Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 1997

• Adam, Philippe H. — Enthalpy Effects on Hypervelocity Boundary Layers
• Akeson, Rachel Lynn — Millimeter Interferometric Polarimetry of Magnetic Field Structure in Protostellar Condensations
• Arkin, Michelle R. — Investigations of DNA-Mediated Electron Transfer Reactions with Metallointercalators
• Asimow, Paul David — A Thermodynamic Model of Adiabatic Melting of the Mantle
• Assad, Christopher — Electric field maps and boundary element simulations of electrolocation in weakly electric fish
• Bakke, Eric — Viscosity measurements of bulk metallic glass forming alloys
• Bansal, Ashish — Surface Modification and Charge Transfer Studies at Silicon and Gallium Arsenide Interfaces
• Baumstein, Anatoly I. — Nonlinear water waves with shear
• Baxter-Drayton, Yvette Valencia — The Dynamics of Flocculated Dispersions
• Beam, David Alan — Experimental Studies of the Anomalous Sign Reversal in the Vortex-State Hall Conductivity of YBa₂2Cu₃O₇
• Beck, Carolyn Louise — Model Reduction and Minimality for Uncertain Systems
• Behnken, Robert Louis — Nonlinear Control and Modeling of Rotating Stall in an Axial Flow Compressor
• Bin, Mei — Low-noise THz Niobium SIS Mixers
• Boahen, Kwabena Adu — Retinomorphic vision systems : reverse engineering the vertebrate retina
• Bowman, Frank Morales — Ozone and secondary organic aerosol formation from organic precursors
• Boyd, Richard Alan — A Cryogenic Trap for Neutral Atoms
• Bradford, Kent B. — Aspects of Non-Abelian Many Body Physics
• Bryant, Peter M. — High-resolution observations of the molecular gas in luminous infrared galaxies
• Burl, Michael C. — Recognition of visual object classes
• Cao, Yu — Parallel Computing and the IRAS Galaxy Atlas
• Capewell, Dale L. — Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence Imaging and Monte Carlo Simulations of Pulsed Laser Ablation
• Carson, Paul Jonathan — I. Ultrasensitive surface NMR using parahydrogen spin labeling. II. High-resolution optical NMR of semiconductor heterostructures using larmor beat detection
• Chan, Eduardo — Optimal Design of Building Structures Using Genetic Algorithms
• Chen, Hou — Transformation of alkylated pseudoephedrine amides to highly enantiomerically enriched carboxylic acids and ketones
• Cheng, Jung-Fu — Iterative decoding
• Crellin, Kevin Christopher — The Investigation of Gas Phase Ion-Molecule Reactions with Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry
• D'Andrea, Raffaello — Generalizations of H-infinity optimization. Control of rotating stall
• Deng, Tony H. — Measurement of the dynamic bulk compliance of polymers
• Diorio, Christopher J. — Neurally Inspired Silicon Learning : from Synapse Transistors to Learning Arrays
• Drayton, Paul Jeffrey — Experimental and theoretical studies of aerosol agglomerates
• Drolet, Jean-Jacques P. — Optoelectronic devices for information storage and processing
• Du Bois, Justin — I. Enantioselective synthesis of (+)-zaragozic acid C. II. Nitridomanganese(V) complexes: design, preparation, and use as novel nitrogen atom-transfer reagents
• Elwood, John Kenneth — Effective Field Theories in the Study of K_L → π^+π^-e^+e^- and Heavy Quark Fragmentation
• Feng, Jing — Frequency chirp and spectral dynamics in semiconductor lasers
• Fernandes, Neil Edward — Diffusion in mesoporous glass : simulations and experiments
• Gan, Wenshui — Earthquake Response of Steel Braces and Braced Steel Frames
• Geraghty, David Francis — Investigation of wavelength conversion by four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers
• Gibson, Andrew Douglas — Physical scale modeling of geotechnical structures at one-G
• Gottesman, Daniel Eric — Stabilizer Codes and Quantum Error Correction
• Gupta, Vidyabhusan — Analog VLSI for active drag reduction
• Haldemann, Albert Frank Christian — Interpreting Radar Scattering: Circular-Polarization Perspectives from Three Terrestrial Planets
• Hammond, Marlys — Enantioselective Synthesis of Neocarzinostatin Chromophore Aglycone
• Hannigan, Michael Patrick — Mutagenic particulate matter in air pollutant source emissions and in ambient air
• Haroldsen, David John — The numerical calculation of three-dimensional water waves using a boundary integral method
• Hartman, John Walter — Simulation of Surface and Material Damage During Fast Ion Penetration
• Hasler, Paul Edward — Foundations of learning in analog VLSI
• Hatzimanikatis, Vassily — Analysis and design of metabolic reaction networks
• He, Gang — Novel group IV alloy semiconductor materials
• Herzog, Timothy Allan — Deuterium Isotope Effects as Evidence for α-Agostic Assistance in Ziegler-Natta Catalysts. Design, Synthesis, and Reactivity of a New Class of Highly Syndiospecific Ziegler-Natta Polymerization Catalysts
• Hodowany, Jon — On the conversion of plastic work into heat
• Holk, Gregory James — The Role of Water in the Magmatic and Tectonic Evolution of Metamorphic Core Complexes: A stable Isotope Study of the Southern Omineca Crystalline Belt, British Columbia, Canada
• Holt, John William — I. Detailed Records of Geomagnetic Field Behavior from Death Valley and Hawaii. II. An Age Constraint on Gulf of California Rifting from Santa Rosalía, Baja California
• Horiuchi, Timothy Ken — Analog VLSI-Based, Neuromorphic Sensorimotor Systems: Modeling the Primate Oculomotor System
• Hsieh, Jean Chia Chin — An Oxygen Isotopic Study of Soil Water and Pedogenic Clays in Hawaii
• Hunter, Todd Russell — A submillimeter imaging survey of ultracompact HII regions
• Jiang, Yibo — Decadal evolution of atmospheric ozone and remote sensing of tropospheric ozone
• Johann, Timothy Wilmot — Sequence-Specific Inhibition of DNA Polymerase by Phenanthrene Quinone Diimine Complexes of Rhodium(III)
• Jonscher, Karen Rae — Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry of Peptides
• Kalsow, Gretchen Anne — A Microeconometric Analysis of Consumer Response to Direct Marketing and Mail Order
• Kang, Hyejin — Modulation of Synaptic Function by Neurotrophic Factors in the Adult Hippocampus
• Kantner, Michael James — Robust simulation and analysis of nonlinear systems
• Kapustin, Anton N. — Topics in Heavy Quark Physics
• Kedia, Rajesh — An Investigation of Velocity and Temperature Fields in Taylor-Couette Flows
• Kennefick, Daniel John — Radiation Reaction in Binary Systems in General Relativity
• Kenyon, Christopher Neil — Time-Resolved and Steady-State Investigations of Carrier Dynamics at the Semiconductor/Liquid Interface
• Kesselman, Janet M. — Fundamental Photoelectrochemical Properties of TIO₂/Water Interfaces : Relevance for Hazardous Waste Remediation
• Khodabandeh, Shervin — Synthesis of Alkaline-earth Zeolites
• Kiely, Andrew F. — Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Aminoborole Complexes of Hafnium
• Kiselev, Alexander A. — Absolutely continuous spectrum of one-dimensional Schrodinger operators and Jacobi matrices with slowly decreasing potentials
• Knop, Robert A., Jr. — Spatially Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of Seyfert Galaxies
• Kothare, Mayuresh V. — Control of Systems Subject to Constraints
• Krok, James Christopher — Jet Initiation of Deflagration and Detonation
• Kursinski, Emil Robert — The GPS Radio Occultation Concept: Theoretical Performance and Initial Results
• Labrador, Allan Wayne — Measurement of the Galactic Cosmic Ray Antiproton Flux from 0.25 GeV to 3.11 GeV with the Isotope Matter Antimatter Experiment (IMAX)
• Lane, Robert P. — Evolution of the Neural Immunoglobulin Supergene Family and Functional Studies of One of its Members
• Lazar, James Frederick — Analysis of single phase rectifier circuits
• Lee, Robert Bumju — All-Optical Wavelength Conversion by Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier
• Li, Robert Tan — Development of Late Transition Metal Catalysts for the Transformation of Olefins
• Lin, Susanne Chosein — The Molecular Recognition of DNA by Rhodium(III)-Zinc Finger Peptide Chimeras
• Lin, Wei — The trellis complexity of block and convolutional codes
• Lin, Xianghong — Bulk Glass Formation and Crystallization of Zr-Ti Based Alloys
• Lin, Yuan-Pei — One- and Two-Dimensional Cosine Modulated Filter Banks
• Liu, Qianli — Femtosecond real-time dynamics of solvation : molecular reactions in clusters and supercritical fluids
• Liu, Shih-Chii — Neuromorphic models of visual and motion processing in the fly visual system
• Lu, Hongbing — Nonlinear thermo-mechanical behavior of polymers under multiaxial loading
• Luo, Ji-Ye — Stability and Dynamics Studies of Apo-Azurin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Lyons, Torrey Teatsorth — An Optically recombined laser interferometer for gravitational wave detection
• Marshall, William K. — Dynamics of Amplitude and Phase in Semiconductor Lasers and Effects of Propagation in Dispersive Optical Fibers
• Maskit, Daniel — Software register synchronization for super-scalar processors with partitioned register files
• McClurg, Richard Beatty — Homogeneous nucleation theory
• Mehta, Aseem — New Methods for the Study of Intramolecular and Solvent Dynamics
• Melnik, M. Susan — Diamond surfaces : interactions with hydrogen and halogens
• Meng, Zhaoyue — Thermodynamic and dynamic modeling of atmospheric aerosols
• Miller, Raanan Ariel — Microfabricated electromagnetic flap actuators and their applications
• Minch, Bradley Arthur — Analysis, synthesis, and implementation of networks of multiple-input translinear elements
• Mines, Gary Alan — Cytochrome c : Folding Triggered by Electron Transfer. Rates of Heme Oxidation and Reduction at High Driving Forces
• Miskevich, Frank — Expression, Characterization, and Ligand Studies Involving Domains of the Chick Cell Surface Protein Neogenin
• Moussessian, Alina — Quasi-optical active antennas
• Mueller, Leonard John — Chemical Exchange in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Murray, Michael Mark — Synthesis and characterization of high-spin organic materials: prototypes for the polaronic ferromagnet
• Myagkov, Mikhail G. — Three Essays on Russia's Transition to Democracy
• Nagel, John Frederick — I. The Use of Spherosiloxanes as Molecular Building Blocks for Material and Thin Films. II. A Method of Using SC-Cut Quartz Oscillators for Chemical Sensing
• Nagel, Laura Jeanne — Vibrational entropy differences in materials
• Nagy, Elizabeth Ann — Extensional Deformation and Volcanism Within the Northern Puertecitos Volcanic Province, Sierra Santa Isabel, Baja California, Mexico
• Natarajan, Venkata V. R. — Material and thermal transport in vertical granular flows
• Noca, Flavio — On the Evaluation of Time-Dependent Fluid-Dynamic Forces on Bluff Bodies
• Packman, Aaron Ian — Exchange of colloidal kaolinite between stream and sand bed in a laboratory flume
• Palmer, Michael Edward — Exploiting parallel memory hierarchies for ray casting volumes
• Papalexandris, Miltiadis Vassilios — Unsplit Numerical Schemes for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws with Source Terms
• Park, Jaemo — Aspects of String Dualities--Orientifolds, F-Theory and Super D-Branes & the M5-Brane
• Pathak, Rahul — The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Oligosaccharyl Transferase
• Paulsen, Susan Catherine — A Study of the Mixing of Natural Flows Using ICP-MS and the Elemental Composition of Waters
• Peill, Nicola Joy — Fiber-optic bundled array cable reactors for heterogeneous photocatalysis and waste stream remediation
• Prasad, Anoop — Layering Transitions, Disordered Flat Phases, Reconstruction and Roughening
• Prochazka, Aurelius — Stability and structure of stretched vortices
• Pu, Allen — Holographic 3-D disks and optical correlators using photopolymer materials
• Rathinam, Muruhan — Differentially flat nonlinear control systems
• Regelson, Moira Ellen — Protein structure/function classification using hidden Markov models
• Reisman, Garrett Erin — Dynamics, acoustics and control of cloud cavitation on hydrofoils
• Rodham, David Allen — Spectroscopic Studies of the Gas Phase Complexes Benzene-Ammonia, Sodium-Water, and Sodium-Ammonia
• Ryan, Fintan Danh — Searching for Black Holes and Other Massive, Compact Bodies Using the Gravitational Waves from Binary Inspirals
• Salik, Boaz — Spatio-temporal beam synthesis and applications to photolithography
• Sarpeshkar, Rahul — Efficient precise computation with noisy components : extrapolating from an electronic cochlea to the brain
• Schlessman, Jamie L. — Crystal Structure of Azotobachter vinelandii Nitrogenase Iron Protein at 2.2 Å Resolution
• Scholberg, Kate — A search for neutrinos from gravitational collapse with the MACRO experiment
• Shah, Nirao Mahesh — Mechanisms of Cell Fate Determination and Differentiation in the Mammalian Neural Crest
• Shcheglov, Kirill Vadim — Synthesis, optical and electronic properties of group IV semiconductor nanocrystals
• Siefert, Ronald Lyn — Speciation of Fe in ambient aerosol and cloudwater
• Singer, Robert Alan — Design of Novel Titanium(IV) Schiff Base Complexes for Catalytic, Enantioselective Aldol Additions to Aldehydes
• Sivo, Joseph Michael — Rotordynamic Forces Due to Annular Leakage Flows in Shrouded Centrifugal Pumps
• Song, Xi — High Resolution Modeling of Regional Phases
• Stahl, Shannon Scot — Mechanistic Studies of Alkane Activation by Platinum(II) Complexes
• Stemmler, Martin Bernard — Information maximization and stochastic resonance in single neurons
• Stowell, Michael H. B — Ekmageion
• Sun, Xin — I. Reactively sputtered Ti-Si-N thin films for diffusion barrier applications. II. Oxidation, diffusion and crystallization of an amorphous Zr_(60)Al_(15)Ni_(25) alloy.
• Sur, Sudipto — Robotic manipulation with flexible link fingers
• Tocchini-Valentini, Giuseppe D. — E. coli tRNA Leucine Identity and Recognition Sets
• Tsai, Bao-Liang — First principles studies of semiconductor epitaxial growth
• Turchette, Quentin A. — Quantum Optics with Single Atoms and Single Photons
• Turteltaub, Sergio Ricardo — Dynamics of phase transformations in thermoelastic solids
• Tyler, Matthew Lamont — Performance monitoring and fault detection in control systems
• Udell, Edye Carol — Modeling methane utilization by methanotrophs in groundwater : applications for groundwater bioremediation
• Van Nieuwstadt, Michiel Jacques — Trajectory generation for nonlinear control systems
• Vanik, Michael William — A bayesian probabilistic approach to structural health monitoring
• Walter, Christopher W. — A Search for Lightly Ionizing Particles with the MACRO Detector
• Wang, Luo-Jia — Active interaction control for civil structures
• Warncke, Amy E. — The Effects of Surfactants on Free-Surface Flows
• Wassgren, Carl R. — Vibration of granular materials
• Watts, Philip — Water waves generated by underwater landslides
• Whittaker, Kellie Lynn — RNA Localization in Drosophila Oogenesis and Early Embryogenesis
• Wolf, Richmond Andrew — The development of the (U-Th)/He thermochronometer
• Wood, David Judson — Geology of the Eastern Tehachapi Mountains and Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic tectonics of the southern Sierra Nevada Region, Kern County, California
• Xu, Yuanjian — Quantum well intersubband transition detection and modulation
• Yan, Yushan — Preparation of zeolite ZSM-5 membranes
• Yang, Bryant H. — Use of pseudoephedrine as a practical chiral auxiliary for asymmetric synthesis
• Yang, Chih Meng — Manipulation of Si and Ge Crystallization
• Yu, Zhong — Design Issues in Communications Networks: Reliability and Traffic Analysis
• Yun, Kyuson — Murine Twist is a bHLH Regulator that Inhibits Myogenesis by Multiple Molecular Mechanisms
• Zheng, Wei — Novel aspects in the microphase separation of block copolymers