Theses — 2005

• Acevedo Bolton, Gabriel Alejandro — Blood Flow Effects on Heart Development and a Minimally Invasive Technique for in vivo Flow Alterations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Achimescu, Sever — Hilbert Modular Forms of Weight 1/2 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Alves, Steven Wayne — Nonlinear Analysis of Pacoima Dam with Spatially Nonuniform Ground Motion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ambroggio, Xavier Ignacio — Structural and Functional Studies of Jamm Domain Proteins and Their Role in the Ubiquitin System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Armani, Deniz Karapetian — Ultra-High-Q Planar Microcavities and Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bahreini, Roya — Studies with the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bak-Maier, Magdalena — Commissural Axon Kinetics and the Role of Netrin in Early Brain Circuitry Development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barbee, Susannah Dale — The Functions of Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase in T Lymphocyte Development: Roles in Positive Selection and Thymic Exit (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Beene, Darren Lee — Chemical Scale Investigations of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels Using Unnatural Amino Acids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Benitez, Diego — Theoretical Study of the Mechanism of Olefin Metathesis and Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bergthorson, Jeffrey Myles — Experiments and Modeling of Impinging Jets and Premixed Hydrocarbon Stagnation Flames (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Best, Timothy Patrick — Localization of DNA-Binding Polyamides in Living Cells (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Betley, Theodore Alexander — Coordination Chemistry from Trigonally Coordinated Iron Platforms: Chemistry Relevant to Dinitrogen Reduction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhat, Harish Subrahmanya — Lagrangian Averaging, Nonlinear Waves, and Shock Regularization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhattacharyya, Sujata — Embryonic Origin of the Olfactory Sensory System: Fate Map, Lineage Analysis and Specification of the Avian Olfactory Placode (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Birnbaum, Kevin Michael — Cavity QED with Multilevel Atoms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bittner, Wendy Belliston — Ultrafast Photoreduction of Nitric Oxide Synthase by Electron Tunneling Wires (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boca, Andreea — Experiments in Cavity QED: Exploring the Interaction of Quantized Light with a Single Trapped Atom (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boland, Justin Scott — Micro Electret Power Generators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boland, Stacey Walker — Sol-Gel Synthesis of Highly Oriented Lead Barium Titanate and Lanthanum Nickelate Thin Films for High Strain Sensor and Actuator Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boozer, Allen David — Raman Transitions in Cavity QED (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Borths, Christopher J. — Investigations in Enantioselective Catalysis. Development of Novel Asymmetric Organocatalytic Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Borths, Elizabeth Loraine — Structural and Biochemical Characterization of the Vitamin B₁₂ ABC Transporter, BtuCD-F (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bosak, Tanja — Laboratory Models of Microbial Biosignatures in Carbonate Rocks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boxe, Christopher Shawn — Nitrate Photochemistry and Interrelated Chemical Phenomena in Ice (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, Sean Pomeroy — Iminium and Enamine Activation: Methods for Enantioselective Organocatalysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, Steven Douglas — The Chemistry of Tris(phosphino)borate Supported Iron-Nitrogen Multiply-Bonded Linkages (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cai, Kaihua — Dispersive Properties of Schrödinger Equations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carpen, Ileana Cristina — Studies of Suspension Behavior: I. Instabilities of Non-Brownian Suspensions. II. Microrheology of Colloidal Suspensions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Centurion Mac Lean, Martin — Study of the Nonlinear Propagation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chatelain, Philippe — Contributions to the Three-Dimensional Vortex Element Method and Spinning Bluff Body Flows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Choi, Gloria Bohyun — Characterization of the Circuits Mediating Innate Reproductive and Defensive Behaviors from the Amygdala to the Hypothalamus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chow, Stephanie Sienyee — Speciation in Digital Organisms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chung, Serena Hsin-Yi — Global Distribution, Radiative Forcing, and Climate Impact of Carbonaceous Aerosols (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cook, Matthew M. — Networks of Relations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Copeland, Jeffrey Michael — Identification of Novel Cell Death Regulators in C. elegans and Drosophila (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Covrig, Silviu Doru — A Measurement of Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the G0 Experiment in Forward Mode (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Croal, Laura Rosemary — Fe(II) Oxidation by Anaerobic Phototrophic Bacteria: Molecular Mechanisms and Geological Implications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cua, Georgia B. — Creating the Virtual Seismologist: Developments in Ground Motion Characterization and Seismic Early Warning (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cummings, Uri Vaughan — Linearized and High Frequency Electrooptic Modulators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dabiri, John Oluseun — Unsteady Fluid Mechanics of Starting-Flow Vortex Generators with Time-Dependent Boundary Conditions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deev, Andrei — Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy of Atmospherically Important Radicals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Del Vecchio, Domitilla — State Estimation in Multi-Agent Decision and Control Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• deLorimier, Michael John — Floating-Point Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiply for FPGAs (Master's thesis)
• Diaconescu, Luca Radu — Applications of Effective Field Theory to Electron Scattering (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dirks, Robert Michael — Analysis, Design, and Construction of Nucleic Acid Devices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dmochowski, Jane Ellen — Application of MODIS-ASTER (Master) Simulator Data to Geological Mapping of Young Volcanic Regions in Baja California, Mexico (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dooley, Bradley Scott — Stereo Digital Particle Image Velocimetry Investigation of a Free Surface Mixing Layer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dorn, Evan David — Universal Biosignatures for the Detection of Life (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Edelson, Benjamin S. — Nuclear Localization of Polyamide-Fluorescein Conjugates in Cell Culture (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eisner, Joshua Aaron — High Angular Resolution Studies of the Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Elcott, Sharif Mohamed — Discrete, Circulation-Preserving, and Stable Simplicial Fluids (Master's thesis)
• Elgammal, Ramez Ahmed — Theoretical and Experimental Investigations in MEMS-Based Force-Detected NMR (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Endelman, Jeffrey B. — Design and Analysis of Combinatorial Protein Libraries Created by Site-Directed Recombination (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Faddy, James Malcolm — Flow Structure in a Model of Aircraft Trailing Vortices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Farivar, Shabnam Sarah — Cytoarchitecture of the Locust Olfactory System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Farmer, Alison Jane — Adventures in Theoretical Astrophysics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fechter, Eric James — Design of Sequence-Specific DNA Intercalators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ferreira, Eric Matthew — The Design and Development of Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Transformations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Friedel, Ilja Heinrich — Approximation of Surfaces by Normal Meshes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fung, Jimmy — Coarse Analysis of Multiscale Systems: Diffuser Flows, Charged Particle Motion, and Connections to Averaging Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Galownia, Jonathan Michael — I. Synthesis, Characterization, and Base Catalysis of Novel Zeolite Supported Super-Basic Materials. II. Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane Over Reduced Heteropolyanion Catalysts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Garg, Neil Kamal — The Total Synthesis of Dragmacidins D and F (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gavriliu, Marcel — Towards More Efficient Interval Analysis: Corner Forms and a Remainder Interval Newton Method (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gray, Nathaniel Asoka — High-Confidence, Modular Compiler Development in a Formal Environment (Master's thesis)
• Green, William M. J. — InGaAsP-InP Semiconductor Microcavity Geometries for Annular Bragg Reflection, Optical Switching, and Sensing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gregory, Irene Michelle — Design and Stability Analysis of an Integrated Controller for Highly Flexible Advanced Aircraft Utilizing the Novel Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gunn, Lawrence Cary, III — Integration of Complex Optical Functionality in a Production CMOS Process (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hall, Spencer Eugene — Development of a Structure Prediction Method for G-Protein Coupled Receptors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hart, Christopher Edward — Inferring Genetic Regulatory Network Structure: Integrative Analysis of Genome-Scale Data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Healy, Paul Jay — Institutions, Incentives and Behavior: Essays in Public Economics and Mechanism Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Heidel, Jeremy David — Targeted, Systemic Non-Viral Delivery of Small Interfering RNA in vivo (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hickerson, Anna Iwaniec — An Experimental Analysis of the Characteristic Behaviors of an Impedance Pump (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hom, Geoffrey Kai Tong — Advances in Computational Protein Design: Development of More Efficient Search Algorithms and their Application to the Full-Sequence Design of Larger Proteins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hostler, Stephen Richard — Wave Propagation in Granular Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hsieh, Hung-Te — Operation of Holographic Elements with Broadband Light Sources (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huh, Jun Ryul — To Die or to Differentiate: Apoptotic and Non-Apoptotic Roles of Death Molecules in Drosophila melanogaster (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Humbert, James Sean — Bio-Inspired Visuomotor Convergence in Navigation and Flight Control Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ichiriu, Stephan Robert — Investigation of Spin Injection in Semiconductors: Theory and Experiment (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ja, William Wei-Hua — Peptide Modulators of G Protein Signaling (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jackson, Scott Irving — Gaseous Detonation Initiation Via Wave Implosion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jacoby, Bryan Anthony — Recycled Pulsars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jenkins, David Matthew — Low Spin Pseudotetrahedral Cobalt Tris(phosphino)borate Complexes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jing, Yindi — Space-Time Code Design and Its Applications in Wireless Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Jennifer Michelle — Artin L-Functions for Abelian Extensions of Imaginary Quadratic Fields (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Michael Bernard — Aerodynamic Control and Mixing with Ramp Injection (Engineer's thesis)
• Jones, Elizabeth Anne Vincent — Blood Flow and The Mammalian Embryo (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, William Claude — A Measurement of the Temperature and Polarization Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kapinus, Vadym A. — Photophysical Properties of Protonated Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Katz, Daniel Jerome — On p-Adic Estimates of Weights in Abelian Codes over Galois Rings (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Keller, William R. — Cenozoic Plate Tectonic Reconstructions and Plate Boundary Processes in the Southwest Pacific (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kellogg, Melinda Jane — Evidence for Excitonic Superfluidity in a Bilayer Two-Dimensional Electron System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kesden, Michael Henry — To the Horizon and Beyond:Weak Lensing of the CMB and Binary Inspirals into Horizonless Objects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Klamo, Sara Bernadine — Direct Examination of Initiation and Propagation Kinetics of Zirconocene-Catalyzed Alkene Polymerization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kowalewsky, Olga — Theory of Complex Lattice Quasicontinuum and Its Application to Ferroelectrics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kwan, Brian Joseph — Development of Sequential Olefin Cross Metathesis-Organocatalysis Methodology (Master's thesis)
• Lambert, Bruce Michael — Force-Detected, Single-Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging Using Nanoscale Mechanical Resonators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Christopher — Probing Physics and the Standard Model and Beyond with Electroweak Baryogenesis and Effective Theories of the Strong Interactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Hok Kong — Gauge Theory and Supergravity Duality in the PP-Wave Background (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Hyunjoo — A New Strategy for Synthesizing Zeolites and Zeolite-Like Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Seung-Yub — Deformation Mechanisms of Bulk Metallic Glass Matrix Composites (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leung, Thomas Hin-Chai — Specificity of Transcription Activation by NF-kB Subunits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Fei-Fei — Visual Recognition: Computational Models and Human Psychophysics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Yi — Topological Sigma Models and Generalized Geometries (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Youyong — Atomistic Simulation of Macromolecules (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Hsuan-Tien — Infinite Ensemble Learning with Support Vector Machines (Master's thesis)
• Litke, Nathan Jacob — Variational Methods in Surface Parameterization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lu, Miao-Ling — Large-Eddy Simulations of Marine Cumulus and Stratocumulus and Study of Humidity Halos and Aerosol Indirect Radiative Effects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mah, Angie Siu Yee — Regulation of Protein Kinase Dbf2 in Mitotic Exit (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marques, Michael Anthony — The Molecular Recognition of DNA by Novel Heterocycles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mazin, Benjamin A. — Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mazor, Ofer — Neural Dynamics and Population Coding in the Insect Brain (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McLoughlin, Tristan — The Near-Penrose Limit of AdS/CFT (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meeker, Daniella Elena Patricia — Cognitive Neural Prosthetics: Brain Machine Interfaces Based in Parietal Cortex (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meinhold, Peter — Engineering Cytochrome P450 BM-3 for Selective Hydroxylation of Alkanes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mochon, Carlos — From Non-Abelian Anyons to Quantum Computation to Coin-Flipping by Telephone (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mukherjee, Sundeep — Study of Crystallization Behavior, Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Bulk Metallic Glasses Using Noncontact Electrostatic Levitation Technique (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mukhtar, Saleem — Interval Modulation: A New Paradigm for the Design of High Speed Communication Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Murphy, John Frank — Methods for Collection and Processing of Gene Expression Data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Naeimi, Helia — A Greedy Algorithm for Tolerating Defective Crosspoints in NanoPLA Design (Master's thesis)
• Nenciu, Irina — Lax Pairs for the Ablowitz-Ladik System Via Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nielsen, Robert J. — Computational Strategy in Catalyst Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Northrup, Alan Bowers — Design and Development of New Enantioselective Organocatalytic Transformations, a Two-Step Synthesis of Carbohydrates, and Progress toward the Total Synthesis of Callipeltoside C (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Okuda, Takuya — Large N Dualities in Topological String Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Owen, Jonathan Scharle — A Study of Ligand Substitution and its Importance in the C-H Activation of Methane and Methanol (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Paloczi, George T. — Polymer Integrated Optics: Device Architectures and Fabrication Methods (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Papachristodoulou, Antonis — Scalable Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Using Convex Optimization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peng, Joyce Yaochun — Structure and Function Prediction of Human Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor 1, Cation-π Studies, and Protein Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Petersson, Ernest James — Investigations of Ion Channel Structure and Function. I. Studies of Nicotine Binding to the Acetylcholine Receptor. II. Development of Tools for Studying Learning and Memory with Unnatural Amino Acids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pintgen, Florian Peter — Detonation Diffraction in Mixtures with Various Degrees of Instability (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ponchaut, Nicolas Frederic — Part I: 3DPTV: Advances and Error Analysis. Part II: Extension of Guderley's Solution for Converging Shock Waves (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Popielarski, Stephen R. — I. Structural Effects of Carbohydrate-Containing Polycations on Gene Delivery. II. Development of a Nanoparticle-Based Model Delivery System to Guide the Rational Design of Gene Delivery to the Liver (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Poulin-Kerstien, Adam Thomas — DNA-Templated Dimerizations of Minor Groove-Binding Polyamides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Prajna, Stephen — Optimization-Based Methods for Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems Verification (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Prakash, Piyush — Slack Matching (Master's thesis)
• Qi, Xin — Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation to Rewrite the Genetic Code and RNA-Peptide Interactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rathore, Yasser — Resonant Excitation of White Dwarf Oscillations in Compact Object Binaries (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reddy, Leila — Attention and the Processing of Natural Stimuli: Psychophysics, fMRI and Single Unit Recordings in the Human Brain (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Romero-Talamás, Carlos Alejandro — Investigations of Spheromak Plasma Dynamics: High-Speed Imaging at the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment and Magnetic Diagnostics at the Caltech Spheromak Experiment (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roust, Kevin A. — Minority Rights in Majoritarian Institutions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rutenberg, Isaac Michael — Functionalized Polymers and Surfaces via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sanders, Daniel Paul — Development of Fluorinated Monomers and Polymers for Advanced Photolithographic Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sarisky, Catherine Ann — Exploration of the Determinants of Protein Structure and Stability by Protein Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Savarese, Silvio — Shape Reconstruction from Shadows and Reflections (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shah, Premal S. — Advances in Force Field Development and Sequence Optimization Methods for Computational Protein Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shapovalov, George G. — Mechanosensitive Channels of Bacteria: Structure and Function. Electrophysiology as a High Resolution Technique of Ion Channel Study (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sharma, Shantanu — Prediction of Structure and Antagonist Binding Site in Human and Rodent Chemokine Receptor 1 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shen, Wei — Structure, Dynamics, and Properties of Artificial Protein Hydrogels Assembled Through Coiled-Coil Domains (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shin, Donghun — Identification and Characterization of Endothelial Specific Genes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shuster, David Lawrence — Application of Spallogenic Noble Gases Induced by Energetic Proton Irradiation to Problems in Geochemistry and Thermochronometry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sigurdson, Kris Raymond — Variations on the Standard Model of the Universe (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Simion, Claudiu — Orienting and Preference: An Enquiry into the Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Decision Making (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sisk, Brian Christopher — Computational Optimization of Chemical Vapor Detector Arrays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spakowitz, Andrew James — Semiflexible Polymers: Fundamental Theory and Applications in DNA Packaging (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Srinivasan, Ramesh — Structural Dynamics of Complex Molecules by Ultrafast Electron Diffraction : Concepts, Methodology and Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Staneff, Geoffrey D. — High-Pressure Synthesis of Thermoelectric Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stoiciu, Mihai Valentin — Zeros of Random Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stredie, Valentin Gabriel — Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Aquatic and Aerial Animal Locomotion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sumner, Heather Ann — Gas Phase Reaction Dynamics and Design of Molecular Clusters and Bioconjugates (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Swanson, Ian Jakov — Superstring Holography and Integrability in AdS₅ x S⁵ (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Takahashi, Terry Torao — In Vitro Selection of RNA Binding Peptides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thorpe, Jeremy Christopher — Analysis and Design of Protograph Based LDPC Codes and Ensembles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thunnissen, Daniel Pierre — Propagating and Mitigating Uncertainty in the Design of Complex Multidisciplinary Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Udit, Andrew K. — P450 BM3 Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Zhengrong — Oxygen Isotope Studies of the Petrogenesis of Hawaiian Lavas and a Theoretical Study on Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Multiply-Substituted Isotopologues (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weaver, Jeremy John — Corroles (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Webb, Lauren J. — Chemical Characterization and Charge Carrier Dynamics of Crystalline Silicon(III) Surfaces Modified with Surface-Bound Organic Functional Groups (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wei, Tzer-jen — Descriptive Properties of Measure Preserving Actions and the Associated Unitary Representations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weinberg, Nevin Nachum — I. Ash Injection and Exposure During Radius Expansion Type I X-Ray Bursts. II. Stellar Dynamics at the Galactic Center. III. Weak Gravitational Lensing by Dark Matter Concentrations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wessling, Margaret Ellen — Heavy Pentaquarks in the Diquark Model and the Large Nc Expansion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Westhead, Andrew Neil — Upscaling for Two-Phase Flows in Porous Media (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wheatley, Vincent — On the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Magnetohydrodynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• White, Christopher John — A Solid-state Atomic Frequency Standard (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Whitehouse, David — The Twisted Weighted Fundamental Lemma for the Transfer of Automorphic Forms from GSp(4) to GL(4) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Widicus Weaver, Susanna Leigh — Rotational Spectroscopy and Observational Astronomy of Prebiotic Molecules (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wiggins, Paul Alexander — Biology Beyond Biochemistry:The Mechanics of Life (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wirz, Richard Edward — Discharge Plasma Processes of Ring-Cusp Ion Thrusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Witzens, Jeremy — Dispersion in Photonic Crystals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Jian — Defect Chemistry and Proton Conductivity in Ba-based Perovskites (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xia, Kaiwen — Laboratory Investigations of Earthquake Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xiao, Yu — The Influence of Oxygen Vacancies on Domain Patterns in Ferroelectric Perovskites (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xie, Jun — Integrated Parylene LC-ESI on a Chip (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xu, Donghua — Development of Novel Binary and Multi-Component Bulk Metallic Glasses (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Lan — Fabrication and Characterization of Microlasers by the Sol-Gel Method (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yavari, Arash — Atomic Structure of Ferroelectric Domain Walls, Free Surfaces and Steps (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Hui — C. elegans Male Tail Development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Xinwei — Localized Non-bBlowup Conditions for 3D Incompressible Euler Flows and Related Equations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zahler, James Michael — Materials Integrations for High-Performance Photovoltaics by Wafer Bonding (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Qingsong — Atomistic Simulation of Barium Titanate (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Jijie — Nanowicking: Multi-scale Flow Interaction with Nanofabric Structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))