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Author:

Clark, Anthony C

Title:

Superflow in Quantum Solids

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

supersolid
helium
vortices

File:

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Committee Members:

Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Henderson, Adam Dade

Title:

Loop Quantum Cosmology: A Window Into the Path Integral Representation of Quantum Gravity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum Gravity
Path Integral

File:

Download Henderson-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Sommers, Committee Member
Victor Nistor, Committee Member
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member

Author:

Harte, Abraham

Title:

Mechanics of Isolated Extended Bodies in Classical Field Theories

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

extended bodies
equations of motion

File:

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Committee Members:

Pablo Laguna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Member
Benjamin Owen, Committee Member
Victor Nistor, Committee Member

Author:

Gupta, Awnish K

Title:

Raman Scattering from n-Graphene Layers (nGLs; n = 1, 2, 3 ...)

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Incommensuratation
Raman Scattering
Nano Ribbions
nGLs
Graphene
Defect Scattering

File:

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Committee Members:

Prof Peter C Eklund, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter C Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Angela Lueking, Committee Member

Author:

Balk, Andrew Lee

Title:

Nanoscale magnetization in ferromagnetic thin films

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

scanning probe
semiconductor
spintronics
Hall effect
ferromagnetism
Mn)As
(Ga
domain wall
spin ice
MOKE
cryogenics

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Stuver, Amber Lynnell

Title:

Burst Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Methods:<br> Design, Development and Comparison

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

General Relativity
LIGO
simulation
signal processing
MATLAB
data analysis
gravitational waves

File:

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Committee Members:

Lee S Finn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

Author:

Kisselev, Alexei M.

Title:

Theoretical and Computer Simulation Insights into Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

solution thermodynamics
aqueous polymer solutions
copolymers
polymer systems
light-responsive
temperature-responsive
stimuli-responsive
phase diagrams
equation of state
hydrogen bonding
molecular dynamics

File:

Download Kisselev-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Evangelos Manias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Leonid Berlyand, Committee Member

Author:

Kolmogorov, Aleksey N.

Title:

Study of bonding and doping properties of sp^2 carbon nanostructures: numerical simulations and development of empirical interaction potentials.

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

nanotube
interlayer
graphitic substrate

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ari Mizel, Committee Member
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Rajeev Sharma, Committee Member

Author:

Tsobanjan, Artur

Title:

Semiclassical analysis of quantum systems with constraints

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

constraint quantization
semiclassical
quantum cosmology
effective equations
relational observables

File:

Download Artur_Tsobanjan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Bojowald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin Bojowald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Member
John Collins, Committee Member
Ping Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Vaishnav, Birjoo

Title:

Gravitational waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes: First steps toward using Numerical Relativity waveforms for LIGO data analysis

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

black holes
gravitational waves
numerical relativity
LIGO
data analysis
gravitational wave astronomy

File:

Download vaishnavthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin Owen, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member