CDF Graduate Student Theses

 

List of completed CDF graduate student theses.

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| 1985 | 1986 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |

1985

G. Chiarelli
Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Graduation date: March 1985
Title: Detection of Heavy Flavours and New Particles at the Tevatron Collider

1986

Y. Hayashide
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Graduation date: February 1986
Title: Characteristics of CDF Endplug Electromagnetic Calorimeter
T. Kamon
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Graduation date: June 1986
Title: The CDF Central Electromagnetic Calorimeter for Proton-Antiproton Collision Experiment at Tevatron

1988

S. E. Kuhlmann
Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Graduation date: August 1988
Title: Inclusive Central Jet Production at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
M. Sekiguchi
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan
Graduation date: October 1988
Title: Multiplicity and Transverse Momentum Distributions of Charged Particles in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 630 and 1800 GeV
D. A. Smith
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Graduation date: December 1988
Title: Study of Muons Associated with Jets in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
T. K. Westhusing
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Graduation date: December 1988
Title: Observation of W -> mu nu Decays in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
R. D. St. Denis
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Graduation date: December 1988
Title: Dijet Angular Distributions in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron

1989

Y. Morita
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Graduation date: January 1989
Title: Measurement of the Intermediate Vecor-Boson Production Cross Section and Mass at the Fermilab Proton-Antiproton Collider
M. Miller
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Graduation date: May 1989
Title: A Measurement of the Cross Section for W Production and Decay into Electron and Neutrino in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
D. N. Brown
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
Graduation date: June 1989
Title: A Search for Double Parton Interactions in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV
R. M. Carey
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Graduation date: July 1989
Title: Angular Distributions of Three Jet Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron
S. Dell'Agnello Simon@fnald.fnal.gov
Institution: University/INFN Pisa
Advisor: G. Bellettini
Graduation Date: July 1989
Master's Thesis (Tesi di Laurea) Title: Two Jet Production at CDF
M. H. Schub
Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Graduation date: August 1989
Title: Strange Particle Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Center-of-Mass Energies of 630 GeV and 1800 GeV
R. M. Harris
Institution: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Graduation date: August 1989
Title: Two Jet Differential Cross Section and Structure Functions in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
B. L. Flaugher
Institution: Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Graduation date: October 1989
Title: Measurement of QCD Jet Broadening in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
J. E. Skarha
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Graduation date: 1989
Title: Forward Muon Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
B. Hubbard
Institution: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Graduation date: November 1989
Title: Fragmentation Properties of Jets Produced in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
George Redlinger redlinger@bnl.gov
Institution: University of Chicago
Advisor: Henry Frisch
Graduation Date: November 1989
Title: A Measurement of D* Production in Jets from pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV.
A. Byon
Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Graduation date: December 1989
Title: Central Production of Charged Particles at CDF

1990

W. Trischuk
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Graduation date: April 1990
Title: A Measurement of the W Boson Mass in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
F. Snider
Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Graduation date: March 1990
Title: Charged Particle Pseudo-Rapidity Distributions in Minimum Bias and Intermediate Vector Boson Events at sqrt s = 1800 GeV
M. Contreras
Institution: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Graduation date: April 1990
Title: Search for the Top Quark in Electron-Muon Events in the Collider Detector at Fermilab
H. Keutelian
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Graduation date: May 1990
Title: Measurement of the Mass and Width of the Z Boson from Z -> e^+e^- Decay in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
S. Kanda
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Graduation date: June 1990
Title: Measurement of Jet Fragmentation Properties in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
S. Leone
Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Graduation date: June 1990
Title: Lepton Charge Asymmetry from W^+- -> 1^+- nu at the Tevatron Collider
P. Hu
Institution: Rutgers University, NJ
Graduation date: June 1990
Title: Search for Supersymmetric Particles in p pbar Collisions at sqrt s 1.8 TeV
P. Schlabach
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Graduation date: August 1990
Title: W Mass Measurement with Muons at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
T. Mimashi
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
Graduation date: September 1990
Title: The Measurement of Cross Section of Drell-Yan Process in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1800 GeV
J. Walsh
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Graduation date: 1990
Title: Search for the Top Quark in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s 1.8 TeV
P. Hurst
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana, IL,
Graduation date: October 1990
Title: A Measurement of sin^2 theta_W from the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in pp -> Z^0 -> e^+e^- Interactions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
P. Derwent
Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Graduation date: November 1990
Title: A Measurement of sigma.B(W->e nu) and sigma.B(Z^o->e^+e^-) in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1800 GeV
T. Hessing
Institution: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Graduation date: December 1990
Title: A Search for Quark Compositeness with the CDF Detector at the Fermilab Collider

1991

B. L. Winer
Institution: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Graduation date: February 1991
Title: The W Boson Transverse Momentum Spectrum in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
G. Punzi
Institution: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Graduation date: February 1991
Title: Invariant Mass Spectrum of Jet-Jet Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
J. Ng
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Graduation date: May 1991
Title: Measurement of the Z Boson Transverse Momentum Distribution at the Tevatron
A. Roodman
Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Graduation date: June 1991
Title: A Measurement of the ppbar -> W -> Tau Nu Cross Section Times Branching Ratio as a Test of Lepton Universality
L. DeMortier
Institution: Brandeis University,
Graduation date: September 1991
Title: Search for the Top Quark in Events with a Lepton and Two or More Jets at the Fermilab Collider Detector
F. Ukegawa
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Graduation date: September 1991
Title: Bottom Quark Production in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
L. Song
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Graduation date: October 1991
Title: Measurement of the B^0Bbar^0 Mixing at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider
D. Connor
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Graduation date: November 1991
Title: Energy Fractions of Three-Jet Events in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
K. Byrum
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Graduation date: December 1991
Title: The Lepton Charge Asymmetry from W^\pm -> mu^\pm nu Using Forward Muons at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
V. Scarpine
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Graduation date: December 1991
Title: A Measurement of the Inclusive Drell-Yan Differential Cross Section with Dimuon at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

1992

R. Hughes
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Graduation date: January 1992
Title: Reconstruction of B Meson Decays and Measurement of the b Quark and B Meson Production Cross Sections at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider
L. Markosky
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Graduation date: January 1992
Title: A Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry and sin^2 theta_W from the Process Z^0 --> mu^+mu^- at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
M. Ninomiya
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Graduation date: January 1992
Title: Study of Jet Fragmentation Properties in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Yoshi Seiya
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Graduation date: January 1992
Title: Search for the Top Quark in DiLepton Events in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
S. Ogawa
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Graduation date: January 1992
Title: Measurement of Electron-Positron Asymmetry in W Decays from 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
L. Nakae
Institution: Brandeis University
Graduation date: April 1992
Title: Direct Photon Center-of-Mass Angular Distributions in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
S. Vejcik III
Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Graduation date: August 1992
Title: A Measurement of the b Quark and Neutral B Meson Production Cross Sections in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at a Center of Mass Energy of 1.8 TeV
R. Markeloff
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Graduation date: August 1992
Title: An Analysis of Monojet Data in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
L. Keeble
Institution: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Graduation date: September 15, 1992
Title: A Study of Four-Jet Events and Search for Double Parton Interactions with the Collider Detector at Fermilab
E. Meschi Tesi di Laurea
Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Graduation date: November 20, 1992
Title: A Study of QCD Radiation Jet Events at the Fermilab ppbar Collider
B. T. Huffman
Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Graduation date: December 1992
Title: Measuring the Inclusive Central Muon Cross Section in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV
David Gerdes gerdes@umich.edu
Institution: University of Chicago
Advisor: Melvyn Shochet
Graduation Date: December 1992
Title: Search for Wprime->e nu and Wprime-> mu nu in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV (CDF note 1358)

1993

S. M. Moulding
Institution: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Graduation date: February 4, 1993
Title: A Search for Generation -1 Leptoquarks in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Carmine E. Pagliarone pagliarone@fnal.gov, carmine.pagliarone@pi.infn.it
Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Advisor: Franco Cervelli, David A. Smith
Graduation Date: July 1993
Title: The New Muon System for the CDF Experiment.
P. A. Maas
Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Graduation date: August 1993
Title: Properties of Events Containing a Photon and Several Jets Seen in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
M. Incagli
Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Graduation date: September 14, 1993
Title: Dijet Invariant Mass Spectrum at Proton-Antiproton Interactions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
V. Bolognesi
Institution: University of Firenze, Florence, Italy
Graduation date: September 23, 1993
Title: Measurement of B-Meson Lifetimes at CDF
R. Drucker
Institution: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Graduation date: November 1993
Title: Properties of W + Jet Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV
D. Benjamin
Institution: Tufts University, Medford, MA
Graduation date: November 1993
Title: Measurement of the Production Cross Section for W + gamma in the Electron Channel in sqrt s = 1.8 TeV pbar p Collisions
J. Lamoureux
Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Graduation date: December 1993
Title: Direct b-bar b Production in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
C. Boswell
Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Graduation date: December 1993
Title: Chi Meson Production in Proton-Antiproton Interactions at a Center of Mass Energy of 1.8 TeV
R. Schwartz
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Graduation date: December 1993
Title: A Measurement of sigma(W -> mu nu)/sigma(Z -> mu mu) at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
C. Luchini
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Graduation date: December 1993
Title: A Measurement of W gamma and Z gamma Cross Sections in the Muon Channel in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
C. Jessop
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Graduation date: December 1993
Title: Search for the Charged Higgs Particle

1994

Mary Roach-Bellino,
Institution: Tufts University
Graduation date: January 1994
Title: Z + gamma Cross Section Measurement sigma B(Z + gamma) in the Electron Channel for pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8, and Limits for the ZZ gamma and Z gamma gamma Anomalous Couplings
D. Kardelis
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Graduation date: January 1994
Title: A Measurement of sigma . B(Z -> mu^+mu^-) in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
S. Dell'Agnello Simon@fnald.fnal.gov
Institution: University of Pisa/INFN, Pisa, Italy
Advisor: G. Bellettini
Graduation date: February 1, 1994
Title: Search for the Top Quark Using Secondary Vertexing Tags in W + Jet Events in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
S. Leone,
Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Graduation date: February 1, 1994
Title: Search for the Top Quark at CDF in Events with Two Charged Leptons Neutrinos, and Hadron Jets
M. Cobal
Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Graduation date: February 1, 1994
Title: Search for the Top Quark at CDF Studying the Structure of Event with One Lepton a Neutrino and Jets
B. Farhat
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Graduation date: February 1994
Title: Search for the Top Quark at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
R. Mattingly
Institution: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Graduation date: March 1994
Title: The Cross Section for the Production of b-bbar Pairs in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
T. Chikamatsu
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Graduation date: April 1994
Title: Top-Quark Search in the Dilepton Channel in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
M. W. Bailey
Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Graduation date: May 1994
Title: Measurement of the b Quark and B Meson Cross-Sections in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV Using Fully Reconstructed Decays
William Carl Wester, III
Institution: University of California, Berkeley, CA
Advisor: Marjorie Shapiro
Graduation date: April 28, 1994
Title: A Measurement of the Mass of the B_s^0 Meson in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
S. Kopp
Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Graduation date: May 1994
Title: Measurement of the Ratio R = sigma * B(ppbar -> W -> e nu)/sigma * B (ppbar -> Z -> ee) in ppbar Collisions at root s = 1800 Gev
Mark Dickson
Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Advisor: Arie Bodek
Graduation date: May 1994
Title: The Charge Asymmetry in W Boson Decays Produced in ppbar Collisions
M. Takano
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Graduation date: June 1994
Title: Measurement of the Cross Section for Production of Two Isolated Prompt Photons in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
A. Spies
Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Graduation date: July 1994
Title: A Measurement of the Charged and Neutral B Meson Lifetimes Using Fully Reconstructed Decay Modes
J. Tonnison
Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Graduation date: August 1994
Title: Search for the Top Quark in Lepton plus Jets Events at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Y. Cen
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Graduation date: August 26, 1994
Title: Measurement of the B_s Meson Lifetime
B. Badgett
Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Graduation date: September 1994
Title: Measurement of sigma*B(W -> mu nu) sigma*B(Z -> mu mu) and R(muon) = sigma*W(W -> mu nu)/sigma*B(Z -> mu mu) in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
S. Dell-Agnello
Institution: University of Pisa, Faculty of Science, Pisa, Italy
Graduation date: September 1994
Title: Top-Quark Search with Secondary Vertexing Tags in W + Multijet Events in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
D. P. Saltzberg
Institution: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Graduation date: October 4, 1994
Title: A Measurement of the W Mass
N. Turini
Institution: University of Bologna, Faculty of Science, Bologna, Italy
Graduation date: November 1994
Title: Measurement of J/Psi and b Quark Cross Section at CDF
T. Y. Song
Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Graduation date: December 1994
Title: Measurement of Bottom Production in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV using Muon Impact Parameter
J. Wang
Institution: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Graduation date: December 1994
Title: Search for the Top Quark Decaying to a Charged Higgs Boson in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
G. T. Watts
Institution: Rochester University, Rochester, NY
Graduation date: December 1994
Title: Evidence for Top Quark Production in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
M. Vondracek
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Graduation date: December 1994
Title: Measurement of sigma*BR(W+gamma) and sigma*BR(Z+gamma) and Search for Anomalous W-gamma and Z-gamma Couplings at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

1995

R. Oishi
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Graduation date: January 1995
Title: Measurement of the Cross Section for Charmed Meson Production Associated with a Prompt Photon in 1.8 TeV Photon-Antiproton Collisions
D. Lucchesi
Institution: University of Pisa, Faculty of Science, Pisa, Italy
Graduation date: February 1995
Title: Measurement of Time Dependent B^0d-B^0-bar Mixing at CDF
R. Keup
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Graduation date: April 1995
Title: A Measurement of the Mass of the W Vector Boson from pbar p -> W -> mu nu at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
R. A. Dunn
Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Graduation date: May 1995
Title: Measurement of sigma * B(W -> tau nu + jets) via Precision Tracking in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
C. Anway-Wiese
Institution: University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Graduation date: June 1995
Title: Search for Rare Decays of the B Meson at 1.8 TeV ppbar Collisions at CDF
J. Romano
Institution: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Graduation date: August 1995
Title: A Search for Top Quark Pair Production in the Dilepton Decay Mode
J. Gonzalez-Atavales
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Graduation date: August 1995
Title: Measurement of the Ratio BR(B^+ -> J/psi K^+)/BR(B^0 -> J/psi K^0) at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Carol Margaret Hawk
Institution: Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Advisor: Tom Devlin
Graduation date: October 1995
Title: The Lead Jet Pseudorapidity Distribution of Direct Photon Events in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
E. Meschi
Institution: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Graduation date: October 1995
Title: A Measurement of the B^0 bar B^0 Mixing Using Muon Pairs at CDF
Doug Glenzinski
Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Graduation date: November 1995
Title: Observation of the Top Quark in Proton Anti-Proton Collisions at a Center-of-Mass Energy of 1.8 TeV
S. Hauger
Institution: Duke University, Durham, NC
Graduation date: December 1995
Title: Measurement of Z -> ee + N Jet Cross Sections in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
D. Neuberger
Institution: University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Graduation date: December 1995
Title: Studies of Weak Boson-Photon Production in sqrt s = 1.8 TeV ppbar Collisions at the Tevatron Collider

1996

Simona Rolli rolli@fnal.gov
Institution: Pavia University, Pavia, Italy
Advisor: Mario Greco
Graduation date: January 10, 1996
Title: Fragmentation Phenomena on QCD: Fragmentation Functions Approach and Parton Shower
H. Mitsushio
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan
Graduation date: January 1996
Title: Measurement of Neutral B Meson Mixing in Electron-Muon Events in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Randal Hans
Institution: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Advisor: Michael P. Schmidt
Graduation date: January 18, 1996
Title: Polarization in Vector-Vector Decay of B Mesons at CDF
Franco Tartarelli
Institution: University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Graduation date: January 1996
Title: Measurement of the CKM Element V_tb at CDF
Patriazia Azzi
Institution: Padova University, Padova, Italy
Graduation date: February 12, 1996
Title: Observation of Top Quark at CDF in the All Hadronic Mode
Mark Charles Kruse
Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Advisor: Daniela Bortoletto
Graduation date: February 19, 1996
Title: Observation of Top Quark Pair Production in the Dilepton Decay Channel from Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
I. Yu
Institution: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Graduation date: February 19, 1996
Title: Measurement of bb-bar Correlations B^0 B-bar^0 Mixing, and a Limit on the CP Violating Parameter in pbar p Collisions at CDF
T. Asakawa
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan
Graduation date: February 1996
Title: Properties of High-Mass Multijet Events at the Fermilab Proton-Antiproton Collider
Michele Gallinaro
Institution: University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Graduation date: February 1996
Title: Observation of the Top Quark at CDF in the Dilepton Channel with Electrons Muons and Taus
Farrukh Azfar
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Graduation date: March 1996
Title: Measurement of the Lifetime of the B^0_s Meson Using the Exclusive Decay Mode B^0_s -> J/psi phi
Andrew Martin
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Graduation date: April 1996
Title: A Search for Top Quarks in pbar p Collisions Using Dileptons
Gary Houk
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Advisor: Hugh H. Williams
Graduation date: April 1996
Title: Identification of Top Quark Production Using Kinematic and B-Tagging Techniques in the Lepton + Jets Channels in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
J. Tseng
Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Graduation date: May 1996
Title: Observation of Semileptonic Decays of Baryons Containing Bottom Quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron
A. Maghakian
Institution: Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Graduation date: May 1996
Title: Inclusive Photon Differential Cross Section in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV
David Kestenbaum
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Graduation date: May 1996
Title: Observation of the Top Quark in Soft Lepton Tagged W^+ Jet Events
Thomas Baumann
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Graduation date: May 1996
Title: Search for 3rd Generation Leptoquarks in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
Y. Kato
Institution: Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
Graduation date: June 1996
Title: Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
T. Ino
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan
Graduation date: June 1996
Title: Measurement of Prompt Photon Production in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
R. Hamilton
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Graduation date: June 1996
Title: Measurement of the Charm-Photon Cross Section in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
G. Sganos
Institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Advisor: Pekka K. Sinervo
Graduation date: June 1996
Title: A Study of B Meson Decays Involving a J/psi Meson
P. Yeh
Institution: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Graduation date: June 1996
Title: Measurement of Top Quark Mass from Dilepton Events using Invariant Mass of Lepton and b Jet
Jeff Cammerata
Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Graduation date: August 1996
Title: A Lifetime Measurement of the Exclusive Charged and Neutral B Meson States
Manoj Kumar Pillai
Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Advisor: Arie Bodek
Graduation date: September 1996
Title: A Search for New Gauge Bosons in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
Farhad Keyvan
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Advisor: Jay Hauser
Graduation date: September 13, 1996
Title: A Search for Supersymmetric Quarks and Gluons in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV with the CDF Detector
Eiichiro Hayashi
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan
Graduation date: September 1996
Title: Search for New Neutral Gauge Bosons in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
C. Wei
Institution: Duke University, Durham, NC
Graduation date: November 1996
Title: Search for New Particles Decaying to Dijets in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
S. D. Metzler
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Graduation date: December 1996
Title: Measurement of the Ratio of BR B(B^+/- -> J/psi pi^+)/B(B^+/- -> J/psi K^+) and Search for the B_c
Phillip T. Koehn
Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Graduation date: December 1996
Title: Measurement of the Heavy Flavor Content of Jets in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

1997

Qun Fan
Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
Advisor: Arie Bodek
Graduation Date: February 1997
Title: A Measurement of the Lepton Charge Asymmetry in W Decays Produced in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV
Prem P. Singh
Institution: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Advisor: Paul Shepard
Graduation date: January 1997
Title: Search for the B_c Meson at CDF
S. Aota
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan
Graduation date: January 1997
Title: A Measurement of Top Quark Mass and Kinematic Properties in Fermilab 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
M. Shimojima
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan
Graduation date: January 1997
Title: Measurement of the Photon Angular Distribution in the W + Photon Production in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Troy Daniels
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Advisor: Paris Sphicas
Graduation date: April 4, 1997
Title: Charmonium Production in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
Wasiq Bokhari
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Advisor: Paraskevas Sphicas
Graduation date: April 30, 1997
Title: Observation of the Fully Hadronic Decay of ttbar Pairs in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
Chyi C. Miao
Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Graduation date: May 1997
Title: Measurement of the ttbar Cross Section in the Lepton Plus Jets Channel in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
Marc D. Peters marc_peters@stanfordalumni.org
Institution: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Advisor: Marjorie Shapiro
Graduation Date: May 1997
Title: A Measurement of B Meson Oscillations Using Inclusive Leptons in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV
Carmine E. Pagliarone pagliarone@fnal.gov, carmine.pagliarone@pi.infn.it
Institution: University of Turin - Turin (ITALY)
Advisor: G. Bellettini, A. Marzari-Chiesa
Graduation Date: June 1997
Title: Search for the Supersymmetric partner of the top quark in p anti-p collisions at sqrt(s)= 1.8 TeV.
Christian Couyoumtzelis
Institution: University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Graduation date: June 9, 1997
Title: Search for the Charged Higgs Boson H^+/- in the Decays t -> H^+ b by a Direct Measurement of an Excess in the Hadronic Decay Mode of the Tau Lepton
Alexey Titov titov@fnal.gov
Institution: The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Advisor: Konstantin Goulianos
Graduation Date: June 12, 1997
Title: Observation and Study of Exclusive Decays of Beauty Baryons at the Tevatron Proton-Antiproton Collider
T. Kuwabara
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Graduation date: June 1997
Title: Measurement of Time Dependent B^0 B^0bar Mixing in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
H. Sato
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Graduation date: June 1997
Title: Measurement of W-Photon and Z-Photon Couplings in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Marcus Hohlmann
Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Graduation date: August 1997
Title: Observation of Top Quark Pairs in the Dilepton Decay Channel Using Electrons Muons, and, Taus
D. P. Cronin-Hennessy
Institution: Duke University, Durham, NC
Advisor: Thomas Phillips
Graduation date: August 1997
Title: Tests of Perturbative QCD in W + Jets Events Produced in sqrt s = 1.8 TeV pbar p Collisions
Takeshi Takano
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Graduation date: September 1997
Title: Measurement of the Cross Section for Diphoton Production in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Kirsten Anne Tollefson kirsten@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Advisor: Paul Tipton
Graduation date: October 1997
Title: A Measurement of the Top Quark Mass
Suren Bagdasarov
Institution: Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Advisor: Konstantin Goulianos
Graduation date: October 1997
Title: Observation of Diffractive W-Boson Production at the Tevatron
Owen R. Long owen@electron.physics.ucsb.edu
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Advisor: Nigel Lockyer
Graduation Date: November 1997
Title: A Proper Time Dependent Measurement of Delta m_d Using Jet Charge and Soft Lepton Flavor Tagging
Petar Maksimovic petar@fnal.gov
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Advisor: Paraskevas A. Sphicas
Graduation date: November 1997
Title: Observation of pi-B Meson Charge-Flavor Correlations and Measurement of Time-Dependent B^0 B^0bar Mixing in ppbar Collisions
Kevin Burkett
Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Graduation date: December 1997
Title: Measurement of the Lifetime of the B^0_s Meson and the Width Difference in the B^0_s Bbar^0_s System in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
Hisanori Kambara hisanori.kambara@cern.ch
Institution: University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Advisor: Allan Clark
Graduation date: February 1998
Title: Search for Second Generation Leptoquarks in sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV p-pbar at CDF and Silicon Detector Readout Electronics Development with ATLAS
Stephan C. Van Den Brink
Institution: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Advisor: Gene Engels, Paul Shepard
Graduation date: December 8, 1997
Title: Measurement of Time Dependent B_d^0 B_d^0 bar Mixing Parameter Using Opposite Side Lepton and D^*+/- Meson in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
Benn Tannenbaum tannenba@fnal.gov
Institution: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Advisor: John Matthews
Graduation date: December 1997
Title: A Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider
Dave Toback toback@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Advisor: Henry Frisch
Graduation date: December 1997
Title: Searches for New Physics in Diphoton Events in pbar p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
Edward Kuns ekuns@fnal.gov
Institution: Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Advisor: Terence Watts
Graduation date: January 1998
Title: A Study of W Decay Charge Asymmetry Using Hadronic Tau Decays in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV
Andreas Warburton awarburt@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Advisor: Pekka Sinervo
Graduation Date: December 18, 1997
Title: A Study of Exclusive Nonleptonic Decays of B Mesons into Final States of Strange Mesons and 1S or 2S Charmonia

1998

E. Cocca
Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Graduation date: January 28, 1998
Title: Feasibility Study of Lambda_b Lifetime using It's Semileptonic Decays
Liqun Zhang
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Graduation date: ?
Title: The WW cross section in the leptonic decay mode
Jun-ichi Suzuki jsuzuki@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Tsukuba
Advisor: Koji Takikawa
Graduation Date: January 1998
Title: Observation of B_c Meson in 1.8-TeV Proton-AntiProton Collisions
Masakazu Okabe okabe@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Tsukuba
Advisor: Shin-hong Kim
Graduation Date: January 1998
Title: Measurement of the Strong Coupling Constant from Two Jet Production Cross Section in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
William Joseph Ashmanskas ashmanskas@fnal.gov
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Advisor: Majorie D. Shapiro
Graduation Date: May 1998
Title: A Direct Measurement of the W Boson Decay Width in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV
Andrea Bocci bocci@cdfsga.fnal.gov
Institution: University of Pisa
Advisor: Giorgio Bellettini
Graduation Date: July 1998
Master's Thesis: A study of jet energy measurement at CDF
Kara Hoffman kara@fnal.gov
Institution: Purdue University
Advisor: Daniella Bortoletto
Graduation Date: July 1998
Title: The Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model in the b bbar Spectrum Observed in Tevatron Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Jim Olsen jolsen@fnald.fnal.gov
Institution: University of Wisconsin
Advisor: Duncan Carlsmith
Graduation Date: August 1998
Title: Measurement of b-bbar Rapidity Correlations in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV.
Leslie Stevan Groer groer@fnal.gov
Institution: Rutgers University, New Jersey
Advisor: Terence Watts
Graduation Date: October 1998
Title: A Search for Charged Higgs Boson Decays of the Top Quark using Hadronic Decays of the Tau Lepton in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV at CDF
Ken Kelley kkelley@mit.fnal.gov
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Advisor: Paris Sphicas
Graduation Date: September 1998
Title: Measurement of the CP Violation Parameter sin(2 beta)
Andrew Gordon agordon@fnald.fnal.gov
Institution: Harvard University, MA
Advisor: Melissa Franklin
Graduation Date: November 1998
Title: Measurement of the W Mass in the Electron Decay Channel with the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Jay R. Dittmann dittmann@fnal.gov
Institution: Duke University
Advisor: Alfred Goshaw
Graduation Date: December 1998
Title: Measurement of the W >=1 Jet Cross Section in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV

1999

Bjoern Hinrichsen bjoern@physics.utoronto.ca
Institution: University of Toronto
Advisor: William Trischuk
Graduation Date: January 1999
Title: A Measurement of the Dijet Mass Differential Cross Section in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
Dejan Vucinic dejan@mit.edu
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Advisor: Paraskevas Sphicas
Graduation Date: February 1999
Title: Observation of Excited B Mesons in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
Wendy J. Taylor wendyt@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Advisor: Pekka K. Sinervo
Graduation Date: January 1999
Title: A Measurement of b-quark Fragmentation Fractions in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt (s)=1.8 TeV
Hiroyuki Minato minato@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Japan
Advisor: Koji Takikawa
Graduation Date: March 1999
Title: Measurement of the W Boson Transverse Momentum Distribution in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Alexander Akopian akopian@physics.rockefeller.edu
Institution: The Rockefeller University, New York
Advisor: Prof. Anwar Bhatti
Graduation Date: March 1999
Title: Scaling Violation in Inclusive Jet Production
Hirofumi Ikeda ikeda_h@cam.hi-ho.ne.jp
Institution: University of Tsukuba
Advisor: Shin-Hong Kim
Graduation Date: March 1999
Title: Observation of Diffractive Bottom Quark Production in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Niccolo' Moggi moggi@fnal.gov
Institution: Universita' di Pisa, Italy
Advisor: Gianluca Introzzi
Graduation Date: April 1999
Title: Soft Multiparticle Production in pp(bar) Interactions at 1800 and 630 GeV
Kristo Karr karr@fnal.gov
Institution: Tufts University
Advisor: Krzysztof Sliwa
Graduation Date: May 1999
Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass by Application of the Dalitz-Goldstein Method to Dilepton Events
Nichelle Bruner bruner@gluino.phys.unm.edu
Institution: University of New Mexico
Advisor: Michael Gold
Graduation Date: July 1999
Title: A Search for Production of Scalar Top at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider
Adam Hardman adamh@fnal.gov
Institution: Purdue University
Advisor: Arthur Garfinkel
Graduation Date: August 1999
Title: A Measurement of the Width of the W Vector Boson in Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Armin Köngeter koen@ekp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.e
Institution: Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Advisor: Thomas Müller, Jay Hauser
Graduation Date: November 1999
Title: Search for R-Parity violating SUSY in the CDF Multi-Lepton channel
Rocio Vilar Cortabitarte rocio@fnal.gov
Institution: Universidad de Cantabria
Advisor: Teresa Rodrigo
Graduation Date: November 1999
Title:Search for the Higgs Boson and Technicolor Particles in ppbar Colisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

2000

Kostas Kordas kordas@lal.in2p3.fr
Institution: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Advisor: Kenneth Ragan
Graduation Date: January 2000
Title: Search for Penguin Decays of B Mesons at CDF
Andrew F. Scott ascott@fnal.gov
Institution: UCLA
Advisor: Jay Hauser
Graduation Date: February 2000
Title: A Measurement of Low-Mass Drell-Yan Production at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Frank Hartmann frank.hartmann@cern.ch
Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University
Advisor: Thomas Muller
Graduation Date: February 2000
Title: Entwicklungsarbeit am Spurendetektor fur das CDF Experiment am Tevatron (Karlsruhe Note IEKP-KA/00-11)
Toshiaki Kikuchi kikuchi@hep.px.tsukuba.ac.jp
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Japan
Advisor: Shinhong Kim
Graduation Date: March 2000
Title: Search for Single Top Quark Production in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Joseph Steele steele@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Advisor: Lee Pondrom
Graduation Date: May 2000
Title: Inclusive Cross Section of J/Psi Particles in the Forward Direction at CDF
Todd Keaffaber
Institution: Purdue University
Advisor: Daniela Bortoletto
Graduation Date: May 2000
Title: Measurement of the B+ Meson Cross Section in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV Using the Fully Reconstructed Decay B+ -> J/psi K+
Tushar Shah
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Jerome I. Friedman
Graduation Date: July 2000
Title: Measurement of the B^0_d Mixing Frequency Using a New Probability Based Self-Tagging Algorithm Applied to Inclusive Lepton Events from p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
Jinbo Liu liujb@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Rochester
Advisor: Arie Bodek
Graduation Date: August 2000
Title: Measurement of dsigma/dy for Drell-Yan ee Pairs in the Z Boson Region at CDF
Maria Spiropulu smaria@fnal.gov
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Advisor: John E. Huth
Graduation Date: August 2000
Title: A Blind Search for Supersymmetry in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV using the Missing Energy plus Multijet channel
Robert Cropp
Institution: Univsersity of Toronto
Advisor: William Trischuk
Graduation Date: September 2000
Title: A Measurement of the J/Psi polarisation at root(s)=1.8 TeV
Jeffrey W. Berryhill berryhill@hep.uchicago.edu
Institution: University of Chicago, IL
Advisor: Henry Frisch
Graduation Date: December 2000
Title: A Search for New Physics in Photon-Lepton Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
Andrew Robinson
Institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Advisor: Pekka K. Sinervo
Graduation Date: 2000
Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Transverse Momentum Distribution

2001

Hosai Nakada hosai@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Advisor: Professor Shinhong Kim
Graduation Date: January 2001
Title: Measurement of the Diffractive Structure Function of the Antiproton in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Masashi Tanaka masa@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Tsukuba
Advisor: Koji Takikawa
Graduation Date: January 2001
Title: Search for Radiative B-Hadron Decays with the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Paolo Gatti gatti@pd.infn.it
Institution: University of Padova, Italy
Advisor: Dario Bisello
Graduation Date: February 2001
Title: Performance of the new tracking system at CDF II
Giuseppe Latino latino@cdfsga.fnal.gov, giuseppe.latino@pi.infn.it
Institution: University of Cassino, Italy
Advisor: Giovanni Maria Piacentino, Stefano Lami
Graduation Date: March 2001
Title: Calorimetric Measurements in CDF: A New Algorithm to Improve The Energy Resolution of Hadronic Jets
Leonard Steven Christofek
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Steven Errede
Graduation Date: April 2001
Title: Analysis of the Vector Boson Self Interaction and the Search for Anomalous Couplings at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV p-pbar Collisions
Stephen John Bailey
Institution: Harvard University
Advisor: John Huth
Graduation Date: April 2001
Title: A Study of B -> J/psi K^(*0) X Decays
Andrei Solodsky solodsky@physics.rockefeller.edu
Institution: The Rockefeller University, New York
Advisor: Konstantin Goulianos, Luc Demortier
Graduation Date: April 2001
Title: Observation of Diffractive J/Psi Production at the Fermilab Tevatron
Dana Partos dspartos@earthlink.net
Institution: Brandeis University, Waltham MA
Advisor: Jim Bensinger
Graduation Date: May 2001
Title: Measurement of the Sqrt(s) Dependence of Isolated Direct Photon Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Christopher S. Hill chill@fnal.gov
Institution: University of California, Davis
Advisor: Richard Lander
Graduation Date: September 2001
Title: Measurement of the cross-section ratio ttj/ttX in 106 pb-1 collected during Run1 of the Tevatron
Andreas Heiss heiss@ekp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de
Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University
Advisor: Thomas Muller
Graduation Date: September 2001
Title: Messung der Lebensdauer vollstandig rekonstruierter B Mesonen mit dem CDF Detektor (Karlsruhe Note IEKP-KA/01-17, 2001)
Matthew S. Martin msmartin@fnal.gov
Institution: Jesus College Oxford
Graduation Date: December 2001
Title: Preliminary Studies Concerning Delta Gamma(B_s) Measurements in Proton Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.0 TeV

2002

Brock Tweedie
Institution: University of Rochester
Advisor: Kevin McFarland
Graduation Date: February 2002
Title: A Study of Future Measurements of W Boson Helicity in t -> Wb at CDF
Tianjie Gao tgao@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Advisor: Nigel Lockyer
Graduation Date: May 2002
Title: An Updated Measurement of sin(2beta) with Multiple Flavor Tags Using a Tag-combining Algorithm
Lucio Cerrito lucio@fnal.gov
Institution: University of London, London (U.K.)
Advisor: S.J.Haywood and M. Lancaster
Graduation Date: May 2002
Title: Measurement of the Leptonic Angular Distribution in W-Boson Decay as a Function of the W Transverse-Momentum Using the CDF Detector at the Tevatron
Carter Hall chall@fnal.gov
Institution: Harvard University
Advisor: Melissa Franklin
Graduation Date: June 2002
Title: Measurement of the isolated direct photon cross section with conversions
Marina Brozovic brozovic@fnal.gov
Institution: Duke University, North Carolina
Advisor: Alfred T. Goshaw
Graduation Date: August 2002
Title: Studies of the W/Z production associated with direct photons
Catalin Ciobanu catutza@fnal.gov
Institution: The Ohio State University
Advisor: Richard E. Hughes
Graduation Date: September 2002
Title: A Neural Networks Search for Single Top Quark Production in CDF Run I Data
Anthony Affolder affolder@hep.ucsb.edu
Institution: University of California, Berkeley, CA
Advisor: Marjorie Shapiro
Graduation Date: December 2002
Title: A Measurement of Bottom Quark-Antiquark Azimuthal Production Correlations in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV
John Strologas strolog@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Steven Errede
Graduation Date: December 2002
Title: Measurement of the differential angular distribution of the W boson produced in association with jets in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV.
Alexander Brandl brandl@glueball.phys.unm.edu
Institution: University of New Mexico
Advisor: Sally Seidel
Graduation Date: December 2002
Title: Comparison of Three-jet Events to Predictions from a Next-to-leading-order Calculation
Chadd Smith
Institution: The Johns Hopkins University
Advisor: Bruce Barnett
Graduation Date: December 2002
Title: Search for Gluino Pair Production Using Like-Sign Top Dilepton Events
Carlos Andres Sanchez
Institution: The Ohio State University
Advisor: Richard Hughes
Graduation Date: December 2002
Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with Neural Networks
Arnold Pompos pompos@fnal.gov
Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Advisor: Virgil Barnes, Daniela Bortoletto
Graduation Date: December 2002
Title: Search for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark in Dilepton Events Produced in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at \sqrt{s}= 1.8 TeV

2003

Patrik Schemitz schemitz@ekp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de
Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University
Advisor: Michael Feindt
Graduation Date: February 2003
Title: Eine Hard- und Software-Umgebung fur Physik-Analysen bei CDF II (Karlsruhe Note IEKP-KA/03-01, 2003)
Stephanie Menzemer menzemer@fnal.gov
Institution: IEKP Karlruhe University
Advisor: Michael Feindt
Graduation Date: February 2003
Title: Spurrekonstruktion im Silizium-Vertexdetektor des CDFII-Experiments
Hideaki Takano takanoh@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
Advisor: Shinhong Kim
Graduation Date: May 2003
Title: Search for WW Production in the Lepton Jet Channel in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Chunhui Chen cchen23@hep.upenn.edu
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Advisor: Joseph Kroll
Graduation Date: May 2003
Title: A Measurement of the Direct Charm Meson Production Cross Section at CDF II
Kenichi Hatakeyama hatake@fnal.gov
Institution: The Rockefeller University
Advisor: Konstantin Goulianos
Graduation Date: April 2003
Title: Measurement of the Diffractive Structure Function of the Antiproton in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s)=1800 and 630 GeV
Giulia Manca manca@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Advisor: Peter Renton, Young-Kee Kim
Graduation Date: July 2003
Title: MEASUREMENT OF THE RATIO R = SIGMA_W.BR(W->E NU)/SIGMA_Z.BR(Z->E E-) IN PROTON - ANTI-PROTON COLLISIONS AT S**(1/2) = 1.96 TEV
Christopher Neu neu@fnal.gov
Institution: Ohio State University
Advisor: Brian Winer
Graduation Date: July 2003
Title: A Search for the Higgs Boson in Proton - Antiproton Collisions at Center-of-Momentum Energy of 1.8 TeV
Hartmut Stadie stadie@fnal.gov
Institution: University Karlsruhe, Germany
Advisor: Thomas Muller
Graduation Date: July 2003
Title: Results on the Production and Detection of W Bosons with the Collider Detector at Fermilab in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at a Center-of-Mass Energy of 1.96 TeV
Robyn Madrak madrak@fnal.gov
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.
Advisor: Melissa Franklin
Graduation Date: September 2003
Title: Measurement of the Lambda_B Lifetime in the Decay Mode Lambda_B->Jpsi Lambda
Amy Lynn Connolly
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Advisor: Marjorie Shapiro
Graduation Date: September 2003
Title: A Search for Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in the Di-tau Decay Mode in Proton-Antiproton Collision at 1.8 TeV
Kevin Patrick Lannon lannon@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Steven Errede, Kevin Pitts
Graduation Date: September 2003
Title: A Measurement of B Hadron Correlations in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV
Kai Yi yik@pha.jhu.edu
Institution: The Johns Hopkins University
Advisor: Barry Blumenfeld, Bruce Barnett
Graduation Date: December 2003
Title: A Measurement of the Lambda_b Lifetime using Semileptonic Decays and Observation of the New State X(3872)
Yi Le yile@pha.jhu.edu
Institution: The Johns Hopkins University
Advisor: Bruce Barnett
Graduation Date: December 2003
Title: Measurement of the Lambda_b -> Lambda_c pi Branching Ratio
Gregory Veramendi mendi@fnal.gov
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Advisor: Young-kee Kim
Graduation Date: December 2003
Title: A Measurement of Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry of Electron-Positron Pairs

2004

Soushi Tsuno tsuno@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Tsukuba
Advisor: Fumihiko Ukegawa
Graduation Date: January 2004
Title: Tests of Enhanced Leading Order QCD in W Boson plus Jet Production in 1.96-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Koji Ikado ikado@fnal.gov
Institution: Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Advisor: Kuni Kondo
Graduation Date: March 2004
Title: Search for New Physics in Dielectron Events in 1.96 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Heather Ray hray@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Michigan
Advisor: Dante Amidei
Graduation Date: March 2004
Title: Measurement of the t-tbar production cross section in p-pbar collisions at sqrt s = 1.96 TeV
Ivan Kresimir Furic ikfuric@mit.edu
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Christoph Paus
Graduation Date: March 2004
Title: Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions Br(Bs -> Ds pi)/Br(B -> D pi) at CDF-II
David J. Goldstein djg@physics.ucla.edu
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Advisor: David Saltzberg
Graduation Date: March 2004
Title: A Measurement of the Top Quark Cross-Section at Sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Dmitri Tsybychev tsybych@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Florida
Advisor: Darin Acosta, Jacobo Konigsberg
Graduation Date: March 2004
Title: Search for first-generation leptoquarks in the jets and missing transverse energy topology in proton-antiproton collisisons at center-of-mass energy 1.96~TeV
Alexei Varganov varganov@umich.edu
Institution: University of Michigan
Advisor: Dan Amidei
Graduation Date: April 2004
Title: The Production Cross Sections of the Weak Vector Bosons in p ̄p Collisions at √s=1.96 TeV and a Measurement of the W Boson Decay Width
Matthew Worcester mworcest@physics.ucla.edu
Institution: UCLA
Advisor: David Saltzberg
Graduation Date: June 2004
Title: Inclusive Search for Anomalous High-pT Like-Sign Lepton Pair Production at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider
Andreas Korn akorn@fnal.gov
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Christoph Paus
Graduation Date: June 2004
Title: Measurement of B-Hadron Masses at CDF Run II
Heather Kay Gerberich hkg@fnal.gov
Institution: Duke University
Advisor: Ashutosh V. Kotwal
Graduation Date: July 2004
Title: Search for Excited or Exotic Electron Production Using the Dielectron Photon Signature at CDF in Run II
Daniel Ryan dryan@fnal.gov
Institution: Tufts University
Advisor: Krzysztof Sliwa
Graduation Date: August 2004
Title: Direct Searches for Scalar Leptoquarks at the Run II Tevatron
Michael Kirby kirby@fnal.gov
Institution: Duke University, Durham, NC
Advisor: Al Goshaw
Graduation Date: October 2004
Title: Measurement of W gamma Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at root-s = 1.96 TeV.
Konstantin Anikeev anikeev@fnal.gov
Institution: MIT
Advisor: Ch. Paus
Graduation Date: October 2004
Title: Measurement of the Lifetimes of B Meson Mass Eigenstates
Robert A. Napora napora@fnal.gov
Institution: The Johns Hopkins University
Advisor: Barry Blumenfeld
Graduation Date: October 2004
Title: Measurement of BR(B to phi K)/BR(B to J/psi K) at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Mircea N. Coca cmircea@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Rochester, NY
Advisor: Paul Tipton
Graduation Date: October 2004
Title:Measurement of the top pair-production cross section in the dilepton channel in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt (s)=1.96 TeV
Yanwen Liu Yanwen.Liu@fynu.ucl.ac.be
Institution: Geneva U.
Advisor: Allan Clark
Graduation Date: November 2004
Title: Measurement of the Cross Section for Production of Prompt Diphoton in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
Trevor Vickey Trevor.Vickey@cern.ch
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: S. Errede, T. Liss
Graduation Date: November 2004
Title: Measurement of W Boson Polarization in Top Quark Decay
Radu Marginean radu@mps.ohio-state.edu
Institution: The Ohio State University
Advisor: Richard Hughes
Expected Graduation Date: November 2004
Topic:Measurement of the Top Pair Production Cross Section at CDF Using Neural Networks
Sarah Demers Konezny sarah_demers@post.harvard.edu
Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Advisor: Kevin McFarland
Graduation Date: November 2004
Title: A Measurement of BR(top->tau neutrino quark)
Carsten Rott carott@fnal.gov
Institution: Purdue University
Advisor: Daniela Bortoletto
Graduation Date: December 2004
Title: Search for Scalar Bottom Quarks from Gluino Decays in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at a Center-of-Mass Energy of 1.96TeV
Muge Karagoz Unel karagozm@fnal.gov
Institution: northwestern univ., il, usa
Advisor: michael schmitt
Graduation Date: December 2004
Title: Searches for New Physics Using High Mass Dimuons at the CDF II Experiment
Minsuk Kim mskim@fnal.gov
Institution: Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
Advisor: DongHee Kim
Graduation Date: December 2004
Title: Search for Gauge-Mediated SUSY Breaking in Diphoton Events in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2)=1.96 TeV
Tatjana Unverhau tatjana@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Glasgow
Advisor: Peter Bussey
Graduation Date: December 2004
Title: A Measurement of the Lifetime of the Lambda_b Baryon with the CDF Detector at the Tevatron Run II
Eli Ben-Haim benhaim@lal.in2p3.fr
Institution: LPNHE, Paris 6 University
Advisor: Patrick Roudeau, Aurore Savoy-Navarro
Graduation Date: December 2004
Title:The b Quark Fragmentation Function, From LEP To TeVatron
Erik Brubaker brubakee@fnal.gov
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Advisor: Young-Kee Kim
Graduation Date: December 2004
Title: A Measurement of the Mass of the Top Quark in Lepton Jets Events at CDF
Andrew Ivanov andrew@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Rochester, NY
Advisor: Paul Tipton
Graduation Date: December 2004
Title: Search for Anomalous Kinematics of Top Dilepton Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Jian Kang jiank@cdfrh0.grid.umich.edu
Institution: University of Michigan
Advisor: J. Chapman
Graduation Date: December 2004
Title:Measurement of W and Z Production Cross Sections in Muon Channel in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt\t(s) = 1.96 TeV
Henri Bachacou hbachacou@lbl.gov
Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Advisor: Jim Siegrist
Graduation Date: December 2004
Title: A Measurement of the Production Cross Section of Top-Antitop Pairs in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96TeV Using Secondary Vertex b-Tagging.

2005

Aidan Robson robson@fnal.gov
Institution: Oxford University, UK
Advisor: Peter Renton
Graduation Date: January 2005
Title: A Measurement of Z Boson Production and Rapidity Distribution in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96TeV
Naho Tanimoto tanimoto@fnal.gov
Institution: Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
Advisor: Itsuo Nakano, Reisaburo Tanaka, Al Goshaw
Graduation Date: March 2005
Title: Measurement of W gamma Production in the W to Muon Decay Channel in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt=1.96TeV
Koji Sato ksato@hepsg3.px.tsukuba.ac.jp
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Advisor: Shin-Hong Kim
Graduation Date: March 2005
Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Kohei Yorita kohei@fnal.gov
Institution: Waseda Univ. Tokyo, Japan
Advisor: Kunitaka Kondo
Graduation Date: March 2005
Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass by Dynamical Likelihood Method using the Lepton plus Jets Events in 1.96 Tev Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Hirokazu Kobayashi hirokazu@hepsg3.px.tsukuba.ac.jp
Institution: University of TSUKUBA
Advisor: Koji Takikawa
Graduation Date: March 2005
Title: Search for the Higgs Boson Using High-pT Isolated Like-Sign Dilepton Events in 1.96-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Takashi Ogawa tqb@fnal.gov
Institution: Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Advisor: Kunitaka Kondo
Graduation Date: March 2005
Title: Search for Scalar Top Quark Pair-Production in Scenario with Violated R-parity in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Helen Hayward hayward@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk
Institution: Liverpool
Advisor: Beate Heinemann
Graduation Date: March 2005
Title: Measurement of Zgamma Production in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Andrea Bocci bocci@fnal.gov
Institution: The Rockefeller University
Advisor: Stefano Lami
Graduation Date: April 2005
Title: Search for Hadronic Resonances of W/Z in Photon Events at CDF
Shin-Shan Yu eikoyu@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Advisor: Nigel Lockyer
Graduation Date: May 2005
Title: First measurement of the ratio of branching fractions BR(Lamb to Lamc mu nu) to BR(Lamb to Lamc pi)
Zongru Wan zrwan@fnal.gov
Institution: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
Advisor: John Conway
Graduation Date: May 2005
Title: A Search for New Physics with High Mass Tau Pairs in PPbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV at CDF
Nathan Goldschmidt njg@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Michigan
Advisor: David Gerdes
Graduation Date: May 2005
Title: Measurement of the Helicity of W Bosons Produced in Top-Quark Decay at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Alexandre Pronko pronko@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Florida
Advisor: Andrey Korytov
Graduation Date: May 2005
Title: FRAGMENTATION OF QUARK AND GLUON JETS IN PROTON-ANTIPROTON COLLISIONS AT CENTER-OF-MASS ENERGY OF 1.8 TeV
Bernd Stelzer bernd@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Toronto
Advisor: Pierre Savard and William Trischuk
Graduation Date: May 2005
Title: Search for Electroweak Single Top Quark Production in 1.96 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Alexandre Rakitine rakitin@mit.edu
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Christoph Paus
Graduation Date: June 2005
Topic: Measurement of the Dipion Mass Spectrum In the Decay X(3872) -> J/psi pi^+ pi^-
Thorsten Walter walter@ekp.uni-karlsruhe.de
Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University
Advisor: Thomas Muller
Graduation Date: June 2005
Title: Search for Electroweak Single Top Quark Production with the CDF Experiment in Proton Antiproton Collisions at 1.96 TeV Center of Mass Energy
Martin Henneke hennecke@ekp.uni-karlsruhe.de
Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University
Advisor: Michael Feindt/ Wim de Boer
Graduation Date: June 2005
Title: Search for the Higgs-Boson with the CDF experiment at Tevatron (Karlsruhe Note IEKP-KA/2005-5)
Jieun Kim jkim@fnal.gov
Institution: Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
Advisor: DongHee Kim
Graduation Date: June 2005
Title:Search for a New Charged Heavy Vector Boson Decaying to an electron-neutrino Pair in p anti-p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
Jonatan Piedra piedra@fnal.gov
Institution: Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Advisor: Alberto Ruiz and Ivan Vila
Graduation Date: July 2005
Title: Determination of Delta m_d and absolute calibration of flavor taggers for the Delta m_s analysis, in fully reconstructed decays at the CDF experiment
Claudia Lecci lecci@ekp.uni-karlsruhe.de
Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University
Advisor: Michael Feindt
Graduation Date: July 2005
Title: A Neural Jet Charge Tagger for the Measurement of the B0s - B0sbar Oscillation Frequency at CDF (Karlsruhe Note IEKP-KA/2005-13)
Alberto Cruz alberto@phys.ufl.edu
Institution: University of Florida
Advisor: Rick Field
Graduation Date: July 2005
Title: Using Max/Min Transverse Regions to Study the Underlying Event in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.97 TeV
Satoru Uozumi satoru@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Tsukuba
Advisor: Shinhong Kim
Graduation Date: July 2005
Title:Measurement of the B meson Lifetimes with the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Salvatore Rappoccio rappoccio@gmail.com
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Advisor: Andrew Foland
Graduation Date: August 2005
Title: Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section in ppbar Collisisons at sqrt(S) = 1.96 TeV
Gavril A. Giurgiu ggiurgiu@fnal.gov
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Advisor: Prof. Manfred Paulini
Graduation Date: September 2005
Title: B Flavor Tagging Calibration and Search for Bs Oscillations in Semileptonic Decays with the CDF Detector at Fermilab
Anant Gajjar gajjar@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk
Institution: Liverpool
Advisor: Tara Shears
Graduation Date: September 2005
Title: Measurement of the inclusive bbbar jet cross section at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Yoshio Ishizawa yoshio@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
Advisor: Fumihiko Ukegawa
Graduation Date: September 2005
Title: Search for Higgs Boson Production in Association with the W boson in 1.96-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Ricardo Eusebi eusebi@fnal.gov
Institution: University or Rochester, Rochester NY, USA
Advisor: Paul Tipton
Graduation Date: October 2005
Title: Search for Charged Higgs in ttbar Decay Products from proton-antiproton at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Oliver Stelzer-Chilton oliversc@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Toronto
Advisor: William Trischuk
Graduation Date: October 2005
Title: First Measurement of the W Boson Mass with CDF in Run 2
Joshua P. Tuttle tuttle@phy.duke.edu
Institution: Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0305, USA
Advisor: Ashutosh Kotwal
Graduation Date: October 2005
Title:A Search for Long-Lived Doubly-Charged Higgs Boson Production in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV using Run2 CDF
Jean-Francois Arguin jarguin@physics.utoronto.ca
Institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Advisor: Pekka K. Sinervo
Graduation Date: November 2005
Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with In Situ Jet Energy Scale Calibration Using Hadronic W Boson Decays at CDF-II
Ulrich Kerzel kerzel@fnal.gov
Institution: Institut fuer Experimentelle Kernphysik, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Advisor: Michael Feindt
Graduation Date: November 2005
Title: CDF Grid computing and the decay X(3872) -> J/Psi pi pi- with J/Psi -> e e-
Andrew Kovalev andrew.kovalev@gmail.com
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Advisor: H.H. Williams
Graduation Date: November 2005
Title:Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at CDFII
Dustin McGivern dm@hep.ucl.ac.uk
Institution: University College London, UK.
Advisor: David Waters
Graduation Date: December 2005
Title: A Meaurement of the W W- production cross section in ppbar collisions at root(s)=1.96 TeV in the DiLepton channel and limits on anomalous WWZ/gamma couplings
Dominik Hirschbuehl hirsch@ekp.uni-karlsruhe.de
Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University
Advisor: Thomas Muller
Graduation Date: December 2005
Title: Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry and W Boson Helicity in Top-Antitop Quark Events with the CDF II Experiment
Silvia Amerio amerio@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Trento
Advisor: Ignazio Lazzizzera
Graduation Date: December 2005
Title:Study of ttbar production in tau jets channel at CDFII using neural networks
Vyacheslav Krutelyov slava77@fnal.gov
Institution: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Advisor: Teruki Kamon
Graduation Date: December 2005
Title:Search for Supersymmetry Using Rare Bs->mu mu- Decays at CDF Run II
Denys Usynin usynin@alumni.upenn.edu
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Advisor: Joseph Kroll
Graduation Date: December 2005
Title:Study of Charged Particle Species Produced in Association with B0, B-, and Bs Mesons
Chun Lin
Institution: Yale University
Advisor: Colin Gay, Michael Schmidt
Graduation Date: December 2005
Title:Search for Universal Extra Dimensions in the Multi-Lepton Channel at the Tevatron

2006

Masato Aoki masato@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Advisor: Shin-Hong Kim
Graduation Date: February 2006
Title:Measurement of the Bc meson Lifetime with the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Alison Lister alister@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Geneva/ ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Advisor: Guenther Dissertori
Graduation Date: March 2006
Title:Measurement of b-quark jet Shapes at CDF
Tomohiro Yamashita tomohiro@fphy.hep.okayama-u.ac.jp
Institution: Okayama Univ.
Advisor: Itsuo Nakano
Graduation Date: March 2006
Title:Measurment of J/psi meson and b-hadron production cross section at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV
Andrew Hamilton ahamil@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Advisor: James Pinfold
Graduation Date: May 2006
Title:Exclusive Interaction in pp Collisions at 1.96TeV
Dongwook Jang dwjang@fnal.gov
Institution: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Advisor: Amit Lath
Graduation Date: May 2006
Title:Search for MSSM Higgs decaying to tau pairs in ppbar collision at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV at CDF
Karen Gibson krg@fnal.gov
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Advisor: Manfred Paulini
Graduation Date: June 2006
Title:Measurement of the Relative Fragmentation Fractions of B-bar Hadrons
Kristian Hahn kristian@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Advisor: Nigel Lockyer
Graduation Date: August 2006
Title:Search for High-Mass Resonances Decaying to e-mu in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Bodhitha Jayatilaka boj@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Advisor: David Gerdes
Graduation Date: August 2006
Title:A Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Dilepton Decay Channel at CDF II
Anadi Canepa canepa@fnal.gov
Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette IN
Advisor: Daniela Bortoletto
Graduation Date: August 2006
Title:Search for chargino and neutralino at Run II of the Tevatron collider
Nuno Leonardo leonardo@fnal.gov
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Christoph Paus
Graduation Date: September 2006
Title:Analysis of Bs flavor oscillations at CDF
Andrey Loginov loginov@fnal.gov
Institution: ITEP, Moscow
Advisor: H.J.Frisch(UC), A.A.Rostovtsev (ITEP)
Graduation Date: September 2006
Title:Search for Anomalous Production of Events with a High Energy Lepton and Photon at the Tevatron
Mitchell Soderberg soderber@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Michigan
Advisor: David Gerdes
Graduation Date: September 2006
Title:Measurement of the W bb-bar Cross-Section in 695 pb-1 of pp-bar Collisions at CDF II
Alon Attal attal@fnal.gov
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Advisor: Jay Hauser
Graduation Date: November 2006
Title:Search for R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry in the Multilepton Final State
Paola Squillacioti paolasq@fnal.gov
Institution: INFN, Pisa, Italy
Advisor: Maria Agnese Ciocci & Giovanni Punzi
Graduation Date: November 2006
Title:Measurement of the branching fraction ratio BR(B->DK)/BR(B->Dpi) with the CDF II detector
Craig Group group@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Advisor: Richard D. Field
Graduation Date: December 2006
Title:MEASUREMENT OF THE INCLUSIVE JET CROSS SECTION USING THE MIDPOINT ALGORITHM IN RUN II AT THE COLLIDER DETECTOR AT FERMILAB (CDF)
Sasha Baroiant sasha.baroiant@gmail.com
Institution: University of California, Davis
Advisor: Richard Lander
Graduation Date: December 2006
Title:A Search for Doubly-Charged Higgs Bosons at the Tevatron
Adam Gibson agibson@fnal.gov
Institution: University of California, Berkeley, USA
Advisor: Young-Kee Kim
Graduation Date: December 2006
Title:A Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with a Matrix Element Method
Diego Tonelli tonel@fnal.gov
Institution: Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore
Advisor: Giovanni Punzi
Graduation Date: December 2006
Title: First observation of the Bs->K K- decay mode, and measurement of the B0 and Bs mesons decay-rates into two-body charmless final states at CDF.
Stanley S Forrester sforrest@fnal.gov
Institution: University of California, Davis
Advisor: Maxwell Chertok
Graduation Date: December 2006
Title:Search for 3r Generation Vector Leptoquarks in the Di-Tau Di-Jet Channel in proton anti-proton collisions at square root sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
Yoshiaki Kusakabe yoshiaki@fnal.gov
Institution: Waseda, Japan
Advisor: Kunitaka Kondo
Graduation Date: December 2006
Title:Search for Higgs Boson Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96TeV

2007

Shan-Huei Chuang schuang@fnal.gov
Institution: UW-Madison
Advisor: Mark C. Kruse
Graduation Date: January 2007
Title:First Search at CDF for the SM Higgs Boson in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 2 TeV
Takashi Akimoto takimoto@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Tsukuba
Advisor: Shin-hong Kim
Graduation Date: February 2007
Title:Search for Third Generation Vector Leptoquarks in 1.96-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Simon Sabik sabik@physics.utoronto.ca
Institution: University of Toronto
Advisor: Pierre Savard
Graduation Date: February 2007
Title:Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Dilepton Channel using the Neutrino Weighting Algorithm
Xavier Portell portell@fnal.gov
Institution: IFAE (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
Advisor: Mario Martinez
Graduation Date: March 2007
Title:Search for Gluino and Squark Production in Multi-Jets plus Missing Transverse Energy Final States at the Tevatron using the CDF Detector.
Enrique Palencia palencia@fnal.gov
Institution: Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC)
Advisor: Teresa Rodrigo
Graduation Date: March 2007
Title:Measurememt of the t-tbar production cross section in p-pbar collisions at sqrt{s)=1.96 TeV using lepton jets events in the CDF detector at Fermilab
Olga Norniella norniell@fnal.gov
Institution: IFAE - Barcelona
Advisor: Mario Martinez
Graduation Date: March 2007
Title:Inclusive Jet Production Studies at the Tevatron using the CDF Detector
Brian Mohr mohr@fnal.gov
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Advisor: Jay Hauser
Graduation Date: April 2007
Title:A Precise Measurement of the Top Quark Mass
Vivek Tiwari vtiwari@cmu.edu
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
Advisor: Manfred Paulini
Graduation Date: May 2007
Title:Measurement of the Bs anti-Bs Oscillation Frequency Using Semileptonic Decays
Sara-Madge Wynne smwynne@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Liverpool, UK
Advisor: Mike Houlden
Graduation Date: June 2007
Title:Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons in 1.2 fb-1 of Run II High Mass Diphoton Data at CDF
Roman Lysak lysak@fnal.gov
Institution: Institute of Experimental Physics Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovakia
Advisor: Jaroslav Antos
Graduation Date: June 2007
Title:Top quark mass measurement in dilepton channel
Jennifer Pursley jpursley@fnal.gov
Institution: The Johns Hopkins University
Advisor: Petar Maksimovic
Graduation Date: June 2007
Title:Discovery and Measurement of Excited b Hadrons at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Michele Giunta giunta@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Siena
Advisor: Giorgio Bellettini
Graduation Date: June 2007
Title:Precision Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at CDF
Corrinne Mills cmills@physics.harvard.edu
Institution: The University of California at Santa Barbara
Advisor: Joseph R. Incandela
Graduation Date: June 2007
Title:A Measurement of the Top Pair Production Cross-Section in the Dilepton Channel using Lepton plus Track Selection
Alberto BELLONI alberto.belloni@cern.ch
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Christoph PAUS
Graduation Date: July 2007
Title:Observation of Bs-antiBs Oscillations and the Development and Application of Same-Side-Kaon Tagging
Peter Wagner wagnp@fnal.gov
Institution: Texas A&M University
Advisor: David Toback
Graduation Date: August 2007
Title:Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Jonathan Efron efron@mps.ohio-state.edu
Institution: The Ohio State University, Columbus
Advisor: Brian Winer
Graduation Date: August 2007
Title:Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson in the ZH l l- bb Channel at CDF Run II
Viktor Veszpremi veszpv@cern.ch
Institution: Purdue University, West-Lafayette, IN
Advisor: Daniela Bortoletto
Graduation Date: August 2007
Title:Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at a Center-of-Mass Energy of 1.96 TeV
Jeffrey Miles jmiles@alum.mit.edu
Institution: MIT
Advisor: Christoph Paus
Graduation Date: September 2007
Title:Observation of Bs Oscillations Using Partially Reconstructed Hadronic Bs Decays
Jared Yamaoka yamaoka@fnal.gov
Institution: Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Advisor: Sunil Somalwar
Graduation Date: October 2007
Title:Measurement of the relative fraction of ttbar events produced via gluon-fusion in ppbar collision at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV at CDF.
Svenja Richter richter@fnal.gov
Institution: Karlsruhe U., EKP
Advisor: Michael Feindt, Wolfgang Wagner
Graduation Date: November 2007
Title:Search for Electroweak Single Top-Quark Production with the CDF II Experiment
Michael Milnik
Institution: Karlsruhe U., EKP
Advisor: Michael Feindt
Graduation Date: November 2007
Title:Measurement of the Lifetime Difference and CP-Violating Phase in B_s \to J/\psi \phi Decays
Christopher Marino cmarino@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Kevin Pitts
Graduation Date: December 2007
Title:Measurement of the CP Asymmetry in Semimuonic B Decays Produced in ppbar Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96
Zeynep Gunay Unalan gunay@fnal.gov
Institution: Michigan State University, MI, USA
Advisor: Kirsten Tollefson
Graduation Date: December 2007
Title:Measurement of the top quark's charge
Johannes Muelmenstaedt
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Advisor: Marjorie Shapiro
Graduation Date: December 2007
Title:First observation of the decay Bs --> Ds K and measurement of Br(Bs --> Ds K)/Br(Bs --> Ds pi)
Michael Joseph Morello michael.morello@pi.infn.it
Institution: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Advisor: Giovanni Punzi
Graduation Date: December 2007
Title:Measurements of CP Asymmetries and Branching Fractions of Two-Body Charmless Decays of B0 and B0s Mesons
John Freeman jcfree@fnal.gov
Institution: UC Berkeley, California, USA
Advisor: Jim Siegrist
Graduation Date: December 2007
Title:A Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in 1.96 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions Using a Novel Matrix Element Method

2008

Tuula Maki tmaki@fnal.gov
Institution: Helsinki Institute of Physics and Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland
Advisor: Risto Orava
Graduation Date: March 2008
Title:Top-Quark Mass Measurement
Tatsuya Masubuchi tatsuya@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Advisor: Shinhong Kim
Graduation Date: March 2008
Title:Search for Higgs Boson Production in Association with a W Boson in 1.96-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions
Taichi Kubo taichi@fnal.gov
Institution: Tsukuba University
Advisor: Shinhong Kim
Graduation Date: March 2008
Title:Measurement of the Top Quark Mass by Dynamical Likelihood Method using the Lepton Jets Events
Vadim Khotilovich khotilovich@tamu.edu
Institution: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Advisor: Teruki Kamon, Alexei Safonov
Graduation Date: May 2008
Title:Search for Pair Production of Scalar Top Quarks Decaying to a tau Lepton and a b Quark in 1.96-TeV ppbar Collisions
Ulysses Grundler grundler@fnal.gov
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Tony Liss
Graduation Date: May 2008
Title:A Measurement of the t-tbar Production Cross Section in p-pbar Collisions at s**(1/2)=1.96 TeV using Soft Muon Tagging
Peter Dong dong@physics.ucla.edu
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Advisor: Rainer Wallny
Graduation Date: June 2008
Title:Measurement of Electroweak Single Top Quark Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.96 TeV

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