Theses — 2003

• Abrol, Ravinder — Theory of Electronically Nonadiabatic Quantum Reaction Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ackerman, Lily Joy — Ancillary Ligand Effects in Niobocene Olefin Hydride Complexes and Hydrocarbon Oxidation by Palladium(II) Complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Agassounon, William B. G. — Modeling Artificial, Mobile Swarm Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Akins, Joseph Albert — Dynamic Compression of Minerals in the MgO-FeO-SiO₂ System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Arienti, Marco — A Numerical and Analytical Study of Detonation Diffraction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Austin, Daniel Ephraim — Impact-Ionization Mass Spectrometry of Cosmic Dust (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Austin, Joanna Maria Karol — The Role of Instability in Gaseous Detonation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhave, Prakash Viththal — Air Pollution at the Single-Particle Level: Integrating Atmospheric Measurements with Mathematical Models (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bielawski, Christopher William — Tailoring Polymer Synthesis with Designer Ruthenium Catalysts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boon, Elizabeth Marshall — Electrochemical Sensors Based on DNA-Mediated Charge Transport Chemistry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brandt, Gabriel Shaw — Site-Specific Incorporation of Synthetic Amino Acids into Functioning Ion Channels (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Briglin, Shawn Michael — Spatial, Temporal, and Chemical Aspects of Vapor Detection Using Conductive Composite Chemically Sensitive Resistors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Buck, Joseph Robert — Cavity QED in Microsphere and Fabry-Perot Cavities (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bui, Yêń Kim — Genetic Analysis of LET-23 Mediated IP₃ Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burkemper, Bruce Seymour — Biochemical Characterization of Drosophila Receptor Tyrosine Phosphatases (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Byrne, Shane — History and Current Processes of the Martian Polar Layered Deposits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Camelo, Vanessa Sabrina — Dynamic Characteristics of Woodframe Buildings (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Caron, Jennifer — Edward Lewis and Radioactive Fallout: The Impact of Caltech Biologists on the Debate Over Nuclear Weapons Testing in the 1950s and 60s (Senior thesis (Major))
• Cartoixà Soler, Xavier — Theoretical Methods for Spintronics in Semiconductors with Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cartwright, John Kenneth — A Limit on the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chandler, Adam Matthew — Pulsar Searches: From Radio to Gamma-Rays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chang, Grace C. — Neural Representation of Surface Ordering in Visual Areas V1, V2 and MT (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chatterjee, Arnab Kumar — Investigations into the Selectivity of Olefin Cross-Metathesis Using Ruthenium Alkylidene Catalysts: Electronic and Steric Matching of Substrates (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Yanbei — Topics of LIGO Physics: Quantum Noise in Advanced Interferometers and Template Banks for Compact-Binary Inspirals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cheng, Timothy Casey — Investigations into the Enzymology and Biotechnology of the Hyperthermophilic Carboxypeptidase (PfuCP) from the Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cheung, Chun Tung — Waveguide Packaging of Quasi-Optical Grid Amplifiers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chisholm, Calum Ronald Inneas — Superprotonic Phase Transitions in Solid Acids: Parameters Affecting the Presence and Stability of Superprotonic Transitions in the MHₙXO₄ Family of Compounds (X=S,Se,P,As; M=Li,Na,K,NH₄,Rb,Cs) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Christensen, Lance Eric — Laboratory Studies of Atmospherically Important Gas-Phase Peroxy Radical Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cooper, Kenneth Brian — New Phases of Two-Dimensional Electrons in Excited Landau Levels (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Datta, Deepshikha — Protein-Ligand Interactions: Docking, Design and Conformation Change (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dukes, Peter James — Convex Cone Conditions on the Structure of Designs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dunn, Alexander Robert — Sensitizer-Linked Substrates as Probes of Heme Enzyme Structure and Catalysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ewald, Andrew Josef — The Molecular Control of Cell Movements during Early Vertebrate Development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fenton, Lori Kay — Aeolian Processes on Mars: Atmospheric Modeling and GIS Analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fetecau, Razvan Constantin — Variational Methods for Nonsmooth Mechanics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Franceschetti, Massimo — Wireless Networks, from Collective Behavior to the Physics of Propagation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fu, Chu-Chen — Spin-Polarized Quasiparticle Transport in Cuprate Superconductors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gallivan, Martha Anne — Modeling and Control of Epitaxial Thin Film Growth (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gosavi, Shachi Sharadchandra — Electron Transfer at Metal Surfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Graetz, Jason Allan — Electronic Environments and Electrochemical Properties in Lithium Storage Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Greenberg, Andrei Yakovlevich — Chebyshev Spectral Method for Singular Moving Boundary Problems with Application to Finance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grinspun, Eitan — The Basis Refinement Method (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guarnaschelli, Serena Silvia — Essays on Uncertainty: An Axiomatization and Economic Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guyader, Andrew Charles — A Statistical Approach to Equivalent Linearization with Application to Performance-Based Engineering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hanan, Jay Clarke — Damage Evolution in Uniaxial SiC Fiber Reinforced Ti Matrix Composites (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hartl, Michael David — Dynamics of Spinning Compact Binaries in General Relativity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hirani, Anil Nirmal — Discrete Exterior Calculus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hoag, Christopher S. — Three Episodes in Nineteenth Century United States Banking and Finance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Holt, Jason Knowles — Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition of Silicon and Silicon Nitride for Photovoltaics: Experiments, Simulations, and Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Howard, Elizabeth Anne — A Front Tracking Method for Modelling Thermal Growth (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hung, Patrick Hin Fun — Algorithms for Reaction Mechanism Reduction and Numerical Simulation of Detonations Initiated by Projectiles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hyde, Edward McKay — Fast, High-Order Methods for Scattering by Inhomogeneous Media (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Joern, John Michael — Engineering Dioxygenases by Laboratory Evolution: A Comparison of Evolutionary Search Strategies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Elizabeth Ann — Hydrogen in Nominally Anhydrous Crustal Minerals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Joseph Gonzalez, Gustavo — Collisional Dynamics of Macroscopic Particles in a Viscous Fluid (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Juang, Agnes — Effects of Surface Modification on Charge-Carrier Dynamics at Semiconductor Interfaces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Julian, Ryan Roy — Molecular Recognition of Biomolecules in the Gas Phase (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kastner, Jason Christopher — Modeling a Hox Gene Network: Stochastic Simulation with Experimental Perturbation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelly, Melissa Ann — Some New Measurements of the Ground and v₂ = 1 States of HDO in the Region 200 – 750 GHz (Master's thesis)
• Kent, David Randall, IV — New Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithms to Efficiently Utilize Massively Parallel Computers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Khandekar, Aamod Dinkar — Graph-Based Codes and Iterative Decoding (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kirouac, Martha — cis-Regulatory Control of Three Cell Fate-Specific Genes in Vulval Organogenesis of C. elegans and C. briggsae (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Klemens, Ben — Information Aggregation, with Application to Monotone Ordering, Advocacy, and Conviviality (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Koslowski, Marisol — A Phase-Field Model of Dislocations in Ductile Single Crystals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kuang, Zhiming — I: Remote Spectroscopic Measurements of Atmospheric HDO/H₂O and Column CO₂. II: Interannual Variations of the Earth’s Reflectance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kumar, Sanjay — An Experimental Investigation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lane, Benjamin Frederick — High-Precision Infra-Red Stellar Interferometry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Hyon-Jee — Molecular Dynamics Studies of Metallic Glasses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Peter Byungho — D-Branes in Anti-de-Sitter Space (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lekien, Francois Paul — Time-Dependent Dynamical Systems and Geophysical Flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leskowitz, Garett Michael — Force-Detected Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Independent of Field Gradients (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lessard, Guillaume — Apertureless Near-Field Optical Microscopy for Fluorescence Imaging (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leung, Fok-Yan Thomas — Elucidation of the Origins of Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosols by Isotopic Methods (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lew, Adrián José — Variational Time Integrators in Computational Solid Mechanics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Lintong — The Tethered Agonist Approach to Mapping Ion-Channel Proteins: Toward a Structural Model for the Agonist-Binding Site of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Shuwei — In Vitro Selection of mRNA-Display Libraries Containing Unnatural Amino Acids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Jing — Part I. Slip Behavior of the San Andreas Fault Through Several Earthquake Cycles Part II. A Structural Interpretation of the Aftershock "Cloud" of the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers Earthquake (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Yuk Tung — Dynamical Stability of Nascent Neutron Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lončar, Marko — Nanophotonic Devices Based on Planar Photonic Crystals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luo, Sheng-Nian — I. The Heterogeneities at the Core-Mantle and Inner-Core Boundaries from PKP Phases. II. The Static and Dynamic Behavior of Silica at High Pressures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lynn, Theresa Wan-Zhen — Measurement and Control of Individual Quanta in Cavity QED (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lyubovitsky, Julia Gennadievna — Mapping the Cytochrome C Folding Landscape (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maier, Stefan Alexander — Guiding of Electromagnetic Energy in Subwavelength Periodic Metal Structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mason, Richard James — Fluid Locomotion and Trajectory Planning for Shape-Changing Robots (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Matveev, Konstantin Ivanovich — Thermoacoustic Instabilities in the Rijke Tube: Experiments and Modeling (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mauch, Sean Patrick — Efficient Algorithms for Solving Static Hamilton-Jacobi Equations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maurer, Joshua Ahab — I. Structure-Function Analysis of the Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance. II. Design of Novel Magnetic Materials using Crystal Engineering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mei, Yajun — Asymptotically Optimal Methods for Sequential Change-Point Detection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meier, Alexandre Edouard — Gallium and Chromium Corroles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meng, Ellis Fan-Chuin — MEMS Technology and Devices for a Micro Fluid Dosing System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Milam, Mark Bradley — Real-Time Optimal Trajectory Generation for Constrained Dynamical Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Jeremiah Edward — Radical Formation and Electron Transfer in Biological Molecules (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mo, Chunhui — Synaptic Learning Rules for Local Synaptic Interactions: Theory and Application to Direction Selectivity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mookherjea, Shayan — Coupled-Resonator Optical Waveguides and Multiplexed Solitons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morgan, John Philip — Ruthenium-Based Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Coordinated with NHeterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Synthesis and Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morgan, Matthew Alexander — Millimeter-Wave MMICs and Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Natawidjaja, Danny Hilman — Neotectonics of the Sumatran Fault and Paleogeodesy of the Sumatran Subduction Zone (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nenes, Athanasios — Toward an Understanding of the Indirect Climatic Effect of Aerosols (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Panotopoulos, Georgios — Holographic Information Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Park, Jongwon — String/Gauge Duality and Penrose Limit (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pavlin, Tina — Hyperpolarized Gas Polarimetry and Imaging at Low Magnetic Field (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Penn, Elizabeth Maggie — Cooperation and Social Choice: How Foresight Can Induce Fairness (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pottebaum, Tait Sherman — The Relationship Between Near-Wake Structure and Heat Transfer for an Oscillating Circular Cylinder in Cross-Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Preisler, Edward James — Investigation of Novel Semiconductor Heterostructure Systems: I. Cerium Oxide/Silicon Heterostructures. II. 6.1 Å Semiconductor-Based Avalanche Photodiodes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pritchard, Matthew Earl — Recent Crustal Deformation in West-Central South America (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Purdue, Patricia Marie — Topics in LIGO-Related Physics: Interferometric Speed Meters and Tidal Work (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Quezada, Cindy María — Histidine Phosphorylation in Bacterial Chemotaxis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Quiñónez, Carlo Joseph — Theory and Design of Relaxometric Probes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Radford, James Edward — Symmetry, Reduction and Swimming in a Perfect Fluid (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rao, Shanti Raja — Mirror Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rucker, Victor Clay — Detection of DNA by Sequence Specific Fluorescent Polyamides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Runyan, Marcus Christian — A Search for Galaxy Clusters Using the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Santamore, Deborah Hannah — Quantum Transport and Dynamics of Phonons in Mesoscopic Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shapley, Alice Eve — Detailed Astrophysical Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smith, Justin David — Fault Tolerance Using Whole-Process Migration and Speculative Execution (Master's thesis)
• Song, Yang — A Probabilistic Approach to Human Motion Detection and Labeling (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spedalieri, Federico Maximiliano — Characterizing Entanglement in Quantum Information (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spessard, Sarah Jane — Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Garsubellin A and Structurally Related Phloroglucin Natural Products (Master's thesis)
• Sun, Lianhong — Engineering Galactose Oxidase to Increase Expression Level in E. coli, Enhance Thermostability and Introduce Novel Activities (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Werner Man-Li — Observation of B → K⁰ₛ π⁺ π⁻ and B → K*(892)⁺⁻π⁻⁺ and Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in B → K*(892)⁺⁻π⁻⁺ (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thorsen, Todd Addison — Microfluidic Technologies for High-Throughput Screening Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thoutireddy, Pururav — Variational Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Method (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Treadway, Christopher Ryan — Spectroscopic Characterization of DNA-Mediated Charge Transfer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trnka, Tina Maria — Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis: Ruthenium Alkylidene Complexes with Phosphine and N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vadehra, Anand — DNA-Mediated Charge Transfer in Biological Contexts (Master's thesis)
• Vela, Patricio Antonio — Averaging and Control of Nonlinear Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Voigt, Christopher Ashby — Computationally Optimizing the Directed Evolution of Proteins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Jian — Instrument Development and Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosol Physical Properties Through Airborne Measurement (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Xiaoou — Set Mapping in the Method of Imprecision (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wehbi, William Amine — Amino Acid Radicals in Rhenium-Modified Copper Proteins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weiss, Benjamin Paul — Martian Paleomagnetism with the SQUID Microscope (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wilson, Catherine Heden — Political Information, Institutions and Citizen Participation in American Politics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wood, Zoë Justine — Computational Topology Algorithms for Discrete 2-Manifolds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Hui — Signal Generation and Processing in High-Frequency / High-Speed Silicon-Based Integrated Circuits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xia, Lei — Search for Scalar Leptons at LEP with the L3 Detector (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Yunping — Holographic Recording and Dynamic Range Improvement in Lithium Niobate Crystals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zeiler, Kathryn Marie — Medical Malpractice and Contract Disclosure: A Study of the Effects of Legal Rules on Behavior in Health Care Markets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Deqiang — Structure-Based Design of Mutant Proteins: I. Molecular Docking Studies of Amino Acid Binding to Wild-Type Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases. II. Structure-Based Design of Mutant Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases for Non-Natural Amino Acid Incorporation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhao, Qian — Network Source Coding: Theory and Code Design for Broadcast and Multiple Access Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Qiao — Glial Cell Development in the Vertebrate Central Nervous System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zlatoš, Andrej — Sum Rules and the Szegö Condition for Jacobi Matrices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))