Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2018

• Aasen, David — Super Pivotal Categories, Fermion Condensation, and Fermionic Topological Phases
• Abiri, Behrooz — Silicon Integrated Arrays: From Microwave to IR
• Abrams, Michael Jacob — Self-Repair and Sleep in Jellyfish
• Adachi, Ryo — Computational and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Decision-Making in Humans
• Ahmed, Tonia Sarah — Achieving High Stereoselectivity in Ruthenium-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis Reactions for Organic and Polymer Synthesis
• Ahn, Jun Myun — Copper Carbazolides in Photoinduced C–N Couplings
• Akagi, Allison Emi — The Biosynthesis of Ascarosides in Caenorhabditis elegans
• Anderson, Dustin James — Inclusive Searches for Supersymmetry at √s = 13 TeV Using Razor Kinematic Variables, and Data Scouting Using the CMS Trigger System
• Arias, Renee Justine — Examination of Selenium Incorporation and Product Formation in the Nitrogenase FeMo-Cofactor
• Avellar, Louisa Taylor — Observations of Failure Phenomena in Periodic Media
• Baetica, Ania-Ariadna — Design, Analysis, And Computational Methods For Engineering Synthetic Biological Networks
• Barnes, Stephanie Loos — Decoding the Regulatory Genome: Quantitative Analysis of Transcriptional Regulation in Escherichia coli
• Barraza, Kevin Mitchell — The Study of the Stepwise Hydroxyl Radical-Mediated Oxidation of Alkyl Surfactants at the Air-Water Interface
• Bartels, Phillip Leon — Elucidating the Role of [4Fe4S] Clusters in DNA Replication and Repair Proteins
• Bartolotta, Anthony Leo — The Union of Quantum Field Theory and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
• Bedbrook, Claire Nicole — Engineering Novel Rhodopsins for Neuroscience
• Belliveau, Nathan Maurice — Quantitative Dissection of the Allosteric and Sequence-Dependent Regulatory Genome in E. coli
• Bowden, Daniel Craig — The Propagation and Amplification of Surface Waves
• Braun, Noah Oakley — An LES and RANS Study of the Canonical Shock-Turbulence Interaction
• Brooks, Daniel James — Computational Investigation of Ionic Diffusion in Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries
• Bryan, Marta Levesque — Lurking in the Shadows: Wide-Separation Gas Giants as Tracers of Planet Formation
• Buhler, Peter Benjamin — Measuring and Modeling the Interplay between Planetary Orbits, Interiors, Surfaces, and Atmospheres
• Burali, Nicholas — Towards a priori Models for Differential Diffusion in Turbulent Non-Premixed Flames
• Burke, Kelly Suzanne — Visualizing mRNA Translation in situ in Single Cells
• Burkhardt, Matthew Ryan — Dynamic Modeling and Control of Spherical Robots
• Buscagan, Trixia Marie — Transition Metals as Catalysts for Cross-Coupling and Dinitrogen Fixation
• Buss, Joshua Alan — Molybdenum Para-Terphenyl Diphosphine Complexes
• Buyco, John Kenneth — Improving Seismic Collapse Risk Assessments of Steel Moment Frame Buildings
• Buz, Jennifer — Macro Mars to Micro Mars: Mapping Minerals and Magnetization
• Cao, ChunJun — Towards a Theory of Quantum Gravity Through Geometrization of Quantum Mechanics
• Carroll, Paul Brandon — Laboratory and Astronomical Rotational Spectroscopy
• Chang, Alice B. — Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Bottlebrush Block Polymers: Molecular Architecture and Materials Design
• Chao, Daniel Shuteh — Measuring R(D()) for B → ‾D()τν_τ using Semileptonic Tags and Tau Decays to Hadrons
• Chatwin-Davies, Aidan Émile — Gravity Informed
• Chen, Chun-Kan — Revealing the Mechanism of Xist-mediated Silencing
• Chen, Jun — Essays on Early-Stage Financing and Firm Behavior
• Chen, Niangjun — Online Algorithms: From Prediction to Decision
• Chen, Ruiyuan — Definability and Classification of Equivalence Relations and Logical Theories
• Chernow, Victoria Fay — Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of 3D Nanolattice Photonic Crystals for Bandgap and Refractive Index Engineering
• Cid, Clément Antoine François — Development, Implementation, and Improvements on an Effective Electrochemical Wastewater Treatment and Recycling Unit as a Sustainable Sanitation Solution for the Developing World
• Colas, Jaron Taylor — Value-Based Decision Making and Learning as Algorithms Computed by the Nervous System
• Cornell, Brett Durcan — A Dark Matter Search Using the Final SuperCDMS Soudan Dataset and the Development of a Large-Format, Highly-Multiplexed, Athermal-Phonon-Mediated Particle Detector
• David, Trevor Justin — On the Evolutionary Pathways of Stars and Extrasolar Planets
• Davis, Matthew Robert — Computational Studies of Noncovalent Interactions in Ligand-Gated Ion Channels – and - Synthesis and Characterization of Red and Near Infrared Cyanine Dyes
• de Oliveira Penna Tavares, Gabriela — Computation and Comparison of Value Signals in Simple Perceptual and Economic Choices
• Del Castillo, Trevor James — The Quest for Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation with a Molecular Catalyst and What We Learned Along the Way
• DeSalvo, Gilberto — Transcriptional Enhancer Activity of Biochemically Marked Genomic Elements
• Donaldson, Gregory Paul — Colonization of the Intestinal Surface by Indigenous Microbiota
• Dou, Nicholas Gang — Thermal Transport in Three-Dimensional Nanoarchitected Materials
• Edwards, Julian Peter — Cyclic Polyolefins via Ring-Expansion Metathesis Polymerization
• Fernandez, Marcelo Ariel — Essays in Market Design
• Fishman, Matthew Theodore — Development of Tensor Network Algorithms for Studying Classical and Quantum Many-Body Systems
• Floyd, Michael Cameron Dawley — Development of Ferromagnetic Metallic Glasses into Low Loss Power Transformer Cores
• Fragoso, Anthony Thomas — Egospace Motion Planning Representations for Micro Air Vehicles
• Gat, Ilana Batya — Investigations of Incompressible Variable-Density Turbulence in an External Acceleration Field
• Gethers, Matthew Leroy, III — Therapeutic Opportunities and Approaches to Sequence Control for Nucleic Acids
• Gori, Marcello — Laboratory Investigation of Shear Ruptures: Supersonic Propagation and Nucleation by Fluid Injection
• Goza, Andres Jared — Numerical Methods for Fluid-Structure Interaction, and their Application to Flag Flapping
• Grivel, Morgane Anne Marie — On the Effect of Large-Scale Patterned Wettability on Contact Line Hydrodynamics
• Guszejnov, Dávid — On the Origin of Scales and Scaling Laws in Star Formation
• Harfouche, Mark — The Coherence Collapse Regime of High-Coherence Si/III-V Lasers and the Use of Swept Frequency Semiconductor Lasers for Full Field 3D Imaging
• Haw, Magnus Albert — Experimental and Numerical Studies of Cavities, Flows, and Waves in Arched Flux Ropes
• He, Siqi — The Kapustin-Witten Equations with Singular Boundary Conditions
• Hines, Sophia Katharine Vizza — Glacial Ocean Dynamics: Insight from Deep-Sea Coral Reconstructions and A Time-Dependent Dynamical Box Model
• Hoff, Andrew Taylor — Understanding the Origin of Glass Forming Ability in Metallic Glasses
• Hong, Serin — On Hodge-Newton Reducible Local Shimura Data of Hodge Type
• Horie, Yu — Controlling the Flow of Light Using High-Contrast Metastructures
• Hui, Howard — Measuring the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with BICEP3
• Hunter-Jones, Nicholas R. — Chaos and Randomness in Strongly-Interacting Quantum Systems
• Jensen, Elizabeth Hwang — Elucidating the Role of O-GlcNAc Glycosylation in Neurobiology and Neurodegeneration
• Jeong, Gahye — Self-Gluing Formula of the Monopole Invariant and its Application on Symplectic Structures
• Jiang, Jingjing — Interfacial and Stability Studies of Photocathodes for Hydrogen Evolution
• Jones, William Maxwell — Nanoscale Field Emission Devices
• Kang, Stephen Dongmin — Charge Transport Analysis Using the Seebeck Coefficient-Conductivity Relation
• Kawamoto, Reid Yoshio — The Avatar Paradigm in Granular Materials
• Kim, Dennis Sungtae — Silicon Revisited: Understanding Pure Phonon Anharmonicity and the Effects on Thermophysical Properties
• Kim, Dongwan — Frequency Noise Control of Heterogeneous Si/III-V Lasers
• Kim, Jungwoo — Microfluidic Analysis in Patient Biopsies: toward Precision Medicine for Glioblastoma Multiforme
• Kirchdoerfer, Trenton Thomas — Data Driven Computing
• Kómár, Anna — Quantum Computation and Information Storage in Quantum Double Models
• Kopparla, Pushkar — Exoplanetary Atmospheric Characterization Using Polarimetry and Other Radiative Transfer Modeling Problems
• Korlakai Vinayak, Ramya — Graph Clustering: Algorithms, Analysis and Query Design
• Kravchuk, Petr — Spin in Conformal Field Theory
• Kubica, Aleksander Marek — The ABCs of the Color Code: A Study of Topological Quantum Codes as Toy Models for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation and Quantum Phases Of Matter
• Kucharczyk, Christopher James — High-throughput Characterization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathode Materials
• Lanz, Alicia Elaine — Studying the Extragalactic Background Light with the Second Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment, CIBER-2
• Leong, Yoke Peng — Optimal Controller Synthesis for Nonlinear Systems
• Letsou, William Peter — Noncommutative Biology: Sequential Regulation of Complex Networks and Connected Matter
• Liang, JingXin — Interrogating the Structural Landscape of Malaria Biomarkers with Epitope Targeted Peptide Capture Agents
• Lichterman, Michael Yang — Analysis of Metal-Oxide Protected Photoelectrochemical Systems for Water Splitting
• Lin, Ben Albert — Ultrasound Speckle Image Velocimetry: Studies on System Performance and Application to Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics
• Lin, Yong-Jun — Human Duration Perception Mechanisms in the Subsecond Range: Psychophysics and Electroencephalography Investigations
• Lippuner, Jonas — r-Process Nucleosynthesis in Neutron Star Mergers with the New Nuclear Reaction Network SkyNet
• Liu, Chun-Lin — Sparse Array Signal Processing: New Array Geometries, Parameter Estimation, and Theoretical Analysis
• Lloyd, John Vickery — Optoelectronic Design and Prototyping of Spectrum-Splitting Photovoltaics
• Lloyd, Max Kaufmann — Clumped and Intramolecular Isotopic Perspectives on the Behavior of Organic and Inorganic Carbon in the Shallow Crust and Deep Biosphere
• Luo, Shi — Microstructural Effects on Diffusion and Mechanical Properties in Different Material Systems
• Luo, Yingdi — Earthquake Moment-Area Scaling Relations and the Effect of Fault Heterogeneity on Slow to Fast Earthquake Slip
• Ma, Xiangcheng — Understanding Galaxy Formation and Evolution with Realistic Simulations
• Maeda, Kazuki — Simulation, Experiments, and Modeling of Cloud Cavitation with Application to Burst Wave Lithotripsy
• Maggi, Alessandro — Three-Dimensional Nano-Architected Materials as Platforms for Designing Effective Bone Implants
• Maguire, Shaun Cohn — The Spectral Theory of Multiboundary Wormholes
• Mahmoudabadi, Gita — Virology By The Numbers: A Quantitative Exploration of Viral Energetics, Genomics, and Ecology
• Mai, Huajun — Scanning Electrical Mobility Methods for Aerosol Characterization
• Mak, Victor Wei-Dek — Development of Synthetic Strategies for the Total Synthesis of Ent-Kauranoid and Diterpenoid Alkaloid Natural Products
• Marshall, Kevin James — The Hydrodynamics of Active Particles Inside of a Porous Container and the Galerkin Boundary Element Discretization of Stokes Flow
• Marshall, Stephen Sandell — Improvement of Integral Membrane Protein Expression via Optimization of Simulated Integration Efficiency
• Marteau, Eloïse Sophie Hélène — Laboratory Studies of Granular Materials Under Shear: From Avalanches to Force Chains
• Martin, Nathan Koon-Hung — Analysis of Flapping Propulsion: Comparison, Characterization, and Optimization
• Massari, Anthony Thomas — Achieving Higher Fidelity Building Response through Emerging Technologies and Analytical Techniques
• Mateos Arrieta, Arturo José — Tensile Failure and Fracture of Three-Dimensional Brittle Nanolattices
• Matson, Benjamin David — Interplay of Proton Transfer, Electron Transfer and Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Transition Metal Mediated Nitrogen Fixation
• McAvoy, Camille Zandra — Harnessing Biological Tools of Protein Transport and Catalysis
• McCarthy, Amy Michelle — Advancing the Protein-Catalyzed Capture Agent Technology to New Frontiers
• McKinney, Tristan James — The Effective Field Theory of Fermi Surfaces in the Vicinity of Van Hove Singularities
• Meehan, Connor George Walmsley — Definable Combinatorics of Graphs and Equivalence Relations
• Miller, Gregory Martin — Eph Receptor Clustering by Chondroitin Sulfate Inhibits Axon Regeneration
• Minxha, Juri — Single-Neuron Correlates of Visual Object Representation in the Human Brain: Effects of Attention, Memory, and Choice
• Mishra, Abhilash — The Low-Frequency Frontier: Cosmology with Future 21cm Experiments
• Monroe, Ryan McKay — Gigahertz Bandwidth and Nanosecond Timescales: New Frontiers in Radio Astronomy Through Peak Performance Signal Processing
• Murchikova, Elena M. — Astrophysical Applications of Quantum Mechanics
• Nandagopal, Nagarajan — New Capabilities of the Notch Signaling Pathway
• Nath, Ravi David — The Evolutionary Construction of Sleep
• Nesbit, Mark Allen — Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel Metalloboranes: Reactivity, Catalysis, N2 Activation and Stabilization of Reactive N2Hx Ligands
• Newman, Matthew Gregory — On the Kinetics of Materials of Geophysical Interest
• Nguyen, Phong Thanh — Structural and Functional Characterization of the Escherichia coli MetNI Methionine Transporter
• Ni, Xiaoyue — Probing Microplastic Deformation in Metallic Materials
• Niesen, Michiel Jacobus Maria — Coarse-Grained Simulation Approaches for Protein Integration and Translocation via the Sec Translocon
• Núñez, Lucas — Unobserved Heterogeneity in Observational Studies of Political Behavior
• O'Brien, Elizabeth — Redox Signaling in Eukaryotic DNA Replication and Repair
• Oh, Dong Yoon — Integrated Nonlinear Photonic Devices
• Pang, Belinda Heyun — Theoretical Foundations for Quantum Measurement in a General Relativistic Framework
• Papadakis, Georgia Theano — Optical Response in Planar Heterostructures: From Artificial Magnetism to Angstrom-Scale Metamaterials
• Park, Jin — Circuits of Dynamically Interacting Sigma Factors in Single Cells
• Peng, Siying — 2D and 3D Photonic Crystals: Synthesis, Characterization and Topological Phenomenon
• Perry, Stephen Michael — Analyzing Stress Change and Energy Budget of Earthquakes Through Physics-Based Modeling
• Pershey, Daniel Stephen — A Measurement of νe Appearance and νμ Disappearance Neutrino Oscillations with the NOvA Experiment
• Petersen, Philip Fai — Engineering Molecular Self-assembly and Reconfiguration in DNA Nanostructures
• Piskorz, Danielle F. — Exploring Exoplanets' Spectroscopic Secrets: Clues on the Migration and Formation of Hot Jupiters
• Present, Theodore Michael — Controls on the Sulfur Isotopic Composition of Carbonate-Associated Sulfate
• Quinn, Daven Patel — Regional Structural Geology of Earth and Mars
• Quintero, Eric Antonio — Improving the Performance and Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors
• Ratani, Tanvi Siraj — Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed C-N and C-C Bond Formation and Photocatalytic Co-Mediated Nitrite Reduction to N₂O: Reactivity and Mechanism
• Ren, Xiaoqi — Optimizing Resource Management in Cloud Analytics Services
• Richers, Sherwood Andrew, III — Neutrino Radiation Transport and Other Topics in High Energy Density Astrophysics
• Rogers, Alicia Kathryn — Mechanisms of Transcriptional Silencing by the Nuclear Piwi Protein in Drosophila Germ Cells
• Rollins, John Christopher — Using Heterogeneous 3D Earth Models to Constrain Interseismic and Postseismic Deformation in Southern California and Nepal
• Rosenberg, Kevin Thomas — Resolvent-Based Modeling of Flows in a Channel
• Sakovsky, Maria — Design and Characterization of Dual-Matrix Composite Deployable Space Structures
• Saxton-Fox, Theresa Ann — Coherent Structures, their Interactions, and their Effects on Passive Scalar Transport and Aero-Optic Distortion in a Turbulent Boundary Layer
• Schaal, Natalie Sarah Ann — Modeling of Nucleation and Dynamic Rupture on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces with Applications to Foreshocks
• Schlappi, Travis Stratton — Improving the Speed and Performance of Point-of-Care Diagnostics with Microfluidics
• Schlup, Jason Robert — Numerical Investigations of Transport and Chemistry Modeling for Lean Premixed Hydrogen Combustion
• Seetharam, Karthik Iyengar — Thermalization in Periodically-Driven Interacting Quantum Systems
• Shen, Linhan — Cavity Ring-Down and Multi-Pass Spectroscopies for Methane Source Attribution and Chemical Kinetics Studies
• Sherrott, Michelle Caroline — Active Infrared Nanophotonics in van der Waals Materials
• Shockley, Samantha Elizabeth — Development of Stereoselective Iridium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation Methods
• Shukla, Sujeet Kumar — Tensor Network Representation of Many-Body Quantum States and Unitary Operators
• Song, Li — Three Essays on Mechanism Design
• Spalding, Christopher — The Primordial Origin and Dynamical Sculpting of Close-In Planetary System Architectures
• Stone, Shannon Elizabeth — Cell-Selective Chemoproteomics for Biological Discovery
• Strom, Allison Leigh — Unveiling the Physical Conditions in Star-Forming Galaxies at the Peak of Galaxy Assembly
• Sui, Pengfei — Essays on Investor Beliefs and Asset Pricing
• Sun, Dingyi — Proliferation of Twinning in Metals: Application to Magnesium Alloys
• Swaminathan, Anandh — Application, Computation, and Theory for Synthetic Gene Circuits
• Symon, Sean Pearson — Reconstruction and Estimation of Flows Using Resolvent Analysis and Data-Assimilation
• Tembhekar, Ishan — The Fully Nonlocal, Finite-Temperature, Adaptive 3D Quasicontinuum Method for Bridging Across Scales
• Tenneti, Srikanth Venkata — The Nested Periodic Subspaces: Extensions of Ramanujan Sums for Period Estimation
• Thompson, Niklas Bjarne — A Synthetic Nitrogenase: Insights into the Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by a Single-Site Fe Catalyst
• Torelli, Daniel Anthony — The Discovery of Novel Materials for the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
• Tozier, Dylan Douglas — Cathode Design for High Energy Molten Salt Lithium-Oxygen Batteries
• Upton, Kathleen Tiffany — Analysis and Characterization of Titan Aerosol Simulants by Mass Spectrometry
• Urban, Luke Stuart — An Electrophysiological Study Of Voluntary Movement and Spinal Cord Injury
• Valencia, Jonathan Exiquio — The Developmental Organization of Regulatory States in the Sea Urchin Larva
• Wang, Yishu — Antiferromagnetic Quantum Phase Transitions: Continuous Tuning and Direct Probes of Competing States
• Wei, Ho-Hsuan — Dynamics of Seasonally-Varying Tropical Convergence Zones
• Wong, Ian Yu — Probing the Trojan-Hilda-KBO Connection: An Empirical Test of Dynamical Instability Models of Solar System Evolution
• Wong, Michael L. — A Planetary Perspective of Life
• Wu, Yong Yi — Engineering Biosynthetic Pathways in Cell-Free Systems for Sustainability and Chemical Innovation
• Wyatt, Emily Ann — Targeted Nanoparticle Delivery of Therapeutics Across the Blood-Brain and Blood-Tumor Barriers to Breast Cancer Brain Metastases
• Yang, Kiyoul — Integrated Ultra-High-Q Nonlinear Photonic Platform for On-Chip Optoelectronic Systems
• Yang, Kuang-Wei — Synthesis, NMR Solution Structure, and Neuritogenic Activity of Chondroitin Sulfate D and E
• Ye, Ke — A Symphony of Supersymmetry and Geometry: Invariants, Dualities and Chiral Rings
• Yin, Lucy — Reducing Latencies in Earthquake Early Warning
• Yunger Halpern, Nicole — Quantum Steampunk: Quantum Information, Thermodynamics, Their Intersection, and Applications Thereof Across Physics
• Zhang, Carey Yuzhe — Partially Mixed Selectivity and Parietal Cortex
• Zhang, Mali — Information and Strategic Decision-Making in the Oil and Gas Industry: An Empirical Assessment
• Zhang, Xiyue — Dynamics of Resolved Polar Clouds
• Zheng, Stephan Tao — Exploiting Structure for Scalable and Robust Deep Learning
• Zhou, Xinghao — Performance and Stability Optimization of Solar Fuel Devices
• Zwang, Theodore Joseph — Magnetic Field Effects and Biophysical Studies on DNA Charge Transport and Repair