The Physics department celebrated its 2021-2022 graduates with a diploma ceremony on Sunday, May 8th 2022, at the Love Auditorium & Hall of Science, following Duke's main commencement event.
The program included a celebratory lunch and a welcome address by Professor Steffen Bass, Chair of the Physics department. Following the welcome address, Professors Ayana Arce, Director of Undergraduate Studies, John Mercer, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Stephen Teitsworth, Director of Graduate Studies, presented diplomas to all graduates with a degree in Physics.
FIRST MAJORS IN BIOPHYSICS
Aliyah Habashy
FIRST MAJORS IN PHYSICS
Yasa Mirza Baig
Aryil Liam Bechtel - ΣΠΣ - Physics Honor Society
Natalia Escobar
Elliott M Kauffman - ΣΠΣ - Physics Honor Society
Zoe Kona
Qiyao Liang - ΣΠΣ - Physics Honor Society
Sergio Macias-Vazquez
Jieran Shen - ΣΠΣ - Physics Honor Society
Edvards Tomass Sneps
Devon Jared Valdez
Ling Hong Winston Yau
Jason Yu
Junzhe Zhou
James Robert Arnold Jr.
Ethan Macauley Austin
Daniel Behrens
Eilam Doron
Florence Liu
Ashley Nicole Russell
GRADUATION WITH DISTINCTION IN PHYSICS
Requires a significant thesis with originality and thesis defense. Graduation with High Distinction is the Highest Honor in Physics. Requires a thesis comparable to papers in peer reviewed journals and unanimous support from thesis committee members.
Elise M Kauffman: Graduation with High Distinction (Advisor: Ayana Arce) - Analysis of a Novel Jet Tagging Technique for Emerging Jets in LHC Collisions
Qiyao Liang: Graduation with High Distinction (Advisor: Kenneth Brown) - Robust Control in Trapped-ion Quantum Computers
Jieran Shen: Graduation with High Distinction (Advisor: Kate Scholberg) - Supernova Pointing Resolution of DUNE
Junzhe Zhou: Graduation with High Distinction (Advisor: Michael Troxel) - Measuring Galaxy as Intrinsic Alignment using DES 43 Catalog
MASTER OF ARTS IN PHYSICS
Ge Chen
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN PHYSICS
Summer 2021
Dr. Sarah Anne Brandsen
Dr. Benjamin Hamm
Dr. Ryan Henry Kozlowski
Dr. Peifan Liu
Dr. William Steinhardt
Dr. Jonathon Yuly
Fall 2021
Dr. Michael Eggeleston
Dr. Samuel Carter Hedges
Dr. Yuheng Liao
Dr. Aaron Mahler
Dr. Pingchuan Zhao
Spring 2022
Dr. Ehthan Arnault
Dr. Connor Awe
Dr. Long Li
Dr. Trevyn Larson
Dr. Shobhit Sharma
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION IN PHYSICS
Ethan Arnault: [Advisor: Gleb Finkelstein] – Out of Equilibrium Superconducting States in Graphene Multiterminal Josephson Junctions
Connor Awe: [Advisor: Phillip Barbeau] – Novel Technologies for Neutrino and Dark Matter Detection
Sarah Anne Brandsen: [Co-Advisors: Arthur Robert Calderbank and Henry Pfister] – Locally Adaptive Protocols for Quantum State Discrimination
Michael Eggleston: [Advisor: Ayana Arce] – Searches for Vector Like Quarks Decaying to Ht, Zt or Wt in the Single Lepton Channel with the ATLAS Detector
Benjamin Isaac Hamm: [Advisor: Hubert Bray} – Scalar Field Wave Dark Matter and Galactic Halos
Samuel Carter Hedges: [Advisor: Phillip Barbeau] – Low Energy Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions at the Spallation Neutron Source
Ryan Henry Kozlowski: [Advisor: Joshua Socolar] – Mesoscale Forces and Grain Motion in Granular Media Exhibiting Stick-Slip Dynamics: Effect of Friction and Grain Shape
Trevyn Larson: [Advisor: Gleb Finkelstein] – AC Measurements of Graphene-Superconductor Devices
Long Li: [Advisor: Phillip Barbeau] – A Measurement of the Response of a High Purity Germanium Detector to Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils
Yuheng Liao: [Advisor: Warren S. Warren] – Understanding Photoexcited Charge Carrier Dynamics in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Thin Films
Peifan Liu: [Advisor: Ying Wu] – Structured Light Generation in a Free-Electron Laser Oscillator
Aaron Lucas Mahler: [Advisor: Weitao Yang} – Wannier Functions and Their Role in Improving Density Functional Theory
Shobhit Sharma: [Co- Advisors: Ehsan Samei and Anuj Kapadia] – Development and Application of Simulation Tools for Virtual Imaging Trials in Computed Tomography
William Steinhardt: [Advisor: Sara Haravifard] – Investigating the Ground State of Triangular Antiferromagnet Quantum Spin Liquid Candidates
Jonathon Yuly: [Advisor: David Beratan] – Energy Transduction by Electron Bifurcation
Pingchuan Zhao: [Advisor: Mark Kruse] – Search for New Phenomena Using Three-Photon Final States in Data Collected with the ATLAS Detector
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