AAS Survey 1994-2005

Statistics
  2007 -08 2006 -07 2005 -06 2004 -05 2003 -04 2002 -03 2001 -02 2000 -01 1999 -2000 1998 -99 1997 -98 1996 -97 1995 -96 1994 -95 1993 -94
Number of applicants 88 71 89 55 68 65 49 50 53 37 46 46 30 44 30
Number enrolled 28 24 25 24 20 23 20 15 13 12 14 15 16 16 17
Entering students 7 4 6 7 1 3 8 4 4 4 1 4 3 2 3
Number graduating with Master's 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1
Number graduating with Ph.D.'s 3 3 4 2 4 1 1 0 3 3 2 1 3 3 1
Number of years to Ph.D. completion 6 6 6 6 7.5 7 8 NA 6 7 6 5 5 5 5
Currently there are 17 (61%) men and 11 (39%) women in the graduate program.


Teaching and Research Assistants
Percentage of students supported on T.A.'s 36 33 48 33 20 43 50 47 62 33 36 47 50 50 41
Percentage of students supported on R.A.'s 64 67 52 67 80 57 50 53 38 58 57 47 38 38 53
Percentage of self-supported Ph.D students - - - - - - - 0 8 7 6 6 6 6 -
Percentage of students on leave - - - - - - - - - - - 6.25 6.25 - -

Career Paths
Each circle represents one graduate. Complete career histories are indicated, with past positions shown below the current position. In the last ten years (1997-2006), 22 students from the Departments of Astronomy and Physics have received the PhD working with Astronomy Faculty members. Eight of these are now in permanent or tenure-track faculty positions, 15 are in post doctoral positions, and two have left the field, mostly for the computing or financial services industries.
2007
  • Post Doc, Cambridge Benjamin Johnson
  • Post Doc, Caltech Andreea Petric
  • Post Doc, Caltech Michel Zamojski


2006
  • Post Doc, Princeton Moo Kwang (Ryan) Joung
  • Post Doc, Yale Andrei Mesinger
  • Post Doc, Jansky Fellow (UMASS) Aeree Chung


2005
  • Post Doc, Caltech Eliat Gilkman
  • Associate Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins Suvi Gezari
    ... Post Doc, Caltech & Marsellies
  • Post Doc, Harvard Yuexing Li
  • Post Doc, Harvard Mark Dijkstra
    ... Post Doc, Melbourne & Harvard


2004
  • Post Doc, University of Arizona Jacob Noel-Storr
  • Post Doc, Columbia University Nestor Mirabel
    ... Post Doc, University of Michigan
  • Post Doc, CITA (Toronto) Tzu-Ching Chang
    ... Post Doc, University of California, Berkeley
  • Asst. Prof., Gaucher College Benjamin Sugerman
    ... Post Doc, STScI
  • Research Scientish, Caltech J. Don Neill III
    ... Post Doc, University of Victoria, British Columbia


2003
  • left field Akimi Fujita
    ... Post Doc, University of California, Santa Barbara


2002
  • Research Scientist, Center for Biomathematical Sciences Robert Uglesich


2001
  • None


2000
  • Financial Services Edgar Smith


1999
  • Assistant Professor, Boston University Elizabeth Blanton
    ... Chandra Fellow, University of Virginia  
    ... Post Doc, University of Virginia  
    ... Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon (SDSS)  
  • McKinsey and Company Ari Buchalter
    ... Caltech Prize Fellowship  


1998
  • Sr. Lecturer, University of the Western Cape Catherine Cress
    ... Lecturer, Natal University
    ... Post Doc, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Munich  
  • Lecturer, Oxford University, UK Adrianne Slyz
    ... Post Doc, Oxford University, UK
    ... Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg  
  • Research Scientist, Caltech Karl Foster
    ... Post Doc, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics  
  • Post Doc, Technion, Haifa, Israel O. Matt Umurhan
    ... Post Doc, Stanford University  


1997
  • Tenured Faculty, Saclay, Paris Alexandre Refregier
    ... Post Doc, Cambridge University
    ... Post Doc, Princeton University
  • left field Eugene Thomas
    ... Assistant Professor, St. John's College, Santa Fe
  • Assistant Professor, Columbia University David Schiminovich
    ... Post Doc, Cal Tech
  • Post Doc, Goddard Space Flight Center Ilana Harrus
    ... Post Doc, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics


1996
  • Financial Services Yihu Fang
  • Post Doc (Biology) Sophia Yancopoulos
    ... Visiting Asst. Prof., Vassar College
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York Hayley Richman
    ... Moore Capital
    ... Goldman-Sachs


1995
  • Staff Scientist, NRAO   John Hibbard
    ... Jansky Fellow, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
    ... Hubble Fellow, University of Hawaii
    *** Winner of the Trumpler Award, given annually for the best Ph.D. Dissertation in North America
  • Scientific Staff, US Naval Observatory Robert Olling
    ... Post Doc, Rutgers University  
    ... Post Doc, Southampton University, UK  
  • Computing industry Xiaoming Fan
  • Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University Edward Moran
    ... Chandra Fellow, University of California, Berkeley  
    ... Post Doc, University of California, Berkeley  
    ... IGPP Fellow, University of California  
  • Assistant Professor, Montclair State College, NJ Philip Yecko
    ... Assistant Professor, Biosphere2, Columbia University
    ... Lecturer, Dublin
    ... Post Doc, Paris
    ... Post Doc, University of Florida (Physics)


1994
  • Assistant Professor, St. Andrews University, Scotland Hongsheng Zhao
    ... Post Doc, Cambridge, England
    ... Post Doc, Leiden University, Netherlands
  • ... Post Doc, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Munich


1993
  • Research Scientist, Columbia University Eric Gotthelf
    ... Staff Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University Kun Xu
    ... Post Doc, Princeton University
  • left field James Terman
    .. Post Doc, Northwestern University
  • Psychological Services Pauline McMahon
    ... Post Doc, MIT  


1992
  • Publishing Editor, Elsevier Publishers Michiel Kolman
    ... Science Editor, Kluwer Publishers
  • Post Doc, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Labs Sandip Ghosal
    ... Post Doc, NASA Ames Research Center
  • Associate Professor, Penn State University Michael Eracleous
    ... Assistant Professor, Penn State University
    ... Hubble Fellow, UC Berkeley
    ... Post Doc, Space Telescope Science Institute
  • Engineering Binbin Hu


1991
  • Lecturer, Princeton University Neil Tyson
    ... Director, Hayden Planetarium  
    ... Post Doc, Princeton University  

1990
  • left field Xioayi Wu
    ... Post Doc, University of Washington, Seattle
    ... Staff Scientist, Center for EUV Astrophysics, Berkeley
  • Professor, University of Massachusetts Q. Daniel Wang
    ... Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts
    ... Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts
    ... Assistant Research Professor, Northwestern University
    ... Lindheimer Fellow, Northwestern University
    ... Hubble Fellow, University of Colorado
    *** Winner of the Trumpler Award, given annually for the best Ph.D. Dissertation in North America
  • Research Staff, UCLA Saeid Zoonematkermani
    ... Staff Scientist, SUNY Stony Brook  
    ... Post Doc, SUNY Stony Brook  


Of the 17 Astronomy Graduates in the preceding twelve years back to 1978, seven now hold tenured faculty or research positions in Astronomy and eight are in other staff-level postions in Astronomy or related fields.