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Theses from 2024
Numerical Simulation of the Boltzmann Equation, Jason Lau
Better Light than Never: A New Radiative Mechanism for Observing Binary Black Holes, Paul Rioles
Theses from 2023
Comparative Analysis of Laser and LED Light Sources for Intraoral Photodynamic Therapy, Yinka M. Ajibola
Numerical Investigations of SICs, Ghislaine Coulter-de Wit
Use of Diagrammatic Monte Carlo to Study the Frohlich Polaron, Milo K. Kamiya Belmont
FEM Simulations of Plasmon Field Enhancement in Gold Nanoparticle Dimers and Gold Nanoparticle-Nanorod Dimers, Edward J. Lipchus
Two-Dimensional Smooth Function Restoration From Its Noisy Integrals, Juan Pablo Varela
Theses from 2022
Theses from 2021
Fundamental Concepts of the Nematic-Isotropic Phase Transition of Uniaxial Calamitic Thermotropic Mesogens, Julian A. Fekety
Study of Nonlinear Optical Properties of Gold Nanoparticles Dispersed in Nematic Liquid Crystals, Changshuo Fu
Exploring Student Engagement with a Nanotechnology Module for Middle School Developed Using the Model of Educational Reconstruction, Martyna Laszcz
Design and Characterization of a Single Sided Field Free Line Scanner for Magnetic Particle Imaging, Christopher McDonough
Nitrogen Vacancy Diamond Quantum Sensing Applied to Mapping Magnetic Fields of Bacteria, Benjamin Rocco Moss
Directing the Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles within Engineered Smectic Defects at Double Undulated Surfaces, Mackenzie O'Keefe
Theses from 2020
Modeling the Obscuring Features in Active Galactic Nuclei: an X-Ray Analysis of NGC 1052, Samantha E. Cabral
Exploring Different Textures of Nematic Liquid Crystal Cells for Quantitative Fourier Phase Contrast Microscopy, Charlotte Kyeremah
Assembling Smectic Defects on Curved Geometries, Ryan Preusse
Development of Methods to Examine Electron Glass Models, Eric J. Steele
Theses from 2019
Sparse Statistical Learning Techniques for Analysis of High-Dimentional Gene Expression Data, Mehdi Borji
Many-Particle Quantum Thermal Machines, Doha Mesnaoui
Characterization of Nonlinear Properties of New Porphyrins Using Optical and Photoacoustic Z-Scan Techniques, Shengwei Wang
Theses from 2018
Stochastic Modeling of Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression in the Limit of Strong Interactions, Robert Barr
Investigating the Impact of Extracellular Matrix Rigidity on Growth and Invasive Behavior in 3D Pancreatic Tumor Modules, Andrew Caide
Evaluation of Sub-Lethal PDT Dose-Response in Pancreatic Cancer Cells, Isha Desai
Comparative Analysis of Noble Metals and Doped Semiconductors for Optical Field Enhancement in Infrared, Wen Ting Hsieh
Extracellular Compressive Stress as a Determinant of Tumor Growth and Chemotherapy Response in Multicellular Spheroid of Pancreatic Cancer, Farnaz Naeemikia
Measuring Oxygen Saturation in Lyophilized Powder (Human Hemoglobin Protein), Rajasekar Ramachandran
Theses from 2017
Evaluation of Radiation Response and Gold Nanoparticle Enhancement in Drug-Resistant Pancreatic Cancer Cells, Assya Abourabia
Hopping Conductivity of Electron Glass, Mingzhu Cui
Effect of Observational Cadence on Orbit Determination for Synthetic Near-Earth Objects, Thomas G. Endicott
Simulation of a Generation of a Gross-Pitaevskii Breather in a Quench, Jacob Golde
Surface Plasmon Polariton: Dispersion and Excitation, Rabindra Khadka
Plasmonic Enhancement of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) with Periodic and Random Nanostructures, Pavel Markeev
Developing a Closed-Form Expression for the Mutual Admittance of Equivalent Radiating Slots, Steven A. Santos
Extending Bethe Ansatz Solutions to the Non-Crystallographic Reflection Groups H3 and H4, Joseph J. Seaward
Theses from 2016
Analysis of Gompertzian Growth in Aggregating Multicellular Tumor Nodules, Gwendolyn A. Deger
Design of a Tapered Dielectric to Plasmon Optical Mode Convertor, Raju Ghimire
A New Class of Integrable Two-Mass Mixtures in One-Dimension, Zaijong Hwang
Image Processing Techniques for Biomedical Applications, Jeffrey La
Fabrication of Microwave Resonators in Titanium Nitride Using Photolithography, Caleb Ruvich
Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a Poly-Silicon PN Junction, Jason D. Tower
Theses from 2015
Design and Simulation of a Hybrid Dielectric Waveguide, Krishna Prasad Aryal
Replacing Quantum Measurements with Noisy Unitary Gates, Benjamin B. Cruikshank
Hydrodynamic Analogues of Hamiltonian Systems, Francisco J. Jauffred
Design of a Plasmonic Bragg Reflector Cavity, Shiva Prasad Pokhrel
Quantum Mechanics With a Quartic Dispersion Law, Joanna Ruhl
Theses from 2014
High Temperature Mid-Wave Infrared Imagery, Justin J. Baker
Using Ehrenfest Dynamics to Model Particle in a Box with Moving Walls, Jeffrey Cohn
Determining the Gruneisen Coefficient for Liquids Using the PAZ-Scan Technique, Olivier A. Dantiste
Effects of Extracellular Matrix Rheology and Adhesion in Three Dimensional Pancreatic Tumor Models, Hamid El Hamidi
Nonlinear Photoacoustic Measurements of Oxygen Saturation Levels in Blood, Albert Kamanzi
Design of Surface Depleted Quantum Dots, Yeshaya A. Koblick
Theses from 2013
Effect of Mean Exicitation Energy of Water on Proton Range Uncertainties, Yassine Ait-El-Aoud
Nanoplasmonics: Enhancement of Optical Radiation, Safa Alzaim
Thermalization of One-Dimensional Tonks-Girardeau Gas Mixtures, at and around the Kaleidoscopic Mass Ratios, Frank Thanh Cao
Photodynamic Therapy and Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy Combinations: Imaging-Based Evaluation of Dose, Sequence and Schedule in 3D Pancreatic Tumor Models, Ljubica Petrovic
Theses from 2012
Fluid Homogenization in Mixed Phase Spaces, Chris Amey
Inverse Scattering Problems, Reflectionless Potentials, and Solitons, Louis Lesly Leonard
Centrality Measures in Social Networks, Michele Moreau
Error Transparent Hamiltonians: An Ally on the Inside, Seth Noir
Characterizing the Modulation Transfer Functions (MTFs) of Proton and Carbon Radiography Using GEANT4 Monte Carlo Simulations, Michael Alexander Oumano
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Approach to Typicality in Quantum Systems, Shawn Dubey
Supersymmetric Origins of the Properties of sech-Pulses and sine-Gordon Solitons, Andrew Phillip Koller
Prototype Automated Flow-Through Sensor for Measuring Waterborne Microbial Concentrations Using Bulk Fluorescence, Susan M. Savill