Doctoral Oral Exams for Dec. 3-7

The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:

Xiaoduo Qi, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Monday, Dec. 3, 12:30 p.m., Gunness Student Center, Marcus Hall. Dissertation: “The Investigation of Surface Barrier During Molecular Transport in Hierarchical Zeolites.” Wei Fan, chr.

Xinlian Yu, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 10 a.m., 118 Elab II. Dissertation: “Modeling and Optimizing Routing Decisions for Travelers and On-demand Service Providers.” Song Gao, chr.

Maryam Kashefi, Ph.D., Chemistry, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1 p.m., N 410 Life Sciences Laboratories. Dissertation: “Chemoreceptor Dynamics and Signaling: NMR Measurements within Functional Complexes.” Lynmarie Thompson, chr.

Raul Zelada Aprili, Ph.D., Economics, Thursday, Dec. 6, 10:45 a.m., 114 Crotty Hall. Dissertation: “Resource Rents, Public Investment and Economic Development: The Case of Bolivia.” J. Mohan Rao, chr.

Dian Mo, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dec. 6, 12 p.m., 109 Knowles Engineering Building Conference Room. Dissertation: “Sequence Design via Semidefinite Programming Relaxation and Randomized Projection.” Marco Duarte, chr.

Ashish Kumar, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2 p.m., N 610 Life Sciences Laboratories. Dissertation: “Modeling and Simulation of Driven Nanopatterning of Bulk-Material and Thin-Film Surfaces.” Dimitrios Maroudas, chr.

Ramin Soltani, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dec. 6, 2 p.m., 201 Marcus Hall Conference Room. Dissertation: “Fundamental Limits of Convert Communication in Packet Channels.” Dennis Goeckel, chr.

Thanh Vu, Ph.D., Food Science, Friday, Dec. 7, 10 a.m., 243 Chenoweth Lab. Dissertation: “Strategies to Increase Lipid Oxidative Stability of a Low Moisture Cracker System.” Eric Decker, chr.

Somaye Garmroudi Dovirani, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Friday, Dec. 7, 11:30 a.m., 234 Marston Hall. Dissertation: “Applications of Machine Learning Methods in Macroscopic Crash Analysis for Transportation Safety Management.” Michael Knodler, chr.

Michael Petersen, Ph.D., Astronomy, Friday, Dec. 7, 1 p.m., 1033 Lederle Graduate Research Tower. Dissertation: “The Non-linear Dynamics of Barred Galaxy Evolution in LCDM.” Martin Weinberg, chr.

Daniel M. Vahaba, Ph.D., Neuroscience and Behavior, Friday, Dec. 7, 1 p.m., 209 French Hall. Dissertation: “Rapid Estrogen Signaling Regulates Audition and Memory Consolidation in the Auditory Cortex of Developing Male Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata).” Luke Remage-Healey, chr.