Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2004

• Adams, Mark Lee — Integration of Optoelectronics and Microfluidics for Biological and Chemical Sensing
• Ahn, Charlene Sonja — Extending Quantum Error Correction: New Continuous Measurement Protocols and Improved Fault-Tolerant Overhead
• Allen, Matthew John — Delivery and Activation of Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Aparicio Joo, Roberto — Frequency Generation Techniques for Integrated Applications
• Asparouhova, Elena Nikolaeva — Competition and Equilibration in Financial Markets
• Aydiner, Cahit Can — Investigation of Thermal Tempering in Bulk Metallic Glasses
• Azzam, Ramzi Issam — The Role of Net1 Phosphorylation in Regulating CDC14 Release During Mitotic Exit
• Baker, Catherine Craig — Genetic and Genomic Studies of Shoot and Flower Growth in Arabidopsis
• Barba, Lorena A. — Vortex Method for Computing High-Reynolds Number Flows: Increased Accuracy with a Fully Mesh-Less Formulation
• Barsic, David Nicholas — Small-Scale Liquid-State Dynamics in Nanometer Size Devices
• Bartroff, Jay L. — Asymptotically Optimal Multistage Hypothesis Tests
• Basch, Martin Leandro — Early Neural Crest Specification, Induction and Competence
• Beckman, David Eugene — Investigations in Quantum Computing: Causality and Graph Isomorphism
• Bega, Klejda Adnan — Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle in Møller Scattering
• Berger, Edo — Cosmic Explosions: The Beasts and Their Lair
• Bernheim, Kyle Alan — Functional and Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Humans and Macaques
• Bhattacharya, Pratip K. — Structure and Reactivity of Metal Complexes Bound to DNA
• Bobba, Kumar Manoj — Robust Flow Stability: Theory, Computations and Experiments in Near Wall Turbulence
• Borokhov, Vadim Aleksandrovich — Monopole Operators and Mirror Symmetry in Three-Dimensional Gauge Theories
• Bouchez, Antonin Henri — Seasonal Trends in Titan’s Atmosphere: Haze, Wind, and Clouds
• Boysen, Dane Andrew — Superprotonic Solid Acids: Structure, Properties, and Applications
• Brewer, Rhett Ty — Quantitative Biaxial Texture Analysis with Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction for Ion Beam-Assisted Deposition of MgO and Heteroepitaxy of Perovskite Ferroelectrics
• Broderick, Avery Earl — Radiative Transfer in Accreting Environments
• Bush, Eliot Christen — Evolution and Scaling in Mammalian Brains
• Camp, Charles David — Temporal and Spatial Patterns of the Interannual Variability of Stratospheric Ozone and Dynamics
• Cao, Shiyan — Spike Train Characterization and Decoding for Neural Prosthetic Devices
• Carrico, Isaac Sheridan — Protein Engineering Through in vivo Incorporation of Phenylalanine Analogs
• Casperson, Julie Diane — Design and Characterization of Layered Tunnel Barriers for Nonvolatile Memory Applications
• Chao, Tong Wa — Gaseous Detonation-Driven Fracture of Tubes
• Chaubell, Mario Julián — Low-Coherence Interferometric Imaging: Solution of the One-Dimensional Inverse Scattering Problem
• Chenchiah, Isaac Vikram — Energy-Minimizing Microstructures in Multiphase Elastic Solids
• Chiam, Keng-Hwee — Spatiotemporal Chaos in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
• Choi, Tae-Lim — Olefin Metathesis: a Versatile Tool for the Synthesis of Small to Large Molecules
• Ciocarlie, Calin A. — D-Brane Actions and N=2 Supergravity Solutions
• Cirino, Patrick Carmen — Laboratory Evolution of Cytochrome P450 Peroxygenase Activity
• Clinton, John Francis — Modern Digital Seismology: Instrumentation, and Small Amplitude Studies in the Engineering World
• Colwell, Jason Andrew — The Conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer for Elliptic Curves with Complex Multiplication by a Nonmaximal Order
• Cooper, Marcia Ann — Impulse Generation by Detonation Tubes
• Cortese, John Anthony — Quantum Information Theory: Classical Communication Over Quantum Channels
• Daftuar, Sumit Kumar — Eigenvalue Inequalities in Quantum Information Processing
• Delaney, Sarah — Oxidative DNA Damage by Long-Range Charge Transport
• Deng, Wei-Qiao — Computation Aided Design in Molecular Nanotechnology
• Dong, Vy Maria — Novel Variants of the Zwitterionic Claisen Rearrangement and the Total Synthesis of Erythronolide B
• Dugatkin, Diego G. — Optimization of Multi-Resolution Source Codes
• Dunbar, William Bruce — Distributed Receding Horizon Control of Multiagent Systems
• Edgington, Samantha Faye — A Galaxy Cluster Survey Using the Sunyaev Zel’dovich Effect
• Elmore, Donald Eugene, Jr. — Investigations of Ion Channel Structure-Function Relationships Using Molecular Modeling and Experimental Biochemistry
• Fago, Matthew Justin — Constrained Sequential Lamination: Nonconvex Optimization and Material Microstructure
• Favela, Javier — Energy Radiation from a Multi-Story Building
• Fleming, Michael Ian James — On Source Coding for Networks
• Florens, Cédric Jean Paul — Data Collection and Distribution in Sensory Networks
• Foister, Shane — Shape Selective Recognition of the DNA Minor Groove by Hairpin Polyamides
• Fon, Warren Chung Wah — Thermal Properties of Nano- and Microstructures
• Giannetti, Anthony Michael — Biochemical, Biophysical, and Cellular Investigations of the Interactions of Transferrin Receptor with Transferrin and the Hereditary Hemochromatosis Protein, HFE
• Gong, Ying — Cell Polarity and Morphogenesis: Functions and Mechanisms of Cell Divisions in Vertebrate Gastrulation
• Gordon, Michael Joseph — Low-Energy Ion Beamline-Scattering Apparatus with Application to Charge Exchange Collisions at Surfaces
• Gstrein, Florian — Electron-Transfer Processes at Semiconductor/Liquid Interfaces and Metal/Nanogap Junctions
• Gupta, Vineet — Conformal Laminations
• Hansen, Carl Lars Genghis — Microfluidic Technologies for Structural Biology
• Harrington, James William — Analysis of Quantum Error-Correcting Codes: Symplectic Lattice Codes and Toric Codes
• Hashemi, Hossein — Integrated Concurrent Multi-Band Radios and Multiple-Antenna Systems
• Heilshorn, Sarah Christine — Design and Characterization of Artificial Extracellular Matrix Proteins for Use as Small-Diameter Vascular Grafts
• Hernández, Maria Eugenia — Mechanisms of Indirect Mineral Reduction by Bacteria
• Huang, Po-Ssu — Computational Design and Experimental Characterization of Protein Oligomers
• Huang, Xianglei — I. Variability of the Outgoing Thermal IR Spectra and Its Application in GCM Validation. II. The Detection of Cloud/Aerosol in the Outgoing Thermal IR Spectra
• Huang, Xue Ming Henry — Ultrahigh and Microwave Frequency Nanomechanical Systems
• Hunt, Cynthia Lee — Transition-Edge Superconducting Antenna-Coupled Bolometer
• Hunt, Matthew Philip — Faint Optically Selected AGN at z = 3
• Husain, Ali — Nanotube and Nanowire Devices
• Jen, Wendy Sandra — Development of New Asymmetric Organocatalytic Methods and Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Guanacastepene A
• Jiang, Anxiao (Andrew) — Optimized Network Data Storage and Topology Control
• Jones, Gary Mark — A Precision Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle in Møller Scattering at Low Q₂
• Kalani, M. Yashar S. — Structure and Function Studies of the Human Dopamine Receptors
• Kaplan, David Lior Ariel — The Diversity of Neutron Stars: Nearby Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars and the Compact Central Objects in Supernova Remnants
• Kartalov, Emil Paskalev — Single-Molecule Detection and DNA Sequencing-by-Synthesis
• Kempe, Michael David — Rheology and Dynamics of Side-Group Liquid Crystalline Polymers in Nematic Solvents
• Kessler, Jacqueline Elizabeth — Gas and Dust Chemistry in Planet-Forming Disks
• Kippenberg, Tobias Jan August — Nonlinear Optics in Ultra-High-Q Whispering-Gallery Optical Microcavities
• Klug, William Scott — A Director-Field Theory of DNA Packaging in Bacteriophage Viruses
• Krishnan, Swaminathan — Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Analysis of Tall Irregular Steel Buildings Subject to Strong Ground Motion
• Lambert, Tristan Hayes — Development of the Lewis Acid Catalyzed Allenoate-Claisen Rearrangement. Investigations of Enantioselective Catalysis of the Allenoate-Claisen Rearrangement. Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Erythrolide E
• Leok, Melvin — Foundations of Computational Geometric Mechanics
• Lesko, Timothy Michael — Chemical Effects of Acoustic Cavitation
• Lin, Jiao — Mössbauer Diffractometry: Principles, Practice, and an Application to a Study of Chemical Order in ⁵⁷Fe₃Al
• Lin, Qiang — Bloch-Kato Conjecture for the Adjoint of H¹(X₀(N)) with Integral Hecke Algebra
• Lipeles, Elliot — A Study of the Fully Differential Inclusive Semileptonic B Meson Decay Rate
• Lohman, Rowena Benfer — The Inversion of Geodetic Data for Earthquake Parameters
• Lu, Dai — Active Patch Array Design and Indoor Channel Modeling for Future Wireless Communications
• Malhotra, Sanjeev — On Combustion Instability in Solid Rocket Motors
• Martin, Kimball Lee — Four-Dimensional Galois Representations of Solvable Type and Automorphic Forms
• Mason, Maribeth Swiatek — Synthesis of Large-Grained Polycrystalline Silicon by Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition for Thin Film Photovoltaic Applications
• Mastromarino, Peter A. — A Precision Low-Energy Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle in Møller Scattering
• Mayo, Elizabeth Idonia — Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Dye (Group VIII Metal)–Sensitized Nanocrystalline Titanium Dioxide Photoelectrodes
• McKeever, Jason Terence Taylor — Trapped Atoms in Cavity QED for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
• Meulemans, Daniel Keith — Genetic Correlates of Neural Crest Evolution
• Meyer, Mark — Discrete Differential Operators for Computer Graphics
• Monahan, Sarah Lynn — Site-Specific Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids into Receptors Expressed in Mammalian Cells
• O'Gorman, Paul Ambrose — Theory and Simulation of Passive Scalar Mixing in the Presence of a Mean Scalar Gradient
• O'Reilly, Gerard Kieran — Compressible Vortices and Shock-Vortex Interactions
• O'Shaughnessy, Richard William — Topics in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
• Oldham, Neal Curtis — Investigation of Spintronic Materials Systems: Deposition and Characterization
• Ozakin, Arkadas Inan — RG-Flows, AdS/CFT Correspondence and Stability of Non-Dilatonic Branes
• Paik, Daniel Hern — Femtosecond Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Anionic Systems: Dynamics of Mesoscopic Solvation and Gas-Phase Organic Reactions
• Palanki, Ravi — Iterative Decoding for Wireless Networks
• Paras, Nick Anthony — Enantioselective Organocatalytic Friedel-Crafts Alkylations of Heterocycles and Electron-Rich Benzenes
• Perez-Orive, Javier — Neural Oscillations and the Decoding of Sensory Information
• Persaud, Patricia — Images of Early Continental Breakup in and around the Gulf of California and the Role of Basal Shear in Producing Wide Plate Boundaries
• Peters, Robert Jacob — Visual, Attention and Object Categorization: From Psychophysics to Computational Models
• Preston, Alastair Thomas — Modeling Heat and Mass Transfer in Bubbly Cavitating Flows and Shock Waves in Cavitating Nozzles
• Ran, Hongyu — Numerical Study of the Dynamics and Sound Generation of a Turbulent Vortex Ring
• Riedel, Marcus D. — Cyclic Combinational Circuits
• Ringuette, Matthew James — Vortex Formation and Drag on Low Aspect Ratio, Normal Flat Plates
• Robinson, Noah Edward — Investigations of Peptide and Protein Deamidation
• Rogan, Robert Cashman — Investigation of the Multiscale Constitutive Behavior of Ferroelectric Materials Using Advanced Diffraction Techniques
• Ross, Shane David — Cylindrical Manifolds and Tube Dynamics in the Restricted Three-Body Problem
• Sakamoto, Kathleen Miho — Targeting Proteins for Ubiquitination and Degradation in the Treatment of Human Disease
• Sankaran, Ramanathan Mohan — High-Pressure Microdischarges as Microreactors for Materials Applications
• Santos, Michael Robert — Galaxy Formation Near the Epoch of Reionization
• Savage, Brian Kirk — Regional Seismic Wavefield Propagation
• Scherman, Oren Alexander — Enhancing Materials Through Controlled Architectures with Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
• Schkolne, Steven — 3-D Interfaces for Spatial Construction
• Schofer, Susan Jessica — The Effect of Ligand Array on Stereocontrol and Molecular Weight in Metallocene-Catalyzed α-Olefin Polymerization and (PNP)CrPh₃ Complexes as Well-Defined Ethylene Trimerization Catalysts
• Scruggs, Jeffrey Thomas — Structural Control Using Regenerative Force Actuation Networks
• Selman, Fernando Javier — The Initial Mass Function and Star-Formation History in the 30 Doradus Super-Association
• Shaikhutdinov, Rustem Vil — Structural Damage Evaluation: Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering
• Shao, Wenjin — Studies and Applications of Hyperpolarized ¹²⁹-Xe
• Sievers, Jonathan LeRoy — Data Analysis of and Results from Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background with the Cosmic Background Imager
• Simcoe, Robert Andrew — Observations of Intergalactic Heavy-Element Enrichment in the Early Universe
• Smith, W. Bryan — Local Control of Synaptic Strength: Neurotrophic and Dopaminergic Modulation of Dendritic Protein Synthesis
• Sollitt, Luke — Ionic Charge States of Solar Energetic Particles
• Spielman, Ian Bairstow — Evidence for the Josephson Effect in Quantum Hall Bilayers
• Spillane, Sean Michael — Fiber-Coupled Ultra-High-Q Microresonators for Nonlinear and Quantum Optics
• Starck, Shelley Ruth — Exploring the Proteome: Insights into Eukaryotic Protein Synthesis Using Puromycin Analogs
• Strittmatter, Robert Paul — Development of Micro-Electromechanical Systems in GaN
• Swift, Geoffrey Allen — Neutron Diffraction Study of In Situ-Reinforced Silicon Nitride during Creep
• Tanguay, Michel — Computation of Bubbly Cavitating Flow in Shock Wave Lithotripsy
• Thomas, John Christopher — Ligand Design, Coordination Chemistry, and Mechanistic Studies of (Phosphino)Borates and their Platinum, Nickel, and Copper Complexes
• Tkacenko, Andre — Optimization Algorithms for Realizable Signal-Adapted Filter Banks
• Trabanino, Rene Jouvanni — Prediction of Structure, Function, and Spectroscopic Properties of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors: Methods and Applications
• Udomprasert, Patricia Simcoe — H₀ from Cosmic Background Imager Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect in Nearby Clusters.
• VanBeselaere, Carla Emily — The Shirking Model – A Theory of How People Answer Survey Questions
• VanReken, Timothy Mark — Understanding the Relationship between Aerosols and Clouds: Field Investigations and Instrument Development
• Vasylkevych, Sergiy — Poisson Structures for PDEs Associated with Diffeomorphism Groups
• Vázquez, Luis Enrique — SynGAP Controls Synapse Formation by Regulating Spine Development and Morphology
• Vessenes, Rebecca Angel — Generalized Foulkes' Conjecture and Tableaux Construction
• Vrcelj, Bojan — Multirate Signal Processing Concepts in Digital Communications
• Wang, Guodong — Polarizing ³He by Spin Exchange with Potassium
• Wang, Huiqun Helen — Global Observations of Martian Clouds with the Mars Orbiter Camera of the Mars Global Surveyor Spacecraft
• Wang, Pin — Expanding the Biosynthetic Capacity of the Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases
• Waniuk, Theodore Andrew — Viscosity and Crystallization in a Series of Zr-based Bulk Amorphous Alloys
• Ward, Donald William — Stereoselective Ruthenium-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis
• West, Matthew — Variational Integrators
• Wiener, John Jacob Moely — Design and Development of New Enantioselective Catalytic Reactions and Progress towards the Total Synthesis of Callipeltoside
• Wight, Andrea Palmisano — I. Synthesis, Characterization, and Base Catalysis of Organic-Functionalized Molecular Sieves. II. Selective Oxidation of Ethane via Heteropolyanion-Containing Solid Catalysts
• Williams, Tashica Tréshun — Fundamental Aspects of DNA-Mediated Charge Transport
• Wintenberger, Eric — Application of Steady and Unsteady Detonation Waves to Propulsion
• Wong, Catherine Grace — High-Level Synthesis and Rapid Prototyping of Asynchronous VLSI Systems
• Wu, Xinkai — Testing Gauge/Gravity Duality: The Eleven-Dimensional PP-Wave
• Yang, Lili — Towards Engineering Immunity
• Yang, Qiang — Thermomechanical Variational Principles for Dissipative Materials with Application to Strain Localization in Bulk Metallic Glasses
• Yoshie, Tomoyuki — Planar Photonic Crystal Nanocavities with Active Quantum Nanostructures
• Yost, Sarah Anne — Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows: Constraining Physical Parameters and Fireball Model Assumptions
• Zacharias, Niki Marie — Chemical-Scale Manipulation of Ion Channels: in vivo Nonsense Suppression and Targeted Disulfide Crosslinking
• Zeng, Lingsen — Non-Modal Partial Melting of Metasedimentary Pendants in the Southern Sierra Nevada and Implications for the Deep Origin of Within-Pluton Isotopic Heterogeneity
• Zhan, Dapeng — Random Loewner Chains in Riemann Surfaces
• Zhigulin, Valentin P. — Multiple-Scale Dynamics in Neural Systems: Learning, Synchronization and Network Oscillations