Year	Student	Advisor	Thesis Title
1962	AVRETT, EUGENE HINTON	Krook	Solutions of the Equation of Radiative Transfer
1965	RYBICKI, GEORGE BRUNO	Krook	Transfer of Radiation in Stochastic Media
1967	PALMER, PATRICK EDWARD	Lilley	Radio Frequency Recombination Spectra of Diffuse Nebulae
1968	HEARN, DAVID RUSSELL	Fazio	A Search for Celestial Sources of Gamma Rays of Energy Greater than 100 MeV
1969	MILDER, DAVID	Layzer	Rotating Stellar Systems
1969	RIEKE, GEORGE HENRY	Fazio/Bainbridge**	A Search for Cosmic Gamma Rays by Detection of Atmospheric Cerenkov Radiation
1961	SNYDER, RALPH BROCKETT	Layzer	Relativistic Energies in Isooelectronic Sequences
1971	STEPHENS, TIMOTHY LEE,	Dalgarno	Quantum Mechanical Studies of Molecular Hydrogen
1971	CAVRAK, STEPHEN JAMES JR.	Fazio/Purcell**	The Production of Atmospheric g Rays with Eg> 10 MeV
1972	HIVELY, RAY MICHAEL	Layzer	Cosmology of a Cold Universe.
1972	LEVINE, RANDOLPH HERBERT	Layzer	Heating of the Corona by Magnetic Acceleration of Thermal Particles.
1975	BIENIEK, RONALD JAMES	Dalgarno	Theoretical Studies of Thermal Atomic Collisions Involving Electronic Transitions
1976	ROSNER, ROBERT	Layzer	Some Aspects of Magnetic Field Dynamics in Astrophysical Plasmas
1979	DA COSTA, LUIZ ALBERTO NICOLACI	Cameron	Effects of a Central Gas Cloud in Dense Stellar Systems.
1979	SHORER, PHILIP	Dalgarno	Application of the Relativistic Random-Phase Approximation to the Photoexcitation and Photoionization of Atoms
1985	BAND, DAVID LOUIS	Grindlay	Non-Thermal Radiation Mechanisms and Processes in SS433 and Active Galactic Nuclei
1985	KAHN, RONALD NATHAN	Press	Topics in Inflationary Cosmology
1989	GOODMAN, ALYSSA ANN	Myers/Shapiro	Interstellar Magnetic Fields: An Observational Perspective
1990	COUGHLIN, KATIE MARY	Thaddeus	Quasi-Periodic Taylor-Couette Flow
1991	COVAULT, CORBIN EDWARD	Grindlay	The Energenic X-ray Imaging Telescope Experiment: Instrument Development and Observations of Black Hole Candidates in Binaries
1991	DIGEL, SETH WILLIAM	Thaddeus	Molecular Clouds in the Distant Outer Galaxy
1991	ROGERS, ROBERT DERWARD	Press/Field	The Origins of the Cosmic X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Backgrounds
1993	MOLLAGHABABA, REZA	Thaddeus	Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy of Three Highly Reactive Astrophysical Molecules: SiC, SiO, and C3H2
1994	SAVIN, DANIEL WOLF	Kohl	Absolute Measurements of Field Enhanced Dielectronic Recombination and Electron Impact Excitation
1995	LIN, HUAN	Kirshner	The Las Campanas Redshift Survey
1995	MANANDHAR, RAJ	Grindlay	Development of a New Detector for Hard X-Ray Observations of Non-Thermal Emission from Low- Mass X-Ray Binaries
1996	EISENSTEIN, DANIEL	Loeb	Analytical Models for the Gravitational Formation of Objects in the Universe
1996	LEBACH, DANIEL	Shapiro	Applications of Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry to Tests of General Relativity
1998	KEETON, CHARLES	Kochanek	Using Gravitational Lenses to Study Galaxires and Cosmology
1999	PERNA, ROSALBA	Loeb	Theoretical Studies of Gamma-Ray Bursts
2000	DAW, ADRIAN NIGEL	Parkinson/Smith	Measurement of the Radiative Lifetime of the 2s2 2p4 1So Metastable Level of Ne2+; a Study of Forbidden Transitions of Astrophysical Interest
2001	CHOU, YI	Grindlay	Developments of EXITE2 and Timing Analysis of Ultra-Compact X-ray Binaries
2001	FOX, DAVID CHARLES	Loeb	The Structure of Clusters of Galaxies
2002	OZEL, FERYAL	Narayan	The Effects of Strong Magnetic and Gravitational Fields on Emission Properties of Neutron Stars
2002	WONG, GLENN PATRICK	Shapiro	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiments Using Laser-Polarized Noble Gas
2002	JANZEN, PAUL HENRY	Kohl/Horowitz**	An Experiment to Measure Electron Impact Excitation of Ions that have Metastable States
2005	ZHU, CHENG	Dalgarno/Lukin**	Gas Phase and Molecular Process
2006	BABICH, DANIEL MICHAEL	Loeb	Cosmological Non-Gaussianity and Reionization
2007	SCHULZ, ALEXIA EIRINN	White/Huth **	Astrophysical Probes of Dark Energy
2007	HOFFMAN, LAUREN	Loeb	Orbital Dynamics in Galaxy Mergers
2008	GARG, ARTI	Stubbs	Microlensing Candidate Selection and Detection Efficiency for the Super MACHO Dark Matter Search
2008	SHAFEE, REBECCA	Narayan/McClintock	Measuring Black Hole Spin
2009	HICKEN, MALCOLM	C. Stubbs/R. Kirshner	Doubling the Nearby Supernova Type Ia Sample
2010	SLATYER, TRACY ROBYN	Finkbeiner	Signatures of a New Force in the Dark Matter Sector
2010	HIGH, FREDRICK WILLIAM	Stubbs	The Dawn of Wide-Field Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Surveys: Efficient Optical Follow-Up
2010	GIRASH, JOHN ANDREW	Stubbs/Field	A Fokker-Planck Study of Dense Rotating Stellar Clusters
2013	VISBAL, ELI	Loeb
2013	PAN, TONY	Loeb

*Revised Dec 3, 2008. Does not include thesis students of SAO staff who have Physics Department appointments only.
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