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Fall 2022

Pinedo Soto, Jose Abraham

This thesis studies solutions of nonlocal modifications of Maxwell and linearized gravity equations. We focus on a wide class of Lorentz invariant theories known as ghost free models in which a form factor of nonlocality is chosen so that no new additional unphysical degrees of freedom are...

Fall 2022

McClure, Sean

This thesis lays out the work required to design and create a platform for cryogenically compatible testing of on-chip microwave resonators, intended as a platform for quantum-limited electromechanical torque sensing. We have created a platform with less than 8 dB loss across an operating range...

Fall 2022

Lin, Rongzhi

Simultaneous-source acquisition is a seismic data acquisition technology that has become quite popular in recent years due to its economic advantages. Contrary to the conventional seismic acquisition, where one records the seismic response of only one source at a time, in simultaneous source...

Fall 2022

Figueiredo Bahia, Breno

Vector field data are becoming increasingly more common in several fields of signal processing, such as electrical engineering and geophysics. Processing vector-valued signals, however, has imposed a series of challenges on its practitioners. Many approaches can be taken to carry out vector field...

Fall 2022

Thibault, John Anthony

Exchange bias and interfacial coupling effects in thin-film bilayers of magnetic materials were investigated during the period July, 2018, to Sep, 2021. Thin films of permalloy and cobalt oxide were deposited, in the form of micrometer size bilayer disks, on doubly-clamped nanomechanical...

Fall 2022

Olifer, Leonid

Space radiation is often identified as one of the most prominent dangers of space exploration. It mostly originates at the Sun and streams into the space between planets, creating hazardous radiation conditions at every point of the solar system which is not shielded by an atmosphere. Therefore,...

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 biomolecules,...

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

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...