We are pleased to announce the incoming class for our PhD program. The new students, arriving in Fall 2011, are: Maria Charisi (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece), Ricardo Fernandez (University of California Santa Cruz), David Hendel (University of North Carolina), Miao Li (Jilin University, China), Jia Liu (Columbia University), and Adrian Price-Whelan (New York University). In addition, we will welcome a Master's student this Fall: Marco Machado (Columbia College).
This is also a good occassion to wish the best to our graduating grad students:
Kathryn Kreckel did her thesis work with Jacqueline van Gorkom on the nature of void galaxies. Kathryn accepted a postdoctoral position at Max Planck in Heidelberg to work with Eva Schinnerer.
Alexander Smith worked with John Kymissis (Dept. of Electrical Engineering) on a Master's thesis on organic solar cells. He is moving on to Northwestern University, to do a PhD in electrincal engineering in this topic.
Taka Tanaka worked with Zoltan Haiman and Kristen Menou on supermassive black holes binaries in gas-rich environments. Taka accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in Rashid Sunyaev's high energy group at the Max Planck Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Garching, Germany.
Ivan Zalamea worked with Kristen Menou and Andrei Beloborodov (Physics Department) on various topics in accretion theory. He is moving to a postdoctoral position at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany.
Neil Zimmerman worked with Ben Oppenheimer (AMNH), on developing the capability of high-contrast observations with an imaging spectrograph Neil will be taking up a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.
Nithyanandan Thyagarajan worked with David Helfand on radio variable sources in the FIRST survey. He is now a postdoc at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India.
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