Theses — 2013

• Abrecht, David Gregory — Thermodynamic Properties of Organometallic Dihydrogen Complexes for Hydrogen Storage Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ader, Thomas Joachim — Earthquakes of the Nepal Himalaya : Towards a Physical Model of the Seismic Cycle (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Aikin, Randol Wallace — Testing Inflationary Cosmology with the BICEP1 and BICEP2 Experiments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Akgiray, Ahmed Halid — New Technologies Driving Decade-Bandwidth Radio Astronomy: Quad-ridged Flared Horn and Compound-Semiconductor LNAs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Alton, Daniel James — Interacting Single Atoms with Nanophotonics for Chip-Integrated Quantum Network (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Aria, Adrianus Indrat — Control of Wettability of Carbon Nanotube Array by Reversible Dry Oxidation for Superhydrophobic Coating and Supercapacitor Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Azizgolshani, Hesham — Tissue Engineering Active Biological Machines: Bio-Inspired Design, Directed Self-Assembly, and Characterization of Muscular Pumps Simulating the Embryonic Heart (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bartlett, Padraic James — Completions of ε-Dense Partial Latin Squares (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Beckett, Dustin Hughes — An Economic Approach to Consumer Product Ratings (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bennett, Nathan Bruce — Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation: Insights, Application Toward Cyclopentanoid and Cycloheptanoid Molecules, and the Total Synthesis of Several Daucane Sesquiterpenes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bergmann, Kristin Diane — Constraints on the Carbon Cycle and Climate During the Early Evolution of Animals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhawe, Yashodhan — I: Solid Materials for Low Temperature Thermochemical Water Splitting. II: Structure-Property Relationships on the Zeolite Catalyzed Conversion of Methanol to Light Olefins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bialecka-Fornal, Maja I. — Single-Cell Analysis of the Physiology of Mechanosensation in Bacteria (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boekelheide, Nicholas — Quantum Simulation of Enzyme Catalysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boosey, Luke Anthony — Essays on Information, Competition, and Cooperation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bourguignon, Jean-Loup — Models of Turbulent Pipe Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bower, Danielle Vera Brown — Chemical and Neural Regulation of Embryonic Branching Morphogenesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brooks, Peter Bernard — Quantum Error Correction with Biased Noise (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Budaeva, Nina — Morphological Study of Ice Crystal Growth (Senior thesis (Major))
• Burgos, Stanley P. — Coupled Plasmonic Systems and Devices: Applications in Visible Metamaterials, Nanophotonic Circuits, and CMOS Imaging (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bushong, Benjamin L. — Essays on Behavioral and Neuro-economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Büyükboyaci Hanay, Mürüvvet Ilknur — Essays on Contests, Coordination Games, and Matching (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ćaćić, Branimir Josip — On Reconstruction Theorems in Noncommutative Riemannian Geometry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Censi, Andrea — Bootstrapping Vehicles: A Formal Approach to Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning Based on Invariance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chandra, Fiona Adriani — Limits and Tradeoffs in the Control of Autocatalytic Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chang, Sha — Hele-Shaw Flow Near Cusp Singularities (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Channon, Melanie Beth — Oxygen Isotopes and Volatiles in Martian Meteorite (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chartron, Justin William — The Structure of a Transmembrane Protein Sorting Complex (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chaudhuri, Saptarshi — Measurement, Simulation, and Design of the Dispersion-Engineered Traveling-Wave Kinetic Inductance Amplifier (Senior thesis (Major))
• Chemtob, Steven Michael — The Origin and Evolution of Amorphous Silica Coatings on Young Hawaiian Basalts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Tong — Ultralow-Loss Silica Resonators and Waveguides on a Silicon Chip (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Yi-Chun — Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cheng, Mulin — Adaptive Methods Exploring Intrinsic Sparse Structures of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cho, Julie YoungHee — State-Dependent Modulation of Neuronal Circuits in C. elegans Sleep (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Coelho, Pedro de Souza Leão — Olefin Cyclopropanation and Carbon-Hydrogen Amination via Carbene and Nitrene Transfers Catalyzed by Engineered Cytochrome P450 Enzymes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Crane, Keenan Michael — Conformal Geometry Processing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Craven, Jill Suzanne — Studies of Ambient and Chamber Aerosol Composition Using the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Czakon, Nicole Gisela — Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Observations Using Large-Format Millimeter Arrays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• D'Espaux, Leopold Daniel — Synthetic Regulation of Eukaryotic Gene Expression by Noncoding RNA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dabby, Nadine L. — Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs, and Experimental Study (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Daeffler, Christopher Scot — Ring-Opening Metathesis of Bulky Norbornene Monomers and the Radical-Mediated Hydrophosphonation of Olefins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Damazo, Jason Scott — Planar Reflection of Gaseous Detonation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Darvish, Davis Solomon — Cu₂O Substrates and Epitaxial Cu₂O/ZnO Thin Film Heterostructures for Solar Energy Conversion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deceglie, Michael Gardner — Advanced Silicon Solar Cell Device Physics and Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dekas, Anne Elizabeth — Diazotrophy in the Deep: An Analysis of the Distribution, Magnitude, Geochemical Controls, and Biological Mediators of Deep-Sea Benthic Nitrogen Fixation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Del Real, Marissa Morales — Analysis of a Transcriptional Network Involving PU.1, Notch, and Gata3 in the Lymphomyeloid Lineage Decision during Early T-cell Development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• DeLorimier, Michael John — GRAph Parallel Actor Language: A Programming Language for Parallel Graph Algorithms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dikaliotis, Theodoros K. — On Delay and Security in Network Coding (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dillman, Adler Ray — Host Seeking and the Genomic Architecture of Parasitism among Entomopathogenic Nematodes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dubois, Julien Christian Roger — Studying Conscious and Unconscious Vision with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging : the BOLD Promise (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Edgar, Lauren Ashley — Identifying and Interpreting Stratification in Sedimentary Rocks on Mars: Insight from Rover and Orbital Observations and Terrestrial Field Analogs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Elling, Timothy James — GPU-Accelerated Fourier-Continuation Solvers and Physically Exact Computational Boundary Conditions for Wave Scattering Problems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Elzinga, Michael John — Flight Dynamics in Drosophila Through a Dynamically-scaled Robotic Approach (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Engel, Kevin Thomas — Charged Pion Contribution to the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Foley, Peter William — Four Essays on the Empirical Analysis of Political Ideology (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ford, Nicole Danielle Bouley — Capturing Protein Dynamics with Time-Resolved Luminescence Spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Garrett, Glenn Robert — Study of the Origins of Toughness in Amorphous Metals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gdoutos, Eleftherios E. — Thin Metastructures with Engineered Thermal Expansion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Giang, Ha Thanh — Coupled Effects of Mechanics, Geometry, and Chemistry on Bio-Membrane Behavior (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gittens, Alex A. — Topics in Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gluščević, Vera — CMB as a Probe of New Physics and Old Times (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goldberg, Alexander F. G. — Synthetic Applications and Methodological Developments of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gopalakrishnan, Ragavendran — Characterizing Distribution Rules for Cost Sharing Games (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Griffin, Gregory Scott — Learning and Using Taxonomies for Visual and Olfactory Classification (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Haah, Jeongwan — Lattice Quantum Codes and Exotic Topological Phases of Matter (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hamecher, Emily A. — Studies of the Equation of State and Elasticity of Mantle Minerals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Han, Han — Development of Targeted, Polymeric Delivery Vehicles for Camptothesin and siRNA Via Boronic Acid-Diol Complexation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hebert, Paul — Estimation and Inference for Grasping and Manipulation Tasks Using Vision and Kinesthetic Sensors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hernandez, Gilberto — Building a Gene Regulatory Network in Adult Mouse Skeletal Muscle Following Nerve Injury: Transcriptome Characterization and New Model for Functional cis-Regulatory Analysis In Vivo (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hickerson, Kevin Peter — The Physics of Ultracold Neutrons and Fierz Interference in Beta Decay (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hill, Jeffrey Thomas — Nonlinear Optics and Wavelength Translation Via Cavity-Optomechanics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hochrein, Lisa Marie — Towards Conditional RNAi : Shape and Sequence Transduction with Small Conditional RNAs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hoglen, Nerissa Emmy Graetz — Charles I: Unhero of Royalist Poetry (Senior thesis (Major))
• Hoh, Nicholas Jeffrey — Effects of Particle Size Ratio on Single Particle Motion in Colloidal Dispersions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Honarvar Nazari, Meisam — Electrical and Optical Interconnects for High-Performance Computing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hong, Allen Yu — Development of a Novel Ring Contraction Strategy and Application to the Total Synthesis of Presilphiperfolanol Natural Products (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hong, Ting — Brownian Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors and Single Photon Optomechanics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hotan, Gladia Chork — Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Interactions Between Micrometer-Scale Stainless Steel Spheres (Senior thesis (Major))
• Hsiao, Elaine Yih-Nien — Brain, Gut and Immune Interactions in Autism Spectrum Disorder (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hu, Na — Epigenetic Regulation in Neural Crest Development: Role of DNA Methyltransferases 3A and 3B (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Jingjing — Determinantal Hypersurface from a Geometric Perspective (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hwang, Kiwook — Biotechnologies for Cancer Diagnostics: Cell Sorting, Protein Analysis and Imaging of Cellular Metabolism (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ikeda, Ayako — Superprotonic Solid Acids: Thermochemistry, Structure, and Conductivity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Iyer, Shankar — The Interplay of Localization and Interactions in Quantum Many-Body Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jacobi, Ian — Structure of the Turbulent Boundary Layer under Static and Dynamic Impulsive Roughness Perturbation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jang, Min Seok — Plasmonics and Electron Optics in Graphene (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Gwendolyn Brook — Modeling, Simulation, and Design of Self-Assembling Space Systems: Accurate Collision Detection, Robust Time Integration, and Optimal Control (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, Tucker A. — Detailed Properties of High Redshift Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kalbarczyk, Karolina Zbigniew — Directed Evolution of Terpene Synthases for Non-Natural Substrates (Senior thesis (Major))
• Kayaba, Yutaka — Essays on Learning and Econometrics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Keitz, Benjamin Keith — Selectivity in Ruthenium Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis: Applications and Origins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelber, Scott Ian — Single Particle Mass Spectrometry and Inertial Imaging with Nanomechanical Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Keller, Gretchen Eva — Phototriggering Nitric Oxide Synthase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelley, Matthew James — Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy of Amino Acids and Sugars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Isaac Hyun — Conditional Independence in Quantum Many-Body Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Justin Young-Hyun — Parylene-C as a New Piezoelectric Material (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Stacy Yeonchi — X-Ray Ionization and the Influence of Magnetic Fields on the Growth of Gas Giant Planets (Senior thesis (Major))
• Kolawa, Natalie J. — Proteomic Analysis of the Cdc48/Ubx Network Identifies a Role for Ubx2 in the Regulation of Lipid Biosynthesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krishnamurthy, Chithra — Chemical Probes to Study Fucosylated Glycans (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kulkarni, Chethana — Selective Functionalization of the Protein N-Terminus with N-Myristoyl Transferase in Bacteria (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kurji, Zuleikha — Molecular Design of Side-Group Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Understanding Their Interactions with Small Molecule Liquid Crystal Solvent (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kwok, Kawai — Mechanics of Viscoelastic Thin-Walled Structures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Latawiec, Pawel Michal — Bandgap Engineering Silicon Nanopillars (Senior thesis (Major))
• Lee, Sung-Eun Melanie — Mechanism of Intestinal Colonization by Symbiotic Bacteria (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leenheer, Andrew Jay — Light to Electrons to Bonds: Imaging Water Splitting and Collecting Photoexcited Electrons (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leonard, Andrea Beth — Controlling Wave Propagation through Nonlinear Engineered Granular Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leong, Derek — On Erasure Coding for Distributed Storage and Streaming Communications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levine, Xavier Josselin — Dynamics of Earth's Hadley Circulation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levitan, David Benjamin — Finding Needles in the Haystack: A Search for AM CVn Systems Using the Palomar Transient Factory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Benjamin Chun Yeung — Synthesis and Biological Studies of DNA-binding Cyclic Py-Im Polyamides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Jiang — Nonlinear Optics in Planar Silica-on-Silicon Disk Resonators (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, King-Fai — Atmospheric Trace Gases as Probes of Chemistry and Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Na (Lina) — Distributed Optimization in Power Networks and General Multi-agent Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Limapichat, Walrati — Probing the Roles of Receptor Structure, Drug-Receptor Interactions, and Receptor Crosstalk in Ligand-Gated Ion Channel Function (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Minghong — Algorithmic Challenges in Green Data Centers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Yunung Nina — Using Space Geodesy to Constrain Variations in Seismogenic Behavior on Subduction Megathrusts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Line, Michael Robert — Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres: Spectral Retrieval and Chemistry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Annie Hsin-Wen — Sensor Networks for Geospatial Event Detection - Theory and Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Chih-Hao — Transceiver Designs and Analysis for LTI, LTV and Broadcast Channels - New Matrix Decompositions and Majorization Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Shiyi — Experimental Apparatus for Measuring Ultralow Thermal Conductivity Structures (Senior thesis (Major))
• Loh Rui Yan, Matthew — Dense, Efficient Chip-to-Chip Communication at the Extremes of Computing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lopez Ortega, Alejandro — Simulation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Flows for Elastic-Plastic Solids in Planar and Converging Geometries Using an Eulerian Framework (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• López-Yglesias, Xerxes F. — Physical Investigations of Small Particles: (I) Aerosol Particle Charging and Flux Enhancement and (II) Whispering Gallery Mode Sensing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Loza, Christine Lauren — Investigations of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in Laboratory Chambers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ma, Chao — Single Cell Proteomics Microchip to Profile Immune Function, with Applications in Stem Cell Biology, Translational Disease Mechanism Study and Clinical Therapeutics Monitoring (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Max-Moerbeck Astudillo, Walter Kennerth — The Relationship Between the Radio and Gamma-Ray Emission of Blazars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McCaig, Heather Catherine — Resonant Nanocantilever Chemical Vapor Sensors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McCoy, Michael Brian — A Geometric Analysis of Convex Demixing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McKone, James Robert — Earth-Abundant Materials for Solar Hydrogen Generation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mehrotra, Prakhar — Sustainable Energy Solutions for Irrigation and Harvesting in Developing Countries (Engineer's thesis)
• Mehta, Nikil — An Ultra-Low-Energy, Variation-Tolerant FPGA Architecture Using Component-Specific Mapping (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Melo Sanchez, Cristian Emerson — Essays on Economics Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meng, Andrew Chengsi — Device Architecture for Improved Redox Couple Mass Transport in Silicon Microwire Photoelectrodes and Electrical Contacts to Silicon Microwire Photovoltaics (Senior thesis (Major))
• Meng, Lingsen — Navigating Earthquake Physics with High-Resolution Array Back-Projection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mihaly, Jonathan Michael — Investigation of Hypervelocity Impact Phenomena Using Real-time Concurrent Diagnostics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mishra, Himanshu — Proton Transfers at the Air-Water Interface (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moeller, Robert Carlos — Current Transport and Onset-Related Phenomena in an MPD Thruster Modified by Applied Magnetic Fields (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Montgomery, David Church — Improving the Biological Activity of Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moore, Matthew Michaels — Applications of Computational Protein Design to Red Fluorescent Proteins (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morris, Melody Ann — Three-Dimensional Self-Assembly of Brush Block Copolymers to Photonic Crystals (Senior thesis (Major))
• Mou, Judy — Situation Awareness Application (Master's thesis)
• Muñoz, Jorge Alberto — Electronic Structure and Phonon Thermodynamics of Iron Alloys (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Muren, Natalie Bloom — DNA-Mediated Charge Transport for Long-Range Sensing and Protein Detection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nag, Arundhati — Developing Peptide Based Capture Agents for Diagnostics and Therapeutics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nani, Roger Rauhauser — The Intramolecular Buchner Reaction of α-Diazo-β-Ketonitriles: Development and Application to the Total Synthesis of (+)-Salvileucalin B (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nawroth, Janna C. — Conceptual Framework and Physical Implementation of a Systematic Design Strategy for Tissue-Engineered Devices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nelson, Hosea Martin — A Unified Synthetic Approach to the Transtaganolide and Basiliolide Natural Products (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Newman, Andrew Burch — Dark Matter and the Assembly History of Massive Galaxies and Clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nguyen, Thang Xuan — A Study of Protein Targeting Reveals Insights into Mitigating Protein Aggregation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Notbohm, Jacob K. — Dynamics of Cell–Matrix Mechanical Interactions in Three Dimensions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Farrell, Clara — A Dynamical Systems Analysis of Vortex Pinch-Off (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ogin, Gregory H. — Measurement of Thermo-Optic Properties of Thin Film Dielectric Coatings (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oh, Tae-Sik — Electrical, Electrochemical, and Optical Characterization of Ceria Films (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oh, Young In — Synthesis and Biological Activity of Anticoagulant Heparan Sulfate Glycopolymers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ongmongkolkul, Piti — Measurement of the Direct CP Asymmetry in b→sγ via Sum of Exclusive B Meson Decays Using the BABAR Detector (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ortega Culaciati, Francisco Hernan — Aseismic Deformation in Subduction Megathrusts: Central Andes and North-East Japan (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Osburn, Magdalena Rose — Isotopic Proxies for Microbial and Environmental Change: Insights from Hydrogen Isotopes and the Ediacaran Khufai Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pahlevan, Niema Mohammed — A Systems Approach to Cardiovascular Health and Disease with a Focus on Aortic Wave Dynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pal, Piya — New Directions In Sparse Sampling and Estimation For Underdetermined Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pang, Shuo — Fluorescence Optofluidic Microscopy and Fluorescence Microscopy Based on the Talbot Effect (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Panithipongwut, Chatr — Phase Behavior of Complex Superprotonic Solid Acids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Parziale, Nicholaus J. — Slender-Body Hypervelocity Boundary-Layer Instability (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Penmecha, Bharat Prasad — Fracture of Materials Undergoing Solid-Solid Phase Transformation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pereira de Freitas, Guilherme — Essays in Mechanism Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pérez Muñoz, Laura María — Grain Growth in Protoplanetary Disks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peskin, Laura Rebecca Rynne — Ordinary Mod p Representations of the Metaplectic Cover of p-adic SL₂ (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pham, Anh Hoang — Tools for Assessing Mitochondrial Dynamics in Mouse Tissues and Neurodegenerative Models (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Philibosian, Belle — Characterization of Diverse Megathrust Fault Behavior Related to Seismic Supercycles, Mentawai Islands, Sumatra (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Phillips-Alonge, Kristin Eileen — Structure of the Subduction System in Southern Peru from Seismic Array Data (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pomrehn, Gregory Schoelerman — Phase Stability and Defect Behavior in Complex Thermoelectric Zinc-Antimonides (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ren, Jian — Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography: Design and Application (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Richards, Andrew Walter — Interplay of Martensitic Phase Transformation and Plastic Slip in Polycrystals (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rogan, Christopher Sean — Searches for New Symmetries in pp Collisions with the Razor Kinematic Variables at √s = 7 TeV (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rogers, Claude Joseph — Discovery of New Roles for Chondroitin Sulfate in Neurotrophin Signaling and Retinotopic Development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rought, Rebecca Lynn — Identification of Thermally-Tagged Coherent Structures in the Zero Pressure Gradient Turbulent Boundary Layer (Engineer's thesis)
• Roy, Nilanjan — Essays on Cooperation and Reciprocity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ruchti, Thomas Gorden — Markets and Microstructure (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rudie, Gwen Charlena — The Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Medium Surrounding Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts 2<z<3 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Russell, Damon Stuart — Technology Advances for Radio Astronomy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Safavi-Naeini, Amir Hossein — Quantum Optomechanics with Silicon Nanostructures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Santis, Christos Theodoros — High-Coherence Hybrid Si/III-V Semiconductor Lasers (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Santori, Elizabeth Anne — Si Microwire Array Photoanodes for Artificial Photosynthetic Devices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Saxena, Abigail Green — Sulfur-Cycling in Methane-Rich Ecosystems: Uncovering Microbial Processes and Novel Niches (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schaeffer, Joseph Malcolm — Stochastic Simulation of the Kinetics of Multiple Interacting Nucleic Acid Strands (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schwarzkopf, Ma'ayan — Engineering Nucleic Acid Mechanisms for Regulation and Readout of Gene Expression: Conditional Dicer Substrate Formation and Sensitive Multiplexed Northern Blots (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sendowski, Jacob Benjamin — On-Chip Integrated Label-Free Optical Biosensing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Setter, Kevin Luke — Topological Quantum Field Theory and the Geometric Langlands Correspondence (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shemorry, Anna — Studies of the N-End Rule Pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shen, Kuang — Novel Roles of the SRP RNA in Co-Translational Protein Targeting (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shi, Wendian (Leo) — Blood Cell Count On-a-Chip (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sinclair, John Andrew — Of Primary Importance: American Primary Elections 1945-2012 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Skerritt, Paul Michael — Geometric Quantization and Foliation Reduction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Skinner, Steven Michael — Plate Tectonic Constraints on Flat Subduction and Paleomagnetic Constraints on Rifting (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smith, Matthew Alexander — Non-Contiguous Protein Recombination (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sojoudi, Somayeh — Mathematical Study of Complex Networks: Brain, Internet, and Power Grid (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Somala, Surendra Nadh — Source Imaging with Dense Sensor Networks: Inversions Based on Adjoint Methods (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stadie, Nicholas P. — Synthesis and Thermodynamic Studies of Physisorptive Energy Storage Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sternberg, Jonathan Ben-Zion — Signal Transduction with Hybridization Chain Reactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stobbe, Peter — Convex Analysis for Minimizing and Learning Submodular Set Functions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suess, Daniel Leif Migdow — Reactions of Small Molecules Facilitated by Metal-Acceptor Interactions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Szelengowicz, Ivan Michel Nicolas — Analysis and Optimization of Stress Wave Propagation in Two-Dimensional Granular Crystals with Defects (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Teague, Marcus Lawrence — Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopic Studies on High-Temperature Superconductors and Dirac Materials (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Teh, Kevin Kai-Wen — Dirac Spectra, Summation Formulae, and the Spectral Action (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tetreault, Nicole Anne — Microglia in the Cerebral and Cerebellar Cortices in Individuals with Autism (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thomas, Claire Waller — Liquid Silicate Equation of State: Using Shock Waves to Understand the Properties of the Deep Earth (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thompson, Jeffrey Muir — The Short-Timescale Behavior of Glacial Ice (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Timciuc, Vladlen — Search for Heavy Neutral Resonances in the Dielectron Channel with the CMS Detector at the LHC (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ting, Christina Lei — A Novel Method for Studying Nucleated Pathways in Membranes: Development and Applications for Gene Delivery (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tootoonian, Sina — On the Analysis and Design of the Locust Olfactory System (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trautman, Peter — Robot Navigation in Dense Crowds: Statistical Models and Experimental Studies of Human Robot Cooperation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Truong, Frank — Expanding Protein Sequence Space through Incorporation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tsang, Raymond Hei Man — Discovery of Non-Zero Neutrino Mixing Angle θ₁₃ Using Daya Bay Antineutrino Detectors (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tseng, Chien-Yao — Deviation from Standard Inflationary Cosmology and the Problems in Ekpyrosis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tucker-Drob, Robin Daniel — Descriptive Set Theory and the Ergodic Theory of Countable Groups (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Turner-Evans, Daniel B. — Wire Array Photovoltaics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• van Garrel, Michel — Relative Mirror Symmetry and Ramifications of a Formula for Gromov-Witten Invariants (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Van Wingerden, Matthew Martin — Improving the Efficiency of Ruthenium-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis with Solid-Supported Catalysts, Microfluidic Reactors, and Novel X-Type Ligands (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
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