Theses — 1999

• Abolins, Mark Joseph — I. Stratigraphic constraints on the number of discrete neoproterozoic glaciations and the relationship between glaciation and ediacaran evolution. II. The Kwichup Spring thrust in the northwestern Spring Mountains, Nevada : implications for large-magnitude extension and the structure of the Cordilleran thrust belt (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Aganagic, Mina — String Theory on Calabi-Yau Manifolds: Topics in Geometry and Physics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Aivazis, Keri Ann — A Spherical Vortex Model for Homogeneous Turbulence (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Alonzo, Alicia Cristina — Effects of geometry on the wet thermal oxidation of aluminum arsenide (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anderson, Cheryl Marie — Two-dimensional photonic band gap crystals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baird, Eldon Eugene — Solid Phase Synthesis of DNA-Binding Small Molecules (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bashirullah, Arash — Temporal and spacial control of RNA stability in the early embryo of Drosophila melanogaster (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Batista, Aaron Paul — Contributions of Parietal Cortex to Reach Planning (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Benedict, Noel Lakshman — Buoyant flows in vertical channels relating to smoke movement in high-rise building fires (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Benford, Dominic James — Broadband submillimeter instrumentation for the detection of distant galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blackwell, Helen Elizabeth — New synthetic applications for ring-closing metathesis and cross-metathesis employing well-defined ruthenium alkylidenes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bliss, Joshua Lovis — Collisional Studies of Ultracold Cesium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bond, Christopher Llewellyn — Reynolds number effects on mixing in the turbulent shear layer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bouguet, Jean-Yves — Visual methods for three-dimensional modeling (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brameld, Kenneth A. — Molecular modeling of biological systems : from chitinase A to Z-DNA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bridger, Paul Martin — Development of Apertureless Microscopy and Force Microscopy of GaN and CeO₂ (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bullo, Francesco — Nonlinear control of mechanical systems : a Riemannian geometry approach (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carlson, Anders Elof — Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Inelastic Analysis of Steel Moment-Frame Buildings Damaged by Earthquake Excitations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carter, Paul Whitton — The HERMES Experiment. I. Analyzing Powers in Pion Electroproduction. II. The Aerogel Radiator of the HERMES RICH (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carter, Scott Reynolds — Sequence-specific minor groove binding polyamides : DNA recognition and applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cheng, Xiao-chang — Investigation of New Devices and Characterization Techniques in the III-V Semiconductor System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Choi-Yim, Haein — Synthesis and characterization of bulk metallic glass matrix composities (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chu, Johan — Computational Explorations of Life (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chuang, Patrick Yung-Shie — Experimental and theoretical studies of cloud condensation nuclei (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Claypool, Christopher L. — Why molecules look the way they do in STM : a systematic functional group approach (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Costello, Andria M. — Molecular ecology studies of methanotrophs in a freshwater lake sediment (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Coughlan, Peter Judd — Public Institutions and Private Incentives: Three Essays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cucullu, Michèle Elise — Ruthenium Based Catalysts: Catalytic Dehalogenation of Chloroarenes and Syntheses of Bimetallic Carbene Complexes (Master's thesis)
• Davis, Jean-Paul — High-enthalpy shock/boundary-layer interaction on a double wedge (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deshpande, Nitin Ashok — An Experimental Investigation of High-Shear-Strain-Rate Behavior of Metals (Engineer's thesis)
• Dickson, Jeffrey Allen — Integration of analog VLSI and thin films for chemical sensing arrays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Doleman, Brett James — Study and development of an "electronic nose" and comparison with mammalian olfaction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dvorak-Carbone, Hannah — Contribution of the Temporoammonic Pathway to Hippocampal Processing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Efendiev, Yalchin R. — The Multiscale Finite Element Method (MsFEM) and Its Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Farrow, Neil — Investigation of electron transfer in the [alpha]-helical protein cytochrome b [subscript 562] (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fassnacht, Christopher D. — Determining the distance scale with CLASS: studies of two new gravitational lenses and a measurement of the Hubble constant (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Foss, David R. — Rheological behavior of colloidal suspensions : the effects of hydrodynamic interactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gadgil, Siddhartha — On the Geometric Simple-Connectivity of 4-Manifolds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gallagher, Donal A. — Saffman-Taylor fingers in deformed Hele-Shaw cells (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gharib, Mohammad Reza — Vortex-induced vibration, absence of lock-in and fluid force deduction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Giardello, Amy Beth — Ruthenium Mediated Olefin Metathesis : Materials with Controlled Microstructure and Functionalization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Glasgow, Garrett Edwin — Issue Publics in American Politics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gleeson, James P. — Random advection of a passive scalar (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goldberg, Emma Elizabeth — Laser Absorption Spectroscopy on Pressure-Broadened Rubidium Dl Line (Senior thesis (Major))
• Grego, Laura — Galaxy cluster gas fractions from interferometric measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grigoriev, Roman O. — Symmetry and Localized Control of Extended Chaotic Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Holland, Kathleen Gabrielle — Phase Changes and Transport Properties of Geophysical Materials Under Shock Loading (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Horn, Gavin B. — Iterative decoding and pseudo-codewords (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hu, Yonglin — Crystal Structures of ModA from Escherichia coli and Formaldehyde Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase from Pyrococcus furiosus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Yun — Nonlinear optimal control: an enhanced quasi-LPV approach (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jackson, Miriam — Dynamics of the shear margin of Ice Steam B, West Antarctica (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jankowsky, Joanna L. — The Regulations and Role of Cytokines in Models of Synaptic Activity and Plasticity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johansen, Anne Marie Jorunn — Aerosol chemistry over remote oceanic regions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, Christopher W. — Organic-functionalized molecular sieves (OFMS'S): A new class of materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kaneshige, Michael Jiro — Gaseous Detonation Initiation and Stabilization by Hypervelocity Projectiles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kang, Sung Phill — A study of viscous flow past axisymmetric and two-dimensional bodies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kass, David M. — Change in the Martian Atmosphere (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Katz, Alexander — The synthesis and characterization of molecularly imprinted materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelley, Shana O. — Electron transfer through the DNA double helix: spectroscopic and electrochemical studies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Khatri, Sven H. — Extensions to the structured singular value (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Khodakovsky, Andrei M. — Inverse spectral problem with partial information on the potential (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Chang Hee — Site-Specific Chemical Modification and Crosslinking Studies of U6 snRNA in the Yeast spliceosome (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kirac, Ahmet — Optimal orthonormal subband coding and lattice quantization with vector dithering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kleeman, Michael John — Source contributions to the size and composition distribution of urban particulate air pollution (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ku, Chao — Dade's Ordinary Conjecture for the Finite Unitary Groups in the Defining Characteristic (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lahey, Patrick M. — A fixed-grid numerical method for dendritic solidification with natural convection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Laubach, Sharon Lynn — Theory and experiments in autonomous sensor-based motion planning with applications for flight planetary microrovers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Hak-No — I. Gas Phase Proton Affinity of Zwitterionic Betaine. II. High Resolution Spectroscopy of Trapped Ions: Concept and Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lemieux, Patrick — The instability of shear layers produced by curved shocks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levin, Yuri — Topics in Physics and Astrophysics of LIGO (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leyva, Ivett A. — Shock detachment process on cones in hypervelocity flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Hui — Evolutionary techniques applied to mask-layout synthesis in micro-mechanical-electronic systems (MEMS) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Shijie — UHF and X-Band Class-E amplifiers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Chih-hsiu — Synthesis and characteristics of hyperbranched polyradicals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Linden, Jennifer Fran — Responses to Auditory Stimuli in Macaque Lateral Intraparietal Area (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Cangli — I. Rigid Body Penetration into Brittle Material. II. Phase Change Effect on Shock Wave Propagation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lloyd, Thomas — Dissolution of Fe(III)- and Mn(III,IV)- (hydr)oxides by deferrioxamine B (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Long, Mark K. — Computer aided mask layout synthesis for anisotrophic etch photolithography (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Love, Philip — Bifurcations in Kolmogorov and Taylor-vortex flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lynn, David Michael — Water-Soluable Ruthenium Alkylidene Complexes: Synthesis and Applications to Olefin Metathesis in Protic Solvents (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• MacLeod, Katrina Marie — Mechanisms and Function of Neural Synchronization in an Insect Olfactory System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maheo, Patrice Michel — Free-Surface Turbulent Shear Flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Manohar, Rajit — The impact of asynchrony on computer architecture (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maric, Dragan S. — Advanced flux weakening techniques for surface-mounted permanent-magnet machine drives (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Masuhr, Andreas — Viscous flow and crystallization of bulk metallic glass forming liquids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Melbourne, Timothy Ian — I. Rupture Properties of Large Subduction Earthquakes. II. Broadband Upper Mantle Structure of Western North America (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Seth Adrian — Magnetic Interactions in Molecular Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Monzon, Franklin Gregory — Semiconductor magnetoelectronics and prospects for a spin transistor (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Müller, Hans-Michael — Fermionic quantum systems. Part I: Phase transitions in quantum dots. Part II: Nuclear matter on a lattice (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ofria, Charles A. — Evolution of genetic codes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oppenheimer, Ben R. — Direct Detection of Brown Dwarf Companions of Nearby Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Owen, Randall Lee — Detection and Analysis of Musical Events Using Model-Based Signal Processing (Engineer's thesis)
• Paiella, Roberto — Physics and application of four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Parrish, Cynthia Ann — Synthesis of an α,3-Dehydrotoluene Biradical Precursor with DNA Cleaving Activity and Studies Directed Toward the Total Synthesis of Tetracycline (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Phares, Denis Joseph — Particle resuspension from surfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Piquette, Eric C. — Molecular beam heteroepitaxial growth and characterization of wide band gap semiconductor films and devices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Polet, Jascha — Seismological observations of upper mantle anisotropy [pt. 1] ; Source spectra of shallow subduction zone earthquakes and their tsunamigenic potential [pt. 2] (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Preventza, Polly — Analysis and design for quasi-optical structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Primbs, James A. — Nonlinear optimal control: a receding horizon appoach (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ramirez, Christina M. — Statistical and econometric analysis of the treatment of HIV/AIDS (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roweis, Sam T. — Data driven production models for speech processing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sahani, Maneesh — Latent variable models for neural data analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sauve, Genevieve — Dye sensitization of nanocrystalline titanium dioxide with osmium and ruthenium polypyridine complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schenk, Kurt — Power factor correction topologies and small-signal modeling. I: Single-phase and three-phase power factor correction. II: Small-signal analysis of converters in discontinuous conduction mode (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schense, Jason Charles — Enzymatic incorporation of bidomain peptides into fibrin matrices for directed enhancement of three-dimensional in vitro neurite outgrowth and in vivo nerve regeneration (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scott, Michael Joseph — Formalizing negotiation in engineering design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Severin, Erik J. — Array-based vapor sensing using conductive carbon black-polymer composite thin film detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shapiro, Benjamin — Passive control of flutter and forced response in bladed disks via mistuning (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shariff, Shaun — Numerical simulation of viscous reacting hypersonic flow past cones (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Showman, Adam Peter — I. Dynamics at the Galileo Probe Site on Jupiter and II. Orbital and Thermal Evolution of Ganymede (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shu, Yi-Chung — Shape-Memory Effect in Bulk and Thin-Film Polycrystals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sidorin, Igor A. — Dynamically consistent interpretation of the seismic structure at the base of the mantle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Slatkin, Andrew Brett — Modeling and Experiments for a Class of Robotic Endoscopes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sofronidis, Nikolaos Efstathiou — Topics in descriptive set theory related to equivalence relations, complex borel and analytic sets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Song, Xubo — Contextual pattern recognition with applications to biomedical image identification (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spangler, Randall Richard — Rule-based analysis and generation of music (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spotila, James Anthony — The neotectonics of the San Bernardino Mountains and adjacent San Andreas Fault : a case study of uplift associated with strike-slip fault systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stewart, Iain W. — Applications of Chiral Perturbation Theory in Reactions with Heavy Particles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Szewczyk, Jason W. — Design of ligands for sequence-specific recognition of the minor-major grooves of DNA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tang, Lixin — Role for the Cadherin Family of Cell Adhesion Molecules in Synaptic Function in the Adult Hippocampus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tkacenko, Andre — The Fractional Discrete Fourier Transform (Senior thesis (Major))
• Tomooka, Craig Shigeru — Use of Manganese(V) Nitrides as Enantioselective Nitrogen-Transfer Reagents (Master's thesis)
• Trauger, John Wesley — Design of DNA-binding polyamides for regulation of gene expression (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trotta, Christopher Robert — The Composition, Function and Evolution of the tRNA Splicing Endonuclease (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tulaczyk, Slawek M. — Basal mechanics and geologic record of ice streaming, West Antarctica (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Unger, Marc Alexander — Advances in High-Resolution Probes for Scanning Probe Microscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vicic, Michael — Rheology and microstructure of complex fluids: dispersions, emulsions and polymer solutions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wagner, Paul A. — Structural Investigation of Zeolites (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Guangyang — Design and Synthesis of Photoreleasable Ubiquinol and its Biologically Active Analogues (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Hai — Transmembrane Ephrin Ligands in Neural and Vascular Development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Waniewski, Tricia Ann — Air entrainment by bow waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wasylenki, Laura Eileen — Partial Melting of Depleted Peridotite in the Earth's Upper Mantle and Implications for Generation of Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weck, Marcus — Olefin Metathesis for the Synthesis of Supramolecular Structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wehr, Michael Stephen — Oscillatory Sequences of Firing in the Locust Olfactory System: Mechanisms and Functional Significance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• White, Sarah — Recognition of All Four Watson-Crick Base Pairs in the Minor Groove of DNA by Synthetic Ligands (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wilhelm, Thomas Edward — Easier and More Efficient Methods for the Generation of Metathesis Catalysts: Investigations into Group VI and VII (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Williamson, Dean V. — The design of agency relations : four essays on contract theory, applications, and experimentation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Winfree, Nancy A. — Impact-Induced Phase Transformations in Elastic Solids: A Continuum Study Including Numerical Simulations for GeO₂ (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wright, John A. — Through-wafer 3-D micromachining and its applications for neural interfaces and microrelays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Sheng — Development of Broadly Tunable Parametric Light Sources and Their Application to Alkali Metal - Small Molecule Cluster Spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xu, Lihao — Highly available distributed storage systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xu, Meina — Iterative decoding and graphical code representations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Qing — The Seiberg-Witten equations on 3-manifolds with boundary (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Xing — Micromachined Silicone Rubber Membrane Valves for Fluidic applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yeung, Chung-hei (Simon) — Nonlinear control of rotating stall and surge with axisymmetric bleed and air injection on axial flow compressors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Bo — An engineered mutant of G protein [alpha] subunit that binds xanthine nucleotide and not guanine nucleotide (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Jin — Discrete approximation of continuous allocation mechanisms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zare, Douglas J. — Geometric Invariants in Contact Structures on 3-Manifolds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhong, Dongping — Femtosecond molecular dynamics of complex reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))