Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2006

• Abeyesinghe, Anura Yamesh — Unification of Quantum Information Theory
• Ai, Huirong (Anita) — Shock-Induced Damage in Rocks: Application to Impact Cratering
• Analui, Behnam — Signal Integrity Issues in High-Speed Wireline Links: Analysis and Integrated System Solutions
• Arlett, Jessica Lynn — Properties of Piezoresistive Silicon Nano-scale Cantilevers with Applications to BioNEMS
• Ashley, Eric Robert — The First Total Synthesis of (–)-Lemonomycin and Progress toward the Total Synthesis of (+)-Cyanocycline A
• Austin, Joel Francis — The Development of Organocatalytic Reactions Pertaining to Indoles
• Baehr-Jones, Tom Wetteland — Novel Modulation and Detection Mechanisms in Silicon Nanophotonics
• Bagdanoff, Jeffrey Thomas — Development of the Enantioselective Oxidation of Secondary Alcohols and Natural Products Total Synthesis
• Basu, Shabari — Simulations of the Martian Dust Cycle with a General Circulation Model
• Benjamin Schooler, Jordan — Structural Studies of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I by CryoElectron Tomography
• Bingol, Baris — Ubiquitin-Proteasome System at the Synapse
• Biteen, Julie Suzanne — Plasmon-Enhanced Silicon Nanocrystal Luminescence for Optoelectronic Applications
• Borselli, Matthew Gregory — High-Q Microresonators as Lasing Elements for Silicon Photonics
• Branchaud, Edward Allan — A Control System for Positioning Recording Electrodes to Isolate Neurons in Extracellular Recordings
• Broome, Bede Michael — Population Coding and Reconstruction of Complex Stimuli in the Locust Olfactory System
• Buckwalter, James Franklin — Deterministic Jitter in Broadband Communication
• Bundy, Kevin A. — The Mass Assembly History of Field Galaxies
• Carter, Ronald McKell — Explicit and Implicit Processes in Human Aversive Conditioning
• Cashin, Amanda Leigh — Chemical Scale Investigations of Drug-Receptor Interactions at the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
• Ceres, Donato Marino — Electron Transfer at DNA-Modified Electrodes
• Chatto, Andrew Rosenberg — Experiments on the Self-Organized Critical State of ⁴He
• Chen, Ching-Tzu — Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Studies of High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors
• Choi, Eun Jung — Development and Applications of Computational Protein Design
• Chou, Chin-wen — Towards a Quantum Network with Atomic Ensembles
• Christianson, Gestur Björn — Information Processing in the Interaural Time Difference Pathway of the Barn Owl
• Collins, Cynthia Hollie — Directed Evolution of the Transcriptional Activator LuxR
• Cope, Gregory Allan — Regulation of SCF Ubiquitin Ligases by Jab1/Csn5 and the Cop9 Signalosome
• Čopič, Jernej — Robust Bilateral Trade and an Essay on Awareness as an Equilibrium Notion
• Cremean, Lars Brör — System Architectures and Environment Modeling for High-Speed Autonomous Navigation
• Delaire, Olivier — The Phonon Entropy of Transition Metals and Alloys: Effects of Impurities and of a Martensitic Phase Transition
• Demanet, Laurent — Curvelets, Wave Atoms, and Wave Equations
• Dorsten, Matthew Paul — Topics in Heavy Particle Effective Theories
• Doss, Raymond Michael — Programmable Oligomers for DNA Recognition
• Drummond, David Allan — Misfolding Dominates Protein Evolution
• Duimstra, Joseph Anthony — Modulation of Magnetic Properties in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents and Molecular Magnetic Materials
• Dvoretskii, Alexei — Dalitz Plot Analysis of the Decay B± → K±K±K∓
• Eltgroth, Selene Farrell — Unraveling Deep-Ocean Connections to Climate with Deep-Sea Coral Records of Radiocarbon and Cd/Ca
• Erb, Dawn Karuna — The Properties of Star-Forming Galaxies at z ~ 2: Kinematics, Stellar Populations, and Metallicities
• Evnin, Oleg — On Quantum Interacting Embedded Geometrical Objects of Various Dimensions
• Feenstra, Jonathan Stuart — Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Direct Determination of Structural Dynamics of Molecular Excited States
• Feng, Tao — Silicon Nanocrystal Charging Dynamics and Memory Device Applications
• Ferguson, Megan Alameda — TiO₂-Photocatalyzed As(III) Oxidation and its Applicability to Water Treatment
• Forouhar, Arian Soroush — Dynamic Views of Structure and Function during Heart Morphogenesis
• Forster, Robert Burke — Population Dynamics in the Presence of Quasispecies Effects and Changing Environments
• Fry, Juliane Loraine — Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Atmospheric Reservoir Species: HOONO, CH₃C(O)OONO₂, CH₃OOH, and HOCH₂OOH
• Gataullin, Marat I. — Studies of Electroweak Interactions and Searches for New Physics Using Photonic Events with Missing Energy at the Large Electron-Positron Collider
• Gealy, Matthew Thomas — On the Tamagawa Number Conjecture for Motives Attached to Modular Forms
• Goulet, David Michael — Mathematical Models of the Developing C. elegans Hermaphrodite Gonad
• Graumann, Johannes — Implementation of Multidimensional Protein Identification Technology and its Application to the Characterization of Protein Complexes in Bakers Yeast
• Green, Harry Miguel — Novel Methods for Studying Ras/Erk MAP Kinase Signaling in Developing T Cells
• Griffin, Erik Edmund — Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission
• Grimm, Ronald L. — Fundamental Studies of the Mechanisms and Applications of Field-Induced Droplet Ionization Mass Spectrometry and Electrospray Mass Spectrometry
• Grynkiewicz, David Joseph — Sumsets, Zero-Sums and Extremal Combinatorics
• Guan, Xiang — Microwave Integrated Phased Array Receivers in Silicon
• Harkins, Seth Beebe — The Synthesis and Study of Redox-Rich, Amido-Bridged Cu₂N₂ Dicopper Complexes
• Hart, Jonathan Ross — Synthesis and Applications of Bulky Rhodium(III) Intercalators for the Recognition of DNA Mismatches
• He, Qing — Integrated Nano Liquid Chromatography System On-a-Chip
• Hemmati, Houman David — Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells in Cancer and Development
• Hochberg, Michael — Integrated Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Devices in Silicon
• Hodyss, Robert P. — Methods for the Analysis of Organic Chemistry on Titan
• Holunga, Dean Marcu — Aerosol Technologies for Fabrication, Collection, and Deposition of Engineered Nanoparticles
• Inamdar, Mandar Mukund — Dissipative Nanomechanics
• Jaggi, Sidharth — Design and Analysis of Network Codes
• Jenkins, Alejandro — Topics in Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology beyond the Standard Model
• Jeon, Sanggeun — Design and Stability Analysis Techniques for Switching-Mode Nonlinear Circuits: Power Amplifiers and Oscillators
• Kang, Dal Mo — Measurements of Combustion Dynamics with Laser-Based Diagnostic Techniques
• Kovács, Attila — SHARC-2 350 Micron Observations of Distant Submillimeter Selected Galaxies and Techniques for the Optimal Analysis and Observing of Weak Signals
• Krakauer, Nir Yitzhak — Characterizing Carbon-Dioxide Fluxes from Oceans and Terrestrial Ecosystems
• Kriechbaum, Kristopher Lars — Tools and Algorithms for Mobile Robot Navigation with Uncertain Localization
• Kulkarni, Rajan P. — Mechanics of the Cytoskeleton: Examining the Dynamics of Cytoplasmic Transport through Fluorescence Microscopy
• Lacenere, Christopher J. — Advances in Single Molecule Nucleic Acid Sequencing
• Larsen, Catharine Hoàng-Mai — Investigating Imidazolidinone Catalysts: Enantioselective Organocatalytic Diels-Alder Reactions, Conjugate Additions to Access Non-Natural ∝-Amino Acids, and Bimodal Catalyst Activation for the Development of Organo-Cascade Reactions
• Laurence, Stuart Jon — Proximal Bodies in Hypersonic Flow
• Lee, Brian — Neural Computation of Self-Motion from Optic Flow in Primate Visual Cortex
• Lev, Benjamin Leonard — Magnetic Microtraps for Cavity QED, Bose-Einstein Condensates, and Atom Optics
• Li, Ling — Data Complexity in Machine Learning and Novel Classification Algorithms
• Liang, Mao-Chang — Chemical and Dynamical Processes in the Atmospheres of I. Ancient and Present-Day Earth, II. Jupiter and Galileo Satellite, III. Extrasolar “Hot Jupiters”
• Lieberman, Daniel Howard — Detonation Interaction with Sharp and Diffuse Interfaces
• Liger, Matthieu — Uncooled Carbon Microbolometer Imager
• Link, Aaron James — Azide-Bearing Amino Acids in Protein Engineering and Proteomic Profiling
• Liu, Julie Chih-I — Endothelial Cell Response to Artificial Extracellular Matrix Proteins
• Liu, Junjun — Interaction of Magnetic Field and Flow in the Outer Shells of Giant Planets
• Liu, Qinya — Spectral-Element Simulations of 3-D Seismic Wave Propagation and Applications to Source and Structural Inversions
• Liu, Xiaoyu — On Divisible Codes over Finite Fields
• Livi, Carolina Becker — Spblimp1/krox: A Transcriptional Regulator with a Central Role in Endomesoderm Specification in Sea Urchin Embryos
• Lu, Connie Chih — The Chemistry of Tris(phosphino)borate Manganese and Iron Platforms
• Lundblad, Nathan Eric — All-Optical Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Spinor Dynamics-Driven Atom Laser
• Luo, Wuan — Wiener Chaos Expansion and Numerical Solutions of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
• Lykotrafitis, Georgios C. — Experimental Study of Dynamic Frictional Sliding Modes along Incoherent Interfaces
• Mack, Thomas Patrick — Quasiconvex Subgroups and Nets in Hyperbolic Groups
• Mangion, Ian Kyle — Development of Organocatalytic Direct Aldol Transformations, Total Syntheses of Brasoside and Littoralisone, and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Diazonamide A
• Mao, Jessica — Applications of Computational Protein Design
• Marcus, Joshua Scott — Single Mammalian Cell Gene Expression Analysis Using Microfluidics
• Maune, Brett Michael — Fluidic and Polymeric Integration and Functionalization of Optical Microresonators
• May, Jeremy Allen — I. Synthesis and Utilization of Diazocompounds for Applications in Solution-Phase and Gas-Phase Chemistry. II. Progress Toward the Communesin Alkaloids
• McGarvey, Raymond Timothy James — Ultra-Sensitive Absorption Measurements through Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy
• Metchev, Stanimir Angelov — Brown Dwarf Companions to Young Solar Analogs: An Adaptive Optics Survey Using Palomar and Keck
• Meyer, Michelle Margaret — Exploring Protein Sequence Space Using Computationally Directed Recombination
• Michalak, David Jason — Physics and Chemistry of Silicon Surface Passivation
• Mihalas, Stefan — Quantitative Model of Calcium/Calmodulin- Dependent Protein Kinase II Activation
• Min, Bumki — Ultrahigh–Q Microtoroid On-Chip Resonators for Low Threshold Microlasers
• Min, Endy Yeo-Jung — Kinetic Resolution of Chiral ∝-Olefins Using Enantiopure Ziegler-Natta Polymerization Catalysts
• Mishra, Swaroop — Intracellular Considerations in the Development of Non-Viral Nucleic Acid Delivery Systems for Systemic Administration
• Mitros, Ania Karolina — A Compact System for Self-Motion Estimation
• Mock, Marissa Lee — Protein Modification Through in vivo Incorporation of Noncanonical Amino Acids
• Morrill, Christie — Application of Transition Metal Catalysis to Small Molecule Synthesis
• Mu, Tingwei — A Chemical-Scale Study on the Ligand-Binding Site of a Serotonin-Gated Ion Channel
• Muñoz Fernández, Michela — Coherent Optical Array Receiver for PPM Signals Under Atmospheric Turbulence
• Navilarekallu, Tejaswi — On the Equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecture
• Neal, Terrell Demetris — Surface Plasmon Enhanced Light Emission from Organic Light Emitters
• Neil, Patricia Ann — Development of Audiovisual Integration in Human Infants: The Effects of Spatial and Temporal Congruency and Incongruency on Response Latencies
• Nemanick, Eric Joseph — Chemical and Electrical Passivation of Single Crystal Silicon Surfaces Through Covalently Bound Organic Monolayers
• Nickerson, Charles Sellers — Engineering the Mechanical Properties of Ocular Tissues
• Nowatzki, Paul John — Characterization of Crosslinked Artificial Protein Films
• Olsen, Adam Paul — Scanning Activity Gravimetric Analysis (SAGA) of Aqueous Polyethylene Oxide
• Pan, Margaret Whei-Jie — Slices of Theoretical Astrophysics: Solar System Dynamics and Relativistic Explosions
• Pan, Yi — Topics of LIGO Physics: Template Banks for the Inspiral of Precessing, Compact Binaries, and Design of the Signal-Recycling Cavity for Advanced LIGO
• Papadantonakis, Karl Spyros — Rigorous Analog Verification of Asynchronous Circuits
• Papandrew, Alexander Blair — The Effects of High Pressure on the Vibrational and Magnetic Properties of Iron-Based Materials
• Pape, Eric A — Light adjustable macromer-doped elastomers : the thermodynamics, transport, and photochemistry of silicones
• Parkin, Kevin L.G. — The Microwave Thermal Thruster and Its Application to the Launch Problem
• Pfister, Samuel Thomas — Algorithms for Mobile Robot Localization and Mapping, Incorporating Detailed Noise Modeling and Multi-scale Feature Extraction
• Reddy, Naveen Ananta — A Multi-Wavelength Census of Star Formation at Redshift z ~ 2
• Rissman, Tracey Alayne — Theory, Field Measurements, and Laboratory Experiments Concerning the Cloud Condensation Nucleus Properties of Organic and/or Insoluble Aerosol Components
• Rogers, Brian W. — Learning and Status in Social Networks
• Rokhsari Azar, Hossein — High-Q Microcavities: Optomechanical Nonlinearities, Measurement Techniques and Applications
• Sadjadpour, Amir — A Micromechanics-Inspired Three-Dimensional Constitutive Model for the Thermomechanical Response of Shape-Memory Alloys
• Samuel, Alexander — Measurement of Branching Fractions and Mass Spectra in B → Kππγ Decays
• Sand, David Jerome — On the Distribution of Dark Matter in Clusters of Galaxies
• Shadden, Shawn Christopher — A Dynamical Systems Approach to Unsteady Systems
• Sharif, Masoud — Broadband Wireless Broadcast Channels: Throughput, Performance, and PAPR Reduction
• Shih, Victor-Chi-Yuan — Temperature-Controlled Microchip Liquid Chromatography System
• Shyu, J. Bruce Hao-Te Hsu — A Neotectonic Model of Taiwan, with a Focus on the Longitudinal Valley Suture
• Slimko, Eric Michael — Selective Silencing of Vertebrate Neurons: Strategies Using Invertebrate Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
• Smith, Deborah Elaine — A New Paradigm for Interpreting Stress Inversions from Focal Mechanisms: How 3D Stress Heterogeneity Biases the Inversions Toward the Stress Rate
• Smith, Graeme Stewart Baird — Upper and Lower Bounds on Quantum Codes
• Solares, Santiago de Jesus — Multi-Scale Simulations of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Atomic Force Microscopy and Density Functional Theory Characterization of Functionalized and Non-Functionalized Silicon Surfaces
• Sorensen, Claus Mazanti — Level-Raising for GSp(4)
• Spanos, Demetri Polychronis — Distributed Gradient Systems and Dynamic Coordination
• Spronk, Steven Adrian — Investigations of Ion Channels with Computational Simulations and Biochemical Experiments
• Srinivasan, Kartik — Semiconductor Optical Microcavities for Chip-Based Cavity QED
• Strinopoulos, Theofilos — Upscaling Immiscible Two-Phase Flows in an Adaptive Frame
• Swan-Wood, Tabitha Liana — Vibrational Entropy Contributions to the Phase Stability of Iron- and Aluminum-Based Binary Alloys
• Taghavi Larigani, Shervin — Theory, Fabrication and Applications of a Novel Archetype Semi-Ring Fabry-Perot (SRFP) Resonator and New Tiltmeters
• Tambar, Uttam Krishan — Convergent Methods for Synthesizing Rings in the Context of Natural Product Synthesis: I. Development of a Tandem Stille-Oxa-Electrocyclization Reaction, and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Saudin. II. Development of the Direct Acyl-Alkylation of Arynes, and Its Application Toward the Total Synthesis of Amurensinine
• Tan, Eh — I. Multi-Scale Dynamics of Mantle Plumes, and II. Compressible Thermochemical Convection and the Stability of Mantle Superplumes
• Tan, Ying — Broadband Waveform Modeling Over a Dense Seismic Network
• Tang, Ao (Kevin) — Heterogeneous Congestion Control Protocols
• Tao, Min — High Temperature Deformation of Vitreloy Bulk Metallic Glasses and Their Composite
• Țăpuș, Cristian — Distributed Speculations: Providing Fault-Tolerance and Improving Performance
• Thomas, Christine Marie — Novel Reactivity at Iron Centers Supported by Poly(phosphino)borate Ligands
• Thurman, Derek Wade — Molecular Aspects of Flow-Induced Crystallization of Polypropylene
• Tobias, Alexander Vincent — Directed Evolution of Biosynthetic Pathways to Carotenoids with Unnatural Carbon Backbones
• Trend, Raissa M. — Concerning the Mechanism and Selectivity of Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation Reactions
• Tsang, Mankei — Classical and Quantum Nonlinear Optical Information Processing
• Tsuchiya, Naotsugu — Attention and Awareness: Visual Psychophysics and Aversive Conditioning in Humans
• van Dam, Robert Michael — Solvent-Resistant Elastomeric Microfluidic Devices and Applications
• Varutbangkul, Varuntida — Ambient and Laboratory Studies of Aerosol Size Distributions and Hygroscopicity
• Vyawahare, Saurabh — Manipulating Fluids: Advances in Micro-Fluidics, Opto-Fluidics and Fluidic Self-Assembly
• Wagenaar, Daniel Alexander — Development and Control of Epileptiform Bursting in Dissociated Cortical Cultures
• Walther, Dirk — Interactions of Visual Attention and Object Recognition: Computational Modeling, Algorithms, and Psychophysics
• Waltman, Andrew Willis — N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands for Nickel Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts:Toward the Incorporation of Polar Comonomers
• Wang, Feiyu — Design and Analysis of High-Efficiency L-Band Power Amplifiers
• Wang, Jiantao — A Theoretical Study of Internet Congestion Control: Equilibrium and Dynamics
• Washenfelder, Rebecca Ann — Column Abundances of Carbon Dioxide and Methane Retrieved from Ground-Based Near-Infrared Solar Spectra
• Watson, Karli Kiiko — The Von Economo Neurons: From Cells to Behavior
• Welp, Lisa Renee — Links Between Carbon and Water Cycles in Northern Ecosystems: Constraints from Stable Isotopes
• Williams, Kjerstin Irja — Multi-robot Systems: Modeling Swarm Dynamics and Designing Inspection Planning Algorithms
• Wu, Daw-An — How Perception Adheres Color to Objects and Surfaces: Studies Using Visual Illusions and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
• Yang, Fu-Ling — Interaction Law for a Collision Between Two Solid Particles in a Viscous Liquid
• Yang, Ya-Tang — Phase Noise of Nanoelectromechanical Systems
• Yildiz, Bahattin — Weight Enumerators and Gray Maps of Linear Codes over Rings
• Yuan, Junhua — Progress Towards a High Precision Measurement of the Neutron Spin–Electron Angular Correlation in Polarized Neutron ß Decay with Ultra-Cold Neutrons
• Zhang, Rongjing — Mechanical Characterization of Thin Films with Application to Ferroelectrics
• Zhang, Yizhen — Engineering Design Synthesis of Sensor and Control Systems for Intelligent Vehicles
• Zielonka, Matias Gabriel — Configurational Forces and Variational Mesh Adaption in Solid Dynamics
• Zollars, Eric Stafford — Force Field Development in Protein Design