Upcoming Exams

Defences held in person have locations listed with the date below. Zoom information for virtual exams is not listed; if you are interested in attending one of these  defences, please contact the candidate's department or graduate.doctoral@ubc.ca. Zoom links are available one week prior to the defence.

Wednesday, 13 November 2024 - 11:00am - Room 200

Gara Dexter
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Identification and Validation of Acetovanillone Catabolism in Rhodococcus rhodochrous GD02

Friday, 15 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200

Nassim Derriche
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Effects of Electric Polarization in Hybridized Materials

Friday, 15 November 2024 - 4:00pm - 3028, Fred Kaiser Building, 2332 Main Mall

Dian Ross
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Assemblage: Digital Twins, Hardware Oracles & Distributed Ledger Technologies - A Provenance Solution for the Digital Age

Monday, 18 November 2024 - 4:00pm - Room 203

Katarzyna Kabacinska
Department: Experimental Medicine
End-User Perspectives on Social Robots to Support Mental Health in the Hospital and at Home

Tuesday, 19 November 2024 - 1:00pm - Zoom

Juanita Desjarlais-Smith
Department: Educational Studies
Iskotew: Fire - Keeping the Fire Lit Indigenous Iskotwew (Women) Leading in Decolonizing Education Systems

Tuesday, 19 November 2024 - 1:00pm - 146, ICICS Building, 2366 Main Mall

Raghav Goyal
Department: Computer Science
Data-Efficient Learning on Structured Output Data

Thursday, 21 November 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Daniel Lee
Department: Zoology
On the Respiratory Consequences of the Air-to-Water Transition in Insects

Monday, 25 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200

Elmira Berjisian
Department: Civil Engineering
Getting up to Speed: Revealed Preferences for Utilitarian Cycling Speed and Energy Expenditure

Monday, 25 November 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom

Golam Ismot Ara Taposhe
Department: Materials Engineering
Silicon Purification by Simultaneous Slag Refining with CaO-SiO2-Al2O3-Na2O and Solvent Refining with Si-Fe Alloy

Monday, 25 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203

Demet Kirmizibayrak
Department: Physics and Astronomy
New Tricks for Old Stars: Studying Compact Objects through Novel Methodologies in Timing, Energy and Imaging

Monday, 25 November 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Chelsea Gowton
Department: Plant Science
Abiotic and Biotic Drivers of Indirect Defense Allocation in Vicia Faba

Monday, 25 November 2024 - 4:00pm - Room 200

Michael Kinach
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Electrodynamics of Non-Topological Solitons

Tuesday, 26 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203

Mollie Holmberg
Department: Geography
On Viral Terrain: The Shifting Imaginaries of Geography and Infectious Disease Risk in USAID's PREDICT

Tuesday, 26 November 2024 - 12:00pm - 226, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 East Mall

Abigail Chapman
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Fertility Costs of Covert Viral Infections in Honey Bee Queens

Tuesday, 26 November 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Maria Cervantes
Department: Geography
Credentialized Aspirations: The Mobility Journeys of Mexican Professionals in North America

Wednesday, 27 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200

Bo Chen
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Real-time Electricity Market Pricing Methods Incorporating Power System Frequency Dynamics

Wednesday, 27 November 2024 - 10:00am - 2010, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Building, 6250 Applied Science Lane

Mouad Boudina
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Capillarity in Diverging Elastic Channels

Wednesday, 27 November 2024 - 10:00am - B104, School of Population and Public Health, 2206 East Mall

Salima Kerai-Sayani
Department: Population and Public Health
Assessing Positive Youth Development in School-Aged Children in Pakistan: A Cultural Adaptation of the Middle Years Development Instrument for Research with Children

Wednesday, 27 November 2024 - 4:00pm - Room 200

Cameron Zheng
Department: Chemistry
Tantalum-Catalyzed Hydroaminoalkylation for the Construction of N-Heterocyclic Frameworks and Aminated Bioproducts

Thursday, 28 November 2024 - 9:00am - 318, Hennings Building, 6224 Agricultural Rd

Guy Leckenby
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Exotic Decay Measurements at the Experimental Storage Ring for Neutron Capture Processes

Thursday, 28 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200

Brodie Thomson
Department: Chemistry
Investigations of S(IV) Fluorides and Their Utility in Small Molecule Syntheses

Thursday, 28 November 2024 - 11:00am - 3028, Fred Kaiser Building, 2332 Main Mall

Ziao Wang
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Statistical Inference on Structural Data: Sequences and Graphs

Thursday, 28 November 2024 - 1:00pm - 5108, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall

Christopher Rodell
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Improving Fire Danger Forecasting with Numerical Weather Prediction and Machine Learning

Friday, 29 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200

Jing Wang
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Incorporation of Physics into Learning of Robot Vision and Dynamics

Friday, 29 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203

Anne-Cecile Delaisse
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Highly Skilled Vietnamese Migrants’ Transnational Occupations, Belongings and Mobilities: a Cross-National Comparative Ethnography in France and Canada

Friday, 29 November 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Laura Stankiewicz
Department: Biomedical Engineering
A Pipeline for Discovery-Based Research on Human T Cell Development: Integrating Spatial Omics and PSC-T Platforms

Monday, 2 December 2024 - 9:00am - V2 - 222, Clinical Support, 948 29th Avenue Bikeway

Jeffrey Bone
Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Statistical Modeling of the Relationship between Pre-Pregnancy Body-Mass-Index and Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes

Monday, 2 December 2024 - 10:00am - Zoom

Lauren Currie
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Examining the Use of an Identity Focused Group Intervention in Facilitating Identity Change in a Problematic Substance Use Sample

Monday, 2 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Jordan Long
Department: Educational Studies
School Leadership Practices for a Democratic Way of Life: A Temporally Multiple Case Study of One Canadian Public High School

Monday, 2 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 203

Ben Nadeau
Department: Chemistry
Nickel Mediated C−H and C−X Bond Functionalization Reactions: Mechanistic Investigations of Paramagnetic and Dimeric Speciation Guided by Ligand Design

Monday, 2 December 2024 - 2:00pm - Zoom

Joy Braun
Department: Allard School of Law
Protecting Vulnerable Persons: A Socio-Legal Study of Elder Abuse Response

Monday, 2 December 2024 - 4:00pm - Room 203

Manyou Ma
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Toward AI-Native 6G Networking: Algorithm Design for Efficient Edge Learning, Caching, and Inference

Tuesday, 3 December 2024 - 9:00am - James Hogg Conference Centre, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul's Hospital, 1081 Burrard Str

Abhinav Kumar Checkervarty
Department: Experimental Medicine
Investigating Early Life Immunity and Vaccine Response Using High-Dimensional Biological (omics) Datasets

Tuesday, 3 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Mahsa Hosseini
Department: Civil Engineering
Assessment of Seismic Force Modification Factors for Conventional Construction Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Structures in Canada Using the Performance-based Unified Procedure

Tuesday, 3 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 203

Gonzalo Andres Gavilan Acuna
Department: Forestry
Remote Sensing to Inform Precision Forestry Management in P. radiata Plantations

Tuesday, 3 December 2024 - 2:00pm - Zoom

Diana Royea
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Preservice Teachers' Experiences of Learning Study in an Elementary Mathematics Education Course: An Activity Theory-Informed Phenomenological Inquiry

Wednesday, 4 December 2024 - 12:00pm - Zoom

Hanyang Jiang
Department: Theatre and Film
Stage Acting and Knowledge Making in Modern China, 1937-1961

Wednesday, 4 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Doriane Drolet
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Advancements in Seismotectonic Analysis through Relative Moment Tensor Inversion

Wednesday, 4 December 2024 - 2:00pm - D213, Chemistry D Block, 2036 Main Mall

Soleil Worthy
Department: Chemistry
Ice Nucleation Ability of Organic and Inorganic Substances: the Effects of Coatings and New Methodologies for Studying their Abundance in the Atmosphere

Wednesday, 4 December 2024 - 4:00pm - Room 200

Rhea Storlund
Department: Zoology
Mechanisms that Facilitate and Control the Dive Response in Pinnipeds

Thursday, 5 December 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200

Mia Stankovic
Department: Chemistry
Renewable Chemical & Fuel Production in a Membrane Reactor

Thursday, 5 December 2024 - 1:00pm - Zoom

Timothy Chui
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
High-Resolution Dynamical Downscaling to Explore Climate- and Terrain-Influenced Changes to the Weather of British Columbia

Friday, 6 December 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200

Aria Malhotra
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Predictive Metrics for Moist Desquamation in Treatment Planning for Breast Radiotherapy

Friday, 6 December 2024 - 10:00am - Zoom

Caitlyn Yates
Department: Anthropology
Degrees of Visibility: Multi-Continental Travelers' Journeys through the Americas

Friday, 6 December 2024 - 10:00am - 351, Biomedical Research Centre, 2222 Health Sciences Mall

Ishika Luthra
Department: Bioinformatics
Guiding Future Genomics Research through Machine Learning: Functional DNA Analysis and Benchmarking

Friday, 6 December 2024 - 12:00pm - 3113, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 938 W 28th Ave

Yuanjie Zou
Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
Roles of Autophagy and Transcription Factor EB (TFEB) in B-cell Viability and Function

Monday, 9 December 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200

Manpreet Thandi
Department: Nursing
Using Primary Care Electronic Medical Record Data in British Columbia, Canada to Develop an Electronic Frailty Index

Monday, 9 December 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom

Jennica Nichols
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
Expanding the Conceptualization of Research-based Theatre to Better Use it as a Knowledge Translation Intervention Supporting Person-Centered Interventions: A Canadian Case Study

Monday, 9 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Mohamed Hendy
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Multi-scale Multi-physics Compositional Study of Energy Materials

Monday, 9 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 203

Raelyn Sullivan
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Anomalies in the Cosmic Microwave Background

Monday, 9 December 2024 - 1:00pm - Zoom

Xiaolei Deng
Department: Psychology
Modelling Product Risk and Gambling Harms in Online Gambling

Monday, 9 December 2024 - 3:00pm - Dorothy Lam Boardroom, BC Cancer Research Institute, 675 West 10th Avenue

Jeanie Malone
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Towards Endoscopic Optical Imaging of the Fallopian Tubes for Tubo-Ovarian Cancer Detection

Tuesday, 10 December 2024 - 9:00am - 1410, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall

Seevasant Indran
Department: Genome Science and Technology
Sentinel Interaction Mapping (SIM): Development of a Novel Complementation-Independent Variant Functionalization Platform Using Yeast-Human Genetic Interaction Mapping for TP53

Tuesday, 10 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Niki Oveisi
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Impact of Cancer on Sexual and Reproductive Health among Adolescent and Young Adults (AYA): Epidemiologic Studies and Patients' Perspectives

Wednesday, 11 December 2024 - 9:30am - Zoom

Jerry Achar
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Analyzing and Accounting for Uncertainty in Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) Prediction of Chemical Toxicity

Wednesday, 11 December 2024 - 10:00am - Zoom

Albert Cotugno III
Department: Philosophy
Attention and Virtue

Wednesday, 11 December 2024 - 12:00pm - 210, Pulp and Paper Centre, 2385 East Mall

Huaiyu Zhang
Department: Forestry
Controllable Synthesis of Xylan Nanoparticles and Modifications for Versatile Applications

Thursday, 12 December 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200

Eric Press
Department: Zoology
Visual Signals of Self-Motion in the Pretectum of a Flying Zebra Finch

Thursday, 12 December 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203

Emily Ismailzai
Department: Sociology
Standard North American Food Work: Unveiling the Invisibilized Labour of Low-Income Families through Food Bank Work

Thursday, 12 December 2024 - 1:00pm - Zoom

Eunice Bawafaa
Department: Nursing
Women’s Experiences and Perception of Access to Reproductive Healthcare in Rural Ghana

Friday, 13 December 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200

Zelai Xu
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Mechanics of Hydrogels in Flow Fields

Friday, 13 December 2024 - 9:00am - 1346, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall

Virginia Pichler
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Beneath the Surface: Unraveling Mycobacterium Abscessus Morphotypes, Resistance and Clinical Challenges in Treatment

Friday, 13 December 2024 - 10:30am - 3200, Biological Sciences Building, 6270 University Blvd

Milad Alizadeh
Department: Botany
Genetic and Genome-Wide Analysis of Known and Novel Transcriptional Regulators in the Seed-to-Seedling Transition in Arabidopsis Thaliana

Friday, 13 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Kip Squier
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Stretching Boundaries: Local and Systemic Influences on Tendon Function

Tuesday, 14 January 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200

Olivia Fischer
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
An Examination of the Multicultural Orientation Framework with Sexual and Gender Minority Clients