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Guoqing Wang (PHD, APSC)
Guoqing Wang (PHD, APSC)
4/23/18 10:00 AM
Effects of dietary macronutrient composition and exogenous neuropeptide Y on adipose tissue development in broiler chicks
@ 1770 Litton Reaves Hall -
Wei Sun (PHD, EDCI)
Wei Sun (PHD, EDCI)
4/23/18 10:00 AM
The relationship among middle school students' motivation perceptions of science class, science identification and career goals
@ 301 War Memorial Gymnasium -
Yashvardhan Gupta (MS, ME)
Yashvardhan Gupta (MS, ME)
4/23/18 10:30 AM
Tools and Techniques for Flow Characterization in the Development of Load Leveling Valves for Heavy Truck Application
@ GENERAL Commerce Street Lab -
Yoojin Kim (MS, MACR)
Yoojin Kim (MS, MACR)
4/23/18 11:00 AM
TEMPO-oxidized Nanofibrillated Cellulose Film (NFC) incorporating Graphene Oxide (GO) Nanofillers
@ 315 Julian Cheatham Hall -
Chandler Dangle (MS, FOR)
Chandler Lipham Dangle (MS, FOR)
4/23/18 1:00 PM
Efficacy of operational stream crossing best management practices on haul roads and skid trails in the Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain of Virginia
@ 315 Julian Cheatham Hall -
Yongle Du (PHD, CHEM)
Yongle Du (PHD, CHEM)
4/23/18 3:00 PM
Discovery and Delivery of Bioactive Natural Products
@ 400 Hahn Hall North -
Markus Kusano (PHD, CPE)
Markus Jan Urban Kusano (PHD, CPE)
4/23/18 4:00 PM
Constraint-Based Thread-Modular Abstract Interpretation
@ 330 Durham Hall -
Disha Sardana (MS, EE)
Disha Sardana (MS, EE)
4/23/18 4:00 PM
Quantification of Effect of Solar Storms on TEC over U.S. sector Using Machine Learning
@ 26C Graduate Life Center -
Richard Polikoff (MA, COMM)
Richard A Polikoff (MA, COMM)
4/24/18 8:30 AM
Hear Us Out: When Colleges Talk About Tuition Increases
@ CR 1 Shanks Hall -
Michael Milazzo (MS, CE)
Michael Joseph Milazzo (MS, CE)
4/24/18 8:30 AM
Potential for City Parks to Reduce Exposure to Hazardous Air Pollutants
@ GENERAL Kelly Hall -
Joshua Moser (MS, ME)
Joshua Nickolas Moser (MS, ME)
4/24/18 9:00 AM
Use of Computer Vision to Truck Thin Body Motion with the Application of Tracking Passion Plant Vine Tendrils
@ 440 Goodwin Hall -
Fang Fang (PHD, SOC)
Fang Fang (PHD, SOC)
4/24/18 9:30 AM
Culture and Family Life: Three Studies on Family and Marriage Relationships across Cultures
@ 209 Norris Hall -
Rizwan Ali (MS, EE)
Rizwan Ali (MS, EE)
4/24/18 3:00 PM
Resistive Switching in Porous Low-k Dielectrics
@ 302 Whittemore Hall -
Anuradha Bhowmik (MFA, ENCW)
Anuradha Bhowmik (MFA, ENCW)
4/24/18 3:15 PM
Brown Girl Chromatography
@ 415 Shanks Hall -
Andreas Schmitt (PHD, EE)
Andreas Joachim Schmitt (PHD, EE)
4/24/18 3:30 PM
Power System Parameter Estimation for Enhanced Grid Stability Assessment in Systems with Renewable Energy Sources
@ 654 Whittemore Hall -
Lisa Aker (PHD, EDCI)
Lisa Denise Aker (PHD, EDCI)
4/25/18 9:00 AM
Elementary Preservice Teachers�• Thinking about Student Learning in a Lesson Study Context
@ 226 War Memorial Gymnasium -
Robert Morrison (MA, PSCI)
Robert Maxwell Morrison (MA, PSCI)
4/25/18 9:00 AM
An Analysis: Complex Interdependence and the Chinese-United States Cyber Relationship
@ 502 Major Williams Hall -
Manisha Shrestha (PHD, BIOL)
Manisha Shrestha (PHD, BIOL)
4/25/18 9:00 AM
Mechanistic Studies of the Roles of the Transcriptional Activator ExsA and Anti-activator Protein ExsD in the Regulation of the Type Three Secretion System in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
@ 101 Life Sciences 1 Facility -
Louis Rossi (PHD, EDCI)
Louis Alfonso Rossi (PHD, EDCI)
4/25/18 1:00 PM
Special Education and STEM Education Teacher Credentials and Instructional Preparedness for Inclusive STEM Education
@ 110 War Memorial Gymnasium -
Hossam Abdelghaffar (PHD, EE)
Hossam Mohamed Abdelwahed Abdelghaffar (PHD, EE)
4/25/18 3:00 PM
Developing and Testing a Novel De-centralized Cycle-free Game Theoretic Traffic Signal Controller: A Traffic Efficiency and Environmental Perspective
@ 133 VTTI Building Addition -
Vamsi Chandra Meesala (MS, EM)
Vamsi Chandra Meesala (MS, EM)
4/25/18 3:00 PM
Nonlinear dynamics and applications of a cantilever beam mass system
@ 329 Norris Hall -
Yuhan Zhang (MS, ME)
Yuhan Zhang (MS, ME)
4/26/18 9:30 AM
Target tracking from a UAV based on computer vision
@ 461 Goodwin Hall -
Daniel Cooke (MS, ME)
Daniel Benjamin Cooke (MS, ME)
4/26/18 9:30 AM
Design and Optimization of a Self-powered Thermoelectric Car Seat Cooler
@ 443 Goodwin Hall -
Jonathan Doubek (PHD, BIOL)
Jonathan Patrick Doubek (PHD, BIOL)
4/26/18 10:00 AM
The effects of hypoxia on zooplankton communities in lakes and reservoirs
@ 2084 Derring Hall -
Kirby Myers (PHD, PHYS)
Kirby Myers (PHD, PHYS)
4/26/18 2:30 PM
Experiments on the Thermal, Electrical, and Plasmonic Properties of Nanostructured Materials
@ 164 ICTAS II -
Vijaykanth Pulumati (MS, CE)
Vijaykanth Pulumati (MS, CE)
4/27/18 8:00 AM
Investigation of Concrete Mixtures to Reduce Differential Shrinkage Cracking in Inverted T �
@ 200K Patton Hall -
Jennifer Green (MS, MATH)
Jennifer Neal Green (MS, MATH)
4/27/18 9:15 AM
Modeling spider webs as multilinked structures using a Chebyshev pseudospectral collocation method
@ 455 McBryde Hall -
Oliver Raj (MS, OCE)
Oliver Neal Raj (MS, OCE)
4/27/18 9:30 AM
Multi-Fidelity Structural Modeling For Set Based Design of Advanced Marine Vehicles
@ 207 Randolph Hall -
Thomas Coleman (MS, ME)
Thomas Christopher Coleman (MS, ME)
4/27/18 12:00 PM
An Assurance Metric and Robustness Evaluation of a Low-cost Acoustic Beamformer for Source Localization
@ 117A Randolph Hall -
Amelia McMullen (MS, MSE)
Amelia Marie McMullen (MS, MSE)
4/27/18 1:00 PM
ESEM Characterization of Escherichia coli Biofilms Grown on Copper- and Silver-Alloyed Austenitic Stainless Steels over a 48 �
@ CR 0 Randolph Hall -
Peter Marshall (MS, AE)
Peter Johannes Marshall (MS, AE)
4/27/18 1:00 PM
Acoustic Analysis of Spacecraft Cavities using the Boundary Element Method
@ 217C Randolph Hall -
Jacques Delport (PHD, EE)
Jacques Delport (PHD, EE)
4/27/18 2:00 PM
Critical Substation Risk Assessment and Mitigation
@ 222 Durham Hall -
Haley Murphy (PHD, PSYC)
Haley Gordon Murphy (PHD, PSYC)
4/27/18 3:00 PM
Adapting Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) to Custodial Grandparents
@ 327 Williams Hall -
Patrick Siebel (MFA, ENCW)
Patrick Alan Siebel (MFA, ENCW)
4/27/18 3:00 PM
Perverted in Neon
@ 370 Shanks Hall -
Shamit Bansal (MS, CPE)
Shamit Bansal (MS, CPE)
4/27/18 4:00 PM
Optimal Implementation of Simulink Models on Multicore Architectures with Partitioned Fixed Priority Scheduling
@ 475B Whittemore Hall -
Adna Karamehic-Oates (PHD, PGG)
Adna Karamehic-Oates (PHD, PGG)
4/30/18 9:30 AM
Reconceptions of �•Home�• and Identity within the Post-War Bosnian Diaspora in the United States
@ 207 Alexandria Arch Ctr 1021 -
Eric Petrosky (MS, EE)
Eric Edward Petrosky (MS, EE)
4/30/18 2:15 PM
Receiver-Assigned CDMA in Wireless Sensor Networks
@ 654 Whittemore Hall -
Richard Dumene (MS, EE)
Richard Lawrence Dumene (MS, EE)
4/30/18 4:00 PM
Manufacture and Characterization of Additively Manufactured Ceramic Electromagnetic Structures
@ 270 Whittemore Hall -
Changlai DU (PHD, CSA)
Changlai DU (PHD, CSA)
5/1/18 9:00 AM
Exploring the Sensing Capability of Wireless Signals
@ T3 VT-UVA Northern VA Center -
Philip Kobezak (MS, CPE)
Philip D Kobezak (MS, CPE)
5/1/18 9:00 AM
Frequent Inventory of Network Devices for Incident Response: A Data-driven Approach to Cybersecurity and Network Operations
@ 457 Whittemore Hall -
Janay Frazier (MS, EE)
Janay Amber Wright Frazier (MS, EE)
5/1/18 11:00 AM
High-Definition Raman-based Distributed Temperature Sensing
@ 301 North End 460 -
Meghan Hekl (MS, CE)
Meghan Louise Hekl (MS, CE)
5/1/18 2:00 PM
Assessment of Mansionization and Residential Infill Development on Stormwater Runoff
@ 200K Patton Hall -
Kruthika Kikkeri (MS, EE)
Kruthika Kikkeri (MS, EE)
5/1/18 2:00 PM
Biomedical Applications of Dielectrophoresis
@ 457 Whittemore Hall -
Aditie Garg (MS, EE)
Aditie Garg (MS, EE)
5/1/18 2:00 PM
Designing Reactive Power Control Policy for Smart Inverters using Machine Learning
@ 302 Whittemore Hall -
Khai Ngo (MS, CPE)
Khai Thoi Ngo (MS, CPE)
5/1/18 3:30 PM
Stacking Ensemble for auto_ml
@ 654 Whittemore Hall -
Matthew Clontz (PHD, ME)
Matthew Christopher Clontz (PHD, ME)
5/2/18 10:00 AM
A Novel Method for Vibration Analysis of the Tire-Vehicle System via Frequency Based Substructuring
@ 117A Randolph Hall -
Anastasia Yakusheva (MS, MSE)
Anastasia A. Yakusheva (MS, MSE)
5/2/18 10:00 AM
Devitrification Kinetics and Optical Stability of Optical Fibers at High Temperatures
@ CR 0 Randolph Hall -
Cagdas Bilici (PHD, CE)
Cagdas Bilici (PHD, CE)
5/2/18 3:00 PM
Development of a Sediment Sampling Free Fall Penetrometer Add-on Unit for Geotechnical Characterization of Seabed Surface Layers
@ 200K Patton Hall -
Junbo ZHAO (PHD, EE)
Junbo ZHAO (PHD, EE)
5/2/18 4:00 PM
A Robust State and Parameter Estimation Framework for Smart Grid Monitoring and Control
@ GENERAL Advanced Research Institute -
Lei Zhang (MFA, CTEC)
Lei Zhang (MFA, CTEC)
5/7/18 2:00 PM
No title on record.
@ MEDIA Carol M Newman Library -
Elizabeth Olberding (MURPL, URPL)
Elizabeth Claire Olberding (MURPL, URPL)
5/9/18 11:30 AM
An indigenous perspective: REDD+ and Costa Rica, another form of colonialism and commodification of natural resources?
@ 200 Architecture Annex -
Alyssa Gatto (MS, PSYC)
Alyssa Jo Gatto (MS, PSYC)
12/1/18 1:30 AM
No title on record.
@ 227 Major Williams Hall
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