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UCB Astronomy Theses

Recent theses are available online via ProQuest, and a smattering of older ones are stored on this website. It doesn't seem possible to link directly to ProQuest's list of Berkeley Astronomy ones in particular, but as of June 2012 you search them this way:

  • Click on “Advanced Search”
  • In the main search box, enter something like “au(chornock, ryan)” for an author search
  • In the “Source type” box, check only “Dissertations & Theses”
  • Your desired thesis will almost always be in the first page of results.

You can browse theses like this:

  • 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)”

Below is a very incomplete listing of Berkeley theses. The format is indicated in brackets, with “[PQ]” indicating a link to ProQuest. “(P)” after a name denotes a degree received in Physics. Some of the direct file links are quite large, unsurprisingly, though others link only to abstracts.

Fall 2011

Fall 2010

Spring 2010

Fall 2009

Spring 2008

Fall 2006

Spring 2006

Fall 2005

Spring 2005

Fall 2002

Fall 2002

Fall 2001

Spring 2001

Fall 2000

Spring 2000

Fall 1999

Spring 1999

Spring 1998

Fall 1997

Spring 1997