Ph. D. Recipients, Last Ten Years
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Toledo

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Astronomy/Astrophysics
Last Name	First Name	Ph.D. Received	Dissertation Title	Adviser	Employment as of December 2007
Cantor	Bruce	2000 May	Martian Dust Storms: 1999 Mars Orbiter Camera Observations	P. B. James	Malin Space Science Systems (San Diego, CA)
Smith	Tracy	2000 August	The Photoluminescence of Interstellar Dust and Laboratory Dust Analogs	A. N. Witt	Space Science Institute-Columbus (Columbus, OH)
Zsargó	János	2000 December	Constraints for Models of CH+ Production and Non-Thermal Chemistry in Diffuse Interstellar Clouds	S. R. Federman	Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, U. of Pittsburgh
Knauth	David	2001 December	An Ultra-High Resolution Survey of the Interstellar 7Li-to-6Li Ratio in the Solar Neighborhood	S. R. Federman	Research Associate, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern U.
Pan	Kaike	2002 December	Cloud Structure and Physical Conditions in Star-Forming Regions from Optical Observations	S. R. Federman	Deputy crew leader, Apache Point Obs. (Sloan Digital Sky Survey II)
Mihaylov	Ivaylo	2003 December	Monte Carlo Radiaton Hydrodynamics in the Winds of Massive Stars	J. Bjorkman	U. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Dept. of Radiation Oncology
Vijh	Uma	2005 August	Photoluminescence by Interstellar Dust	A. N. Witt	Research Assistant Professor, U. Toledo
Wisniewski	John	2005 December	The Effect of Age and Metallicity on Be Circumstellar Disk Formation	K. S. Bjorkman	Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Bonev	Boncho	2005 December	Towards a Chemical Taxonomy of Comets: Infrared Spectroscopic Methods for Quantitative Measurements of Cometary Water	P. B. James & M. J. Mumma	Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Benson	Jennifer	2006 December	Properties of Water Ice Clouds over Major Martian Volcanoes Observed by MOC	P. B. James
Horne	David	2007 May	A Method to Obtain Thermal Spectra of Martian Dust Storms over Cold Polar Surfaces	L. S. Anderson P. B. James	Postdoctoral Fellow, U. Missouri St. Louis
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Last Name	First Name	Ph.D. Received	Dissertation Title	Adviser	Employment as of December 2007
Piryatinski	Andrei	1997 December	Nonlinear Absorption and Luminescence in Organic Molecular Crystals	R. T. Deck & N. Iwamoto	Center for Nonlinear Studies/T-12, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mirkov	Mirko	1998 May	Design and Analysis of Optical Waveguide Elements in Planar Geometry	B. G. Bagley & R. T. Deck	Cynosure, Inc. (Westford, MA)
Sala	Anca	1998 May	Propagation and Switching of Light In Rectangular Waveguiding Structures	R. T. Deck & B. G. Bagley	Chair of Engineering, Baker College, Flint MI
Matulioniene	Rasa	1999 August	Angular Momentum Algebra for Symbolic Expansions in Atomic Structure Theory	D. G. Ellis	EMC Corp. (Hopkinton, MA)
Sikorski	Yuri	2000 August	Design, Fabrication and Analysis of Integrated Optical Waveguide Devices	B. G. Bagley & R. T. Deck	Assistant Prof. of Applied Physics, Kettering U.
Shvidky	Oleksandr	2002 December	Dynamics of a Plane Barrier Discharge	C. E. Theodosiou	Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester
Anisimov	Igor	2003 May	Photonic Integrated Circuits: Trimming, Tuning and Characterization	B. G. Bagley & R. T. Deck	Staff Scientist, Wright-Patterson Research Lab.
Andaloro	Richard	2003 May	Refractometry Using Beam Profile Reshaping with Surface Waves and its Applications to Bioassay	R. T. Deck & H. J. Simon	Assistant Prof. of Physics, Urbana Univ., Urbana OH
Polomarov	Oleg	2005 May	Fast Kinetic Modelling of Low Pressure Inductively-Coupled Discharges	C. E. Theodosiou	Research Associate, U. of Texas, Austin
Hodges	Gregory	2005 December*	Measurements of Total Cross Sections of the n = 2 Excitation of Helium from the Impact of 10-25 keV Protons	T. J. Kvale	Visiting Prof., U. of Findlay
Chen	Guangzhou	2005 August	Analysis and Design of Planar Waveguide Elements for Use in Filters and Sensors	B. G. Bagley & R. T. Deck	Senior system engineer, LinkQuest Inc., San Diego, CA
Sosov	Yuriy	2006 May	Legendre Polynomial Expansion of the Electron Boltzmann Equation Applied to the Discharge in Argon	C. E. Theodosiou	Merck & Co. Inc. Pharmaceuticals
*Ph. D. with medical physics option
Biological Physics & Medical Physics
Last Name	First Name	Ph.D. Received	Dissertation Title	Adviser	Employment as of December 2007
Szabo	Attila	1997 June	Spectroscopic and Calorimetric Investigation of [(bipy)Pt(en)]2+ and Dauomycin-induced Conformational Transitions in DNA	S. A. Lee	Programmer Analyst, Crutchfield Corp (Charlottesville, VA)
Li	Jun	2004 December*	Analysis of Dose Characteristics from Beveled Applicators in Intra-Operative Radiation Therapy (IORT) Using Monte Carlo Simulation, Wellhofer Measurement and Film Dosimetry	E. I. Parsai & S. A. Lee	Assistant Prof., Medical Physics, Medical U. of S. Carolina
*Ph. D. with medical physics option
Condensed Matter/Materials Physics
Last Name	First Name	Ph.D. Received	Dissertation Title	Adviser	Employment as of December 2007
Grecu	Dan	1999 August	Photoluminescence Study of Cu-doped CdTe and Related Stability Issues for CdS/CdTe Solar-Cell Devices	A. D. Compaan
Shvydka	Diana	2002 May	Physical Characterization of CdTe/CdS Photovoltaics: Defects, Fields, and Micrononuniformities	A. D. Compaan	Postdoctoral Research Assoc. Radiation Oncology, U. Toledo Medical Center
Matulionis	Ilvydas	2002 May	Superstrate and Substrate Type CdTe Solar Cells and Monolithic Integration of Photovoltaic Modules	A. D. Compaan	MV Systems, Golden, CO
Povolny	Henry	2003 May	Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Devices Deposited by Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition	X. Deng	Lam Research, Fremont CA
Yu	Jianguo	2003 August	Multiscale Simulations of Thin-Film Growth	J. G. Amar	Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Mat. Sci. and Eng., University of Florida
Chen	Yu-Sheng	2004 May	Transferability of Electronic Structure of Four Energetic Materials by using Single Crystal and High Resolution X-ray Diffraction Experiments	A. Pinkerton (UT, Chem.)	Research Associate, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.
Liu	XiangXin	2005 December	Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) and Photoluminescence Studies of CdTe Material	A. D. Compaan	Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics & Astr., University of Toledo
Drayton	Jennifer	2005 December	Studies of rf sputtered ZnTe:N and CdS for photovoltaic applications	A. D. Compaan	Primestar Solar, Longmont Co.
Du	Wenhui	2005 December	Study of p-Type and Intrinsic Materials for Amorphous Silicon Based Solar Cells	X. Deng	Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics & Astr., University of Toledo
Podraza	Nikolas	2008 May	Real Time Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of the Growth and Phase Evolution of Thin Film Hydrogenated Silicon-Germanium Alloys	R. W. Collins	Research Assistant Professor, Materials Research Institute, Penn State

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