{"id":101336,"date":"2025-05-09T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=101336"},"modified":"2025-05-09T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:13:56","slug":"thesis-defences-may-12-to-may-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/05\/thesis-defences-may-12-to-may-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 May 12 to May 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, May 12 and Friday, May 16.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of Science in Computer Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aws Al Jumaily, a Master of Science in Computer Science candidate, will defend the thesis titled \u201cSMORE-DRL: Scalable Multi-Objective Robust and Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Molecular Optimization\u201d on Friday, May 16 at 9:30 a.m. in PLZ 601C.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Sheridan Houghten, Chair; Yifeng Li, Supervisor; Ting Hu, External Examiner (Queen\u2019s University); and Tony Yan, Committee Member.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts in Geography thesis defence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sara Murdoch, a Master of Arts in Geography candidate, will defend the thesis &#8220;Consumer Desires in the Niagara Wine Industry: A Geodemographic Analysis of Customers at a Niagara Winery&#8221; on Monday, May 12 from 1 to 3 p.m. in WH 147.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Antonia Mantonakis, Chair; Michael Ripmeester, Supervisor; Vanessa Mathews, External Examiner (University of Regina); Atsuko Hashimoto, Graduate Program Director; and Christopher Fullerton and David Telfer, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, May 12 and Friday, May 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,188,55,41,38],"tags":[567,5014,13121,522,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101427,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101336\/revisions\/101427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}