Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Locality: a case study from Äiwoo 

      Roversi, Giovanni (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      This thesis explores issues in the syntax of Äiwoo, an understudied Oceanic language from the Solomon Islands. This language showcases an intricate system of clausal alternations, where several parameters vary independently ...

    • Rapid In-Space Assembly and Manufacturing of Large Reticulated Truss Structures 

      Bhundiya, Harsh G. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      Modern deployable space structures have enabled spectacular missions like the James Webb Space Telescope, but they are constrained by the rocket fairing and a tradeoff between deployed size and structural precision that ...

    • Space Optical Interferometry for High-Resolution Coherent Imaging of Astronomical Objects 

      Black, Mason R. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      The hunt for Earth-like exoplanets is one of the great scientific endeavors of the 21st century. To date, the characterization of known exoplanets with instruments like JWST has been spatially unresolved—we can study ...