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Spring 2022

Ming Lyu

Wildfire smoke emissions contain substantial amounts of light-absorbing aerosols that can affect the radiation and cloud processes, resulting in climate impacts on regional and even global scales. The radiative impact of these light-absorbing aerosols is largely contributed by brown carbon (BrC),...

Fall 2022

Tapkan, Mustafa B

Imperfect information games model many large-scale real-world problems. Hex is the classic two-player zero-sum no-draw connection game where each player wants to join their two sides. Dark Hex is an imperfect information version of Hex in which each player sees only their own moves. Finding Nash...

Fall 2024

Friesen, Ivy O

The objective of this work was to create a Graphical Processing Unit (GPU)-based Real-Time Particle Image Velocimetry (RT-PIV) system for use in Active Flow Control (AFC) of a Turbulent Boundary Layer (TBL), and to evaluate the effect of effect of the flow control on the boundary layer. The...

Fall 2024

Mahmoud, Yazeed

Procedural content generation (PCG) algorithms have been utilized for automating the creation of game content such as levels, assets, and narratives. One specific type, Exhaustive PCG (EPCG), systematically generates all possible variations of content before selecting the best, embodying a form...

Spring 2024

Zimmerling, Tyler J

Topological photonic insulators are photonic quantum metamaterials whose transmission bands and bandgaps are characterized by certain topological invariants, which remain unchanged in the presence of lattice disorders. This resistance to defects has been exploited to realize integrated photonic...

Fall 2022

Skinner, Miles A

High-velocity and long-lifetime operating conditions of modern high-speed energy storage flywheel rotors may create the necessary conditions for failure modes not included in current quasi-static failure analyses. The central hypothesis for this thesis research is that (i) viscoelastic effects...

Fall 2020

Vu, Ngoc Quang

In the game distribution world, Steam is often regarded as the most prominent digital platform for its many famous games made by large developers. On the other hand, the itch.io game distribution platform is praised for its friendliness toward small independent (indie) games developed by small...

Fall 2024

Rollans, Benjamin J.

Tabletop roleplaying games allow players to creatively explore their identities in an enjoyable, social context. Identity exploration may be an especially important task for gender diverse people, who may experience difficulties in creating a positive gender identity due to stigma. In this study...

Spring 2022

Calloway, David L

In this dissertation, I examine the major texts of nineteenth-century African American abolitionist Martin Delany to show how he transforms literary genres to develop his arguments for emigration and the uplift of African Americans in the United States. By doing so, I argue first that Delany is...

Fall 2020

Brown-McLaughlin, Simone

Over the past forty-seven years, thousands of temporary foreign migrant workers have been arriving in Canada annually, to labor in sectors of precarious work including farming, caregiving and the service sector given the demand from employers seeking cheaper sources of labor or for work that...