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Commencement 2007
Comedian Bill Cosby, the keynote speaker. |
The 110th commencement at Carnegie Mellon University took place May 19-20, 2007.
Bill Cosby, an award-winning comedian, actor, author and recording artist well
known for his commitment to education, delivered the keynote address at the
main ceremony on the morning of Sunday, May 20 in Gesling Stadium with good
weather conditions. Five other honorary degree recipients joined him on the
commencement stage: Helen S. Faison, Wilton A. Hawkins (E'48), Paolo Lugari,
Gerald C. Meyers (E'50, TPR'54), and Earl Wild (A'37). Catherine Scudera, a
Science and Humanities Scholar who received a bachelor's degree in psychology
and creative writing with a minor in religious studies, was the student speaker.
More than 2,100 undergraduate and graduate degrees were conferred at this year's
commencement.
The hooding ceremony for Doctor of Philosophy in Physics occurred
during the evening of Saturday, May 19. The five recipients in attendance are
pictured below.
Dr. Adam Lichtl (left) with advisor Prof. Colin Morningstar. |
Dr. Gauri Kulkarni (left) with Prof. Fred Gilman. |
Dr. Michael Watkins (right) with advisor Prof. Roy Briere. |
Dr. Daniel Bock (left) with advisor Prof. Jeffrey Peterson. |
Dr. Vivek Tiwari (left) with advisor Prof. Manfred Paulini. |
The distribution of diplomas took place in Wean Hall 7500 during the afternoon
of Sunday, May 20. The degrees in physics conferred during the ceremony are
listed below.
Dr. Daniel Bock (center) receives his diploma from
Prof. Manfred Paulini (left) and Prof. Fred Gilman (right). |
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
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Daniel Bock
| | Thesis title: |
Superconducting Nanowire Bolometers
| | Advisor: |
Jeffrey Peterson
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Yi Ding
| | Thesis title: |
Phase Transformation of FePt Nanoparticles
| | Advisor: |
Sara Majetich
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Alexander Fore
| | Thesis title: |
Lattice Boltzmann Model for Dynamics of Nearly Immiscible Fluids in Porous Media
| | Advisor: |
Robert Sekerka
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Panchapakesan Ganesh
| | Thesis title: |
First-Principles Study of Liquid and Amorphous Metals
| | Advisor: |
Michael Widom
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Young-Rae Kim
| | Thesis title: |
New Probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
| | Advisor: |
Rupert Croft
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Zebulun Krahn
| | Thesis title: |
A Partial Wave Analysis of Eta and Eta' Meson Photoproduction using CLAS
at Jefferson Laboratory
| | Advisor: |
Curtis Meyer
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Gauri Kulkarni
| | Thesis title: |
Measurements and Models of the Three Point
Correlation Function of Luminous Red Galaxies in the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
| | Advisor: |
Robert Nichol
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Adam Lichtl
| | Thesis title: |
Quantum Operator Design for Lattice Baryon Spectoscopy
| | Advisor: |
Colin Morningstar
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Kivanc Sabirli
| | Thesis title: |
Confirmation of Self-Similar Evolution in the X-ray Luminosity-Temperature
Scaling Relation of Clusters of Galaxies
| | Advisor: |
Kathy Romer
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