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Author:

Magyar, Andrew Lewis

Title:

Statistics of Single Unit Responses in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe: a Sparse and Overdispersed Code

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

theoretical neuroscience
memory
neural representation
sparse coding

File:

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Committee Members:

John Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Patrick James Drew, Committee Member

Author:

Tupikov, Yevhen

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF SONGBIRD HVC MICROCIRCUIT FOR PRECISE TIMING

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

songbird
HVC
polychronous
precise timing
neural circuit
song learning
song development
sequence growth

File:

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Committee Members:

Dezhe Jin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dezhe Jin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Carina Pamela Curto, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Consevage, Steven

Title:

Holographic Coding For Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Second Order Spherical Harmonics

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

MRI
Holography
Compressed Sensing
Low-Field MRI
Diffractive Imaging

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Dezhe Jin, Major Field Member
Nanyin Zhang, Outside Unit Member
Thomas Neuberger, Outside Field Member
Srinivas Tadigadapa, Special Member
Steven Schiff, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Hu, Yayun

Title:

Applications of Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory to Topological Particles

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

fractional quantum Hall effect
density functional theory
composite fermion
anyon

File:

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Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dezhe Jin, Major Field Member
Gerald Knizia, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cuizu Chang, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fateminasrollahi, Fatemehsadat

Title:

Attractor identification and control in Boolean models of plant-pollinator networks

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Boolean modeling
mutualistic systems
complex systems
plant-pollinator communities
network theory

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Committee Members:

Dezhe Jin, Major Field Member
Reka Albert, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Katriona Shea, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wu, Tsung Yao

Title:

Improving the fidelity of operations for a neutral atom quantum computer

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum computation
Neutral atoms
Optical lattices
Stern-Gerlach detection
3D atom sorting
Rydberg

File:

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Committee Members:

David Scott Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Scott Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Mikael Caleb Rechtsman, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rozum, Jordan

Title:

Attractor identification and control of Boolean and ODE network models in systems biology

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

systems biology
network science
discrete dynamics
Boolean networks
gene regulatory networks
ordinary differential equations
control theory
stable motifs

File:

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Committee Members:

Dezhe Jin, Major Field Member
Lu Bai, Major Field Member
Reka Albert, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Reluga, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zou, Fan

Title:

Long Range Chromosomal Interactions and First Passage Process in Budding Yeast

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Chromosome organization
Chromosomal interaction
chromosomal diffusion
first passage time
Rouse polymer model

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Committee Members:

Qunhua Li, Outside Unit Member
Dezhe Jin, Major Field Member
David Gilmour, Outside Field Member
Lu Bai, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Reka Albert, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tavares, Leonardo Estevao

Title:

Automatic Recognition of Birdsong Syllables Using Ultra-Sparse Spike Sequence Representations

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

birdsong
songbird
speech
speech recognition
syllable recognition
spike code
sparse representation
neuronal reconstruction
soma

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Collins, Major Field Member
Chad Hanna, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Dezhe Jin, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Kim, Tae Ken

Title:

Computational Study of Novel Thermal Effects on Neuronal Activity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Neuroscience
Patch-clamp
Micromagnetic
Temperature
Sprague-Dawley rat
Transient suppression

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven Schiff, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Carina Pamela Curto, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Steven Schiff, Committee Chair/Co-Chair