Student Thesis Archive

Advisor:

2019

  • Hyun Lim, “Dynamical Compact Objects in Numerical Relativity,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (PhD Dissertation, August 2019).

2018

  • Ryan Hatch, “The Characteristic Problem in GRMHD,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (Senior Thesis, August 2018).

2012

  • Michael J Besselman, “Advanced Numerical Methods in General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (Masters Thesis, December 2012).
  • Aaron Smith, “How Cosmological Flatness Affects Neutrino Properties,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (Senior Thesis, August 2012).

2010

  • Pedro Acosta, “The Proof of a Mirror Symmetry Conjecture: FJRW-Rings and Landau-Ginzburg Orbifolds,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (Honors Thesis, May 2010).
  • Christopher Bruce Verhaaren, “Charged, Rotating Black Holes in Higher Dimensions,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (Masters Thesis, July 2010).

2009

  • Christopher Verhaaren, “Chaos In General Relativity: Spinning Particle Orbits,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (Senior Thesis, April 2009).

2008

  • Jared Greenwald, “Generating Order 2 And 4 Free-Fermionic Nahe-Based Heterotic Models,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (Senior Thesis, August 2008).
  • Ryan Tanner, “General Relativistic Models Of Rotating Astronomical Objects,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (Senior Thesis, April 2008).

2005

  • Michael P Christenson, “Black Spaghetti: A Numerical Model of Gravitational Collapse in 4 + 1 Spacetime,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (Masters Thesis, July 2005).
  • Craig Ernest Skinfill, “Electromagnetism in Gravitational Collapse,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (Masters Thesis, December 2005).

2004

  • Robert Steven Millward, “Finding Solutions to the Eistein Equations ,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (PhD Dissertation, April 2004).

2003

  • Jay M. Call, “Gravitational Collapse in 2+1 Dimensions with a Dilation Coupled to a Cosmological Constant,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (Honors Thesis, June 2003).

2002

  • Eric Baird, “Gravitational Collapse of a Dilaton,” Advisor: Eric W Hirschmann (Senior Thesis, July 2002).