Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2017

• Appel, Ron — Boosting Boosting
• Bachman, Shoshana — Development of Cu- and Ni-Catalyzed C–C and C–N Bond Forming Reactions
• Balokovic, Mislav — Unveiling the Structure of Active Galactic Nuclei with Hard X-ray Spectroscopy
• Batara, Nicolas Anthony — Spontaneous Pattern Formation in Photoelectrodeposited Semiconductor Films
• Bates, Kelvin Hamilton — Isoprene Oxidation Mechanisms and Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Under HO2-Dominated Conditions
• Bhattacharyya, Pinaky — Optimal Sensor Placement for Bayesian Parametric Identification of Structures
• Bhui, Rahul Brian — Essays on Timing and Economic Behavior
• Bischoff, Tobias — Dynamics of the Intertropical Convergence Zone
• Blackman, Jonathan Lloyd — Surrogate Models of Gravitational Waves from Numerical Relativity Simulations of Binary Black Hole Mergers
• Blumenfeld, Carl Michael — Covalent Functionalization of Metal-Oxide Surfaces with Non-Traditional Ligands
• Boynton, Adam Nathaniel — Targeting DNA Mismatches with Luminescent Ruthenium Complexes
• Brand, Stephen Kramer — I. Tin Silsesquioxanes as Analogs for the Open and Closed Sites in Tin-Containing Zeotype Beta and II. Enantiomerically Enriched, Polycrystalline Molecular Sieves
• Bruer, John Jacob — Recovering Structured Low-rank Operators Using Nuclear Norms
• Burton, Peter J. — Approximation and Classification in the Ergodic Theory of Nonamenable Groups
• Catanach, Thomas Anthony — Computational Methods for Bayesian Inference in Complex Systems
• Chalupka, Krzysztof — Automated Macro-scale Causal Hypothesis Formation Based on Micro-scale Observation
• Chan, Ken Yee — Engineered Viral Vectors and Developed Tissue Clearing Methods for Single-cell Phenotyping in Whole Organs
• Chan, William — Aspects of Definability for Equivalence Relations
• Chapman, Lauren Marie — Development of a Synthetic Strategy Toward Trans-Cyclobutane-Containing Natural Products: Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Psiguadial B
• Chen, Yuhua Richard — Concentration Inequalities of Random Matrices and Solving Ptychography with a Convex Relaxation
• Chern, Albert Ren-Haur — Fluid Dynamics with Incompressible Schrödinger Flow
• Cheung, Sheldon Ting Fong — Discovery and Development of Small-Molecule Modulators for the Sulfation of Glycosaminoglycans and Studying the Role of O-GlcNAc on CREB through Semisynthesis
• Chu, Crystal Kitying — Advances in Selectivity and Reactivity in Transition Metal Catalysis: Carbon–Silicon Bond Formation, Wacker Oxidation, and Olefin Metathesis
• Chu, Hao — Nonlinear and Ultrafast Optical Investigations of Correlated Materials
• Collins, Lincoln Nash — Optimal Design of Materials for Energy Conversion
• Cox, Stephen Ellis — New Techniques for Noble Gas Geochronometry and Thermochronometry
• Cummings, Rachel Autumn Dixon — The Implications of Privacy-Aware Choice
• Darbe, Sunita — Optics for High-Efficiency Full Spectrum Photovoltaics
• Darnton, Tania Victoria — Structures and Reactions of Diplatinum Complexes
• Delapierre, Mélanie — Dynamics and Stability of Spinning Membranes
• Ding, Ding — Nanoscale Thermal Transport with Photons and Phonons
• Dong, Sijia S. — First-Principles-Based Simulations for G Protein-Coupled Receptor Activation and for Large-Scale Nonadiabatic Electron Dynamics
• Duarte, Javier Mauricio Gonzalez — Naturalness Confronts Nature: Searches for Supersymmetry with the CMS Detector in pp Collisions at √s = 8 and 13 TeV
• Duquette, Douglas Charles — Highly Enantioselective Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation Reactions of Carbocyclic Enaminones and Acyclic Substrates
• Eyjolfsdottir, Eyrun-Arna — Computational Methods for Behavior Analysis
• Fang, Katharine Yan — Modulating Biophysical Properties of Insulin with Non-Canonical Mutagenesis at Position B28
• Fiedler, Kevin Robert — Fundamentals of Thermocapillary Sculpting of Liquid Nanofilms and Applications to Thin Film Micro-Optics
• Finneran, Ian Alan — Terahertz and Microwave Spectroscopy of Liquids and Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters
• Fisher-Aylor, Katherine Irene — Chromatin Topology and Transcription in Myogenesis
• Flowers, Cristofer Addison — Full Spectrum Ultrahigh Efficiency Photovoltaics: System Design, Integration, and Characterization
• Fu, Lei — Immersing Essential Surfaces in Odd Dimensional Closed Hyperbolic Manifolds
• Gao, Peter — Clouds and Hazes in Planetary Atmospheres
• Glasser, Nathaniel Robert — Physiological and Biochemical Mechanisms of Phenazine-Mediated Survival in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Griffin, Matthew Everett — Discovering Biological Roles of Glycosaminoglycans and Protein O-GlcNAcylation Using Chemical Tools
• Griffith, Adam Reid — DarwinDock and GAG-Dock: Methods and Applications for Small Molecule Docking
• Guo, Shaobin — Prototyping Diverse Synthetic Biological Circuits in a Cell-Free Transcription-Translation System
• Guo, Zeyu — P-Schemes and Deterministic Polynomial Factoring Over Finite Fields
• Halbawi, Wael — Error-Correcting Codes for Networks, Storage and Computation
• Hall, David Christopher — Advancing a Machine's Visual Awareness of People
• Hall, Evan Drew — Long-Baseline Laser Interferometry for the Detection of Binary Black-Hole Mergers
• Hedelius, Jacob K. — What Can We Infer About the Atmospheric Composition Within the South Coast Air Basin from Remote Sensing?
• Henning, Ryan Kenneth — Targeting Undruggable Oncoprotein Epitopes with Protein Catalyzed Capture Agents
• Herrera, Nadia — Structure and Function of the Mycobacterial Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance, MscL
• Herrmann, Enrico — Scattering in N=4 Super Yang Mills and N=8 Supergravity
• Hirsch, Damian George — An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Active Flow Control
• Hogstrom, Kristina — Robotically Assembled Space Telescopes with Deployable Modules: Concepts and Design Methodologies
• Hong, Yun-Hua — Theory of Dynamical Processes in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
• Hood, Jonathan David — Atom-Light Interactions in a Photonic Crystal Waveguide
• Hsueh, Chun-Jen — Effective Toughness of Heterogeneous Materials
• Huang, Wentao — Coding for Security and Reliability in Distributed Systems
• Hufstedler, Esteban Antonio Lemus — Experimental Generation and Modeling of Vortical Gusts and Their Interactions with an Airfoil
• Hulse, Bradley Kline — Membrane Potential Dynamics of Hippocampal Neurons During Ripples in Awake Mice
• Hunter, Bryan Michael — Fuels and Materials from Sunlight and Water
• Ignatowich, Michael Joseph — An Investigation of Nonstoichiometric Oxides for Solar-Driven Thermochemical Fuel Production
• Inbal, Asaf — Seismogeodetic Imaging of Active Crustal Faulting
• Jensen-Clem, Rebecca Marie — A Toolbox for Exoplanet Exploration
• Ji, Ho-Il — Redox Kinetics of Nonstoichiometric Oxides
• Ji, Yuewei Lucy — Organic Structure Directing Agent Free Synthesis of Small Pore Zeolite Catalysts for the Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction
• Johnson, Samantha Jo Iva — Computational Investigation of Small Molecule Catalysis by Cobalt, Rhodium, and Iridium Molecular Catalysts
• Kamajaya, Aron — Structural Study of Piezo Channel, a Unique Family of Eukaryotic Mechanosensitive Channel
• Kao, Melodie Minyu — Constraining Substellar Magnetic Dynamos using Brown Dwarf Radio Aurorae
• Kher, Aditya Shreyas — Superconducting Nonlinear Kinetic Inductance Devices
• Kim, Jinho — Compact Microscope System for Biomedical Applications
• Kim, Kelly Eun-Jung — The Synthesis and Late-Stage Diversification of the Cyanthiwigin Natural Product Core and Synthetic Insights Derived Therein
• Kim, Seyoon — Electronically Tunable Light Modulation with Graphene and Noble Metal Plasmonics
• Lapôtre, Mathieu Gaetan Andre — Sedimentary Processes on Earth and Mars: Canyon Erosion, Sand-Ripple Formation, and Mineral Composition
• Lei, Chan U — Circuit Cavity Electromechanics in the Quantum Regime
• Lemm, Marius Christopher — Mathematical Results on Quantum Many-Body Physics
• Li, Cheng — Convection in Planetary Atmospheres: Titan's Haze, Saturn's Storm and Jupiter's Water
• Li, Hanqing — Development of a High-Throughput Protein Interaction Assay and its Applications
• Li, Qi Wen — Biophysical Characterization of an ABC L-methionine Transporter
• Lieblich, Seth Aharon — Non-Canonical Amino Acid Mutagenesis of Position B28 In Insulin with Proline Analogs
• Lin, Daniel Hanyang — The Architecture of the Nuclear Pore Complex
• Lingner, Nicole Renate — The Faint Intergalactic-Medium Redshifted Emission Balloon: FIREBall-2 Scientific Camera and Cooling System
• Liontas, Rachel — Controlling Deformability in Metallic Glass Nanopillars and Nanolattices
• Liu, Pengfei — Spatial Profiles in the Singular Solutions of the 3D Euler Equations and Simplified Models
• Liu, Raymond — Mechanisms of Drp1 Recruitment to Mitochondria
• Lu, Daodi — Quasiparabolic Subgroups of Coxeter Groups and Their Hecke Algebra Module Structures
• Lui, Semechah Ka Yan — Earthquake Source Characterization Through Seismic Observations and Numerical Modeling
• Magyar, Paul Macdonald — Insights into Pathways of Nitrous Oxide Generation from Novel Isotopologue Measurements
• Malatesta, Luca Claude — Impact of Climate and Tectonics on the Morphodynamics of Alluvial Piedmonts, Implications for Sediment Transfer and the Stratigraphic Record
• Mayskaya, Tatiana S. — Essays on Information Collection
• McClung, Andrew Corby — Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Integration into an Atomic Physics Experiment
• Mertens, Laura Anna — Experiments on Gas Phase Chemistry with High Sensitivity Laser Spectroscopy
• Miyazono, Evan Tsugio — Nanophotonic Resonators for Optical Quantum Memories based on Rare-Earth-Doped Materials
• Mock, Jee Young — The Bag6 Complex: Biological Complexity through Modularity
• Monge Osorio, Manuel Alejandro — Localization and Stimulation Techniques for Implantable Medical Electronics
• Montet, Benjamin Tyler — Low-Mass Stars and Their Companions
• Morrison, Christine Nichole — Insights into the Mechanism of Biological Nitrogen Fixation through Characterization of the Nitrogenase Molybdenum-Iron Protein
• Mozgunov, Evgeny — Slow Drive of Many-Body Localized Systems
• Mui, Wilton — Development and Applications of Opposed Migration Aerosol Classifiers (OMACs)
• Muniz Silva, Juan Andres — Nanoscopic Atomic Lattices with Light-Mediated Interactions
• Murialdo, Maxwell Robert — Anomalous Thermodynamics of Nonideal Gas Physisorption on Nanostructured Carbons
• Nadkarni, Neel P. — Nonlinear Dynamics of Transition Waves in Multi-Stable Discrete and Continuous Media
• Nasrollahpoursamami, Emad — Periods of Feynman Diagrams
• Ngo, Henry Hoang Khoi — Formation and Migration Histories of Giant Exoplanets in Multi-stellar Systems
• Nicolaou, Zachary George — Symmetry and Variational Analyses of Fluid Interface Equations in the Thin Film Limit
• Noorzad, Parham — Network Effects in Small Networks: A Study of Cooperation
• O'Connor, Nicholas R. — Methodological Developments and Synthetic Applications of Strained Rings and Allylic C-H Functionalization of Hindered Substrates
• O'Rourke, Joseph Ghilarducci — The Divergent Evolution of Earth and Venus
• Ohno, Saneyuki — Phase Boundary Mapping for Exploring New Thermoelectric Zintl Compounds
• Oklopčić, Antonija — Radiative Processes in Astrophysical Gases: From the Intergalactic and Interstellar Medium to Exoplanetary Atmospheres
• Orazov, Marat — Development and Characterization of Catalytic Systems for Biomass-Derived Chemical Feedstocks
• Palm, Steven Leslie — Thermo-Acoustic Coupling and Dynamic Response of a Premixed Methane-Air Flame
• Pan, Lu — Insights into the Geologic History of Mars’ Northern Lowlands from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
• Peña, Cristián Herrera — Searches for New Physics at the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment and Precision Timing Calorimetry
• Pérez Arancibia, Carlos Andrés — Windowed Integral Equation Methods for Problems of Scattering by Defects and Obstacles in Layered Media
• Pineda, John Sebastian — Multiwavelength Characterization of the Brown Dwarf Auroral Phenomenon - Establishing the Nature of the Electrodynamic Engine
• Plucinsky, Paul P. — The Deformations of Thin Nematic Elastomer Sheets
• Plymale, Noah Thomas — Spectroscopic, Electronic, and Mechanistic Studies of Silicon Surfaces Chemically Modified with Short Alkyl Chains
• Pollack, Jason Aaron — Constraints on Cosmology and Quantum Gravity from Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory
• Popescu, Paula Flor — An Optofluidic Ring Resonator Platform for Rapid and Robust Sensing
• Price, Jason Brian — I: Normal Faulting on the Austroalpine ‘Overthrust’ Constrained by Thermochronometry and Kinematic Analysis, Central Alps, Graubünden Region, Switzerland. II: Clumped Isotope Thermometry of Carbonate Phases Associated with the Copper Deposits of Kennecott, Alaska
• Pritchett, Beau Patrick — Studies in Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation: Enantioselective Total Syntheses of Structurally Diverse Alkaloids
• Rapp, Peter Butterweck — Diffusion and Molecular Association in Artificial Protein Hydrogels
• Ravichandran, Navaneetha Krishnan — Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Phonon Boundary Scattering in Thin Silicon Membranes
• Remmen, Grant Newton — Defining Gravity: Effective Field Theory, Entanglement, and Cosmology
• Riel, Bryan Valmonte — Automatic Decomposition of Geodetic Time Series for Studies of Ground Deformation
• Rienzo, Matthew — Non-Canonical Amino Acids As Biochemical Probes of Ligand-Gated Ion Channel Structure and Function
• Roh, Chris — Hydrodynamics of Insects. Part 1. Jetting of the Dragonfly Larvae. Part 2. Honeybee at the Air-water Interface: Surfing with the Capillary Wave
• Rosado Buenfil, Welmar Eduardo — Essays on the Political Economy of Subnational Public Finances
• Rosebrugh, Lauren Estelle — Stereoselective Olefin Metathesis Processes Using Cyclometalated Ruthenium Alkylidene Complexes
• Roske, Christopher William — Towards a Hydrobromic Acid Splitting Device Using Earth-Abundant Materials
• Rufat, Dzhelil Sabahatin — Spectral Exterior Calculus and its Implementation
• Saad, Katherine Michelle — Disentangling Spatiotemporal Signals in Global Atmospheric Methane Columns
• Saadi, Fadl Hussein — Acid-Stable Electrocatalysts for the Solar Production of Fuels
• Saberi, Ingmar Akira — Knots, Trees, and Fields: Common Ground Between Physics and Mathematics
• Sadek, Akram Sarwat — Wireless Nano and Molecular Scale Neural Interfacing
• Safaripour Tabbalvandani, Amirreza — Proximal-Field Radiation Sensors for Dynamically Controllable and Self-Correcting Integrated Radiators
• Sandler, Jeremy Edward — Genome Activation and Regulation of Signaling in the Rapidly Dividing Drosophila Embryo
• Schwantes, Rebecca Helen — Identifying Isoprene and Toluene Gas-Phase Oxidation Products to Better Constrain Ozone and Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in the Atmosphere
• Selck, David Anthony — Microfluidics for Molecular Measurements and Quantitative Distributable Diagnostics
• Shah, Sheel Mukesh — Highly Multiplexed Single Cell In Situ RNA Detection
• Shen, Chia-Hsien — Aspects of Effective Field Theories from Scattering Amplitudes
• Sideris, Constantine — Electromagnetic Field Manipulation: Biosensing to Antennas
• Solomatova, Natalia Viatcheslavovna — Iron-bearing Oxides, Silicate Glasses and Carbonates at Lower Mantle Pressures
• Song, Myungkoo — Essays on the Impact of Information Asymmetry
• Sternberger, Zachary Martin Murphy — Determining Strength of Materials Under Dynamic Loading Conditions Using Hydrodynamic Instabilities
• Subhas, Adam Vinay — Chemical Controls on the Dissolution Kinetics of Calcite in Seawater
• Suh, Myoung-Gyun — Nonlinear Optics in Chip-based Microresonators and their Applications
• Sui, Yanan — Online Learning for the Control of Human Standing via Spinal Cord Stimulation
• Summy, Dustin Phillip — Maximum Entropy Reconstruction for Gas Dynamics
• Takatori, Sho C. — Forces, Stresses, and the (Thermo?) Dynamics of Active Matter: The Swim Pressure
• Teng, Alexander Pai-Chung — Insights on the Formation and Fate of Organic Nitrates in the Atmosphere from Field and Laboratory Observations
• Thubagere Jagadeesh, Anupama — Programming Complex Behavior in DNA-based Molecular Circuits and Robots
• Toutov, Anton Alexandrovich — Alkaline Salts of Sodium and Potassium: from C–X Reduction to C–H Functionalization and Beyond
• Verlage, Erik A. — High-Efficiency Solar Fuel Devices: Protection and Light Management Utilizing TiO2
• Villadsen, Jacqueline Rose — The Search for Stellar Coronal Mass Ejections
• Vu, Tran Minh Tri — Studies of the N-end Rule Pathway in Bacteria and Mammals
• Walker, Jennifer Marie — Seasonal and Interannual Variability in South Asian Monsoon Dynamics
• Wang, Mu — Constant Stress and Pressure Rheology of Dense Colloidal Suspensions
• Wang, Yuh-Shyang — A System Level Approach to Optimal Controller Design for Large-Scale Distributed Systems
• Ward, Lewis Michael — Microbial Evolution and the Rise of Oxygen: The Roles of Contingency and Context in Shaping the Biosphere through Time
• Wiensch, Joshua David — Differential Reactivity at Edge and Terrace Sites of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
• Wilson, Lee L. — Analysis of Packaging and Deployment of Ultralight Space Structures
• Wong, Betty Ko — Biophysical Studies of Ligand-gated Ion Channels
• Wong, Ming Fai — A Study of Communication Networks through the Lens of Reduction
• Xu, Chen — The Catalytic and Mechanical Properties of Lithium Battery Electrodes
• Ye, Seunghee — The Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Maps from Curves
• Yeung, Melissa L. — Applied Computational Topology for Point Clouds and Sparse Timeseries Data
• Yi, Xu — Physics and Applications of Microresonator Solitons and Electro-optic Frequency Combs
• Yu, Hang Hank — Understanding the Symbiosis in Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane Through Metabolic, Biosynthetic and Transcriptomic Activities
• Yu, Su-Peng — Nano-Photonic Platform for Atom-Light Interaction
• Zelhofer, Alex James — Computational Modeling of the Mechanics of Elastic Structural Lattices: Effects of Lattice Architecture and Hierarchy
• Zhang, Jun — Essays on Matching Theory
• Zhang, Pengchuan — Compressing Positive Semidefinite Operators with Sparse/Localized Bases
• Zhang, Qiong — Accounting for Aerosol Scattering in the Remote Sensing of Greenhouse Gas
• Zhang, Shell Xiaoxiao — Electrical Impedance Based Spectroscopy and Tomography Techniques for Obesity and Heart Diseases
• Zhou, Edward Haojiang — Optical Focusing and Imaging through Scattering Media
• Zhuang, Bilin — Dipolar Liquids and Their Mixtures: Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Properties with Field-Theoretic Approaches