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

Timothy Sacco, Ph.D., Sociology, Monday, Nov. 15, 2 p.m., via Zoom.  Dissertation: “By the Numbers: How Academic Capitalism Shapes Graduate Student Experiences of Work and Training in Material Sciences.”  Laurel Smith-Doerr, chr.

William Heberling, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wednesday, November 17, 9:30 a.m., via Zoom.  Dissertation: “An X-band Phased-Array Weather Radar Polarimetry Testbed.”  Stephen Frasier, chr.

Trapit Bansal, Ph.D., College of Information and Computer Sciences, Thursday, Nov. 18, 10 a.m., via Zoom.  Dissertation: “Few-Shot Natural Language Processing by Meta-Learning Without Labeled Data.”  Andrew McCallum, chr.

Rong Yin, Ph.D., Linguistics, Thursday, Nov. 18, 3 p.m., via Zoom. Dissertation: “The Linearization of V(P)-doubling Constructions.” Kyle Johnson, chr.

Ahmed S.A. Abouhend, Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Friday, Nov. 19, 9 a.m., 118 Elab II.  Dissertation: “Size Progression of Oxygenic Photogranules (OPGs) and Its Effect on OPG Wastewater Treatment.”  Chul Park, chr.

Xiaozhe Shao, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Friday, Nov. 19, 9 a.m., via Zoom. Dissertation: “Toward Safe and Verifiable Inter-Domain Routing.” Lixin Gao, chr.

Gwendolyn Bracker, Ph.D., Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Friday, Nov. 19, 4:30 p.m., Kellogg Conference Room in Elab II. Dissertation: “Solidification Experiments and Magnetohydrodynamic Models in Electromagnetic Levitation.”   Robert Hyers and Douglas Matson, co-chrs.