KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, March 28, 2025, 10:00 am
Business
Adams, Joel
TAKING VISION SERIOUSLY: IMPLICATIONS FOR RATIONALITY, ACTION, AND THE NATURE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR
Hodge Hall 7301
Chair: Prof. Jeff McMullen, (812-855-2718)
Tuesday, April 01, 2025, 3:00 pm
Business
Neshatomidvaran, Navid
Three Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance
Hodge Hall 7301
Chair: Prof. Eitan Goldman / Prof. Kristoph Kleiner, (202-288-8624 / 828-289-5432)
Friday, April 11, 2025, 8:00 am
Business
Tipnis, Vinit
Understanding Nonprofit Dynamics: The Role of Behavior in Volunteering and Fundraising
Hodge Hall 7301
Chair: Prof. Christopher Chen / Fei Gao, (812-855-5268 / 812-855-9984)
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, March 06, 2025, 11:00 am
Mathematics
Davis, Caroline
Global Combinatorics of Quadratic Periodic Curves
Rawles Hall RH 127
Chair: Prof. Dylan Thurston, (812-855-6730)
Thursday, March 06, 2025, 2:30 pm
Chemistry
Montone, Christine
Advancing Porous Metal-Organic Materials for Enhanced Functional Applications
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. Eric Bloch, (812-855-9043)
Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 10:00 am
Neuroscience
Winter, Matthew
AN EXPLORATION OF MICROSTATE METHODS AND PRINCIPLES IN RESTING AND TASK-RELATED MEG DATA
Psychology Room 137C
Chair: Prof. Aina Puce, (812-856-0417)
Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 11:30 am
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Caple, Mackenzie
Cooperation under changing conditions: tests of mutualism theory in legume-rhizobium systems
Biology Building 248
Chair: Prof. Jennifer Lau, (269-270-4236)
Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 1:00 pm
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Jones, Joshua
The Dung BEETLE MICROBIOME: A STUDY OF ECOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS TO COMPLEX LIFE CYCLES AND RECALCITRANT DIETS
Myers A100
Chair: Prof. Armin Maczek, (812-856-1468)
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 11:00 am
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Reed, Jeremy
FESTIVAL-AS-RESOURCE: FESTIVALS AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN JORDAN
Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. David McDonald, (812-855-0396)
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 12:00 pm
Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Liao, Qin
GENOME ARCHITECTURE AND SEGREGATION IN BACTERIA
Biology Building 248
Chair: Prof. Xindan Wang, (617-935-2041)
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 2:00 pm
Geological Sciences
Ryan, James
Identification and Predictability of Extreme Temperature Events
Geology Building Room 2029
Chair: Prof. Ben Kravitz, (812-855-4334)
Friday, March 28, 2025, 1:00 am
Second Language Studies
Rocca, Brian
The effects of lexical characteristics, phonetic categorization, and vocabulary size on language learners’ phonolexical representations: A lexical friction account
Ballantine Hall 310
Chair: Prof. Isabelle Darcy, (812-606-2208)
Friday, March 28, 2025, 9:00 am
History and Philosophy of Science
Inoue, Takatomo
Alchemy in Medieval Islam and Ab? Bakr al-R?z?
Ballantine Hall 903
Chair: Prof. William Newman, (812-855-3071)
Friday, March 28, 2025, 12:30 pm
Microbiology
Schakel, Olivia
Cross-feeding can rescue a bacterial gene loss mutant when separated from its competitive ancestor.
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. James McKinlay, (812-855-0359)
Tuesday, April 01, 2025, 2:30 pm
Psychology
Heiman, Samantha
Intentionality and Consequences of Political Identity Signaling
Multidisciplinary Science Building II, Room 234
Chair: Prof. Edward Hirt, (812-855-4815)
Tuesday, April 01, 2025, 2:30 pm
Chemistry
Maha, Ibrar
Plasmonic Metal Nanoaprticles and their Assemblies for Anti-Counterfeit Applications
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. Sara Skrabalak, (812-856-1892)
Thursday, April 03, 2025, 9:00 am
History
Riley, Meghan
A Sword Trembles Overhead: American Humanitarian Relief in the Concentration Camps of Unoccupied France, 1939-42
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Mark Roseman, (812-855-8325)
Thursday, April 03, 2025, 3:00 pm
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Williams, Shaun
Singing for the Roma: Lautari and the Politics of Romani Memory and Identity in Romania Under Communism and Post-Socialist Transition
Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. Daniel Reed, (812-320-9687)
Friday, April 04, 2025, 1:00 pm
Chemistry
Lin, Sheng
Indium Chloride-Promoted Thioether Bond Formation: A Gateway to Diverse Natural Products
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Michael VanNieuwenhze, (812-856-7545)
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 11:30 am
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Warner-Evans, Hilary
Sense of Place, Community, and Traditionalization in the Maine Songs of Albert L. “Bert” Baily: A Folkloristic Study of the Role of the Local Song in the Twenty-First Century
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Ray Cashman, (812-856-2774)
Friday, April 11, 2025, 1:00 pm
Economics
Berryhill, Andrew
Three Essays on the Political Economy of Fiscal Rules
Wylie Hall 225
Chair: Prof. Gustavo Torrens, (812-856-8131)
Monday, April 14, 2025, 10:00 am
Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Ladaika, Christopher
Targeting Enteroendocrine Cell Differentiation in Colorectal Cancer
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Heather O'Hagan, (812-855-3035)
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 12:30 pm
Physics
Edelson, Charles
Visual Information Processing in Dynamic Natural Scenery
Swain West 130
Chair: Prof. Rob de Ruyter, (812-855-6857)
Monday, April 21, 2025, 10:00 am
Germanic Studies
Rylander, Luke
Abortion and Infanticide in Goethe's Faust
Global and International Studies Building, GA2134
Chair: Prof. Johannes Turk, (812-855-1642)
Monday, April 28, 2025, 10:00 am
Economics
Zhuang, Huiqi
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Wylie Hall 225
Chair: Prof. Ruli Xiao, (812-855-3213)
Friday, May 02, 2025, 9:30 am
History
Lanz, Jonathan
The Birkenau Boys: Childhood Experiences, Postwar Identity, and Memory in a Community of Holocaust Survivors
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Mark Roseman, (812-855-8325)
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 2:00 pm
Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology
Li, Pei-Jung
Invisible and In-Between: Unpacking International Doctoral Students’ Educational Experiences in the United States with Participant-Led Research
Wright Education Building 2140
Chair: Prof. Jessica Nina Lester, (812-856-8328)
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION
Sunday, March 09, 2025, 8:00 pm
Computer Science
Lu, Haoran
Assessing and Mitigating Emerging Threats in the Mobile Software Supply Chain
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Xiaojing Liao, (864-650-8137)
Monday, March 24, 2025, 10:00 am
Informatics
Mortensen, Catherine
Characterization and Application of Genomic Variation in Metagenomes
Luddy Building Room 4069
Chair: Prof. Yuzhen Ye, (812-855-8562)
Friday, April 04, 2025, 10:30 am
Information Science
Gumusel, Ece
User Privacy Dynamics in Conversational Text-based AI Chatbots: Understanding Harms, Risks, and Strategies for Mitigation
ILS Conference Room, Luddy Hall, IF 2122
Chair: Prof. Howard Rosenbaum, (812-855-3250)
Monday, April 07, 2025, 9:00 am
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Ranawaka, Isuru
Distributed Memory Algorithms for High-Dimensional Data Embedding
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Ariful Azad, (765-237-2417)
Monday, May 05, 2025, 10:00 am
Informatics
DeVerna, Matthew
Social Media Misinformation: Spread, Impact, and Fact-checking with Large Language Models
Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence Room 2005
Chair: Prof. Filippo Menczer, (812-856-1377)
THE MEDIA SCHOOL, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, April 04, 2025, 3:00 pm
Media Arts and Sciences
Anderson, Johnathan
Controlling the Game: Sports Fan Reactions to NFL Victories and Defeats in Mediated Sport
Franklin Hall 330H
Chair: Prof. Walter Gantz, (812-855-1621)
SCHOOL OF LAW, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, April 04, 2025, 6:00 pm
Law and Democracy
Kim, Kwangsup
PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND DEMOCRACY
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Susan Williams, (812-855-6319)
SCHOOL OF MUSIC, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, March 07, 2025, 4:00 pm
Musicology
Lake, Anne
Superhero Film Scores in the Decade after 9/11
Simon Music Center SM356
Chair: Prof. Ayana Smith, (812-855-8278)
Friday, March 14, 2025, 4:00 pm
Musicology
Domico, Patrick
Medtner the Symbolist
Simon Music Center SM356
Chair: Prof. Halina Goldberg, (812-391-3093)
Tuesday, April 01, 2025, 3:00 pm
Music Theory
Cooke-Dickens, Thomas
Impulse Based Riffs in Blues Rock Music
Simon Music Center SM267
Chair: Prof. Frank Samarotto, (812-856-5740)
Monday, April 21, 2025, 9:00 am
Music Theory
Park, Jinny
Diatonic Chord Loops in Post-millennial Pop Harmony
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Kyle Adams, (812-855-1859)
Friday, April 25, 2025, 4:00 pm
Musicology
Belt, Chelsey
Re-Stringing the Lyre: Monody and the Performance of Poetry in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy
Simon Music Center SM356
Chair: Prof. Massimo Ossi, (812-855-7965)
SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, April 08, 2025, 9:30 am
Central Eurasian Studies
Kraytkraemer, Michael
"One Reads with One's Heart": Islamic Texts and History in 20th-Century East Turkestan
Global and International Studies Building 4067
Chair: Prof. Ron Sela, (812-856-7017)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 10:00 am
Epidemiology
Kummer, Allisandra
Improving mathematical, computational, and analytical tools for epidemic outbreak preparedness and response
School of Public Health room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Marco Ajelli, (812-671-1001)
Friday, March 28, 2025, 10:00 am
Human Performance
Date, Surabhi Shripad
Effect of a Virtual Reality Active Video Gaming Intervention on Static and Dynamic Balance in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Controlled Clinical Trial
School of Public Health, room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Georgia Frey, (812-369-9800)
