Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2008

• Anderson, Donde R. — Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Complexes: Catalyst Development and Mechanistic Studies
• Angelova, Anelia Nedelcheva — Visual Prediction of Rover Slip: Learning Algorithms and Field Experiments
• Archer, Melissa Jane — Multijunction Solar Cells on Epitaxial Templates
• Ayalasomayajula, Meher Kiran Prakash — Theoretical Studies of Single Molecule Biophysical Systems and Photochemical Ensembles
• Babakhani, Aydin — Direct Antenna Modulation (DAM) for On-Chip mm-Wave Transceivers
• Bargatin, Igor — High-Frequency Nanomechanical Resonators for Sensor Applications
• Barkume, Kristina Marie — Surface Properties of Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs
• Beatty, Kimberly Elizabeth — Imaging the Proteome: Metabolic Tagging of Newly Synthesized Proteins with Reactive Methionine Analogues
• Beeson, Teresa Diane — Development of Enantioselective Organocatalytic Technologies for the Alpha-Functionalization of Aldehydes and Ketones
• Bermejo-Moreno, Ivan — On the Non-Local Geometry of Turbulence
• Bhatt, Meghana A. — Three Papers in Neuroeconomics
• Boal, Amie Kathleen — DNA-Mediated Charge Transport in DNA Repair
• Boukai, Akram Issam — Thermoelectric Properties of Bismuth and Silicon Nanowires
• Brown, Alexander L. — Investigating Psychology-Influenced Economic Models in Lab, Field, and Theory
• Brown, Joanna Margaret — Childhood to Adolescence: Dust and Gas Clearing in Protoplanetary Disks
• Bruguier, Antoine Jean — Encoding of Financial Signals in the Human Brain
• Butler, Mark Cheiron — Novel Methods for Force-Detected Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Canaria, Christie Anne — Self-Assembled Monolayers for the Study of Biological Targets
• Carson, John Maurice, III — Robust Model Predictive Control with a Reactive Safety Mode
• Caspi, Daniel David — The Adaptive Nature of Palladium Reactivity in Synthesis
• Cassenaer, Stijn — Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity and Synchronous Oscillations in an Invertebrate Olfactory System
• Cassuto, Yuval — Coding Techniques for Data-Storage Systems
• Chen, Chi Ming Hubert — Development of Hard X-ray Imaging Detectors for the High Energy Focusing Telescope
• Chen, Min — Numerical Simulations of Seismic Wave Propagation in Anisotropic and Heterogeneous Earth Models: The Japan Subduction Zone
• Chow, Gang — Laser Tweezers for Moving Live Dissociated Neurons
• Christopher, Micol Huw — Young, Massive Star Clusters in the Antennae
• Connor, Rebecca Elizabeth — N-Terminal Modification and Codon Reassignment with Non-Canonical Amino Acids in Proteins
• Cook, Paul Langabi Hogan — Aspects of Topological String Theory
• Corcovilos, Theodore Allen — Fluid Phase Thermodynamics: I) Nucleate Pool Boiling of Oxygen under Magnetically Enhanced Gravity and II) Superconducting Cavity Resonators for High-Stability Frequency References and Precision Density Measurements of Helium-4 Gas
• Cordova-Figueroa, Ubaldo M. — Directed Motion of Colloidal Particles via Chemical Reactions: Osmotic Propulsion
• Cox, Robert Sidney, III — Transcriptional Regulation and Combinatorial Genetic Logic in Synthetic Bacterial Circuits
• David, Ralph Leonard Ameri — Associative Polymers as Antimisting Agents and Other Functional Materials via Thiol-ene Coupling
• Donaldson, Roger David — Discrete Geometric Homogenisation and Inverse Homogenisation of an Elliptic Operator
• Duan, Gang — Simulations, Modeling, and Designs of Bulk Metallic Glasses
• Dunlop, Mary Julia — Dynamics and Correlated Noise in Gene Regulation
• El Sayed, Tamer — Constitutive models for polymers and soft biological tissues
• Emery, Teresa Holly — Fabrication of Nanowire-based Magnetic Structures for Magnetic Resonance Applications
• Enoch, Melissa Lanae — Molecular Clouds and Star Formation: A Multiwavelength Study of Perseus, Serpens, and Ophiuchus
• Epstein, Michael Steven — Managing Information in Networked and Multi-Agent Control Systems
• Erickson, Jonathan Christopher — The Neurochip: A Complete System for Long-Term Investigation of Cultured Neural Network Connectivity
• Fanti, Claudio — Towards Automatic Discovery of Human Movemes
• Feldman, Daniel Robert — Remote Sensing of Radiative Fluxes and Heating Rates from Satellite Instrument Measurements
• Flores Contreras, Melvin Estuardo — Real-Time Trajectory Generation for Constrained Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Using Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline Basis Functions
• Fontaine, Ebraheem Ihsan — Automated Visual Tracking for Behavioral Analysis of Biological Model Organisms
• Franck, Christian — Quantitative Characterization of 3D Deformations of Cell Interactions with Soft Biomaterials
• Gao, Jiansong — The Physics of Superconducting Microwave Resonators
• Gao, Xiaojie — On A Capacitated Multivehicle Routing Problem
• Giurumescu, Claudiu Adrian — Quantitative Insights into Developmental Signals and Phenotypes in C. elegans
• Goggin, Lisa Maria — A Search for Gravitational Waves from Perturbed Black Hole Ringdowns in LIGO Data
• Green, Jennifer Leigh — The C. elegans ROR Receptor Tyrosine Kinase, CAM-1, Regulates Wnt Signaling by Two Distinct Mechanisms
• Grosberg, Anna — A Bioinspired Computational Model of Cardiac Mechanics: Pathology and Development
• Grubits, Katalin Anna — Low-Dimensional Representations of Transitions in Molecular Systems
• Grudinin, Ivan Sergeevich — Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators for Quantum and Nonlinear Optics
• Guidry, Erin Nicole — Interlocked Molecules Using Olefin Metathesis
• Gurel, Aliekber — An Exact Average Formula for the Symmetric Square L-Function at the Center
• Hainline, Laura Jeannine — Multi-Wavelength Properties of Submillimeter-Selected Galaxies
• Han, Lin — In vitro DNA Mechanics in Gene Regulation: One Molecule at a Time
• Hebert, Laura Baker — (I) A Coupled Geochemical and Geodynamical Approach to Subduction Zone Modeling and (II) Development of Color in Greenish Quartz
• Helgason, Hannes — Nonparametric Detection and Estimation of Highly Oscillatory Signals
• Heng, Xin — Optofluidic Microscopy: Technology Development and Its Applications in Biology
• Heo, Jinseong — Probing Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
• Hoch, David — Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions Obtained from Equivalent Sources for Time-Dependent Scattering Problems
• Hudson, Troy Lee — Growth, Diffusion, and Loss of Subsurface Ice on Mars: Experiments and Models
• Imoukhuede, Princess Ikhianosen Uerenikhosen — Visualizing the Membrane Confinement, Trafficking and Structure of the GABA Transporter, GAT1
• Iyer, Asha Muthuraman — Planning Goal-Directed Actions: fMRI Correlates in Humans and Monkeys
• Jackson, Winston Paul — Characterization of Soft Polymers and Gels Using the Pressure-Bulge Technique
• Jang, Wonjin — Soft-Error Tolerant Quasi Delay-insensitive Circuits
• Jiang, Hao — Adaptive Feature Selection in Pattern Recognition and Ultra-Wideband Radar Signal Analysis
• Johnsen, Eric — Numerical Simulations of Non-Spherical Bubble Collapse with Applications to Shockwave Lithotripsy
• Jordan, Jason Paul — The Development of Water-Soluble Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Containing an N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand
• Kadaba, Neena Sujata — Structural Studies of the E. coli Methionine ABC Transporter and Its Cognate Binding Protein
• Kam, Victor Wai Tak — Methods in Computational Protein Design
• Kao, Shannon Theresa — Detonation Stability with Reversible Kinetics
• Karabalin, Rassul — Nonlinear, Coupled, and Parametric Nanoelectromechanical Systems
• Katz, Jordan E. — Metal Oxide-Based Photoelectrochemical Cells for Solar Energy Conversion
• Keith, Jason M. — Palladium Mediated Activation of Molecular Oxygen
• Keith, John Andrew — Computational Insight into Homogeneous Organopalladium Catalysis
• Kim, Hugh Inkon — Fundamental and Applied Studies of the Structures and Reaction Dynamics of Biomolecules Using Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility Spectrometry
• Konca, Ali Ozgun — Investigating Large Earthquake Rupture Kinematics from the Joint Analysis of Seismological, Geodetic and Remote Sensing Data
• Kumar, Shwetank — Submillimeter Wave Camera Using A Novel Photon Detector Technology
• Lai, Bert Tsunyin — Characterizing α-Synuclein Membrane Bound Structure
• Lee, Sandra — Development of Iminium-Activation Technologies and the Total Synthesis of (+)-Frondosin B
• Lee, Wonhee — Microfluidic Chip Calorimeters for Biological Applications
• Leprince, Sebastien — Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery
• Levaillant, Claire Isabelle — Irreducibility of the Lawrence-Krammer Representation of the BMW Algebra of Type An-1
• Li, Zhenyu — Optofluidic Dye Lasers
• Liang, Wei — Study of Optical Phase Lock Loops and the Applications in Coherent Beam Combining and Coherence Cloning
• Liang, Yongqiang — Robotic Training for Motor Rehabilitation after Complete Spinal Cord Injury
• Lin, Hsuan-Tien — From Ordinal Ranking to Binary Classification
• Lind, Mary Laura — Ultrasonic Investigation of the Elastic Properties and Liquid Fragility of Bulk Metallic Glasses in the Supercooled Liquid Region
• Lombardini, Manuel — Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Converging Geometries
• Lu, Jian — Quantitative Three-dimensional Imaging of Droplet Convection and Cardiac Cell Motions Based on Micro DDPIV
• Ma, Ziyang — Precision Optical Measurements of DNA Structure and Synthesis
• Mackel, Michael John — Hydrophilic Polymers in Gels and Solutions: Surface Properties and Structure
• Maerkl, Sebastian Josef — Microfluidic Large Scale Integration and its Application to Systems Biology
• Mandel, Ilya — The Three Ss of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Sources, Signals, Searches
• Margelefsky, Eric Louis — Cooperative Catalysis by Bifunctionalized Mesoporous Silica
• Matheou, Georgios — Large-Eddy Simulations of Molecular Mixing in a Recirculating Shear Flow
• Mathevet, Laurent Alexandre — Selection, Learning, and Nomination: Essays on Supermodular Games, Design, and Political Theory
• Mattes, Kyle Alan — When Candidates Attack: Who Goes Negative, and Why it Works
• Mattson, Matthew Sanford — Understanding and Treating Eye Diseases: Mechanical Characterization and Photochemical Modification of the Cornea and Sclera
• McFadden, Ryan Michael — Applications of Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Decarboxylative Alkylation in Natural Products Total Synthesis
• McHale, Kevin L. — Feedback Tracking and Correlation Spectroscopy of Fluorescent Nanoparticles and Biomolecules
• Mendez, Jeffrey Michael — Iron and Manganese in the Ocean: Investigation of Atmospheric Input by Dust and Coastal Ocean Time Series
• Mohanty, Sarina — Akt Phosphorylation of Drosophila Heat-Shock Factor: A Signature for Stress Resistance
• Monro, John Anderson — A Super-Algebraically Convergent, Windowing-Based Approach to the Evaluation of Scattering from Periodic Rough Surfaces
• Moran, Sean Michael — Understanding the Physical Processes Driving Galaxy Evolution in Clusters: A Case Study of Two z ~ 0.5 Galaxy Clusters
• Moreels, Pierre — Probabilistic, Features-Based Object Recognition
• Mortazavi, Ali — Structure and Evolution of Mammalian Gene Networks
• Mulliken, Grant Haverstock — Continuous Sensorimotor Control Mechanisms in Posterior Parietal Cortex: Forward Model Encoding and Trajectory Decoding
• Naeimi, Helia — Reliable Integration of Terascale Systems with Nanoscale Devices
• Nash, Cody Zane — Mechanisms and Evolution of Magnetotactic Bacteria
• Natraj, Vijay — Radiative Transfer Modeling for the Retrieval of CO₂ from Space
• Naylor, Bret Justin — Broadband Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy with Z-Spec: An Unbiased Molecular-Line Survey of the Starburst Galaxy M82
• Nicaise, Fabien — Automated Design Synthesis of Structures using Growth Enhanced Evolution
• Nickols, Nicholas George — Endogenous Gene Regulation by DNA Binding Polyamides
• Northup, Tracy Eleanor — Coherent Control in Cavity QED
• O'Donovan, Francis Thomas — The Detection and Exploration of Planets from the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey
• Oh, Chang Kook — Bayesian Learning for Earthquake Engineering Applications and Structural Health Monitoring
• Olsen, Anna H. — Steel Moment-Resisting Frame Responses in Simulated Strong Ground Motions: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Big One
• Olson, Clifford Anders — mRNA Display Selection Using a Combinatorial 10FnIII Protein Library for Detection and Modulation of Cellular Processes
• Otey, Christopher Richard — Structural and Functional Exploration of an Artificial Family of Cytochromes P450
• Pang, Changlin — Parylene Technology for Neural Probes Applications
• Peterson, Eric Lee — A Random Walk in Physical Biology
• Poon, Yan Shuen — The Characterization and Structure of Mechanosensitive Channels of Small Conductance
• Prakash, Piyush — Throughput Optimization of Quasi Delay Insensitive Circuits via Slack Matching
• Pratap, Amrit — Adaptive Learning Algorithms and Data Cloning
• Reichardt, Christian L. — A High Resolution Measurement of Temperature Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation with the Complete ACBAR Data Set
• Rinderknecht, Derek Gresham — Development of a Microimpedance Pump for Pulsatile Flow Transport - Part 1: Flow Characteristics of the Microimpedance Pump. Part 2: A Systematic Study of Steady and Pulsatile Transport in Microscale Cavities
• Robichaud, David Joseph — High-Resolution Study of the O₂ A-Band using Frequency Stabilized Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy
• Rodger, Damien Craig — Development of Flexible Parylene-based Microtechnologies for Retinal and Spinal Cord Stimulation and Recording
• Ruiz-Angulo, Angel — Surface Deformation in a Liquid Environment Resulting from Single Particle Collisions
• Rutishauser, Ueli — Learning and Representation of Declarative Memories by Single Neurons in the Human Brain
• Salazar, Anna Maria — A Pumilio Domain That Forms Heritable Amyloid Aggregates in Yeast Can Regulate Pumillio-Mediated Translational Repression in Drosophila
• Saliba, Katie Rose — Methodologies for the Rapid Synthesis of Hexoses and Their Application Towards a Differentially-Protected Chondroitin Sulfate Tetrasaccharide
• Savov, Pavlin — Topics in Gravitational-Wave Physics
• Sayers, Jack — A Search for Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies on Arcminute Scales
• Schaller, Emily Lauren — I. Seasonal Changes in Titan’s Cloud Activity. II. Volatile Ices on Outer Solar System Objects
• Seitaridou, Effrosyni — Non-Equilibrium Dynamics: Diffusion in Small Numbers and Ribosomal Self-Assembly
• Shao, Fangwei — DNA-Mediated Hole and Electron Transport
• Shih, Crystal — Electron Tunneling and Hopping Through Proteins
• Shih, Jason J. — Microfabricated High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) System with Closed-Loop Flow Control
• Slesnick, Catherine Louise — 1-10 Myr-Old Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Nearby Star Forming Regions
• Smith, Stephen Edward Paucha — Maternal Immune Activation and Abnormal Behavior in the Adult Offspring: Towards a Mechanism
• Smith, Tristan Laine — The Gravity of the Situation
• Soedarmadji, Edwin — Generalized Network Routing Metrics and Algorithms
• Soloveichik, David — Molecules Computing: Self-Assembled Nanostructures, Molecular Automata,and Chemical Reaction Networks
• Song, Teh-Ru Alex — Broad Band Modeling Earthquake Source and Upper Mantle Structure on Plate Boundary Zones
• Sorooshian, Armin — Aerosol Composition and Hygroscopicity Studies: Instrument Development/Characterization, Ambient and Laboratory Measurements, and Modeling
• Stafford, Ryan Leonard — Design of Protein-DNA Dimerizers
• Stojnic, Mihailo — Optimization Algorithms in Wireless and Quantum Communications
• Su, Borching — Blind Channel Estimation Using Redundant Precoding: New Algorithms, Analysis, and Theory
• Suyu, Sherry Hsuan — Dissecting the Gravitational Lens B1608+656: Implications for the Hubble Constant
• Sweatlock, Luke A. — Plasmonics: Numerical Methods and Device Applications
• Sweatlock, Sarah Lynne — Asymptotic Weight Analysis of Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) Code Ensembles
• Taflanidis, Alexandros Angelos — Stochastic System Design and Applications to Stochastically Robust Structural Control
• Taira, Kunihiko (Sam) — The Immersed Boundary Projection Method and Its Application to Simulation and Control of Flows Around Low-Aspect-Ratio Wings
• Tanabe, Katsuaki — Low-Cost High-Efficiency Solar Cells with Wafer Bonding and Plasmonic Technologies
• Tian, Lixiu — Effective Behavior of Dielectric Elastomer Composites
• Tong, Chinghang — Thermodynamic Modeling of Organic Aerosol
• Tracy, Lisa A — Studies of Two Dimensional Electron Systems via Surface Acoustic Waves and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Techniques
• Traub, Matthew C. — Chemical Functionalization and Electronic Passivation of Gallium Arsenide Surfaces
• Tsai, Sherry Mon-Yue — Alpha-Diaminobutyric Acid-Linked Hairpin Polyamide-Alklylator Conjugates
• Tsankov, Todor Dimitrov — Amenability, Countable Equivalence Relations, and Their Full Groups
• Tuttle, Jamison Bryce — Development of Enantioselective Organocatalytic Hydrogenation Methods and Progress toward the Total Synthesis of (+)-Minfiensine
• Venzke, Rupert William — Braid Forcing, Hyperbolic Geometry, and Pseudo-Anosov Sequences of Low Entropy
• Vizcarra, Christina Luisa — Development and Evaluation of Protein Design Methods for Functional Targets
• Wang, Ke — A Subdivision Approach to the Construction of Smooth Differential Forms
• Warren, Luigi Andrea — Single-Cell Gene-Expression Analysis by Quantitative RT-PCR
• Waydo, Stephen J. — Explicit Object Representation by Sparse Neural Codes
• Win, Maung Nyan — Engineering RNA Devices for Gene Regulation, Biosensing, and Higher-Order Cellular Information Processing
• Wolf, Julie Anne — A Plasticity Model to Predict the Effects of Confinement on Concrete
• Wolf, Michael Timothy — Target Tracking Using Clustered Measurements, with Applications to Autonomous Brain-Machine Interfaces
• Xiu, Xinan Joanne — Structure-Function Studies of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Using Unnatural Amino Acids
• Yang, Jie — Holomorphic Anomaly Equations in Topological String Theory
• Yang, Zhonghua — Constraining Global Carbon Budget Using Vertically-Integrated CO₂ Measurements
• Yoo, Tae Hyeon — Proteins of Novel Composition: Synthesis, Evolution, Dynamics
• Yoon, Ki Won — Design and Deployment of BICEP: A Novel Small-Aperture CMB Polarimeter to Test Inflationary Cosmology
• Yun, Gunsu Soonshin — Dynamics of Plasma Structures Interacting with External and Self-Generated Magnetic Fields
• Yung, Pun To (Douglas) — Detection of Aerobic Bacterial Endospores: From Air Sampling, Sterilization Validation to Astrobiology
• Zhang, Cheng-Zhong — Interplay Between Long-Range And Short-Range Interactions In Polymer Self-Assembly And Cell Adhesion
• Zhu, Lin — Photonic Crystal Bragg Lasers: Design, Fabrication, and Characterization
• Zid, Brian Matthew — Translational Control Mediates Lifespan Extension Due to Dietary Restriction in Drosophila
• Zwolak, Michael Philip — Dynamics and Simulation of Open Quantum Systems