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Author:

Atulugama, Buddhika Sanjeevi Kumari

Title:

A Study of the Elongation Rate and Air Shower Properties of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from the Southern Pierre Auger Observatory

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Extensive Air Showers
Mass Composition
Elongation Rate
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
Energy Estimator

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephane Coutu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Sommers, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member

Author:

Van Den Broeck, Chris

Title:

Black Holes and Neutron Stars: Fundamental and Phenomenological Issues

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

neutron stars
black holes

File:

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Committee Members:

Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Committee Member
Benjamin Owen, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Barbu, Corina Madalina

Title:

Modelling of synthetic molecular motors and self-assembled monolayers

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

self-assembled monolayers
rotary motors
electric field
dipolar rotor
power law

File:

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Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul S Weiss, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

Author:

Zhalov, Daniel

Title:

Studies of the high momentum transfer hard quasi-exclusive pp interactions with EVA detector

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

proton
pion production
gluon bremstrahlung

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven Heppelmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Mark Strikman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Giordano, Gerardo

Title:

A QUASI-QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF TIME-COMPRESSED SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS COURSE PEDAGOGY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

time-compressed
physics course pedagogy
STEM

File:

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Committee Members:

Irina Mocioiu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Wallace Robinett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ochoa, Joseph R

Title:

Topics in the Standard Model of Particle Physics Extension and Fourth-Order Gravity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

weyl tensor
cosmic microwave background
cmb
chern-simons
circular polarization
lorentz
violation
cosmology
standard model extension
noncommutative geometry
gravitational waves
fourth-order gravity

File:

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Committee Members:

Martin Bojowald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephon Alexander, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin Bojowald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Victor Nistor, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Jian

Title:

Polaried Light Scattering from Individual Semiconductor Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Antenna effect
Raman Scattering
Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Nanowires
Semiconductor Nanowires
Rayleigh Scattering
Stimulated Raman Scattering

File:

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Committee Members:

Peter C Eklund, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter C Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Lasse Jenson, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

Author:

Ogetbil, Orcan Bahri

Title:

De Sitter Vacua and N=2 Supergravity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

N=2
Supergravity
de Sitter
vacua
ground states
cosmological constant
vacuum energy

File:

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Committee Members:

Murat Gunaydin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Luen Chau Li, Committee Member
Radu Roiban, Committee Member

Author:

Pavlyk, Oleksandr

Title:

Minimal Representations of U-duality Groups

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

representations
U-duality
supergravity

File:

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Committee Members:

Murat Gunaydin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Victor Nistor, Committee Member

Author:

Jolad, Shivakumar

Title:

Physics at the edge of fractional quantum Hall systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

composite Fermions
emergent behavior
quantum Hall effect
condensed matter physics
quantum Monte-Carlo
Low dimensional physics

File:

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Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Kenneth O Hara, Committee Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Committee Member