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Theses from 2023

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Comparative Analysis of Laser and LED Light Sources for Intraoral Photodynamic Therapy, Yinka M. Ajibola

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Numerical Investigations of SICs, Ghislaine Coulter-de Wit

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Use of Diagrammatic Monte Carlo to Study the Frohlich Polaron, Milo K. Kamiya Belmont

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FEM Simulations of Plasmon Field Enhancement in Gold Nanoparticle Dimers and Gold Nanoparticle-Nanorod Dimers, Edward J. Lipchus

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Two-Dimensional Smooth Function Restoration From Its Noisy Integrals, Juan Pablo Varela

Theses from 2022

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Modelling Juxtacrine Mediated Tumor-Fibroblast Interactions in Three-Dimensional Co-Cultures of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, Eric Struth

Theses from 2021

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Fundamental Concepts of the Nematic-Isotropic Phase Transition of Uniaxial Calamitic Thermotropic Mesogens, Julian A. Fekety

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Study of Nonlinear Optical Properties of Gold Nanoparticles Dispersed in Nematic Liquid Crystals, Changshuo Fu

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Exploring Student Engagement with a Nanotechnology Module for Middle School Developed Using the Model of Educational Reconstruction, Martyna Laszcz

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Design and Characterization of a Single Sided Field Free Line Scanner for Magnetic Particle Imaging, Christopher McDonough

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Nitrogen Vacancy Diamond Quantum Sensing Applied to Mapping Magnetic Fields of Bacteria, Benjamin Rocco Moss

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Directing the Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles within Engineered Smectic Defects at Double Undulated Surfaces, Mackenzie O'Keefe

Theses from 2020

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Modeling the Obscuring Features in Active Galactic Nuclei: an X-Ray Analysis of NGC 1052, Samantha E. Cabral

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Exploring Different Textures of Nematic Liquid Crystal Cells for Quantitative Fourier Phase Contrast Microscopy, Charlotte Kyeremah

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Assembling Smectic Defects on Curved Geometries, Ryan Preusse

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Development of Methods to Examine Electron Glass Models, Eric J. Steele

Theses from 2019

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Sparse Statistical Learning Techniques for Analysis of High-Dimentional Gene Expression Data, Mehdi Borji

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Many-Particle Quantum Thermal Machines, Doha Mesnaoui

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Characterization of Nonlinear Properties of New Porphyrins Using Optical and Photoacoustic Z-Scan Techniques, Shengwei Wang

Theses from 2018

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Stochastic Modeling of Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression in the Limit of Strong Interactions, Robert Barr

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Investigating the Impact of Extracellular Matrix Rigidity on Growth and Invasive Behavior in 3D Pancreatic Tumor Modules, Andrew Caide

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Evaluation of Sub-Lethal PDT Dose-Response in Pancreatic Cancer Cells, Isha Desai

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Comparative Analysis of Noble Metals and Doped Semiconductors for Optical Field Enhancement in Infrared, Wen Ting Hsieh

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Extracellular Compressive Stress as a Determinant of Tumor Growth and Chemotherapy Response in Multicellular Spheroid of Pancreatic Cancer, Farnaz Naeemikia

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Measuring Oxygen Saturation in Lyophilized Powder (Human Hemoglobin Protein), Rajasekar Ramachandran

Theses from 2017

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Evaluation of Radiation Response and Gold Nanoparticle Enhancement in Drug-Resistant Pancreatic Cancer Cells, Assya Abourabia

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Hopping Conductivity of Electron Glass, Mingzhu Cui

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Effect of Observational Cadence on Orbit Determination for Synthetic Near-Earth Objects, Thomas G. Endicott

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Simulation of a Generation of a Gross-Pitaevskii Breather in a Quench, Jacob Golde

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Surface Plasmon Polariton: Dispersion and Excitation, Rabindra Khadka

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Plasmonic Enhancement of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) with Periodic and Random Nanostructures, Pavel Markeev

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Developing a Closed-Form Expression for the Mutual Admittance of Equivalent Radiating Slots, Steven A. Santos

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Extending Bethe Ansatz Solutions to the Non-Crystallographic Reflection Groups H3 and H4, Joseph J. Seaward

Theses from 2016

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Analysis of Gompertzian Growth in Aggregating Multicellular Tumor Nodules, Gwendolyn A. Deger

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Design of a Tapered Dielectric to Plasmon Optical Mode Convertor, Raju Ghimire

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A New Class of Integrable Two-Mass Mixtures in One-Dimension, Zaijong Hwang

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Image Processing Techniques for Biomedical Applications, Jeffrey La

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In Vitro Evaluation of Photodynamic Therapy Treatment Parameters Using a Low-Cost LED-Based Light Source, Yiran Liu

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Fabrication of Microwave Resonators in Titanium Nitride Using Photolithography, Caleb Ruvich

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Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a Poly-Silicon PN Junction, Jason D. Tower

Theses from 2015

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Design and Simulation of a Hybrid Dielectric Waveguide, Krishna Prasad Aryal

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Replacing Quantum Measurements with Noisy Unitary Gates, Benjamin B. Cruikshank

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Hydrodynamic Analogues of Hamiltonian Systems, Francisco J. Jauffred

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Design of a Plasmonic Bragg Reflector Cavity, Shiva Prasad Pokhrel

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Quantum Mechanics With a Quartic Dispersion Law, Joanna Ruhl

Theses from 2014

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High Temperature Mid-Wave Infrared Imagery, Justin J. Baker

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Using Ehrenfest Dynamics to Model Particle in a Box with Moving Walls, Jeffrey Cohn

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Determining the Gruneisen Coefficient for Liquids Using the PAZ-Scan Technique, Olivier A. Dantiste

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Effects of Extracellular Matrix Rheology and Adhesion in Three Dimensional Pancreatic Tumor Models, Hamid El Hamidi

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Nonlinear Photoacoustic Measurements of Oxygen Saturation Levels in Blood, Albert Kamanzi

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Design of Surface Depleted Quantum Dots, Yeshaya A. Koblick

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Development of Quantiative Fourier Phase Contrast Microscope and Monitoring Tumor Growth and Treatment Response Using Digital Holographic Micrsocope, Yuyu Li

Theses from 2013

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Effect of Mean Exicitation Energy of Water on Proton Range Uncertainties, Yassine Ait-El-Aoud

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Nanoplasmonics: Enhancement of Optical Radiation, Safa Alzaim

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Thermalization of One-Dimensional Tonks-Girardeau Gas Mixtures, at and around the Kaleidoscopic Mass Ratios, Frank Thanh Cao

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Photodynamic Therapy and Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy Combinations: Imaging-Based Evaluation of Dose, Sequence and Schedule in 3D Pancreatic Tumor Models, Ljubica Petrovic

Theses from 2012

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Fluid Homogenization in Mixed Phase Spaces, Chris Amey

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Inverse Scattering Problems, Reflectionless Potentials, and Solitons, Louis Lesly Leonard

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Centrality Measures in Social Networks, Michele Moreau

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Error Transparent Hamiltonians: An Ally on the Inside, Seth Noir

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Characterizing the Modulation Transfer Functions (MTFs) of Proton and Carbon Radiography Using GEANT4 Monte Carlo Simulations, Michael Alexander Oumano

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Approach to Typicality in Quantum Systems, Shawn Dubey

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Supersymmetric Origins of the Properties of sech-Pulses and sine-Gordon Solitons, Andrew Phillip Koller

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Prototype Automated Flow-Through Sensor for Measuring Waterborne Microbial Concentrations Using Bulk Fluorescence, Susan M. Savill