Defense Announcements

04/19/2024 | Amirhossein Abbasszadehrad, PHD, Aerospace Engineering

2:00PM, HRBB

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Novel Laser Diagnostic Techniques Employing Atomic Vapors & Collection Geometry

Engineering
Aerospace Engineering

Chair: Richard Miles

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04/19/2024 | Shreedhar Bhat, PHD, Mathematics

3:00PM, BLOC 628

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
p-Bergman theory

Arts and Sciences
Mathematics

Chair: Harold Boas

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04/23/2024 | Gabrielle Elaine Scott, PHD, Food Science and Technology

2:30PM, Centeq 130

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
PROTEIN-STARCH INTERACTIONS IN SORGHUM ENDOSPERM WITH MUTANT PROTEIN BODY TRAIT

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Food Science & Technology

Chair: Joseph Awika

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04/25/2024 | Chia-Yu Chang, PHD, Mathematics

1:15PM, Blocker

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Border Subrank of Tensors

Arts and Sciences
Mathematics

Chair: Joseph Landsberg

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04/27/2024 | Aziz Almathami, PHD, Nuclear Engineering

10:00AM, USB Building

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Particle Image Velocimetry Based Flow Characterization In Randomly Packed Pebble Bed Core Geometry

Engineering
Nuclear Engineering

Chair: Yassin Hassan

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04/29/2024 | Lorena Mejia Domenzain, PHD, Industrial Engineering

2:00PM, Emerging Technologies Building 4002

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Integer-preserving Gram-Schmidt QR Factorization

Engineering
Industrial & Systems Eng

Chair: Erick Moreno Centeno

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05/1/2024 | Silabrata Pahari, PHD, Chemical Engineering

10:00AM, Jack E. Brown Chemical Engineering Building

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Advanced Material Design: Multiscale Modeling and Control of Nanostructure-Property Relationships in Self-Assembling Amphiphiles

Engineering
Chemical Engineering

Chair: Joseph Kwon

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05/2/2024 | Sankhadeep Sarkar, PHD, Chemical Engineering

11:00AM, Chemical Engineering Department, EB Room 256

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Reliability Analysis of Lithium-Ion Battery Using Electrochemical Modeling

Engineering
Chemical Engineering

Chair: Faisal Khan
Co-Chair: Mahmoud El-Halwagi

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05/2/2024 | Dylan Russell Schlichting, PHD, Oceanography

11:00AM, Eller O&M 602

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Numerical and physical mixing in simulations of submesoscale baroclinic instabilities over sloping bathymetry

Arts and Sciences
Oceanography

Chair: Henry Potter
Co-Chair: Robert Hetland

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05/3/2024 | Ben J. Gorr, PHD, Aerospace Engineering

9:00AM, HRBB Room TBD

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
SCIENCE-DRIVEN CONSTELLATION DESIGN AND OPERATIONS FOR EARTH OBSERVATION

Engineering
Aerospace Engineering

Chair: Daniel Selva Valero

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05/3/2024 | Aryabhat Darnal, PHD, Mechanical Engineering

2:00PM, Room 224 Mechanical Engineering Office Building, TAMU

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF CHIRAL HIERARCHICAL METAMATERIAL KERF STRUCTURES

Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Chair: Hanifah Muliana

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05/3/2024 | Ankith Sharma, PHD, Medical Sciences

2:00PM, REYN - 162

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Probing Bacterial Tat Receptor Complex Oligomerization & FUS Condensate Substructure via Single molecule microscopy

School of Medicine
School of Medicine

Chair: Siegfried Musser

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05/6/2024 | Adrian Tinoco Najera, PHD, Biomedical Sciences

10:00AM, VMTH 101

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
DISCOVERY OF NOVEL NON-INVASIVE BIOMARKERS IN DOGS WITH CHRONIC HEPATOPATHIES

School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vet Small Animal Clinical Sc

Chair: Jonathan Lidbury
Co-Chair: Jan Suchodolski

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05/6/2024 | Nathan Curtis Gober, PHD, Computer Engineering

1:00PM, WEB 333C

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Simulation Techniques for Modeling and Evaluating Processor Cores and Memory Systems

Engineering
Electrical & Computer Eng

Chair: Paul Gratz
Co-Chair: Daniel Jimenez

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05/6/2024 | Tye S Thompson, PHD, Chemistry

2:00PM, ILSB Room 1143 or Zoom

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
A BODIPY for CLIPS and Effects on Trk Modulation

Arts and Sciences
Chemistry

Chair: Kevin Burgess

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05/7/2024 | Noah Benjamin Lemke, PHD, Entomology

10:00AM, HPCT 413

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Age structure and spatiotemporal dynamics mediate reproductive success in the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Entomology

Chair: Jeffery Tomberlin

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05/8/2024 | Sherrie Loise Ray, MS, Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications

10:00AM, AGSV 217

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
TEACHERS’ LIVED EXPERIENCES: IDENTIFYING SCHOOL BASED AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA IN GHANA

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Ag Leadership, Educ & Comm

Chair: John Elliot

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05/8/2024 | Emily Jane Summers, PHD, Oceanography

1:00PM, Main 218

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Modelling transport and pathways of microplastics in estuarine and coastal waters

Arts and Sciences
Oceanography

Chair: Kyeong Park
Co-Chair: Jiabi Du

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05/9/2024 | Marcus Brian Wharton, MS, Oceanography

1:00PM, OCSB

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
CONCENTRATIONS AND COMPOSITIONS OF MICROPLASTICS IN GULF OF MEXICO WATERSHEDS

Arts and Sciences
Oceanography

Chair: Karl Kaiser

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05/13/2024 | Phoebe Anne Scharle, MS, Oceanography

11:30AM, Eller O&M room 602

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
MARINE ORGANIC AEROSOLS: EVALUATION OF ICE NUCELATION, AEROSOL PHASE STATE, AND COMPOSITION

Arts and Sciences
Oceanography

Chair: Daniel Thornton
Co-Chair: Sarah Brooks

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05/13/2024 | Kaustav Khatua, PHD, Chemistry

2:00PM, CHEM 255

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF COVALENT INHIBITORS AND DEGRADERS OF SARS-COV-2 MAIN PROTEASE

Arts and Sciences
Chemistry

Chair: Wenshe Liu

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05/14/2024 | Siwei Cui, PHD, Computer Science

10:00AM, TBD

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Enforcing Software Security Properties with Semantic-aware Static Analysis

Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering

Chair: Shaoming Huang

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05/21/2024 | Wei Gai, PHD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

9:00AM, 106A BCBP

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Mechanism of guanine nucleotide regulated membrane fission by AMPH-1 at recycling endosome in C. elegans

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Biochemistry & Biophysics

Chair: Junjie Zhang

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05/21/2024 | Denis Johnson, PHD, Chemical Engineering

9:30AM, Jack E. Brown Conference Room 256

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND NITROGEN REDUCTION REACTION PERFORMANCE OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL TITANIUM NITRIDE MXENE THROUGH THE MARS-VAN KREVELEN MECHANISM

Engineering
Chemical Engineering

Chair: Abdoulaye Djire

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05/21/2024 | Kristian Joel Cantens, PHD, Philosophy

10:00AM, YMCA 401

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Imagining Animals Differently: Iris Murdoch on Disagreement and Moral Change

Arts and Sciences
Philosophy

Chair: Clare Palmer

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05/23/2024 | Abbie Jones Clevenger, PHD, Biomedical Engineering

11:00AM, ETB 5039

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
The Impact of Microenvironmental Mediators on the Malignant Progression of Colorectal Cancer

Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

Chair: Shreya Raghavan

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05/28/2024 | Ramiah R Vickers, PHD, Genetics and Genomics

9:30AM, VENI 101B

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
STING-Mediated Immunity During Mammary Epithelial Cell Differentiation

School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vet Integrative Biosciences

Chair: Weston Porter

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05/31/2024 | McKaela Autumn Hodge, PHD, Biomedical Sciences

10:00AM, TBD

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Cellular Transcriptomic Analysis of Tumor Microenvironments and Cancer Survival Mechanisms

School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vet Integrative Biosciences

Chair: Brian Davis
Co-Chair: Leif Andersson

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06/10/2024 | Matthew David Kroesche, PHD, Mathematics

2:00PM, BLOC 338

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Low-Lying Zeros and Moments of a Thin Family of Automorphic Forms in the Level Aspect

Arts and Sciences
Mathematics

Chair: Matthew Young

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08/12/2024 | Agostino Buono, PHD, Biomedical Sciences

1:00PM, VENI 101A

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Biomarkers of inflammation in canine chronic enteropathy

School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vet Small Animal Clinical Sc

Chair: Joerg Steiner
Co-Chair: Jan Suchodolski

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