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Circumstellar Dust Shells: Clues To The Evolution Of R Coronae Borealis Stars, Edward Joseph Montiel Jan 2016

Circumstellar Dust Shells: Clues To The Evolution Of R Coronae Borealis Stars, Edward Joseph Montiel

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The existence of extended, cold dust envelopes surrounding R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars has been known about for over 30 years. RCB stars are an exotic group of extremely hydrogen-deficient, carbon-rich supergiants that are known for their spectacular declines in brightness (up to 8 mags) at irregular intervals. There are three possible origins of these envelopes: (1) they are fossil planetary nebulae (PNe), indicating that RCB stars formed via a final Helium-shell flash; (2) they are the remnant material from the merger of a CO and a He white dwarf binary, (3) they have been constructed from dust ejection events …


Interactions Between Local Magnetic Moments And Itinerant Charge Carriers In Fe-Based Systems, Yan Wu Jan 2016

Interactions Between Local Magnetic Moments And Itinerant Charge Carriers In Fe-Based Systems, Yan Wu

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The interactions between magnetic moments and electrons are essential in creating many of the unique properties of magnetic systems. In this thesis, I focused on two Fe-based systems employing multiple experimental techniques to investigate the coupling between localized magnetic moments and conducting charge carriers in two systems with tendencies to order into itinerant magnetic phases.\\ With systematic investigations of Fe$_{1-y}$Co$_y$Si, we discovered a field depended non-Fermi-Liquid (non-FL) behavior near its insulator-metal-transition (IMT) that appears to share the same mechanism as previously discovered in Mn doped FeSi - the underscreened Kondo effect.\\ A similar interaction of the charge carrier moments screening …


Probabilistic And Deep Learning Algorithms For The Analysis Of Imagery Data, Saikat Basu Jan 2016

Probabilistic And Deep Learning Algorithms For The Analysis Of Imagery Data, Saikat Basu

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Accurate object classification is a challenging problem for various low to high resolution imagery data. This applies to both natural as well as synthetic image datasets. However, each object recognition dataset poses its own distinct set of domain-specific problems. In order to address these issues, we need to devise intelligent learning algorithms which require a deep understanding and careful analysis of the feature space. In this thesis, we introduce three new learning frameworks for the analysis of both airborne images (NAIP dataset) and handwritten digit datasets without and with noise (MNIST and n-MNIST respectively). First, we propose a probabilistic framework …


Advanced Monte Carlo Methods For The Study Of Nucleation, Troy David Loeffler Jan 2016

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods For The Study Of Nucleation, Troy David Loeffler

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The process of nucleation is an essential part of understanding and controlling phase changes in a wide array of systems. In the past theories such as Classical Nucleation Theory have been used as a tool to aid experimentalist in the study of phase mechanisms. However, recent studies have shown in detail that theories such as this are not reliable, given that it can mispredict nucleation rates by several orders of magnitude. As a result newer methodologies must be developed into order to improve upon these deficiencies. In this study we use atomistic simulations to examine the non-ideal deviations from classical …


Single Crystal Growth And Physical Property Investigations Of Ca-Feas-Based Superconductors, Jiayun Pan Jan 2016

Single Crystal Growth And Physical Property Investigations Of Ca-Feas-Based Superconductors, Jiayun Pan

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The discovery of Fe-based superconductors marked the beginning of a new era in unconventional superconductors. To date, the underlying superconducting mechanism has not yet been fully understood. Among Fe-based superconductors, the relatively new members are Ca10PtnAs8(Fe2As2)5 (n = 3, 4) and CaFeAs2. They are unique because they contain special adjacent layers, i.e., metallic Pt4As8 in Ca10Pt4As8(Fe2As2)5, semiconducting Pt3As8 in Ca10Pt3As8(Fe2As2)5, and As chains in CaFeAs2. The focus of this research is to understand the electrical and magnetic properties of Ca10PtnAs8(Fe2As2)5 (n = 3, 4) and CaFeAs2 in both the normal and superconducting state. Single crystals Ca10Pt4As8(Fe2As2)5 and Ca10Pt3As8(Fe2As2)5 with different …


Thermoelectric Properties Of Novel Layered Transition-Metal Compounds, Zhenyu Diao Jan 2016

Thermoelectric Properties Of Novel Layered Transition-Metal Compounds, Zhenyu Diao

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation is designed to search for new good thermoelectric materials. Considering that both the low dimensionality and high spin entropy are in favor of thermoelectric performance, we focused on several layered transition-metal compounds including Bi2Sr2Co2O9-δ, Sr3(Ru1-xMnx)2O7, BaMn2Sb2 and Ba2Mn3Sb2O2. By investigating their structural, electrical and thermal transport, and magnetic properties, we discuss the relationship between structure, thermoelectric, and magnetic properties in these materials. For Bi2Sr2Co2O9-δ, both single crystal and thin film forms were studied. Among all films, the film grown 675 ℃ has the best power factor (S2/ρ, where S is Seebeck coefficient and ρ is electrical resistivity), which …


Identification Of Morphemes And The Effect Of Memory Load On Second Language Learning, James A. Hebert Dec 2015

Identification Of Morphemes And The Effect Of Memory Load On Second Language Learning, James A. Hebert

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.


Solving A Class Of Linear Skorokhod Stochastic Differential Equations, Karl-Heinz Fichtner, Steffen Klaere, Volkmar Liebscher Dec 2015

Solving A Class Of Linear Skorokhod Stochastic Differential Equations, Karl-Heinz Fichtner, Steffen Klaere, Volkmar Liebscher

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Two-Dimensional 1-Meixner Random Vectors And Their Semi-Quantum Operators, Gabriela Popa, Aurel I Stan Dec 2015

Two-Dimensional 1-Meixner Random Vectors And Their Semi-Quantum Operators, Gabriela Popa, Aurel I Stan

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


A Poisson Shot-Noise Process Of Pulses And Its Scaling Limits, Mine Çaglar Dec 2015

A Poisson Shot-Noise Process Of Pulses And Its Scaling Limits, Mine Çaglar

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


On The Lévy-Khinchin Decomposition Of Generating Functionals, Uwe Franz, Malte Gerhold, Andreas Thom Dec 2015

On The Lévy-Khinchin Decomposition Of Generating Functionals, Uwe Franz, Malte Gerhold, Andreas Thom

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Doob's Decomposition Theorem For Near-Submartingales, Hui-Hsiung Kuo, Kimiaki Saitô Dec 2015

Doob's Decomposition Theorem For Near-Submartingales, Hui-Hsiung Kuo, Kimiaki Saitô

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Large Deviations For Stochastic Tidal Dynamics Equation, Murugan Suvinthra, Sivaguru S Sritharan, Krishnan Balachandran Dec 2015

Large Deviations For Stochastic Tidal Dynamics Equation, Murugan Suvinthra, Sivaguru S Sritharan, Krishnan Balachandran

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


White Noise Analysis For The Canonical Lévy Process, Rolando D Navarro Jr., Frederi G Viens Dec 2015

White Noise Analysis For The Canonical Lévy Process, Rolando D Navarro Jr., Frederi G Viens

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Krylov-Veretennikov Formula For Functionals From The Stopped Wiener Process, Georgii V Riabov Dec 2015

Krylov-Veretennikov Formula For Functionals From The Stopped Wiener Process, Georgii V Riabov

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Using Foraminifera Shell Geochemistry To Test Proxies For Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Catherine Hudson Dec 2015

Using Foraminifera Shell Geochemistry To Test Proxies For Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Catherine Hudson

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.


Effects Of Oil-Contaminated Sediments On Submerged Vegetation: An Experimental Assessment Of Ruppia Maritima, Charles W. Martin, Lauris O. Hollis, R. Eugene Turner Oct 2015

Effects Of Oil-Contaminated Sediments On Submerged Vegetation: An Experimental Assessment Of Ruppia Maritima, Charles W. Martin, Lauris O. Hollis, R. Eugene Turner

Faculty Publications

Oil spills threaten the productivity of ecosystems through the degradation of coastal flora and the ecosystem services these plants provide. While lab and field investigations have quantified the response of numerous species of emergent vegetation to oil, the effects on submerged vegetation remain uncertain. Here, we discuss the implications of oil exposure for Ruppia maritima, one of the most common species of submerged vegetation found in the region affected by the recent Deepwater Horizon oil spill. We grew R. maritima in a range of manipulated sediment oil concentrations: 0, 0.26, 0.53, and 1.05 mL oil /L tank volume, and tracked …


Some Quantum Dynamical Semi-Groups With Quantum Stochastic Dilation, Lingaraj Sahu, Preetinder Singh Sep 2015

Some Quantum Dynamical Semi-Groups With Quantum Stochastic Dilation, Lingaraj Sahu, Preetinder Singh

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Singular Equations Driven By An Additive Noise And Applications, Nicolas Marie Sep 2015

Singular Equations Driven By An Additive Noise And Applications, Nicolas Marie

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


On The Regularity Of One Parameter Transformation Groups In Barreled Locally Convex Topological Vector Spaces, Maximilian Bock Sep 2015

On The Regularity Of One Parameter Transformation Groups In Barreled Locally Convex Topological Vector Spaces, Maximilian Bock

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Stochastic Dynamics Of Determinantal Processes By Integration By Parts, Laurent Decreusefond, Ian Flint, Nicolas Privault, Giovanni Luca Torrisi Sep 2015

Stochastic Dynamics Of Determinantal Processes By Integration By Parts, Laurent Decreusefond, Ian Flint, Nicolas Privault, Giovanni Luca Torrisi

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Hidden Markov Change Point Estimation, Robert J Elliott, Sebastian Elliott Sep 2015

Hidden Markov Change Point Estimation, Robert J Elliott, Sebastian Elliott

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Revisiting A Theorem Of L. A. Shepp On Optimal Stopping, Philip A Ernst, Larry A Shepp Sep 2015

Revisiting A Theorem Of L. A. Shepp On Optimal Stopping, Philip A Ernst, Larry A Shepp

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Theoretical And Numerical Analysis Of An Optimal Execution Problem With Uncertain Market Impact, Kensuke Ishitani, Takashi Kato Sep 2015

Theoretical And Numerical Analysis Of An Optimal Execution Problem With Uncertain Market Impact, Kensuke Ishitani, Takashi Kato

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Some New Connections Between Brownian Bridges And Brownian Motions, Estate V Khmaladze Sep 2015

Some New Connections Between Brownian Bridges And Brownian Motions, Estate V Khmaladze

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Regular Transformation Groups Based On Fourier-Gauss Transforms, Maximilian Bock, Wolfgang Bock Jun 2015

Regular Transformation Groups Based On Fourier-Gauss Transforms, Maximilian Bock, Wolfgang Bock

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Almost-Sure Explosive Solutions Of Some Nonlinear Parabolic Itô Equations, Pao-Liu Chow, Rafail Khasminskii Jun 2015

Almost-Sure Explosive Solutions Of Some Nonlinear Parabolic Itô Equations, Pao-Liu Chow, Rafail Khasminskii

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Fractional Hida-Malliavan Derivatives And Series Representations Of Fractional Conditional Expectations, Sixian Jin, Qidi Peng, Henry Schellhorn Jun 2015

Fractional Hida-Malliavan Derivatives And Series Representations Of Fractional Conditional Expectations, Sixian Jin, Qidi Peng, Henry Schellhorn

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Risk Measures On Orlicz Heart Spaces, Coenraad Labuschagne, Habib Ouerdiane, Imen Salhi Jun 2015

Risk Measures On Orlicz Heart Spaces, Coenraad Labuschagne, Habib Ouerdiane, Imen Salhi

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


On Approximation Rates For Boundary Crossing Probabilities For The Multivariate Brownian Motion Process, Shaun Mckinlay, Konstantin Borovkov Jun 2015

On Approximation Rates For Boundary Crossing Probabilities For The Multivariate Brownian Motion Process, Shaun Mckinlay, Konstantin Borovkov

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.