The electric grid is changing rapidly with a proliferation of new technologies being integrated. There is a need to analyze the growth in technologies to help move towards a carbon-free electricity sector such as renewable generation and large scale battery installations. This is occurring at the same time as the...
This dissertation is a cultural history of state-sponsored film in India and Iran. I focus on the 1960s-1980s, a period during which both countries enacted sweeping development agendas, which included industrialization, the expansion of higher education, and social reforms. I engage in a comparative analysis of each state’s pedagogies of...
Motivated by real-world problems in various fields, mechanism design governs the design of protocols for strategic agents and has applications both in computer science and economics. Due to the revelation principle – a seminal observation in mechanism design, a vast number of studies in mechanism design focus on revelation mechanisms...
Depression is a challenging mental illness that requires individuals to manage their moods and emotions over time. While past mental health literature describes how individuals seek and share support on social media and within online communities, the ways that offline and one-on-one supportive interactions unfold is less clear. To address...
This dissertation consists of three essays that deal with problems of information acquisition and aggregation and the incentives to acquire such information. The first of the essays is titled The Timing of Complementary Innovations and studies the problem of an agent that acquires information about the viability of a project...
This dissertation comprises three essays in distinct areas of economic theory. The first chapter is co-authored with Gregorio Curello. We identify a new and pervasive dynamic agency problem: that of incentivising the prompt disclosure of productive information. To study it, we introduce a model in which a technological breakthrough occurs...
We study Hermitian metrics with constant Chern scalar curvature on a compact complex manifold. In the first part of the thesis, we prove a priori estimates for metrics of constant Chern scalar curvature on a compact complex manifold conditional on an upper bound on the entropy, extending a recent result...
Chirality and polarity describe orthogonal mechanisms of inversion symmetry breaking, which is the origin of valuable properties in crystalline materials including nonlinear optical activity, ferroelectricity, and piezoelectricity. Noncentrosymmetric (NCS) materials have numerous applications yet opportunities remain for cooperative coupling between chiral and polar basic building units to realize high-performance materials....
By 2030, up to half of the world’s population is projected to suffer from water insecurity: a chronic scarcity of potable water due to rapidly warming temperatures, increased agricultural demand, and pollution. The health impacts of contaminated water are profound: hundreds of thousands of global deaths each year are ascribed...
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in US and non-invasive cardiac imaging has vital importance for early detection and diagnosis of heart disease. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) is arguably the most versatile imaging modality and capable of a comprehensive evaluation of heart disease without ionization radiation. Despite the...