Thesis Submission Notices

The following theses have been submitted to the Faculty of Mathematics Graduate Office and are available for review by contacting the Administrative Team, Graduate Studies by email.

If you wish to attend a virtual defence as an audience member, please email to request an invitation. Please note that the number for virtual attendees may be limited and it may not always be possible to accommodate all requests. Invitations are sent the day before the defence. For defences that are Held-Without-Public-Disclosure, requests must be submitted at least 4 business days in advance to allow adequate time for signing the required NDA form. 

December 2023

December Defences

Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 1:00 PM EDT

Candidate: Joshua Jung
Title: Graph Mapping for Knowledge Transfer in General Game
Playing
Supervisor(s): Jesse Hoey
Department/School: Computer Science

Location: DC 3317

 

Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 9:00 AM EDT

Candidate: Christopher Salahub
Title: Exploration in Pairwise Measures of Dependence and Pooled Significance
Supervisor(s): Wayne Oldford
Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science

Location: M3 3001

 

Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 1:00 PM EST

Candidate: Mahsa Panahi
Title: Statistical Methods in the Search for a Dominant Cause of Variation
Supervisor(s): Stefan H. Steiner, Jeroen de Mast
Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science

Location: M3 3001

 

Date: Friday, December 1, 2023 at 10:00 AM EST

Candidate: Donovan Allum
Title: Simulations of Radiatively Driven Convection and Spatially Heterogeneous Solar Radiation Intensity in Ice-Covered Lakes
Supervisor(s): Marek Stastna
Department/School: Applied Mathematics

Location: MC 5479

 

Date: Friday, December 1, 2023 at 2:30 PM EDT

Candidate: Maxwell Fitzsimmons
Title: Properties of Difference Inclusions with Computable Reachable Set
Supervisor(s): Jun Liu
Department/School: Applied Mathematics

Location: MC 6460

 

November 2023

November Defences

Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 12:00 PM EST

Candidate: Johra Moosa
Title: Improving Peptide Identification in Proteomics Data Analysis through Repeat-Preserving Decoy and Decoy-Free Retraining
Supervisor(s): Bin Ma
Department/School: Computer Science

Location: DC 2314

 

Date: Wednesday November 29, 2023 at 10:00 AM EST

Candidate: Lijia Wang
Title: Joint Modeling, Variable Selection, and Multiply Robust Estimation in Mediation Analysis with Multiple Mediators
Supervisor(s): Yeying Zhu, Richard Cook
Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science

Location: M3 3127

 

Date: Monday November 27, 2023 at 3:00 PM EST

Candidate: Esha Saha
Title: Expanding the Scope of Random Feature Models: Theory and Applications
Supervisor(s): Giang Tran
Department/School: Applied Mathematics

Location: M3 4206

 

Date: Friday November 10, 2023 at 9:00 AM EST

Candidate: Glaucia Melo dos Santos
Title: Adaptive Human-Chatbot Interactions: Contextual Factors, Variability Design and Levels of Automation
Supervisor(s): Paulo Alencar, Daniel M. Berry, Donald D. Cowan
Department/School: Computer Science

Location: DC 2310