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Harsh Apurva Sharma (PHD, AE) Harsh Apurva Sharma (PHD, AE)
8/7/20 1:00 PM
Structure-preserving Numerical Methods for Engineering Applications
@ 207 Randolph Hall
Wei Cui (PHD, PHYS) Wei Cui (PHD, PHYS)
8/7/20 1:30 PM
Applications of Numerical Methods in Heterotic Calabi-Yau Compactification
@ 212A Robeson Hall
Qing Jin (PHD, LSFS) Qing Jin (PHD, LSFS)
8/7/20 2:00 PM
Process Design and Techno-Economic Analysis of An Integrated Grape Pomace Biorefinery
@ 39A Gradaute Life Ctr
Erik Higgins (MS, AE) Erik Tracy Higgins (MS, AE)
8/7/20 3:00 PM
Delta Formulation for Geophysical Fluid Flows
@ 655 McBryde Hall
Maanav Mehrotra (MS, CSA) Maanav Mehrotra (MS, CSA)
8/7/20 4:00 PM
Generating Canonical Sentences from Question-Answer Pairs of Deposition Transcripts
@ 2202 Knowledgeworks II
Keith Compton (PHD, BIOL) Keith Karl Compton (PHD, BIOL)
8/10/20 10:00 AM
The nature of host plant recruitment by the sensory repertoire of Sinorhizobium meliloti
@ 101 Life Sciences 1 Facility
Fengshuang Du (PHD, MINE) Fengshuang Du (PHD, MINE)
8/10/20 10:00 AM
Investigation of nanopore confinement effects on convective and diffusive multicomponent multiphase fluid transport in shale using in-house simulation models
@ 117A Surge Space Building
Ann Shepherd (PHD, EDCI) Ann Brogan Shepherd (PHD, EDCI)
8/10/20 10:00 AM
Black and White: Race, Culture, and Urban Renewal
@ GENERAL CRC
Amirsina Torfi (PHD, CSA) Amirsina Torfi (PHD, CSA)
8/10/20 11:00 AM
Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Medical Data Generation with Deep Learning
@ 2030 Torgersen Hall
Lisa Yost (PHD, SOC) Lisa Robinson Yost (PHD, SOC)
8/10/20 1:00 PM
Milner's Theory of Status Relations and Cyberbullying Among U.S. Adolescents
@ 205A Norris Hall
Kaiwen Chen (PHD, EDP) Kaiwen Chen (PHD, EDP)
8/10/20 1:00 PM
Analysis and Management of UAV-Captured Images towards Automation of Building Facade Inspections
@ 410 Bishop Favrao Hall
Negar Darabi (PHD, ISE) Negar Darabi (PHD, ISE)
8/11/20 9:00 AM
A Multi-Level Analysis of Major Health Challenges in the United States Using Data Analytics Approaches
@ 260 Durham Hall
Andrea Carracedo Rodriguez (PHD, MATH) Andrea Carracedo Rodriguez (PHD, MATH)
8/11/20 1:00 PM
Approximation of Parametric Dynamical Systems
@ 460 McBryde Hall
Karthik Balaji Keshavamurthi (MS, ME) Karthik Balaji Keshavamurthi (MS, ME)
8/11/20 2:00 PM
Development of Real Time Self Driving Software for Wheeled Robot with UI based Navigation
@ 117 Randolph Hall
Rebekah Martin (PHD, CE) Rebekah Leighann Martin (PHD, CE)
8/12/20 9:00 AM
Impact of Premise Plumbing Conditions, Materials, Corrosion Control, Temperature and Water Heater Design on the Growth of Opportunistic Pathogens in Drinking Water
@ 407 Durham Hall
Daniel Tait (MS, EE) Daniel Beale Tait (MS, EE)
8/12/20 2:00 PM
Electromagnetic Vector-Sensor Processing
@ 457A Whittemore Hall
Abhimanyu Chadha (MS, CPE) Abhimanyu Chadha (MS, CPE)
8/13/20 1:00 PM
Vision Based Localization of Drones in a GPS Denied Environment
@ 457A Whittemore Hall
Christian Tollefson (MS, ME) Christian Roland Tollefson (MS, ME)
8/13/20 1:00 PM
Willans Line Based Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategy for Charge Sustaining Hybrid Electric Vehicle
@ 440 Goodwin Hall
Dhruva Sahasrabudhe (MS, CSA) Dhruva Shrikrishna Sahasrabudhe (MS, CSA)
8/13/20 1:00 PM
A Multimodal Graph Convolutional Approach to Predict Genes Associated with Rare Genetic Diseases
@ 2160H Torgersen Hall
Shivam Chourey (MS, CPE) Shivam Chourey (MS, CPE)
8/13/20 3:00 PM
Cooperative human-robot search in a partially-known environment using multiple UAVs
@ 457A Whittemore Hall
Nitin Kesavan Nair (MS, CPE) Nitin Kesavan Nair (MS, CPE)
8/13/20 3:00 PM
Deep Learning Based Proteomic Language Modelling for in-silico Protein Generation
@ 5092 Derring Hall
Tanya Tyagi (MS, CSA) Tanya Tyagi (MS, CSA)
8/13/20 4:00 PM
Benchmarking Methods For Predicting Phenotype Gene Associations
@ 3160A Torgersen Hall
Adam Beck (MS, FOR) Adam Thomas Beck (MS, FOR)
8/14/20 10:00 AM
Projecting agroforestry adoption and agroforestry water quality trading in the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, USA
@ 313 Julian Cheatham Hall
Brittany Nackley (MS, PSYC) Brittany Burch Nackley (MS, PSYC)
8/17/20 8:00 AM
Temporal Dynamics of the Defense Cascade
@ 227 Williams Hall
Heather Kissel (MS, PSYC) Heather Ann Kissel (MS, PSYC)
8/21/20 10:00 AM
Physiological Linkage and Communication of Emotion via Touch
@ 253 Williams Hall

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