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    • Reducing the Compositional and Structural Degeneracy of Planetary Interiors 

      Lin, Zifan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      The interior conditions of planets are highly uncertain, because two types of intrinsic degeneracies – compositional degeneracy and structural degeneracy – prevent precise characterization. In this thesis, I develop a ...
    • Daikon Summer 

      Le, Alice Trang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      In Vietnamese, there’s a phrase “ôm sầu riêng” which means “holding onto your sadness on your own.” But if you read it literally, it means “holding durian.” When Juliette, a heartbroken college student, visits locations ...
    • Bridging Simple Models and Observations of the Flexure Zone around Antarctica 

      Cao, Rina (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      This study evaluates whether the length of ice flexure zones in Antarctica can be used to infer the thickness of the ice and the effective Young’s modulus using a 1-D linear elastic beam bending model. The ice flexure zone ...