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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Probing Dark Matter-Neutrino Connection via Indirect Detection Experiments, Bradley Knockel
Characterizing Supernova Remnant and Molecular Cloud Interaction Environments Using Class I Methanol Masers, Bridget McEwen
Monitoring the Long Wavelength Transient Sky with the LWA1 Telescope, Kenneth S. Obenberger
Extending the Reach of Directional Dark Matter Experiments Through Novel Detector Technologies, Nguyen S. Phan
Single Particle Tracking: Analysis Techniques for Live Cell Nanoscopy., Peter K. Relich
Statistics of Epidemics in Networks by Passing Messages, Munik Shrestha
The Smoluchowski equation in population dynamics and the spread of infection, Satomi Sugaya
Resting-state Connectivity Dynamics in the Human Brain using High-speed fMRI, Kishore Vakamudi
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
A High Resolution Study of the Magnetic Fields in the Centaurus Cluster, Caleb Grimes
Rydberg Excitation of Single Atoms for Applications in Quantum Information and Metrology, Aaron Hankin
Measures of Nonclassical Correlations and Quantum-Enhanced Interferometry, Matthias Dominik Lang
The Arecibo L-Band Feed Array Zone of Avoidance Survey, Travis McIntyre
Mitigating Backgrounds with a Novel Thin-Film Cathode in the DRIFT-IId Dark Matter Detector, Eric H. Miller
Internal Spin Control, Squeezing and Decoherence in Ensembles of Alkali Atomic Spins, Leigh Norris
High Data-Rate Atom Interferometry for Measuring Dynamic Inertial Conditions, Akash Rakholia
Third-harmonic generation for efficient frequency conversion and microscopic imaging, Cristina Rodriguez
Loading an Equidistant Ion Chain in a Ring Shaped Surface Trap and Anomalous Heating Studies with a High Optical Access Trap, Boyan Tabakov
Galactic Cosmic Ray Transport in the Heliosphere: 1963-2013, Roger Ygbuhay
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
A Study of Charge Transport: Correlated Energetic Disorder in Organic Semiconductors, and the Fragment Hamiltonian, Jonathan Allen
Open Systems Dynamics for Propagating Quantum Fields, Ben Baragiola
Topological Code Architectures for Quantum Computation, Christopher Cesare
The Effect of Dynamical Image Forces on The Transport Properties of Charge Carriers and Excitons in Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures, Charles Cherqui
Particle Correlations in Bose-Einstein Condensates, Zhang Jiang
Accessing Gluon Polarization Through the J/\u03c8 Longitudinal Double Spin Asymmetry in Polarized pp Collisions at PHENIX, James Aaron Key
Searching for the Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor, Robert Mesler
Observations and Kinematic Modeling of Neutral Hydrogen in Spiral Galaxies: Implications for Disk-Halo Flows and Accretion, Laura Zschaechner
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Transport theoretical studies of some microscopic and macroscopic systems, Alden Astwood
Continuous Measurement and Stochastic Methods in Quantum Optical Systems, Robert Cook
Destruction of lipid-coated bubbles with pulsed ultrasound, Debra Cox
A Microfabricated Deuterium Ion Source for Compact Neutron Generators, Benjamin Johnson
Parsec-scale properties of gamma-ray bright blazars, Justin D. Linford
OPTICAL AND OPTOMECHANICAL RESONATORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN COMMUNICATION AND SENSING, Fenfei Liu
HYPERSPECTRAL LINE-SCANNING MICROSCOPY FOR HIGH-SPEED MULTICOLOR QUANTUM DOT TRACKING, Michael David Malik
Measurements of railgun generated supersonic plasma jet propagation and two jet oblique merging, Elizabeth Catherine Merritt
The biophysical effects of deuterium oxide on biomolecules and living cells through open notebook science., Anthony Salvagno
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Fault-tolerance in two-dimensional topological systems, Jonas Anderson
Design and construction of a Bose Einstein condensate machine, Paul W. Blackburn
Quantum algorithms, symmetry, and Fourier analysis, Aaron Jafar Denney
Charge transfer embedded-atom potentials for atomistic simulations of amino acids and proteins, Amo-Kwao Godwin
Charged hadron beam therapy : fast computational physics methods, Roy William Keyes
Quantum correlations, chaos and information, Vaibhav Madhok
Development and characterization of a 171Yb+ miniature ion trap frequency standard, Heather Partner
Indirect detection signals beyond the simplest supersymmetric dark matter, Katherine Richardson
Continuous measurement quantum state tomography of atomic ensembles, Almeida Carlos Riofrío
Field evaporation and desorption ion sources, Isidro Solano
Dynamics and distribution of immunoglobolin E receptors : a dialog between experiment and theory, Kathrin Spendier
Nonlinear interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates, Alexandre Tacla
Search for physics beyond the standard model in the trilepton signature in pbar-p collisions at sqrt s = 1.96 TeV with CDF II, Marcelo Vogel
CR geometry and twisting type N vacuum solutions, Xuefeng Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Fractal modeling of lightning, Paul Greninger
Flow measurements in a helicon plasma under biasing, Tiffany Hayes
Kinetic and Statistical Mechanical Modeling of DNA Unzipping and Kinesin Mechanochemistry, Lawrence Herskowitz
Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in Manganese Arsenide Thin-Films Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Felix T. Jaeckel
Synthesis and characterization of core-shell nanomaterials for solar production of hydrogen fuel, Darcy Kruse
Two pulse per cavity lasers and their applications, Andreas Schmitt-Sody
High redshift QSOs and cool dwarfs in the Deep Lens Survey, Paul Thorman
Coherent control of collective atomic spins, Collin Trail
Early stages of radio galaxy evolution, Steven Tremblay
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Parameter estimation, model reduction and quantum filtering, Bradley Chase
Low temperature transport and Coulomb drag studies of undoped electron-hole bilayers, Christian Morath
High electric field deuterium ion sources for neutron generators, Birk Reichenbach
Optical control and quantum information processing with ultracold alkaline-earth-like atoms, Iris Evelyn Nicole Reichenbach
Optical parametric oscillators for ultra-sensitive intracavity phase measurements, Andreas Velten
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
InAs quantum dot vertical-cavity lasers, Alexander R. Albrecht
Applications of statistical mechanics and nonlinear science to ecological phenomena, Luis Felipe Gonzalez-Palacio
Measurements of low energy nuclear recoil tracks and their implications for directional dark matter detectors, Christina Hagemann
Studies of ultra high energy cosmic rays, John Douglas Hague
Statistical mechanics of transport in disordered lattices and reaction-diffusion systems, Ziya Kalay
Uncovering the origins of spiral structure through the measurement of pattern speeds and their radial variation, Sharon Meidt
Quantum control of d-dimensional quantum systems with application to alkali atomic spins, Seth Merkel
Study of the current-voltage relation for a single C-60 transistor, Anita Parmar
On the sources of astrometric anomalous refraction, Malinda Suzanne Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Observation of high-lying resonances in the H- ion, Philip G. Harris
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The Classical Limit of the Quantum Baker's Map, Mark Morgan-Tracy
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Design Of A Device Independent Computer Graphic Software Package, An-Shyang Chu
Silcom Quantum Walls: Fabrication and Opticla Analysis, An-Shyang Chu
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Saturated Solar Ponds: Modified Equations and Results of a Laboratory Experiment, Markus Karl Rothmeyer
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Polynomial and Rational Fraction Representations of a Diatomic Molecular Potential, Paul R. Findley
Energy and Angular Distribution of Neutrons from Proton-Proton Inelastic Scattering at 800 MEV, Ted Dean Rupp
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Neutron-Proton Elastic Scattering at 790 Mev, Roger Daniel Carlini
Convection In Pulsating Stars, Michael John Robert Costello
A Covariant Approach to Wave Equations in General Relativity, Alan L. Dudley
Theoretical Studies Of Nucleic Acid Sugar Ring Analogs, Ali-Reza Hashemi-Attar
Infrared Observations of HII Regions and Comet West, Paul A. Heckert
Precipitation Phenomena In Antimony-Implanted Aluminium, Richard Allen Kant
Plasma Sheath Analysis by Computer Simulation, Leo J. Rahal
Heights of Formation for Certain Solar Spectral Lines, Erik J. Schwendeman
Measurement of the H- Photodetachment cross Section in the Continuum Region from 1.5 to 10.5 eV, Mohammad Hassan Sharifian-Attar
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Neutron Spectra At Zero Degrees From Proton Bombardment Of Light Nuclei At Medium Energies, Constantine George Cassapakis
A Satellite Study of the High Energy Proton Environment Under the Radiation Belt, Kailash Chandra Dhingra
The Determination Of Double Mode Variable Star Periods, Arne A. Henden
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Neutron And Proton Measurements Of Oso-6 Near The South Atlantic Radiation Anomaly., Philip Jay Cooper
Calculation of Potential Functions for Pseudorotation in Five Membered Rings Using Energy Gradients in Extended Hückel Theory, Thomas Robert Ferguson
Pi-Meson Absorption on the Deuteron, Bruce Goplen
A Theoretical Study of the Predissociation of the O2 B 3Ʃu- Electronic State, Richard Allan Harris