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Author:: Lewis, Gregory Stephen
Title:: COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF THE MECHANICS OF FLATFOOT DEFORMITY AND ITS SURGICAL CORRECTIONS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: orthopaedic
biomechanics
optimization
finite element
AAFD
flatfoot
orthopedic
File:: Download Lewis_G_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Stephen Jacob Piazza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Jacob Piazza, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
H Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
Neil Sharkey, Committee Member
John Henry Challis, Committee Member
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member

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Author:: Gougar, Hans David
Title:: ADVANCED CORE DESIGN AND FUEL MANAGEMENT FOR PEBBLE-BED REACTORS
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: pebble-bed reactor
reactor design
genetic algorithm
optimization
File:: Download HDGTHESIS.PDF
Committee Members:: Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert M Edwards, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lawrence E Hochreiter, Committee Member
Kwang Yun Lee, Committee Member
Abdderafi M Ougouag, Committee Member
William K Terry, Committee Member

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Author:: van Werkhoven, Kathryn Lynn
Title:: EVALUATING MODEL BEHAVIOR FOR HYDROLOGIC FORECASTING IN GAUGED AND UNGAUGED WATERSHEDS
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: watershed modeling
sensitivity analysis
optimization
ungauged basins
climate change impacts
distributed models
File:: Download KvanWerkhoven_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Thorsten Wagener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick M Reed, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Michael Mann, Committee Member

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Author:: Holliday, Kito S
Title:: The Mechanical and Optical Properties of and Disordered Materials
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: photonic crystal
optimization
order-disorder phase transition
foldy-lax
File:: Download Kito-Holliday-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member

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Author:: Mukherjee, Kushal
Title:: SUPERVISORY DECISION AND CONTROL OF LARGE-SCALE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: multi-agent systems
sensor networks
pattern classification
symbolic dynamics
sonar image
statistical mechanics
task allocation
optimization
File:: Download Mukherjee_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Thomas A Wettergren, Committee Member

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Author:: Malkowski, Konrad
Title:: CO-ADAPTING SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS AND ARCHITECTURES TOWARD ENERGY-EFFICIENT HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: scientific applications
power
adaptivity
optimization
energy-efficient
architecture
performance
File:: Download malkowski_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Padma Raghavan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Padma Raghavan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Michael Perrone Iii, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member

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Author:: Saraf, Manish Chandra
Title:: DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR THE DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF COMBINATORIAL PROTEIN LIBRARIES
Graduate Program:: Chemical Engineering
Keywords:: protein engineering
directed evolution
bioinformatics
protein library design
optimization
File:: Download Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Pishko, Committee Member
Patrick Cirino, Committee Member
Stephen James Benkovic, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Emelianenko, Maria
Title:: Multilevel and Adaptive Methods for Some Nonlinear Optimization Problems
Graduate Program:: Mathematics
Keywords:: optimization
multigrid methods
computational geometry
numerical analysis
computational methods in materials science
File:: Download emelianenko-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Qiang Du, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Dr Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
Dr Hongyuan Zha, Committee Member
Wen Shen, Committee Member
Nigel David Higson, Committee Member

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Author:: Driesch, Patricia L
Title:: Acoustic Control in Enclosures Using Optimally Designed Helmholtz Resonators
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: noise control
tractor cabin
optimization
Helmholtz resonators
acoustic absorbers
passive control
File:: Download THESIS_hyperlinks.pdf
Committee Members:: Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Richard C Benson, Committee Member
Gary Hugo Koopmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member

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Author:: Bunyaratavej, Piya
Title:: Iterative Hillclimbing Optimization Techniques for Transform Image Encoding/Decoding and for Image Segmentation
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: image segmentation
image decoding
optimization
image encoding
iterative
hillclimbing
File:: Download thesis_piya.pdf
Committee Members:: Jia Li, Committee Member
John F Doherty, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
John Metzner, Committee Member

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