Master of Science thesis defence
Emilia Rutkowski, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend her thesis titled “Weighted Graph Compression using Genetic Algorithms” on Wednesday, Dec 8, 2021 at 9 a.m., in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Sheridan Houghten, Supervisor; Ke Qiu, External Examiner; and Brian J. Ross and Joseph A. Brown, Committee Members.
Doctor of Philosophy thesis defence
Biljana Indovski, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Physics, will defend her thesis titled “Structural, Magnetic, Dielectric, and Optical Properties of DyCrO3 and GeNi2O4 Materials” on Friday, Dec 3, 2021 at 2 pm, in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Brian D. Roy, Chair; Fereidoon S. Razavi and Maureen Reedyk, Co-Supervisors; John Wei, External Examiner (University of Toronto); Melanie Pilkington, Internal External Examiner; Thad Harroun, Supervisory Committee Member.
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Master of Science thesis defence
Pawel Jocko, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Multi-Guide Particle Swarm Optimisation for Dynamic Multi-objective Optimisation Problems” on Monday, Nov 8, 2021 at 1 p.m. in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Beatrice Ombuki-Berman, Supervisor; Kyle Harrison, External Examiner (UNSW Canberra, Australia); and Brian J. Ross and Ali Emami, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Robert Martin, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend his thesis titled “The development of a new genetic test for grapevine cultivars using a computational genomics approach” on Friday, Nov. 12 at 10 a.m. in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Ping Liang, Supervisor; Matthew Clark, External Examiner (University of Minnesota); and Debbie Inglis and Jim Willwerth, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Tyler Cowan, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Strategies for Evolving Diverse and Effective Behaviours in Pursuit Domains” on Tuesday, Nov 9, 2021 at 1 p.m. in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Brian J. Ross, Supervisor; Joseph Alexander Brown, External Examiner (Innopolis University); and Beatrice Ombuki-Berman and Michael Winter, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Jordan Antonio Mervyn Maslen, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Mixed Media in Evolutionary Art” on Tuesday, Nov 2, 2021 at 2 p.m. in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Brian J. Ross, Supervisor; Stephen Brooks, External Examiner (Dalhousie University); and Beatrice Ombuki-Berman and Ali Emami, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Jessie L. de Haan, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend her thesis titled “The ecological and physiological consequences of sun vs. shade nesting for the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata, and their offspring” on Thursday, Oct 14, 2021 at 10:30 a.m., in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Maureen Reedyk, Chair; Miriam Richards, Supervisor; Brent J. Sinclair, External Examiner (Western University); and Gaynor Spencer and Glenn Tattersall, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Maysara Al Jumaily, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Optimal Quaternary Hermitian Linear Complementary Dual Codes for Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Error
Correction ” on Thursday, Oct 14, 2021 at 9 a.m., in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Sheridan Houghten, Supervisor; Daniel Ashlock, External Examiner (University of Guelph); and Michael Winter and Ke Qiu, Committee Members.
Master of Science thesis defence
Michael Cosco, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Physics, will defend his thesis titled “Optical Study of (Nb0.5 In0.5)0:02 Ti0.98 O2 Crystals” on Friday, Oct 8, 2021 at 1 p.m. in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; David Crandles, Supervisor; Christopher Homes, External Examiner (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY); and Maureen Reedyk and Edward Sternin, Committee Members.
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Master of Science thesis defence
Farzaneh HajSoltan, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Earth Sciences, will defend her thesis titled “Paleoceanography across the Pliocene–Pleistocene transition in the southern Bering Sea: dinoflagellate cysts and acritarchs from IODP Site U1341” on Thursday, Oct 7, 2021 at 1 p.m. in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Martin J. Head, Supervisor; Elisabeth Levac, External Examiner (Bishop’s University); and Richard Cheer and Kevin Turner, Committee Members.
