Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2015

• Agbo, Peter Chukwudi Ifeanychukwu — Development of Metalloenzyme Dioxygen Reduction Cathodes
• Ahmed, Alysia Ashley — Structural Characterization of Pro-inflammatory and Anti-inflammatory Immunoglobulin G Fc Proteins
• Aitken, Zachary Howard — Effect of Microstructural Interfaces on the Mechanical Response of Crystalline Metallic Materials
• Allodi, Marco Alberto — On Ultrafast Time-Domain TeraHertz Spectroscopy in the Condensed Phase: Linear Spectroscopic Measurements of Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics of Astrochemical Ice Analogs and Nonlinear TeraHertz Kerr Effect Measurements of Vibrational Quantum Beats
• Arnold, Anna Ruth — Investigations of DNA-Mediated Protein Oxidation
• Aryanfar, Asghar — Dendrites Inhibition in Rechargeable Lithium Metal Batteries
• Asimakopoulos, Aristotelis — Macroscopically Dissipative Systems with Underlying Microscopic Dynamics : Properties and Limits of Measurement
• Bagert, John David — Quantitative, Time-Resolved Proteomic Analysis Using Bio-Orthogonal Non-Canonical Amino Acid Tagging
• Balaji Gopal, Chirranjeevi — Ab-Initio and Experimental Techniques for Studying Non-Stoichiometry and Oxygen Transport in Mixed Conducting Oxides
• Barnes, Taylor Arnold — Development and Application of Embedding Methods for the Simulation of Large Chemical Systems
• Bitter, Neal Phillip — Stability of Hypervelocity Boundary Layers
• Brown, David Ross — Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance at the Superionic Phase Transitions of Mixed Ion-Electron Conducting Materials
• Bui, Thinh Quoc — Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopies for Applications of Remote Sensing, Chemical Kinetics and Detection of Radical Species
• Callahan, Dennis Michael — Nanophotonic Light Trapping In Thin Solar Cells
• Carlson, Kyle Ian — Three Essays on Economics and Information Shocks
• Chang, Chieh-Feng — Wafer-Scalable Fabrication of Metal Nanostructures for Plasmonics-Assisted Biomedical Sensing Applications
• Chao, Matthew C. — How Behavioral Economics Can Shape Firm Strategy and Public Policy: Lessons from the Field and Laboratory
• Chaplin, Vernon Hampden — Battery-Powered RF Pre-Ionization System for the Caltech Magnetohydrodynamically-Driven Jet Experiment: RF Discharge Properties and MHD-Driven Jet Dynamics
• Chapman, Jonathan Neil — Death or Taxes? The Political Economy of Sanitation Expenditure in Nineteenth Century Britain
• Chen, Yi — Extraction of CP Properties of the H(125) Boson Discovered in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 and 8 TeV with the CMS Detector at the LHC
• Chen, Yi-Ju — The Mechanical Genome in Regulation and Infection
• Cherney, Alan Hayden — Development of Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling of Benzylic Electrophiles
• Chiong, Khai Xiang — Essays in Social and Economic Networks
• Chiriac, Liubomir — Special Frobenius Traces in Galois Representations
• Cho, Kangwoo — Wastewater Electrolysis Cell for Environmental Pollutants Degradation and Molecular Hydrogen Generation
• Cohen, Justin Daniel — Fiber-Optic Integration and Efficient Detection Schemes for Optomechanical Resonators
• Coralic, Vedran — Simulation of Shock-Induced Bubble Collapse with Application to Vascular Injury in Shockwave Lithotripsy
• Cornejo de los Santos, Emmanuel Lorenzo — Expanding the Toolkit for Synthetic Biology: Frameworks for Native-like Non-natural Gene Circuits
• Craig, Robert Allen, II — Progress Toward the Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Ineleganolide and the Polycyclic Norcembranoid Diterpenes and Construction of the Ineleganoloids
• Cubillos-Moraga, Max Anton — General-Domain Compressible Navier-Stokes Solvers Exhibiting Quasi-Unconditional Stability and High Order Accuracy in Space and Time
• Cvicek, Vaclav — Structure Prediction of G-Protein Coupled Receptors
• Da Silva Tavares, Ximena — Binding Studies of Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Expressing Unnatural Amino Acids
• Dasgupta, Kaushik — Self-Healing Techniques for RF and mm-Wave Transmitters and Receivers
• Dawra, Nakul — On the Link Floer Homology of L-space Link
• Day, Tristan William — Superionic Noble Metal Chalcogenide Thermoelectrics
• Deimund, Mark Austin — I. Nickel-Exchanged Zincosilicate Catalysts for the Oligomerization of Propylene and II. Organic SDA-Free Catalysts for the Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction
• Driggers, Jennifer Clair — Noise Cancellation for Gravitational Wave Detectors
• Duan, Ran — Instrumentation for Kinetic-Inductance-Detector-Based Submillimeter Radio Astronomy
• Elliot, Ross Filip — Topological Strings, Double Affine Hecke Algebras, and Exceptional Knot Homology
• En Gad, Eyal — Rewriting Schemes for Flash Memory
• Fakonas, James Spencer — Quantum Interference and Entanglement of Surface Plasmons
• Fan, Sin Tsun Edward — On the Construction of Higher étale Regulators
• Farwell, Christopher C. — Engineering and Characterization of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes for Nitrogen-Atom Transfer Reactions
• Findeisen, Krzysztof — New Insights from Aperiodic Variability of Young Stars
• Fisher, Geoffrey W. — Value Estimation and Comparison in Multi-Attribute Choice
• Fong, Henry — Metallaboratrane Facilitated E‒H Bond Activation and Hydrogenation Catalysis
• Fountaine, Katherine Theresa — Mesoscale Optoelectronic Design of Wire-Based Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Devices
• Fu, Amy Hau Yu — Mitigating Scarring and Inflammation during Corneal Wound Healing using Nanofiber-Hydrogel Scaffolds
• Furst, Ariel Lesa — DNA-Mediated Charge Transport Devices for Protein Detection
• Gabuchian, Vahe — Experimental Investigation of Thrust Fault Rupture Mechanics
• Gan, Lingwen — Distributed Load Control in Multiphase Radial Networks
• Gandhi, Avni Vasant — The Regulation of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms: The Role of Melatonin and Adenosine in Zebrafish
• Geraedts, Scott D. — Numerical Studies of Topological Phases
• Gharib, Alma Mariam — Visual Behavior and Preference Decision-Making in Response to Faces in High-Functioning Autism
• Ghosh, Srimoyee — Establishing the C. elegans Uterine Seam Cell (utse) as a Novel Model for Studying Cell Behavior
• Gibbs, Zachary Michael — Band Engineering in Thermoelectric Materials Using Optical, Electronic, and Ab-Initio Computed Properties
• Goban, Akihisa — Strong Atom-Light Interactions Along Nanostructures: Transition from Free-space to Nanophotonic Interfaces
• Goldberg, Mark David — Development of Microfluidic Devices with the Use of Nanotechnology to Aid in the Analysis of Biological Systems Including Membrane Protein Separation, Single Cell Analysis, and Genetic Markers
• Gomez, Marcella Mary — On the Role of Delays in Biological Systems : Analysis and Design
• González Palacios, Carlos Roberto — Optimal Data Distributions in Machine Learning
• Gordon, Jonny Robert — Applications of a Concise and General Strategy for the Syntheses of Transtaganolide and Basiliolide Natural Products
• Gristick, Harry Benjamin — Investigating the Role of the GET3-GET4/GET5 Interaction During Tail-Anchor Protein Targeting
• Gu, Xun Wendy — Strength, Deformation and Fracture in Metallic Nanostructures
• Han, Chao — Wide Field-of-View Microscopes and Endoscopes for Time-Lapse Imaging and High-Throughput Screening
• Handmer, Casey John — Gauge Invariant Spectral Cauchy Characteristic Extraction of Gravitational Waves in Computational General Relativity
• Harrison, Laura Anne — Real-World Social Cognition: Context Effects in Face and Threat Processing
• Heyden, Stefanie — Micromechanical Damage and Fracture in Elastomeric Polymers
• Ho, Margaret Ching Wai (MC) — Discovery of Active Cis-Regulatory Elements and Transcription Factor Footprints in Nematodes Using Functional Genomics Approaches
• Hoenselaar, Andreas — The Structure of Hippocampal Activity During REM Sleep
• Homyk, Andrew P. — Scalable Methods for Deterministic Integration of Quantum Emitters in Photonic Crystal Cavities
• Hong, Qi-Jun — Methods for Melting Temperature Calculation
• Hulikal Sampath Kumaran, Srivatsan — Collective Behavior of Asperities as a Model for Friction and Adhesion
• Idigo, Chinenye Abiodun — Structural and Biophysical Characterization of Variants of the Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance (MsCL)
• Ji, Chenguang — Design of Antenna-Coupled Lumped-Element Titanium Nitride KIDs for LongWavelength Multi-Band Continuum Imaging
• Johnson, Jena Elaine — Manganese: Minerals, Microbes, and the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis
• Kameel, Fathima Rifkha — Oxidation of Volatile Organic Compounds in Aqueous Solution and at the Air-water Interface of Aqueous Microdroplets
• Kammer, Joshua Andrew — Analyses of Planetary Atmospheres Across the Spectrum: From Titan to Exoplanets
• Kanady, Jacob Steven — Models of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II
• Kang, Dongyang — MEMS for Diabetic Retinopathy
• Kang, JeenJoo Sophia — Targeting DNA Repeat Sequences with Py-Im Polyamides
• Kasatkin, Victor — Some Constructions, Related to Noncommutative Tori; Fredholm Modules and the Beilinson–Bloch Regulator
• Kieffer, Madeleine Eileen — New Catalytic Methods for the Preparation of Tryptophans and Pyrroloindolines: Total Synthesis of (+)-Naseseazines A and B and (–)-Aspergilazine A
• Kimble, Jaclyn — The Voting Rights Act, Shelby County, and Redistricting: Improving Estimates of Racially Polarized Voting in a Multiple-Election Context
• Kirkpatrick, Andrea — Computational Predictions of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Structures and Binding Sites
• Kopf, Sebastian Hermann — From Lakes to Lungs: Assessing Microbial Activity in Diverse Environments
• Kovach, Matthew Luke — Essays in Behavioral Decision Theory
• Kozachkov, Henry — Modifying Bulk Metallic Glasses: Composites and Configurational States
• Krause, Alexander Grey — Acceleration Sensing, Feedback Cooling, and Nonlinear Dynamics with Nanoscale Cavity-Optomechanical Devices
• Kreamer, Naomi N. — Ferrous Iron Sensing and Responding in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Kretchmer, Joshua S. — Direct Simulation of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reaction Dynamics and Mechanisms
• Lam, Yan Choi — Synthesis, Oxidation and Photophysics of Perfluoroborated Tetrakis(pyrophosphito)diplatinate (II) and Density Functional Theory (DFT) Study of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction by Mn Catalysts
• Lee, Chung Whan — Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Curcusone C and Mechanistic Elucidation of an Unexpected Rearrangement
• Lee, Shu-Ping — Signatures of Topological Superconductors
• Lim, Keng-Wit — Discrete Modeling of Granular Media: A NURBS-based Approach
• Lim, Rod S. — How Resources Control Aggression in Drosophila
• Limaye, Ajay Brian Sanjay — Valley Evolution by Meandering Rivers
• Linares-Guerrero, Esperanza Crystal — Experimental Study on Inertial Effects in Liquid-Solid Flows
• Linghu, Daiqi — Chains of Non-Regular de Branges Spaces
• Liu, Justin — Development and Function of Sleep Regulatory Circuits in Zebrafish
• Liu, Yiyang — Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative and Decarbonylative Transformations in the Synthesis of Fine and Commodity Chemicals
• Luan, Jing — Toward Understanding Astrophysical Phenomena
• Lydon, Joseph John II — Nonlinear Effects in Granular Crystals with Broken Periodicity
• Mahdavi, Alborz — Synthetic Biology Tools for Targeted Incorporation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids into Cellular Proteins
• Mao, Wei — Information-Theoretic Studies and Capacity Bounds: Group Network Codes and Energy Harvesting Communication Systems
• Marotta, Christopher Bruno — Structure-Function Studies of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Using Selective Agonists and Positive Allosteric Modulators
• Martynov, Denis V. — Lock Acquisition and Sensitivity Analysis of Advanced LIGO Interferometers
• Mason, Gemma Ellen — Full and Model-Reduced Structure-Preserving Simulation of Incompressible Fluids
• Mauger, Lisa Mary — The Phonon Thermodynamics of Iron and Cementite
• Mbengue, Cheikh Oumar — Storm Track Response to Perturbations in Climate
• McGuire, Brett Andrew — Time-Domain TeraHertz Spectroscopy and Observational Probes of Prebiotic Interstellar Gas and Ice Chemistry
• McNamee, Daniel Ciarán — Neural and Computational Representations of Decision Variables
• Meenehan, Sean Michael — Cavity Optomechanics at Millikelvin Temperatures
• Mehta, Arnav — MicroRNA-132 is a Physiological Regulator of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Function and B-cell Development
• Miles, Timothy Francis — Binding Site Structure and Stoichiometry in Serotonin Type 3 Receptors
• Mooley, Kunal Prakash — Exploring the Dynamic Radio Sky: The Search for Slow Transients with the VLA
• Mosadeghi, Ruzbeh — Mechanistic Dissection of the Cop9 Signalosome’s Deneddylation Activity on Cullin-RING Ligases
• Mott, Alexander Robert — Search for Higgs Boson Production Beyond the Standard Model Using the Razor Kinematic Variables in pp Collisions at √s=8 TeV and Optimization of Higgs Boson Identification Using a Quantum Annealer
• Mourhatch, Ramses — Quantifying Earthquake Collapse Risk of Tall Steel Braced Frame Buildings Using Rupture-to-Rafters Simulations
• Nandra, Mandheerej Singh — Microelectrode Implants for Spinal Cord Stimulation in Rats
• Narang, Prineha — Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors and Metals: From Nitride Optoelectronics to Quantum Plasmonics
• Ni, Jane — Development of Asymmetric Protonation Reactions for the Synthesis of Indoline Alkaloids
• Ning, Xin — Imperfection Insensitive Thin Shells
• Norte, Richard Alexander — Nanofabrication for On-Chip Optical Levitation, Atom-Trapping, and Superconducting Quantum Circuits
• Oymak, Samet — Convex Relaxation for Low-Dimensional Representation: Phase Transitions and Limitations
• Pacheco, Joshua Joseph — New Catalysts for the Renewable Production of Monomers for Bioplastics
• Pai, Alex Hao-Yu — Sensing and Actuation from Biology to Electronics
• Parker, Rell Lin — Lynx1 Modulation of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
• Pellissier, Allyson Leigh — At Your Convenience: Facilitating Voting and Registration
• Piasecki, Alison Martha — Site-Specific Isotopes in Small Organic Molecules
• Pogorelskiy, Kirill B. — Essays on Correlated Equilibrium and Voter Turnout
• Raj, Mayank — Injection Locked Clocking and Transmitter Equalization Techniques for Chip to Chip Interconnects
• Rauls, Michael Brian — Shock Wave Behavior of Particulate Composites
• Reeves, Corey Michael — Strategies for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Carbon Quaternary Centers via Transition Metal-Catalyzed Alkylation of Enolate Compounds
• Revechkis, Boris — Neural Prosthetics and Parietal Cortex
• Ricci, Jessica Nicole — Constraining the Interpretation of 2-Methylhopanoids through Genetic and Phylogenetic Methods
• Savard, Bruno — Characterization and Modeling of Premixed Turbulent n-Heptane Flames in the Thin Reaction Zone Regime
• Schaefer, Kathryn Nicole — DNA-Mediated Oxidation of Transcription Factor p53
• Schenker, Matthew Aaron — Did Galaxies Reionize the Universe?
• Schilling, Katherine Ann — Secondary Organic Aerosol Composition Studies Using Mass Spectrometry
• Singer, Leo Pound — The Needle in the 100 deg² Haystack: The Hunt for Binary Neutron Star Mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory
• Singer, Zakary Sean — Metastability and Dynamics of Stem Cells: From Direct Observations to Inference at the Single Cell Level
• Siriki, Hemanth — Quantifying Earthquake Collapse Risk of Tall Steel Moment Frame Buildings Using Rupture-to-Rafters Simulations
• Skinner, Brian Paul — Logarithmic Potential Theory on Riemann Surfaces
• Srinivas, Niranjan — Programming Chemical Kinetics: Engineering Dynamic Reaction Networks with DNA Strand Displacement
• Stack, Kathryn Marie Morgan — Reconstructing Past Depositional and Diagenetic Processes through Quantitative Stratigraphic Analysis of the Martian Sedimentary Rock Record
• Steeves, John Bradley — Multilayer Active Shell Mirrors
• Stiles, Noelle Rebecca Barry — Behavioral and fMRI Measures of Crossmodal Plasticity Induced by Auditory Sensory Substitution
• Sullivan, Nicolette Jean — The Neurocomputational Basis of Self-Control Success and Failure
• Suseno, Sandy — Homo- and Heteronuclear Transition Metal Complexes Supported by Multinucleating Ligands
• Swanson, Erika McGoldrick — Structural and Clumped-Isotope Constraints on the Mechanisms of Displacement Along Low-Angle Detachments
• Szablowski, Jerzy Olgierd — Biological Activity of Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamides in vivo
• Teply, Grant Paul — Measurement of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with the BICEP2 and Keck Array Telescopes
• Thevamaran, Ramathasan — Rate and Microstructure Effects on the Dynamics of Carbon Nanotube Foams
• Trainor, Ryan Francis — Faint Galaxies in the Megaparsec-Scale Environments of Hyperluminous QSOs at Redshifts 2 < z < 3
• Trisnadi, Nathanie Alna — Regulation of Gastrulation Through Dynamic Patterning in the Drosophila Embryo
• Trivedi, Vikas — From Molecules to Organs : Microscopy and Multi-Scale Nature of Development
• Tsai, Ho-Cheng — Quantum Mechanics Studies of Fuel Cell Catalysts and Proton Conducting Ceramics with Validation by Experiment
• Usiskin, Robert Ezra — Surface Activity and Bulk Defect Chemistry of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes
• Veeraraghavan, Swetha — Toppling Analysis of Precariously Balanced Rocks under Earthquake Excitation
• Vilenchik, Yaakov — Narrow-Linewidth Si/III-V Lasers: a Study of Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear Effects
• Wall, Teagan Rose — Effects of TI-299423 on Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
• Wang, Andrew Chih-Kae — Investigating the Role of O-GlcNAc Glycosylation in Neurodegeneration
• Wang, Haoxuan — Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Diketopiperazinecontaining Natural Products: (–)-Lansai B, (+)-Nocardioazines A and B, and (–)-Acetylapoaranotin
• Wang, Rui — Effects of Self Energy of the Ions on the Double Layer Structure and Properties at the Dielectric Interface
• Wang, Xin C. — A Variational Framework for Spectral Discretization of the Density Matrix in Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory
• Wannier, Timothy Milton — Computationally Guided Monomerization of Red Fluorescent Proteins of the Class Anthozoa
• Waszczak, Adam — Solar System Small-Body Demographics with the Palomar Transient Factory Survey
• Webster, Alexandre — Mechanisms of Transposable Element Repression by Piwi Proteins in the piRNA Pathway of Drosophila Germ Cells
• Weidmann, Alyson Gloria — Biological Activity of Rhodium Metalloinsertors and the Design of Bifunctional Conjugates
• Weitekamp, Raymond Andrew — Multifunctional Materials: Bottom-Up and Top-Down
• Wickens, Zachary Kimble — Manipulating Selectivity and Reactivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions
• Wilson, Samantha Stricklin — Zn-VI/Cu2O Heterojunctions for Earth-Abundant Photovoltaics
• Wojnar, Charles Stanley — Exploring the Kinetics of Domain Switching in Ferroelectrics for Structural Applications
• Wollman, Emma Edwina — Quantum Squeezing of Motion in a Mechanical Resonator
• Wu, Yunji — Structural Characterizations of the Dimeric Anti-HIV Antibody 2G12 and the HIV-2 Envelope Glycoprotein
• Xiao, Hai — First Principles Based Multiparadigm Modeling of Electronic Structures and Dynamics
• Yang, Chih-Kai — An Exploration of Perovskite Materials for Thermochemical Water Splitting
• Yong, John — Dynamics and Heterogeneity of Gene Expression and Epigenetic Regulation at the Single-Cell Level
• Zhai, Xiang — Experimental, Numerical and Analytical Studies of the MHD-Driven Plasma Jet, Instabilities and Waves
• Zhang, Dongzhou — Applications of Nuclear Resonant Scattering to Further Our Understanding of Earth’s Interior
• Zhang, Ke — Volatiles in Protoplanetary Disks
• Zhang, Xuan — Investigation of Fundamental Processes Governing Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in Laboratory Chambers