Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2005

• Acevedo Bolton, Gabriel Alejandro — Blood Flow Effects on Heart Development and a Minimally Invasive Technique for in vivo Flow Alterations
• Achimescu, Sever — Hilbert Modular Forms of Weight 1/2
• Alves, Steven Wayne — Nonlinear Analysis of Pacoima Dam with Spatially Nonuniform Ground Motion
• Ambroggio, Xavier Ignacio — Structural and Functional Studies of Jamm Domain Proteins and Their Role in the Ubiquitin System
• Armani, Deniz Karapetian — Ultra-High-Q Planar Microcavities and Applications
• Bahreini, Roya — Studies with the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer
• Bak-Maier, Magdalena — Commissural Axon Kinetics and the Role of Netrin in Early Brain Circuitry Development
• Barbee, Susannah Dale — The Functions of Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase in T Lymphocyte Development: Roles in Positive Selection and Thymic Exit
• Beene, Darren Lee — Chemical Scale Investigations of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels Using Unnatural Amino Acids
• Benitez, Diego — Theoretical Study of the Mechanism of Olefin Metathesis and Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers
• Bergthorson, Jeffrey Myles — Experiments and Modeling of Impinging Jets and Premixed Hydrocarbon Stagnation Flames
• Best, Timothy Patrick — Localization of DNA-Binding Polyamides in Living Cells
• Betley, Theodore Alexander — Coordination Chemistry from Trigonally Coordinated Iron Platforms: Chemistry Relevant to Dinitrogen Reduction
• Bhat, Harish Subrahmanya — Lagrangian Averaging, Nonlinear Waves, and Shock Regularization
• Bhattacharyya, Sujata — Embryonic Origin of the Olfactory Sensory System: Fate Map, Lineage Analysis and Specification of the Avian Olfactory Placode
• Birnbaum, Kevin Michael — Cavity QED with Multilevel Atoms
• Bittner, Wendy Belliston — Ultrafast Photoreduction of Nitric Oxide Synthase by Electron Tunneling Wires
• Boca, Andreea — Experiments in Cavity QED: Exploring the Interaction of Quantized Light with a Single Trapped Atom
• Boland, Justin Scott — Micro Electret Power Generators
• Boland, Stacey Walker — Sol-Gel Synthesis of Highly Oriented Lead Barium Titanate and Lanthanum Nickelate Thin Films for High Strain Sensor and Actuator Applications
• Boozer, Allen David — Raman Transitions in Cavity QED
• Borths, Christopher J. — Investigations in Enantioselective Catalysis. Development of Novel Asymmetric Organocatalytic Reactions
• Borths, Elizabeth Loraine — Structural and Biochemical Characterization of the Vitamin B₁₂ ABC Transporter, BtuCD-F
• Bosak, Tanja — Laboratory Models of Microbial Biosignatures in Carbonate Rocks
• Boxe, Christopher Shawn — Nitrate Photochemistry and Interrelated Chemical Phenomena in Ice
• Brown, Sean Pomeroy — Iminium and Enamine Activation: Methods for Enantioselective Organocatalysis
• Brown, Steven Douglas — The Chemistry of Tris(phosphino)borate Supported Iron-Nitrogen Multiply-Bonded Linkages
• Cai, Kaihua — Dispersive Properties of Schrödinger Equations
• Carpen, Ileana Cristina — Studies of Suspension Behavior: I. Instabilities of Non-Brownian Suspensions. II. Microrheology of Colloidal Suspensions
• Centurion Mac Lean, Martin — Study of the Nonlinear Propagation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses
• Chatelain, Philippe — Contributions to the Three-Dimensional Vortex Element Method and Spinning Bluff Body Flows
• Choi, Gloria Bohyun — Characterization of the Circuits Mediating Innate Reproductive and Defensive Behaviors from the Amygdala to the Hypothalamus
• Chow, Stephanie Sienyee — Speciation in Digital Organisms
• Chung, Serena Hsin-Yi — Global Distribution, Radiative Forcing, and Climate Impact of Carbonaceous Aerosols
• Cook, Matthew M. — Networks of Relations
• Copeland, Jeffrey Michael — Identification of Novel Cell Death Regulators in C. elegans and Drosophila
• Covrig, Silviu Doru — A Measurement of Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the G0 Experiment in Forward Mode
• Croal, Laura Rosemary — Fe(II) Oxidation by Anaerobic Phototrophic Bacteria: Molecular Mechanisms and Geological Implications
• Cua, Georgia B. — Creating the Virtual Seismologist: Developments in Ground Motion Characterization and Seismic Early Warning
• Cummings, Uri Vaughan — Linearized and High Frequency Electrooptic Modulators
• Dabiri, John Oluseun — Unsteady Fluid Mechanics of Starting-Flow Vortex Generators with Time-Dependent Boundary Conditions
• Deev, Andrei — Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy of Atmospherically Important Radicals
• Del Vecchio, Domitilla — State Estimation in Multi-Agent Decision and Control Systems
• Diaconescu, Luca Radu — Applications of Effective Field Theory to Electron Scattering
• Dirks, Robert Michael — Analysis, Design, and Construction of Nucleic Acid Devices
• Dmochowski, Jane Ellen — Application of MODIS-ASTER (Master) Simulator Data to Geological Mapping of Young Volcanic Regions in Baja California, Mexico
• Dooley, Bradley Scott — Stereo Digital Particle Image Velocimetry Investigation of a Free Surface Mixing Layer
• Dorn, Evan David — Universal Biosignatures for the Detection of Life
• Edelson, Benjamin S. — Nuclear Localization of Polyamide-Fluorescein Conjugates in Cell Culture
• Eisner, Joshua Aaron — High Angular Resolution Studies of the Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks
• Elgammal, Ramez Ahmed — Theoretical and Experimental Investigations in MEMS-Based Force-Detected NMR
• Endelman, Jeffrey B. — Design and Analysis of Combinatorial Protein Libraries Created by Site-Directed Recombination
• Faddy, James Malcolm — Flow Structure in a Model of Aircraft Trailing Vortices
• Farivar, Shabnam Sarah — Cytoarchitecture of the Locust Olfactory System
• Farmer, Alison Jane — Adventures in Theoretical Astrophysics
• Fechter, Eric James — Design of Sequence-Specific DNA Intercalators
• Ferreira, Eric Matthew — The Design and Development of Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Transformations
• Friedel, Ilja Heinrich — Approximation of Surfaces by Normal Meshes
• Fung, Jimmy — Coarse Analysis of Multiscale Systems: Diffuser Flows, Charged Particle Motion, and Connections to Averaging Theory
• Galownia, Jonathan Michael — I. Synthesis, Characterization, and Base Catalysis of Novel Zeolite Supported Super-Basic Materials. II. Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane Over Reduced Heteropolyanion Catalysts
• Garg, Neil Kamal — The Total Synthesis of Dragmacidins D and F
• Gavriliu, Marcel — Towards More Efficient Interval Analysis: Corner Forms and a Remainder Interval Newton Method
• Green, William M. J. — InGaAsP-InP Semiconductor Microcavity Geometries for Annular Bragg Reflection, Optical Switching, and Sensing
• Gregory, Irene Michelle — Design and Stability Analysis of an Integrated Controller for Highly Flexible Advanced Aircraft Utilizing the Novel Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion
• Gunn, Lawrence Cary, III — Integration of Complex Optical Functionality in a Production CMOS Process
• Hall, Spencer Eugene — Development of a Structure Prediction Method for G-Protein Coupled Receptors
• Hart, Christopher Edward — Inferring Genetic Regulatory Network Structure: Integrative Analysis of Genome-Scale Data
• Healy, Paul Jay — Institutions, Incentives and Behavior: Essays in Public Economics and Mechanism Design
• Heidel, Jeremy David — Targeted, Systemic Non-Viral Delivery of Small Interfering RNA in vivo
• Hickerson, Anna Iwaniec — An Experimental Analysis of the Characteristic Behaviors of an Impedance Pump
• Hom, Geoffrey Kai Tong — Advances in Computational Protein Design: Development of More Efficient Search Algorithms and their Application to the Full-Sequence Design of Larger Proteins
• Hostler, Stephen Richard — Wave Propagation in Granular Materials
• Hsieh, Hung-Te — Operation of Holographic Elements with Broadband Light Sources
• Huh, Jun Ryul — To Die or to Differentiate: Apoptotic and Non-Apoptotic Roles of Death Molecules in Drosophila melanogaster
• Humbert, James Sean — Bio-Inspired Visuomotor Convergence in Navigation and Flight Control Systems
• Ichiriu, Stephan Robert — Investigation of Spin Injection in Semiconductors: Theory and Experiment
• Ja, William Wei-Hua — Peptide Modulators of G Protein Signaling
• Jackson, Scott Irving — Gaseous Detonation Initiation Via Wave Implosion
• Jacoby, Bryan Anthony — Recycled Pulsars
• Jenkins, David Matthew — Low Spin Pseudotetrahedral Cobalt Tris(phosphino)borate Complexes
• Jing, Yindi — Space-Time Code Design and Its Applications in Wireless Networks
• Johnson, Jennifer Michelle — Artin L-Functions for Abelian Extensions of Imaginary Quadratic Fields
• Jones, Elizabeth Anne Vincent — Blood Flow and The Mammalian Embryo
• Jones, William Claude — A Measurement of the Temperature and Polarization Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
• Kapinus, Vadym A. — Photophysical Properties of Protonated Aromatic Hydrocarbons
• Katz, Daniel Jerome — On p-Adic Estimates of Weights in Abelian Codes over Galois Rings
• Keller, William R. — Cenozoic Plate Tectonic Reconstructions and Plate Boundary Processes in the Southwest Pacific
• Kellogg, Melinda Jane — Evidence for Excitonic Superfluidity in a Bilayer Two-Dimensional Electron System
• Kesden, Michael Henry — To the Horizon and Beyond:Weak Lensing of the CMB and Binary Inspirals into Horizonless Objects
• Klamo, Sara Bernadine — Direct Examination of Initiation and Propagation Kinetics of Zirconocene-Catalyzed Alkene Polymerization
• Kowalewsky, Olga — Theory of Complex Lattice Quasicontinuum and Its Application to Ferroelectrics
• Lambert, Bruce Michael — Force-Detected, Single-Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging Using Nanoscale Mechanical Resonators
• Lee, Christopher — Probing Physics and the Standard Model and Beyond with Electroweak Baryogenesis and Effective Theories of the Strong Interactions
• Lee, Hok Kong — Gauge Theory and Supergravity Duality in the PP-Wave Background
• Lee, Hyunjoo — A New Strategy for Synthesizing Zeolites and Zeolite-Like Materials
• Lee, Seung-Yub — Deformation Mechanisms of Bulk Metallic Glass Matrix Composites
• Leung, Thomas Hin-Chai — Specificity of Transcription Activation by NF-kB Subunits
• Li, Fei-Fei — Visual Recognition: Computational Models and Human Psychophysics
• Li, Yi — Topological Sigma Models and Generalized Geometries
• Li, Youyong — Atomistic Simulation of Macromolecules
• Litke, Nathan Jacob — Variational Methods in Surface Parameterization
• Lu, Miao-Ling — Large-Eddy Simulations of Marine Cumulus and Stratocumulus and Study of Humidity Halos and Aerosol Indirect Radiative Effects
• Mah, Angie Siu Yee — Regulation of Protein Kinase Dbf2 in Mitotic Exit
• Marques, Michael Anthony — The Molecular Recognition of DNA by Novel Heterocycles
• Mazin, Benjamin A. — Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
• Mazor, Ofer — Neural Dynamics and Population Coding in the Insect Brain
• McLoughlin, Tristan — The Near-Penrose Limit of AdS/CFT
• Meeker, Daniella Elena Patricia — Cognitive Neural Prosthetics: Brain Machine Interfaces Based in Parietal Cortex
• Meinhold, Peter — Engineering Cytochrome P450 BM-3 for Selective Hydroxylation of Alkanes
• Mochon, Carlos — From Non-Abelian Anyons to Quantum Computation to Coin-Flipping by Telephone
• Mukherjee, Sundeep — Study of Crystallization Behavior, Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Bulk Metallic Glasses Using Noncontact Electrostatic Levitation Technique
• Mukhtar, Saleem — Interval Modulation: A New Paradigm for the Design of High Speed Communication Systems
• Murphy, John Frank — Methods for Collection and Processing of Gene Expression Data
• Nenciu, Irina — Lax Pairs for the Ablowitz-Ladik System Via Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle
• Nielsen, Robert J. — Computational Strategy in Catalyst Design
• Northrup, Alan Bowers — Design and Development of New Enantioselective Organocatalytic Transformations, a Two-Step Synthesis of Carbohydrates, and Progress toward the Total Synthesis of Callipeltoside C
• Okuda, Takuya — Large N Dualities in Topological String Theory
• Owen, Jonathan Scharle — A Study of Ligand Substitution and its Importance in the C-H Activation of Methane and Methanol
• Paloczi, George T. — Polymer Integrated Optics: Device Architectures and Fabrication Methods
• Papachristodoulou, Antonis — Scalable Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Using Convex Optimization
• Peng, Joyce Yaochun — Structure and Function Prediction of Human Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor 1, Cation-π Studies, and Protein Design
• Petersson, Ernest James — Investigations of Ion Channel Structure and Function. I. Studies of Nicotine Binding to the Acetylcholine Receptor. II. Development of Tools for Studying Learning and Memory with Unnatural Amino Acids
• Pintgen, Florian Peter — Detonation Diffraction in Mixtures with Various Degrees of Instability
• Ponchaut, Nicolas Frederic — Part I: 3DPTV: Advances and Error Analysis. Part II: Extension of Guderley's Solution for Converging Shock Waves
• Popielarski, Stephen R. — I. Structural Effects of Carbohydrate-Containing Polycations on Gene Delivery. II. Development of a Nanoparticle-Based Model Delivery System to Guide the Rational Design of Gene Delivery to the Liver
• Poulin-Kerstien, Adam Thomas — DNA-Templated Dimerizations of Minor Groove-Binding Polyamides
• Prajna, Stephen — Optimization-Based Methods for Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems Verification
• Qi, Xin — Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation to Rewrite the Genetic Code and RNA-Peptide Interactions
• Rathore, Yasser — Resonant Excitation of White Dwarf Oscillations in Compact Object Binaries
• Reddy, Leila — Attention and the Processing of Natural Stimuli: Psychophysics, fMRI and Single Unit Recordings in the Human Brain
• Romero-Talamás, Carlos Alejandro — Investigations of Spheromak Plasma Dynamics: High-Speed Imaging at the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment and Magnetic Diagnostics at the Caltech Spheromak Experiment
• Roust, Kevin A. — Minority Rights in Majoritarian Institutions
• Rutenberg, Isaac Michael — Functionalized Polymers and Surfaces via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
• Sanders, Daniel Paul — Development of Fluorinated Monomers and Polymers for Advanced Photolithographic Applications
• Sarisky, Catherine Ann — Exploration of the Determinants of Protein Structure and Stability by Protein Design
• Savarese, Silvio — Shape Reconstruction from Shadows and Reflections
• Shah, Premal S. — Advances in Force Field Development and Sequence Optimization Methods for Computational Protein Design
• Shapovalov, George G. — Mechanosensitive Channels of Bacteria: Structure and Function. Electrophysiology as a High Resolution Technique of Ion Channel Study
• Sharma, Shantanu — Prediction of Structure and Antagonist Binding Site in Human and Rodent Chemokine Receptor 1
• Shen, Wei — Structure, Dynamics, and Properties of Artificial Protein Hydrogels Assembled Through Coiled-Coil Domains
• Shin, Donghun — Identification and Characterization of Endothelial Specific Genes
• Shuster, David Lawrence — Application of Spallogenic Noble Gases Induced by Energetic Proton Irradiation to Problems in Geochemistry and Thermochronometry
• Sigurdson, Kris Raymond — Variations on the Standard Model of the Universe
• Simion, Claudiu — Orienting and Preference: An Enquiry into the Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Decision Making
• Sisk, Brian Christopher — Computational Optimization of Chemical Vapor Detector Arrays
• Spakowitz, Andrew James — Semiflexible Polymers: Fundamental Theory and Applications in DNA Packaging
• Srinivasan, Ramesh — Structural Dynamics of Complex Molecules by Ultrafast Electron Diffraction : Concepts, Methodology and Applications
• Staneff, Geoffrey D. — High-Pressure Synthesis of Thermoelectric Materials
• Stoiciu, Mihai Valentin — Zeros of Random Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle
• Stredie, Valentin Gabriel — Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Aquatic and Aerial Animal Locomotion
• Sumner, Heather Ann — Gas Phase Reaction Dynamics and Design of Molecular Clusters and Bioconjugates
• Swanson, Ian Jakov — Superstring Holography and Integrability in AdS₅ x S⁵
• Takahashi, Terry Torao — In Vitro Selection of RNA Binding Peptides
• Thorpe, Jeremy Christopher — Analysis and Design of Protograph Based LDPC Codes and Ensembles
• Thunnissen, Daniel Pierre — Propagating and Mitigating Uncertainty in the Design of Complex Multidisciplinary Systems
• Udit, Andrew K. — P450 BM3 Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis
• Wang, Zhengrong — Oxygen Isotope Studies of the Petrogenesis of Hawaiian Lavas and a Theoretical Study on Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Multiply-Substituted Isotopologues
• Weaver, Jeremy John — Corroles
• Webb, Lauren J. — Chemical Characterization and Charge Carrier Dynamics of Crystalline Silicon(III) Surfaces Modified with Surface-Bound Organic Functional Groups
• Wei, Tzer-jen — Descriptive Properties of Measure Preserving Actions and the Associated Unitary Representations
• Weinberg, Nevin Nachum — I. Ash Injection and Exposure During Radius Expansion Type I X-Ray Bursts. II. Stellar Dynamics at the Galactic Center. III. Weak Gravitational Lensing by Dark Matter Concentrations
• Wessling, Margaret Ellen — Heavy Pentaquarks in the Diquark Model and the Large Nc Expansion
• Westhead, Andrew Neil — Upscaling for Two-Phase Flows in Porous Media
• Wheatley, Vincent — On the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Magnetohydrodynamics
• White, Christopher John — A Solid-state Atomic Frequency Standard
• Whitehouse, David — The Twisted Weighted Fundamental Lemma for the Transfer of Automorphic Forms from GSp(4) to GL(4)
• Widicus Weaver, Susanna Leigh — Rotational Spectroscopy and Observational Astronomy of Prebiotic Molecules
• Wiggins, Paul Alexander — Biology Beyond Biochemistry:The Mechanics of Life
• Wirz, Richard Edward — Discharge Plasma Processes of Ring-Cusp Ion Thrusters
• Witzens, Jeremy — Dispersion in Photonic Crystals
• Wu, Jian — Defect Chemistry and Proton Conductivity in Ba-based Perovskites
• Xia, Kaiwen — Laboratory Investigations of Earthquake Dynamics
• Xiao, Yu — The Influence of Oxygen Vacancies on Domain Patterns in Ferroelectric Perovskites
• Xie, Jun — Integrated Parylene LC-ESI on a Chip
• Xu, Donghua — Development of Novel Binary and Multi-Component Bulk Metallic Glasses
• Yang, Lan — Fabrication and Characterization of Microlasers by the Sol-Gel Method
• Yavari, Arash — Atomic Structure of Ferroelectric Domain Walls, Free Surfaces and Steps
• Yu, Hui — C. elegans Male Tail Development
• Yu, Xinwei — Localized Non-bBlowup Conditions for 3D Incompressible Euler Flows and Related Equations
• Zahler, James Michael — Materials Integrations for High-Performance Photovoltaics by Wafer Bonding
• Zhang, Qingsong — Atomistic Simulation of Barium Titanate
• Zhou, Jijie — Nanowicking: Multi-scale Flow Interaction with Nanofabric Structures