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Fall 2021

Purschke, David N

Ultrafast terahertz (THz) spectroscopy is presently the most powerful tool available to materials scientists for directly probing ultrafast conductivity dynamics. Its low center frequency and phase-resolved measurement, which yields sub-picosecond temporal resolution, make it ideally suited for...

Fall 2021

Ridder, Margaret

AR Sco is the first known white dwarf pulsar and currently there is no definitive model for its emission or evolution. This type of binary system could be a critical step in the formation of magnetic cataclysmic variables, a type of accreting white dwarf/M dwarf binary system. In this thesis, I...

Fall 2021

Kora, Youssef H.

The search for new phases of matter and their quantitative characterization is one of the central goals of condensed matter physics. To that end, quantum Monte Carlo is a tremendously powerful toolbox that enables the simulation of assemblies of interacting bosons, allowing the exact calculation...

Fall 2021

Feroz, Amna

Thermal heavy oil extraction techniques are high temperature and pressure procedures to produce heavy oil. Elevated temperature and pressures alter the subsurface stresses, causing shear failure of rock within and surrounding the steam front. The steam also introduces volumetric changes at the...

Fall 2021

Hoffer, Noel

Folding is the process by which biomolecules spontaneously self-assemble into specific, complex, three-dimensional structures from simple one-dimensional polypeptide chains. Folding is a critical process in biology as there exists a tight link between the structure and function of...

Spring 2021

Li, Ji

Compressive sensing and sparse reconstruction techniques are adopted to solve many seismic data processing problems, including the design of high-resolution transforms for coherent noise removal, signal separation, and seismic waveeld reconstruction. Traditional sparse reconstruction algorithms...

Fall 2021

O'Brien, Patrick

The direct detection for a dark matter particle is reaching increasingly lower sensitivities and the New Experiments With Spheres-Gas (NEWS-G) collaboration is one of the experiments at the forefront of this. Currently being installed at SNOLAB two kilometres underground, the Spherical...

Spring 2021

Kheirkhah, Majid

Over the past decade, the interplay between symmetry and topology in condensed matter physics has not only deepened our understanding of matter by prompting a conceptual revolution in classifying all phases of matter, but it has also led to tremendous progress in finding new materials with low...

Spring 2021

Kalra, Aarat P

Microtubules are hollow, cylindrical polymers of the protein α, β tubulin, that interact mechano-chemically with a variety of macromolecules. Due to their mechanically robust nature, microtubules have gained attention as tracks for precisely directed transport of nanomaterials within...

Fall 2021

Staelens, Michael A

MoEDAL-MAPP is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionizing (HIP) and feebly interacting (FIP) particle avatars of new physics in p–p and heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The Monopole and Exotics Detector At the LHC (MoEDAL) baseline detector first took...