Home Navigating Your Degree Oral Defense Dates Oral Defense Dates Dominique Sylvers Program: Health Behavior &Health Equity Dissertation Title: Strength and Structures: Schooling, Employment and Health among Older Adults Date: 21 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: RACKHAM 4TH CONFERENCE ROOM & HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95700475369 Chair: Paul Fleming and Paul Fleming and Margaret Takako Hicken and Margaret Takako Hicken Michael Jones Program: Aerospace Engineering Dissertation Title: Trajectory Optimization of High-Speed Vehicles Under Aerothermoelastic Constraints Date: 21 Oct 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: FXB 1044 Chair: Carlos E S Cesnik Ken Lohatepanont Program: Political Science Dissertation Title: Making Parties Last: The Dynamics of Unlikely Party Institutionalization Date: 22 Oct 2026 Time: 8:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/5814491709 Chair: Allen D Hicken Jeronimo Morales Toledo Program: Earth & Environmental Sciences Dissertation Title: Bridging Macroevolution and Ecology in the Arum Family (Araceae): Insights from Exceptionally Preserved Fossil and Exant Fruits Date: 22 Oct 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: 1100 NORTH UNIVERSITY AVENUE, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, IN ROOM 2540 Chair: Selena Y Smith Meredith Eaheart Program: Nuc Eng & Radiol Sciences Dissertation Title: Multifidelity Surrogate Modeling for Transient Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of Nuclear Reactors Date: 22 Oct 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: COOLEY BUILDING (BAER ROOM) Chair: Majdi Ibrahim Radaideh Marcel Elkouri Program: Neuroscience Dissertation Title: Individual Differences in Rat Contextual Fear and Recognition Memory Date: 22 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: DANTO AUDITORIUM, CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER, ANN ARBOR, MI 48109 Chair: Jonathan David Morrow and Brendon Omar Watson Utsav Bhadra Program: Economics Dissertation Title: On Unemployment, Labor Markets and Monetary Policy Date: 22 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: NORTH QUAD RESIDENTIAL AND ACAD COMPL (NQ) RM: 4445, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95343988780 Chair: Christopher L House Samuel Ogunwale Program: Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: Mechanistic and Data-Driven Modeling of Complex Fluids: Phase Evolution, Transport, and Rheology Date: 22 Oct 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: NCRC BUILDING 10, ROOM G065; ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/92354754386; PASSCODE: CRYSTAL Chair: Ronald G Larson Renisha Karki Program: Environmental Engineering Dissertation Title: Rumen-Inspired Anaerobic Dynamic Membrane Bioreactors for Food Waste and Sewage Sludge: Process Performance and Microbial Community Dynamics Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 8:00 a.m. Location: GG BROWN 2029 / ZOOM HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/7770337290?OMN=97751230875 PW:DEFENSE Chair: Lutgarde M Raskin and Steven J Skerlos Chenzhe Wang Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Spatial Engineering of Coupled Mechanical Systems: From Artificial Lattices to Structured Acoustic Fields Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: GGB 2540 Chair: Chengzhi Shi Jada Langston Program: Earth & Environmental Sciences Dissertation Title: Lake Erie Hydrology Over the last 15 ka: Insights from Stable isotope Geochemistry, Water Balance Modeling and Bulk Geochemistry Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: NORTH UNIVERSITY BUILDING 2540 Chair: Naomi Levin Kara Larson Program: Anthropology Dissertation Title: Examining Urban Foodways in the Northern Negev Desert 3100-2500 B.C.E. Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: WEST HALL ROOM 411 Chair: Alicia Ventresca-Miller Ashray Mohit Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Large-Eddy Simulations of Waste Gas Flares Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: ROBERT H. LURIE ENGINEERING CENTER 4231 – GM ROOM, ZOOM- UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/97579333425 Chair: Jesse Alden Capecelatro and Margaret S Wooldridge Zhuoyu Xiao Program: Industrial & Operations Eng Dissertation Title: On Solving Modern Noncooperative Games: Stochasticity, Nonconvexity, Nonsmoothness, and Hierarchy Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: G610, IOE BUILDING Chair: Uday V Shanbhag Delaney Snead Program: Environmental Engineering Dissertation Title: Developing Alternative Virus Inactivation Credit Frameworks for Unconventional Ozone Treatments Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: GM ROOM AT LEC, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96133805815?JST=3 Chair: Krista Wigginton Grace Jackson Program: Music Performance Dissertation Title: Three Dissertation Recitals and Document Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: STUDIO 2110 (E.V. MOORE BUILDING) Chair: Nicole Antoinette Keller Daniele Bracale Program: Statistics Dissertation Title: Online Learning and Decision-Making for Dynamic Pricing and Performative Prediction Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 2:30 p.m. Location: 470 WEST HALL Chair: Moulinath Banerjee and Yuekai Sun Laura Constain Montoya Program: Civil Engineering Dissertation Title: Rational Approach to Understanding the Behavior of Components in Steel Frame Lateral Force Resisting Systems Date: 26 Oct 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: GGB 2029 (GG BROWN BUILDING) Chair: Jason P McCormick Hongyu Zhou Program: Aerospace Engineering Dissertation Title: Online Learning and Adaptation for Control Under Uncertainty Date: 26 Oct 2026 Time: 12:30 p.m. Location: FXB 1044 Chair: Vasileios Tzoumas Leesi George-Komi Program: Movement Science Dissertation Title: Exploring the Role of Youth Sports in Mitigating the Impact of Stressors on Mental Distress: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Protective Mechanisms Date: 27 Oct 2026 Time: 8:30 a.m. Location: ROOM: SKB 2200; ZOOM URL: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91274248204 PC: 506925 Chair: Leah Elizabeth Robinson Tanner Nutting Program: Nuc Eng & Radiol Sciences Dissertation Title: Structured Laser Drivers for Laser Wakefield Acceleration and Radiation Generation Date: 28 Oct 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: PML 2000 Chair: Karl Michael Krushelnick Bailey Mitchell Program: Genetics and Genomics Dissertation Title: Human Stem Cell Modeling and Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapeutic Development for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 15/16 Date: 29 Oct 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: WEST LECTURE HALL, MED SCI II (HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/98183577367) Chair: Hayley McLoughlin Sujin Cha Program: Political Science Dissertation Title: National Interests, Global Firms: The Politics of Industrial Subsidies Date: 30 Oct 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96431204955 Chair: Iain Guthrie Osgood Mohamad Ismail Program: Clin Pharm Translational Sci Dissertation Title: Developing a Culturally Relevant Intervention Targets to Optimize Oral Anticancer Agent Self-Management among Arab American Individuals with Cancer: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Study Date: 30 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: U-M COP, FIRST FLOOR, ROOM 1300-1500; HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99078059227?JST=2 PW:103026 Chair: Antoinette Bartolotta Coe and Karen Bell Farris Namir Khalasawi Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences Dissertation Title: Engineered Antibodies for Therapeutic Immune Modulation Date: 30 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: NCRC B10 RESEARCH AUDITORIUM Chair: Peter Tessier Jiayue Huang Program: Macromolecular Science & Eng Dissertation Title: Design of Ice-Shedding Surfaces through Tailored Morphology Date: 30 Oct 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: G065, BUILIDING10, NCRC Chair: Anish Tuteja Barbara Caballero Program: Romance Language & Lit Spanish Dissertation Title: El museo portatil cortazariano: coleccionar, montar y recorrer en La vuelta al dia en ochenta mundos, Ultimo Round y Territorios Date: 30 Oct 2026 Time: 3:30 p.m. Location: MODERN LANGUAGE BUILDING – COMMONS ROOM Chair: Kate Jenckes Weihao Liu Program: Climate & Sp Sciences & Engin Dissertation Title: Understanding Energetic Particle Acceleration and Transport from the Solar Corona to Interplanetary Space Through the Eye of Simulation Date: 2 Nov 2026 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: LURIE ENGINEERING CENTER, ROOM 3213 (JOHNSON ROOM) Chair: Lulu Zhao Trang Hoang Program: Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: Engineering Baker's Yeast for an Affordable Influenza Virus-like Particles (VLPs) Vaccine Date: 2 Nov 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96091114919 Chair: Fei Wen Yue Xin Program: Chemistry Dissertation Title: Advances in High-Throughput Chemical Reaction Screening, Rapid Chromatography, and Quantification for Pharmaceutical Development Date: 2 Nov 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: RACKHAM WEST CONFERENCE ROOMHTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91558857486 PASSCODE: 110226 Chair: Robert T Kennedy Anati Azhar Program: Molecular, Cell & Dev Biology Dissertation Title: The Regulation and Interactome of an H4K20-Specific Demethylase in Dosage Compensation of C. elegans Date: 3 Nov 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BUILDING (BSB) IN CONFERENCE ROOM BSB 1010 Chair: Gyorgyi Csankovszki Stephen Gonzalez Program: Biological Chemistry Dissertation Title: Molecular Mechanisms of Nucleosome Recognition and Methylation by Legionella pneumophila Histone Lysine Methyltransferases Date: 4 Nov 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: 2903 TAUBMAN HEALTH SCIENCE LIBRARY Chair: Raymond C Trievel Liam Yourston Program: Biophysics Dissertation Title: Exploratory Investigation Into an Energy-Precision Tradeoff in Cell-Cycle Signaling: Novel Method Developments and Results Date: 4 Nov 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: WEST CONFERENCE ROOM (FOURTH FLOOR) – RACKHAM BUILDING ; HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/3421871207 Chair: Qiong Yang Ruoyao Shi Program: Biostatistics Dissertation Title: Statistical Methods for Causal Inference and Representation Learning with High-Dimensional Genetic and Phenotypic Data Date: 4 Nov 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: 1750 SPH I Chair: Jean Morrison Teresa Sauer Program: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dissertation Title: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Epidemics in Natural Aquatic Communities Date: 4 Nov 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: RACKHAM WEST CONFERENCE ROOM Chair: Meghan A Duffy Sahil Kumar Program: Romance Language & Lit Spanish Dissertation Title: Unusual Suspects: Argentine Detective Fiction?s Recommencement of Marxism and Psychoanalysis Date: 4 Nov 2026 Time: 2:30 p.m. Location: RLL COMMONS (ROOM 4314), MLB Chair: Gavin Michael Arnall Emrullah Ildiz Program: Electrical & Computer Engineer Dissertation Title: Theoretical Perspectives on Learning and Reasoning in Language Models Date: 4 Nov 2026 Time: 2:30 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/92622233074 Chair: Samet Oymak Contact Academic Records and Dissertations Hours: Academic Records and Dissertations is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The office is closed Saturdays and Sundays and on the following holidays: Thanksgiving (Thursday and the following Friday), Christmas through New Year’s, Memorial Day, Independence Day (July 4), and Labor Day. 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Dominique Sylvers Program: Health Behavior &Health Equity Dissertation Title: Strength and Structures: Schooling, Employment and Health among Older Adults Date: 21 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: RACKHAM 4TH CONFERENCE ROOM & HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95700475369 Chair: Paul Fleming and Paul Fleming and Margaret Takako Hicken and Margaret Takako Hicken
Michael Jones Program: Aerospace Engineering Dissertation Title: Trajectory Optimization of High-Speed Vehicles Under Aerothermoelastic Constraints Date: 21 Oct 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: FXB 1044 Chair: Carlos E S Cesnik
Ken Lohatepanont Program: Political Science Dissertation Title: Making Parties Last: The Dynamics of Unlikely Party Institutionalization Date: 22 Oct 2026 Time: 8:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/5814491709 Chair: Allen D Hicken
Jeronimo Morales Toledo Program: Earth & Environmental Sciences Dissertation Title: Bridging Macroevolution and Ecology in the Arum Family (Araceae): Insights from Exceptionally Preserved Fossil and Exant Fruits Date: 22 Oct 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: 1100 NORTH UNIVERSITY AVENUE, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, IN ROOM 2540 Chair: Selena Y Smith
Meredith Eaheart Program: Nuc Eng & Radiol Sciences Dissertation Title: Multifidelity Surrogate Modeling for Transient Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of Nuclear Reactors Date: 22 Oct 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: COOLEY BUILDING (BAER ROOM) Chair: Majdi Ibrahim Radaideh
Marcel Elkouri Program: Neuroscience Dissertation Title: Individual Differences in Rat Contextual Fear and Recognition Memory Date: 22 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: DANTO AUDITORIUM, CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER, ANN ARBOR, MI 48109 Chair: Jonathan David Morrow and Brendon Omar Watson
Utsav Bhadra Program: Economics Dissertation Title: On Unemployment, Labor Markets and Monetary Policy Date: 22 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: NORTH QUAD RESIDENTIAL AND ACAD COMPL (NQ) RM: 4445, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95343988780 Chair: Christopher L House
Samuel Ogunwale Program: Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: Mechanistic and Data-Driven Modeling of Complex Fluids: Phase Evolution, Transport, and Rheology Date: 22 Oct 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: NCRC BUILDING 10, ROOM G065; ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/92354754386; PASSCODE: CRYSTAL Chair: Ronald G Larson
Renisha Karki Program: Environmental Engineering Dissertation Title: Rumen-Inspired Anaerobic Dynamic Membrane Bioreactors for Food Waste and Sewage Sludge: Process Performance and Microbial Community Dynamics Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 8:00 a.m. Location: GG BROWN 2029 / ZOOM HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/7770337290?OMN=97751230875 PW:DEFENSE Chair: Lutgarde M Raskin and Steven J Skerlos
Chenzhe Wang Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Spatial Engineering of Coupled Mechanical Systems: From Artificial Lattices to Structured Acoustic Fields Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: GGB 2540 Chair: Chengzhi Shi
Jada Langston Program: Earth & Environmental Sciences Dissertation Title: Lake Erie Hydrology Over the last 15 ka: Insights from Stable isotope Geochemistry, Water Balance Modeling and Bulk Geochemistry Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: NORTH UNIVERSITY BUILDING 2540 Chair: Naomi Levin
Kara Larson Program: Anthropology Dissertation Title: Examining Urban Foodways in the Northern Negev Desert 3100-2500 B.C.E. Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: WEST HALL ROOM 411 Chair: Alicia Ventresca-Miller
Ashray Mohit Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Large-Eddy Simulations of Waste Gas Flares Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: ROBERT H. LURIE ENGINEERING CENTER 4231 – GM ROOM, ZOOM- UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/97579333425 Chair: Jesse Alden Capecelatro and Margaret S Wooldridge
Zhuoyu Xiao Program: Industrial & Operations Eng Dissertation Title: On Solving Modern Noncooperative Games: Stochasticity, Nonconvexity, Nonsmoothness, and Hierarchy Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: G610, IOE BUILDING Chair: Uday V Shanbhag
Delaney Snead Program: Environmental Engineering Dissertation Title: Developing Alternative Virus Inactivation Credit Frameworks for Unconventional Ozone Treatments Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: GM ROOM AT LEC, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96133805815?JST=3 Chair: Krista Wigginton
Grace Jackson Program: Music Performance Dissertation Title: Three Dissertation Recitals and Document Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: STUDIO 2110 (E.V. MOORE BUILDING) Chair: Nicole Antoinette Keller
Daniele Bracale Program: Statistics Dissertation Title: Online Learning and Decision-Making for Dynamic Pricing and Performative Prediction Date: 23 Oct 2026 Time: 2:30 p.m. Location: 470 WEST HALL Chair: Moulinath Banerjee and Yuekai Sun
Laura Constain Montoya Program: Civil Engineering Dissertation Title: Rational Approach to Understanding the Behavior of Components in Steel Frame Lateral Force Resisting Systems Date: 26 Oct 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: GGB 2029 (GG BROWN BUILDING) Chair: Jason P McCormick
Hongyu Zhou Program: Aerospace Engineering Dissertation Title: Online Learning and Adaptation for Control Under Uncertainty Date: 26 Oct 2026 Time: 12:30 p.m. Location: FXB 1044 Chair: Vasileios Tzoumas
Leesi George-Komi Program: Movement Science Dissertation Title: Exploring the Role of Youth Sports in Mitigating the Impact of Stressors on Mental Distress: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Protective Mechanisms Date: 27 Oct 2026 Time: 8:30 a.m. Location: ROOM: SKB 2200; ZOOM URL: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91274248204 PC: 506925 Chair: Leah Elizabeth Robinson
Tanner Nutting Program: Nuc Eng & Radiol Sciences Dissertation Title: Structured Laser Drivers for Laser Wakefield Acceleration and Radiation Generation Date: 28 Oct 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: PML 2000 Chair: Karl Michael Krushelnick
Bailey Mitchell Program: Genetics and Genomics Dissertation Title: Human Stem Cell Modeling and Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapeutic Development for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 15/16 Date: 29 Oct 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: WEST LECTURE HALL, MED SCI II (HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/98183577367) Chair: Hayley McLoughlin
Sujin Cha Program: Political Science Dissertation Title: National Interests, Global Firms: The Politics of Industrial Subsidies Date: 30 Oct 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96431204955 Chair: Iain Guthrie Osgood
Mohamad Ismail Program: Clin Pharm Translational Sci Dissertation Title: Developing a Culturally Relevant Intervention Targets to Optimize Oral Anticancer Agent Self-Management among Arab American Individuals with Cancer: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Study Date: 30 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: U-M COP, FIRST FLOOR, ROOM 1300-1500; HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99078059227?JST=2 PW:103026 Chair: Antoinette Bartolotta Coe and Karen Bell Farris
Namir Khalasawi Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences Dissertation Title: Engineered Antibodies for Therapeutic Immune Modulation Date: 30 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: NCRC B10 RESEARCH AUDITORIUM Chair: Peter Tessier
Jiayue Huang Program: Macromolecular Science & Eng Dissertation Title: Design of Ice-Shedding Surfaces through Tailored Morphology Date: 30 Oct 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: G065, BUILIDING10, NCRC Chair: Anish Tuteja
Barbara Caballero Program: Romance Language & Lit Spanish Dissertation Title: El museo portatil cortazariano: coleccionar, montar y recorrer en La vuelta al dia en ochenta mundos, Ultimo Round y Territorios Date: 30 Oct 2026 Time: 3:30 p.m. Location: MODERN LANGUAGE BUILDING – COMMONS ROOM Chair: Kate Jenckes
Weihao Liu Program: Climate & Sp Sciences & Engin Dissertation Title: Understanding Energetic Particle Acceleration and Transport from the Solar Corona to Interplanetary Space Through the Eye of Simulation Date: 2 Nov 2026 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: LURIE ENGINEERING CENTER, ROOM 3213 (JOHNSON ROOM) Chair: Lulu Zhao
Trang Hoang Program: Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: Engineering Baker's Yeast for an Affordable Influenza Virus-like Particles (VLPs) Vaccine Date: 2 Nov 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96091114919 Chair: Fei Wen
Yue Xin Program: Chemistry Dissertation Title: Advances in High-Throughput Chemical Reaction Screening, Rapid Chromatography, and Quantification for Pharmaceutical Development Date: 2 Nov 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: RACKHAM WEST CONFERENCE ROOMHTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91558857486 PASSCODE: 110226 Chair: Robert T Kennedy
Anati Azhar Program: Molecular, Cell & Dev Biology Dissertation Title: The Regulation and Interactome of an H4K20-Specific Demethylase in Dosage Compensation of C. elegans Date: 3 Nov 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BUILDING (BSB) IN CONFERENCE ROOM BSB 1010 Chair: Gyorgyi Csankovszki
Stephen Gonzalez Program: Biological Chemistry Dissertation Title: Molecular Mechanisms of Nucleosome Recognition and Methylation by Legionella pneumophila Histone Lysine Methyltransferases Date: 4 Nov 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: 2903 TAUBMAN HEALTH SCIENCE LIBRARY Chair: Raymond C Trievel
Liam Yourston Program: Biophysics Dissertation Title: Exploratory Investigation Into an Energy-Precision Tradeoff in Cell-Cycle Signaling: Novel Method Developments and Results Date: 4 Nov 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: WEST CONFERENCE ROOM (FOURTH FLOOR) – RACKHAM BUILDING ; HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/3421871207 Chair: Qiong Yang
Ruoyao Shi Program: Biostatistics Dissertation Title: Statistical Methods for Causal Inference and Representation Learning with High-Dimensional Genetic and Phenotypic Data Date: 4 Nov 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: 1750 SPH I Chair: Jean Morrison
Teresa Sauer Program: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dissertation Title: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Epidemics in Natural Aquatic Communities Date: 4 Nov 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: RACKHAM WEST CONFERENCE ROOM Chair: Meghan A Duffy
Sahil Kumar Program: Romance Language & Lit Spanish Dissertation Title: Unusual Suspects: Argentine Detective Fiction?s Recommencement of Marxism and Psychoanalysis Date: 4 Nov 2026 Time: 2:30 p.m. Location: RLL COMMONS (ROOM 4314), MLB Chair: Gavin Michael Arnall
Emrullah Ildiz Program: Electrical & Computer Engineer Dissertation Title: Theoretical Perspectives on Learning and Reasoning in Language Models Date: 4 Nov 2026 Time: 2:30 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/92622233074 Chair: Samet Oymak
