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UCB Astronomy Theses
Recent theses are available online via ProQuest. It doesn't seem possible to link directly to a list of Berkeley Astronomy ones in particular, but as of June 2012 you can browse them this way:
- Go to search.proquest.com
- At the top of the page, select “Browse”
- Select “Dissertations and Theses”
- Select “Browse by Location”
- Expand “United States – California”, then “University of California, Berkeley”
- View the documents with the “astronomy” keyword. (This has more results than “astrophysics” so hopefully it's more inclusive, but maybe you need to check both?)
- You probably then want to sort by “Publication Date (most recent first)”
Local Copies
There is also a selection of theses, in various formats, stored locally. Check out the list below. Unsurprisingly, some of the files are quite large. “(P)” after a name denotes a degree received in Physics.
Spring 2010 Degrees
Merging Galaxies and Dark Matter Halos
- by Andrew R. Wetzel
Spring 2008 Degrees
The Supernova Rate in the Local Universe
- by Jesse Frederick Leaman
Fall 2006 Degrees
A High Angular Resolution Survey of Circumstellar Dust around Herbig Ae/Be Stars
- by Marshall D. Perrin
Spring 2006 Degrees
Stellar Magnetic Activity and the Detection of Exoplanets
- by Jason Thomas Wright
Fall 2005 Degrees
- by Steven A. Dawson
Computational and Theoretical Investigations of Star Formation
- by Mark R. Krumholz (P)
Spectral Energy Distributions of Embedded Protostars and Dusty Galaxies
- by Sukanya Chakrabarti (P)
The Super Star Cluster Population of the M82 Nuclear Starburst
- by Nate McCrady
Spring 2005 Degrees
Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies: Observational Tests of the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm on Small Scales
- by Joshua D. Simon
Molecular Cloud Populations Across Galactic Environments
- by Erik Rosolowsky
Fall 2002 Degrees
Low Redshift Lyman Alpha Absorbers in Voids: Their Origin, and their Contribution to Omega_Matter
- by Curt Manning
Infrared Spectroscopy of Massive Stellar Clusters in Starbursts
- by Andrea Gilbert
The Detection and Characterization of Low Mass Companions to Sunlike Stars
- by James P. Lloyd
Fall 2002 Degrees
What and Where Are the MACHO Microlenses?
- by Cailin Nelson (P)
Fall 2001 Degrees
Precision Multi-Telescope Timing of Millisecond Pulsars
- by Andrea Lommen
Star Formation from the Galaxy to the Cosmos
- by Jonathan Tan
Titan's Atmosphere at High-Resolution
- by Henry Roe
Spring 2001 Degrees
The Role of Heating and Enrichment in Structure Formation
- by Evan Scannapieco (P)
Fall 2000 Degrees
The Geometry and Cosmological Utility of Core-Collapse Supernovae
- by Doug Leonard
Distances and Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies
- by Michael Liu (P)
- by Andrew Cumming (P)
Radial Gas Flows and Star Formation in Spiral Galaxies
- by Tony H. Wong
Spring 2000 Degrees
Fall 1999 Degrees
Magnetism and Rapid Photometric Variability in Symbiotic Binary Stars
- by Jennifer Sokoloski (P)
Spring 1999 Degrees
Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey behind Massive Clusters
- by Brenda Frye
Interstellar Dust as a Cosmological Foreground
- by Douglas P. Finkbeiner (P)
Big Bang Leftovers in the Microwave: Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
- by Eric Gawiser (P)
Spring 1998 Degrees
Millisecond Pulsars: Decoding Magnetospheres
- by Shauna M. Sallmen
New Views of LINERs: Ultraviolet Properties and Optical Spectropolarimetry
- by Aaron J. Barth
Protostellar Winds, Jets, and Chondritic Meteorites
- by Hsien Shang
Fall 1997 Degrees
High Frequency Very Long Baseline Interferometry Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei
- by Geoffrey C. Bower
Millimeter Observations of Low Mass Star Formation in Rho Ophiuchus A and B1
- by Theodore T. Yu
The Ecology of the Cygnus Loop in Multi-Wavelength Observations
- by Nancy A. Levenson
Mass Segregation in Globular Clusters M92, 47 Tucanae, and Omega Centauri
- by Albert J. Anderson
Models of Interacting Stellar Winds
- by Francis P. Wilkin
Spring 1997 Degrees
Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Globular Clusters with Central Density Cusps
- by Craig A. Sosin (P)