Six Graduate Students Successfully Defend Theses | Physics and Astronomy – The University of Iowa – The University of Iowa

Congratulations to six graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy who successfully defended their doctoral theses in April!

The students (with their degree, thesis title, and thesis committee) were:

Evan Abbuhl Ph.D. in Physics.

Thesis Title: "Very Long Baseline Interferometry of Chromospherically Active Binary Stars.

Thesis Committee: Professors Kenneth Gayley (Advisor), Cornelia Lang, Robert Mutel, and Dr. Robert Zavala from the U.S. Naval Observatory"

Arran Gross Ph.D. in Physics (Astronomy subtrack).

Thesis Title: Testing the Radio-Selection Method with Optical Spectroscopy in the Stripe 82 Field

Thesis Committee: Professors Hai Fu (Advisor), Casey DeRoo, Keri Hoadley, Adam Myers (University of Wyoming), and Dr. Andrea Prestwich (Astrophysicist at Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian)

Kwangyul Hu Ph.D. in Physics

Thesis Title: Spin-wave Dynamics in Non-trivial Magnetic Geometries

Thesis Committee: Profs. Michael Flatt (thesis director), Craig Pryor, Yannick Meurice, Markus Wohlgenannt, and Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin

Dylan Par Ph.D. in Physics

Thesis Title: Investigating Properties of Multi-stranded Non-thermal Filaments in the Galactic Center

Thesis Committee: Prof. Cornelia Lang and (Advisor), Professors Phil Kaaret, Ken Gayley, Cornelia Lang, Hai Fu, and Dr. James Green

Joshua Steffen Ph.D. in Physics (Astronomy subtrack)

Thesis Title: The Volume Density of AGN in Interacting Galaxies

Thesis Committee: Professors Hai Fu (advisor), Casey DeRoo, Phil Kaaret, Keri Hoadley, and Julia Comerfield from the University of Colorado, Boulder

Ashok Tiwari Ph.D. in Physics

Thesis Title: Monte Carlo Simulations and Phantom Measurements towards more Quantitative Dosimetry and Imaging in Nuclear Medicine

Thesis Committee: Dr. John Sunderland (advisor), Professors Craig Pryor, Wayne Polyzou, Vincent Rodgers, Dr. Tiwari, and Dr. Ryan Flynn from the Dept. of Radiation Oncology.

Banner photo:Joshua Steffen's thesis defense committee - Professors Hai Fu (advisor), Julia Comerfield (via computer) from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Casey DeRoo, Phil Kaaret, and Keri Hoadley.

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