Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions
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Geometric interpretations of structural demand for the analysis and reduction of design complexity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)This dissertation presents a computational framework to effectively interpret the distribution of structural demand that emerges from the design of large-scale structural systems, and develops methods for its quantification ... -
The Inhabited Arctic: Architecture, Time, and the Making of the Past in the Bering Strait (1760–1980)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)Our view of antiquity is not objective. From the eighteenth century on, the same actors and institutions involved in colonizing the Arctic shaped understandings of its deep past. Commercial whalers erected outposts on the ... -
Building the 3D Genome from the Ground Up: Local Interactions Give Rise to Global Order
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)The three-dimensional organization of the genome within the nucleus plays a central role in determining gene regulation and establishing cellular identity, but the mechanisms by which local molecular interactions give rise ...
