PhD theses granted – Fall 2023

We congratulate the following PhD graduates who successfully defended their thesis in the fall of 2023:

Mike Kovacevich

  • Thesis title: A Search for Neutrino Flares with 10 years of IceCube’s Cascade Events
  • Graduation date: December 2023
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: Drexel University/Naoko Kurahashi Neilson

Jeffrey Lazar

  • Thesis title: Tools and Techniques for a New Generation of Neutrino Telescopes
  • Graduation date: October 2023
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Wisconsin–Madison/Francis Halzen and Carlos Argüelles

Barbara Skrzypek

  • Thesis title: Icebreaking Neutrinos: Astrophysical Messengers of Planck-Scale Physics
  • Graduation date: November 2023
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: Harvard University/Carlos Argüelles

Benjamin Smithers

  • Thesis title: A Multi-Channel Search for Signatures of eV^2 Scale Sterile Neutrinos in IceCube
  • Graduation date: December 2023
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Texas at Arlington/Ben Jones