Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2007

• Afshari, Ehsan — Optotronics: Optically Inspired Electronics
• Agapie, Theodor — Synthetic, Reactivity, and Mechanistic Studies Relevant to Olefin Oligomerization and Polymerization
• Aliferis, Panagiotis (Panos) — Level-Reduction and the Quantum Threshold Theorem
• Alvizo, Oscar — Computational Protein Design Force Field Optimization: A Negative Design Approach
• Anen, Cédric Robert — Neural Correlates of Economic and Moral Decision-Making
• Arjara, Gitrada — [Refolding a β-Barrel Membrane Protein

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• Ashby, Meredith Howard — The Sea Urchin Regulome in Development
• Au, John King-Tai — An Ab Initio Approach to the Inverse Problem-Based Design of Photonic Bandgap Devices
• Augustyn, Katherine Emily — Fundamental Mechanisms and Biological Applications of DNA-Mediated Charge Transport
• Austin, Ryan James — Solving Molecular Recognition Problems with Evolvable Peptide Motifs
• Babilo, Peter — Processing and Characterization of Proton Conducting Yttrium Doped Barium Zirconate for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Applications
• Bailey, Delia Ruth Grigg — Essays on Causal Inference and Political Representation
• Balagaddé, Frederick Kiguli — Microfluidic Technologies for Continuous Culture and Genetic Circuit Characterization
• Balcerski, William Clifford — Applications of Semiconductor Photocatalysis for Both Degradation of Organics and Hydrogen Production
• Bao, Xiaoyan Robert — Lost in a Crowd: Observations of Single DNA Knots and Single Mammalian Cells
• Barclay, Paul Edward — Fiber Coupled Nanophotonic Devices for Nonlinear Optics and Cavity QED
• Bartlett, Derek William — An Engineering Approach to Cancer Therapy Using Systemically Delivered siRNA
• Basset, Christophe Jean-Michel — CMOS Imaging Technology with Embedded Early Image Processing
• Becker, George Dana — A High-Resolution Study of the High-Redshift Intergalactic Medium
• Behenna, Douglas Carl — Progress Toward the Synthesis of (+)-Zoanthenol and the Development of an Asymmetric Tsuji Allylation Reaction
• Beierholm, Ulrik Ravnsborg — Bayesian Modeling of Sensory Cue Combinations
• Bender, John Andrew — Elements of Feed-Forward and Feedback Control in Drosophila Body Saccades
• Berglund, Andrew John — Feedback Control of Brownian Motion for Single-Particle Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• Berlin, Jacob Myar — Design Of Olefin Metathesis Catalysts: From Enantioselective Reactions To Tetrasubstituted Olefins
• Bloom, Jesse D. — Hidden Dimensions in Protein Evolution: Stability, Mutational Robustness, and Evolvability
• Bois, Justin S. — Analysis of Interacting Nucleic Acids in Dilute Solutions
• Bondarescu, Mihai — Topics in General Relativity
• Bonderson, Parsa Hassan — Non-Abelian Anyons and Interferometry
• Bou-Rabee, Nawaf Mohammed — Hamilton-Pontryagin Integrators on Lie Groups
• Bradford, Samuel Case, V — Time-Frequency Analysis of Systems with Changing Dynamic Properties
• Brès, Guillaume Alain — Numerical Simulations of Three-Dimensional Instabilities in Cavity Flows
• Brown, Charles Titus — Tackling the Regulatory Genome
• Brown, Michal Amaris — Measuring Stress in Thin-Film - Substrate Systems Featuring Spatial Nonuniformities of Film Thickness and/or Misfit Strain
• Budick, Seth Alexander — Resource Localization and Multimodal Flight Control in Drosophila melanogaster
• Bunimovich, Yuri Leonid — Silicon Nanowires as Biological Sensors and Highly Efficient Thermoelectric Materials
• Byers, Jeffery Allen — Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies into the Kinetic Resolution of α-olefins Using C₁₋ and C₂₋ Symmetric Zirconocene Polymerization Catalysts
• Cai, Lance Lin-Lan — Robotics Training Algorithms for Optimizing Motor Learning in Spinal Cord Injured Subjects
• Campbell, Kate Marie — Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Arsenic Mobilization in Haiwee Reservoir Sediments
• Campos, Michael — Eye Movements and Reward, Sequential States, and Context-Dependent Target Selection
• Chen, Edward Tann — Radiative Leptonic B Decays
• Chen, Lijun — Wireless Network Design and Control
• Chen, Songye — Structural Dynamics by Ultrafast Electron Crystallography
• Choi, Jang Wook — Bistable [2]Rotaxane Based Molecular Electronics: Fundamentals and Applications
• Choi, John Myun — Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Semiconductor Transverse Bragg Resonance Lasers
• Chung, Timothy Hahn Deut — Intelligent Information-Gathering: Using Control for Sensing and Decision-Making
• Cowan, Lisa — Superprotonic Solid Acid Phase Transitions and Stability
• Daly, Samantha Hayes — Deformation and Fracture of Thin Sheets of Nitinol
• Dayal, Kaushik — Nonlocal Microstructural Mechanics of Active Materials
• Detmer, Scott A. — The Role of Mitofusin Proteins in Mitochondrial Fusion and Disease
• Dodd, Joanna Lynn — Phase Composition and Dynamical Studies of Lithium Iron Phosphate
• Dondl, Patrick Werner — Structure and Evolution of Martensitic Phase Boundaries
• Eckart, Megan Elizabeth — Measurements of X-Ray Selected AGN and Novel Superconducting X-Ray Detectors
• Eguia Egusquiza, Jon Xabier — A Theory of Elections and Voting Blocs
• El-Khamy, Mostafa Said — New Approaches to the Analysis and Design of Reed-Solomon Related Codes
• El-Naggar, Mohamed Y. — Textured Ferroelectric Thin Films: Synthesis, Characterization, and Influence of Compositional Grading on the Dielectric Behavior
• Erwin, Rebecca Joan — Neutrino Mass Constraints on Electroweak Parameters
• Fang, Hua — Topics in Gravitational Physics: Tidal Coupling in Gravitational Wave Searches and Mach’s Principle
• Farajidana, Amir — Performance Limits and Design Issues in Wireless Networks
• Feiler, Lauren Elizabeth — Behavioral Biases in Information Acquisition
• Feng, Philip Xiao-Li — Ultra-High Frequency Nanoelectromechanical Systems with Low-Noise Technologies for Single-Molecule Mass Sensing
• Fernandes, Jolene Sabrina — Dissection of Gene Regulatory Networks Underlying Patterning and Morphogenesis in the C. elegans Vulva
• Fernández-Ballester, Lucia — Formation of Oriented Precursors in Flow-Induced Polymer Crystallization: Experimental Methods and Model Materials
• Fingler, Jeffrey Paul — Motion Contrast Using Optical Coherence Tomography
• Funk, Timothy William — Chemo- and Stereoselective Olefin Metathesis in Small Molecule Synthesis
• Galownia, Niki Chiyomi — Signaling in Context: Parsing the Adhesion-Dependence of Growth Factor Signaling
• Gavini, Vikram — Electronic Structure Calculations at Macroscopic Scales
• Ghaboosi, Nazli — Genetic Inhibition of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway: Insights Into Proteasomal Targeting
• Gold, Carl — Biophysics of Extracellular Action Potentials
• Goodwin, Nicole Cathleen — Application of Iminium Activation Technologies To Natural Product Synthesis: Total Synthesis of the Spiculisporic Acids, Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Cylindrocyclophane F, and Formal Synthesis of Cylindrocyclophane A
• Gowaikar, Radhika — Wireless Networks: New Models and Results
• Graff, Emilio Castaño — On the Development of Defocusing Digital Particle Image Velocimetry with Full Characterization
• Graham, Nicholas Alexander — Crosstalk Between Soluble Factors and Cell-Cell Interactions: Implications for Cell Cycle Control and Tumor Development
• Grayson, Paul Daniel — The DNA Ejection Process in Bacteriophage λ
• Green, Jonathan Earl — Ultra-Dense Nano- and Molecular-Electronic Circuits
• Gupta, Vijay — Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems
• Guzmán, Marcelo Ioel — Photochemistry of Pyruvic Acid in Water and Ice
• Hamann, Thomas William — Interfacial Electron-Transfer Reactions at Semiconductor Electrodes
• Hampton, Alan Nicolás — Model-Based Decision Making in the Human Brain
• Hao, Yong — Numerical Study of Single-Chamber Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
• Harmon, John Shelby, III — Experimental Studies of Elasticity, Plastic Flow, and Anelasticity in Metallic-Glass-Forming-Liquids
• Hejl, Andrew — Controlling Olefin Metathesis through Catalyst and Monomer Design
• Henderson, Gregory Philip — Ultrastructural Studies of Two Model Minimal Cells by Electron Cryotomography
• Henze, Daven Ker — Forward and Inverse Analysis of Chemical Transport Models
• Heo, Jiyoung — Computational Studies of Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptors
• Hill, Sarah Anne — The Pursuit of Equality through Education Finance Reform
• Hjörleifsdóttir, Vala — Earthquake Source Characterization Using 3D Numerical Modeling
• Hochstim, Christian John — Pax6 Controls Astrocyte Positional Identity in the Spinal Cord
• Holub, Alex David — Discriminative vs. Generative Object Recognition: Objects, Faces, and the Web
• Hong, Soon Hyeok — Improvement of Olefin Metathesis Efficiency through Understanding Catalyst Stability
• Hsu, Ming — Three Correlated Essays on the Neural Foundations of Economic Decision-Making
• Huang, Jean Jing — Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Quorum Signal Degradation by Soil and Clinical Pseudomonas sp.
• Jayaraman, Vivek — Neural Circuit Dynamics and Ensemble Coding in the Locust and Fruit Fly Olfactory System
• Jiang, Xun — I: Interannual Variability of Stratospheric Ozone and Temperature. II: Seasonal Cycle of N₂O
• Jiao, Yongqin — Physiological and Mechanistic Studies of Phototrophic Fe(II) Oxidation in Purple Non-sulfur Bacteria
• Jin, Zhipu — Coordinated Control for Networked Multi-Agent Systems
• Khair, Aditya Satish — Particle Motion in Colloidal Dispersions: Applications to Microrheology and Nonequilibrium Depletion Interactions
• Kheradvar, Arash — The Role of Vortex Ring Formation and Pressure Drop on Dynamics of the Left Ventricle during Diastole
• Khidekel, Nelly — A Chemoenzymatic Strategy toward Understanding O-GlcNAc Glycosylation in the Brain
• Kidd, Theresa Hiromi — Mechanical Characterization of Damage and Failure in Polymeric Foams and Glass/Epoxy Composites
• Kile, Jennifer E. — Constraints on Physics Beyond the Standard Model and its Observable Effects
• Kim, Jongmin — In Vitro Synthetic Transcriptional Networks
• Klamo, Joseph Thomas — Effects of Damping and Reynolds Number on Vortex-Induced Vibrations
• Kolasinski, Robert David — Fundamental Ion-Surface Interactions in Plasma Thrusters
• Komijani, Abbas — Microwave Integrated Phased-Array Transmitters in Silicon
• Kopp, Robert Evans, III — The Identification and Interpretation of Microbial Biogeomagnetism
• Kozinsky, Inna — Nonlinear Nanoelectromechanical Systems
• Kulkarni, Yashashree — Coarse-Graining of Atomistic Description at Finite Temperature
• Kwon, Inchan — Protein Engineering via Site-Specific Incorporation of Nonnatural Amino Acids
• Lai, Wei — Impedance Spectroscopy as a Tool for the Electrochemical Study of Mixed Conducting Ceria
• Lamarre-Vincent, Nathan — Identification and Functional Analysis of O-G1cNAc Glycosylation on the Transcription Factor cAMP-Response Element Binding Protein
• Lassila, Jonathan Kyle — Methods for Computational Enzyme Design and Application to the Chorismate-Prephenate Rearrangement
• Latini, Marco — Simulations and Analysis of Two- and Three-Dimensional Single-Mode Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability using Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory and Vortex Methods
• Lee, Lori Wai Hang — Chemical Scale Investigations of the Gating Mechanism of Ion Channels
• Lee, Pei Yun — Function and Regulation of the Strongylocentrotus purpuratus gatae Gene
• Li, Liming — Dynamics of the Jovian Atmosphere from Observation and Theory
• Li, Lun — Topologies of Complex Networks: Functions and Structures
• Li, Mo — Very High Frequency Nanoelectromechanical Resonators and their Chemical Sensing Applications
• Liu, Jian — Microfluidic Devices for Genetic Analysis and Gene Expression Studies
• Liu, Tao — Electrochemical Studies of Electron Transfer in DNA Films with Covalently Tethered Intercalators
• Liu, Xin — Robustness, Complexity, Validation and Risk
• Lohwongwatana, Boonrat — Development, Characterization, and Applications of Gold and Platinum Bulk Metallic Glasses
• Loumes, Laurence — Multilayer Impedance Pump: A Bio-Inspired Valveless Pump with Medical Applications
• Lovelace, Geoffrey Mark — Topics in Gravitational-Wave Physics
• Lu, Carole Chih-Chen — Cranial Neural Crest Cell Migration in the Avian Embryo and the Roles of Eph-A4 and Ephrin-A5
• Malasarn, Davin — Molecular and Environmental Studies of Bacterial Arsenate Respiration
• Maltezos, George Manuel — Microfluidic Devices for Accessible Medical Diagnostics
• Martinez Estrada, Alfredo — A Treatise on Econometric Forecasting
• Masmanidis, Sotirios Konstantinos — Piezoelectric and Magnetoelastic Strain in the Transduction and Frequency Control of Nanomechanical Resonators
• Mehyar, Mortada — Distributed Averaging and Efficient File Sharing on Peer-to-Peer Networks
• Meloso, Debrah C. Z. — Prices, Holdings, and Learning in Financial Markets: Experiments and Methodology
• Miao, Shu — Electronic Structure and Bonding in Energy Storage Materials
• Miller, Sarah Ann — Alkaline Earth Element Partitioning in Simplified Magmatic Systems
• Millward, Steven Wesley — The Design, Synthesis, and Evolution of Macrocyclic mRNA Display Libraries Containing Unnatural Amino Acids
• Miserendino, Scott Brian — A Modular Microfluidic Approach to Nano High-Performance Liquid Chromatography with Electrochemical Detection
• Mitrani-Reiser, Judith — An Ounce of Prevention: Probabilistic Loss Estimation for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering
• Mollner, Andrew Keeler — Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy Studies of Atmospheric Reactions: Peroxynitrous Acid Formation and Alkoxy Radical Isomerization
• Montgomery, Jennifer Pielstick — The Effects of Behavioral Stress and Endothelin Receptor Antagonists on Cancer
• Moradi, Farshad — Conscious Awareness Determined by Selective Gating of Information in Early Visual Areas
• Morris, Bradford S. — Charge-Exchange Collision Dynamics and Ion Engine Grid Geometry Optimization
• Mosser, Eric Ardon — Visualization of Cadherin-Cadherin Association in Living Cells
• Motahari, Seyed-Maziar — Study of Constitutive Behavior of Ferroelectrics via Self-Consistent Modeling and Neutron Diffraction
• Mouton, Christopher Andre — Transition Between Regular Reflection and Mach Reflection in the Dual-Solution Domain
• Murphy, Gavin Erick — Cryoelectron Tomography of Bacteria and their Macromolecular Machines
• Muto, Matthew Mokihana — Application of Stochastic Simulation Methods to System Identification
• Mysore, Shreesh Pranesh — Structural Plasticity in Neuronal Networks
• Nadin, Elisabeth Sophia — Structure and History of the Kern Canyon Fault System, Southern Sierra Nevada, California
• Nasiraei Moghaddam, Abbas — Measurement and Analysis of Structure and Function of Myocardium in Embryonic and Adult Heart
• Natarajan, Arun Sridhar — Millimeter-Wave Phased Arrays in Silicon
• Ng, Nga Lee — Chamber Studies of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
• Nguyen, Yen Hoang Le — Wiring Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase
• Nieman, Dylan Rhichard — Postdiction and the Effects of Spatial, Temporal, and Feature Compatibility on Sensory Integration
• Niemer, Rachel K. — Computational Studies of the Structure and Function of Two Lipid-Activated G Protein-Coupled Receptors
• O'Connell, Dónal — Unusual Signs in Quantum Field Theory
• O'Leary, Julie Ann — Hydrogen Isotope Geochemistry of the Mantle: Constraints from Back Arc Basin Basalts and Mantle Xenoliths
• Ogliore, Ryan Christopher — The Sulfur, Argon, and Calcium Isotopic Composition of the Galactic Cosmic Ray Source
• Owen, Robert Philip — Topics in Numerical Relativity: The Periodic Standing-Wave Approximation, the Stability of Constraints in Free Evolution, and the Spin of Dynamical Black Holes
• Pelayo, Roberto Carlos — Diameter Bounds on the Complex of Minimal Genus Seifert Surfaces for Hyperbolic Knot
• Polsenberg Thomas, AnnMarie — Exploration into the Feasibility of Underwater Synthetic Jet Propulsion
• Poon, Joyce Kai See — Active and Passive Coupled-Resonator Optical Waveguides
• Pracko, Steven Edmund — Laser Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Spheromak Plasmas
• Preuschoff, Kerstin — Neural Representations of Expected Reward and Risk During Gambling
• Pritchard, Jonathan Robin — Extracting the Cosmic History from Diffuse Backgrounds
• Rao, Chaitanya Kumar — Asymptotic Analysis of Wireless Systems with Rayleigh Fading
• Reiser, Michael Bernard — Visually Mediated Control of Flight in Drosophila: Not Lost in Translation
• Revilla-i-Domingo, Roger — CIS-Regulatory Analysis of the Sea Urchin Delta Gene: Validating the Architecture of the Gene Regulatory Network Model for Early Micromere Lineage Specification
• Richardson, Christine Esber — Low-Temperature Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition of Epitaxial Films for Large-Grained Polycrystalline Photovoltaic Devices
• Rubel, Michael Thomas — A Theory of Stationarity and Asymptotic Approach in Dissipative Systems
• Ruglovsky, Jennifer Lynn — Correlating Microscopic Ferroelectric Properties and Macroscopic Thin Film Device Performance
• Salazar-Lazaro, Carlos Harold — Association Schemes, Codes, and Difference Sets
• Salem, Michael Phillip — Topics in Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology
• Sansom, Elijah Bodhi — Experimental Investigation on Patterning of Anchored and Unanchored Aligned Carbon Nanotube Mats by Fluid Immersion and Evaporation
• Scheel, Janet D. — Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
• Schulman, Rebecca Beth — The Self-Replication and Evolution of DNA Crystals
• Scruggs, Neal Robert — Coupling Polymer Thermodynamics and Viscoelasticity to Liquid Crystalline Order: Self-Assembly and Relaxation Dynamics of Block Copolymers in a Nematic Solvent
• Sinclair, Deborah Elizabeth (Betsy) — Political Networks
• Smith Downey, Nicole V. — Soil Uptake of Molecular Hydrogen and Remote Sensing of Soil Freeze and Thaw
• Soderberg, Alicia Margarita — The Many Facets of Cosmic Explosions
• Son, Soojin — Biosynthetic Approaches to Protein Engineering Using Fluorinated Amino Acids
• Sone, Kazuo — Modeling and Simulation of Axisymmetric Stagnation Flames
• Stockton, John Kenton — Continuous Quantum Measurement of Cold Alkali-Atom Spins
• Su, Julius Tsu-li — An Electron Force Field for Simulating Large Scale Excited Electron Dynamics
• Teal, Tracy Kristin — Studies of the Spatial Organization of Metabolism in Shewanella oneidensis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms
• Tiwari, Abhishek — Geometrical Analysis of Spatio-temporal Planning Problems
• Toner, Benjamin Francis — Quantifying Quantum Nonlocality
• Tooker, Angela Colleen — Development of Biocompatible Parylene Neurocages for Action Potential Stimulation and Recording
• Tully, Sarah Erin — Synthesis and Biological Activity of Chondroitin Sulfate Biopolymers
• Ueda, Christine Terumi — Targeting Human Telomerase RNA via Biochemical and in vitro Selection Methods
• van Handel, Ramon — Filtering, Stability, and Robustness
• Veazey, Christopher Thomas — Amorphous Metallic Foam: Synthesis and Mechanical Properties
• Verduzco, Rafael — Self-Assembled Liquid Crystal Polymer Gels
• Walters, Robert Joseph — Silicon Nanocrystals for Silicon Photonics
• Wang, Bingwen — Information-Theoretic Methods for Modularity in Engineering Design
• Wang, Peng — Neutrina Mass Implications for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
• Wang, Ya-Juan (Megan) — Studies on Environmental Relevance of Quorum Sensing Signal Decay
• Wei, Xiaoliang (David) — Microscopic Behavior of Internet Congestion Control
• Yamada, Masumi — Early Warning for Earthquakes with Large Rupture Dimension
• Yan, Zhimei — Regional Mapping of the Crustal Structure in Southern California
• Yang, Min — Submillimeter Surveys of Galaxy Samples
• Yoon, Byung-Jun — Signal Processing Methods for Genomic Sequence Analysis
• Yu, Xin — Reflection and Its Application to Mechanized MetaReasoning About Programming Languages
• Zeidan, Ryan K. — Design of New Multifunctional Materials
• Zhang, Kechun — Engineering Protein-Based Materials Through Coiled-Coil Motifs
• Zhang, Lei — Metric Based Upscaling for Partial Differential Equations with a Continuum of Scales
• Zhang, Zhaoyu — Towards Functional Miniaturized Lasers
• Zheng, Siyang — On-Chip Blood Count