{"id":98146,"date":"2024-12-20T09:24:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=98146"},"modified":"2024-12-20T11:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T16:41:26","slug":"thesis-defences-dec-30-to-jan-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/12\/thesis-defences-dec-30-to-jan-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Dec. 30 to Jan. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Dec. 30 and Friday, Jan. 10.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of Science in Computer Sciences thesis defence <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tom Wallace, a Master of Science in Computer Science candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cOptimization Strategies for Enhancing Resource Efficiency in Transformers &amp; Large Language Models\u201d on Thursday, Jan. 2 at 10 a.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Naser Ezzati-Jivan and Betty Ombuki-Berman, Co-Supervisors; Blessing Ogbuokiri, External Examiner (Brock University); and Ali Emami and Yifeng Li, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science in Statistics thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kamran Asgari, a Master of Science in Mathematics and Statistics candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cEvaluation of Bayesian Networks in Soil Moisture Prediction\u201d on Thursday, Jan. 9 at 9:30 a.m. in PLZ 601C.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Georgii Nikonov, Chair; Pouria Ramazi, Supervisor; Kelly Biagi, External Examiner (Brock University); and William Marshall and Xiaojian Xu, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Master of <\/strong><strong>\u200b<\/strong><strong>Arts in Applied Health Sciences\u00a0(Sport Management) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gillian Golosky,\u00a0a Master of\u00a0\u200bArts in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis &#8220;Carving the Line: A Critical Examination of Women Athletes&#8217; Experiences of Maltreatment in Freestyle Skiing\u201d on Monday, Jan. 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. in STH 361.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Olan Scott, Chair; Michael Van Bussell, Supervisor; Larena Hoeber, External Examiner\u00a0(University of Regina); and\u00a0Dawn Trussell and Curtis Fogel, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Dec. 30 and Friday, Jan. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,188,55,41],"tags":[7066,2156,4753,7488,13121,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98146"}],"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=98146"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98267,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98146\/revisions\/98267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}