Ph.D. Theses

SMARTS Ph.D. Theses

• 2019 Silverstein, Michele L. "Sizing Up Red Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood" (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2017 Clements, Tiffany, D. "Nearby M Dwarf Stars and The Wide Main Sequence" (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2017 Chatelain, Joseph P. "De Ilii Coloribus: Photometric Study of the Largest Jupiter Trojan Asteroids" (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2015 Winters, Jennifer G. "Nearby Red Dwarfs & Their Dance Partners: Characterizing More Than 2000 Single & Multiple M Dwarfs Near the Sun" (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2013 Dieterich, Serge B. "Characterization of the Stellar/Substellar Boundary" (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2012 Riedel, Adric R. "Hiding in Plain Sight" (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2012 Richardson, Noel D.  "Spectroscopy and Interferometry of the Winds of Luminous Blue Variables" (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2011 Williams, S.J.  "Optical Spectroscopy of Massive Stars" (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2011 Aragona, C. "Multiwavelength Studies of Gamma-ray Binaries Thesis (PhD) Lehigh University

• 2009 Cantrell, A. G. "Phase Shifts and Nonellipsoidal Light Curves: Challenges from Mass Determinations in X-ray Binary Stars" Thesis (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2009 Dong, S. "Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Microlensing" Thesis (PhD) Ohio State University

• 2009 Poindexter, S. D. "Sharpening the Tools of Gravitational Microlensing" Thesis (PhD) Ohio State University

• 2009 Raghavan, D. "A Survey of Stellar Families: Multiplicity of Solar-Type Stars" Thesis (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2009 Trippe, M.L. "A Multi-Wavelength Investigation of Seyfert 1.8 and 1.9 Galaxies" Thesis (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2008 Cobb, B.E. "Long-term observations of GRBs: the complex connection between GRBs and SNe" Thesis (PhD) Yale University

• 2008 Morgan, C.W. "Quasar Structure from Microlensing in Gravitationally Lensed Quasars" Thesis (PhD) Ohio State University

• 2008 Ryle, W.T. "The Link Between the Optical Variability of Blazars and their Black Hole Engines" Thesis (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2007 Dunn, J.P. "Intrinsic Absorption with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer" Thesis (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2007 Subasavage, J.P. "White Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood" Thesis (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2006 Marshall, K. "The X-ray Variability of Seyfert Galaxies" Thesis (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2006 Osterman, A. "New Multiwavelength Variability and Optical Microvariability Investigations of X-ray and Radio Selected Blazars" Thesis (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2006 Maitra, D. "State Transitions in Soft X-ray Transients" Thesis (PhD) Yale University

• 2005 McFarland, J. P. "Rest Frame Variability Characteristics of Blazars" Thesis (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2004 McSwain, M. V. "The Evolution of Massive Stars: The Be Star and Microquasar Phenomena" Thesis (PhD) Georgia State University

• 2004 Jao, W. C. "Discovery and Characterization of the Highest Proper Motion Stars" Thesis (PhD) Georgia State University