PhD oral defences
Luke Bown
Department of Biology
10:00 am (NL time)
Thursday September 6th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Coronafacoyl phytotoxin biosynthesis in Streptomyces scabies and identification of common scab-associated Streptomyces species in Newfoundland
Tasahil Albishi
Department of Biochemistry
1:00 pm (NL time)
Monday August 27th 2018
A-5014 (Arts & Administration Building)
Bioactivities of Wood Polyphenols: Antioxidant and Biological Effects
Yunhui He
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
10:00 am (NL time)
Monday August 27th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Local Fourier Analysis for Saddle-Point Problems
Camilla Parzanini
Department of Ocean Sciences
2:00 pm (NL time)
Friday August 24th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
An Integrated Approach to Studying the Trophic Ecology of a Deep-sea Faunal Assemblage from the Northwest Atlantic
Claire Poirier
Department of Anthropology
1:00 pm (NL time)
Thursday August 23rd 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Hunting Buffalo Under the Ground: Encounters in Heritage Management
Hau Nguyen
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
10:00 am (NL time)
Wednesday August 22nd 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Rings Whose Cyclics Satisfy a Certain Property
Shahrazad Malek
Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography
10:00 am (NL time)
Tuesday August 21st 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Thermodynamic and Structural Anomalies of Water Nanodroplets from Computer Simulations
Semra Yalcin
Department of Biology
1:00 pm (NL time)
Tuesday August 14th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Biodiversity Responses to Global Changes
Rakan Altarawneh
Department of Chemistry
1:00 pm (NL time)
Wednesday August 8th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Product distributions and efficiencies for ethanol oxidation in proton exchange membrane electrolysis cells
Nadeem Saqlain
Faculty of Education
1:00 pm (NL time)
Tuesday August 7th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Provision of a comprehensive curriculum to rural high school students through technology: A case study of a provincial virtual school in Canada
Christopher Martin
Department of Sociology
1:00 pm (NL time)
Friday August 3rd 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Tattooes Lives: The Indelible Experience of Meaning and Identity in Body Art
Benjamin Fowler
Department of Computer Science
1:00 pm (NL time)
Thursday August 2nd 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Modelling Evolvability in Genetic Programming
Zili Yi
Department of Computer Science
1:00 pm (NL time)
Tuesday July 31st 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
From Rule-based to Learning-based Image-Conditional Image Generation
Fuqiang Fan
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
1:00 pm (NL time)
Thursday July 26th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Sulfate Reducing Bacteria, Nitrate Reducing Bacteria and their Interactions in a Souring Offshore Oil Reservoir System
Julian Torres
Department of Psychology
1:00 pm (NL time)
Wednesday July 25th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Working Alliance in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa: Baseline Predictors, Motivation to Change, and Relationship to Treatment Outcome
Neus Campanya I Llovet
Department of Biology
1:00 pm (NL time)
Thursday July 19th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Biodiversity and Food Web Patterns in the Deep Sea: Why Food Quality Matters
Sarah Ayoub
Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography
1:00 pm (NL time)
Thursday July 5th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Understanding Intermolecular Interactions in Organic Heterojunction Devices with the Use of Density Functional Theory
Samantha Breslin
Department of Anthropology
10:00 am (NL time)
Friday July 6th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
The Making of Computer Scientists: Rendering Technical Knowledge, Gender, and Entrepreneuralism in Singapore
Debashis Dutta
School of Social Work
1:00 pm (NL time)
Wednesday June 13th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
"It's the Same Rain": Using the Interpretative Phenomenological Approach to Explore Parenting Experiences of Bengali Speaking Immigrants to Canada
Siva Prasad
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
1:00 pm (NL time)
Tuesday June 5th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Retrieval of Sea Ice Parameters using Fusion of High Resolution Model and Remote Sensing Data
JuDong Yeo
Department of Biochemistry
1:00 pm (NL time)
Monday June 4th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Antioxidant Capacity and Phenolic Profiles of Lentils as Affected by Processing
Swomitra Palit
Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography
1:00 pm (NL time)
Tuesday May 29th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Macromolecular Dynamics and Structure in Crowded and Confined Environments
Geoffrey Warden
Faculty of Medicine
10:00 am (NL time)
Friday June 1st 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
The Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Geographic Analysis of an Incident Cohort and of Hereditary Non-Polyposis with the Population
Nasser Heydari
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
1:00 pm (NL time)
Friday May 18th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Cohomology of Quotients in Real Symplectic Geometry
Jinjun Tong
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
1:00 pm (NL time)
Thursday May 10th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Time series and state space model with generalized extreme value distributed marginals and α-stable distributed errors
Mohamed Masrob
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
11:00 am (NL time)
Tuesday May 8th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
A Smart Power System Stabilizer for Dynamic Reduction of a Power System Model
Meghann Jack
Department of Folklore
1:00 pm (NL time)
Friday May 4th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Nineteenth-Century Barns in St. Mary's, Nova Scotia
Daniel Begin
Department of Geography
12:30 pm (NL time)
Thursday May 3rd 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Life and Death of Volunteeres Geographic Information Contributors in a Large Online Community - The Case of Openstreetmap
Xiangpeng Gao
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
10:30 am (NL time)
Tuesday May 1st 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Development of Novel Polysaccharide Based Adsorbents for Precious Metal Recovery
Shenghan Li
Faculty of Medicine
1:00 pm (NL time)
Friday April 27th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Regulation of Nucleocytoplacmis Shuttling of the Transcriptional Regulator Human Mesoderm Induction Early Response 1 α in Breast Carcimona Cells
Cheryll Fitzpatrick
Department of Psychology
10:00 am (NL time)
Thursday April 26th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
When a half and a half are not a whole: Putting word problems into context
Kevin Murrant
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
10:00 am (NL time)
Tuesday April 24th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Aircraft Manoeuvring for Sensor Aiming
Shamus MacDonald
Department of Folklore
10:00 am (NL time)
Monday April 23rd 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
"Dh 'fheumadh iad àit' a dheanamh: They would have to make a Place": Land and Belonging in Gaelic Nova Scotia
Joshua Turner
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
1:00 pm (NL time)
Friday April 20th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Constitutive Behaviour of Ice Under Compressive States of Stress and its Application to Ice-Structure Interactions
David Dalton
Department of Earth Sciences
1:00 pm (NL time)
Thursday April 19th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
On Backus Average in Modelling Guided Waves
Bo Liu
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
1:00 pm (NL time)
Tuesday April 17th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Enhanced Photocatalytic Oxidation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Offshore Produced Water
Belal Al-Khamaiseh
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
1:00 pm (NL time)
Friday April 13th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Analytical Solutions of 3D Heat Conduction in Flux Channels with Nonuniform Properties and Complex Structures
Isam Al-Darabsah
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
10:00 am (NL time)
Thursday April 12th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Time Delayed Models in Population Biology and Epidemiology
Chen Zhang
Department of Computer Science
1:00 pm (NL time)
Tuesday April 10th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Opportunistic Routing and Network Coding in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks
Mark Kavanagh
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
10:00 am. (NL time)
Monday April 9th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Time-dependent Aspects of Fracture in Ice
Fan Jiang
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
10:30 am. (NL time)
Friday April 6th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Efficient Low-complexity Data Detection for Multiple-input Multiple-output Wireless Communication Systems
Bishakha Mazumdar
Faculty of Business Administration
1:00 p.m. (NL time)
Thursday April 5th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Outcomes of Bridge Employment: A Mixed Methods Examination of Retirees' Expectations and Experiences
Bui Petersen
Faculty of Business Administration
10:00 a.m. (NL time)
Wednesday April 4th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Structure and Agency in Bargaining: Practice, Routines, Truce, and Individual Differences
Alyssa Gruchy
Department of Psychology
1:00 p.m. (NL time)
Monday April 2nd 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Body Image in Men: The impact of drive for muscularity and drive for thinness on deperession, social physique anxiety, self-esteem, and behavioural factors in male health and fitness trainees
Kristina Lord
Interdisciplinary Program
1:00 p.m. (NL time)
Tuesday April 3rd 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Critical Engineering Pedagogy: Curricular peer mentoring as a case study for change in the Canadian neoliberal university
Tanaya Chatterjee
Department of Psychology
1:00 p.m. (NL time)
Thursday March 29th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Predictors of Depression in Older Adults with Multiple Sclerosis
Kari Sawden
Department of Folklore
2:00 p.m. (NL time)
Tuesday March 27th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Maps of Our Own Making: Practicing Divination in 21st Century Canada
Cristina Fabretto
Interdisciplinary Program
1:00 p.m. (NL time)
Wednesday March 28th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Strengthening the Intercultural Communicative Competence of International Undergraduate Engineering Students for Co-op Work Term Placement
Xiang Fang
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
10:30 a.m. (NL time)
Monday February 26th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Risk-based Supervisory Guidance for Detect and Avoid Involving Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Hesam Hassan Nejad
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
2:30 p.m. (NL time)
Friday March 16th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Experimental Investigation of Surfactant-enhanced Washing and Supercritical CO2 Extraction Processes for Waste Drilling Mud Remediation
Brian MacIsaac
Interdisciplinary Program
1:30 p.m. (NL time)
Thursday March 1st 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Toward the Integration of Education and School-based Behavioural Supports: The B.E.S.T. Program in Northern Nova Scotia
Mohamed Elsersy
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
11:00 a.m. (NL time)
Monday February 19th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Joint Optimization for Wireless Sensor Networks in Critical Infastructures
Jean-Luc Pilote
Department of Earth Sciences
1:00 p.m. (NL time)
Friday February 9th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Geology, Structure, Petrogenesis, and Hydrothermal Alteration Reconstruction of the Ming Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposit, Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada
Amarender Manchoju
Department of Chemistry
1:00 p.m. (NL time)
Thursday February 1st 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Stereoselective Synthesis of Functionalized Quaternary Stereocentres, Naturally Occuring Tetronic Acids, and (-)-(R,R)-L-Factor
Erin Araujo
Department of Geography
12:30 p.m. (NL time)
Tuesday January 30th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Community Inter-changes: Creating an Inclusive Moneyless Economy in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
Anderson Dorbeck
Department of Psychology
2:00 p.m. (NL time)
Wednesday February 14th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
An Investigation of the Impact of a Workshop Teaching Advanced Skills for Working with Eating Disorders, Using Theories of Behaviour Change
Suhad Sbeih
Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography
10:00 a.m. (NL time)
Tuesday January 23rd 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Deuterium Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Rheology of Microgel Colloids at Ambient and High Pressure
Brendan Harvey
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
1:00 p.m. (NL time)
Thursday February 8th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Signal Processing Methods for the Detection & Localization of Acoustic Sources via Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Ali Elkurtehi
Department of Chemistry
10:00 a.m. (NL time)
Thursday January 18th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal Amino-phenolate Complexes and their Reactivity Towards the Oxidation of Lignin Model Compounds and Cyclic Carbonate Formation
Armin Bodaghkhani
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
1:00 p.m. (NL time)
Thursday February 8th 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Simulation of Wave Cloud Spray
Xinlong Liu
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
1:00 p.m. (NL time)
Monday January 22nd, 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Ocean Wind and Wave Parameters Measurements using Ship-borne X-band Marine Radar
Ladan Khaksar
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
10:00 a.m. (NL time)
Wednesday January 31st, 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Electrochemical study and corrosion modeling of chromium alloys steel exposed to sulfide containing environment
Sunday Adedigba
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
10:00 a.m. (NL time)
Tuesday January 30th, 2018
Room A 5014 - Arts & Administration Building
Dynamic Risk Assessment of Process Operations
Ahman Al Shra'ah
Department of Chemistry
1:00 p.m. (NL time)
Thursday January 25th, 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Targeted degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a potential strategy for coal tar remediation
Mashrura Musharraf
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Sciences
10:00 a.m. (NL time)
Thursday March 22nd, 2018
Room IIC 2014 (Beatrice Watts Boardroom), Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Modeling and Simulation of Offshore Workers' Behavior