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Astrophysical Sciences and Technology Ph.D.

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Lazar Buntic Astrophysical Sciences and Technology Ph.D.
Dissertation: Dark Current and Persistence in HgCdTe-on-Si Infrared Detectors
Advisor: Don Figer, Ph.D.		 Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ
May 9, 6 p.m., POL
Ryan W. Butler Astrophysical Sciences and Technology Ph.D.
Dissertation: Cradles and Graves: An Astrometrically Motivated Multiwavelength Study of Stars Before and After the Main Sequence
Advisor: Joel Kastner, Ph.D.		 Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ
May 9, 6 p.m., POL
Liza Maria Matrecito Salcedo Astrophysical Sciences and Technology Ph.D.
Dissertation: Establishing a Physically Interpretable Machine Learning Framework for AGN Spectra
Advisor: Andrew Robinson, Ph.D.		 Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ
May 9, 6 p.m., POL
Kaitlyn D. Porter Astrophysical Sciences and Technology Ph.D.
Dissertation: Electromagnetic Signatures of Massive Binary Black Hole Systems
Advisor: Manuela Campanelli, Ph.D.		 Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ
May 9, 6 p.m., POL
Attila V. Varga Astrophysical Sciences and Technology Ph.D.
Dissertation: High-Energy and On the Move: Exploring the Kinematic and X-ray Properties of Young Stars near Earth with Gaia, Chandra, and eROSITA
Advisor: Joel Kastner, Ph.D.		 Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ
May 9, 6 p.m., POL
Muhammad Zeeshan Astrophysical Sciences and Technology Ph.D.
Dissertation: Population Inference of Compact Binaries with Eccentricity
Advisor: Richard O’Shaughnessy, Ph.D.		 Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ
May 9, 6 p.m., POL