Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2002

• Aakalu, Girish Nanda — Building the Molecular Machinery of Memory: Local Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal Neurons
• Adams, Peter Jonathan — Representing Tropospheric Aerosols and Their Climatic Effects in Global Models
• Adelberger, Kurt Ludvig — Star Formation and Structure Formation between Redshifts 1 < z < 4
• Alvi, Kashif Siddiq — Topics in General Relativity: Binary Black Holes and Hyperbolic Formulations of Einstein's Equations
• Amashukeli, Xenia — Electron-Transfer Reorganization Energies of Isolated Molecules
• Anderson, David Deloyd — Experimental Investigation of Quasistatic and Dynamic Fracture Properties of Titanium Alloys
• Aoki, Ichiro — Distributed Active Transformer for Integrated Power Amplification
• Arthur, Benjamin Jacob — Neural Computations Leading to Space-specific Auditory Responses in the Barn Owl
• Backer, Alejandro (Alex) — Pattern Recognition in the Olfactory System of the Locust: Priming, Gain Control and Coding Issues
• Bali, Valentina Andrea — The Initiative Process and the Reform of Educational Policies
• Belitsky, Jason Matthew — DNA Binding Polyamides in Biological Systems
• Billen, Magali Isabelle — I. Seafloor Morphology of the Osbourn Trough and Kermadec Trench and II. Multiscale DynamiCS of Subduction Zones
• Bloom, Joshua Simon — Toward an Understanding of the Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts
• Bogdanoff, Peter David — The Phonon Entropy of Metals and Alloys: The Effects of Thermal and Chemical Disorder
• Bolon, Daniel N. — Computational Enzyme Design
• Burgasser, Adam Jonathan — The Discovery and Characterization of Methane-bearing Brown Dwarfs and the Definition of the T Spectral Class
• Callander, Steven Joseph — Voting and Electoral Competition
• Casari, Marco — Understanding an Economic Dilemma: Essays on Common Property Resources
• Chang, Dong Eui — Controlled Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Systems
• Chasiotis, Ioannis — The Strength of Polycrystalline Silicon at the Micro- and Nano-Scales with Applications to MEMS
• Chen, Min — Mathematical Methods for Image Synthesis
• Chen, Tianxin (Cynthia) — Regulatory Mechanisms of the Heat Shock Response
• Choe, Wonchae — Biochemical and Biological in vivo Functions of Dna2p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Copeland, Kimberly Davis — The Reactions of Metallointercalator-Peptide Conjugates and DNA
• Cornu, Catherine J. G. — Photocatalysis Under Periodic Illumination
• Craciun, Bogdan — Phase Boundary Propagation in Heterogeneous Media
• Du, Fangyong — Allosteric Activation of the Ubiquitin ligase UBR 1 by Short Peptides: Molecular Mechanisms and Physiological Functions
• Dubowitz, David Julian — Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Rhesus Macaque Monkeys
• Dyudina, Ulyana Anatolyevna — Light Scattering in the Clouds on Jupiter
• Eldredge, Jeffrey D. — A Dilating Vortex Particle Method for Compressible Flow with Applications to Aeroacoustics
• Erdoğan, Mehmet Burak — Mapping Properties of Certain Averaging Operators
• Evans, Matthew John — Lock Acquisition in Resonant Optical Interferometers
• Fax, Joseph Alexander — Optimal and Cooperative Control of Vehicle Formations
• Feldmann, Michael Todd — Quantum Monte Carlo: Quest to Get Bigger, Faster, and Cheaper
• Feng, Hanying — Rate Loss of Network Source Codes
• Feng, Xiaolin — Methods for the Analysis of Visual Motion
• Fine, Philip Malcolm — The Contribution of Biomass Combustion to Ambient Fine Particle Concentrations in the United States
• Foltz, Kevin E. — Periodic Broadcast Scheduling for Data Distribution
• Fu, Anne Yen-Chen — Microfabricated Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorters (µFACS) for Screening Bacterial Cells
• Gailmard, Sean Patrick — Principal Agent Models of Bureaucratic and Public Decision Making
• Garduño, Antonio Hernández — Regularization of the Amended Potential around a Symmetric Configuration
• Garland, Eva Rose — Laboratory Studies of Atmospheric Reactions Using Infrared Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy
• Gerety, Sebastian de la Soudière — Eph Signaling in Vascular Development
• Gingrich, Robert Michael — Entanglement of Multipartite Quantum States and the Generalized Quantum Search
• Ginis, Roman — Automating Resource Management for Distributed Business Processes
• González Liñero, Luis — Global Fracture Analysis of Laminated Composite Materials for Aerospace Structures
• Halstenberg, Sven — Biologically Engineered Protein-graft-Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Hydrogels: A Cell-Adhesive and Plasmin-Degradable Biosynthetic Material for Tissue Repair
• Halverson, Nils William — A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Angular Power Spectrum with DASI
• Ham, Donhee — Statistical Electronics: Noise Processes in Integrated Communication Systems
• Hamburger, Zsuzsa Andrea — Crystallographic Studies of Invasin, a Bacterial Adhesion Molecule from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
• Hansen, Kirk Charles — Using Photolabile Protecting Groups for the Rapid Triggering of Fast Biological Events
• Hayes, Adam Thomas — Self-Organized Robotic System Design and Autonomous Odor Localization
• Hess, Corinna Renate — Probing the Active Site of Amine Oxidase with Electron Tunneling Wires
• Hoke, Kevin Richard — Electron Tunneling in Blue and Purple Copper Proteins
• Ji, Chen — Analysis of Complex Faulting: Wavelet Transform, Multiple Datasets and Realistic Fault Geometry
• Kee, Scott David — The Class E/F Family of Harmonic-Tuned Switching Power Amplifiers
• Kern, Brian Daniel — Optical Pulse-Phased Observations of Faint Pulsars with a Phase-Binning CCD Camera
• Kessel, Ronit — The Activity of Chromite in Multicomponent Spinels: An Experimental Study with Implications for the Metamorphic History of Equilibrated Ordinary Chondrites
• Kiniry, Joseph Roland — Kind Theory
• Kreiman, Gabriel Alejandro — On the Neuronal Activity in the Human Brain During Visual Recognition, Imagery and Binocular Rivalry
• Kyriazopoulou, Sophia — A Search for Slow Magnetic Monopoles Below the Parker Bound
• Landahl, Andrew John — Controlling Quantum Information
• Lee, Cin-Young — Efficient Automatic Engineering Design Synthesis Via Evolutionary Exploration
• Lee, Jennifer Chen — Mapping Heme Protein Folding Landscapes
• Leonardo, Anthony Michael — Neural Dynamics Underlying Complex Behavior in a Songbird
• Liao, Hong — Interactions between Tropospheric Chemistry and Aerosols in a Unified GCM Simulation
• Lithwick, Yoram — Topics in MHD Turbulence
• Liu, Zenghe — Vanadium-Schiff Base Complexes as Catalysts for the Four-Electron Reduction of Dioxygen
• Liu, Zhiwen — Optical Information Storage and Processing
• Lu, Jun — Mechanical Behavior of a Bulk Metallic Glass and Its Composite Over a Wide Range of Strain Rates and Temperatures
• Madsen, Louis Albert — Force-Detected NMR in a Homogeneous Field: Experiment Design, Apparatus, and Observations
• Mao, Peter Hsih-Jen — Hard X-Ray Observations of the Extragalactic Sky: The High Energy Focusing Telescope and the Serendipitous Extragalactic X-ray Source Identification Survey
• Marshall, Shannon Alicia — Stability and Conformational Specificity in Protein Design: Models for Binary Patterning and Electrostatics
• Moreno, Tanya Ann Munnecke — Noelins in Neural Development
• Mukhopadhyay, Sujoy — I. Extraterrestrial ³He in the Sedimentary Record. II. Geochemistry of Shield Stage Lavas from Kauai, Hawaii
• Mumbrú, José — Optoelectronic Circuits Using Holographic Elements
• Murphey, Todd David — Control of Multiple Model Systems
• Nazareth, Julie Jeannine — The Structure of the Crust and Distribution of Earthquakes in Southern California
• Nguyen Hackley, Doan Hanh — Allosteric Inhibition of Zinc Finger Proteins by DNA Binding Polyamides
• Nguyen, Olivier Thanh — Cohesive Models of Fatigue Crack Growth and Stress-Corrosion Cracking
• Nicholson, Alexander Marshall — Generalization Error Estimates and Training Data Valuation
• Niemi, Nathan Alan — Extensional Tectonics in the Basin and Range Province and the Geology of the Grapevine Mountains, Death Valley Region, California and Nevada
• Noelte, Jeff Lee — Effects of Surface Chemistry on Deposition Kinetics of Colloidal Hematite (α-Fe2O3) in Packed Beds of Silica Sand
• Nolty, Robert G. — Semi-Contained Interactions of Atmospheric Neutrinos in the MACRO Detector
• Nuñez, Megan Elizabeth — Oxidation of DNA by Long-Range Charge Transport
• Oskin, Michael Eugene — Part I. Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico, Deduced from Conjugate Rifted Margins of the Upper Delfín Basin. Part II. Active Folding and Seismic Hazard in Central Los Angeles, California
• Pavelich, Janet Mary — Commuting Equivalence Relations and Scales on Differentiable Functions
• Pénzes, Paul Ivan — Energy-Delay Complexity of Asynchronous Circuits
• Pesaran, Bijan — Analysis of Neuronal Dynamics in Behaving Animals
• Pesavento, Alberto — Visual Sensors for Focal Plane Computation of Image Features
• Petrasek, Danny — Diffusion-Mediated Regulation Endocrine Networks
• Philhour, Byron Jacob — Measurement of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background
• Piccione, Patrick Manuel — Thermodynamics of Formation of Molecular Sieves
• Pivovarov, Evgueny (Eugene) — Aspects of Non-Fermi-Liquid Metals
• Pornsinsirirak, Teerachai Nicholas — Parylene MEMS Technology for Adaptive Flow Control of Flapping Flight
• Purohit, Prashant Kishore — Dynamics of Phase Transitions in Strings, Beams and Atomic Chains
• Ragan, Regina — Direct Energy Bandgap Group IV Alloys and Nanostructures
• Rosenbluth, David — Eye Position Modulation of Visual Cortex and the Sensory Set Hypothesis
• Rossi, Robert Charles — The Electrical Properties of Nanoscale Parallel Semiconductor Interfaces
• Rowley, Clarence Worth, III — Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Cavity Flow Oscillations
• Schauble, Edwin Arthur — I. Predicting Equilibrium Stable Isotope Fractionations of Iron, Chlorine, and Chromium. II. Oxygen-Isotope Investigation of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Granitoids of the Northeastern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah
• Shuey, David John — A Detailed Analysis of the DNA Binding Properties and the Affinity Purification of the Drosophila Heat-Shock Transcription Factor
• Sierou, Asimina — Accelerated Stokesian Dynamics: Development and Application to Sheared Non-Brownian Suspensions
• Sobrero, Aquiles Carlos — Surface Structure Determination by Low-Energy Electron Diffraction
• Spence, Charles Frederick — Nanobiology: Halting Steps into a Portion of Richard Feynman 's Vision
• Stephens, Jennie Catherine — Response of Soil Mineral Weathering to Elevated Carbon Dioxide
• Stewart, Sarah Toby — Collisional Processes Involving Icy Bodies in the Solar System
• Strop, Pavel — Characterization of the Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance
• Subramanian, Ganesh — Inertial Effects in Suspension Dynamics
• Sundaresan, Vidyasankar — Selective Molecular Recognition in Imprinted Polymeric Adsorbents and in Biological Macromolecules
• Sverdrup, Lawrence Henry — Lower Hybrid Current Drive Experiments on the Encore Tokamak
• Tae, Giyoong — In situ Forming Hydrogels Using Self-Assembly of Fluoroalkyl-Ended Poly(ethylene Glycol)s
• Tang, Hongxing — Semiconductor Magnetoelectronics for Spintronics and Suspended 2DEG for Mechanoelectronics
• Tang, Yi — Protein Engineering Using Unnatural Amino Acids: Incorporation of Leucine Analogs into Recombinant Protein in vivo
• Urbach, Adam Robert — 1:1 Motif for DNA Recognition by β-Alanine Linked Polyamides
• Vallisneri, Michele — Modeling and Detecting Gravitational Waves from Compact Stellar Objects
• Vela-Arevalo, Luz Vianey — Time-Frequency Analysis Based on Wavelets for Hamiltonian Systems
• Venkataraman, Anupama — Investigating the Mechanics of Earthquakes Using Macroscopic Seismic Parameters
• Vernooy, Stephanie Yeager — Identification of Apoptotic Regulators in Drosophila and their Nonapoptotic Roles in Spermatogenesis: Implications for the Existence of a "Caspase Cassette" which Regulates Diverse Biological Processes
• Villahermosa, Randy Michael — Electron Tunneling Through Phenylene Bridges
• Vučković, Jelena — Photonic Crystal Structures for Efficient Localization or Extraction of Light
• Wang, Clay Chia Chun — Sequence Specific Trapping of Topoisomerase I by Camptothecin Polyamide Conjugates
• Wang, Guofeng — First Principles Based Multiscale Modeling of Single Crystal Plasticity: Application to BCC Tantalum
• Wang, Song — An Effective Version of the Grunwald-Wang Theorem
• Ward, John Strawn — Observations of Carbon Monoxide in the Starburst Galaxy M82 with a 690 GHz Wide Spectral Bandwidth Receiver
• White, Clinton Thomas — Two Cyclic Arrangement Problems in Finite Projective Geometry: Parallelisms and Two-Intersection Sets
• Wong-Foy, Antek Golangco — Ancillary Ligand Effects in Zirconium(IV) Aminoborollide and Nitrogen Chelated Pt(II) Complexes
• Wong, Ah-San — Photochemical Studies of Jupiter and Titan
• Wurtz, Nicholas Roland — Sequence Specific Alkylation of DNA by Polyamide-Chlorambucil Conjugates
• Xu, Luoyu Roy — Dynamic Failure Characteristics in Layered Materials and Structures
• Xu, Yong — Flexible MEMS Skin Technology for Distributed Fluidic Sensing
• Yao, Tze-Jung — Parylene for MEMS Applications
• Yeh, Andrew Peter — Crystallographic Studies of Iron Proteins
• Yoon, Tehshik Peter — The Acyl-Claisen Rearrangement: Development of a Novel Metal-Catalyzed Claisen Rearrangen1ent and Enantioselective Variants of the Acyl-Claisen Rearrangement
• Yuen, Ka-Veng — Model Selection, Identification and Robust Control for Dynamical Systems
• Zamanakos, Georgios — A Fast and Accurate Analytical Method for the Computation of Solvent Effects in Molecular Simulations
• Zhu, Weidong — Nonlinearly Viscoelastic Response of Glassy Polymers
• Zhuang, Shiming — Shock Wave Propagation in Periodically Layered Composites
• Zimmerman, Daniel Marc — Dynamic UNITY
• Zirlinger, Mariela — Application of Microarray, Laser Capture and Transgenic Technologies to the Study of Neural Diversity