KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Monday, July 29, 2024, 1:00 pm
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)
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 12:00 pm
Business
Danesh Yazdi, Amir
Three Essays on Finance
Hodge Hall 6146
Chair: Prof. Nandini Gupta, (812-855-3416)
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, July 16, 2024, 2:30 pm
French
Evans, Scott
Postverbal Nominal Subjects and Verb-Second in Middle French: Syntax and Information Structure
Indiana Memorial Union, Oak Room
Chair: Prof. Barbara Vance, (812-855-2702)
Tuesday, July 16, 2024, 4:00 pm
Chemistry
Googasian, Jack
Synthesis, Simulation, and Machine Learning Optimization of Chiral Plasmonic Nanocrystal Systems
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. Sara Skrabalak, (812-856-1892)
Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 3:00 pm
Philosophy
Verano, Ivan
Methodology and the Limits of Knowledge
Ballantine Hall 403
Chair: Prof. Kirk Ludwig, (812-855-2404)
Friday, July 19, 2024, 10:00 am
Microbiology
Garcia, Maximiliano
Determinants in the reovirus ?1 attachment protein that control particle properties
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Pranav Danthi, (812-856-2449)
Friday, July 19, 2024, 12:30 pm
Microbiology
Dunn, Caroline
Dynamics and Localization of the flagellar basal body in Bacillus subtilis
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Daniel Kearns, (812-856-2523)
Friday, July 19, 2024, 1:00 pm
Physics
Havert, Daniel
Effects of Electrical Stimulation on Criticality in Organotypic Cortical Slices
Swain West 238
Chair: Prof. John Beggs, (317-670-6157)
Friday, July 19, 2024, 1:00 pm
Chemistry
Delmain, Natalie
Studies of Cyclization Reactions for Oxa-Bridged Bicyclic Compounds Using Transition-Metal Catalysis
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. David Williams, (812-855-6629)
Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 9:00 am
Chinese
Mi, Aolan
Revolutionary Engine: Railways and Culture in Socialist China
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Chair: Prof. Tie Xiao, (608-698-8439)
Thursday, July 25, 2024, 3:00 pm
Chemistry
Partovi, Sheyda
An electrochemical approach to transforming nitrogen oxyanions through systematic catalyst design
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. Jeremy Smith, (812-856-4119)
Friday, July 26, 2024, 12:15 pm
Microbiology
Garrett, Abigail
Exploring the relationship between cyclic-di-AMP, peptidoglycan synthesis, and potassium influx in Streptococcus pneumoniae
Biology Building 009
Chair: Prof. Malcolm Winkler, (812-856-1318)
Monday, July 29, 2024, 9:00 am
Portuguese
de Oliveira e Silva Lemos, Marcela
Flashes de um passado presente: A fotografia e a memória das ditaduras militares brasileira e argentina na prosa literária do século XXI
Global and International Studies Building, GA2134
Chair: Prof. Luciana Namorato, (812-272-1316)
Monday, July 29, 2024, 11:00 am
English
Kim, Moonjin
For the Continuation of History: Wholeness in Thomas Malory’s Sankgreal
Ballantine Hall Room 403
Chair: Prof. Patricia Ingham, (812-855-0521)
Monday, July 29, 2024, 1:00 pm
History
Wright, Travis
"You Can Help’: The Friends of SNCC and the National Struggle for Black Freedom"
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Chair: Prof. Cara Caddoo, (812-855-3236)
Monday, July 29, 2024, 2:00 pm
Italian
Casiraghi, Lucia
“Non parlo mica così in real life”: Italian Youth’s Translanguaging Practices on Social Media
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Chair: Prof. Andrea Ciccarelli, (812-855-6029)
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 1:30 pm
Physics
Hughes, Caleb
Rare Earth Iron Garnets as Probes of Exotic Spin-Dependent Forces
Multidisciplinary Engineering and Sciences Hall Center North Large Conference Room
Chair: Prof. W. Michael Snow, (812-322-2277)
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 2:30 pm
Chemistry
Ault, Charles
Innovations in Physical Virology with Scanning Probe Microscopy
Indiana Memorial Union, Dogwood Room
Chair: Prof. Bogdan Dragnea, (812-856-0087)
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 3:00 pm
History
Rolfsen, Avenel
"We Won’t Wait for the State”: Humanitarianism, Solidarity and Charity in Senegalese History, 1880-1960
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Chair: Prof. John Hanson, (812-855-5212)
Friday, August 02, 2024, 10:00 am
French / Linguistics
Gilbert, Charlene
Referential Computations and WH-Movement in Native and Non-native Processing of French: Evidence from Reading Times
Indiana Memorial Union, Redbud Room
Chair: Prof. Laurent Dekydtspotter / Prof. Emeritus Steven Franks, (812-855-2221 / 812-360-6530)
Monday, August 05, 2024, 11:00 am
Linguistics
Hiraga, Misato
Japanese Particles in Learner Language: Corpus Design, Automatic Annotation, and Analysis
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Chair: Prof. Sandra Kuebler, (812-855-3268)
Monday, August 05, 2024, 1:00 pm
Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Jean-Guillaume, Claude
Brothers in Eyes: Pax6 Paralogs Collaborate to Specify Visual System Fates in Drosophila
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Justin Kumar, (812-856-2621)
Monday, August 05, 2024, 3:00 pm
Linguistics
Abo Mokh, Noor
Syntactic Variation for Dialects of Arabic
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Chair: Prof. Sandra Kubler, (812-855-3268)
Tuesday, August 06, 2024, 10:00 am
Linguistics
Bassas, Yasmeen
Arabic Native Language Identification
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Chair: Prof. Sandra Kuebler, (812-855-3268)
Thursday, August 08, 2024, 1:00 pm
Chemistry
Kappler, Michael
Integrated In-Plane Nanofluidic Architectures for Tracking Virus Assembly and Ion Transport
Indiana Memorial Union, Oak Room
Chair: Prof. Stephen Jacobson, (812-855-6620)
Thursday, August 08, 2024, 1:30 pm
Political Science
Coe, Erika
Civic Renewal Movements: Panacea for Democracy's Crisis?
Woodburn Hall 218
Chair: Prof. William Scheuerman, (812-855-6308)
Friday, August 09, 2024, 9:00 am
Portuguese
Cintra Guimaraes, Maria
Diversidade & unidade em Fernando Pessoa
Global and International Studies Building GA2170
Chair: Prof. Estela Vieira, (812-349-8228)
Friday, August 09, 2024, 1:00 pm
Gender Studies
Hoard-Jackson, Teresa
Fallopian Feminism: A Black Queer Feminist Methodological Intervention on Reproductive Technoscience
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Chair: Prof. Laura Foster, (812-855-0101)
Friday, August 09, 2024, 2:00 pm
Chemistry
Zang, Zhiyu
DISCOVERY OF CHEMICAL MODULATORS OF BACTERIOPHAGE INFECTIONS
Indiana Memorial Union, Dogwood Room
Chair: Prof. JP Gerdt, (309-360-2947)
Monday, August 12, 2024, 10:00 am
Physics
Gallimore, Daniel
Potential Model Investigations of Hadron Structure
Swain West 214
Chair: Prof. Jinfeng Liao, (812-856-7796)
Monday, August 12, 2024, 11:00 am
English
Stern, Kortney
Sonic Interventions: Silence, Sound, and Melody in Medieval Literature
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Chair: Prof. Patricia Ingham, (812-855-0521)
Monday, August 12, 2024, 2:00 pm
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Crawley, Brianna
Social and ecological factors influencing urban ecological restoration
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Heather Reynolds, (812-855-0792)
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 3:00 pm
History and Philosophy of Science
Marcotte, John
The Anisotropy of Time: A Logical Condition for Irreversible Processes
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Chair: Prof. Amit Hagar, (812-855-2541)
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 10:00 am
Special Education
Large, Kelsey
Identifying Language Learning Growth for Young Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Using Listening and Spoken Language in a Center-Based Intervention
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Chair: Prof. Jeffrey Anderson, (812-856-8155)
Friday, August 09, 2024, 9:30 am
Curriculum and Instruction
Han, Jihee
SECONDARY PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION (GCE) AT A WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY IN SOUTH KOREA
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Chair: Prof. Patricia Kubow, (812-856-8399)
Friday, August 23, 2024, 1:00 pm
Counseling Psychology
Williams, Evelyn
Effects of Familial Processes and Cultural Values on the Relationship Between Early Life Stress and Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes
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Chair: Prof. Ellen Vaughan, (812-856-8243)
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION
Monday, July 22, 2024, 2:00 pm
Intelligent Systems Engineering
van der Elst, Louis
Multi-scale Engineering of Device Architecture for a Prescribed Biomedical Function
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Chair: Prof. Alexander Gumennik, (617-922-6441)
Monday, July 29, 2024, 9:00 am
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Chen, Zheng
Towards Robust Robotic Vision Perception
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Chair: Prof. Lantao Liu, (812-856-7065)
Monday, August 05, 2024, 3:00 pm
Computer Science
Wang, Zihao
Assessing and Improving the Security of Machine Learning
Luddy Hall room 4063
Chair: Prof. XiaoFeng Wang, (812-856-1862)
Thursday, August 08, 2024, 2:00 pm
Informatics
Patwardhan, Siddharth
Optimization problems in multiplex networks
Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence Room 2005
Chair: Prof. Filippo Radicchi, (812-855-9322)
Friday, August 23, 2024, 12:00 pm
Informatics
Tandon, Aditya
Network-Based Approaches to Understanding Complex Systems: Community Structure and Science Evolution
Luddy AI Building, 2005
Chair: Prof. Santo Fortunato, (812-856-5754)
THE MEDIA SCHOOL, GRADUATE DIVISION
Monday, August 05, 2024, 12:00 pm
Media Arts and Sciences
Riftin, Ruth
Future Simple: The 2000s French Cyberpunk Film Cycle
Franklin Hall 230M
Chair: Prof. Joan Hawkins, (812-322-4431)
SCHOOL OF OPTOMETRY, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, July 19, 2024, 10:00 am
Vision Science
Singh, Neeraj
OPTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF MYOPIA CONTROL CONTACT LENSES: ACCOMMODATION, RETINAL DEFOCUS AND THE EFFECTS OF PROLONGED ELECTRONIC DEVICE USE ON CHILDREN'S EYES
School of Optometry, Room 111
Chair: Prof. Pete Kollbaum, (812-856-0108)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 10:00 am
Environmental Science
Miniard, Deidra
Understanding climate change and energy system perceptions and behavior: Three studies examining energy transition preferences, social distance, and issue-framing communication
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Chair: Prof. Shahzeen Attari, (812-855-1467)
Friday, July 19, 2024, 8:00 am
Environmental Science
Chang, Qing
Incorporating land-atmosphere feedback into ecological drought monitoring and prediction
Multidisciplinary Science Building II, Room 334
Chair: Prof. Kimberly Novick, (812-855-3010)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Friday, July 19, 2024, 10:30 am
Health Behavior
Jackson, Frederica
Perinatal Loss - Bereavement Care Experiences of Indiana Women and Health Provider Perspectives
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Chair: Prof. Cecilia Obeng, (812-361-6789)
Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 3:00 pm
Leisure Behavior
Simic Stanojevic, Ivanka
SEXUAL HEALTH OF LGBTQ+ INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: SELF-EFFICACY AND SUPPORT NEEDS OF DIRECT CARE AND SERVICE PROVIDERS
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Chair: Prof. Jennifer Piatt, (812-855-7819)
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 10:00 am
Epidemiology
Luan, Yuanyuan
Generalized functional linear regression models with a mixture of complex functional and scalar covariates prone to measurement error
Indiana Memorial Union, Maple Room
Chair: Prof. Carmen Tekwe / Prof. Roger Zoh, (812-855-3787 / 812-855-3076)
Thursday, August 01, 2024, 12:00 pm
Health Behavior
Kutzner, Jodi
Genetic Risk for Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms from Childhood to Young Adulthood: Influences on Self-Harm and Heavy Drinking Behaviors
Indiana Memorial Union, Persimmon Room
Chair: Prof. Kit Elam, (815-980-7353)
Monday, August 12, 2024, 12:00 pm
Human Performance
McDonnell, James
A Multifaceted Analysis of Gait-Related Risk Factors in Overuse Injuries: Exploring Changes in Mood, Kinematics, and Stride-to-Stride Fluctuations Across Three Days of Running at Lactate Threshold.
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Chair: Prof. Allison Gruber, (812-856-2447)
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 10:00 am
Epidemiology
Phillips, Meredith
Reproductive Life History and Mid- to Later-Life Cognitive Function in South Africa and The United States
Indiana Memorial Union, Redbud Room
Chair: Prof. Molly Rosenberg, (812-856-2509)