Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2001

• Akkarakaran, Sony John — Filter Bank Optimization with Applications in Noise Suppression and Communications
• Anderson, Christopher Madden — Behavioral Models of Strategies in Multi-Armed Bandit Problems
• Au, Siu-Kui — On the Solution of First Excursion Problems by Simulation with Applications to Probabilistic Seismic Performance Assessment
• Beach, Robert Andrew — Column III Nitride Growth, Characterization and Devices
• Bhardwaj, Ashish Ishwar Singh — All-Optical Logic Circuits Based on the Polarization Properties of Non-Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing
• Billock, Joseph Gregory — Attentional Control of Complex Systems
• Blandino, John Joseph — Application of Diamond Films to Electric Propulsion: Low Energy Sputter Yield Measurement and MPD Plasma Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition
• Boer, Elizabeth A. — Synthesis, Passivation and Charging of Silicon Nanocrystals
• Bossuyt, Sven Cecile Rene — Microstructure and Crystallization Behavior in Bulk Glass Forming Alloys
• Brandow, Christopher Graham — Zirconocenes as Models for Homogeneous Ziegler-Natta Olefin Polymerization Catalysts
• Brodsky, Emily Elizabeth — Studies in Fluid Dynamics as Applied to Seismology and Volcanology
• Brown, Keith B. — Comparative Studies of Vulva Development in C. briggsae
• Burcsu, Eric Noboru — Investigation of Large Strain Actuation in Barium Titanate
• Butterfield, Tara Lee — Awakening a Sleeping Giant: The Riddle of Latino Political Participation
• Cai, Ming — Optical Fiber Taper Coupled Glass Microsphere Resonators
• Chang, Aileen Yulin — Cleavage of DNA by Polamide-Seco-CB1 Conjugates
• Chang, Chieh — Signal Transduction, Regulation, and Developmental Logic of EGFR Signaling in C. elegans
• Chen, Claudine Minnie — Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Films for Photovoltaics
• Chi, Yong — Negative Regulation of Transcription Factors by Srb10 Cyclin-Dependent Kinase
• Ching, Weng Ki — Disinfection by Pulsed Power Discharges
• Chong, Sing Hwa — Ultrafast Dynamics of Barrier Crossing: Step-Wise Solvation Effect on Isomerization of Trans-Stilbene in Alkane Clusters
• Chow, Benjamin Bin — Application of dynamic fracture mechanics to the investigation of catastrophic failure in aircraft structures
• Cocker, David Rea — Chamber investigations of secondary organic aerosol formation
• Coker, Demirkan — Dynamic Initiation and Propagation of Cracks in Unidirectional Composite Plates
• Crill, Brendan Patrick — A Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background with a Long Duration Balloon-Borne Receiver
• Debe, Derek Anthony — Shaving Levinthal with Occam's Razor: Understanding the Rate Limiting Step in Protein Folding
• Dubowski, Yael — Photochemical transformations in ice: implications for the fate of chemical species
• Duchemin, Olivier Bernard — An investigation of ion engine erosion by low energy sputtering
• Duttweiler, Mark Edward — Surge Instability on a Cavitating Propeller
• Eckett, Christopher Adam — Numerical and Analytical Studies of the Dynamics of Gaseous Detonations
• Eisner, Leo — A Reciprocity Method for Multiple Source Simulations
• Fain, Daniel Cark — Kinematic Measurement and Feature Sets for Automatic Speech Recognition
• Fan, Chenggong Charles — Fault-tolerant cluster of networking elements
• Fang, Xiangdong — Developmentally Regulated Transcription Factors in Drosophila melanogaster
• Fine, Leslie Rachel — Cooperative and Market-Based Solutions to Pollution Abatement Problems
• Gal, Roy R. — The Northern Sky Optical Cluster Survey: Galaxy Clusters from Five Thousand Square Degrees of DPOSS
• Gao, Yi Qin — Theory of Ozone Isotopic Effects and Various Electron Transfer Reaction
• Giammar, Daniel — Geochemistry of uranium at mineral-water interfaces: rates of sorption-desorption and dissolution-precipitation reactions
• Glade, Stephen Clarke — The Cu47Ti34Zr11Ni8 glass-forming alloy : thermophysical properties, crystallization, and the effect of small alloying additions on the thermal stability
• Goldberger, Walter D. — Brane Models and the Hierarchy Problem
• Good, Nathan Ray — The Influence of Texture on the Magnetoelastic Properties of Polycrystalline TbDy Alloys
• Goreva, Julia S. — Origin of Th/U Variations in Chondritic Meteorites
• Gould, Anita — Expression of Eph-Family Receptor Tyrosine Kinases and Ephrins in the Tadpole of the Frog Xenopus Laevis, and Possible Roles in the Development of Retinotectal Topography
• Grosjean, Charles — Silicone MEMS for fluidics
• Guduru, Pradeep Reddy — An investigation of dynamic failure events in steels using full field high-speed infrared thermography and high-speed photography
• Hansen, John Freddy — Laboratory simulations of solar prominences
• Hardebeck, Jeanne Louise — The Crustal Stress Field in Southern California and its Implications for Fault Mechanics
• Harter, Alexa Welsh — The Heat Capacity of Superfluid ⁺He in the Presence of a Constant Heat Flux Near Tλ
• Herman, David Matthew — Stereochemically Modified Polyamides for Recognition in the Minor Groove of DNA
• Hightower, Adrian — Lithium electronic environments in rechargeable battery electrodes
• Hill, Cory James — Investigation of spin injection and optical imaging with scanning probe microscopy techniques
• Hsieh, Wen Hsuan — MEMS thin film teflon electret condenser microphones
• Hsu, Yun — Rotordynamic Forces Generated by Annular Leakage Flows in Centrifugal Pumps
• Hu, Gang — Singularity formation in three-dimensional vortex sheets
• Huang, Ying — Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Digital Image Correlation in Nanomechanics Investigations
• Hughes, Lara Shane — Evolution of atmospheric aerosols along trajectories crossing the Los Angeles basin
• Hung, Angela Ann-Chi — A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Addiction
• Hung, Shao-Ching — Succinate: Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase from Paracoccus denitrificans and Particulate Methane Monooxygenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath): Experimental and Theoretical EPR Studies of the Metal Cofactors
• Hwang, Suzie Jean — Rational Design of a New Class of Cyclodextrin-Containing Polymers for Gene Delivery
• Ihee, Hyotcherl — Ultrafast Electron Diffraction
• Isella, Giorgio Carlo — Modeling and Simulation of Combustion Chamber and Propellant Dynamics and Issues in Active Control of Combustion Instabilities
• Jadbabaie, Ali — Receding horizon control of nonlinear systems: a control Lyapunov function approach
• Jenet, Fredrick August — High Time Resolution Observations of Radio Pulsars: The First Detection of Coherent Emission
• Jensen, John Steffen — Measurement of the Neutron (³He) Spin Structure Function at Low Q²: A Connection between the Bjorken and Drell-Hearn-Gerasimov Sum Rules
• Jin, Hui — Analysis and design of turbo-like codes
• Kamitani, Yukiyasu — Psychobiophysics of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
• Kempf, James G. — Probing Quantum Confinement at the Atomic Scale with Optically Detected Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Killip, Rowan Brett — Perturbations of One-Dimensional Schrödinger Operators Preserving the Absolutely Continuous Spectrum
• Kim, Choongnyun Paul — Ductile phase reinforced bulk metallic glass composites formed by chemical partitioning
• Koosh, Vincent Frank — Analog Computation and Learning in VLSI
• Koumans, Roger Gerard Matthias — Semiconductor mode-locked lasers : modeling, characterization and applications
• Krider, Elizabeth Stratford — Synthesis and Spectroscopy of Ruthenium-Modified Nucleic Acids
• Krueger, Paul Samuel — The Significance of Vortex Ring Formation and Nozzle Exit Over-Pressure to Pulsatile Jet Propulsion
• Kua, Jeremy Soo Pin — Computational Studies of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis by Late Transition Metals
• Kuchner, Marc Jason — Exozodiacal Dust
• Lai, Re — Synthesis and Characterization of ZSM-5 Zeolite Membranes
• Lee, Yuan-Tai — Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport Modeling in the Outer Solar System
• Lindal, John — An investigation of several document classification algorithms leading to the design of an autonomous software agent for locating specific, relevant information on the World Wide Web
• Liu, Wenhai — Holographic resolution and its application in memory and imaging
• Liu, Yang — Molecular Mechanism of Sulfated Carbohydrate Recognition: Structural and Biochemical Studies of the Cysteine-Rich Domain of Mannose Receptor
• Lobo, Julio Danin — Experimental Chemical Physics of Droplets and Clusters
• Lokhandwalla, Murtuza — Damage Mechanisms in Shock Wave Lithotripsy (SWL)
• Louie, Michael — Numerical study of pattern forming processes in models of rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection
• Luo, Lin — Partial Oxidation of Propane Over Vanadium-Containing Zeolite Catalysts
• Lyapina, Svetlana Anatol'Evna — Characterization of the Human SCF Ubiquitin Ligases - Structure, Function, and Regulation
• Ma, Lin — Robust mask-layout and process synthesis in micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) using genetic algorithms
• Machczynski, Michael Christopher — Physical Characterization of the Rack Effect and Hydrogen Bond Networks in Blue Copper Proteins
• Manley, Michael Edward — From Elementary Excitations to Microstructures: the Thermodynamics of Metals and Alloys Across Length Scales
• Maron, Jason L. — Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
• Martin, Warham Lance — Protein-Protein Recognition: The Neonatal Fc Receptor and Immunoglobulin G
• Mason, James Edward — Signal Extraction and Optical Design for an Advanced Gravitational Wave Interferometer
• Maynard, Heather Dawn — New Materials for Biological Applications Prepared by Olefin Metathesis Reactions
• Mehta, Neelesh B. — Impact of User Mobility on Resource Allocation Schemes in Cellular Radio Systems
• Meşe, Murat — Image halftoning and inverse reconstruction problems with considerations to image watermarking
• Midzor, Melissa Masae — Ferromagnetic Resonance Force Microscopy
• Miller, Michael Andrew — Laser Synchronized Optical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance via Larmor Beat Detection : Imaging Electronic Wavefunctions in Gallium Arsenide Device Structures
• Mish, Michael Robert — The Application of Trimethylsilyl Diazomethane to the Synthesis of Optically Active Pyrazolines and Related Studies
• Molinari, Jean-Francois Roland — Three dimensional finite element analysis of impact damage and erosion of metallic targets
• Moser, Christophe — Optical Information Processing
• Moyer, Elisabeth Jeanne Bailey — Tracers of Rapid Transport in the Lower Stratosphere
• Ni, Sidao — 2D Modeling of Lower Mantle Structure with WKM Synthetics
• Nolte, Christopher Glenn — Polar organic compounds in fine particulate matter sources and in the urban atmosphere
• Nyström, Mika — Asynchronous Pulse Logic
• Odom, Duncan T. — The Application of Metallointercalators in Recognition of and Charge Transport in Nucleic Acids
• Okin, Gregory Stewart — Wind, Driven Desertification: Process Modeling, Remote Monitoring, and Forecasting
• Ol, Michael Volf — The Passage Toward Stall of Nonslender Delta Wings at Low Reynolds Number
• Ostraat, Michele Louisa — Synthesis and Characterization of Aerosol Silicon Nanoparticle Nonvolatile Floating Gate Memory Devices
• Ouellette, Stephen Michael — SU(3) Chiral Symmetry in Non-Relativistic Field Theory
• Painter, Oskar Jon — Optical Nanocavities in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Planar Waveguides
• Pankine, Alexey Anatolyevich — Low Order Model of Martian Circulation and Interannual Variability of Global Dust Storms
• Pantu, Piboon — Methane Conversion to Synthesis Gas over Platinum Supported on Rare Earth Oxides
• Patty, John Wiggs — Voting Games with Incomplete Information
• Piatina, Tatiana Borisovna — Studies of metal-organic interactions with model synthetic and natural ligands applicable to natural waters
• Popescu, Costin Radu — Branes, Brane Actions and Applications to Field Theory
• Pratt, Alison Beth — Cell-Responsive Synthetic Biomaterials Formed in situ
• Provenzano, Dan Raymond — From semiconductor lasers to fiber Bragg grating lasers in optical communications
• Pun, Winston — Measurements of Thermo-Acoustic Coupling
• Qi, Chunhua — Aperture Synthesis Studies of the Chemical Composition of Protoplanetary Disks and Comets
• Qi, Yue — Molecular dynamics (MD) studies on phase transformation and deformation behaviors in FCC metals and alloys
• Rasheed, Adam — Passive Hypervelocity Boundary Layer Control Using an Ultrasonically Absorptive Surface
• Roberts, Gregory Charles — Cloud condensation nuclei in the Amazon Basin : their role in a tropical rainforest
• Roberts, Reginald Eric — "Protecting the Public Welfare and Morals": Political Institutions, Federalism, and Prohibition, 1834-1934
• Rostovtsev, Vsevolod Vladimirovich — Reactions of Platinum(II) Complexes with Dioxygen: Progress Toward Alkane Functionalization
• Royea, William Joseph — Investigations of Charge-Carrier Dynamics at Semiconductor/Liquid lnterfaces
• Salmassi, Tina Megerdichian — Bacterial oxidation of arsenite at Hot Creek: characterization of biofilm communities and isolation of novel bacteria associated with aquatic macrophytes
• Samudrala, Omprakash — Subsonic and intersonic crack growth along weak planes and bimaterial interfaces
• Sandhu, Jagmit Singh — High Precision Dual Frequency Timing of Millisecond Pulsars
• Sane, Sandeep Bhalchandra — Time-dependent compressibility of poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) : an experimental and molecular dynamics investigation
• Sanford, Melanie Sarah — Synthetic and Mechanistic Investigations of Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
• Santamaria-Perez, Fidel — Processing of Mossy Fiber Activity in the Cerebellar Cortex: a Combination of Computer Modeling and Electrophysiological Experiments
• Schooler, Eve Meryl — Why multicast protocols (don't) scale: an analysis of multipoint algorithms for scalable group communication
• Seywert, Claude — Combustion Instabilities: Issues in Modeling and Control
• Shan, Wei-Jen Jerry — Mixing and Isosurface Geometry in Turbulent Transverse Jets
• Shou, Wenying — Diverse Mechanisms of Regulating the Mitotic Cell Cycle
• Shvorob, Alexander — A Study of W Boson Properties with Four-Jet W⁺W⁻ Events at LEP
• Starr, Jeremy Tyson — Studies Directed Toward the Synthesis of Palau'amine and Axinellamines A-D
• Steckman, Gregory Joseph — Holographic recording in polymeric materials with applications
• Szczepankiewicz, Steven Henry — Surface Chemistry of TiO₂ Photocatalysts
• Tang, Kea-Tiong — Neuromorphic VLSI circuits for an electronic nose chip
• Tezcan, Faik Akif — Reactions of Heme Proteins to Solutions and Crystals
• Toigo, Anthony Domenick — Behavior of Dust in the Martian Atmosphere
• Tokman, Mayya — Magnetohydrodynamic modeling of solar magnetic arcades using exponential propagation methods
• Tripathi, Ashok Burton — In-Situ Diagnostics for Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition of YBCO
• Vanier, Michael Christopher — Realistic Computer Modeling of the Mammalian Olfactory Cortex
• Watanabe, Katsumi — Crossmodal Interaction in Humans
• Winblade, Natalie Dawn — Blocking Adhesion to Cell and Tissue Surfaces via Steric Stabilization with Graft Copolymers Containing Poly(Ethylene Glycol) and Phenylboronic Acid
• Wong, Chi-Kin — Spectroscopic Studies of Gas-Phase Molecular Clusters
• Xu, Yong — Analytical and Numerical Studies of Waveguiding and Coupling in Periodic Dielectric Materials
• Ye, Yun — Interaction of Hydrogen with Novel Carbon Materials
• Yoder, Jeffrey Charles — Model Studies of Ziegler-Natta Olefin Polymerization Using Group 3 and Group 4 Metallocenes
• Younkin, Todd Ross — Polymerization of Functionalized Olefins with Neutral Group Ten Catalysts
• Yu, Chengxiang Rena — Three-Dimensional Cohesive Modeling of Impact Damage of Composites
• Zhang, Hui — Spectroscopic Studies of N₂0 and HNO₄: A Window into the Global Biogeochemistry of Nitrogen
• Zhang, Yunfeng — Semi-Active Control of Dynamically Excited Structures Using Active Interaction Control
• Zhong, Hong A. — Ancillary Ligand Effects: From Zirconium(IV)-Catalyzed Homogeneous Propylene Polymerization to Platinum(II)-Mediated C-H Bond Activation
• Zhou, Weijun — Dynamics and Shear Alignment Behavior of a Model Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymer
• Zubris, Deanna Lynn — Investigations of the Origin of Stereocontrol in Syndiospecific Ziegler-Natta Polymerizations
• Zuhal, Lavi Rizki — Formation and Near-Field Dynamics of a Wing Tip Vortex