The following is a list of thesis defences taking place virtually from Monday, Feb. 8 to Friday, Feb. 12.<\/p>\n
Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Julia Polyck-O\u2019Neill, a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Humanities, will defend her thesis \u201cRematerializing The Immaterial: A Comparative Study Of Vancouver\u2019s Conceptual Visual Arts And Writing\u201d on\u00a0Wednesday, Feb. 10 from 9 a.m. to noon in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Brian Roy, Chair; Gregory Betts, Supervisor; Susan Rudy, External Examiner (York University); Neta Gordon, Internal-External Examiner; and Linda Steer, Mathew Martin, and Derek Knight, Advisory Committee Members.<\/p>\n Master of Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Haimeng (Jerry) Tang, a Master of Science candidate in the Centre for Biotechnology, will defend his thesis \u201cAnalysis of the effect of genetic heterogeneity on de novo genome assembly using\u00a0Xylocopa virginica<\/i>\u00a0as a model” on Wednesday, Feb. 10 at 9 a.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Ping Liang, Supervisor; Yifeng Li, External Examiner (Dept. of Computer Sciences, Brock University); and Adonis Skandalis and Feng Li, Committee Members.<\/p>\n Master of Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Abu Saad, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis \u201cMDP-based Vehicular Network Connectivity Model for VCC Management” on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 2 p.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Robson de Grande, Supervisor; Richard W. Pazzi, External Examiner (Ontario Tech University); and Ke Qiu and Michael Winter, Committee Members.<\/p>\n Master of Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Tyler Crane, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis \u201cAnalysis of the Niching Particle Swarm\u00a0Optimization Algorithm” on Thursday, Feb. 11 at 2:30 p.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Betty Ombuki-Berman, Supervisor; Charlie Obimbo, External Examiner (Guelph University); and Brian Ross and Robson De Grande, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following is a list of thesis defences taking place virtually from Monday, Feb. 8 to Friday, Feb. 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,188,55,37,41],"tags":[3404,97,4037,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70402"}],"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=70402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70431,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70402\/revisions\/70431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}