Winter 2020
Winter Quarter Dissertations (March 2020)
Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Blake Lauren
Human Genetics
Using Functional Genomics Approaches to Investigate Human Complex Traits and Diseases
10.6082/uchicago.2174
Buerkle Nathan
Neurobiology
Evolution of Neural Computation in Color Vision Circuits
10.6082/uchicago.2173
de Wet Larischa
Cancer Biology
The Role of SOX2 in Regulating Metabolism and Enzalutamide Resistance in Prostate Cancer
10.6082/uchicago.2190
Krause Matthew Daniel
Pathology
Genetically Encoded Mechanotransduction Response in Endothelial Cells Mediates Human Cardiovascular Traits
10.6082/uchicago.2187
Rauch Simone
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Synthetic Biology Approaches to Study and Control the Transcriptome
10.6082/uchicago.2179
Division of the Humanities
Blass Ethan Chesney
Germanic Studies
Reading with Belief: Literary Romance in Goethe, Shakespeare, and Hitchcock
10.6082/uchicago.2188
Sabbatini Tommaso
Music
Music, the Market, and the Marvelous: Parisian Féerie and the Emergence of Mass Culture, 1864–1900
10.6082/uchicago.2195
Trento Margherita
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Writing Christianity in Eighteenth-century Tamiḻakam
IR: No
Division of the Physical Sciences
Barati Saeid
Computer Science
Cross-Layer Approximate Computing: From Circuits to Algorithms
10.6082/uchicago.2197
Chen Yuxi
Computer Science
Performance-friendly Concurrency Bug Failure Recovery and Fixing
IR: No
Eskreis-Winkler Jonathan Mark
Statistics
Multiresolution Analysis on Discrete Spaces
10.6082/uchicago.2172
LaVine Rhiannon June
Geophysical Sciences
The Role of Developmental Constraints in Shaping Macroevolutionary Patterns of Disparity in Agnostine Arthropods
10.6082/uchicago.2178
Liao Zhenghan
Chemistry
Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Anomalous Transport in Chiral Active Systems
10.6082/uchicago.2184
Nair Vishnu
Chemistry
Design of Semiconductor Biointerfaces for Modulation of Cellular Signalling and Neuronal Networks
10.6082/uchicago.2198
O'Connor Benjamin Garrett
Mathematics
Cohomology of Configuration Spaces of Noncollinear Points in the Projective Plane
10.6082/uchicago.2186
Popovic Predrag
Geophysical Sciences
Idealized Models of Arctic Sea Ice Melt Ponds
10.6082/uchicago.2180
Sohail Sara Hess
Chemistry
Photosynthetic Design Principles for Ultrafast Energy Transfer Processes
10.6082/uchicago.2182
Sun Lei
Statistics
Topics on Empirical Bayes Normal Means
10.6082/uchicago.2192
Thompson Rebecca
Chemistry
Adsorption, Diffusion, and Reaction in Condensed Films: Nerve Agent Simulants, Extraterrestrial Ices, and Olefin Oxidation
10.6082/uchicago.2177
Yang Ge
Physics
Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with Electrons on Helium
10.6082/uchicago.2199
Zhang Yuan
Chemistry
Common Intermediate-Based Total Synthesis: Application to Laurencia Ethers and the Manginoid Family
10.6082/uchicago.2193
Zinkus-Boltz Julia Rose
Chemistry
Development of RNA Polymerase Biosensors and Their Applications in Synthetic Biology
10.6082/uchicago.2170
Zou Rui
Physics
Using Higgs Boson to Search for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector
10.6082/uchicago.2176
Division of the Physical Sciences and the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Shaiber Alon
Biophysical Sciences
High-Resolution Microbial 'Omics at Scale to Illuminate Enigmatic and Rather Picky Microbial Residents of the Human Oral Cavity
10.6082/uchicago.2189
Division of the Social Sciences
Abed-Rabbo Jamal
History
Islamic Law and the Problem of Christian Hegemony in Late Nasrid Granada
10.6082/uchicago.2183
Kreiner Jared
History
Win, Lose, or Draw: Roman Provincial Administration and Resistance in the Early Principate
10.6082/uchicago.2181
Lee Naeyun
Sociology
Who Belongs to the Nation?
10.6082/uchicago.2169
Pagel Kristina
Comparative Human Development
Biological Aspects of Health: Validating, Analyzing, and Profiling Cytokines in Older U.S. Adults
10.6082/uchicago.2175
Pfeil Gretchen Elisabeth
Anthropology
Sarax and Sutura: Alms and the Value of Discretion in Dakar, Senegal
10.6082/uchicago.2194
Rhone Karen Ellis
Political Science
Architectures of Power and Resistance: The Significance of Financial Alliances in the Struggle for Global Economic Power
IR: No
Division of the Social Sciences and the Division of the Humanities
Comay del Junco Elena
Social Thought and Philosophy
Aristotle's Cosmological Ethics
10.6082/uchicago.2171
Pocius Skomantas
Social Thought and Philosophy
Truthfulness: An Examination of Bernard Williams' Virtues of Truth
10.6082/uchicago.2191
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Yu Ming
Estimation and Statistical Inference for High Dimensional Model with Constrained Parameter Space
10.6082/uchicago.2196
The Divinity School
Wyche Daniel L
The Politics of Self-Overcoming: Spiritual Exercises and Political Liberation from Michel Foucault to Martin Luther King Jr.
10.6082/uchicago.2185
The Law School
Park Sangchul
The Application of Machine Learning to Legal Studies
IR: No
The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Li Jiyuan
Electrostatics and Hydrodynamics in Continuum-Scale Simulations: Numerical Approaches and Applications
10.6082/uchicago.2205