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Author:

Chen, Hans Weiteng

Title:

Toward improved regional estimates of carbon dioxide sources and sinks through coupled carbon–atmospheric data assimilation

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

carbon cycle
data assimilation
atmospheric inversion
climate
climate change
ensemble kalman filter
Bayesian inference
act-america
co2
carbon dioxide

File:

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Committee Members:

Fuqing Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Lauvaux, Committee Member
Steven B. Feldstein, Committee Member
Richard B. Alley, Outside Member
David W. Titley, Outside Member

Author:

Amir, Mariyam

Title:

A degradation-plasticity finite element and system identification scheme for efficient model-based and data-informed structural condition assessment

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hysteretic finite element model
Multiaxial interactions
Distributed plasticity
Interpolation functions
Coupled degradation-plasticity
Geometric nonlinearity
ODEs/DAEs
State-space formulation
Hidden Markov model
Scaled Spherical Simplex Filter
Unscented Kalman Filter
Sigma points
Sequential probabilistic inference
Dual state-parameter estimation
Online nonlinear filtering
Bayesian inference
Large scale system identification
Model-data fusion

File:

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Committee Members:

Gordon Patrick Warn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gordon Patrick Warn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Outside Member
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liang, Menglu

Title:

modeling and dynamic prediction of recurrent time-to-event data with competing risks

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Recurrent events
Dynamic risk prediction
Mortality
Bayesian inference
Cardiovascular disease
Multivariate copulas
Joint frailty model
Bayesian hierarchical model

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Committee Members:

Douglas Leslie, Program Head/Chair
Vernon Chinchilli, Major Field Member
Andrew Gardner, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Mauger, Major Field Member
Ming Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Reimel, Karly

Title:

Leveraging polarimetric radar observations to learn about rain microphysics: An exploration of parameter estimation, uncertainty quantification, and observational information content with BOSS

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (PHD)

Keywords:

meteorology
rain
radar
polarimetric radar
microphysics
Bayesian inference
Markov chain Monte Carlo
BOSS
drop size distribution

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven Greybush, Major Field Member
Julio Urbina, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Kumjian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Didlake, Major Field Member
Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Special Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair