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Author:

Hagopian, Victoria

Title:

Numerical Simulations of High-Z Material Ablation in Transient Conditions

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Godiva IV
Electrothermal Plasma
Dusty Plasma
ETFLOW
ANSYS
HELIOS
Tungsten Alloys
Uranium Alloys
TZM
Fast Burst Reactor
Mass Loss Mitigation

File:

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Committee Members:

Marek Flaska, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Leigh Winfrey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Marek Flaska, Major Field Member
Kenan Unlu, Major Field Member

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:

Firgens, Benjamin Aaron

Title:

Foresight at the Wright Brothers National Memorial: Technology, Memory, and the American Imagination

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Public Memory
Technology
Rhetoric
Social Imagination
Wright Brothers

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Committee Members:

Rosa Eberly, Major Field Member
Michele Kennerly, Major Field Member
Mary Stuckey, Major Field Member
Patrick Parsons, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Browne, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew High, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Fair, Ryan

Title:

EHANCEMENT OF CONJUGATED POLYMER CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; FROM THE INDIVIDUAL CHAIN TO MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Conjugated polymers
TEM
Persistence Length
Gel Permeation Chromatorgraphy
Light Scattering
GIWAXS
SANS
4D STEM
Organic Photovoltaic
Organic Field Effect Transistor
Organic Electronics

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Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Major Field Member
Enrique Gomez, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christian Pester, Outside Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Ralph Colby, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Jiang, Xiaoying

Title:

Understanding China’s International Aid to Education Through the Lens of Mutual Benefit in South-South Cooperation: A Study of China’s Educational Aid Programs

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education (PHD)

Keywords:

international aid to education
South-South cooperation
mutual benefit
China
gift theory
adult education
working the planning table
international students
program planners

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Committee Members:

David Post, Outside Field Member
Kevin Kinser, Outside Unit Member
John Holst, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Cossa, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Gueho, Damien

Title:

Data-Driven Modeling For Analysis And Control Of Dynamical Systems

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Koopman Operator
System Identification
Dynamical System
Subspace Method
Uncertainty Quantification
Bilinear System
Controlled Koopman Operator
Time-varying Dynamics
Reduced-order Model

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Melton, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Puneet Singla, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daning Huang, Major Field Member
Manoranjan Majji, Special Member
Vishal Monga, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Turner, Kevin

Title:

Effects of behavior and arousal state on cortical hemodynamics, neurovascular coupling, and functional connectivity

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Neurovascular coupling
Sleep
Pupil
Electrophysiology
Mice
Functional Connectivity
Coherence
Blood flow

File:

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Committee Members:

Patrick Drew, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kevin Alloway, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiao Liu, Major Field Member
Nanyin Zhang, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tian, Ye

Title:

Supporting claim-making in democratic deliberation through an information recommendation system

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Information overload
recommendation systems
claim-making
democratic deliberation

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Committee Members:

Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Guoray Cai, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Gastil, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Gil Aguirre, Alejandro

Title:

Technology adoption by cacao farmers in San Vicente de Chucuri, Santander: the role of Cadmium regulations

Graduate Program:

Education, Development, and Community Engagement (PHD)

Keywords:

Rural Development
Adoption Research
Cadmium
Colombia

File:

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Committee Members:

Claudia Schmidt, Co-Chair of Committee
Siela Maximova, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nicole Webster, Major Field Member
Suzanna Windon, Major Field Member
Mark Brennan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Brennan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Peppetti, Melissa

Title:

Teacher Quality in Rural Schools Under ESSA: Inequities, Root Causes, and Proposed Solutions

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership (PHD)

Keywords:

rural
Teacher Quality
equity
ESSA

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Committee Members:

Maria Lewis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karen Eppley, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kai Schafft, Major Field Member
Edward Fuller, Major Field Member
Gerald Letendre, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies