Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2011

• Ahmad, Habibullah — Microfluidics Platforms for Quantitative, Multiplexed Protein Detection
• Ali-Haimoud, Yacine — A New Spin on Primordial Hydrogen Recombination and a Refined Model for Spinning Dust Radiation
• Aly, Mohamed Alaa El-Dien Mahmoud Hussein — Searching Large-Scale Image Collections
• Andreetto, Marco — Unsupervised Learning of Categorical Segments in Image Collections
• Babiskin, Andrew Harris — Development of RNA-Based Genetic Control Elements for Predictable Tuning of Protein Expression in Yeast
• Baldwin, Steven M. — Investigation of the Role of Hydrides in Zirconocene Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization
• Ballor, Nicholas R. — Hydrogenases and Hydrogen Sensors in the Symbiotic Microbial Communities of Wood-Feeding Termites
• Bandrés Motola, Miguel Angel — Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories and Their String Theory Duals
• Barnet, Matthew Edward — Dynamics of Sea Urchin Gastrulation Revealed by Tracking Cells of Diverse Lineage and Regulatory State
• Becker, Stephen R. — Practical Compressed Sensing: Modern Data Acquisition and Signal Processing
• Beni, Catherine Elizabeth — Simulation Capabilities for Challenging Medical Imaging and Treatment Planning Problems
• Bilgin, Ersen — Simulation of Strongly Correlated Quantum Many-Body Systems
• Bode, Jason Nathaniel — Black Hole Mergers and Their Electromagnetic Counterparts
• Boechler, Nicholas Sebastian — Granular Crystals: Controlling Mechanical Energy with Nonlinearity and Discreteness
• Briggs, Ryan Morrow — Hybrid Silicon Nanophotonic Devices: Enhancing Light Emission, Modulation, and Confinement
• Brown, Evan Cornell — Electrochemically Deposited Ceria Structures for Advanced Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
• Brown, Justin Lee — High Pressure Hugoniot Measurements in Solids Using Mach Reflections
• Buchfuhrer, David Isaac — Limits on Computationally Efficient VCG-Based Mechanisms for Combinatorial Auctions and Public Projects
• Bugg, Charles Walter — Domain Organization of Mutant Huntingtin Fibrils
• Cao, Peigen — Surface Chemistry at the Nanometer Scale
• Chen, Mike Ming Yu — Directed Evolution of Cytochrome P450 for Small Alkane Hydroxylation
• Chen, Yvonne Yu-Hsuan — Genetic Control of T-Cell Proliferation with Synthetic RNA Regulatory Systems
• Chhabra, Puneet Singh — Studies of Chamber Organic Aerosol using an Aerodyne High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer
• Choi, Chung Hang Jonathan — Pharmacological Behavior of Systemically Administered Nanoparticles of Defined Properties: Mechanistic Investigations at the Organ, Tissue, and Cellular Levels
• Choi, Jae-Woo — Surface Optofluidic Implementations towards the Development of a Biosensor
• Choi, Kyung Soo — Coherent Control of Entanglement with Atomic Ensembles
• Chow, Janet — A Pathobiont of the Mammalian Microbiota Balances Intestinal Inflammation and Colonization
• Chueh, William C. — Electrochemical and Thermochemical Behavior of CeO₂-δ
• Clark, Paul Gregory — Synthesis of Interlocked Molecules by Olefin Metathesis
• Clark, Peter Michael — New Tools for Studying O-G1cNAc Glycosylation and Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans and Studies on the Roles of O-G1cNAc Glycosylation on the Transcription Factor CREB
• Cohen, Michael Isaac — Topics in Gravitation – Numerical Simulations of Event Horizons and Parameter Estimation for LISA
• Crounse, John D. — Atmospheric Reactive Trace Gas Observations in Field and Chamber Studies Using CF₃O⁻ Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry
• Damle, Sagar S. — A Study of Information Processing in the Sea Urchin Embryo by Rewiring Mesodermal Gene Regulatory Networks and cis-Regulatory Analysis of Skeletogenic Regulators
• Dempsey, Jillian Lee — Hydrogen Evolution Catalyzed by Cobaloximes
• Doll, David Andrew — Measurement of the Rare Transition b→sγ Using the Complete BABAR Data Set
• Dulaney, Timothy Ryan — Beyond the Standard Cosmology: Anisotropic Inflation and Baryophilic Dark Matter
• Elbanna, Ahmed Ettaf — Pulselike Ruptures on Strong Velocity-Weakening Frictional Interfaces: Dynamics and Implications
• Enquist, John Andrew — Total Synthesis of Cyanthiwigin Natural Products via Double Asymmetric Catalytic Alkylation and Investigations into the Nature of Double Asymmetric Processes
• Ernst, Russell J. — The Biological Activity of Rhodium Metalloinsertors
• Farnsworth, Claire Elizabeth — Processes Controlling the Fate and Transport of Trace Metals in the Subsurface During Changing Redox Potential
• Ferry, Vivian Eleanor — Light Trapping in Plasmonic Solar Cells
• Fitch, Anthony G. — The Photoelectrochemistry of Solution Grown Zinc Oxide Nanowire Arrays
• Fortini, Barbara Karmen Kraatz — Biochemical and Genetic Studies of Genomic Stability
• Fuller, Sawyer Buckminster — Steady as She Goes: Visual Autocorrelators and Antenna-Mediated Airspeed Feedback in the Control of Flight Dynamics in Fruit Flies and Robotics
• Gahlmann, Andreas — Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Pulsed Laser Desorption Enables Time-Resolved Structural Determination of Thermally Labile Chromophores
• Garcia-Berrios, Edgardo — Investigation of Composites of Carbon Black and Metallocycles, and Functionalized Transition-Metal Nanoparticles as Chemiresistive Vapor Sensors
• Garcia, Hernan G. — Transcriptional Regulation by the Numbers
• Giacchino, Luca — MEMS Electrolytic Inchworms for Movable Neural Probe Applications
• Gomes, Ryan Geoffrey — Towards Open Ended Learning: Budgets, Model Selection, and Representation
• Gomez, Tara Adele — Mutational Analysis of Ubiquitin Shuttle Receptor Docking Sites on the 26S Proteasome
• Gonzalez, Marcial — Energy and Force Stepping Integrators in Lagrangian Mechanics
• Gray, Heather Mary — The Charged Particle Multiplicity at Center of Mass Energies from 900 GeV to 7 TeV Measured with the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
• Han, Si-ping — DNA Directed Self-Assembly of Carbon Nanotube Structures
• Hanay, Mehmet Selim — Towards Single-Molecule Nanomechanical Mass Spectrometry
• Hariadi, Rizal Fajar — Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of DNA Nanotubes
• Harrison, Benjamin Kimball — Microbial Colonization of Minerals in Marine Sediments – Method Development and Ecological Significance
• Hayes, Alexander Gerard — Hydrocarbon Lakes on Titan and Their Role in the Methane Cycle
• Hergarden, Anne Christina — The Role of Peptidergic Neurons in the Regulation of Satiety in Drosophila
• Hersey, Scott Patrick — Studies of Aerosol Composition and Hygroscopicity
• Himmel, Alexander I. — Antineutrino Oscillations in the Atmospheric Sector
• Hodas, Nathan Oken — Nonlinear Dynamics of Nanoscale Systems
• Hsieh, Chia-Lung — Imaging with Second-Harmonic Generation Nanoparticles
• Huang, Ray Kui-Jui — Flexible Neural Implants
• Hurtado Sepulveda, Daniel Esteban — Multiscale Modeling of Microcrystalline Materials
• Hutchens, Shelby Brooke — Deformation Behavior and Mechanical Analysis of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube (VACNT) Bundles
• Huynh, Joyce — Factors Governing Photodynamic Cross-Linking of Ocular Coat
• Jaru-Ampornpan, Peera — Post-Translational Membrane Protein Targeting by the Chloroplast Signal Recognition Particle
• Kapre, Nachiket Ganesh — SPICE²: A Spatial, Parallel Architecture for Accelerating the Spice Circuit Simulator
• Kasliwal, Mansi Manoj — Bridging the Gap: Elusive Explosions in the Local Universe
• Keehr, Edward Arthur — Techniques for Mixed-Signal Linearization and Large Signal Handling in Radio-Frequency Receiver Circuits
• Keppel-Aleks, Gretchen — Constraints on the Global Carbon Budget from Variations in Total Column Carbon Dioxide
• Kim, YoungHee — Properties of the Subduction System in Mexico
• Knapp, David — Chemistry and Electronics of the Ge(111) Surface
• Kovalchick, Christopher — Mechanics of Peeling: Cohesive Zone Law and Stability
• Krajbich, Ian Michael — Neurometrically Informed Mechanism Design and the Role of Visual Fixations in Simple Choice
• Kuai, Le — I: Retrieval of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide from High-Resolution Spectra. II: Interannual Variability of the Stratospheric Quasi-Biennual Oscillation
• Kuntz, Steven Gregory — hlh-1 and the C. elegans Body Wall Muscle Transcriptional Differentiation Network
• Kushiro, Keiichiro — Directing Cellular Traffic Using Geometric and Biomolecular Signal Alterations
• Kwan, Alan Jake-Man — Investigating Sources and Sinks of Organic Aerosols: NO₃-initiated Oxidation of Isoprene and Heterogeneous Oxidation of Organic Aerosol
• Lamperski, Andrew G. — Hierarchies, Spikes, and Hybrid Systems: Physiologically Inspired Control Problems
• Lancaster, Kyle Matthew — Outer-Sphere Effects on the Copper Sites of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Azurins
• Lavaei, Javad — Large-Scale Complex Systems: From Antenna Circuits to Power Grids
• Lee, I-Ren — Femtosecond Time-resolved Spectroscopy of Gas-phase Anions: Electron Solvation and Isolated Chromophore Dynamics
• Lipstein, Arthur Elias — Integrability of N = 6 Chern-Simons theory
• Lopez Jimenez, Francisco — Mechanics of Thin Carbon Fiber Composites with a Silicone Matrix
• Lopez Mateos, David — Measurement of Multi-jet Production Cross Section at a Center-of-Mass Energy of 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider with the ATLAS Detector
• Louie, Mary W. C. — Electrocatalysis in Solid Acid Fuel Cells
• Louwsma, Joel Ryan — Extremality of the Rotation Quasimorphism on the Modular Group
• Lukic, Milivoje — Spectral Theory for Generalized Bounded Variation Perturbations of Orthogonal Polynomials and Schrödinger Operators
• Ma, Sandy — Progress Toward the Cortistatin A Carbocyclic Core and the Development of the Catalytic Enantioselective Alkylation of 3-Helooxindoles
• Mandayam Doddamane, Prabha — Emerging Paradigms in Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Cryptography
• Marshall, Zachary Louis — A Measurement of Jet Shapes in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7.0 TeV Center-of-Mass Energy with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider
• Meier, John Allen — A Novel Experimental Study of a Valveless Impedance Pump for Applications at Lab-On-Chip, Microfluidic, and Biomedical Device Size Scales
• Meyer, Michael Elliott — Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions in Natural Product Synthesis: Efforts toward Bielschowskysin and Phalarine
• Miller, Alexander James Minden — Emissive Monocopper Amidophosphine Complexes and Lewis Acid-Assisted Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide
• Moore, Ashley — Discrete Mechanics and Optimal Control for Space Trajectory Design
• Muzikar, Katy Ann — Repression of DNA-Binding-Dependent Glucocorticoid Receptor-Mediated Gene Expression
• Nahmad Bensusan, Marcos — Interpretation and Scaling of Positional Information During Development
• Nelson, Paul D. — Some New Aspects of Mass Equidistribution
• Palmer, Joshua Henry — Iridium Corroles: Synthesis, Properties, and Electronic Structure
• Patel, Pinkesh Kiritbhai — Search for Gravitational Waves from a Nearby Neutron Star Using Barycentric Resampling
• Paulot, Fabien Georges André — Insights into the Isoprene Photochemical Cascade
• Perez, Kerstin Marie — Inclusive Jet Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7.0 TeV Center-of-Mass Energy with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider
• Perkins, Rory James — Experimental and Analytical Studies of Merging Plasma Loops on the Caltech Solar Loop Experiment
• Perotti, Luigi Emanuele — Modeling the Behavior of Fiber Reinforced Sandwich Structures Subjected to Underwater Explosions
• Phillips, John Wilson — Biological Activity of a Py-Im Polyamide Androgen Receptor Antagonist
• Pilotto, Concetta — Systematic Design and Formal Verification of Multi-Agent Systems
• Plan, Yaniv — Compressed Sensing, Sparse Approximation, and Low-Rank Matrix Estimation
• Pryce, Imogen Mary — Resonant Metallic Nanostructures for Active Metamaterials and Photovoltaics
• Pullen, Anthony Robert — A Survey of Results in Modern Precision Cosmology
• Pye, Havala Olson Taylor — Investigations of Global Chemistry-Climate Interactions and Organic Aerosol Using Atmospheric Modeling
• Reina Romo, Celia — Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Damage by Void Nucleation and Growth
• Robbett, Andrea — Experiments on the Dynamics of Community Formation
• Romano, Christine Anne — DNA-Mediated Charge Transfer Between [4Fe-4S] Cluster Glycosylases
• Saouma, Caroline Thalia Abdunnur — Iron Mediated Reduction Schemes for Dinitrogen and Carbon Dioxide
• Satyan, Naresh — Optoelectronic Control of the Phase and Frequency of Semiconductor Lasers
• Schaedel, Oren Noah — Dynamic Regulation of the Dauer Decision
• Schwamb, Megan E. — Beyond Sedna: Probing the Distant Solar System
• Schwarzkopf, Yonathan — Complex Phenomena in Social and Financial Systems: From Bird Population Growth to the Dynamics of the Mutual Fund Industry
• Scott, Valerie J. — Investigations of C-H Activation and the Conversion of Methanol to Triptane
• Selvans, Michelle Marie — Geophysical Investigations of Near-Surface Structure on the Earth and Mars
• Sen, Shaunak — Regulatory Consequences of Bandpass Feedback in a Bacterial Phosphorelay
• Sha, Yao — The Mechanisms of the Fuel Cell Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Pt and Other 8-11 Column Metal Surfaces
• Shadbakht, Sormeh — Entropy Region and Network Information Theory
• Shanata, Jai Anand Pattur — Single-Molecule Studies of Ion Channels Expressing Unnatural Amino Acids
• Sherden, Nathaniel Haynes — Mechanistic Investigations into the Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylic Alkylation of Ketone Enolates Using the PHOX Ligand Architecture
• Shin, Young Shik — Micro- and Nanotechnology-Based Platforms to Study Biology at Small Scale: From DNAs to Single Cells
• Silva, Michael Lee — Damage Evolution in Composite Materials and Sandwich Structures Under Impulse Loading
• Sohn, Chang Ho — New Reagents and Methods for Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics Investigations
• Spain, Merrielle Therese — Modeling and Predicting Object Attention in Natural Scenes
• Spasojevic, Sonja — Dynamics of Long-Term Sea-Level Change and Vertical Motion of Continents
• Spencer, Kathleen Marie — Constraining Anthropogenic and Biogenic Emissions using Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry
• Stohlman, Olive Remington — Repeatability of Joint-Dominated Deployable Masts
• Suh, Junho — Coupled Dynamics of a Nanomechanical Resonator and Superconducting Quantum Circuits
• Sullivan, Ian Sorensen — CIBER: A Near-Infrared Probe of the Epoch of Reionization
• Sumner, Matthew Casey — Optimizing End-to-End System Performance for Millimeter and Submillimeter Spectroscopy of Protostars: Wideband Heterodyne Receivers and Sideband-Deconvolution Techniques for Rapid Molecular-Line Surveys
• Suryanarayana, Phanish — Coarse-Graining Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory
• Tadmor, Arbel David — Phage-Host Interaction in Nature
• Takematsu, Kana — Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy of the Nitrate and Peroxy Radicals
• Tao, Molei — Multiscale Geometric Integration of Deterministic and Stochastic Systems
• Tay, Tiamhock — Variational Studies of Exotic Bose Liquid, Spin Liquid, and Magnetic Phases
• Tchieu, Andrew Allen — The Development of Low-Order Models for the Study of Fluid-Structure Interactions
• Tulin, Sarah Lynn — Analysis of Drosophila Fibroblast Growth Factor Functional Domains
• Vakili, Ali — Random Matrix Recursions in Estimation, Control, and Adaptive Filtering
• Van Deventer, James A. — Biophysics and Protein Engineering with Noncanonical Amino Acids
• Van Valen, David Ashley — Case Studies in Quantitative Biology: Biochemistry on a Leash and a Single-Molecule Hershey-Chase Experiment
• Venturini, Gabriela Natalia — Topics in Multiscale Modeling of Metals and Metallic Alloys
• Vermesh, Ophir — Highly Informative Analytical Platforms for Rapid, Non-Invasive Diagnosis and Stratification of Patients with Cancer
• Vermesh, Udi Benjamin — Technologies for Protein Analysis and Tissue Engineering, with Applications in Cancer
• Vyetrenko, Svitlana S. — Network Coding for Error Correction
• Wade, Lawrence A. — An Evanescent Perspective on Cells
• Walavalkar, Sameer Sudhir — Optical, Mechanical, and Electronic Properties of Etched Silicon Nanopillars
• Walji, Nahid — Supersingular Distribution, Congruence Class Bias, and A Refinement of Strong Multiplicity One
• Walker, Don — Corrole Sensitized Solar Cells
• Wang, Liming — Genetic and Neural Regulation of Aggressive Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster
• Ward, Catherine Marie — Medea Selfish Genetic Elements as Tools for Altering Traits of Wild Populations: A Theoretical Analysis
• Ward, Geoffrey M. — The Simulation of Shock- and Impact-Driven Flows with Mie-Grüneisen Equations of State
• Weng, Ching-Chih — The Roles of Majorization and Generalized Triangular Decomposition in Communication and Signal Processing
• White, Jerome S. — Applying Formal Methods to Distributed Algorithms Using Local-Global Relations
• Whited, Charlotte A. — Tuning Nitric Oxide Synthase: Investigating the Thiolate "Push" and No Release
• Winterrose, Michael Lon — Quantum Mechanical Simulation and X-Ray Scattering Applied to Pressure-Induced Invar Anomaly in Magnetic Iron Alloy
• Yang, Fan — Biochemical and Biophysical Characterizations of Immunoglobulin Superfamily Receptors Neogenin and L1
• Yang, Jennifer Chuen-Hsien — Following Motion of Early Heart Development at the Cellular Level Using Confocal Microscopy in Transgenic Quail Embryos
• Yang, Yue — Lagrangian and Vortex-Surface Fields in Turbulence
• Zhang, Chao — Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters and Investigation of Nuclear Georeactor Hypothesis with KamLAND
• Zhang, Dapeng — Projective Dirac Operators, Twisted K-Theory, and Local Index Formula
• Zia, Roseanna Nellie — Individual Particle Motion in Colloids: Microviscosity, Microdiffusivity, and Normal Stresses
• Zou, Yue — Quantum Phases and Phase Transitions in Disordered Low-Dimensional Systems: Thin Film Superconductors, Bilayer Two-Dimensional Electron Systems, and One-Dimensional Optical Lattices