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Name: Thor Sawin
Title: Second Language Learnerhood among Cross-cultural Field Workers
Abstract:View Abstract
Date: 06/19/2013
Time: 1:00-3:00p
Location: Humanities Classroom Building 101a (off the language lab)
Director: Jennifer Reynolds
Program: Linguistics PhD
Name: Xianming Dai
Title: Boiling and Evaporation on Micro/nanoengineered Surfaces
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Date: 06/20/2013
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: ME conference room A228
Director: Chen Li
Program: Mechanical Engineering PhD
Name: Crystal McSwain
Title: Care as the Essential Element in Teacher and Student Interactions: Examining Dialogue as a Vehicle for Building a Caring Environment
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Date: 06/20/2013
Time: 1:00-3:00
Location: Wardlaw 274N
Director: Dr. Zach Kelehear
Co-Director: Dr. Lynn Harrill
Program: Educational Administration PhD
Name: Joseph Swanstrom
Title: The Development of Instrumentation and Methodology for Single-Cell Classification Using Fluorescence Imaging Multivariate Optical Computing
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Date: 06/20/2013
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Sumwalt College 102
Director: Dr. Michael Myrick
Program: Chemistry PhD
Name: Melissa Parker
Title: 'The Hollow Men': Divorce and Manhood in the Novels of Howells, James, and Wharton
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Date: 06/24/2013
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: Gambrell Teleconferencing Room
Director: Cynthia Davis
Program: English PhD
Name: Ehtesham Quddus
Title: III-V nitride micro- and nano-scale cantilevers for multimodal sensing applications
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Date: 06/24/2013
Time: 10 AM
Location: Rm No# 3D05, Swearingen Engineering Center
Director: Dr. Goutam Koley
Co-Director: Dr. T. S. Sudarshan
Program: Electrical Engineering PhD
Name: Robert G Weaver
Title: An Intervention to Increase Staff Promotion of Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Out-of-school-time-programs
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Date: 06/24/2013
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Room 215 Blatt Physical Education Center
Director: Lynda Nilges-Charles
Co-Director: Michael Beets
Program: Physical Education PhD
Name: Courtney Crittenden
Title: Gender and Programming: A Comparison of Program Availability and Participation in U.S. Prisons for Men and Women
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Date: 06/27/2013
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Currell College
Director: Dr. Barbara Koons-Witt
Program: Criminology and Criminal Justice PhD
Name: Tammy Harris
Title: Heaped Data in Count Models
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Date: 06/27/2013
Time: 9:30
Location: HESC 206
Director: Dr. James W. Hardin
Program: Biostatistics PhD
Name: Beverly Ochieng-Sande
Title: Response to intervention: an interpretive case study of educators’ perspectives on the role of school culture, personal beliefs and program knowledge on implementation.
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Date: 06/28/2013
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: Wardlaw Room 274-N
Director: Dr. Kathleen Marshall
Co-Director: Dr. Eric Drasgow
Program: Special Education PhD
Name: Jarrell Waggoner
Title: Multi-Label Segmentation Propagation for Materials Science Images Incorporating Topology and Interactivity
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Date: 07/01/2013
Time: 2pm
Location: Swearingen 3A75
Director: Dr. Song Wang
Program: Computer Science and Engineering PhD
Name: Fan Wu
Title: New Approach for Modeling Hybrid Pressure Swing Adsorption-Distillation Processes
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Date: 07/01/2013
Time: 2:30 PM
Location: Swearingen Engineering Center 3C02
Director: James A. Ritter
Co-Director: Armin Ebner
Program: Chemical Engineering PhD
Name: Yu Cao
Title: 3D Grain Segmentation in Superalloy Images Using Multichannel Edge-Weighted Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation Based Methods
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Date: 07/02/2013
Time: 10:45AM
Location: 3A75 Swearingen Engineering Center
Director: Song Wang
Co-Director: Lili Ju
Program: Computer Science and Engineering PhD
Name: Faisal Jahan
Title: High Performance RF Control Devices Using Capacitively Coupled Contacts (C3) Over III-N Heterostructures
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Date: 07/02/2013
Time: 10.00 AM
Location: Room 3D05,Swearingen Engineering Building
Director: Professor Grigory Simin
Program: Electrical Engineering PhD
Name: Antonino Riccobono
Title: STABILIZING CONTROLLER DESIGN FOR A DC POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM USING A PASSIVITY-BASED STABILITY CRITERION
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Date: 07/02/2013
Time: 2.00 pm
Location: USC Electrical Engineering Department, 301 S. Main St., Room 3D05
Director: Dr. Enrico Santi
Program: Electrical Engineering PhD
Name: Pietro Cairoli
Title: FAULT PROTECTION IN DC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS VIA COORDINATED CONTROL OF POWER SUPPLY CONVERTERS AND BUS TIE SWITCHES
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Date: 07/03/2013
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: United States
Director: Roger A. Dougal
Program: Electrical Engineering PhD
Name: Allison Rice
Title: School Psychologist Leadership in RTI Implementation: Administrators
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Date: 07/08/2013
Time: 10:00
Location: Wardlaw 274 N
Director: Dr. Zach Kelehear
Program: Educational Administration PhD
Name: Robert Lukes
Title: Predicting the Crack Response for a Pipe with a Complex Crack
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Date: 07/09/2013
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: ME Conference Room
Director: Dr. Travis Knight
Program: Nuclear Engineering PhD
Name: Yuqing Mao
Title: Measurement of Polarization Observable Pz, Ps and Pc in Double-Pion Photoproduction
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Date: 07/10/2013
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Department of Physics and Astronomy
Director: Steffen Strauch
Co-Director: Ralf Gothe
Program: Physics PhD
Name: Mohammed Hassan Mohammed
Title: Polyspectral Signal Analysis Techniques for Condition Based Maintenance of Helicopter Drive-Train System
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Date: 07/15/2013
Time: 10:00 am
Location: United States
Director: Dr. Yong-June Shin
Program: Electrical Engineering PhD

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