

Samuel Schnell BA

Jacob Shine BS

Jodi Smith BS
Degree in Applied Physics

Jodi Lynn Smith BS
Degree in Applied Physics

Ingrid Helene Stoltman BS

Amy Tan BAS

Zlatko Tanovic BS
Degree in Applied Physics

Allen Knute Thoe BS

Aaron Thompson BS
Awarded DC and SPP

Charles Thomsen BS

Brian Trimble BS
Degree in Applied Physics

Kevin Welch BS

Davis Whitbeck BS
Awarded DC

Brian Wilson BS

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