Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2014

• Abelin, Anna Cecilia Therese — A Ratiometric-Based Measure of Gene Co-Expression
• Ahn, Hyoung Jun — Random Propagation in Complex Systems: Nonlinear Matrix Recursions and Epidemic Spread
• Ailianou, Artemis — Development of Semicrystalline Morphology of Poly(L-lactic Acid) during Processing of a Vascular Scaffold
• Akopian, David — Phospholipids and a Protein-Conducting Channel Regulate Cotranslational Protein Targeting
• Amlani, Faisal — A New High-Order Fourier Continuation-Based Elasticity Solver for Complex Three-Dimensional Geometries
• Anderson, John Stuart — Catalytic Conversion of Nitrogen to Ammonia by an Iron Model Complex
• Ariosa, Aileen Renia — Mechanisms of Substrate Selection by the Signal Recognition Particle
• Arnold, Jonathan Mark — Baryon and Lepton Numbers in Particle Physics beyond the Standard Model
• Basalova Buchman, Anna — Engineered Underdominance as a Method of Insect Population Replacement and Reproductive Isolation
• Beardslee, Joseph Allen — Magnetic Alignment of High-Aspect Ratio Microwires into Vertical Arrays
• Bermejo-Deval, Ricardo — Reaction of Glucose Catalyzed by Framework and Extraframework Tin Sites in Zeolite Beta
• Berry, Alexandria Helen T. — Designing Conformational Control of Human Tissue Transglutaminase
• Bjornsson, Arnar Bjorn — A Retrofitting Framework for Pre-Northridge Steel Moment-Frame Buildings
• Boddy, Kimberly K. — Cosmological Consequences of Dark Matter Interactions and Vacuum Fluctuations
• Boney, Evans T. D. — Vibrational Pooling and Constrained Equilibration on Surfaces
• Bosco, Jeffrey Paul — Rational Design of Zinc Phosphide Heterojunction Photovoltaics
• Bose, Subhonmesh — An Integrated Design Approach to Power Systems: From Power Flows to Electricity Markets
• Bowers, Steven Michael — Dynamically Controllable Integrated Radiation and Self-Correcting Power Generation in mm-Wave Circuits and Systems
• Brown, Joshua Micah — Investigation of Receptors for the Modulation of Neuronal Growth by Chondroitin Sulfate
• Carroll, Phares Lynn — Towards Understanding the Mixing Characteristics of Turbulent Buoyant Flows
• Chalermsongsak, Tara — High Fidelity Probe and Mitigation of Mirror Thermal Fluctuations
• Chang, Jan Han-Chieh — Wireless Parylene-Based Retinal Implant
• Cheng, Ming Hei — New Applications that Come from Extending Seismic Networks into Buildings
• Chitsaz, Mohsen — Protein Structure Refinement Algorithms
• Chiu, Cindy Nicole — A Perfect Day for Zebrafish: Neuromodulation of Sleep in a Diurnal Vertebrate
• Chow, Elly Suk Hen — The C. elegans ALA Neuron: Its Transcriptions and Roles in Inducing Sleep
• Chung, Hee Joong — Three-Dimensional Superconformal Field Theory, Chern-Simons Theorv, and Their Correspondence
• Ci, Maolin — Multiscale Model Reduction Methods for Deterministic and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
• Codelli, Julian Andrew — The Development of a Synthetic Strategy Toward Dihydrooxepine-Containing Epipolythiodiketopiperazines: Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (-)-Acetylaranotin and Related Investigations
• Cossé, Julia Theresa — On the Behavior of Pliable Plate Dynamics in Wind: Application to Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
• Daeffler, Kristina Nicole-McCleary — Functional Evaluation of Noncovalent Interactions in Neuroreceptors and Progress Toward the Expansion of Unnatural Amino Acid Methodology
• Daigle, Gerald Joseph III (Jay) — On the Local Tamagawa Number Conjecture for Tate Motives
• Della Rocca, Gerry V. — A Novel Methodology for Simulating Contact-Line Behavior in Capillary-Driven Flows
• Demers, Steven Brian — Advanced Density Functional Theory Methods tor Materials Science
• Desautels, Thomas Anthony — Spinal Cord Injury Therapy through Active Learning
• Deyle, Kaycie Marie — Development of Protein-Catalyzed Capture (PCC) Agents with Application to the Specific Targeting of the E17K Point Mutation of AKt1
• Dilworth, Crystal Noelle — Fluorescence Microscopy of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
• Dougherty, Sara Lyn — Seismic Structure along Transitions from Flat to Normal Subduction: Central Mexico, Southern Peru, and Southwest Japan
• Duffy, Noah Hanville — Studies of the Serotonin Type 3A Receptor and the Chemical Preparation of tRNA
• Ener, Maraia Emily — Electron Flow Through Cytochrome P450
• Ensberg, Joseph James — Studies of Ambient Organic and Inorganic Aerosol in Southern California
• Evans, Constantine Glen — Crystals that Count! Physical Principles and Experimental Investigations of DNA Tile Self-Assembly
• Faulkner, Matthew Nicholas — Community Sense and Response Systems
• Fefferman, William Jason — The Power of Quantum Fourier Sampling
• Ferrari de Goes, Fernando — Geometric Discretization through Primal-Dual Meshes
• Florian, Mihai — Analysis-Aware Design of Embedded Systems Software
• Fokoua Djodom, Landry — Optimal Scaling in Ductile Fracture
• Fornal, Bartosz — Baryon Number Violation beyond the Standard Model
• Fu, Ross — Iridium and Rhodium Analogues of the Shilov Cycle Catalyst; and The Investigation and Applications of the Reduction-Coupled Oxo Activation (ROA) Mechanistic Motif towards Alkane Upgrading
• Gleason-Rohrer, David Charles — Measurement of the Band Bending and Surface Dipole at Chemically Functionalized Si(111)/Vacuum Interfaces
• Goodpaster, Jason Daniel — Density Functional Theory Embedding for Correlated Wavefunctions
• Griffith, Virgil — Quantifying Synergistic Information
• Gu, Liling — Integral Finite Surgeries on Knots in S³
• Hakimi, Shabnam — Characterization of the Neural Mechanisms Supporting the Implementation of Cognitive Control in Human Decision Making
• Hamdouche, Samy — Engineered Antibody and Monobody Domains with T Cell Receptor-Like Selectivity for Tumor Associated Peptide-MHC Antigens
• Han, Shuo — Optimal Uncertainty Quantification via Convex Optimization and Relaxation
• Heckman, Vanessa Mary — Damage Detection in Civil Structures using High-Frequency Seismograms
• Heinz, Nicholas A. — Microstructure Control and Iodine Doping of Bismuth Telluride
• Herbert, Myles Benton — Z-Selectivc Olefin Metathesis using Chelating Ruthenium Alkylidene Catalysts
• Hodge, Kari Alison — The Search for Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of Black Hole Binary Systems in Data from the LIGO and Virgo Detectors. Or: A Dark Walk through a Random Forest
• Holder, Jeffrey Clinton — The Development of an Asymmetric Palladium-Catalyzed Conjugate Addition and Its Application Toward the Total Syntheses of Taiwaniaquinoid Natural Products
• Holland, Daniel Brian — Design, Construction, and Applications of a High-Resolution Terahertz Time-Domain Spectrometer
• Horowitz, Matanya Benasher — Efficient Methods for Stochastic Optimal Control
• Hou, Xiaodi — Computational Modeling and Psvchophysics in Low- and Mid-Level Vision
• Huang, Yihe — Dynamic Rupture Simulation Integrated with Earthquake Observations
• Inagaki, Hidehiko K. — Neuronal Mechanism of State Control in Drosophila melanogaster
• Jeon, Seokmin — Structure, Chemistry, and Energetics of Organic and Inorganic Adsorbates on Ga-rich GaAs and GaP(00l) Surfaces
• Jewell, Joseph Stephen — Boundary-Layer Transition on a Slender Cone in Hypervelocity Flow with Real Gas Effects
• John, Kristen Kathleen — Strength of Tantalum at High Pressures through Richtmyer-Meshkov Laser Compression Experiments and Simulations
• Jones, Daniel Lawson III — Sequence-Function Relationships in E. coli Transcriptional Regulation
• Kaplan, Jeffrey Daniel — Where Tori Fear to Trend: Hypermassive Neutron Star Remnants and Absolute Event Horizons or Topics in Computational General Relativity
• Keller, Sean Jason — Robust Near-Threshold QDI Circuit Analysis and Design
• Kelley, Paul — Fundamental Studies of Carbon Oxygen Bond Activation in Nickel Diphosphine Ether Complexes. And, Metallomacrocycles as Ligands: Synthesis and Characterization of Aluminum-Bridged Bisglyoximato Complexes of Iron and Cobalt
• Khosravi, Arya — Gut Microbiota Promote Hematopoiesis to Control Bacterial Infection
• Kim, Kun Woo — Electronic States in Disordered Topological Insulators
• Kirilusha, Anthony George — Transcription Factor Occupancy in Differentiating Skeletal Muscle
• Klet, Rachel Christine — Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions from Bis(carbene)-Platinum(II) Complexes and Olefin Polymerization and Oligomerization using Group 4 Post-Metallocene Complexes
• Komor, Alexis Christine — Design, Synthesis, and Biological Activity of Rhodium Metalloinsertors
• Kosten, Emily Dell — Optical Designs for Improved Solar Cell Performance
• Kym, Eugene Yongshik (Gene) — Engineered Discoidin Domain from Factor VIII Binds αvβ3 Integrin with Antibody-like Affinity
• Lakhanpal, Amit — Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Notch Signaling-Mediated Spatial Pattern
• Lan, Tian — Studies of Phonon Anharmonicity in Solids
• Lattimer, Judith Rebecca Cabelli — Functionalization of Si(111) Surfaces and the Formation of Mixed Monolayers for the Covalent Attachment of Molecular Catalysts in Photoelectrochemical Devices
• LeBon, Lauren E. — The Logic of Receptor-Ligand Interactions in the Notch Signaling Pathway
• Lee, Seung Ah — Bright-Field and Fluorescence Chip-Scale Microscopy for Biological Imaging
• Lee, Toni Marie — Computationally-Guided Thermostabilization of the Primary Endoglucanase from Hypocrea jerorina for Cellulosic Biofuel Production
• Lenton, Taylor Nichole Baker — Bis(thiophenolate)pyridine Pincer Ligands and Trivalent Zirconocene Complexes Relevant to Earlv Transition Metal Polymerization Catalysts
• Lin, Sibo — Chelation-Enforced Metal-Arene Interactions: Insights into Substrate Binding and Catalvsis by Late Transition Metal Complexes
• Liu, Wei-Guang — First-Principle Studies of the Initiation Mechanism of Energetic Materials
• Liu, Xiao — A Study on Iron-Based Amorphous Alloys: Alloy Development, Thermodynamics and Soft Magnetism
• Liu, Zhenhua — Sustainable IT and IT for Sustainability
• Lockwood, Alexandra Charlotte — Understanding Planet Formation through High Precision Photometry and Spectroscopy
• Loson, Oliver Calvin — Regulation of Mitochondrial Division by the Drp1 Receptors
• Lovely, Geoffrey A. — Biophysics of V(D)J Recombination and Genome Packaging: In Singulo Studies on RAG, HMGB1, and TFAM
• Lu, Ying Ying — Revealing, Illuminating, and Modifying Proteins in Human Diseases using Noncanonical Amino Acids
• Lucey, Kaitlyn Shae — Catechol 2,3-Dioxygenase-Assisted Cleavage of Aromatics by "Anaerobic" Termite Gut Spirochetes and Genomic Evidence of a Complete Meta-Pathway
• Lyon, Bradley Joseph — A Multi-Scale Approach to Shaping Carbon Nanotube Structures for Hollow Microneedles
• Malik, Imran Raouf — Point of Care Molecular Diagnostics for Humanity
• Maqueda Jiménez, Ignacio — High Strain Composites and Dual-Matrix Composite Structures
• Marinov, Georgi Kolev — Functional Genomic Studies of the Structure and Regulation of Eukaryotic Transcriptomes
• Mendenhall, Michael Praetorius — Measurement of the Neutron Beta Decay Asymmetry using Ultracold Neutrons
• Menzeleev, Artur R. — Direct Simulation of Quantum Dynamics in Complex Systems
• Miller, Madeline Diane — The Deep Ocean Density Structure at the Last Glacial Maximum: What Was It and Why?
• Minor, Paul Joseph — Wnt and FGF Signaling in C. elegans Vulval Cell Lineage Polarity
• Mohan, Nisha — Extracting Material Response from Simple Mechanical Tests on Hardening-Softening-Hardening Viscoplastic Solids
• Morton, Timothy Davies — Demographic Studies of Extrasolar Planets
• Mou, Yun — Computational Design of Self-Assembling Proteins and Protein-DNA Nanowires
• Mui, Timothy Paul — Expanding the Repertoire of DNA-Mediated Signaling in DNA Repair
• Mujeeb-U-Rahman, Muhammad — Integrated Microsystems for Wireless Sensing Applications
• Navarro, Raul — New Strategies for the Total Synthesis of Aza-Propellane Natural Products
• Nichols, Weston A. — Lynxl and the β2V287L Mutation Affect the Stoichiometry of the α4β2 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
• Ohayon, Shay S. — Dissecting Neural Circuits for Vision in Nonhuman Primates using fMRI-Guided Electrophysiology and Optogenetics
• Olson, Michael James — Cloud Computing Services for Seismic Networks
• Park, Chan Youn — Branes and Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories
• Patterson, Keith D. — Lightweight Deformable Mirrors for Future Space Telescopes
• Pfeilsticker, Jessica A. — A Cocktail of Thermally Stable, Chemically Synthesized Capture Agents for the Efficient Detection of Anti-gp41 Antibodies from Human Sera and Techniques
• Pheeney, Catrina Gale — Multiplexed DNA-Mediated Electrochemistry
• Pirogovsky, Paul Peter — Intramolecular Conflict: Conformation and Self-Assembly of Architecturally Complex Macromolecules in Solution
• Privitera, Stephen M. — The Importance of Spin for Observing Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Compact Binaries with LIGO and Virgo
• Rabinovitch, Jason — Advancing EDL Technologies for Future Space Missions: From Ground Testing Facilities to Ablative Heatshields
• Radlauer, Madalyn Rachel — Bimetallic Olefin Polymerization Catalysis: Mechanisms and Applications of Proximal Effects
• Rajagopal, Aditya — Microfabricated Tools and Engineering Methods for Sensing Bioanalytes
• Ray, Debajyoti — Efficient Methods for Empirical Tests of Behavioral Economics Theories in Laboratory and Field Experiments
• Repka, Lindsay Michelle — Enantiosclective Synthesis of Pyrroloindolines and Tryptophan Derivatives by an Asvmmetric Protonation Reaction
• Richmond, Victoria Stolyar — Techniques for Strength Measurement at High Pressures and Strain-Rates using Transverse Waves
• Roberts, Scott Nolan — Developing and Characterizing Bulk Metallic Glasses for Extreme Applications
• Rome, Michael Evan — The Get3 ATPase Drives Unidirectional Targeting of Tail-Anchored Membrane Proteins
• Rosenburg, Margaret Anne — Interpretation of Lunar Topography: Impact Cratering and Surface Roughness
• Rydenfelt, Mattias Sven Olof — The Combinatorics of Transcriptional Regulation
• Saito, Namiko — Large-Eddy Simulations of Fully Developed Turbulent Channel and Pipe Flows with Smooth and Rough Walls
• Sanan, Patrick David — Geometric Elasticity for Graphics, Simulation, and Computation
• Satsanarukkit, Penvipha — Development of Integrated Parylene Fluidic Devices for Use as a Microbial Monitoring System in Wastewater Treatment
• Schmid, Riccardo — New Search for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Using Ultracold Neutrons at the Spallation Neutron Source
• Schomburg, Erik W. — Biophysical and Network Mechanisms of High Frequency Extracellular Potentials in the Rat Hippocampus
• Scott, Caitlin Eileen — Role of Conformational Changes in G Protein-Coupled Receptor Activation
• Sharan, Rangoli — Formal Methods for Control Synthesis in Partially Observed Environments: Application to Autonomous Robotic Manipulation
• Sheng, Gloria J. — Tunable Heparan Sulfate Glycomimetics for Modulating Chemokine Activity
• Smith, Hillary Leigh — Phase Transformations and Entropy of Non-Equilibrium Materials
• Song, Shiyan — A New Ground Motion Intensity Measure, Peak Filtered Acceleration (PFA), to Estimate Collapse Vulnerability of Buildings in Earthquakes
• Sosa Padilla Araujo, Bernardo — Computational Enzyme Design
• Steger, Scott Tiedeman — A Fundamental Approach to Phase Noise Reduction in Hybrid Si/III-V Lasers
• Stevenson, Matthew Alan — Observational and Theoretical Advances in Cosmological Foreground Emission
• Stolper, Daniel Aaron — New Insights into the Formation and Modification of Carbonate-Bearing Minerals and Methane Gas in Geological Systems using Multiply Substituted Isotopologues
• Su, Tsu-Te Judith — Label-Free Detection of Single Molecule Using Microtoroid Optical Resonators
• Sun, Bing — Mechanistic Studies of Reactions at the Single-Molecule Level using Microfluidics with Applications in Molecular Diagnostics
• Suver, Marie Patricia — Octopamine Neurons Mediate Flight-Induced Modulation of Visual Processing in Drosophila melanogaster
• Sveinbjörnsson, Benjamín Ragnar — Self-Assembly of Brush Polymers
• Tadei, Federico — Extractive Institutions in Colonial Africa
• Tan, Frederick Eng How — Brfl Post-Transcriptionally Regulates Pluripotency and Differentiation Responses Downstream of Erk MAP Kinase
• Tavallali, Peyman — Sparse Time-Frequency Data Analysis: A Multi-Scale Approach
• Tendulkar, Shriharsh Prakash — Beyond the Blur: Construction and Characterization of the First Autonomous AO System and an AO Survev of Magnetar Proper Motions
• Thomas, Marion Y. — Frictional Properties of Fault: From Observations on the Longitudinal Valley Fault, Taiwan, to Dynamic Simulations
• Trudeau, Devin Lee — Engineering Enzyme Systems by Recombination
• Tsui, Emily Yuan — Transition Metal Clusters Supported by Multinucleating Ligand Frameworks as Models of Biological Active Sites
• Tucker, Rebecca Suzanne — Characterization of Detectors and Instrument Systematics for the SPIDER CMB Polarimeter
• Tyranowski, Tomasz Michal — Geometric Integration Applied to Moving Mesh Methods and Degenerate Lagrangians
• Van Arnam, Ethan Buggie — Chemical-Scale Studies of G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
• van Breugel, Floris — Complex Behavior and Perception in Drosophila Emerges from Iterative Feedback-Regulated Reflexes
• Varghese, Joseph O. — Scanning Probe Studies of Thin Films
• Verma, Siddhartha — Velocity Resolved - Scalar Modeled Simulations of High Schmidt Number Turbulent Transport
• Vowles, James Vincent — Cell-Targeted Regulation of Gene Expression through Synthetic RNA Devices
• Walkup, Ward Gale IV — Biochemical Studies of Postsynaptic Density Signaling Proteins With a Focus on synGAP and PDZ Domains
• Wang, Heng — High Temperature Transport Properties of Lead Chalcogenides and Their Alloys
• Wang, Shuo — Social Saliency: Visual Psychophysics and Single-Neuron Recordings in Humans
• Wang, Yun Elisabeth — Characterizing the Regulation of Mitochondrial Nucleoids
• Warmann, Emily Cathryn — Design Strategies for Ultra-High Efficiency Photovoltaics
• Wei, Ming-Hsin — Synthesis and Potency of Long End-Associative Polymers for Mist Control
• Wei, Wei — Microfluidics-Based Single-Cell Functional Proteomics Microchip for Portraying Protein Signal Transduction Networks within the Framework of Physicochemical Principles, with Applications in Fundamental and Translational Cancer Research
• Wiggenhorn, David Craig — Nanostructured Tungsten Trioxide Photoanodes for Solar Energy Conversion
• Wolfe, Brian Robert — Design and Analysis of Nucleic Acid Reaction Pathways
• Wolff, Eric McKenzie — Control of Dynamical Systems with Temporal Logic Specifications
• Wu, Stephen — Future of Earthquake Early Warning: Quantifying Uncertainty and Making Fast Automated Decisions for Applications
• Xuan, Yuan — Progress in Numerical Modeling of Non-Premixed Combustion
• Yang, Da — The Madden-Julian Oscillation: Observation, Modeling, and Theory
• Yang, Fei — Antitumor Activity of Py-lm Polyamides
• Yeoman, John Thomas Schafer — A Unified Strategy to Ent-Kauranoid Natural Products: Total Syntheses of (-)-Maoecrystal Z, (-)-Trichorabdal A, and (-)-Longikaurin E
• Yu, Jiun-Yann — Innovations of Wide-Field Optical-Sectioning Fluorescence Microscopy: Toward High-Speed Volumetric Bio-Imaging with Simplicity
• Zevalkink, Alexandra — Chain-Forming Zintl Antimonidcs as Novel Thermoelectric Materials
• Zhan, Zhongwen — Exploiting Seismic Waveforms of Ambient Noise and Earthquakes
• Zhang, Fan — Tools for the Study of Dynamical Spacetimes
• Zhao, Yu — Flexible Microimplants for In Vivo Sensing