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Upcoming Oral Defense Dates
Below is information about the Oral Dissertation Defenses for Rackham Doctoral students. They are listed by date and time for a two week period.
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| Zhigang Tian, Doctor of Philosophy (Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering) Candidate |
| Date | Sun, November 1, 2009 |
| Time | 4:00 pm |
| Place | Room 236, NAME Bldg. |
| Chair(s) | Wooyoung Choi and Marc Perlin |
| Title of Dissertation | A Study of Two-Dimensional Unsteady Breaking Waves in Finite-Depth Water. |
| Brian Lester Altevogt, Doctor of Musical Arts (Music: Conducting) Candidate |
| Date | Mon, November 2, 2009 |
| Time | 8:30am |
| Place | School of Music |
| Chair(s) | Jerry O. Blackstone and Paul Andrew Rardin |
| Title of Dissertation | |
| Guan Huang, Doctor of Philosophy (Applied Physics) Candidate |
| Date | Mon, November 2, 2009 |
| Time | 03:30pm |
| Place | EECS 1005 |
| Chair(s) | Pallab K. Bhattacharya |
| Title of Dissertation | Multicolor Quantum Dot and Quantum Ring Intersublevel Photodetectors for Mid-inrared and Terahertz Detection |
| Xinyuan Zhang, Doctor of Philosophy (Pharmaceutical Sciences) Candidate |
| Date | Tue, November 3, 2009 |
| Time | 01:00PM |
| Place | 1567 CC Little |
| Chair(s) | Gustavo Rosania |
| Title of Dissertation | From Cell to Organism: A Predictive Multiscale Model of Drug Transport |
| Damon Michael Krueger, Doctor of Philosophy (Natural Resources and Environment) Candidate |
| Date | Tue, November 3, 2009 |
| Time | 02:00PM |
| Place | 2024 Dana |
| Chair(s) | James Stephen Diana and Edward S. Rutherford |
| Title of Dissertation | Food web constraints on chinook salmon recruitment in a large Lake Michigan tributary |
| Chun Xu, Doctor of Philosophy (Physics) Candidate |
| Date | Tue, November 3, 2009 |
| Time | 02:15PM |
| Place | Rm 2246 PRL (new Randall) |
| Chair(s) | Jianming Qian |
| Title of Dissertation | Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in Associated Production with W Boson at the Tevatron |
| Kairos Marjorie Marquardt, Doctor of Philosophy (Anthropology) Candidate |
| Date | Fri, November 6, 2009 |
| Time | 10:00AM |
| Place | 211 West Hall |
| Chair(s) | Bruce Mannheim |
| Title of Dissertation | Nightlife Emergency: Controlling Night Spaces and Governing Citizen Security in Highland Peru |
| Jess Aaron Peirson, Doctor of Philosophy (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Candidate |
| Date | Mon, November 9, 2009 |
| Time | 02:00PM |
| Place | Dana 2024 |
| Chair(s) | Christopher William Dick and Anton A. Reznicek |
| Title of Dissertation | Biogeography, Ecology, and Evolution of the Endemic Vascular Flora of the Great Lakes Region: A Case Study of the Solidago simplex Species Complex |
| Cheng Zhou, Doctor of Philosophy (Atmospheric and Space Sciences) Candidate |
| Date | Wed, November 11, 2009 |
| Time | 10:30AM |
| Place | SRB |
| Chair(s) | John P. Boyd |
| Title of Dissertation | Waves and instabilities in shallow-water model |
| John Benjamin Naliboff, Doctor of Philosophy (Geology) Candidate |
| Date | Wed, November 11, 2009 |
| Time | 12:00PM |
| Place | 2548 C.C. Little Building |
| Chair(s) | Carolina R. Lithgow-Bertelloni and Larry John Ruff |
| Title of Dissertation | Dependence of the stress field on plate-mantle coupling and lithospheric structure |
| Daniel James Micka, Doctor of Philosophy (Aerospace Engineering) Candidate |
| Date | Wed, November 11, 2009 |
| Time | 03:00PM |
| Place | 1044 FXB |
| Chair(s) | James F. Driscoll |
| Title of Dissertation | Combustion Stabilization, Structure, and Spreading in a Laboratory Dual-Mode Scramjet Combustor |
| Ji Won Mok, Doctor of Philosophy (Aerospace Engineering) Candidate |
| Date | Thu, November 12, 2009 |
| Time | 08:00AM |
| Place | 1044 FXB |
| Chair(s) | Carlos E. Cesnik |
| Title of Dissertation | Design Optimization for Active Twist Rotor Blades |
| Kendra L. Walker, Doctor of Philosophy (Natural Resources and Environment) Candidate |
| Date | Thu, November 12, 2009 |
| Time | 10:00AM |
| Place | 1046 Dana |
| Chair(s) | Bobbi S. Low |
| Title of Dissertation | Moving away from prescriptive pachyderm palliatives: toward an integrated assessment of farmer-elephant conflict in Gabon |
| Jesse Richard Cheatham, Doctor of Philosophy (Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences) Candidate |
| Date | Thu, November 12, 2009 |
| Time | 12:00PM |
| Place | 2906 Cooley Building |
| Chair(s) | James Paul Holloway and William R. Martin |
| Title of Dissertation | Truncation Analysis and Numerical Method Improvements for the Thermal Radiative Transfer Equations |
