| Name |
Date |
Dissertation |
Program |
Advisor(s) |
| Tara Bond Freeman |
DEC 2007 |
"The Maya Preclassic Ceramic Sequence at the Site of Ek Balam, Yucatan, Mexico" |
Anthropology |
David Freidel |
| Soumya Awasthi |
AUG 2007 |
"Role of the Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type-1 (HTLV-1) Accessory Protein p30II in Adult T-Cell Leukemogenesis" |
Biological Sciences |
Robert Harrod |
| Susan Legan Williams |
AUG 2007 |
"The Impact of Glucose-6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase on Longevity" |
Biological Sciences |
William Orr |
| Aaron Pan |
DEC 2007 |
"The Late Oligocene (28-27 MYR) Guang River Flora from the Northwestern Plateau of Ethiopia" |
Earth Sciences |
Bonnie F. Jacobs |
| Ozkan Eren |
AUG 2007 |
"Essays on Treatment Effect Models with Applications to Unionization and Educational Outcomes" |
Economics |
Esfandiar Maasoumi |
| Dong Fu |
AUG 2007 |
"Inflation Expectations, Housing Market Dynamics and Global Common Output Gap- Three Essays on Dynamic Common Factor Models" |
Economics |
Nathan Balke |
| Dipanwita Sarkar |
AUG 2007 |
"Essays on Differentials in Earnings Distributions Across Population Subgroups" |
Economics |
Daniel Millimet |
| Muna H. Husain |
MAY 2008 |
"Essays on Gender Differences in Education" |
Economics |
Daniel Millimet |
| Matthew McLaurine Babcock |
MAY 2008 |
"Turning Apaches into Spaniards: North America's Forgotten Indian Reservations" |
History |
David J. Weber |
| Houston Faust Mount II |
MAY 2008 |
"Oilfield Revolutionary: The Career of Everette Lee DeGoyler" |
History |
R. Hal Williams |
| Jeffrey Michael Schulze |
MAY 2008 |
"Trans-Nations: Indians, Imagined Communities and Border Realities in the Twentieth Century" |
History |
Sherry Smith |
| Alicia Dewey |
AUG 2007 |
"Risk and Opportunity on the U.S./Mexico Border: Credit, Bankruptcy, and the Emergence of the Anglo and Mexican-American Middle Classes in South Texas, 1898-1941" |
History |
R. Hal Williams |
| Juan Peng |
AUG 2007 |
"Transport of Multicomponents in a Fluid and Numerical Solution" |
Mathematics |
John Chen |
| Youqian Zhang |
AUG 2007 |
"Development, Analysis and Numerical Methods For Multicomponent, Multiphase Flow in Porous Media" |
Mathematics |
John Chen |
| Guanghua Cao |
DEC 2007 |
"Pricing and Risk Management of Variable Annuities and Equity-indexed Annuities" |
Mathematics |
John Chen |
| Woon-Kwan Lam |
DEC 2007 |
"Pattern Formation in Non-Linear Chemical Systems" |
Mathematics |
Peter Moore |
| Praveen Chaturvedi |
MAY 2008 |
"Single Phase Flow Multicomponent Simulation in Porous Media" |
Mathematics |
John Chen |
| Sandra Zoccoli |
DEC 2007 |
"Object Features and Object Recognition: Semantic Memory Abilities During the Normal Aging Process" |
Psychology |
Alan Brown |
| Sergei Nikolaev |
DEC 2007 |
"Church and Reunion in the Theology of Sergii Bulgakov and Georges Florovsky, 1918-1940" |
Religious Studies |
Bruce Marshall |
| Mark Edward Hanshaw |
MAY 2008 |
"An Intersection of Societies: American Muslims, Islamic Law and U.S. Courts in Conflict" |
Religious Studies |
John C. Lamoreaux |
| Kinfemichael Alemu Gedif |
MAY 2008 |
"Detecting Brain Activations in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Experiments With a Maximum Cross-Correlation Statistic" |
Statistical Science |
William R. Schucany |
| Stephen D. Robertson |
MAY 2008 |
"Generalizations and Applications of the Linear Chirp" |
Statistical Science |
Henry L. Gray and Wayne Woodward |
| Mengyuan Xu |
MAY 2008 |
"Filtering Nonstationary Time Series by Time Deformation" |
Statistical Science |
Henry L. Gray and Wayne Woodward |
| Name |
Date |
Dissertation |
Program |
Advisor |
| Gerard Sevilla Ibarra |
AUG 2007 |
"A Systems Engineering Approach to a Methodology and Mathematical Model for Identifying the Most Critical Links of Highway Systems" |
Applied Science |
Jerrell Stracener |
| Hsueh-Hua Chuang |
DEC 2007 |
"An Iterative Model of the Steady State Current Distribution in Oxide-Confined Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELS)" |
Applied Science |
Gary Evans |
| Stephen Skinner |
DEC 2007 |
"A Systems Engineering Methodology for the Integration of Subsystems into Complex Systems" |
Applied Science |
Jerrell Stracener |
| Nikhil Divakar Kikkeri |
AUG 2007 |
"Formal Verification of Complex Datapaths Featuring Custom Optimizations for Cost and Performance" |
Computer Science |
Peter-Michael Seidel |
| Abdul Aziz |
DEC 2007 |
"Grid Management Architecture for Efficient and Scalable Scheduling of Workflow Applications" |
Computer Science |
Hesham El-Rewini |
| Zhao Li |
MAY 2008 |
"Web Reliability Analysis and Improvement" |
Computer Science |
Jeff Tian |
| Charles Franklin Mann |
MAY 2008 |
"Extensions of Maximum Concurrent Flow to Identify Hierarchical Community Structure and Hubs in Networks" |
Computer Science |
David Matula |
| David Feinstein |
MAY 2008 |
"Computer-Aided-Design Methods for Emerging Quantum Computing Technologies" |
Computer Science |
Mitch Thornton |
| Jin Cheng Chao |
DEC 2007 |
"On the Design of Robust Criteria and Algorithms for Blind Source Separation" |
Electrical Engineering |
Scott Douglas |
| Kaushik Morapakkam Josiam |
DEC 2007 |
"Diversity Multiplexing Tradeoff in Wireless Networks" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dinesh Rajan |
| Bing Ouyang |
DEC 2007 |
"Watermarking Based on Unified Pattern Recognition Framework" |
Electrical Engineering |
Mandyam Srinath |
| Sriram Narayanaswamy Kizhakkemadam |
MAY 2008 |
"Queuing Delay in Multi-Antenna Multi-User Wireless Networks" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dinesh Rajan |
| Mark R. Smith |
MAY 2008 |
"Unsupervised Object-Based Video Segmentation Using Color, Texture and Motion" |
Electrical Engineering |
Alireza Khotanzad |
| Ali Farnoud |
MAY 2008 |
"Electrostatic Removal of Diesel Particulate Matter" |
Environmental & Civil Engineering |
Alfredo Armendariz |
| Tommie Austin Freeman |
MAY 2008 |
"Praxis: Development and Application of a Multi-Period Project Selection and Engineering Staffing Model Including Options for Alternative Assignments and Personnel Reductions" |
Management Information Systems |
Jeffery Kennington |
| Tauhid Mazedur Rahman |
MAY 2008 |
"Praxis: Improving Telecommunications Network Throughput by Incremental Demand Routing" |
Management Information Systems |
Eli Olinick |
| Hosein Atharifar |
MAY 2008 |
"Material Flow and Heat Transfer Modeling, Monitoring, and Optimization of Friction Stir Welding" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Radovan Kovacevic |
| Nahitiya Kattadiyalage Amaranath Premasiri |
MAY 2008 |
"Development of an Efficient, Smart, and Portable Photonic Light Delivery System for Use in Photodynamic Therapy of Esophageal Carcinoma" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Gemunu Happawana |
| Hongtao Qiu |
MAY 2008 |
"Natural Convection in a Non-Homogeneous Enclosure" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Jose Lage |
