Home › Group News › Dr. Lauren M. Aycock defended her thesis today. Group News, Personnel, RbK, Uncategorized Dr. Lauren M. Aycock defended her thesis today. Ian Spielman Aug 31, 2016 Lauren defended her thesis titled “Topological excitations in a Bose gas & sexual harassment reported by undergraduate physicists” today to a bumper audience in Ithaca. And it rocked!