Doctoral Dissertations
“If we do what we know and feel is right, it is bound to happen that among our graduates there will be numbered scientists, engineers, and those who go on to earn degrees in law and letters. There are likely to be those few who create new intellectual worlds, cure a dreaded human ailment or in some other way significantly influence life on our planet. Our philosophy will be to treat our charges as if each one is capable of this extraordinary achievement.” Dr. Leon Lederman
IMSA Philosophy Statement
Board of Trustees
April 1985
Dissertations completed in 2022
Quantification of Hydrologic Response to Forest Disturbance in Western U.S. Watersheds, Sara A. Goeking '92
Dissertations completed in 2021
Non-academic Support Math Faculty Members Provide in Developmental Accelerated and Corequisite Support Courses in California Community Colleges, David Vakil '92
Dissertations completed in 2020
Finding Critical and Gradient-Flat Points of Deep Neural Network Loss Functions, Charles Gearhart Frye '09
Acoustic Confinement and Characterization of a Microwave Plasma, Seth Lee Pree '09
Dissertations completed in 2018
Equidimensional Adic Eigenvarieties for Groups With Discrete Series, Daniel Robert Gulotta '03
Dissertations completed in 2017
The Statistical Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Control, Grant Murray Rotskoff '09
Dissertations completed in 2014
Dabigatran and Warfarin for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation: Use, Switching, and Clinical Effects Following New Market Entry in Real-World Patients, Julie C. Lauffenburger '03
Transport Architectures for an Evolving Internet, Keith Winstein '99
Dissertations completed in 2013
Borel Complexity of the Isomorphism Relation for O-minimal Theories, Davender Singh Sahota '99
Dissertations completed in 2012
AdS/CFT in String Theory and M-Theory, Daniel R. Gulotta '03
Low Power Data Acquisition for MicroImplant Biometric Monitoring of Tremors, Tania Khanna '01
Dissertations completed in 2011
Examining the Relationship between Fact Learning and Higher Order Learning via Retrieval Practice, Pooja Kay Agarwal '01
STEM Cell Biology and Strategies for Therapeutic Development in Degenerative Diseases and Cancer, Angel A. Alvarez '98
Proton-Proton Correlation Functions as a Probe to Reaction, Micha A. Kilburn '95
Dissertations completed in 2010
Communication-avoiding Krylov subspace methods, Mark Frederick Hoemmen '98
Rightly or for Ill: the Ethics of Remembering and Forgetting, Alison Nicole Reiheld '93
Dissertations completed in 2009
Environmental Implications of Francisella Tularensis Biofilms, Jeffrey J. Margolis '00
Dissertations completed in 2006
A Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with a Matrix Element Method, Adam Paul Gibson '96
Boffin's Books and Darwin's Finches: Victorian Cultures of Collecting, Michael W. Hancock '89
Dissertations completed in 2005
Memory and Fragmentation in Dissociative Identity Disorder, Margaret Rose Barlow '96
Dissertations completed in 2004
The Logic of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation, Sona Nadenichek Golder '89
Dissertations completed in 2003
“All hayll, all hayll, both blithe and glad” : Direct Address in Early English Drama, 1400-1585, Michelle M. Butler '90
Dissertations completed in 2002
Host Finding and Recognition by Papilio Polyxenes (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae): The Effects of Three Host Cues and of Host-Plant Experience on Oviposition Behavior, Cheryl Ann Heinz '89
Modular Machine Learning Methods for Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer, Mia Kathleen Markey '94
Dissertations completed in 2000
Searches for Neutral Higgs Bosons in Quark-Antiquark Tau-Antitau Final States using the Opal Detector at LEP, James Andrew Hocker '91
Swarm Engineering, S. Kazadi '90
Dissertations completed in 1999
The Dynamics of Cyberspace: Examining and Modelling Online Social Structure, Brian S. Butler '89
Environmental Behavior of Hafnium: the Impact on the Disposition of Weapons-Grade Plutonium, Gary S. Cerefice '89
Dissertations completed in 1996
The Use of Prior Knowledge in Learning from Examples, Stephen B. Blessing '89