Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2010

• Ackerman Mayer, Lotty — A Quest for the Physics Beyond the Cosmological Standard Model
• Agnew, Heather Dawn — Rapid Construction of Protein Capture Agents with Chemically Designed Stability and Antibody-Like Recognition Properties
• Allan, Kevin McCormack — Development of Versatile Strategies for Aryne Annulation: Applications in Methodology and Natural Product Total Synthesis
• Amidon, William Henry — Cosmogenic ³He and ²¹Ne Dating in Accessory Mineral Phases
• Anderson, Amos Gerald — Quantum Monte Carlo: Faster, More Reliable, and More Accurate
• Ando, Keita — Effects of Polydispersity in Bubbly Flows
• Balta, Joseph Brian — 1. Experimental Investigation of Hydrous Melting of the Earth’s Upper Mantle, and 2. Olivine Abundances and Compositions in Hawaiian Lavas
• Bane, Sally Page Moffett — Spark Ignition: Experimental and Numerical Investigation With Application to Aviation Safety
• Beale, Holly C. — Synaptic Signal Transduction and Transcriptional Control
• Betancur, Paola A. — Cis-Regulatory Analysis of the Key Developmental Gene, SOX1O, in Neural Crest and Ear
• Bogosavljević, Milan — Lyman Continuum and Lyman α Emission from Galaxies at High Redshift
• Bower, Kiowa San — Chemical-Scale Studies of the 5-HT₃ and D2 Dopamine Receptors
• Braakman, Rogier — Gas-Phase Terahertz Spectroscopy and the Study of Complex Interstellar Chemistry
• Bray, Jenelle Kiara — The Development and Application of Computational Methods for the Prediction of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Structures
• Brunelli, Nicholas Anthony — Sizing Aerosol Particles Between One and Three Nanometers
• Brunner, Christoph — Information Aggregation and Allocative Efficiency in Complex Environments
• Busch, Michael William — Shapes and Spins of Near-Earth Asteroids
• Buzi, Gentian — Control Theoretic Analysis of Autocatalytic Networks in Biology with Applications to Glycolysis
• Cable, Morgan Leigh — Life in Extreme Environments: Lanthanide-Based Detection of Bacterial Spores and Other Sensor Design Pursuits
• Campbell, Tammy Y. — Sonochemical Decomposition of Perfluorinated Surfactants: Chain Length Effects
• Carbone, Martina Nini — Characterization of the Functional Diversity and Evolvability of Chimeric Enzymes Assembled by Structure-Guided SCHEMA Recombination
• Carpenter, John Reeves, III — I. Synthesis and Testing of a Supported Shilov Oxidation Catalyst and II. Influence of Structural Features on Zeolite Characterization by Constraint Index Testing
• Carrera, Diane Elizabeth — The Development of Brønsted Acid Catalysis Technologies and Mechanistic Investigations Therein
• Carvalho, Gil Bastos de — Drosophila Feeding Behavior and Demographic Mechanisms of Lifespan Extension
• Chan, Arthur Wing Hong — Chamber Studies and Modeling of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
• Chen, George Shuxiong — Mechanisms of C-H Bond Activation by Platinum(II)
• Cheng, Jie — Chemical Fractionation at Environmental Interfaces
• Cheong, Wan Keng — Gromov-Witten Invariants: Crepant Resolutions and Simple Flops
• Choi, Harry Ming Tak — Programmable In Situ Amplification for Multiplexed Bioimaging
• Choi, Jina — Development of Visible-Light-Active Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Production and Environmental Application
• Chu, Chia-Chieh — Multiscale Methods for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Related Applications
• Cui, Tao — Coding for Wireless Broadcast and Network Secrecy
• Cui, Xiquan — Optofluidic Microscopy and Wavefront Microscopy: Innovations in Biological Imaging
• Dalal, Chiraj Kiran — Causes and Consequences of Gene Expression Noise
• DiCaprio, Christopher John — Measuring and Modeling Viscoelastic Relaxation of the Lithosphere with Application to the Northern Volcanic Zone, Iceland
• Diest, Kenneth Alexander — Active Metal-Insulator-Metal Plasmonic Devices
• Dimofte, Tudor Dan — Refined BPS Invariants, Chern-Simons Theory, and the Quantum Dilogarithm
• Du Toit, Noel Eduard — Robot Motion Planning in Dynamic, Cluttered, and Uncertain Environments: the Partially Closed-Loop Receding Horizon Control Approach
• Du Toit, Philip Christopher — Transport and Separatrices in Time-Dependent Flows
• Eichenfield, Matthew S. — Cavity Optomechanics in Photonic and Phononic Crystals: Engineering the Interaction of Light and Sound at the Nanoscale
• Farkas, Michelle Elizabeth — Structural Variations on the Turn Unit of DNA-Binding Hairpin Py-Im Polyamides
• Fisher, Daniel Ross — Development and Applications of Quantum Monte Carlo
• Folinsky, Anna Barr — Investigating Molecular Size Variations in Thin Film Chemical Vapor Sensors
• Fong, Eileen — Wound Healing on Artificial Extracellular Matrix Proteins
• Gadre, Vaibhav S. — Dynamics of Non-Classical Interval Exchanges
• Gagnon, Alexander C. — Geochemical Mechanisms of Biomineralization from Analysis of Deep-Sea and Laboratory Cultured Corals
• Gayme, Dennice F. Maynard — A Robust Control Approach to Understanding Nonlinear Mechanisms in Shear Flow Turbulence
• Genereux, Joseph Charles — Exploring DNA-Mediated Charge Transport with Fast Radical Traps
• Gleitsman, Kristin Rule — Chemical-Scale Studies of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: Insights from Amide-to-Ester Backbone Mutagenesis
• Gold, Daniel A. — Molecular Characterization of the Dbf4/Drf1-Dependent Kinase (DDK) and the DNA Replication Checkpoint Mediator Claspin in Xenopus Egg Extracts
• Golisz, Suzanne Rose — Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms: Olefin Polymerization Catalysis and C-H Bond Activation by Early Transition Metal Bisphenolate Complexes and Protonolysis of Bipyrimidine Platinum Methyl Complexes
• Gresham, Moira I. — Lorentz Symmetry Breaking in a Cosmological Context
• Grin, Daniel — The Lukewarm Frontier: Some Cosmological Consequences of 'Low Energy' Physics
• Gu, Ming — Interactions Between Hippocampal Areas CA3 and CA1 During Slow-Wave Sleep
• Guðmundsson, Kristján — Instability Wave Models of Turbulent Jets from Round and Serrated Nozzles
• Hanna, Jeffrey — Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Electrode Microstructures: Making Sense of the Internal Framework Affecting Gas Transport
• Heavens, Nicholas Gray — The Impact of Mesoscale Processes on the Atmospheric Circulation of Mars
• Henry, Michael David — ICP Etching of Silicon for Micro and Nanoscale Devices
• Hodas, Jennifer Jin Lee — Elucidating the Hippocampal Dopaminergic Subproteome with Novel Bioorthogonal Techniques
• Hofmann, Amy Elizabeth — Micron- to Sub-Micron-Scale Trace Element Zonations in Zircon and Olivine
• Hofmann, Carrie Elizabeth — Optics at the Nanoscale: Light Emission in Plasmonic Nanocavities
• Hughes, Cameron Richard — Investigations of Nanoscale Variations in Spin and Charge Transport in Manganites and Organic Semiconductors Using Spin Polarized Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
• Hunt, Heather Kristine — I. Development of Facile Route to Fluoride-Mediated, Pure-Silica Zeolite Thin Films. II. Removal of Structure-Directing Agents from Molecular Sieves via the Use of Photolabile Structure-Directing Agents
• Ito, Hiroshi — Neuromodulator-Mediated Control of Spatial and Nonspatial Information Processing in the Hippocampus
• Joe, Won Tae — Optimized Feedback Control of Vortex Shedding on an Inclined Flat Plate
• Jones, Glenn Evans — Instrumentation for Wide Bandwidth Radio Astronomy
• Kanda, Ravi V. S. — Mechanical Models for InterSeismic Deformation in Subduction Zones
• Kang, Min Jeong — Three Experimental Studies of Reward and Decision Making
• Karnesky, James Alan — Detonation Induced Strain in Tubes
• Katz, Gabriel — Essays in Electoral Behavior and Bayesian Data Analysis
• Kelzenberg, Michael David — Silicon Microwire Photovoltaics
• Khankhoje, Uday Kiran — Photon Confinement in Photonic Crystal Cavities
• Kharevych, Liliya — Geometric Interpretation of Physical Systems for Improved Elasticity Simulations
• Kim, Daegyoum — Characteristics of Three-dimensional Vortex Formation and Propulsive Performance in Flapping Locomotion
• Kim, Jin-Hong — State Diagram for Contact-Inhibition of Proliferation: A Quantitative Framework for Modulating Growth Patterns in Epithelial Cell Clusters
• Kim, Sukwon — Network Coding for Resource Optimization and Error Correction
• Ko, Chih-Kai — On Matrix Factorization and Scheduling for Finite-Time Average-Consensus
• Kozhan, Rostyslav — Asymptotics for Orthogonal Polynomials, Exponentially Small Perturbations and Meromorphic Continuations of Herglotz Functions
• Kraus, Adam L. — Multiple Star Formation
• Krimmel, Jeffrey James — Numerical Simulation of Wave Focusing and Scattering in Shock Wave Lithotripsy
• Krout, Michael Raymond — Progress Toward the Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Variecolin and Gas-Phase Studies of the Twisted Amide 2-Quinuclidone
• Kuhn, Kevin Michael — Understanding and Improving Efficiency in Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis
• Lamberson, Leslie Elise — Dynamic Optical Investigations of Hypervelocity Impact Damage
• Lee, Cheng-Chung — Chemical Synthesis in Elastomer-Based Integrated Microfluidics
• Lee, Paul Eulehwann — Activation of Transcription from a Distance: Investigations on the Oxidation of SoxR by DNA-Mediated Charge Transport
• Li, Xiaobai — An Experimental and Numerical Study of Normal Particle Collisions in a Viscous Liquid
• Linardi, Sera — Information and Motivation In Organizations
• Liu, Lijun — Linking Surface Evolution with Mantle Dynamic Processes Using Adjoint Models with Data Assimilation
• Liu, Mike Chia-Chung — Integrated Microfluidic Devices for Cell Culture and Assay
• Liu, Yu — Biochemical Reactions in Confined Space
• Luong, Tinh Nghi — Signaling Proteins in the Post-Synaptic Density
• Lyons, Christopher Michael — The Arithmetic and Geometry of a Class of Algebraic Surfaces of General Type and Geometric Genus One
• Ma, Jeremy Chee-Ming — Real-Time Applications of 3D Object Detection and Tracking
• Mack, Brendan Cahill — Biodegradable Filaments for Controlled Ophthalmic Drug Delivery
• Maltsev, Anna Victoria — Universality Limits of a Reproducing Kernel for a Half-Line Schrödinger Operator and Clock Behavior of Eigenvalues
• Mankad, Neal P. — Copper and Iron Complexes with Unusual Coordination Geometries Enforced by Phosphine Chelates
• Maretto, Guido Tulio Andrea — Contracts and Markets
• Marinova, Margarita M. — Inquiries into the Consequences of Planetary-Scale Impacts and the Implications of Carbonates in the Hyper-Arid Core of the Sahara
• Matson, John B. — Applications and Extensions of Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
• May, Andrew Friedrich — High-Temperature Transport in Lanthanum Telluride and Other Modern Thermoelectric Materials
• McConnell, Margaret Anne — Social Interactions and Giving
• McDowell, Emily Jayne — Low Optical Signal Detection in Biological Materials: SNR Considerations and Novel Techniques
• McMahon, Amy Jeanette — Fibroblast Growth Factors Influence Collective Cell Behavior During Mesoderm Migration
• McMenimen, Kathryn Anna — Chemical-Scale Studies of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
• Meltzner, Aron Jeffrey — Earthquake Recurrence, Clustering, and Persistent Segmentation near the Southern End of the 2004 Sunda Megathrust Rupture
• Metz, Joannah Marie — A Study of the Record of Ancient Sedimentary Rocks on Mars Using MER, HiRISE and CRISM Images
• Minson, Sarah Ellen — A Bayesian Approach to Earthquake Source Studies
• Mohr, Justin Thomas — Enantioselective Reactions of Palladium Enolates
• Mueller, Jonathan Edward — Structures, Energetics and Reactions of Hydrocarbons on Nickel
• Narayan, Anusha — Transfer at C. elegans Synapses
• Neidholdt, Evan Lyle — Novel Pyroelectric and Switched Ferroelectric Ion Sources in Mass Spectrometry: Implementation and Applications
• Neumann, Dirk — Connectivity of the Brain from Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Ng, Hui Khoon — Information Amidst Noise: Preserved Codes, Error Correction, and Fault Tolerance in a Quantum World
• Noell, Aaron Craig — Laboratory Studies of the Self and Cross Reactions of Atmospheric Peroxy Radicals
• Norman, Adam Keith — Effect of Surface Morphological Changes on Flow Over a Sphere
• Norton, Valerie Ann — Efficient Generation of Hyperpolarized Molecules Utilizing the Scalar Order of Parahydrogen
• Ochoa Ricoux, Juan Pedro — A Search for Muon Neutrino to Electron Neutrino Oscillations in the MINOS Experiment
• Pahlevan, Kaveh — Chemical and Isotopic Consequences of Lunar Formation via Giant Impact
• Papadopoulou, Maria — Gain Control and Sparse Representations in the Olfactory System of the Locust and Fly
• Park, Chang-Soon — Topics in Supersymmetry Breaking and Gauge/Gravity Dualities
• Pascal, Tod Augustin — New Approaches to Accurate Predictions of Free Energies: From Proteins to Organic Nanostructures
• Pekarek, David N. — Variational Methods for Control and Design of Bipedal Robot Models
• Peng, Jifeng — A Lagrangian Approach to Transport of Momentum and Biomass in Aquatic Biological Systems
• Pope, Melissa Davis — Dynamics of Multicellular Aggregation and Disaggregation: Implications for Tissue Engineering and Cancer Metastasis
• Pribisko Yen, Melanie Anne — Unfolded States of Heme Proteins
• Puckett, Cindy Ann — The Cellular Uptake of Luminescent Ruthenium Complexes
• Purewal, Justin — Hydrogen Adsorption by Alkali Metal Graphite Intercalation Compounds
• Putnam, Morgan Charles — Si Microwire-Array Solar Cells
• Quach, Quoc Chan (Brandon) — A Parylene Real Time PCR Microdevice
• Ramírez-Lugo, Juan S. — The Activation of ATR in Response to Double-Stranded DNA Breaks
• Rao, Dinesh Subba — Small RNAs Play Big Roles in Hematopoietic Development
• Robie, Alice Anne Pennoyer — Multimodal Sensory Control of Exploration by Walking Drosophila melanogaster
• Roizen, Jennifer Lyn — Progress Toward an Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Ineleganolide
• Romero, Julian Neukom — Essays on Cooperation and Coordination
• Rosenberg, Jessie C. — Applications of Micro/Nanoscale Optical Resonators: Plasmonic Photodetectors and Double-Disk Cavity Optomechanics
• Roumi, Farshid — Shape Changing Transformations: Interactions with Plasticity and Electrochemical Processes
• Roy, Anthony Mathew — Neuro-Evolution Using Recombinational Algorithms and Embryogenesis for Robotic Control
• Ruiz, Lydia Ann — The Role of Unsteady Hydrodynamics in the Propulsive Performance of a Self-Propelled Bioinspired Vehicle
• Sasaki, Kenji Alexander — Electrochemical Characterization of Solid Acid Fuel Cell Electrodes
• Schramm, Joseph Paul — Mechanical Performance of Amorphous Metallic Cellular Structures
• Schroeder, Brian Leroy — On Elliptic Semiplanes, an Algebraic Problem in Matrix Theory, and Weight Enumeration of Certain Binary Cyclic Codes
• Shearn, Michael Joseph, II — Silicon Integrated Optics: Fabrication and Characterization
• Shen, Kai — Neural Encoding of Mixtures and Stimulus Generation in the Insect Brain
• Simon, Jasper Chen — Behavioral Analysis of Exploration and Dispersal in Drosophila
• Smirnova, Diana Sergeievna — Application of Two-Dimensional Correlation Analysis to Explosives Detection and Polymer Crystallization
• Spurgeon, Joshua Michael — Wire Array Solar Cells: Fabrication and Photoelectrochemical Studies
• Sullivan, Regina Mariko — The Physics of High-Velocity Ions in the Hall Thruster Near-Field
• Sun, Xiankai — Supermode Si/III-V Lasers and Circular Bragg Lasers
• Surratt, Jason Douglas — Analysis of the Chemical Composition of Atmospheric Organic Aerosols by Mass Spectrometry
• Swan, James W. — Colloids in Confined Geometries: Hydrodynamics, Simulation and Rheology
• Swaroop, Manuj — The Bulk Viscosity of Suspensions
• Tai, Hwan-Ching — Characterization of the Brain Proteasome and its Interacting Proteins and their Regulation by Neuronal Activity
• Tam, Heywood — An Investigation of Spontaneous Lorentz Violation and Cosmic Inflation
• Torres Ruiz, Rafael — Geography and Botany of Irreducible Symplectic 4-Manifolds with Abelian Fundamental Group
• Vriend, Nathalie Maria — Booming Sand Dunes
• Vyas, Ketan D. — Topics in Topological and Holomorphic Quantum Field Theory
• Walker, Christopher — Fabrication of Microfluidic Structures by Automated Laser Ablation and Automation of Optical Testing
• Wang, Ying — Equilibrium ²H/¹H Fractionations in Organic Molecules
• Ward, Robert Lawrence — Length Sensing and Control of a Prototype Advanced Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector
• Wawrousek, Karen Elizabeth — Contributions of Dna2 and the Tim/Tipin Complex to Genomic Stability
• Wiest, Aaron — Thermoplastic Forming and Related Studies of the Supercooled Liquid Region of Metallic Glasses
• Witman, Jennifer Elisabeth — The T-Shaped Anisotropic Molecule Model: A Unique Perspective on the Glass Transition and Gelation in Low Valence, Directional, Network Forming Liquids
• Wongpiromsarn, Tichakorn — Formal Methods for Design and Verification of Embedded Control Systems: Application to an Autonomous Vehicle
• Wright, Ashley Palani — Genetic Analysis of Axon Guidance in Drosophila melanogaster
• Wu, David Dah-wei — Biomechanical Information Transfer: Maximum Caliber, λ Genome Ejection Dynamics, and the Formation of Otoliths in Zebrafish
• Wunderlich, Klaus — Multiple Forms of Valuation in the Human Brain
• Xia, Yan — Syntheses of Polymers with Diverse Architectures via Metathesis Polymerization and Investigation of Their Structure-Property Relationships
• Xu, Weiyu — Compressive Sensing for Sparse Approximations: Constructions, Algorithms, and Analysis
• Yang, Wanwan — Fast Viability Assessment of Clostridium Spores: Survival in Extreme Environments
• Yeung, Laurence Yip-Lun — Photochemical and Dynamics Studies of Oxygen Isotope Exchange Reactions of CO₂
• Yorozu, Suzuko — Distinct Sensory Representations of Wind and Near-Field Sound in the Drosophila Brain
• Young, Kakani Katija — Effect of In Situ Animal-Fluid Interactions on Transport and Mixing
• Zadeh, Joseph N. — Algorithms for Nucleic Acid Sequence Design
• Zarnegar, Mark Andrew — Investigating the Transcriptional Mechanisms Controlling Sfpi1, a Critical Regulatory Node Within Multiple Lineage Specifying Subcircuits of the Hematopoietic Gene Regulatory Network
• Zeglis, Brian Matthew — Investigations into the Generality of Metalloinsertion at DNA Defects
• Zhang, David Yu — Dynamic DNA Strand Displacement Circuits
• Zhang, Xin — Multistate GTPases Control Cotranslational Protein Targeting
• Zhang, Xinning — I. Formate Dehydrogenase Gene Diversity in Lignocellulose-Feeding Insect Gut Microbial Communities. II. Metabolic Impacts on the Hydrogen Isotope Content of Bacterial Lipids