Dissertations from 2023
Experiments with Monopoles, Rings and Knots in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates, Alina A. Blinova, Physics
Search for exotic Higgs boson decay to multiple b-quarks with the ATLAS detector at LHC using machine learning methods, Yuan-Tang Chou, Physics
When to Hold and When to Fold: Studies on the topology of origami and linkages, Mary Elizabeth Lee, Physics
Progress Towards HeRALD and Ricochet: Detectors at the Interface of Particle and Condensed Matter Physics, H Douglas Pinckney, Physics
FUNDAMENTAL SYMMETRY PROBE: LEPTON NUMBER, CP AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS, Tianyang Shen, Physics
TEV-SCALE LEPTON NUMBER VIOLATION: 0νββ DECAY, THE ORIGIN OF MATTER, AND ENERGY FRONTIER PROBES, Sebastian Urrutia Quiroga, Physics
Optical Spectroscopy of Valley Excitons in Monolayer and Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, Yueh-Chun Wu, Physics
DEFORMATIONS OF GEOMETRICALLY FRUSTRATED ELASTIC SHEETS, Meng Xin, Physics
Dissertations from 2022
ANOMALOUS TRANSPORT, QUASIPERIODICITY, AND MEASUREMENT INDUCED PHASE TRANSITIONS, Utkarsh Agrawal, Physics
RESERVOIR ENGINEERING OF MULTI-PHOTON STATES IN CIRCUIT QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS, Jeffrey M. Gertler, Physics
MEASUREMENT OF THE OFF-SHELL HIGGS BOSON PRODUCTION WITH THE ATLAS DETECTOR, Samyukta Krishnamurthy, Physics
APPLICATIONS OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS TO ECOLOGY: ISING MODELS AND TWO-CYCLE COUPLED OSCILLATORS, Vahini Reddy Nareddy, Physics
CALIBRATION OF THE LUX-ZEPLIN DUAL-PHASE XENON TIME PROJECTION CHAMBER WITH INTERNALLY INJECTED RADIOISOTOPES, Christopher D. Nedlik, Physics
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY IN NONTRIVIAL BACKGROUNDS AND PARTICLE PRODUCTION, Yue Qiu, Physics
MEASUREMENT OF THE FIDUCIAL CROSS SECTION FOR VECTOR-BOSON-FUSION PRODUCTION OF THE HIGGS BOSON IN THE WW DECAY CHANNEL WITH THE ATLAS DETECTOR, Guy Rosin, Physics
COLLECTIVE MOTION AND PHASE DIAGRAM OF SELF-PROPELLED VIBRATED HARD SQUARES, Zhejun Shen, Physics
Symmetry Breaking Effects in Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems, Ke Wang, Physics
Dissertations from 2021
SEARCH FOR RESONANT PAIR PRODUCTION OF HIGGS BOSONS IN THE FOUR B-QUARK FINAL STATE WITH THE ATLAS DETECTOR, Dale Abbott, Physics
POPULATION ANNEALING: ANALYSIS, OPTIMIZATION AND APPLICATION TO GLASSY SYSTEMS, Christopher A. Amey, Physics
A Search for Exotic Higgs Decays or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Long-lived Particles, Jackson Burzynski, Physics
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF LIPID-MEMBRANE BASED STRUCTURE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A RESPONSIVE SYSTEM, Rui Cao, Physics
A Search for New Resonances Decaying into a Weak Vector Boson and a Higgs Boson in Hadronic Final States with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider, Zachary Alden Meadows, Physics
PATTERN FORMATION AND PHASE TRANSITION OF CONNECTIVITY IN TWO DIMENSIONS, Arman Mohseni Kabir, Physics
Phenomenology of Fermion Production During Axion Inflation, Michael Roberts, Physics
Dissertations from 2020
FILAMENTS, FIBERS, AND FOLIATIONS IN FRUSTRATED SOFT MATERIALS, Daria Atkinson, Physics
DISTORTION-CONTROLLED ISOTROPIC SWELLING AND SELF-ASSEMBLY OF TRIPLY-PERIODIC MINIMAL SURFACES, Carlos M. Duque, Physics
Searching for new physics at colliders and from precision measurements, Yong Du, Physics
COMPOSITE NETWORK OF ACTIN AND MICROTUBULE FILAMENTS, SELF-ORGANIZATION AND STEADY-STATE DYNAMICS, Leila Farhadi, Physics
Search for Displaced Hadronic Vertices in the ATLAS Inner Detector and Muon Spectrometer in p-p Collisions at √s = 13 TeV at the LHC, Margaret S. Lutz, Physics
Transitions Between Radial and Bipolar Liquid Crystal Drops in the Presence of Novel Surfactants, Jake Shechter, Physics
Controlled membrane remodeling by Nanospheres and Nanorods: Experiments targeting the design principles for membrane-based materials, Sarah Zuraw-Weston, Physics
Dissertations from 2019
Thermodynamics of Polyelectrolyte Solutions and Polymer Crystallization, Sabin Adhikari, Physics
Probing Quantized Excitations and Many-body Correlations in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides with Optical Spectroscopy, Shao-Yu Chen, Physics
CHARACTERIZATION AND MANIPULATION OF THE MAGNETIZATION OF NANO-SCALE MAGNETIC STRUCTURES, Wenming Ju, Physics
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ANOMALOUS pH OF AQUEOUS NANOEMULSIONS, Kieran P. Ramos, Physics
PRECISE CONTROL OF 360-DEGREE MAGNETIC DOMAIN-WALL FORMATION AND THEIR PROPERTIES IN GEOMETRICALLY CONFINED NANOWIRES, dan wang, Physics
EXTREME DYNAMICS OF NANOMATERIALS UNDER HIGH-RATE MECHANICAL STIMULI, Wanting Xie, Physics
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MOTION OF CELLULOSE SYNTHASE PROTEIN COMPLEXES IN THE PLANT CELL MEMBRANE, Nina Zehfroosh, Physics
Dissertations from 2018
Equilibrium Partitioning of Binary Polymer Mixtures into Biological Nanopores, Mehmet Alphan Aksoyoglu, Physics
GEOMETRY, GROWTH AND PATTERN FORMATION IN THIN ELASTIC STRUCTURES, Salem Al-Mosleh, Physics
Search for long-lived, massive particles decaying into dimuon vertices in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, Nathan Bernard, Physics
Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Critical Systems, Kun Chen, Physics
PREPARATION, MECHANICS and STRUCTURE of SPHERE PACKINGS Near the RANDOM LOOSE PACKING LIMIT, Greg Robert Farrell, Physics
MEASURED CAPILLARY FORCES ON SPHERES AT LIQUID INTERFACES AND THE MECHANICS OF INTERFACIAL PARTICULATE ASSEMBLIES, Wei He, Physics
FIRST-PRINCIPLE APPROACHES TO STRONGLY CORRELATED QUANTUM SPIN SYSTEMS, Yuan Huang, Physics
Collider tests of fundamental symmetries and neutrino properties, Haolin Li, Physics
Complex ground states of vortices and filaments, Qingyou Meng, Physics
Alpha Radiation Studies and Related Backgrounds in the DarkSide-50 Detector, Alissa Monte, Physics
Dynamics and structure of polyelectrolyte complexes, Hamidreza Shojaei-Mahib, Physics
Antenna Enhanced Graphene Terahertz Emitter and Detector, and Graphene Microwave Detector, Jiayue Tong, Physics
Vibrated Squares as Equilibrium and Active Matter, Lee Askew Walsh, Physics
Combined Spectroscopic and Scanning Probe Studies of Electronic Interactions in Nanostructured 1D and 2D Semiconductors, Peijian Wang, Physics
COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF DEFECT-ENGINEERED GRAPHENE DERIVATIVES AND GRAPHENE-POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES, Asanka Weerasinghe, Physics
QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS IN DISORDERED BOSON SYSTEMS, Zhiyuan Yao, Physics
Dissertations from 2017
Tunneling Assisted Forbidden Transitions in the Single Molecule Magnet Ni4, Yiming Chen, Physics
Production of Cosmological Observables During the Inflationary Epoch, Cody Goolsby-Cole, Physics
INTERFACE DRIVEN DYNAMICS AND ASSEMBLY, Wei Hong, Physics
A Search for Double Beta Decay of Xenon to Excited States of Barium with EXO-200, Sereres Johnston, Physics
Morphology of Thin Sheets in the Lame Setup and Beyond, zhanlong qiu, Physics
ASSEMBLY OF PARTICLES ONTO RIGID CYLINDERS AND FLEXIBLE MEMBRANES: PROBING EFFECTS OF SURFACE CURVATURE AND DEFORMATION, Derek Wood, Physics
Dissertations from 2016
Study of Charge Transport Mechanism in Microbial Nanowires, Ramesh Adhikari, Physics
Chasing New Physics: From Electroweak Baryogenesis to Dark Matter, Huaike Guo, Physics
Morphological and Material Effects in Van Der Waals Interactions, Jaime C. Hopkins, Physics
Prospects for Infrared Quantum Gravity: From Cosmology to Black Holes, Basem K. Mahmoud El-Menoufi, Physics
Translocations of Ring and Linear Polymers & Polyelectrolyte Brush in Salty Solution, Ning Ouyang, Physics
Search for long-lived, weakly interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Preema R. Pais, Physics
A Quantitative Measurement of Structural changes of RNA kissing complexes using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer, Sheema Rahmanseresht, Physics
Hadron Physics in Tests of Fundamental Symmetries, Chien Yeah Seng, Physics
Evaporation induced self-assembly and characterization of nanoparticulate films: a new route to bulk heterojunctions, Yipeng Yang, Physics
X-Ray Characterization of Mesophases and Phase Transitions of DNA Analogues in Solutions, Mustafa SELCUK Yasar, Physics
Dissertations from 2015
Emergent Structure of Multi-Dislocation Ground States in Frustrated Assemblies, Amir Azadi, Physics
Elasticity and Geometry in Curved-Filament Assemblies, Luis Cajamarca Ospina, Physics
Exact Solutions in Gravity: A journey through spacetime with the Kerr-Schild ansatz, Benjamin Ett, Physics
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: Instrumentation, Detector Characterization, and a Search for Gravitational Signals from Gamma-ray Bursts, Daniel Hoak, Physics
The impact of terrestrial noise on the detectability and reconstruction of gravitational wave signals from core-collapse supernovae, Jessica McIver, Physics
Contact Angles and Contact Lines Around Particles at Isotropic and Anisotropic Liquid Interfaces, Nesrin Senbil, Physics
Magnetic transport properties of oriented soft, hard and exchange-coupled magnetic thin films and Au25(SC6H13)18 spherical nanocluster, Rukshan M. Thantirige, Physics
Search for Contact Interactions and Large Extra Dimensions in Dimuon Events from pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector, TÜLİN VAROL, Physics
Population Annealing Monte Carlo Studies of Ising Spin Glasses, wenlong wang, Physics
Dissertations from 2014
OPTICAL AND SCANNING PROBE STUDIES OF ISOLATED POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE) NANOFIBERS, Mina Baghgarbostanabad, Physics
On the Crumpling of Thin Sheets, Anne Dominique Cambou, Physics
THE IMPACT OF MEMBRANE TENSION ON PHASE SEPARATION AND SOLID DOMAIN PROPERTIES IN MODEL MULTICOMPONENT VESICLES, Dong Chen, Physics
SINGLE MOLECULE STUDIES OF A SHORT RNA, PEKER MILAS, Physics
Direct Measurement of the pp Solar Neutrino Interaction Rate in Borexino, Keith Otis, Physics
Theory and Simulations of Polyelectrolyte Complexes, Bo Peng, Physics
Measurement of the Parity Violating Asymmetry in Elastic Electron Scattering off 208Pb, Jonathan W. Wexler, Physics
Dissertations from 2013
Search for Tev-Scale Gravity Signatures in Final States with Leptons and Jets with the Atlas Detector at √(S) = 8 Tev, German Colon, Physics
Gravitational Wave Production through Decay of the Inflaton into Intermediary Fields During Slow Roll Inflation, Jessica Lauren Cook, Physics
Conductivity Of Gold Nanoparticle Thin Films and Magnetoresistance Of Metallic Thin Films Embedded with Periodic Arrays Of Colbalt Nanoparticles, Stefan Dickert, Physics
Investigations of Surface-Tension Effects Due to Small-Scale Complex Boundaries, Jiansheng Feng, Physics
The Effect of Vesicle Shape, Line Tension, and Lateral Tension on Membrane-Binding Proteins, Jaime Bosart Hutchison, Physics
Fabrication, Characterization and Analysis of Patterned Nano-Sized Material With Large Magnetic Permeability At High Frequency, Huajie Ke, Physics
Pattern Formation in Floating Sheets, Hunter King, Physics
Measuring Proton Spin Polarizabilities with Polarized Compton Scattering, Philippe Paul Martel, Physics
A Measurement of the W/Z Cross Section Ratio as a Function of Hadronic Activity with the ATLAS Detector, Andrew Robert Meade, Physics
Charge Transport Studies of Proton and Ion Conducting Materials, Craig William Versek, Physics
Computer Simulations of Polyelectrolyte Stretching and Translocation, Yanbo Wang, Physics
Replica Exchange Monte Carlo Simulations of the Ising Spin Glass: Static and Dynamic Properties, Burcu Yucesoy, Physics
Dissertations from 2012
Topics in High Energy Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Ufuk Aydemir, Physics
Topics in high energy physics beyond the standard model, Ufuk Aydemir