Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2012

• Abad-Manterola, Pablo — Axel Rover Tethered Dynamics and Motion Planning on Extreme Planetary Terrain
• Ahmed, Zeeshan — A Dark-Matter Search Using the Final CDMS II Dataset and a Novel Detector of Surface Radiocontamination
• Alisic, Laura — Multi-Scale Dynamics and Rheology of Mantle Convection with Plates
• An, Qi — Atomistic Simulations of Material Properties under Extreme Conditions
• Bakshi, Mayank — Network Coding and Distributed Compression over Large Networks: Some Basic Principles
• Barmpoutis, Dionysios — Network Structure Optimization with Applications to Minimizing Variance and Crosstalk
• Bashkirov, Denis — Symmetries in Three-Dimensional Superconformal Quantum Field Theories
• Batygin, Konstantin — Orbits and Interiors of Planets
• Beck, Anna Rose — Iron in the Ocean: Laboratory Experiments of Iron Geochemistry in the Presence of Marine Particles
• Betea, Dan Dumitru — Elliptic Combinatorics and Markov Processes
• Bhalerao, Varun B. — Neutron Stars and NuSTAR: A Systematic Survey of Neutron Star Masses in High Mass X-ray Binaries & Characterization of CdZnTe Detectors for NuSTAR
• Blum, Angela Patricia — Structure-Function Studies of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Using Unnatural Amino Acids and Synthetic Agonist Analogs
• Bodine-Baron, Elizabeth Anne — Peer Effects in Social Networks: Search, Matching Markets, and Epidemics
• Boettcher, Philipp Andreas — Thermal Ignition
• Bohn, Florian — Integrated Circuit Signal Generation and Detection Techniques for Microwave and Sub-Millimeter Wave Signals
• Book, Laura Grace — Cosmological Consequences of Gravitation: Structure Formation and Gravitational Waves
• Bower, Daniel James — Geodynamics of Earth’s Deep Mantle
• Brevik, Justus Albert — Searching for Primordial Gravitational Waves at Degree Scales from the South Pole
• Bryan, Ronald Edward — Distance Based Visual Cues to Interpersonal Trust
• Capece, Angela Maria — Plasma-Surface Interactions in Hollow Cathode Discharges for Electric Propulsion
• Chan, Jasper — Laser Cooling of an Optomechanical Crystal Resonator to Its Quantum Ground State of Motion
• Chan, Man Nin — Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Organic Aerosol Composition: Laboratory and Ambient
• Chang, Christopher SungWook — Applications of Coding in Network Communications
• Chang, Kuang-Jung — A Role for Protein Kinase Dbf2-Mob1 in Mitotic Exit
• Chapman, Alan Daniel — Late Cretaceous Gravitational Collapse of the Southern Sierra Nevada Batholith and Adjacent Areas Above Underplated Schists, Southern California
• Chaudhuri, Aadel Ahmed — MicroRNAs 155 and 125b Physiologically and Pathologically Regulate Hematopoiesis and Immunity
• Chen, Ting — Part I: Structure of Central and Southern Mexico from Velocity and Attenuation Tomography. Part II: Physics of Small Repeating Earthquakes
• Cheng, Mu-Jeng — Mechanistic Insights into Alkane C-H Activation and Functionalization by Metal Oxide Surfaces and Organometallic Complexes
• Chiu, Yi-Chih — On the Weil-étale Cohomology of S-Integers
• Cho, In Ho — Virtual Earthquake Engineering Laboratory with Physics-Based Degrading Materials on Parallel Computers
• Choe, Andrea — Pheromones in Free-Living and Parasitic Nematodes
• Chu, Tony — Numerical Simulations of Black-Hole Spacetimes
• Cody, Ann Marie — A Search for Pulsation in Young Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars
• Culic-Viskota, Jelena — Synthesis and Functionalization of Second Harmonic Generation Nanocrystals and Their Application in Biological Imaging
• DeBoer, Charles Meno Theodore — Biomimetic Accommodating Intraocular Lens
• Dempsey, William P. — Establishing a Genetic and Exogenous Toolbox for Studying Multiple Stages of Vertebrate Development in vivo
• Deng, Xiaowei — Clefted Equilibrium Shapes of Superpressure Balloon Structures
• Dixson, Alana Doreen — Zebrafish Magnetite and Long-lived Rohon-Beard Neurons: Expanding Our View of Two Zebrafish Sensory Systems in Development and Adulthood
• Dobro, Megan J. — The Structural Biology of HIV Budding and Maturation
• Downard, Andrew Joseph — Classification of Sub-10 nm Aerosol: Theory, Instrument Development, and Experiment
• Durrell, Alec Charles — Electronic Structures and Reactivity Patterns of Dipalladium(11,11) and Diplatinum(11,11) Complexes
• Finck, Aaron David Kiyoshi — Studies of Exciton Condensation and Transport in Quantum Hall Bilayers
• Fitzmaurice, Arthur Gerald, III — The Role of Pesticide-Induced Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Inhibition in the Pathogenesis of Parkinson’s Disease
• Ford, William Chastang — I. Quantal Effects in Biochemical Cooperativity and a Proposed Mechanism for the Differentiation of Calcium Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity. II. Evolutionary Algorithms for the Optimization of Methods in Computational Chemistry
• Franco, Elisa — Analysis, Design, and in vitro Implementation of Robust Biochemical Networks
• Frazier, Shawnalea Jimee — Optimization of the GluC1/IVM Neuronal Silencing Tool via Protein Engineering
• Frydman, Cary David — Essays in Neurofinance
• Galloway, Kate Elizabeth — The Development of RNA-based Control Systems to Regulate Signaling and Dictate Cell Fate in a Model MAPK Pathway
• Gamba, Jason M. — The Role of Transport Phenomena in Whispering Gallery Mode Optical Biosensor Performance
• Garcia, Mayra — Dorsal-Ventral Patterning and Gene Regulation in the Early Embryo of Drosophila melanogaster
• Geil, Wendy Mercer — Regulation of Wild-Type and Mutant p53 through DNA-mediated Charge Transport
• Gilmore, Christopher Dennis — Aryne Annulation Reactions Toward the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Molecules
• Gonçalves, Thiago Signorini — Topics in Galaxy Evolution: Early Star Formation and Quenching
• Harel, Jonathan — Neural Pattern Similarity and Visual Perception
• Hinz, Flora Irma — Genetically Restricted Metabolic Labeling in Danio rerio, a Simple Vertebrate Capable of Protein Synthesis-Dependent Memory Formation
• Hu, Xin — Multiscale Modeling and Computation of 3D Incompressible Turbulent Flows
• Huang, Jinghao — Discrete Differential Form Subdivision and Vector Field Generation over Volumetric Domain
• Huang, Jingqing — Wavelength-Scale Confinement of Light and Its Applications in On-Chip Photonic Devices
• Huang, Ruo-Gu — High-Performance Silicon Nanowire Electronics
• Inoue, Michio — Large-Eddy Simulation of the Flat-Plate Turbulent Boundary Layer at High Reynolds Numbers
• Jacobs, Henry Ochi — Geometric Descriptions of Couplings in Fluids and Circuits
• Janowski, Vanessa — Computational Biases in Decision-Making
• Jennings, Andrew Tynes — Deformation Mechanisms in Nanoscale Single Crystalline Electroplated Copper Pillars
• Johnson, Stephanie Lynn — DNA Mechanics and Transcriptional Regulation in the E. coli lac Operon
• Kedrowski, Sean M. A. — I. Chemical-Scale Studies of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels, and II. Novel Methods for Phosphonate Synthesis
• Khajehnejad, M. Amin — Combinatorial Regression and Improved Basis Pursuit for Sparse Estimation
• Khatri, Devvrath — Non-Destructive Evaluation of Material System Using Highly Nonlinear Acoustic Waves
• Kidder, Steven Brooks — Microstructural, Metamorphic and Experimental Constraints on Differential Stress and Temperature in the Middle Crust
• Kimball, Gregory Michael — Zn₃P₂ and Cu₂O Substrates for Solar Energy Conversion
• Komor, Russell Scott — Recombinatorial and Predictive Methods to Increase Cellulase Thermostability and Structural Analysis of a Thermostable P450
• Krause, Anna Elisabeth — Topics in Large-Scale Structure
• Lai, Hsin-Hua — Ladder Studies of Gapless Quantum Spin Liquids: Spin Bose-metal and SU(2)-invariant Majorana Spin Liquids
• Langeland, Krista S. — Thin-Film Silicon Photovoltaics: Characterization of Thin-Film Deposition and Analysis of Enhanced Light Trapping from Scattering Nanoparticle Arrays
• Lebo, Zachary John — Computational Modeling Studies of Fundamental Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
• Lee, Lap Man — The Implementation of Optofluidic Microscopy on a Chip Scale and Its Potential Applications in Biology
• Lee, Samuel Kuhnman — Three Paths to Particle Dark Matter
• Lee, SangMok — Three Essays on Microeconomic Theory
• Lee, Tony Eilo — Quantum Nonequilibrium Physics with Rydberg Atoms
• LeHew, Jeffrey Allen — Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Turbulent Boundary Layer and An Investigation of the Effects of Periodic Disturbances
• Levin Fiorelli, Ines — A New Approach to the Study of Political Participation
• Levine, Joseph H. — Genetic Regulatory Circuit Dynamics: Analysis and Synthesis
• Li, Chen W. — Phonon Anharmonicity of Ionic Compounds and Metals
• Li, Jean — Improving Selectivity in Olefin Metathesis for Small Molecule Synthesis and Materials Applications
• Liang, Joe Chih Yao — High-Throughput Strategies for the Scalable Generation of RNA Component Functions
• Lin, Alice — Neural and Behavioral Investigations of Social Reward Processing
• Lin, Jeffrey Chun-Hui — MEMS for Glaucoma
• Lin, Milo Miaoyu — Protein Folding and Macromolecular Dynamics: Fundamental Limits of Length and Time Scales
• Lintner, Stéphane Karl — High-Order Integral Equation Methods for Diffraction Problems Involving Screens and Apertures
• Liu, Cambrian Yangshao — Characterization of an Unusual Collection of Olfactory Neurons in the Nose
• Liu, Hsi-Chun — Theory and Experiment of Slow-Light Coupled-Resonator Structures
• Long, David Alexander — Frequency-Stabilized Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy of O₂ and CO₂ to Support Atmospheric Remote Sensing
• Lu, Bo — Parylene as a New Membrane Material for Biomems Applications
• Ma, Yousi — Search for Signatures of Extra Dimensions in the Diphoton Mass Spectrum with the CMS Detector
• Materna, Stefan Christian — The Regulatory Origin of Oral and Aboral Mesoderm in Sea Urchin Embryos
• Matheny, Matthew Hayward — Nonisochronous Oscillations in Piezoelectric Nanomechanical Resonators
• Matuszewski, Mateusz Konrad — The Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon and the Cosmic Web Imager: Two Integral Field Spectrographs Designed to Study Emission from the Intergalactic Medium
• Matzen, Andrew Keith — Fe-Mg and Ni Partitioning between Olivine and Silicate Melt
• Matzen, Kelly Jean — Engineering of Dengue Virus Refractoriness in Aedes aegypti and Development of an Underdominant Gene Drive System in Drosophila melanogaster
• Mello, Michael — Identifying the Unique Ground Motion Signatures of Supershear Earthquakes: Theory and Experiments
• Mendoza-Cortes, Jose Luis — Design of Molecules and Materials for Applications in Clean Energy, Catalysis and Molecular Machines Through Quantum Mechanics, Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations
• Merlis, Timothy Moore — The General Circulation of the Tropical Atmosphere and Climate Changes
• Metcalf, Andrew Richard — Atmospheric Black Carbon: Measurements in the Los Angeles Atmosphere and Aging by Condensation of Organic Aerosol
• Michener, Joshua Kieran — Combining Rational and Evolutionary Approaches to Optimize Enzyme Activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Miller, Gerald Matthew — Electron Transport in Silicon Nanocrystal Devices: From Memory Applications to Silicon Photonics
• Moore, David Craig — A Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search and the Development of Highly Multiplexed Phonon-Mediated Particle Detectors
• Moser, Auna Louise — Dynamics of Magnetically Driven Plasma Jets: An Instability of an Instability, Gas Cloud Impacts, Shocks, and Other Deformations
• Mostagir, Mohamed — Robust Dynamic Mechanisms
• Mullen, Patrick Gary — Eulerian Geometric Discretizations of Manifolds and Dynamics
• Murphy, Caitlin Anne — Thermoelasticity of Hexagonal Close-Packed Iron from the Phonon Density of States
• Nair, Jayakrishnan U. — Scheduling for Heavy-Tailed and Light-Tailed Workloads in Queueing Systems
• Nelson, Matthew John — Understanding and Applying Extracellular Recordings in Awake, Behaving Animals
• Ng, Thomas Sheung Chee — Non-Invasive in vivo Molecular Imaging of Cancer Nanotherapy Uptake and Response with PET/MRI
• Ngo, John Tuan — Noncanonical Amino Acids in the Interrogation of Cellular Protein Synthesis
• Nichols, David Andrew — Visualizing, Approximating, and Understanding Black-Hole Binaries
• Nisthal, Alex — Accelerating the Interplay Between Theory and Experiment in Protein Design
• Noroozian, Omid — Superconducting Microwave Resonator Arrays for Submillimeter/Far-infrared Imaging
• Nunnari, Salvatore — Essays on Dynamic Political Economy
• O'Connor, Evan Patrick — Topics in Core-Collapse Supernova Theory: The Formation of Black Holes and the Transport of Neutrinos
• O'Leary, Leslie Esther — Mixed Functionality Semiconductor Surfaces: Formation, Characterization, Interfacial Dynamics, and Applications
• Oblad, Paul Frederick — Toward the Upgrading of Hydrocarbons: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Platinum and Palladium Complexes
• Olmon, Eric Daniel — Investigating DNA-Mediated Charge Transport by Time-Resolved Spectroscopy
• Orchanian, Mhair-Armen Hagop — Electron Neutrino Appearance in the MINOS Experiment
• Pierce, Nathan William — Sequential Processivity and CAND1 Regulate SCF Ubiquitin Ligases
• Puskar, Nyssa Leigh — Structure-Function Studies of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Using Unnatural Amino Acids
• Raney, Jordan Robert — Hierarchical Structures of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes as Low-Density Energy-Dissipative Materials
• Richards, Joseph Lee — The Radio Variability of Gamma-Ray Blazars
• Rolfe, Jason Tyler — Intrinsic Gradient Networks
• Romero, Philip Anthony — Statistical Models of the Protein Fitness Landscape: Applications to Protein Evolution and Engineering
• Sengupta, Kaushik — Silicon-Based Terahertz Circuits and Systems
• Shen, Yue — Interkingdom Communication of a Bacterial Mutualist and its Mammalian Host
• Simanek, Brian Zachary — Asymptotic Properties of Orthogonal and Extremal Polynomials
• Song, Hang — Recognition of Nucleic Acid Mismatches by Luminescent Ruthenium Complexes
• Song, Jaewon — 4d/2d Correspondence: Instantons and W-Algebras
• Sontz, Pamela Alisa — DNA-mediated Charge Transport in a Biological Context: Cooperation among Metalloproteins to Find Lesions in the Genome
• Soto, Alejandro — Dynamical Paleoclimatology of Mars
• Sprague, Matthew Kiran — Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy, Kinetics, and Quantum Chemistry of Atmospherically Relevant Reactions
• Standley, Brian Lawrence — Graphene as a Platform for Novel Nanoelectronic Devices
• Stenson, Eve Virginia — Fields, Forces, and Flows: What Laboratory Experiments Reveal About the Dynamics of Arched Plasma Structures
• Stetson, Robert Chess Abernathy — Interaction of Planning Regions in Cortex
• Sukhavasi, Ravi Teja — Distributed Control and Computing: Optimal Estimation, Error Correcting Codes, and Interactive Protocols
• Suloway, Christian J. M. — Structural Insights into Tail-Anchored Protein Targeting by Get3
• Tadross, Pamela Michele — Exploiting the Reactivity of Arynes in the Total Synthesis of Natural Products
• Takaoka, Ayumi — Investigations on Low-Valent Group 8 and 9 Metalloradicals
• Tan, Hongjin — A Study of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of LiₓFePO₄ as a Cathode Material for Li Batteries
• Tham, Douglas Weng Wah — Silicon Nanostructure Photovoltaics
• Theofanis, Patrick Lauren — The Quantum Electron Dynamics of Materials Subjected to Extreme Environments
• Thiagarajan, Nivedita — Using Clumped Isotopes and Radiocarbon to Characterize Rapid Climate Change During the Last Glacial Cycle
• Thomas, Renee Michelle — The Design, Synthesis, and Application of Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts for the Preparation of Small Molecules and Polymers
• Thomas, Vaughan Lamar — Particle-Based Modeling of Ni-YSZ Anodes
• Tiwary, Pratyush — Atomistic Simulations of Materials: Methods for Accurate Potentials and Realistic Time-Scales
• Tonks, Ian Albert — Fundamental Studies of Early Transition Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds: Structure, Electronics, and Catalysis
• Trangsrud, Amy Ruth — The SPIDER CMB Polarimeter
• Tseliakhovich, Dmitriy — The Cosmic Stories: Beginning, Evolution and Present Days of the Universe
• Turner, Ryan Matthew — Reshaping Elastomers with Light: First Principles Model of Diffusion-Induced Deformation
• Venkateswaran, Vidya — Vanishing Results for Hall-Littlewood Polynomials
• Walker, Alden Kent — Surface Maps into Free Groups
• Weintrob, Edward Charles — Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity Studies of Pyridine Bis(anilide) Iron Complexes
• Welinder, Nils Peter Egon — Hybrid Human-Machine Vision Systems: Image Annotation using Crowds, Experts and Machines
• Willett, Brian M. — Localization and Dualities in Three Dimensional Superconformal Field Theories
• Wilson, Dalziel Joseph — Cavity Optomechanics with High Stress Silicon Nitride Films
• Wu, Yi-Tao — One the P-Adic Local Invariant Cycle Theorem
• Yaakov, Itamar — Localization of Gauge Theories on the Three-Sphere
• Yoo, Juhwan — Compressed Sensing Receivers: Theory, Design, and Performance Limits
• Young, Jonathan Wan — Architecture, Dynamics, and Function of the General Stress Response System in B. subtilis
• Yu, Jen-Kan — Nanostructured Silicon Thermoelectrics
• Yu, Kenneth Kwok-Chang — Engineering Immunity Against HIV
• Yu, Ted H. — Degradations and Improvements in PEM Fuel Cell Materials: A Computational Study
• Zhang, Jingli A. — Global Analysis of Dynamic Epigenetic Marking and Transcriptional Regulation Underlying T-Cell Lineage Commitment
• Zhu, Zhaoyan — Studies in Recombination and Dissociation Reactions for Collisional Energy Transfer and Electron Transfer of Nanocrystals and Dye Molecules
• Ziegler, John Lewis (Jack) — Simulations of Compressible, Diffusive, Reactive Flows with Detailed Chemistry Using a High-Order Hybrid WENO-CD Scheme
• Zuckerman, Jonathan Eric — Targeting Tumors and the Kidney with siRNA Nanoparticles and Evaluation of Extracellular MicroRNA-based Methodologies to Track Their Activity