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Author:

Vaid, Deepak

Title:

The Cosmological Contant Problem and Many Body Physics: An Investigation

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

physics
theory
gravity
high energy
thesis
cosmological constant
many body

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephon Alexander, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin Bojowald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Adrian Ocneanu, Committee Member
Jayant Bhanavar, Special Member

Author:

Criss, Adrienne Elizabeth

Title:

Atmospherics effects on events measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory surface detector

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

cosmic rays
ultra-high energy
Pierre Auger Observatory
atmosphere
atmospheric effects

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul Sommers, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Sommers, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Tyce De Young, Committee Member
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member

Author:

Campbell, Colin Edward

Title:

complex dynamics of biological systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

complex systems
network theory
systems biology
cancer
ecosystem stability
immune system

File:

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Committee Members:

Reka Z Albert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Alexay Kozhevnikov, Committee Member
Istvan Albert, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Nitin

Title:

Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Water Dissociation and Proton Dynamics on Rutile and Cassiterite Surfaces

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

rutile(110)
interface
rutile water interface
proton jump
cassiterite water interface
water dissociation
ab initio

File:

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Committee Members:

Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Coray M Colina, Committee Member

Author:

Hao, Qingzhen

Title:

Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Metallic Nanostructures for Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Plasmonic Applications

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

nanofabrication
SERS
active plasmonics
nanostructures
Fano resonance
Babinet's principle
near-field
far-field

File:

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Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Bei

Title:

Graphene and graphene fluoride: synthesis, properties and applications

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

graphene
graphene fluoride
GFET

File:

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Committee Members:

Jun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

Staley, Neal Edward

Title:

Effects of geometric constraints and sample topology on superconductivity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Superconductivity
Mesoscopic
nanoscopic
quantum phase transitition

File:

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Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Dasilva, Ashley Marie

Title:

Transport properties of Dirac fermions in two dimensions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Dirac fermions
graphene
topological insulators
transport
two dimensional systems

File:

Download thesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Duming

Title:

Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Topological Insulators

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological insulator
superconductivity
ferromagnetism
proximity effect
Majorana fermions
Bismuth Selenide (Bi2Se3)
nanoribbon
MBE thin film

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Miller, Aaron James

Title:

Characterization of Emergent Synaptic Topologies in Noisy Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

learning
STDP
neural network
synaptic topology
synfire chain
event-driven simulation
emergent phenomena
complex network

File:

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Committee Members:

Dezhe Jin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Alexay Kozhevnikov, Committee Member
Patrick James Drew, Committee Member