This dissertation presents two experimental studies of DNA polymers inside nanofluidic devices with well-defined topographic features. Those features include square pits and rectangular trenches etched …
How to effectively extract important information and conduct meaningful analyses from large collections of data is an essential problem we need to tackle in order …
This dissertation offers a re-reading of the work of Augustine of Hippo as a case study of philosophical and rhetorical education in the Greco-Roman world. …
Gradients of voltage, pressure, temperature, and salinity can transport objects in micro- and nanofluidic systems by well known mechanisms. Relatively little experimental work has previously …
Spin dependent electron transport is the basis of spintronics which is a new type of electronics relying on electron spins. This thesis presents studies on …
This thesis is concerned with understanding features of holography in de-Sitter (dS) and Minkowski space. We give bulk-boundary mapping in dS at large N using …
The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a quantum mechanical many body system with random all-to-all interactions on fermionic N sites (N>>1). This model is shown …
Abstract of “Kalām as a Way of Life: al-Jāḥiẓ, Natural Philosophy, and the Ontology of Human Difference,” by Michael Lawrence Payne, Ph.D., Brown University, October …
We introduce the 2dLW model, which successfully captures kinetic fragility as the liquid is supercooled. The supercooled liquid suffers a glass transition around 0.30 < Tg∗ …
Dark matter is by nature extremely difficult to detect. The only force we are certain it interacts with is gravity, making gravitational studies a key …
The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is a proposed NASA-led mission designed to measure the polarization and intensity of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). PIXIE will …
This dissertation explores several approaches to quantum gravity, all of them adding some quantum features to an otherwise classical theory. The first part is about …
Single-molecule approaches enable us to follow the movement, interactions and conformational dynamics of individual molecules in real-time, thus providing novel insights in complex biochemical systems …
In this thesis, we present a study of the singularity structure of scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills (N=4 SYM). We first consider the cluster …
Charge carriers have long been introduced into superfuid helium-4, and their mobilities measured. Electrons repel the atoms of the liquid in their vicinity, forming a …
Experiments have established the existence of a Bose Insulator phase close to the two dimensional Superconductor-Insulator transition. Here, current is carried by localized Cooper Pairs, …
A superfield is a compact representation of a supermultiplet. A superfield description of a supersymmetric theory ensures manifest supersymmetry. In this dissertation, we present the …
The top quark is one of the most important Standard Model particles in probing new physics beyond the Standard Model. Experimentally, this exploration can be …
This thesis suggests a re-evaluation of Francis Bacon’s major writings based on biographical and historical evidence. I argue that Bacon’s lack of training in philosophy …