Department of M athematics
Department of Physics
Diploma C eremony
Sunday, May 11, 2014
PR O G R A M
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LSRC Dining Room
W elcome
Professor Harold Layton, Chair
Department of Mathematics
Professor Haiyan Gao, Chair
Department of Physics
Presentation of Diplomas for Degrees in Physics
Professor Haiyan Gao, Chair
Department of Physics
Professor Kate Scholberg
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Physics
Professor Gleb Finkelstein
Incoming Dir. of Graduate Studies
Department of Physics
Presentation of Diplomas for Degrees in M athematics
Professor Harold Layton, Chair
Department of Mathematics
Professor Chad Schoen
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Mathematics
Professor Sarah Schott
Associate DUS
Department of Mathematics
F I RST M A J O RS I N M A T H E M A T I CS
Ms. Maria Arias De Saavedra Benitez
Ms. Kristen Amelia Brown
Mr. Nicholas Michael Calabro
Mr. Scott Benjamin Cara
Mr. Mark William Carrabine
Mr. Andrew Jordan Chinn
Mr. Julian Edwin Lovett Cooper
Mr. Aashiq Dheeraj ™
Mr. Christian Lawrence Drappi
Ms. Katherine Iverson Fraile
Mr. Matthew Evan Gordon
Mr. Joseph Lewis Graves III
Mr. Nathan Hsieh
Mr. Billy Haoyang Huang
Mr. Joshua Michael Izzard ™
Mr. Brian Timothy Knierim
Mr. Jayanth Kocherlakota Ms. Kathleen Lan Ɣ ™
Mr. Lei Lei ™
Ms. Veronica Marie Lepa
Ms. Hanna Lencer Mar
Ms. Christine Lynn McConnell ĭǺȀ
Ms. Julia Ni ™
Mr. Kevin Ward Rozell
Mr. Alessio Santoro
Ms. Jiarou Shen ™ĭǺȀ
Mr. Amudan Jayram Srinivasan ĭǺȀ
Mr. Daniel Leeco Stern ™™
Mr. Justin Louis Summerville
Mr. Siyang Sun
Mr. Kwang Jae Sung
Mr. Scott Douglas Valentine
Mr. Daniel Robert Vitek ™
Mr. Taariq A. Watson
Ms. Luxi Wei ™
Mr. Alexander Joseph Wertheim ™ĭǺȀ
Mr. Jonathan David Yach
SE C O N D M A J O RS I N M A T H E M A T I CS
Mr. Brian Anderson Bullins
Mr. Jerren Roderic Chang
Ms. Melissa Jessica Dalis
Ms. Rebecca Ann DeNardis  ĭǺȀ
Ms. Qi Dong
Mr. Cameron Michael Kim
Mr. Justin Henry Leder ĭǺȀ
Mr. David Liu
Mr. Ryan Alexander McGeehan
Mr. Yi Pan
Mr. Taylor Gene Pospisil
Mr. Nikhil C. Prakash
Mr. Alexander Franke Stevens
Mr. Benjamin Andrew Stone
Mr. Andy Hoang Tran
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M I N O RS I N M A T H E M A T I CS
Mr. Alexander Wyatt Bloedel
Mr. Ali Habib Bootwala
Mr. Robert James Collopy
Mr. Steven Meyer Demers
Ms. Sarah Madeline Eade
Ms. Dana Elizabeth Fenster
Mr. Nicholas John Gordon
Mr. Soroush Jamali Pour
Mr. Keerthighaan Kanagasegar
Mr. Alexander G. Kazandjian
Mr. Ang Li
Mr. Nathan Xilong Li
Mr. Jonathan Liu
Mr. Jaisal Kohli Mariwala
Mr. Joshua Samuel Miller
Mr. Michael Robert Potts
Mr. Patrick Allen Royal
Ms. Angelica Beth Schwartz
Ms. Kelsey Irene Siman
Mr. Lucas Joseph Spangher
Mr. Bradley Thomas Stankey
Mr. Volodymyr Zavidovych
Ms. Yuci Zhang
Mr. Kevin Yangyang Ge
Ms. Oriane Butler Matthys
D O C T O R O F P H I L OSO P H Y I N M A T H E M A T I CS
Dr. Miles Martin Crosskey
Dr. Sean David Lawley
Dr. Junchi Li
Dr. Christopher David O'Neill
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Dr. Hwayeon Ryu
Dr. Ioannis Sgouralis
Dr. John Joseph Steenbergen
Dr. Hangjun Xu
Graduation with Distinction ± Requires a paper demonstrating significant independent work in mathematics.
Graduation with Highest Distinction ± Requires a paper produced by the candidate deemed publishable in a reputable journal.
Phi Beta Kappa
Graduated December 2013
In Memoriam
F I RST M A J O RS I N B I O P H YSI CS
Mr. Adam Hatim Attaar
Mr. John T. Canty
Mr. Donald Christian Ellis 636
Mr. Neil Jay Krishnan )%.
Mr. Antonio Kufoy
Mr. Kevin Le
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Mr. Xiangyu Wang
SE C O N D M A J O RS I N B I O P H YSI CS
Mr. Joshua Elliott Lewis 636
Mr. Aashiq Dheeraj
F I RST M A J O RS I N P H YSI CS
Mr. Steven Meyer Demers Ô Mr. Blake Fenton Hament
Ms. Kirsten Elana Kaplan 636 )%.
Ms. Huan Chen Lu
Mr. Jackson Van Horn Matteucci ÔÔ 636 )%. Mr. Ryan Alexander McGeehan Ô 636 )%.
Mr. Brandon Robert Meiseles
Mr. Robert James Mello
Mr. Glenn Andrew Palmer 636
Mr. Alec John Petersen
Mr. Ryan Alexander Stribley
SE C O N D M A J O RS I N P H YSI CS
Mr. Kushal Seetharam 636
Mr. Daniel Robert Vitek
Mr. Alexander Wyatt Bloedel
Mr. Christian Lawrence Drappi
Mr. Dennis Karl Li
M I N O RS I N P H YSI CS
Mr. Adam Hatim Attaar
Ms. Maria Arias De Saavedra Benitez
Ms. Virginia Chen
Mr. Brian Timothy Knierim
Mr. Kevin Le
Mr. James Eric Posen
M AST E RS O F A R TS I N P H YSI CS
Ms. Meizhen Shi
D O C T O R O F P H I L OSO P H Y I N P H YSI CS
Dr. Kristine Elizabeth Callan
Dr. Abram Henry Clark, IV
Dr. Seth Daniel Cohen
Dr. Christopher Edward Coleman-Smith
Dr. Ethan Robert Elliott
Dr. Kevin Daniel Finelli
Dr. Yuan Lin
Dr. Jonathan Michael Mueller
Dr. Joshua Wayne Powell
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Dr. Mengyang Sun
Dr. Shangying Wang
Dr. Taritree Michael Wongjirad
Dr. Di-Lun Yang
Dr. Yang Yang
Dr. Qiujian Ye
Dr. Huaixiu Zheng
Dr. Yunhui Zhu
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.
Graduation with Distinction ± Requires a significant thesis with originality and thesis defense.
Physics Honor Society
Phi Beta Kappa
G R A D U A T I O N W I T H D IST I N C T I O N I N M A T H E M A T I CS
A ashiq Dheeraj: Graduation with Distinction ± A Stochastic Spatial Model for Tumor Growth
Joshua M ichael Izzard: Graduation with Distinction ± Rank p2 Representations of Semisimple
Lie Algebras
K athleen L an: Graduation with Distinction ± Coalescing random walks on n-block Markov
chains
L ei L ei: Graduation with Distinction ± Infinite Swapping Si mulated Tempering
Julia Ni: Graduation with Distinction ± A convex approach to tree-based wavelet compression
Jiarou Shen: Graduation with Distinction ± Merge times and hitting times of ti meinhomogeneous Markov chains
Daniel L eeco Stern: Graduation with Highest Distinction ± Low-Order Lagrangians Depending
on a Metric and a Matter F ield of Arbitrary Rank
Daniel Robert V itek : Graduation with Distinction ± Knot Contact Homology and the
Augmentation Polynomial
A lexander Joseph W ertheim: Graduation with Distinction ± Complex Multiplication on Elliptic
Curves
L uxi W ei: Graduation with Distinction ± Modeling Credit Risk Incorporating Credit Rating and
an Environmental F actor
G R A D U A T I O N W I T H D IST I N C T I O N I N P H YSI CS
Steven Demers: Graduation with Distinction ± DNA Origami Nanofabrication of Plasmonic
Structures and S ERS Burning
Jackson M atteucci: Graduation with High Distinction ± Characterization of =ȖDQG=ȖȖ
Production as Observed in Proton-Proton Collisions at 8 TeV
Ryan M c G eehan: Graduation with Distinction ± Noise-induced Nucleation in a Bistable Tunnel
Diode Circuit