IAN VEGA
Professor
National Institute of Physics
University of the Philippines - Diliman
Past Theses and Alumni (2016-present)
Jerome Mecca (MS Physics, 2019)
-- currently PhD student in the group
MS Thesis: Self-force on a static scalar charge in a class of traversable wormhole spacetimes
John Carlo Elmaguin (MS Physics, 2019)
-- currently PhD student in the group
MS Thesis: Orbital dynamics of a spinning particle in Schwarzschild spacetime using phase-plane analysis
Gabriel Sedrick Alkuino (BS Physics, 2019, Cum Laude)
-- currently NIP Instructor and MS student in the group
BS Thesis: A geometric horizon for a perturbed Schwarzschild spacetime
John Adrian Baybay (BS Physics, 2019)
-- currently NIP Instructor and MS student in the group
BS Thesis: Efficiency of the collisional Penrose process in a Kerr-Newman black hole
John Celestial (BS Physics, 2019, Magna Cum Laude)
-- currently NIP Instructor and MS student in the group
BS Thesis: Stability of hairy black holes
Karlo de Leon (BS Physics, 2019, Summa Cum Laude)
-- currently NIP Instructor and MS student in the group
-- Most Outstanding BS Physics Student 2019
-- Best BS Physics Thesis 2019
BS Thesis: Weak gravitational deflection by two-power-law densities
Mark Christian Perez (BS Physics, 2019)
-- currently PCARI project assistant and MS student in the group
BS Thesis: Charged particle motion around a weakly magnetized rotating black hole
Sam Joseph Alcoriza (MS Physics, 2018)
-- currently in private sector
MS Thesis: Secular dynamics in hierarchical (2+2) four body systems: three-body comparison and relativistic effects
Mark Ivan Ugalino (BS Physics, 2018)
-- currently NIP Instructor and MS student in the group
BS Thesis: Density perturbation induced by relativistic bodies in slightly eccentric orbits
Noel Vargas (MS Physics, 2018)
-- currently Instructor in the Department of Physics, Ateneo de Manila University
MS Thesis: Radiation from a scalar charge in Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime
Jezreel Castillo (MS Physics, 2017)
-- started PhD studies in 2019, awarded PhD Merit Fellowship for Physics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA)
-- 2018 ICTP Diploma Program for High Energy Physics (Trieste, ITALY)
MS Thesis: Self-force on a scalar charge in circular orbits about a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole
Adrian Villanueva (MS Physics, 2017)
-- currently PhD student in the group
MS Thesis: Perturbations in spherically symmetric black holes
Janforth Daniel Cantor (MS Physics, 2017)
-- now in private sector
MS Thesis: Radiation from charged particles in circular orbit around a weakly magnetized Schwarzschild black hole
Karl Simon Revelar (MS Physics, 2016)
-- currently PhD student in the group
MS Thesis: Overcharging higher-dimensional black holes using point particles