Among the most critical elements of any doctoral exam, from the perspective of those who coordinate these complexities, is the search for a strong Chair. Yet this search serves as a perennial challenge to the Doctoral Examinations team. We consider ourselves very lucky indeed if we issue fewer than 10 invitations before confirming 1 chair for an upcoming exam. It is not at all unusual in some disciplines to invite 30 or more chairs before some gracious faculty member agrees to help us out.
If you would like to contribute your time and wisdom to UBC’s doctoral exams:
- Please have a look at the list of upcoming exams below and if one interests you, please send us an email to graduate.doctoral@ubc.ca
- Or send us an email detailing the areas that interest you and days/times that you might be generally available and we'll contact you as new exams are scheduled. Again, send an email to graduate.doctoral@ubc.ca
Please bear in mind that the chair cannot be affiliated with the candidate’s graduate program, or a member of the supervisor's department..
Thursday, September 19, 2024 10:00 AM - Zoom
Zheng Tan
(Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Establishing Multi-Organ-on-a-Chip Cultures to Emulate Atopic Diseases
Supervisor(s): Professor Sarah Hedtrich, Professor Judy M Y Wong
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 9:00 AM - Zoom
Francisco Gomez Lopez
(Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program)
Territorial Affirmation: Sustainable Production and Conservation Practices in the Paramo Communities of Sumapaz, Colombia
Supervisor(s): Professor Pilar Riano-Alcala, Professor Vanessa De Oliveira Andreotti
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 12:30 PM - Room 203
Abdelrahman Afifi
(Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Integrated Circuits for the Generation and Filtration of Photon Pairs in Silicon on Insulator Technology
Supervisor(s): Professor Sudip Shekhar, Professor Lukas Chrostowski
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 9:00 AM - Room 200
Arnold Okpani
(Population and Public Health)
Infection Risk and Mitigation Strategies for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Among Healthcare Workers in British Columbia, Canada
Supervisor(s): Professor Annalee Yassi
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 2:00 PM - 210, Pulp and Paper Centre, 2385 East Mall
Sara Fleetwood
(Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Utilizing Bio-Based Structures for Tunable Water Transport in Membranes and Coatings
Supervisor(s): Professor Johan Foster
Friday, September 27, 2024 10:00 AM - Zoom
Aditi Pradeep
(Physics and Astronomy)
Novel Reconstruction Techniques for Detecting Low Mass Dark Matter in the SuperCDMS experiment and Characterization of SuperCDMS SNOLAB Detectors
Supervisor(s): Professor Scott M Oser
Thursday, October 3, 2024 1:00 PM - Room 203
Fengqiu Dong
(Physics and Astronomy)
A Study of Sporadic Pulsars and Radio Transients with the CHIME Telescope
Supervisor(s): Professor Ingrid Stairs
Friday, October 4, 2024 9:30 AM - X836, ICICS Building, 2366 Main Mall
Jonathan Wilder Lavington
(Computer Science)
Taking Advantage of Common Assumptions in Policy Optimization and Reinforcement Learning
Supervisor(s): Professor Mark Schmidt, Professor Frank Wood
Friday, October 4, 2024 4:00 PM - BUCH C203, Buchanan Block C, 1866 Main Mall
Benjamin Winnick
(Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies)
Networks of Ethnicity in Greek Mythic Genealogies
Supervisor(s): Professor Franco De Angelis
Thursday, October 17, 2024 4:00 PM - 4001, Forest Sciences Centre, 2424 Main Mall
Jennifer Baron
(Forestry)
Landscape-Level Fire Regime Disruption: Understanding and Managing Altered Fire Regimes in Interior British Columbia, Canada
Supervisor(s): Professor Lori Daniels, Professor Sarah Gergel
Thursday, October 24, 2024 9:30 AM - Zoom
Vania Henriquez Tribinos
(Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries)
Evaluating Approaches to Model Time-Varying Natural Mortality and Predation in Stock Assessment Models
Supervisor(s): Professor Murdoch McAllister
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 12:30 PM - Zoom
Rafael Vicente Capo
(Curriculum and Pedagogy)
Towards Caribbean Forms of Historical Consciousness: Heritage, Mestizaje, and Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico
Supervisor(s): Professor E Wayne Ross
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 12:30 PM - Room 200
Scott Robertson
(Curriculum and Pedagogy)
Teaching from Multiple Midsts: Autonomous Secondary ELA Teachers Negotiating Agencies in the Context of K-12 Curricular Revision
Supervisor(s): Professor Anthony Clarke