Seminars

To receive credit for attending a seminar, please complete and submit the seminar tracking form each time you attend a seminar.

Degree Requirements

  • MASc students are required to attend 10 seminars for degree completion
  • PhD students are required to attend 20 seminars for degree completion

PhD Defenses

Gabe Earle

Supervisors: Sriram Narasimhan and Carl Haas
Date: Monday, September 30, 2024 
Time: 9:00 AM 
Location: Remote
Title: Rethinking Infrastructure Deconstruction Through Reality Data Capture and Interactive Simulations

Abhisek Paul

Supervisor: Dipanjan Basu
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 
Time: 12:00 PM 
Location: Remote
Title: Semi-analytical framework for thermo-mechanical analysis of energy piles in elastic and elastoplastic soils  

Bruna Campos

Supervisor: Robert Gracie
Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2024 
Time: 10:00 AM 
Location: Remote
Title: Finite Element Models for Multiscale Theory of Porous Media  

Saeed Hatefi Ardakani

Supervisor: Robert Gracie
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 
Time: 9:00 AM 
Location: Remote
Title: Reduced Order Geomechanics Models

Danyka Byrnes

Supervisor: Nandita Basu
Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2024 
Time: 12:00 PM 
Location: E2-2350
Title: Land-to-Sea Linkages: Nutrients Legacies and Water Quality Across Anthropogenic Landscapes

Aditi Sharma

Supervisors: Hassan Baaj and Pejoohan Tavassoti-Kheiry
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 
Time: 9:30 AM 
Location: E2-2350
Title: Chemo-rheological Characterization of Asphalt Binders using Different Aging Processes

PhD Comprehensive Examinations

Katherine Liu

Supervisor: Marianna Polak
Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2024 
Time: 12:00 PM 
Location: E2-2350
Title: Hybrid GFRP-Steel Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Connections for Seismic Design

Wilson Carofilis

Supervisors: Eugene Kim and Chul Min Yeum
Date: Thursday, October 31, 2024 
Time: 1:00 PM 
Location: E2-2350
Title: Long-term Durability Assessment of Iron-based Shape Memory Alloys for Active Structural Strengthening Applications

MASc Defenses

None scheduled at this time.