People
The Department of Astronomy family at the University of
Florida is formed by an excellent group of people among which we find Faculty, Staff, Post-Docs, Graduate
Students, Undergraduate
Students
and Alumni.
Alumni Ph.D.
| Ph.D. Recipient |
Dissertation | Date | Chair |
| Crepp, Justin |
Aug-08 |
J. Ge |
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| Edwards, Michelle L. |
Aug-08 |
S. Eikenberry |
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| Mikles, Valerie J. |
Aug-08 |
S. Eikenberry |
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| Van Eyken, Julian |
Understanding and Reducing Dispersed Fixed-Delay
Interferometric Data for Extrasolar Planet Searches |
Dec-07 |
J. Ge |
| Barker, Mike |
The Stellar Populations of M33's Outer Regions |
Dec-07 |
A. Sarajedini |
| Vass, Ileana |
Studies of Mixing and Relaxation in Time-Dependent Collisionless Dynamical Systems |
Dec-07 |
S. Gottesman & Valluri M. |
| Mariñas, Naibí |
May-07 |
C. Telesco |
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| Clark, David M. |
May-07 |
S. Eikenberry |
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| Mahadevan, Suvrath. |
Dec-06 |
J. Ge |
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| Grocholski, Aaron J. |
Dec-06 |
A. Sarajedini |
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| Levine, Joanna L. |
Dec-06 |
E. Lada |
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| McKEnzie, Eric H. |
Aug-06 |
A. Gonzalez |
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| Román
Zúñiga, Carlos |
Feb-06 |
E.A. Lada |
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| Warner, Craig |
Metallicities,
Black Holes Masses, and Emission Line Properties of Quasars |
Aug-04 |
F. Hamman |
| Ratay,
Douglas |
A
Multi-wavelength Survey of Barred, Flocculent Galaxies |
Aug-04 |
S.T.
Gottesman |
| Novotny,
Steven |
The
Application of Secular Perturbation Theory to Explain Warping in the
Circumstellar Disk of Beta Pictoris |
Dec-03 |
S.F.
Dermott |
| Moth,
Pimol |
Surface
Brightness Profiles & Color Gradients of Galaxies in the Hubble
Deep Fields North & South |
Dec-03 |
R.J.
Elston |
| Boonyasait, Veera | Structures
in Dynamics of NGC3359 |
Dec-03 |
S.T.
Gottesman |
| Radomski, James T. | High Resolution Mid Infrared Imaging of Active Galactic Nuclei | May-03 | F.W. Hamann |
| Muench, August A. | A Study of the Luminosity and Mass Functions of Very Young Stellar Clusters | Dec-02 | E.A. Lada |
| Sideris, Ioannis V. | The Validity of the Continuum Limit in the Smooth Potential Description of N-Body Systems | Aug-02 | H.E. Kandrup |
| Holmes, Elizabeth K. | Signatures of Planets: Observations and Modeling of Structure in the Zodiacal Cloud and Kuiper Disk | May-02 | S.F. Dermott |
| Valdemarsson, K.W. Tomas | Electromagnetic Scattering by Flakes of Arbitrary Refractive Index: Theory, Experiment and Application | Dec-01 | B.Å.S. Gustafson |
| Vaccaro, Todd R. | H Alpha Fluorescence in UV Active Binaries | May-01 | R.E. Wilson |
| Hueckstaedt, Rob | A Computational Study of Interfacial Instabilities in the Interstellar Medium | Aug-01 | Jim Hunter |
| Fisher, Robert S. | Searching the Solar Neighborhood for Protoplanetary Debris Disks: A Survey of Vega-Like Sources and a Discussion of New Disk Examples | Aug-01 | C.M. Telesco |
| Thomas-Osip, Joanna E. | Modeling The Aerosols In The Atmosphere of Titan | May-01 | B.Å.S. Gustafson |
| Haisch, Karl E., Jr. | An Investigation of Circumstellar Disk Properties in Cluster Environments | Dec-00 | E.A. Lada |
| Polomski, Elisha F. | The Origin of the Infrared Excess of Herbig Stars. | Dec-00 | C.M. Telesco |
| Lederer, Susan M. | The Chemical and Physical Properties of the OH, CN and C2 Jets in Comet Hale-Bopp (1995 01) | Dec-00 | H. Campins |
| Jones, Lauren V. | An Investigation of the Source of the Far Infrared Radiation in Spiral Galaxies Using Near Infrared Hydrogen Recombination Lines as a Probe of Star Formation | Aug-00 | R.J. Elston |
| De Buizer, James M. | A Mid-Infrared Imaging Survey of Star Forming Regions Containing Water and Methanol Maser Emission | Aug-00 | R.K. Piña |
| Wyatt, Mark C. | Signatures of Planets in the Observable Structure of Circumstellar Debris Disks | Dec-99 | S.F. Dermott |
| Siopis, Christos | Nonuniqueness and Structural Stability of Self-Consistent Models of Elliptical Galaxies | May-99 | H.E. Kandrup |
| Spahr, Timothy B. | Debiasing the Main Belt Asteroid Population | May-98 | S.F. Dermott |
| Grogan, Keith | The Effects of Dust Particles Size and Composition on Zodiacal Cloud Models | Dec-97 | S.F. Dermott |
| Laine, Seppo J. | Observations and Modeling of the Gas Dynamics of the Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 7479 | Dec-96 | S.T. Gottesman |
| Kortenkamp, Stephen J. | Accretion of Interplanetary Dust Particles by the Earth | Dec-96 | S.F. Dermott |
| Garcia, Leonard N. | Long-Term Periodicities in the Jovian Decametric Emission | Dec-96 | T.D. Carr |
| Higgins, Charles A | A New Determination of Jupiter's Radio Rotation Period | May-96 | G.R. Lebo |
| Adolfsson, Lars G. | Meteoroid Stream Sources from Dynamic and Probabilistic Trajectory Analysis | May-96 | B.Å.S. Gustafson |
| Simpson,
Caroline E. |
Properties and Observations of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies | Aug-95 | S.T. Gottesman |
| Nair, Achotham D. | CCD Observing and Dynamical Time Series Analysis of Active Galactic Nuclei | Aug-95 | A.G. Smith |
| Osip, David J. | A Comparative Analysis and Taxonomy of Comets | Aug-95 | H. Campins |
| Drimmel, Ronald E. | Numerical Simulation of Viscous Accretion Disks | Aug-95 | J.H. Hunter |
| Morrison, Jane E. | Rereducing the Southern Polar Zone Yale Photographic Star Catalog | Aug-95 | H.K. Eichhorn |
| Jayaraman, Sumita | Resonances Structure of the Zodiacal Cloud | May-95 | S.F. Dermott |
| Wang, Li-Yun | Investigation of Hectometric and Kilometer Radio Emissions From Jupiter and Neptune | Aug-94 | T.D. Carr |
| Terrell, Dirk C. | Circumstellar Hydrodynamics and Spectral Radiation in Algols | Aug-94 | R.E. Wilson |
| Cooke, William J., Jr. | A Distance to the Hyades Using a Least Squares with Probabilistic Constraints | Dec-93 | H.K. Eichhorn |
| Durda, Daniel D. | The Collisional Evolution of the Asteriod Belt and its Contribution to the Zodiacal Cloud | Dec-93 | S.F. Dermott |
| Liou, Jer-Chyi | Dynamical Evolution of Asteroidal and Cometary Particles and their Contribution to the Zodiacal Cloud | Dec-93 | S.F. Dermott |
| Smart, Richard L. | Proper Motions of Stars in the Region of the Orion Association | Dec-93 | H.K. Eichhorn |
| Mukherjee, Jaydeep | Rotation Rates of Algol-Type Binaries from Absorption Line Profiles | Dec-93 | R.E. Wilson |
| Kaufmann, David E. | Self-Consistent Models of Barred Spiral Galaxies | Aug-93 | J.H. Hunter |
| Clements, Sandra D. | Correlation Analysis on Optical and Radio Light Curves for a Large Sample of Active Galactic Nuclei | Aug-92 | A.G. Smith |
| Moore, Elizabeth M. | Numerical Modeling of Barred Spiral Galaxies. | May-92 | J.H. Hunter |
| Mahon, Mary E. | Prograde Anomalous Orbits in Triaxial Gravitational Potentials That Rotate about the Long Axis: VLA Neutral Hydrogen Observations and Modeling of the Inclined Rings Around the Galaxies NGC 2685 and NGC 660. | May-92 | S.T. Gottesman |
| Owen, William M., Jr. | A Theory of the Earth's Precession Relative to the Invariable Plane of the Solar System | Dec-90 | H.K. Eichhorn |
| Fitzgibbons, Gregory L. | Visual, Red and Infrared Photographic Surface Photometry of NGC 55 and NGC 253 | Aug-90 | S.T. Gottesman |
| Taylor, Mary Jane | Analysis of Gamma 2 Velorum Photometry from the South Pole | Dec-88 | J.P. Oliver |
| Reyes, Francisco J. | Observations of Pulsars at Low Radio Frequencies | Aug-88 | T.D. Carr |
| Webb, James R. | Analysis of Nearly Simultaneous X-Ray and Optical Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei | Aug-88 | A.G. Smith |
| Xu, Yu-Lin | An Improved Algorith for the Determination of the System Parameters of Visual Binary by Least Squares | Apr- 88 | H.K. Eichhorn |
| Bitran, Mauricio E. | CO in the Galactic Center: A Complete Survey of CO Emission in the Inner 4 Kpc of the Galaxy | Dec-87 | S.T. Gottesman |
| Erickson, Lance K. | Mass Determination of Selected Galaxies from Small Group Statistics | Aug-87 | S.T. Gottesman |
| Cole, Carl S. | Rigorous Compilation of the Northern International Reference Stars | Dec-86 | H.K. Eichhorn |
| England, Martin N. | Kinematics and Dynamics of Barred Spiral Galaxies | Dec-86 | S.T. Gottesman |
| Rusk, Edwin T. | Dynamics of Interplanetary Dust in the F Corona | Apr- 86 | N. Misconi |
| St. Cyr., O. Chris | Jupiter's Decameter and Kilometer Emission: Satellite Effects and Long Term Periodicities | Dec-85 | T.D. Carr |
| Schneider, Glenn H. | The Observations and Analysis of Lunar Occultations of Star with an Emphasis on Improvements of Data Acquisition Instrumentation and Reduction Techniques | Aug-85 | J.P. Oliver |
| Wang, Wan-Xian | An Observationally Compatible Model for Jupiter's Io-Related Decametric Emission | May-85 | T.D. Carr |
| Kang, Young W. | Starspot Cycles of RS Canum Venaticorium Type Stars | May-85 | F.B. Wood |
| Ball, John R. | Gas Dynamics of the Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 3359 | Aug-84 | S.T. Gottesman / J.H. Hunter |
| Hoffman, Sara W. | Variations of the H and K Calcium in the Eclipsing Binary Star System Lacertae | Dec-83 | J.P. Oliver |
| Pica, Andrew J. | Optical and Radio Properties of QSOs as a Function of Absolute Luminosity | Aug-82 | A.G. Smith |
| Pollock, Joseph T. | The Morphology and Energetics of Discreet Optical Events in Compact Extragalactic Sources | May-82 | A.G. Smith |
| Caton, Daniel B. | An Analysis of Light Variations of RS Canum Venaticorum Binary Systems | Aug-81 | J.P. Oliver |
| Edwards, Patricia L. | Optical Brightness Variations in a Sample of Nineteen Radio-quiet Quasi-stellar Objects | Mar-81 | A.G. Smith |
| Johnson, William D. | A Study of the Interstellar Medium of NGC 185 and Other Early-Type Galaxies | Aug-80 | S.T. Gottesman |
| Florkowski, David R. | Near Infrared and Radio Observations of Selected Close Binary Stars | Jun-80 | K-Y Chen |
| Twigg, Lawrence W. | An Investigation of the Rossiter Effect in Algol-Type Eclipsing Binary Systems | Dec-79 | R.E. Wilson |
| Gordon, David | A Neutral Hydrogen Survey of Blue Compact Galaxies | Dec-79 | S.T. Gottesman |
| Parise, Ronald A. | A Detailed Investigation of the MGII K Line in Beta Persei | Aug-79 | K-Y Chen |
| West, John K. | Evolution of Pre-Main-Sequence Binary Star Systems | Jun-79 | K-Y Chen |
| Ludington, Elwyn W. | A Photometric Study of RS Canum Venaticorum Including Critical Analysis of the Distortation Wave and Period Variation | Dec-78 | J.P. Oliver |
| Killian, David J. | Tidal Interactions Between M81, M82, and NGC 3077 | Aug-78 | S.T. Gottesman |
| Jackman, Charles H. | Spatial and Energetic Aspects of Electron Energy Deposition | Aug-78 | A.E. Green |
| Rafert, J. Bruce | Mass and Momentum Exchange in Close Binary Systems | Mar-78 | R.E. Wilson |
| Markworth, Norman L. | Observations and Analysis of U Cephei | Aug-77 | F.B. Wood |
| Maloney, Frank P. | Lunar Occultation Observations of the Crab Nebula | Aug-77 | S.T. Gottesman |
| Fleck, Robert C. | Magnetic Braking During Star Formation | Aug-77 | J.H. Hunter |
| Pomphrey, Richard B. | Search for Correlated Radio and Optical Events in Long-term Studies of Extragalactic Sources | Mar-77 | A.G. Smith |
| Desch, Michael D. | Groundbased and Spacecraft Studies of Jupiter at Decameter and Hectometer Wavelengths | Aug-76 | T.D. Carr |
| Krauche, Dolores S. | High Resolution Spectral Analysis of the Jovian Decametric Radiation | Dec-75 | G.R. Lebo |
| Flesch, Terry R. | Flare Related Color Effects in UV Ceti Stars | Dec-75 | F.B. Wood |
| Fallon, Frederick W. | Stellar Motions in the Orion Nebula Cluster | Aug-75 | H.K. Eichhorn |
| Seacord, Andrew W. III | Radio Spectral Line Studies of the Interstellar Medium in the Galactic Plane | Aug-75 | S.T. Gottesman |
| Scott, Roger L. | Photographic Studies of Quasi Stellar Objects and Other Active Radio Sources | Mar-75 | A.G. Smith |
| Mullen, Elisabeth F. | The Formation of a Contact Binary Star System | Aug-74 | K-Y Chen |
| Harvel, Christopher A. | Radioactive Transfer in Circumstellar Dust | Aug-74 | F.B. Wood |
| Endal, Andrew S. | The Advanced Evolution of a 15 Solar Mass Star | Aug-74 | K-Y Chen |
| Martins, Donald H. | UBVRI Photometry of Variable Red Dwarf Emission Objects | Mar-74 | F.B. Wood |
| Capone, Louis A. | Some Studies of the Jovian Upper Atmosphere | Aug-73 | Prasad |
| Bloomer, Raymond H., Jr. | Photoelectric Investigations of AA Ceti and UZ Puppis | Jun-73 | K-Y Chen |
| Hackney, Karen R.H. | Three Color Photographic Photometry of Active Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources | Mar-73 | A.G. Smith |
| Morgan, Thomas H. | Fluid Dynamics of Circumstellar Material Associated with Be Stars | Dec-72 | A.G. Smith |
| Hackney, Richard L. | Optical Behavior of Peculiar Extragalactic Radio Sources | Aug-72 | A.G. Smith |
| Williamon, Richard M. | Photoelectric Study of EE Aquari and AE Phoenicis | Jun-72 | K-Y Chen |
| Rudnick, Ian S. | Majoris Systems | Jun-72 | F.B. Wood |
| Lynch, Michael A. | Observations of Jupiter's Decametric Radiation with a Very-Long-Baseline Interferometer | Jun-72 | T.D. Carr |
| Leacock, Robert J. | An Extended Analysis of Certain Features of Jupiter's Decametric Emission | Aug-71 | A.G. Smith |
| Olsson, Carl N. | Analytical Studies of Selected Jovian Decametric Phenomena | Dec-70 | A.G. Smith |
| Folsom, George H. III | Optical Variations of Quasars and Related Galaxies | Dec-70 | A.G. Smith |
| Lipofsky, Barton J. | Single Scattering of Light by Ply-Dispersed Aerosols | Aug-70 | A.E. Green |
| Donivan, Frank, Jr. | Radio Investigations of Clusters of Galaxies | Aug-70 | T.D. Carr |
| Brown, G. Wayne | Long Baseline Interferometry of Jupiter's Decametric Radiation | Aug-70 | T.D. Carr |
Last Updated 01.Sep.2007
