Dissertations from 2011
Numerical methods for the study of super-Eddington mass transfer in double white dwarf binaries, Dominic Carlo Marcello
Development of a Monte Carlo based correction strategy for a TG-43 based brachytherapy treatment planning system to account for applicator inhomogeneities, Bobby Chon Mathews
Comparison of TLD dose and reconstructed dose for post-mastectomy radiation therapy with TomoTherapy, Matthew Roberts
Delivery accuracy of image guided radiation therapy using Elekta Infinity's on-board imaging, Matthew William Sutton
Structural and electronic properties of noble metals on metal oxide surfaces, Fei Wang
Next generation multi-scale quantum simulations for strongly correlated materials, Shuxiang Yang
Dissertations from 2010
Modeling thermal phenomena and searching for new thermally induced monitor signals in large sale gravitational wave detectors, Rupal Shashikant Amin
Accuracy of SRS dose delivery using the TomoTherapy Hi-Art System, Catherine Leigh Batte
Generalized curvilinear advection formalism for finite volume codes doing relativistic hydrodynamics, Jay Michael Call
Mass transfer and mergers in double white dwarf binaries, Wesley Paul Even
New strategies for phase estimation in quantum optics, Yang Gao
Calibrating and improving the sensitivity of the LIGO detectors, Jeffrey S. Kissel
Ferromagnetism and transport in diluted magnetic semiconductors, Abdolmadjid Nili
Positron autoradiography for intravascular vulnerable plaque imaging, Peter Petrek
Quantum light for quantum technologies, William Nicholas Plick
Prototype electron phantom for radiographic and radiochromic film dosimetry, Chad Joseph Robertson
Quantifying the impact of data quality on searches for gravitational waves from binary coalescing systems with LIGO, Jacob Peter Slutsky
Comprehensive study of parameters for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatment planning, Catharine Elizabeth Talbert
Studies of Small Systems in Quantum Information, Sai Vinjanampathy
Gamma ray burst redshift catalog and applications, Limin Xiao
Theses from 2009
Comparison of helical tomotherapy and mixed beam treatment plans for superficial head and neck cancers, Olivier C. Blasi
Studies of states and state transitions in low mass X-ray binaries, Charles Bradley
Topics in quantum optical metrology, Aravind Chiruvelli
Testing of GdCl3 Doping in Water Cherenkov Antineutrino Detectors, William Fitzgerald Coleman
Global Positioning System in Curved Space-Time and Other Applications of General Relativity, Argenis Daniel Da Silva
Segmented field electron conformal therapy with an electron multi-leaf collimator, John Gordon Eley
Quantum nonlinear optics: applications to quantum metrology, imaging, and information, Ryan Glasser
Dosimetric evaluation of a delivery verification and dose reconstruction method for helical tomotherapy, Ricky Hesston
Quantum optical improvements in metrology, sensing, and lithography, Sean DuCharme Huver
Impact of intrafraction motion on post-mastectomy TomoTherapy of the chest wall, Shima Ito
Matter sources interacting with a black hole: dynamics and observable signatures, Miguel Megevand
Inestigation of the energy variation on a TomoTherapy HI-Art II using an aluminum stepwedge, Todd Racine
Design, fabrication, and operation of two broadband force balance seismometers, Andrew Weber
Dissertations from 2008
Towards an extended microscopic theory for upper-fp-shell nuclei, Kalin Drumev
Evidence for symplectic symmetry in ab initio no-core shell model results, Tomas Dytrych
Nonperturbative dynamics of strong interactions from gauge/gravity duality, Hovhannes Roman Grigoryan
Searching for gravitational waves from binary systems in non-stationary data, Chad Hanna
Investigation of superconductivity and physical properties of intermetallic compounds: MoN, Mo₃Sb₇, MgCNi₃ and transition metal diborides, Amar Bahadur Karki
Feasibility testing for SalSA neutrino astrophysics project, Jarrod Christopher Marsh
Determination of CTV-to-ITV margin for free-breathing respiratory-gated treatments using 4DCT and the Novalis ExacTrac Gating System with implanted fiducials, Jason Edward Matney
PET/CT detectability and classification of simulated pulmonary nodules using an SUV correction scheme, Andrew Nicholas Morrow
Generally covariant quantum information, Stephan Jay Olson
Limit on the muon neutrino magnetic moment and a measurement of the CCPIP to CCQE cross section ratio, Serge Arisitde Ouedraogo
Dosimetry intercomparison using a 35-keV x-ray synchrotron beam, Scott Oves
Segmented field electron conformal therapy planning algorithm, David Jaquet Perrin
Growth and properties of metal-on-metal nanostructures: Ag on Cu(110) and Co on Ag(110), Indrajith Chandima Senevirathne
Computed tomography imaging to quantify iodine distribution in iododeoxyuridine-labeled DNA, Christopher Erik Welch
Theses from 2007
Evaluation of MVCT images with skin collimation for electron treatment planning, Allen Beardmore
Computing and analyzing gravitational radiation in black hole simulations using a new multi-block approach to numerical relativity, Ernst Nils Dorband
Mass transfer and evolution of compact binary stars, Vayujeet Gokhale
Quantum dynamics of loop quantum gravity, Muxin Han
Experimental investigation of an electronically collimated radiation detector for location of gamma-ray sources, William H. Hill Jr.
A directional algorithm for an electronically-collimated radiation detector (ECRD), Adam Lackie
Exploring the quark-gluon content of hadrons: from mesons to nuclear matters, Hrayr Hamlet Matevosyan
Using power spectra to look for anisotropies in ultra-high energy cosmic ray distributions, Megan Alicia McEwen
Reducing false alarms in searches for gravitational waves from coalescing binary systems, Andres Rodriguez
Investigation of superficial dose from a static TomoTherapy beam, Koren Suzette Smith
Accuracy of cranial coplanar beam therapy with BrainLAB ExacTrac image guidance, Justin Vinci
Theses from 2006
TomoTherapy for post-mastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT): comparison with conventional electron beam technique, Michael Sissay Ashenafi
Population boundaries and gravitational-wave templates for evolving white dwarf binaries, Ravi Kumar Kopparapu
High harmonic generation by short laser pulses: time-frequency behavior and applications to attophysics, Mitsuko Murakami
Improved abutment dosimetry in segmented-field electron conformal therapy, John Dudley Richert
Verification of direct brachytherapy dosimetry for a single seed implant, Jabari Robinson
Effects of an External Field and Dissipation on Decoherence, Jian Zuo
Theses from 2005
ROC comparison of acquisition parameters for two PET/CT scanners based on lesion detectability in a torso phantom, Kenneth Bernstein
Experimental method development for direct dosimetry of permanent interstitial prostate brachytherapy implants, John Michael Jarrett
Performance evaluation of two CZT gamma ray imaging systems, Laurie Kelly
Parallel molecular dynamics simulations of pressure-induced structural transformations in cadmium selenide nanocrystals, Nicholas Jabari Ouma Lee
Modification of CT quality assurance phantom for PET/CT alignment and PET resolution, Prashanth K. Nookala
Radiative transfer modeling of thermal infrared emissivity spectra: applications to martian regolith observations, Karly Mariah Pitman
Boundary effects on non-equilibrium localized structures in spatially extended systems, Aniruddha Yadav
STM and ARPES studies of epitaxial multilayer Ag on Cu(110) and Ni(110), Weichang Zhao
Theses from 2004
Investigation of accuracy in quantitation of 18F-FDG concentration of PET/CT, Yuri Ishihara
Evaluation of a desktop computed radiography system for IMRT dosimetry, Ines-Ana Jurkovic
Validation of PET/CT dataset for radiation treatment planning, Rajesh Manoharan
Non-linear development of the secular bar-mode instability in rapidly rotating neutron stars, Shangli Ou
Lattice Boltzmann simulation of flow around bluff-bodies, Kevin Tubbs
Dissertations from 2003
Angle-resolved photoemission study and neutron diffraction measurements on LaSb2, Alice Acatrinei
Parallel molecular dynamics simulations of dynamics of oxidation and reactive wetting in metal/ceramic systems, Gurcan Aral
The use of the BANG-3 polymer gel to quantify the three-dimensional dose distribution of IMRT, Paul Anthony Bruce
Constraint preserving boundary conditions for the linearized Einstein equations, Gioel Calabrese
Multileaf collimator positional reproducibility evaluated with a two-dimensional diode array, Kara King Ferachi
Atomic and electronic structure of bulk intermetallic and heteroepitaxially grown surface alloys, Orhan Kizilkaya
Group theoretical approach to pairing and non-linear phenomena in atomic nuclei, Kristina D. Launey
Evaluation of the Profiler as a tool for IMRT QA, Manuel Rodriguez
Massively parallel molecular dynamics simulations of crack-front dynamics and morphology in amorphous nanostructured silica, Cindy Lynn Rountree
Gravitational radiation detectability of supernova 1987A's remnant fully matched filter for double resonant gravitational detector, Giovanni Santostasi
Toward a global microscopic theory for nuclear structure: mean field plus random phase approximation vs. shell model, Ionel Stetcu
A stellar parameter calibration of IUE data for the determination of the present day mass function of high mass stars, Kenneth Thomas Taylor
The extinction properties of reddened Galactic OB sightlines, Lynne Angela Valencic
Molecular-dynamics simulations of self-assembled monolayers (SAM) on parallel computers, Satyavani Vemparala
Theses from 2002
Predicting electron insert output factors at nominal and extended source to surface distance, Ahmet Bulut
Mixed-symmetry shell-model calculations in nuclear physics, Vesselin Gueorguiev Gueorguiev
Characterization of an in vivo diode dosimetry system for clinical use, Kai Huang