Title of Dissertation: ESSAYS ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT Devesh Roy, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation directed by: Professor Arvind Panagariya Department of Economics This dissertation involves two set of papers. The first chapter contains a brief introduction of the issues covered in this thesis. In the first set of papers (chapters 2 and 3) I investigate the use of product standards in i...

Fateme Derakhshan-Panah was born in Hamedan (Iran) in 1987. She received her B.S. in Pure Chemistry (2009) and M.S. in Organic Chemistry (2011) from Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. She is currently working towards her Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor M. A. Zolfigol. Her research interest is organic methodology especially the application of solid acids and ionic liquids in organic synthesis.

Maryam Mashhadinezhad was born in Rasht, Guilan, I. R. Iran. She received her B. Sc in chemistry in 2009 from the University of Guilan and her M.Sc. in organic chemistry in 2011 from the same University. She is studying under the supervision of Dr. Farhad Shirini for her Ph. D. Her research interests include the use of heterogeneous catalysts in organic reactions.

In order to improve the design of advanced wells, performance such wells needs be carefully assessed by taking reservoir uncertainties into account. This research aimed develop data-driven proxy models for simulation and assessment oil recovery through under uncertainty. An artificial neural network (ANN) was employed create accurate computationally efficient as an alternative physics-based int...

Abstract A Derivative-Free Trust-Region (DFTR) algorithm is proposed to solve the robust well control optimization problem under geological uncertainty. (DF) methods are often a practical alternative when gradients not available or unreliable due cost function discontinuities, e.g., caused by enforcement of simulation-based constraints. However, effectiveness DF for solving realistic cases heav...