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MISSION STATEMENTS
As the leading center of physics education and research in the Philippines
Produce a significant number of excellent PhD graduates in pure and applied physics
Attract and retain the best scientific talents
Develop and disseminate evidence-based programs and materials in physics education
Develop and maintain enabling and nurturing environment for researchers,
faculty, students, and staff by offering a competitive compensation package and by
promoting intellectual honesty, integrity, collegiality and academic freedom
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It is also humbling that when looking forward now, it would seem that you have
not yet gotten to the end of your road. There is still so much ahead. The dis-
tance beckons and invites to be explored. Do not lose heart. Instead, be of
strong courage. For many great men and women have trodden similar paths,
forged trails for others, broken through barriers, uncovered thrills and joys,
opened new mysteries, and made it to the farthest ends. Many have looked
down that same road ahead and made it.
ROLAND V. SARMAGO
Director
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Your graduation comes at the time of crisis in Mindanao. Many decades of fight-
ing and loss of lives have done little to solve this complex problem. I hope that
your UP education helps you understand the various facets of this conflict, and
realize that its solution cannot be obtained simply by a display of military power.
You have made a wise choice to be educated and trained in the CS. I hope that
you will use your scientific training and mindset to contribute to national develop-
ment and to the solution of the larger problems such as social justice and poverty
alleviation. As we wish you success in your future endeavors, we also hope that
you pursue them with integrity, fairness and respect for others.
I wish you all the best and hope that you will forever cherish your CS and NIP
experience. Writing this message is special, being one of the last official acts I
will be making as Dean. Thank you for the privilege and the memories.
Congratulations, dear graduates. I hope that our paths will meet again.
The undergraduate years in the Uni- and the intensive exams such as those
of Dr. Sarmago and Dr. Magpantay,
versity of the Philippines (UP) could
be considered a bridge, one that took Batch 2012 always made it a point
the National Institute of Physics (NIP) to come together and celebrate, cry,
Batch 2012 from rambunc- strive, laugh and succeed.
tious high school stu-
dents still wet be- Their personal
hind the ears achievements
to rising pi- in this course
oneers and were hardly
budding re- won alone,
searchers but rather,
of the Grad- with the sup-
uating Class of port of each
2017. member of the
Batch behind him or
Numbering about 70 in the begin- her. Through their collective
ning, they each adjusted and stepped struggles, and even with their reduc-
into the new environment of the UP tion in number, Batch 2012 remained a
student life first through their own very tight-knit group.
Facebook group, and beyond the first
day in the company of their respective
blockmates.
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Michelle T. Cirunay
Undergraduate Thesis:
Spatial Metrics for Characterizing
Road Network Signatures of Urban
Complexity
Adviser:
Rene C. Batac, Ph.D.
Harold L. Co
(Magna Cum Laude)
Undergraduate Thesis:
Comparison of the Reflectance
Spectra of GaAs AlGaAs
Coupled, Weakly Coupled, and
Uncoupled Asymmetric Double
Quantum Wells
Adviser:
Arnel A. Salvador, Ph.D.
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Adviser:
Nathaniel P. Hermosa II, Ph.D.
Christopher Patrick P.
Elegado (Cum Laude)
Undergraduate Thesis:
Implementing a Penna Model that
Avoids Artificial Deaths
Adviser:
Ronald S. Banzon, Ph.D.
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Robertson C. Esperanza
(Cum Laude)
Undergraduate Thesis:
Ground State Correlations and
Entanglement in an Extended
Hubbard Model with Ising-Like
Interaction
Adviser:
Francis Norman C. Paraan, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Thesis:
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of
Glass Formation in a Copper-Silver
System
Adviser:
Francis Norman C. Paraan, Ph.D.
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Adviser:
Maricor N. Soriano, Ph.D.
Angelo P. Rillera
(Magna Cum Laude)
Undergraduate Thesis:
Synthesis of YBCO Films from a
Y-358 Stoichiometry using
Sedimentation Deposition
Adviser:
Roland V. Sarmago, Ph.D.
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Advisers:
Giovanni A. Tapang, Ph.D.
Caesar A. Saloma, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Thesis:
Fast Parallel Computation of the
Fast Fourier Transforms and Other
Optical Methods using a Graphics
Processing Unit
Advisers:
Giovanni A. Tapang, Ph.D.
Caesar A. Saloma, Ph.D.
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Undergraduate Thesis:
Investigation on the Interface Electric
Field of Aluminum-Doped Zinc
Oxide/Gallium Arsenide (AZO/
GaAs) Heterojunctions for Terahertz
Emission Applications
Adviser:
Armando S. Somintac, Ph.D.
Adviser:
Francis Norman C. Paraan, Ph.D.
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Undergraduate Thesis:
Modelling the Frequency Response
of Human Cochlea to Induced
Defect
Adviser:
Maricor N. Soriano, Ph.D.
Adviser:
Nathaniel P. Hermosa II, Ph.D.
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Undergraduate Thesis:
Colloidal Processing of Bi2Sr-
2CaCu2O8+ Films Prepared
by KC1-Assisted Sedimentation
Deposition Technique
Adviser:
Roland V. Sarmago, Ph.D.
Adviser:
Armando S. Somintac, Ph.D.
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Adviser:
Roland Cristopher F. Caballar, Ph.D.
Adviser:
Johnrob Y. Bantang, Ph.D.
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Adviser:
Wilson O. Garcia, Ph.D.
BS Physics
Adviser:
Cristine D. Villagonzalo, Ph.D.
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Adviser:
Jose Perico H. Esguerra, Ph.D.
Adviser:
Johnrob Y. Bantang, Ph.D.
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Adviser:
Eric A. Galapon, Ph.D.
Nicholas Christopher A.
Colina (Cum Laude)
Undergraduate Thesis:
Eigenspectra Preservation and
Orthogonal Weight Matrix
Initialization in Deep Neural
Network Models
Adviser:
Francis Norman C. Paraan, Ph.D.
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Adviser:
Jose Perico H. Esguerra, Ph.D.
Adviser:
Eric A. Galapon, Ph.D.
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Adviser:
Jose Perico H. Esguerra, Ph.D.
Adviser:
Jose Perico H. Esguerra, Ph.D.
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Adviser:
Jose Perico H. Esguerra, Ph.D.
Adviser:
Eric A. Galapon, Ph.D.
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Christian D. Tica
Undergraduate Thesis:
Finite-Part Integration of the
Generalized Stieltjes Transform
and its Dominant Asymptotic
Behavior for Small Values of the
Parameter
Adviser:
Eric A. Galapon, Ph.D.
MS Physics
Alfred P. Abella
Masters Thesis:
Finite-size Effects in Experiments
on Gravity-Capillary Surface
Waves
Adviser:
Maricor N. Soriano, Ph.D.
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Janus B. Advincula
B.S Psychology, University of the
Philippines, Diliman, 2010
Masters Thesis:
Almost Non State-Altering POVM
Quantum Measurement
Adviser:
Eric A. Galapon, Ph.D.
Masters Thesis:
Estimation of Lateral and Depth
Resolution of a Phase-Shifting
Profilometer via Modulation
Transfer Function Analysis
Adviser:
Maricor N. Soriano, Ph.D.
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Masters Thesis:
Camera Rotation Estimation
from Video
Adviser:
Maricor N. Soriano, Ph.D.
Reginald Christian S.
Bernardo
BS Physics, University of the
Philippines, Diliman, 2015
Masters Thesis:
Some Consequences of the
Generalized Uncertainty
Principle: Energy Levels,
Thin-Layer Quantization, and
Quantum Dynamics
2017 Most Outstanding
MS Physics Graduate
Adviser:
Jose Perico H. Esguerra, Ph.D.
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Jezreel C. Castillo
BS Chemistry, University of the
Philippines, Diliman, 2014
Masters Thesis:
Self-Force on a Scalar Charge in
Circular Orbits About a
Reissner-Nordstrm Black Hole
Adviser:
Michael Francis Ian G. Vega II, Ph.D.
April D. Cortez
BS Applied Physics, University of
the Philippines, Diliman, 2008
Masters Thesis:
Modeling of Spin Injection to
Semiconductors in Three-Termi-
nal Ferromagnet-Insulator-Semi-
conductor Junctions
Adviser:
Cristine DLR. Villagonzalo, Ph.D.
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Damian N. Dailisan
BS Physics, University of the
Philippines, Diliman, 2015
Masters Thesis:
Modeling Lane Changing and
Random Slowdown in Vehicular
Traffic Using a Cellular
Automata Model
Adviser:
May T. Lim, Ph.D.
Einstom L. Engay
BS Applied Physics, University of
the Philippines, Diliman, 2015
Masters Thesis:
Accelerated Reconstruction in
Multiple-Plane Phase Retrieval
Using a Transit Plane
Adviser:
Percival F. Almoro, Ph.D.
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Adviser:
Jose Perico H. Esguerra, Ph.D.
Masters Thesis:
Enhanced Terahertz Emission
from CuxO/Si P-n
Heterojunction Fabricated by
Thermal Oxidation
Adviser
Armando S. Somintac, Ph.D.
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Masters Thesis:
Symbolic Co-Occurrence
Networks in Bird Calls, Human
Music, and Language
Adviser:
Giovanni A. Tapang, Ph.D.
Amancio S. Manceras II
BS Physics, Mindanao State
University-Iligan Institute of
Technology, 2013
Masters Thesis:
Advantage of Genetic Diversity
in a Penna model
Adviser:
Ronald S. Banzon, Ph.D.
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Masters Thesis:
Entanglement and fluctuations in
the Majumdar-Ghosh
model ground using matrix
product states representation
Adviser:
Francis Norman C. Paraan, Ph.D.
Masters Thesis:
Development of Co-Authorship
Networks Within the Philippine
Congress
Adviser:
Giovanni A. Tapang, Ph.D.
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Masters Thesis:
Overcharging Higher-Dimen-
sional Black Holes with Point
Particles
Adviser:
Michael Francis Ian G. Vega II, Ph.D.
Masters Thesis:
Cu-doping in ZnO nanorods
Adviser:
Roland V. Sarmago, Ph.D.
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Masters Thesis:
Dynamical Quantum Phase
Transitions in the Ground-State
Quenched XY Model
Adviser:
Francis Norman C. Paraan, Ph.D.
Masters Thesis:
Perturbations in Spherically
Symmetric Black Holes
Adviser:
Michael Francis Ian G. Vega II, Ph.D.
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Masters Thesis:
Determination of the Mechanical
Properties of Copper-Silver Alloy
Using Molecular Dynamics
Simulations
Adviser:
Francis Norman C. Paraan, Ph.D.
PhD Physics
Adviser:
Elmer S. Estacio, Ph.D.
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Cyril P. Sadia
BS Physics, University of the
Philippines, Baguio, 2005
MS Physics, University of the
Philippines, Diliman, 2008
Adviser:
Arnel A. Salvador, Ph.D.
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For me, luck, not in its literal sense, Having supportive colleagues, friends,
comes in the form of blessings from and loved ones is an invaluable blessing.
above. I am blessed to have worked with I felt lucky to be surrounded by individ-
a prolific researcher and physicist Prof. uals who made my life bearable and still
Elmer Estacio as my dissertation adviser enjoyable during the most challenging
and mentor. Because of his good reputa- years of my career (so far). Their constant
tion and active network with the Univer- encouragement, guidance and prayers in-
sity of Fukui in Japan, I was given a rare spired me to do my best every step of the
opportunity to collaborate with Prof. way. Without them, my journey would
Masahiko Tani, one of the leading scien- not have been meaningful.
tists in the field of terahertz (THz) sci-
ence. Working with them instilled in me At the start, luck was just there to com-
the importance of tenacity, hard-work, plete the list. I never thought it would
dexterity, and self-discipline to accom- have a very significant role in fulfilling
plish research projects. my dream.
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Program of Activities
Assembly and Procession of the Graduation Candidates
Lupang Hinirang
Welcome Remarks Dr. Wilson O. Garcia
Dep. Director for Research and Extension
Introduction of Guest of Honor Dr. Roland V. Sarmago
Director
Message from the Guest of Honor Cong. Jose Ma. Clemente Joey S. Salceda
2nd District of the Province of Albay
Philippine House of Representatives
Presentation of Plaque of Appreciation to the Guest of Honor
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Number
of BS
Graduates
NIP Class
Number
of MS/PhD
Graduates
NIP Class
*Classes with graduates in Diploma in Physics: 2010 (1); and, graduates
in MA Physics: 2009 (1), 2013 (1), 2015 (1), 2016 (1).
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