Winter Quarter 2011-2012

Xiang Mao - March 21st, 2012 at 10:00am in the Bossone, Room 709

• Thesis Title: Improving Wound Healing Status Evaluation With Image Analysis and Raman Spectroscopy
• Advisor: Dr. Ahmet Sacan
• Major Area: Biomedical Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Ahmet Sacan, Dr. Andres Kriete, Dr. Kambiz Pourrezaei, Dr. Som Dev Tyagi and Dr. Hualou Liang

Christopher Castillo - March 19th, 2012 at 1:30pm in the Disque Hall, Room 109

• Thesis Title: β-Functionalization of α,γ-Dinitro Compounds:  Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies
• Advisor: Dr. Anthony Addison
• Major Area: Chemistry
• Examining Committee: Dr. Anthony Addison, Dr. Teck-Kah Lim, Dr. Jun Xi, Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, Dr. Kevin Shupord and Dr. Gary Mocander (UPENN)

Anbu Elancheziyan - March 14th, 2012 at 1:00pm in the Curtis Building, CAEE 275

• Thesis Title: The Doppel System for Controlled Testing of Sensor Network Apps
• Advisor: Dr. Timothy Kurzweg
• Major Area: Civil Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Timothy Kurzweg, Dr. Jaudelice C. De Oliveira, Dr. Nagarajan Kandasamy, Dr. William Regli and Dr. Hande Benson

Ouyang Wenjing - March 6th, 2012 at 10:00am in the Pearlstein Building, Room 404

• Thesis Title: Essays in Mergers and Acquisitions
• Advisor: Dr. Samuel Szewczyk
• Major Area: Finance
• Examining Committee: Dr. Samuel Szewczyk, Dr. Michael Gombola, Dr. Thomas Chiang, Dr. Jie Cai, Dr. David Becher and Dr. Konstantinos Serfes

Oluwabunmi Oladeji - March 5th, 2012 at 11:00am in the Bellet Building, Room 824

• Thesis Title: Running Initiation in Children With Cerebral Palsy
• Advisor: Dr. Margo N. Orlin
• Major Area: Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
• Examining Committee: Dr. Margo Orlin, Dr. Robert Palisano, Dr. Marco Cannella, Dr. Edward Gracely and Dr. Sarah McCoy

Caroline Shapcott - March 5th, 2012 at 12:30pm in the Korman Building, Room 245

• Thesis Title: Part-Products of Random Integer Compositions
• Advisor: Dr. Eric Schmutz
• Major Area: Mathematics
• Examining Committee: Dr. Eric Schmutz, Dr. Pawel Hitczenko, Dr. Shari Moskow, Dr. Georgi Medvedev and Dr. Richard Perline

Manuel Rios - February 29th, 2012 at 1:00 pm in the Curtis Building, Room 3162

• Thesis Title:Ice Crystal Ingestion By Turbofans
• Advisor: Dr. Young I. Cho
• Major Area: Mechanical Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Young I. Cho, Dr. Alexander Fridman, Dr. Nicholas Cernansky, Dr. Ying Su and Dr. Andrey Starikovsky (Princeton)

Nathaniel Dubbs - February 3rd, 2012 at TBA pm in the Curtis Building, AEL 275

• Thesis Title: Development and Validation of a Multiple Model Structural Identifcation Method
• Advisor: Dr. Franklin Moon
• Major Area: Civil Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Franklin Moon, Dr. Emin Aktan, Dr. Patrick Gurian, Dr. Tein-Min Tan, Dr. Ivan Bartols and Dr. Anu Pradhan

Timothy Jones - January 11th, 2012 at 3:00pm in the Disque Building, Room 919

• Thesis Title: New Dynamic Insights on the Global Behaviour of Chaotic Attractors
• Advisor: Dr. Robert Gilmore
• Major Area: Physics
• Examining Committee: Dr. Robert Gilmore, Dr. Michel Vallieres, Dr. David Goldberg, Dr. Greg Naber and Dr. Elia Eschenazi

Viralsinh Chhasatia - January 13th, 2012 at 10:00am in the Curtis Building, Curtis 162

• Thesis Title: Solvent Evaporation and Particle Deposition of Colloidal Drops in Inkjet Printing Process
• Advisor: Dr. Ying Sun
• Major Area: Mechanical Engineering
• Examining Committee: Dr. Ying Sun, Dr. Nicholas Cernansky, Dr. Bakhtier Farouk, Dr. Hongseok Noh and Dr. Adam Fontecchio