{"id":46900,"date":"2017-09-29T08:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46900"},"modified":"2017-09-29T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:23:24","slug":"thesis-defences-oct-2-to-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/09\/thesis-defences-oct-2-to-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Oct 2 to 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following is a list of thesis defences taking place at Brock from Oct. 2 to 6. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All are open for the University community to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illya Bakurov, a candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will present his Master of Science thesis defence on Tuesday, Oct. 3 at 9 a.m. in Plaza 600F.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His thesis is titled <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Non-photorealistic Rendering with Cartesian Genetic Programming using Graphic Processing Units<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His examination committee members are Dr. Michael Bidochka, Chair; Dr. Penousal Machado, External Examiner (University of Coimbra); Dr. Brian Ross, Supervisor; Dr. Beatrice Ombuki-Berman and Dr. Ke Qiu, Committee Members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yaroslava Girilshena, a candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will present her Master of Science thesis defence by video conference on Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 9 a.m. in Plaza 600F.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her thesis is titled <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Complete computational sequence characterization of mobile element variations in the human genome using meta-personal genome data<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her examination committee members are Dr. Michael Bidochka, Chair; Dr. Wendy Ashlock, External Examiner, (Ashlock &amp; McGuinness Consulting); Dr. Sheridan Houghten Supervisor; Dr. Ping Liang and Dr. Ke Qiu, Committee Members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Interdisciplinary Humanities dissertation defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malcolm Matthews, a candidate in the PhD Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities, will present his PhD dissertation defence on Thursday, Oct. 5, from 2 to 5 p.m. in Welch Hall 147.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His dissertation is titled <em>The Rhetoric of Autism: A Posthuman Personification of Masculinity in Crisis (from Rain Man to Mr. Robot)<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place at Brock from Oct. 2 to 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,188,37,41],"tags":[567,5834,4037,1677,3899],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46900"}],"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=46900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46904,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46900\/revisions\/46904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}