{"id":53792,"date":"2018-10-12T08:11:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=53792"},"modified":"2018-10-19T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:08:04","slug":"thesis-defences-oct-15-to-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/10\/thesis-defences-oct-15-to-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Oct. 15 to 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place at Brock from Oct. 15 to 19.<\/p>\n<p>All are open for the University community to attend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science thesis defences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jay Douglas, a Master of Science candidate in the Computer Sciences Department, will present his thesis &#8220;Efficient Merging and Decomposition Variants of Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization for Large Scale Problems&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 1 p.m. in Mackenzie Chown H313. This defence will be a report defence.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His examination committee members are Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Shahryar Rahnamayan, External Examiner (University of Ontario Institute of Technology); Beatrice Ombuki-Berman, Supervisor; and Brian Ross and Robson De Grande (Committee Members).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Eseroghene Balota, a Master of Science candidate in the Earth Sciences Department, will present his thesis titled &#8220;Western Pacific Paleoceanography Across the Early-Middle Pleistocene Boundary\u00a0~773 KA, Marine Isotope Stage 19): Dinoflagellate Cysts of the Chiba Composite Section, Japan&#8221; by video conference\u00a0<\/span>on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 1 p.m. in McKenzie Chown H313.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His examination committee members are Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Audrey Limoges, External Examiner (University of New Brunswick); Martin Head, Supervisor; and Francine McCarthy and Rich Cheel, Committee Members.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place at Brock from Oct. 15 to 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,188,55,41],"tags":[7066,885,1677,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53792"}],"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=53792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53930,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53792\/revisions\/53930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}