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2006 Theses

Ph.D. Student	Advisor	Title
Jonathan Engle	Abhay Ashtekar	Black Hole Entropy, Constraints, and Symmetry in Quantum Gravity PDF
Kevin Vandersloot	Abhay Ashtekar	Loop Quantum Cosmology PDF

2005 Theses

Ph.D. Student	Advisor	Title
Chris Van Den Broeck	Abhay Ashtekar	Black Holes and Neutron Stars: Fundamental and Phenomenological Issues PDF

2004 Theses

Ph.D. Student	Advisor	Title
Josh Willis	Abhay Ashtekar	On the Low-Energy Ramifications and a Mathematical Extension of Loop Quantum Gravity PDF, ETD
Bernard Kelly	Pablo Laguna	The Next Generation of Binary Black Hole Head-On Collisions, and their Aftermath PDF, ETD site
Kenneth Smith	Pablo Laguna	Dynamic Singularity Excision in Numerical Relativity PDF, ETD site

2002 Theses

Ph.D. Student	Advisor	Title
David Garrison	Jorge Pullin, Pablo Laguna	Testing Binary Black Hole Codes in Strong Field Regimes PDF, ETD site
Badri Krishnan	Abhay Ashtekar	Isolated Horizons in Numerical Relativity PDF, ETD site
Yi Ling	Lee Smolin	Extending Loop Quantum Gravity to Supergravity PDF
Jacek Wisniewski	Abhay Ashtekar	2+1 General Relativity: Classical and Quantum PDF, ETD site

2001 Theses

Ph.D. Student	Advisor	Title
Ramon Lopez-Aleman	Jorge Pullin	Evolving Particle Trajectories Perturbatively around Rotating Black Holes in the Time Domain PDF, ETD site
Stephen Fairhurst	Abhay Ashtekar	Isolated horizons and distorted black holes Postscript, PDF, ETD site
Olaf Dreyer	Abhay Ahtekar	Isolated Horizons and Black Hole Entropy Postscript, PDF, ETD site

2000 Theses

Ph.D. Student	Advisor	Title
Chris Beetle	Abhay Ashtekar	Isolated Horizons and Black Hole Mechanics Postscript, PDF
Dan Cartin	Lee Smolin	Self-regulated Models of Str Formation in Flocculent Galaxies Postscript, PDF
Sameer Gupta	Lee Smolin	not available
Gaurav Khanna	Jorge Pullin	Black Hole Coalescence: the Close Limit Postscript, PDF

1999 Theses

Ph.D. Student	Advisor	Title
Kirill Krasnov	Abhay Ashtekar	Postscript, PDF
Eli Hawkins	Lee Smolin	Perturbative Noncommutative Regularization Postscript & PDF

1997 Theses

Ph.D. Student	Advisor	Title
Alejandro Corichi	Abhay Ashtekar	Interplay Between Topology, Gauge Fields And Gravity Postscript, PDF
Seth Major	Lee Smolin	q-Quantum Gravity Postscript, PDF
Nuno Dias	Jorge Pullin	The Dynamics Of Quantum Gravity: A Proposal

1996 Theses

Ph.D. Student	Advisor	Title
Monica Pierri	Abhay Ashtekar	Probing Quantum General Relativity Through Exactly Soluble Midi-Superspaces
Troy Schilling	Abhay Ashtekar	Geometry Of Quantum Mechanics Postscript, PDF

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