Ph.D.'s Awarded by Caltech,
with Thorne as the Thesis Advisor |
- William Morris Kinnersley
"Type D Gravitational Fields," July 8, 1968 [Co-advisor: Jon Mathews].
- Kenneth Charles Jacobs
"Bianchi Type I Cosmological Models," October 1, 1968.
- James Reid Ipser
"The Stability of Relativistic, Spherically Symmetric Star Clusters," April 21, 1969.
- William Lionel Burke
"The Coupling of Gravitational Radiation to Nonrelativistic Sources," May 22, 1969.
- Clifford Martin Will
"Theoretical Frameworks for Testing Relativistic Gravity; The Parametrized Post-Newtonian Formalism," May 14, 1971.
- Richard H. Price
"Nonspherical Perturbations of Relativistic Gravitational Collapse," 1971.
- Bernard Frederick Schutz, Jr.
"Relativistic Velocity-Potential Hydrodynamics and Stellar Stability," August 10, 1971.
- John Joseph Dykla
"Conserved Quantities and the Formation of Black Holes in the Brans-Dicke Theory of Gravitation," September 28, 1972.
- William Henry Press
"Applications of Black-Hole Perturbation Techniques," October 20, 1972.
- Wei-Tou Ni
"Metric Theories of Gravity and Their Astrophysical Implications," September 11, 1972.
- Saul Arno Teukolsky
"Perturbations of a Rotating Black Hole," July 19, 1973.
- David Li Lee
"Frameworks for Analyzing and Testing Theories of Gravity," April 22, 1974.
- Alan Paige Lightman
"I. Time-Dependent Accretion Disks Around Compact Objects and
II. Theoretical Frameworks for Analyzing and Testing Gravitation Theories," February 1974.
- Don Nelson Page
"Accretion into and Emission from Black Holes," May 20, 1976. [Co-advisor: Stephen W. Hawking].
- Sándor Janos Kovács, Jr.
"The Generation of Gravitational Waves," May 27, 1977.
- Walter De Logi
"Electromagnetic Wave Generation and Propagation in Gravitational Fields," March 1, 1978 [Co-advisor: Charles H. Papas].
- Carlton Morris Caves
"Theoretical Investigations of Experimental Gravitation," May 8, 1979.
- Mark Edward Zimmermann
"Studies on Gravitational Waves and Stars with Neutron Cores," December 10, 1979.
- Richard Alan Flammang
"Stationary Spherical Optically Thick Accretion into Black Holes," January 4, 1982.
- Yekta Gürsel
"Stability of Spherically Symmetric, Charged Black Holes and Multipole Moments for Stationary Systems," July 12, 1982.
- Ian H. Redmount
"Topics in Black-Hole Physics: Geometric Constraints on Noncollapsing, Gravitating Systems and Tidal Distortions of a Schwarzschild Black Hole," September 23, 1983.
- Douglas Alan Macdonald
"Black-Hole Electrodynamics," November 7, 1983.
- Bonny L. Schumaker
"Theoretical Investigations in Nonlinear Quantum Optics, Theory of Measurement, and Pulsations of General Relativistic Models of Neutron Stars," May 15, 1985.
[Co-advisor: Carlton M. Caves].
- Wai-Mo Suen
"Dynamical Electromagnetic Fields Near Black Holes and Multipole Moments of Stationary, General Relativistic Systems," May 21, 1985.
- Lee Samuel Finn
"Relativistic Stellar Pulsations," May 11, 1987.
- Michael S. Morris
"The R + \epsilon R 2 Cosmology," May 20, 1988.
- Ulvi Yurtsever
"Singularities and Horizons in the Collisions of Gravitational Waves," September 26, 1988.
- Xiao-He Zhang
"Multipole Moments in General Relativity and Dynamical Perturbations of Black-Hole Magnetospheres," June 13, 1989.
- Gunnar Klinkhammer
"Multiply Connected Spacetimes and Closed Timelike Curves in Semiclassical Gravity," May 15, 1992.
- Fernando Echeverria
"Topics in General Relativity: Gravitational-Wave Measurements of Black-Hole Parameters, Gravitational Collapse
of a Cylindrical Body, and Classical-Particle Evolution in the Presence of Closed Timelike Curves," August 3, 1992.
- Garrett Biehle
"Studies of Stars with Neutron Cores and of X-Ray Binaries Displaying Quasi-periodic Oscillations," October 22, 1992 [Co-advisor: Roger D. Blandford].
- Eanna Flanagan
"Topics in General Relativity: The Hoop Conjecture, and Theoretical Aspects of Gravitational Wave Detection," September 23, 1993.
- Dragoljub Markovic
"Black Holes in the Early Universe, in Compact Binaries, and as Energy Sources inside Solar-Type Stars," February 14, 1994.
- Theocharis A. Apostolatos
"Topics in General Relativity: Naked Singularities, and Theoretical Aspects of Gravitational Waves from Merging, Compact Binaries," November 28, 1994.
- Daniel Kennefick
"Radiation Reaction in Binary Systems in General Relativity, and Controversies
in the History of Gravitational Wave Theory," December 9, 1996;
Awarded Caltech's 1997 Clauser Prize.* [Co-advisor: Diana
L. Barkan].
- Fintan Ryan
"Searching for Black Holes and Other Massive, Compact Bodies Using the Gravitational Waves from Binary Inspirals," May 16, 1997.
- Scott A. Hughes
"Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Aspects of the Theory of Binary Sources and Interferometric Detectors," May 11, 1998.
- Benjamin James Owen
"Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects," May 12, 1998. Awarded
Caltech's 1998 Clauser Prize.* [Co-advisor: Lee Lindblom].
- Yuri Levin
"Topics in Physics and Astrophysics of LIGO," May 21, 1999.
- Teviet Creighton
"From the Big Bang to Tumbleweeds: Analysis of Signals from Relic Gravitons, Neutron Stars, and Terrestrial Gravitational Noise
in Gravitational Wave Detectors," October 22, 1999.
- Michele Vallisneri
"Modeling and Detecting Gravitational Waves from Compact Stellar Objects," May
7, 2002. [Co-advisors: Alessandra Buonanno and Lee Lindblom].
- Yuk Tung Liu
"Dynamical Stability of Nascent Neutron Stars," May 8, 2002
[Co-advisor: Lee Lindblom].
- Kashif Alvi
"Topics in General Relativity: Binary Black Holes and Hyperbolic Formulations of Einstein's Equations," May 21, 2002.
- Patricia Marie Purdue
"Topics in LIGO-Related Physics: Interferometric Speed Meters and Tidal Work," June 18, 2002.
- Yanbei Chen
"Topics of LIGO Physics: Quantum Noise in Advanced Interferometers and Template
Banks for Compact-Binary Inspirals," May 8, 2003. [Co-advisor: Alessandra
Buonanno]
http://etd.caltech.edu/etd/available/etd-05302003-044325/
- Richard O'Shaughnessy
"Topics in gravitational-wave astronomy," July 29, 2003.
http://etd.caltech.edu/etd/available/etd-08052003-161044/
- Yi Pan
"Topics of LIGO physics: Template banks for the inspiral of precessing,
compact binaries, and design of the signal recycling cavity for Advanced
LIGO," May 19, 2006. [Co-advisors: Alessandra Buonanno and Yanbei
Chen]
http://etd.caltech.edu/etd/available/etd-05242006-025220/
- Hua Fang
"Topics
in gravitational physics: Tidal coupling in gravitational wave searches and Mach's
Principle,"
January 9, 2007.
- Geoffrey
Lovelace
"Topics
in Gravitational-Wave
Physics,"
May
14,
2007. [Co-advisors:
Lee
Lindblom
and
Harald
Pfeiffer]
- Ilya Mandel
"The
Three S's of Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Sources, Signals, Searches," June
28, 2007.
- Pavlin Savov
"Topics in Gravitational-Wave Physics," March 17, 2008.
- Chao Li
"Topics
in Theoretical Astrophysics," September 29, 2008 [Co-advisors:
Yanbei Chen and Asantha Cooray].
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