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Author:: Healy, James
Title:: The Final State from Generic Binary Black Hole Coalescence: Mass, Spin, and Gravitational Recoil
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: Black Hole
Binary Black Holes
Numerical Relativity
Gravitational Waves
Final State
File:: Download JamesHealy-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Pablo Laguna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee S Finn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Martin Bojowald, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member

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Author:: Reyes, Juan Daniel
Title:: Spherically Symmetric Loop Quantum Gravity: Connections to two-dimensional models and applications to gravitational collapse
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: Loop Quantum Gravity
Poisson sigma models
LTB models
File:: Download ReyesJD-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Martin Bojowald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin Bojowald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Member
Radu Roiban, Committee Member
Ping Xu, Committee Member

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Author:: Willis, Joshua L
Title:: On the Low-Energy Ramifications and a Mathematical Extension of Loop Quantum Gravity
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: low energy limit
loop quantum gravity
non-compact gauge group
loop quantum cosmology
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John C Collins, Committee Member
Alejandro Perez, Committee Member
Tom Abel, Committee Member

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Author:: Gladden, III, Joseph Rhea
Title:: CHARACTERIZATION OF THIN FILMS AND NOVEL MATERIALS USING RESONANT ULTRASOUND SPECTROSCOPY
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: alumina
dentin
nanotubes
phase transitions
thin films
elastic constants
acoustics
attenuation
File:: Download jrg_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter C Eklund, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Anthony A Atchley, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

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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:: Download JosephOchoa-Dissertation.pdf
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

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Author:: Williams, Jason Reid
Title:: UNIVERSAL FEW-BODY PHYSICS IN A THREE-COMPONENT FERMI GAS
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: ultracold Fermi gas
Efimov
6Li
Few Body
atomic color superfluid
File:: Download JWilliams-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenneth O'hara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth O Hara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Weiss, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

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Author:: Engle, Jonathan Steven
Title:: Black Hole Entropy, Constraints, and Symmetry in Quantum Gravity
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: loop quantum gravity
black hole entropy
symmetry reduction
File:: Download englethesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin Bojowald, Committee Member
Benjamin Owen, Committee Member
Luen Chau Li, Committee Member

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Author:: West, Joshua T
Title:: THE EFFECTS OF DISORDER ON SUPERFLOW IN THE QUANTUM SOLID He-4
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: supersolid
solid helium
quantum solids
File:: Download West_thesis_final_pdf.pdf
Committee Members:: Moses Hung Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

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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:: Download Wu_Thesis.pdf
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

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