Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2016

• Acharya, Aneesh — Multiplexed Analysis of Diverse RNA Classes via Hybridization Chain Reaction
• Agrawal, Vinamra — Shock Wave Propagation in Composites and Electro-Thermomechanical Coupling of Ferroelectric Materials
• Akhmetgaliyev, Eldar — Fast Numerical Methods for Mixed, Singular Helmholtz Boundary Value Problems and Laplace Eigenvalue Problems - with Applications to Antenna Design, Sloshing, Electromagnetic Scattering and Spectral Geometry
• Allen, Thomas F. — Two and Three Finger Caging of Polygons and Polyhedra
• Amelang, Jeffrey Scott — A Fully-Nonlocal Energy-based Formulation and High-performance Realization of the Quasicontinuum Method
• Araya, Daniel Borsodi — Aerodynamics of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines in Full-Scale and Laboratory-Scale Experiments
• Arya, Manan — Packaging and Deployment of Large Planar Spacecraft Structures
• Babin, Brett Michael — Bioorthogonal Noncanonical Amino Acid Tagging for Selective Analysis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Proteome
• Bajaj, Saurabh — Phase Diagrams and Defect Thermodynamics to Devise Doping Strategies in Lead Chalcogenide Thermoelectric Materials and its Alloys
• Belli, Sirio — Deep Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Galaxies: the Physical Growth of Passive Systems
• Beverland, Michael Edward — Toward Realizable Quantum Computers
• Billeh, Yazan Nicola — Functional, Clustered, Feedforward, and Mesoscale Brain Networks
• Blasius, Timothy Dobson — Optomechanical Inertial Sensors and Feedback Cooling
• Bobbitt, Brock Douglas — Small Scale Turbulence in High Karlovitz Number Premixed Flames
• Bottom, Michael — Two Roads to Planet Detection
• Brown, Ana Maii — Classical and Quantum Effects in Plasmonic Metals
• Bullard, Elizabeth Caryn — Optimization of NEMS for Frequency Shift Sensing Applications
• Burgoyne, Hayden Andrew — Dynamics of Granular Crystals with Elastic-Plastic Contacts
• Cahn, Jackson Kenai Blender — Engineering, Predicting, and Understanding Nicotinamide Cofactor Specificity
• Cai, Wuhan Desmond — Electricity Markets for the Smart Grid: Networks, Timescales, and Integration with Control
• Cao, Yi — Cosmic Explosions: Observations Of Infant Hydrogen-Free Supernovae Towards An Understanding Of Their Parent Systems
• Case, David Hamilton — Carbonate-Associated Microbial Ecology at Methane Seeps: Assemblage Composition, Response to Changing Environmental Conditions, and Implications for Biomarker Longevity
• Chang, Yingrui (Ray) — A Continuum Model for Slip-Twinning Interactions in Magnesium and Magnesium Alloys
• Chaubard, Jean-Luc — Development of Chemoenzymatic Labeling Approaches for the Detection of Fucosylated Biomarkers
• Chen, Bo — Quantum of Vision
• Chen, Christopher Tien — Heteroepitaxy of Group IV and Group III-V semiconductor alloys for photovoltaic applications
• Chen, David Zhaoyue — Atomic-Level Structure and Deformation in Metallic Glasses
• Chen, Jinqiang — Dynamics of the East Asian Summer Monsoon in Present and Future Climates
• Chen, Shijia — Light Dependent Regulation of Sleep/Wake States by Prokineticin 2 in Larval Zebrafish
• Chickering, William Elbridge — Thermopower in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems
• Choi, Jeesoon — Unsteady Aerodynamics and Optimal Control of an Airfoil at Low Reynolds Number
• Chuang, Kangway V. — A Total Synthesis of (+)-Ryanodol
• Clark, Andrew James — Delivery of Targeted Nanoparticles Across the Blood-Brain Barrier Using a Detachable Targeting Ligand
• Coggon, Matthew Mitchell — Field and Laboratory Studies of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol
• Coronel, Naomi Cristina — Earth-Abundant Zinc-IV-Nitride Semiconductors
• Coronel, Stephanie Alexandra — Thermal Ignition Using Moving Hot Particles
• Creutz, Sidney E. — Design, Synthesis, and Study of Novel Platforms for Iron-N2 Chemistry and Photoinduced, Copper-mediated C-N Bond Formation
• Crowley, Jason Michael — Resolution of the Band Gap Prediction Problem for Materials Design
• Cui, Miao — Refining Sea Urchin Developmental Gene Regulatory Network Models by Incorporating Wnt Signaling and Information Processed at the hox11/13b Locus
• Cymbalist, Niccolo — Mixing, Chemical Reactions, and Combustion in Supersonic Flows
• Davenport, Andrew M. — The Molecular Basis of Lysine Acetylation: Addition, Removal, and Recognition
• De Lorenzo, Laura Anne — Optomechanics with Superfluid Helium-4
• Dizon, Abel Bermie Roberto — A Hybrid-Parallel Framework for the Nonlinear Seismic Analysis of Very Tall Buildings
• Dodson, Leah G. — Gas Phase Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Atmospheric Radicals
• Dooling, Lawrence Joseph — Programming Molecular Association and Viscoelastic Behavior in Protein Hydrogels
• Dunne, Reeve — Dynamic Stall on Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
• Dunne, Simon G. — Neural and Hormonal Systems Underlying Human Reward-Seeking Behavior
• Duvvuri, Subrahmanyam — Non-Linear Scale Interactions in a Forced Turbulent Boundary Layer
• Edouard, Guy Anthony — Late Transition Metals Supported by Aryl Ethers and Phenoxides Bearing Pendant Phosphines: Mechanistic Insights Relevant to Ether C-O Bond Cleavage
• Eisler, Carissa Nicole — Photonic and Device Design Principles for Ultrahigh-Efficiency (>50%), Spectrum-Splitting Photovoltaics
• Emmer, Hal S. — Paths Towards High Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaics
• Erkenbrack, Eric Matthew — Evolution of Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks in Echinoids
• Evoen, Vanessa — Electrocatalysis in Solid Acid Fuel Cell Electrodes
• Farivar, Masoud — Optimization and Control of Power Flow in Distribution Networks
• Galimidi, Rachel P. — Combating HIV with Novel Antibody Architectures
• Good, Jacob Thomas — Design and Applications of a Decade-Spanning Terahertz Frequency Comb Spectrometer: Doppler-limited Rotational Spectroscopy of Methanol and Methanol-OD
• Grodick, Michael Andrew — DNA-Mediated Charge Transport Signaling Within the Cell
• Ha, Quoc Bao Nguyen — Plasma Loop and Strapping Field Dynamics: Reproducing Solar Eruptions in the Laboratory
• Haley, Christopher Keating — Aryne Reactions in the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Molecules
• Han, Seojung — I. Synthetic Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Polycyclic Natural Products – Communesin F, Perophoramidine and Ineleganolide. II. Nickel Catalyzed Intramolecular C–O Bond Formation
• Henthorn, Justin Travis — Molybdenum Quinonoid Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity
• Horak, Kyle Tadashi — The Design and Synthesis of Transition Metal Complexes Supported by Non-innocent Ligand Scaffolds for Small Molecule Activation
• Horstmeyer, Roarke William — Computational Microscopy: Turning Megapixels into Gigapixels
• Hsiao, Victoria — Synthetic Circuits for Feedback and Detection in Bacteria
• Hua, Chengyun — Exploring Thermal Phonon Transport from Atomic to Macroscopic Scales for Energy Conversion and Management
• Huang, Yifei — Essays in Economic History and Applied Microeconomics
• Hung, Peter Shek-Ho — Advanced Applications of Nanoelectromechanical Systems
• Hurley, Ryan Colt — Force Chains, Friction, and Flow: Behavior of Granular Media across Length Scales
• Husain, Naeem Shahab — Mapping mRNA and Protein Expression with High Signal-to-Background in Diverse Organisms
• Hwang, Brian W. — Constructing Self-Dual Automorphic Representations on General Linear Groups
• Imai, Taisuke — Essays in Revealed Preference Theory and Behavioral Economics
• Jaganathan, Kishore — Convex Programming-Based Phase Retrieval: Theory and Applications
• Jang, Mooseok — Optical Phase Conjugation and Its Applications in Biology
• Janover, Christopher George — SteelConverter and Caltech VirtualShaker: Rapid Nonlinear Cloud-Based Structural Model Conversion and Analysis
• Jerves Cobo, Alex Xavier — Microscopic Origin of Macroscopic Strength in Granular Media: A Numerical and Analytical Approach
• Jiang, Junle — Probabilistic Imaging and Dynamic Modeling of Earthquake Source Processes
• Jonsson, Vanessa Danielle — Robust Control of Evolutionary Dynamics
• Kadunce, Nathaniel Thomas — Development of Ni-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling Reactions
• Kaltenboeck, Georg — Investigation of Capacitive Discharge Heating of Metallic Glasses
• Karakus, Gokcan — Real-Time Bayesian Analysis of Ground Motion Envelopes for Earthquake Early Warning
• Kim, Hyun-Sik — Thermoelectric Properties of Bismuth Antimony Telluride Alloys
• Kim, Jocelyn Tammy — The Innate Immune System in Dendritic Cell-Targeted Lentiviral Vector Immunization and Cell-to-Cell Transmission of HIV-1
• Lapointe, Simon — Simulation of Premixed Hydrocarbon Flames at High Turbulence Intensities
• Laraia, Anne Louise — Observations and Modeling of Tropical Planetary Atmospheres
• Leighton, Daniel H. W. — Mating at Advanced Age: How Old Nematodes Modulate Pheromone Production to Attract Young Males
• Li, Boyu — Ring/Chain versus Network: Architecture Induced by Self- versus Pairwise-Association of Telechelic Polymers
• Li, Dunzhu — Some Advances in Computational Geophysics: Seismic Wave and Inverse Geodynamic Modeling
• Liang, Yufan — Applications of Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Methods in the Synthesis of Organofluorine Compounds
• Lin, Wei-Hsun — Dynamic Characterization of Micro-Particle Systems
• Lionetti, Davide — Heterometallic Complexes as Models of Enzymatic Active Sites
• Liska, Sebastian — Fast Lattice Green's Function Methods for Viscous Incompressible Flows on Unbounded Domains
• Liu, Fan — Classical Force Field Simulations of Biological Processes and Quantum Chemical Computations of Homogeneous Catalysts
• Liu, Yang — Novel Parylene Filters for Biomedical Applications
• Liu, Zhao — Electromyographic Signal Processing With Application To Spinal Cord Injury
• Livingston, Scott Carlton — Incremental Control Synthesis for Robotics in the Presence of Temporal Logic Specifications
• Lubeck, Eric — Towards in situ Single Cell Systems Biology
• Ma, Yiran — Imaging the Earth with Ambient Noise and Earthquakes
• Manohar, Swarnima — Lurking in ULIRGs: Molecular Gas in local Merging Galaxies
• Marlow, Jeffrey James — Physical, Metabolic, and Energetic Investigations of Methane-Metabolizing Microbial Communities
• Martens, Hilary Rose — Using Earth Deformation Caused by Surface Mass Loading to Constrain the Elastic Structure of the Crust and Mantle
• Martinez-Ortiz, Monica Paola — Fluid Transport by Aggregations of Small Swimming Organisms
• Martinez, Thomas Farid — Investigations of Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamide Effects on DNA Replication
• Matni, Nikolai — Distributed Optimal Control of Cyber-Physical Systems: Controller Synthesis, Architecture Design and System Identification
• McVay, Renee Catherine — Modeling the Effect of Vapor Wall Deposition on the Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol in Chamber Studies
• Meng, Jomela Chen-Chen — Numerical Simulations of Droplet Aerobreakup
• Meza, Lucas Rosendo — Design, Fabrication, and Mechanical Property Analysis of 3D Nanoarchitected Materials
• Minchew, Brent Morton — Mechanics of Deformable Glacier Beds
• Mital, Utkarsh — Understanding Micro- and Macro-Mechanics of Soil Liquefaction: A Necessary Step for Field-Scale Assessment
• Mitchell, Sarah Louise — Topology Optimization of Silicon Anode Structures for Lithium-Ion Battery Applications
• Mitchell, Stephanie Jane — Metaconcrete: Engineered Aggregates for Enhanced Dynamic Performance
• Montemayor, Lauren Christine — Fabrication, Characterization, And Deformation of 3D Structural Meta-Materials
• Montero, Sergio — Essays in Econometrics and Political Economy
• Myers, Samantha Louise — Three Essays on Inequality and Political Economy
• Nakajima, Miki — Origin of the Earth and Moon
• Nandi, Debaleena — Coulomb Drag and Tunneling Studies in Quantum Hall Bilayers
• Nastasescu, Maria Monica — Nonvanishing of L-Functions for GL(n)
• Natsiavas, Panagiotis Philippos — Stability of Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces During Charging in Lithium Batteries
• Nave, Gideon — Mechanisms Underlying Economic Choice
• Nerella, Tejaswi Venumadhav — The Astrophysics of Strongly Interacting Systems
• Newcombe, Megan Eve — Solubility and Diffusivity of Water in Lunar Basalt, and Chemical Zonation in Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions
• Ni, Xiang — Rota-Baxter Algebras, Renormalization on Kausz Compactifications and Replicating of Binary Operads
• Nielander, Adam Christopher — Chemical and Electrochemical Behavior of Graphene-Covered Silicon Photoanodes
• Ou, Xiaoze — Computational Microscopy: Breaking the Limit of Conventional Optics
• Owens, Gwen Ellen — Biochemical and Biophysical Characterization of Huntingtin
• Pan, Dorothy Weichi — Development of a Cationic Mucic Acid Polymer-Based Nanoparticle siRNA Delivery System
• Papusha, Ivan Igorevych — Robustness, Adaptation, and Learning in Optimal Control
• Park, Soyoung — Connectivity and Function of the Primate Insula
• Pei, Du — 3d-3d Correspondence for Seifert Manifolds
• Peng, Qiuyu — Distributed Control and Optimization for Communication and Power Systems
• Perez, Kathryn A. — Structural and Biochemical Characterization of Ligand Bound States of the FeMo-Cofactor of Nitrogenase
• Post, Michael Robert — Agonist Binding Studies at Two Subtypes of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Involved in Parkinson’s Disease and Addiction
• Prancevic, Jeffrey Paul — Sediment Mobility in Steep Channels and the Transition to Landsliding
• Quigley, Brendan Liam — Understanding Selectivity and Activity in Z-selective Metathesis with Cyclometallated Ru-based Catalysts
• Rao, Meera — Mechanisms of Regulation and Fidelity in Tail-Anchored Membrane Protein Targeting
• Raven, Morgan Reed — Organic Matter Sulfurization in the Modern Ocean
• Regan, Clinton Joseph — Photochemical Strategies to Decage Organic Compounds
• Rios, Gustavo — Nanofabricated Neural Probe System for Dense 3-D Recordings of Brain Activity
• Rittle, Jonathan Daniel — Proton-Coupled Reduction of N₂ Facilitated by Molecular Fe Complexes
• Rojansky, Rebecca Bloom — A Core Mitophagic Machinery Promotes Selective Degradation of Paternal Mitochondria in Mouse Embryos and MEF Cells
• Runnels, Brandon Scott — A Model for Energy and Morphology of Crystalline Grain Boundaries with Arbitrary Geometric Character
• Saeedi, Saman — Holistic Design In High-Speed Optical Interconnects
• Sauerbrei, Britton Alan — Firing Patterns of Cerebellar Purkinje Cells During Locomotion and Sleep
• Scheingross, Joel Simon — Mechanics of Sediment Transport and Bedrock Erosion in Steep Landscapes
• Schmidt, Bryan Eric — On the Stability of Supersonic Boundary Layers with Injection
• Schmidt, Joel Edward — Imidazolium-Based Organic Structure Directing Agents for the Synthesis of Microporous Materials
• Segal, Helen Muriel — Electrochemical Methods to Study Iron-Sulfur Cluster Proteins
• Shafaat, Oliver Syed — Temporal Control of Ion Channel Activation
• Shai, Adam S. — The Physiology and Computation of Pyramidal Neurons
• Shaner, Matthew Reed — An Experimental and Technoeconomic Study of Silicon Microwire Arrays for Fuel Production Using Solar Energy
• Shankar, Krishna — Kinematics and Local Motion Planning for Quasi-static Whole-body Mobile Manipulation
• Shin, Euncheol — Essays on Social Networks and Political Economy
• Shing, Amanda M. — Development of Zn-IV-Nitride Semiconductor Materials and Devices
• Siebach, Kirsten Leigh — Formation and Diagenesis of Sedimentary Rocks in Gale Crater, Mars
• Siegel, Seth Robert — A Multiwavelength Study of the Intracluster Medium and the Characterization of the Multiwavelength Sub/millimeter Inductance Camera
• Sinha, Gaurav — Blackbox Reconstruction of Depth Three Circuits with Top Fan-In Two
• Slotznick, Sarah Pearl — Coupling Textural, Magnetic, and Modeling Techniques to Understand Precambrian Paleoenvironments
• Sousa, Francis Joseph — Tectonics of Central and Eastern California, Late Cretaceous to Modern
• Stevens, Victoria Louise — Reconciling Geodetic Strain and Seismicity Rate with Frequency-Magnitude Relation of the Largest Earthquakes
• Stoica, Bogdan — Boundary Relative Entropy as Quasilocal Energy: Positive Energy Theorems and Tomography
• Su, Zhan — High-Latitude Ocean Convection and Gyre Dynamics
• Sun, Zachary Zhipeng — An in vitro Biomolecular Breadboard for Prototyping Synthetic Biological Circuits
• Sutherland, Alexander Muir — Technology for Single Cell Protein Analysis in Immunology and Cancer Prognostics
• Tan, Zhihong — Simulations and Mechanisms of Subtropical Low-cloud Response to Climate Change
• Tang, Yinglu — Thermoelectric Skutterudites: Why and How High zT Can Be Achieved
• Thill, Matthew David — Algebraic Techniques in Coding Theory: Entropy Vectors, Frames, and Constrained Coding
• Thomas, Daniel Aaron — Chemical Reaction Dynamics of the Liquid/Vapor Interface Studied by Mass Spectrometry
• Thrampoulidis, Christos — Recovering Structured Signals in High Dimensions via Non-Smooth Convex Optimization: Precise Performance Analysis
• Titum, Paraj — Disorder Driven Transitions in Non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems
• Tobin, Cory James — Morphogenesis of the Arabidopsis Shoot Apical Meristem
• Tolstova, Yulia — Cu₂O Heterojunction Photovoltaics
• Towne, Aaron S. — Advancements in Jet Turbulence and Noise Modeling: Accurate One-Way Solutions and Empirical Evaluation of the Nonlinear Forcing of Wavepackets
• Tracy, Sally June — Polaron Hopping in Olivine Phosphates Studied by Nuclear Resonant Scattering
• Trembath-Reichert, Elizabeth — Molecular and Geochemical Insights into Microbial Life Centimeters to Kilometers Below the Seafloor
• Tsai, Hsieh-Chen — Numerical Investigation of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines at Low Reynolds Number
• Tserenjigmid, Gerelt — Essays in Behavioral Decision Theory
• Uy, Benjamin Robert — Insights into Neural Crest Evolution
• Wadas, Brandon Christopher — Biochemical and Genetic Studies of the N-End Rule Pathway in Yeast and Mammals
• Wang, Connie Yuan-Ying — Understanding Co-Translational Protein Targeting and Lithium Dendrite Formation through Free Energy Simulations and Coarse-Grained Models
• Webb, Michael Anthony — Path-Integral and Coarse-Graining Strategies for Complex Molecular Phenomena
• Weinstein, Aaron Jacob — Quantum Electromechanics with Two Tone Drive
• Wills, Robert Christopher — Stationary Eddies and Zonal Variations of the Global Hydrological Cycle in a Changing Climate
• Yan, Wen — Dynamics of Chemically Active Suspensions
• Yeaton-Massey, David Joseph — Cryogenic Silicon Optical Reference Cavities
• Yeo, Foo Yee — l-adic Cohomology of the Dual Lubin-Tate Tower via the Exterior Power
• Yeung, Enoch Ho-Yee — Reverse Engineering and Quantifying Context Effects in Synthetic Gene Networks
• You, Seungil — A Direct Approach to Robustness Optimization
• Yuet, Kai P. — Tools For Spatiotemporally Specific Proteomic Analysis In Multicellular Organisms
• Zhang, Qiaoxi — Three Essays on Information Economics
• Zhao, Changhong — Real-Time Load-Side Control of Electric Power Systems
• Zhao, Sinan — Advanced Monte Carlo Simulation and Machine Learning for Frequency Domain Optical Coherence Tomography