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Baobao Song, doctoral student in the College of Medicine, will present her dissertation, "Multi-disciplinary approaches to investigate hematopoiesis," on Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 2:00 PM in room R3381 Cincinnati Children''s Hospital Medical Center. The committee will be co-chaired by Professors of UC Department of Pediatrics H. Leighton Grimes and Nathan Salomonis. The presentation is open to the public.


Katherine Inskeep, doctoral student in the College of Medicine, will present her dissertation, " Combining Mouse and Human Cell Models: A Love Story For Brain Development," on Friday, October 6, 2023 at 1:00 PM in room S1.203 CCHMC. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Pediatrics Rolf Stottmann. The presentation is open to the public.


Abigail Seguin, doctoral student in the College-Conservatory of Music, will present her dissertation, "Genre Experience Maps and Their Role in the Analysis of Post-2000s Popular Music," on Monday, October 9, 2023 at 10:00 AM in room 3225 Mary Emery Hall. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Music Theory Christopher Segall. The presentation is open to the public.


Zhiyuan Li, doctoral student in the College of Engineering & Applied Science, will present his dissertation, "Learning Effective Features With Self-Supervision," on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 9:00 AM in room https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/j/93193588497 Zoom. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Computer Science Anca Ralescu. The presentation is open to the public.


Matthew Willis, doctoral student in the College of Arts and Sciences, will present his dissertation, "Why Pragmatism Cannot Save Us: An Expansion of the Epistemic Regress Problem," on Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 12:00 PM in room 5105 Clifton Court Hall. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Philosophy Thomas Polger. The presentation is open to the public.


Hasan Al Reza, doctoral student in the College of Medicine, will present his dissertation, "Metabolic Augmentation of Self-Organizing Human Liver Organoids for Development, Disease, and Therapeutics," on Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 1:00 PM in room R3.381 Cincinnati Children''''s Hospital Medical Center Research Auditorium. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Pediatrics Takanori Takebe. The presentation is open to the public.


Laura Atehortua Castro, doctoral student in the College of Medicine, will present her dissertation, " Mechanisms of HDL modulation of regulatory T cells homeostasis," on Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 3:00 PM in room S1.203 Cincinnati Children''s Hospital Medical Center. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Immunobiology Claire Chougnet. The presentation is open to the public.


Teng Long, doctoral student in the College of Engineering & Applied Science, will present his dissertation, " Mechanical Behavior of Porcine Meniscus: Hyperelastictity, Viscohyperelasticity, and Damage," on Friday, October 13, 2023 at 1:00 PM in room https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3amee Teams. The committee will be co-chaired by Professor of Mechanical Engineering Kumar Vemaganti and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Chia-Ying Lin. The presentation is open to the public.


S. M. Masud Rana, doctoral student in the College of Engineering & Applied Science, will present his dissertation, "Considerations in Parameter Estimation, and Optimal Operations in Urban Water Infrastructure," on Monday, October 16, 2023 at 2:30 PM in room Online https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/j/99408705101?pwd=UWc4d0lEZkFpcEdrVER3ZFU3MnFudz09. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Environmental Engineering Patrick Ray. The presentation is open to the public.


Nicholas Shaver, doctoral student in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, will present his dissertation, " Documenting the Multiplicative Reasoning of Students in an Open Enrollment Community College Developmental Math Class," on Monday, October 16, 2023 at 3:30 PM in room 501 Teachers-Dyer Complex (TDC). The committee will be chaired by Professor of Math Education Anna Dejarnette. The presentation is open to the public.


Smruti Deoghare, doctoral student in the College of Medicine, will present her dissertation, "Deep learning based computer aided decision (CAD) systems for multimodal biomedical imaging," on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 11:30 AM in room T10.338 CCHMC. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Biomedical Informatics Surya Prasath. The presentation is open to the public.


Tiffany Duong, doctoral student in the College of Medicine, will present her dissertation, "Identification of retinoic acid-dependent gene regulatory networks patterning the vertebrate cardiac progenitor fields," on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 2:00 PM in room 4051 MSB. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Pediatrics Joshua Waxman. The presentation is open to the public.


Sayantan Dey, doctoral student in the College of Engineering & Applied Science, will present his dissertation, "High-performance, Parameter-free Data Stream Mining on High-Dimensional and Distributed Data," on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 1:30 PM in room 427 MANTEI Center. The committee will be chaired by Professor of EECS Philip Wilsey. The presentation is open to the public.


Oyindamola Omotuyi, doctoral student in the College of Engineering & Applied Science, will present her dissertation, "Learning Scalable Decentralized Controllers for Heterogeneous Robot Swarms with Graph Neural Networks," on Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 2:30 AM in room 513 Rhodes Hall. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Mechanical Engineering Manish Kumar. The presentation is open to the public.


Alison Farringer, doctoral student in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, will present her dissertation, "Supporting Effectiveness, Fidelity, and Transparency in Corrections: Evaluating the Early Implementation of a State Supreme Court Policy Initiative for Specialty Court Performance Measurement," on Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 11:30 AM in room https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/j/96145504948 via Zoom. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Criminal Justice Sarah Manchak. The presentation is open to the public.


Michael Zidar, doctoral student in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, will present his dissertation, "Policing in the AI Era: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Police Adoption of Information Technology," on Friday, October 20, 2023 at 10:00 AM in room 251 Teachers Dyer Complex. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Information Technology Hazem Said. The presentation is open to the public.


Lorelle Lentz, doctoral student in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, will present her dissertation, "Parent Management of Child Media Use, Ages 2-5 Years, During 2020-22 of the COVID-19 Pandemic," on Friday, October 20, 2023 at 10:30 AM in room https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/j/99317550517 Zoom. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Communication Studies Nancy Jennings. The presentation is open to the public.


Vysakh Venugopal, doctoral student in the College of Engineering & Applied Science, will present his dissertation, " Design Optimization and Machine Learning Methods for Additive Manufacturing," on Friday, October 20, 2023 at 11:15 AM in room 551 Baldwin Hall. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Mechanical Engineering Sam Anand. The presentation is open to the public.


Jingchu Huang, doctoral student in the College of Engineering & Applied Science, will present his dissertation, " Bacteria detection based on organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs)," on Monday, October 23, 2023 at 12:30 PM in room 641 Baldwin. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Electrical Engineering Andrew Steckl. The presentation is open to the public.


Likun Sun, doctoral student in the College of Engineering & Applied Science, will present his dissertation, "Quantitative Sensitization Modeling to Predict and Reduce Intergranular Corrosion in Cold-Rolled Al-Mg Alloys," on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 12:00 PM in room 501 Rhodes Hall. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Materials Science & Engineering Matthew Steiner. The presentation is open to the public.


MacKenzie Freeman, doctoral student in the College of Medicine, will present her dissertation, "Analysis of human cytomegalovirus GPCR function in epithelial cells," on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 3:00 PM in room 7051 Medical Sciences Building (MSB). The committee will be chaired by Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences William Miller. The presentation is open to the public.


Mingu Son, doctoral student in the College-Conservatory of Music, will present her dissertation, " Analysis of Embouchure and Aperture in Flute Pedagogies, Muscle Studies, and Empirical Studies," on Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 11:00 AM in room 314 CCM. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Saxophone James Bunte. The presentation is open to the public.


Bedraj Pandey, doctoral student in the College of Arts and Sciences, will present his dissertation, " All-Phosphorous Pincer-Ligated Iron and Cobalt Complexes as (De)Hydrogenation Catalysts," on Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 12:30 PM in room 502 Reversal. The committee will be chaired by Professor of Chemistry Hairong Guan. The presentation is open to the public.


Sarah Bullwinkel, doctoral student in the College of Arts and Sciences, will present her dissertation, "Haunting the Female Body: The Female Body as the Site of Socio-Cultural Inscription and its Hauntological Afterlife," on Friday, October 27, 2023 at 11:00 AM in room https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/j/5310103547 via Zoom. The committee will be chaired by Professor of English Tamar Heller. The presentation is open to the public.