Data mining for materials discovery is concerned with representing materials science problems into a statistical framework, and learning models that describe observations about the processing, structure, and property of materials. The type of materials includes metals, ceramics, glass, polymers, and composites which are mixtures of multiple types. Observations come from...
Catalyzed by the invention of magnetic tape recording, audio production has transformed from technical to artistic, and the roles of producer, engineer, composer, and performer have merged for many forms of music. However, while these roles have changed, the way we interact with audio production tools has not and still...
Plasmonic nanostructures can confine light at their surface in the form of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) or localized surface plasmons (LSPs) depending on their geometry. SPPs are excited on nano- and micropatterned surfaces, where the typical feature size is on the order of the wavelength of light. LSPs, on the...
Using Eynard-Orantin topological recursion, we prove here a result concerning the equivariant Gromov-Witten invariants for the projective line equipped with the standard action of the 2-torus. Our result is that the genus g, n point Gromov-Witten potential with arbitrary primary insertions may be written as a sum over certain genus...
We study analytic functions on the open unit p-adic poly-disk centered at the multiplicative identity and prove that such functions only vanish at finitely many n-tuples of roots of unity unless they vanish along a translate of the formal multiplicative group. (Note that a root of unity lies on the...
Pattern recognition-based myoelectric control of upper limb prostheses has been made clinically available to individuals with more proximal upper limb amputations and can restore intuitive control of a prosthetic hand. This control method has yet to be implemented for individuals with amputations distal to the wrist (i.e. partial-hand amputations) and...
Meeting the exploding demand for wireless data services will require access to new wireless spectrum. However, the traditional approach of clearing spectrum and reallocating is becoming increasingly difficult. This in turn has led to much interest in new approaches for sharing spectrum among different users, such as the those being...
Anisotropic semiconducting thin films have attracted attention in recent years for important applications such as electrical interconnects, electronic sensors, field-emission devices and thermoelectric devices. However, the characterization of the full conductivity tensor, especially the cross-plane conductivity, remains a great challenge for anisotropic thin films. In addition, the synthesis of large-area...
Refugees gain access to benefits and services in the United States through the bureaucratic birthdates recorded in the documents they carry when they first enter the country. Examining how and why chronometric age based on these documents was essential to resettlement was the starting point for my dissertation, which explores...
The behavior of type-II superconductors is modeled using the time-dependent Ginzburg Landau equations (TDGLE). Pinning centers (inclusions) and geometries which maximize the critical current that can be passed through a superconductor are numerically obtained. Previous analytical results are summarized and new results are obtained for the critical current in one...