{"id":104963,"date":"2025-10-03T10:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=104963"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:33:32","slug":"thesis-defences-oct-6-to-oct-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/10\/thesis-defences-oct-6-to-oct-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Oct. 6 to Oct. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Oct. 6 and Friday, Oct. 10.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of <\/strong><strong>\u200b<\/strong><strong>Science in Applied Health Sciences\u00a0(Kinesiology) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Nate Taylor, a Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201c<\/span>Mental Health Matters: A Qualitative Study Describing the Mental Health-Performance Relationship in Sports Officials<span data-ogsc=\"black\">\u201d on Thursday, Oct. 9\u00a0 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in STH 361.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">The examination committee includes, Danny Rosenberg, Chair; Phil Sullivan, Supervisor; Jacob Tingle, External Examiner (Trinity University); and Rob Millington and David Hancock, Committee Members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of Science in the Centre for Biotechnology thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daniil Pozdniakov, a Master of Science in Biotechnology candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cCell Segmentation Using Spatial Transcriptomic Data From The Multi-objective Optimization Perspective\u201d on Monday, Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Jeff Stuart, Chair; Yifeng Li, Supervisor; Dan Tulpan, External Examiner (University of Guelph); and Ping Liang and Aleksandar Necakov, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science in Computer Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yathusan Thulasinathan, a Master of Science in Computer Science candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cTransformer-Based Intrusion Detection for 5G Core Networks\u201d on Wednesday, Oct. 8 at 2:30 p.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Sheridan Houghten, Chair; Glaucio de Carvalho, Supervisor; Renata Dividino, External Examiner; and Robson de Grande, Committee Member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of Science in Chemistry thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roxanne Dekeyser, a Master of Science in Chemistry candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cNovel Methods for Halogen Bond Enhancement on Rigid peri-Naphthalene Scaolds: Development to Catalysis\u201d on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 1 p.m. in WH 147.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Travis Dudding, Supervisor; Alison Frontier, External Examiner (University of Rochester); and Costa Metallinos and Jianbo Gao, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Oct. 6 and Friday, Oct. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,188,55,41],"tags":[3404,7437,567,996,7488,13121,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104963"}],"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=104963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105018,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104963\/revisions\/105018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}