The Physics department celebrated its 2022-2023 graduates with a diploma ceremony on Sunday, May 14 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 Mark Kruse, Director of Graduate Studies, presented diplomas to all graduates with a degree in Physics.
Andrew Forrester
Pranav Charvu*
Pavani Jairam*
William Klein
Mathew Wai-Lung Mammen
Zachary Benjamin McCarthy
Ricardo Adrián Méndez**
Bridget Catherine Sidwell
Michael Topper
Vatsal Varma
Brandon Matthew Weiss*
Henry Burns
Riley Fisher
Erin Liu
Joshua Aaron Rabinowitz
Alex Romine
Ray Zhang
Eddie Kong
Peter Alfonsi
Jiqing Fan
Easop Lee
Jun Heng Lor
Aditya Paul
Michaela Sylvia
* Graduation with distinction: Requires a significant thesis with originality and thesis defense.
**Graduation with High Distinction: Highest Honor in Physics. Requires a thesis comparable to papers in peer reviewed journals and unanimous support from thesis committee members.
Pranav Charvu: Graduation with Distinction (Advisor: Daniel Scolnic) — ATLAS Transient Survey Light Curve Release and Analysis
Pavani Jairam: Graduation with Distinction (Advisor: Kate Scholberg) — Using SNEWPY to Analyze Neutrinos from the Black Hole Formation Stage
Ricardo Adrián Méndez: Graduation with High Distinction (Advisor: Mark Kruse) — Searches for Top-philic Resonances at ATLAS
Brandon Matthew Weiss: Graduation with Distinction (Advisor: Kate Scholberg) - Supernova Neutrino Directionality
Charles Prior
Summer 2022
Dr. Wenkai Fan
Dr. Hanqing Liu
Dr. Collin Malone
Fall 2022
Dr. Peibo An
Dr. Tianyu Dai
Dr. Zhubing Jia
Dr. Achint Kumar
Dr. Qiang Miao
Dr. Lingfei Zhao
Spring 2023
Dr. Erin Conley
Dr. Xiaoqing Li
Dr. Emily Phillips Longley
Dr. Brodie Popovic
Dr. James Wheeler
Peibo An: [Advisor: Phillip Barbeau] – Studies of the Electron Neutrino Charged-current Interaction on 127I
Erin Conley: [Advisor: Kate Scholberg] – The Low-Energy Charged-Current Electron Neutrino Cross Section on Argon at the Spallation Neutron Source
Tianyu Dai: [Advisor: Steffen Bass] – Light parton energy loss in a hard-soft factorized approach
Wenaki Fan: [Advisor: Steffen Bass] – Multi-Stage Heavy Quark Transport in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Zhubing Jia: [Advisor: Kenneth Ray Brown] – Quantum Information Processing with Spin and Motional States of Trapped Ions
Achint Kumar: [Advisor: Henry Greenside] – Joint Data Modelling with Variational Autoencoders
Xiaoqing Li: [Advisor: Warren Warren] – Boosting SABRE signal in Various Ways
Hanqing Liu: [Advisor: Shailesh Chandrasekharan] – Quantum Critical Phenomena of Relativistic Fermions in 1+1d and 2+1d
Emily Phillips Longley: [Advisor: Chris Walter] – Weak Lensing Analysis with Precursor LSS
Collin Malone: [Advisor: Calvin Howell] – Photodisintegration of the Triton and Supporting Experiments
Qiang Miao: [Advisor: Thomas Barthel] – Eigenstate entanglement scaling and quantum simulation of many-body systems by entanglement ren
Brodie Popovic: [Advisor: Daniel Scolnic] – Spectroscopy is dead, and we have killed it: SNIa Cosmology with Photometrically Confirmed Samples
James Wheeler: [Advisor: Hubert Bray] – Investigations on Black Holes, Cosmic Censorship, and Scalar Field Dark Matter Cosmology
Lingfei Zhao: [Advisor: Gleb Finkelstein] – Andreev conversion in the quantum Hall regime
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