Thesis defence

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Wednesday, September 21, 2022 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Bioinformatics • Modelling Allostery Using a Computational Analysis of Side-chain Interactions

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Leonard Zhao, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Forbes Burkowski

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • Connectivity Properties of the Flip Graph After Forbidding Triangulation Edges

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Reza Bigdeli, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Anna Lubiw

The flip graph for a set $P$ of points in the plane has a vertex for every triangulation of $P$, and an edge when two triangulations differ by one flip that replaces one triangulation edge by another.

The flip graph is known to have some connectivity properties:

Friday, September 2, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Quantum Computing • On the Power of Interleaved Low-depth Quantum and Classical Circuits

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given in QNC 1201 and online.

Abhishek Anand, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shalev Ben-David

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics • Editing Fluid Flows with Divergence-Free Biharmonic Vector Field Interpolation

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Tümay Özdemir, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty

Tuesday, August 23, 2022 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Private Two-Party Random Minimum Spanning Forest Computation

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Marian Dietz, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Wednesday, August 17, 2022 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • DProvSQL: Accuracy-aware Privacy Provenance Framework for Differentially Private SQL Engine

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Shufan Zhang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Xi He

Friday, August 12, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Future Sight: Dynamic Story Generation with Large Pretrained Language Models

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Brian Zimmerman, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Vechtomova