KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, May 30, 2025, 10:00 am
Business
Palley, Thomas
Essays on Operations and Decision Analysis in Public Policy
Godfrey Center 2063
Chair: Prof. Owen Wu / Prof. Oguz Cetin, (812-855-2676 / 919-808-6712)
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 10:00 am
Business
Li, Xiaoying
Three Essays on Bank Intermediation
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Chair: Prof. Matt Billett, (812-855-3366)
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, May 30, 2025, 1:00 pm
Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Huang, Yi-Ting
The regulation of unscheduled endocycling cell growth and their impact on tissue growth
Biology Building 248
Chair: Prof. Brian Calvi, (812-855-5450)
Monday, June 02, 2025, 10:00 am
Statistical Science
Kim, Jongwook
Parametric Modeling of Intrinsic Structure Covariance Functions for Non-Homogeneous and Non-Stationary Spatio-Temporal Random Processes on the Sphere
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Chair: Prof. Chunfeng Huang, (614-558-3972)
Tuesday, June 03, 2025, 10:00 am
Sociology
Brooks, Caroline
Invisible Illness and the Self: Exploring the Interplay of Migraine, Social Networks, and Identity
Morrison Hall 326
Chair: Prof. Brea Perry, (812-855-4127)
Wednesday, June 04, 2025, 10:00 am
History and Philosophy of Science
Yao, Siyu
Connecting the Stars: Narrative Knowledge, Coherence, and Productive Research in Astronomy
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Chair: Prof. Jordi Cat, (812-855-8806)
Wednesday, June 04, 2025, 11:00 am
Mathematics
Lim, Ahram
A Bicategory Approach to Hermitian Morita Theory
Rawles Hall 104
Chair: Prof. James Davis, (812-855-5069)
Thursday, June 05, 2025, 12:00 pm
Psychology / Neuroscience
Sepe-Forrest, Linnea
An Examination of Early Psychotropic Drug Use and Serious Mental Illness in Youth
Psychology Building 137C
Chair: Prof. Patrick Quinn / Prof. Brian D'Onofrio, (8-12-855-9789 / 812-856-0843)
Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 10:00 am
Sociology
Anderson, Elizabeth
Healthcare Policy, Structural Sexism, and the Production of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare Disparities
Morrison Hall 326
Chair: Prof. Brea Perry, (812-856-0447)
Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 12:00 pm
English
Riopelle, Stephen
The Belief Beneath the Habit: Using Core Beliefs to Reframe the Study of Writing-Related Patterns of Thought
Ballantine 440 (Belton Library)
Chair: Prof. Katherine Silvester / Prof. Scot Barnett, (812-855-8224 / 812-855-8224)
Thursday, June 12, 2025, 2:00 pm
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Leuner, Lauren
Influences of social and spatial complexity on the dynamics of social motivation and courtship in mice
Biology Building A100
Chair: Prof. Laura Hurley, (812-856-1991)
Friday, June 13, 2025, 9:30 am
Mathematics
Chawla, Kapil
Modeling Ice Sheet Dynamics Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks: From Stationary to Time-Dependent Frameworks
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Chair: Prof. William Holmes / Prof. Michael Jolly, (812-855-2054 / 812-855-8865)
Friday, June 13, 2025, 1:30 pm
Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Fasteen, Tess
Nuclear receptor signaling coordinates metabolism with development in Drosophila melanogaster
Biology Building 009
Chair: Prof. Jason Tennessen, (812-855-9803)
Monday, June 16, 2025, 12:30 pm
Psychology / Neuroscience
Morales, Jaime
Social Cognition and Functioning Across Dimensional Schizotypy: Behavioral and Neuronal Profiles
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Chair: Prof. William Hetrick / Prof. Aina Puce, (812-855-2620 / 812-856-0417)
Monday, June 16, 2025, 3:30 pm
Psychology
Cai, Xiaohong
Mapping context effects across preference, perception, and belief-based judgments
Psychology, Rm. 128
Chair: Prof. Tim Pleskac, (812-855-6370)
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 9:00 am
Physics
McKay, Samuel
Structures of Quantum Entangled Neutron Beams
Swain West 214
Chair: Prof. David Baxter / Prof. Roger Pynn, (812-855-8337 / 505-670-9708)
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 11:00 am
Sociology
Cleckner, Callie
Inside Indiana Gun Shows: Gun Show Organizations, Gun Culture, and the Symbolic, Racialized Dynamics of a Changing Marketplace
Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research 100
Chair: Prof. Tim Hallett, (812-219-3469)
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 12:00 pm
Geography
Pervin, Rubaya
Remote Sensing and Modelling Dryland Vegetation and Carbon Cycle Patterns
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Chair: Prof. Scott Robeson / Prof. Mallory Barnes, (812-855-7722 / malbarn@iu.edu)
Friday, June 20, 2025, 1:00 pm
History
David, Jessica
Bribed Oracles, Corrupt Seers, and the Politics of Piety in Ancient Greece, 6th – 4th Centuries BCE
Ballantine Hall Conference Room 803
Chair: Prof. Eric Robinson, (812-855-3236)
Friday, June 20, 2025, 1:00 pm
Sociology
Liang, Yingjian
Imagining Globally, Adapting Locally: How Skilled Immigrants Plan and Launch International Careers in an Uncertain World
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Chair: Prof. Dina Okamoto, (530-574-0997)
Monday, June 23, 2025, 10:00 am
Geography
Watkins, Jennifer
Who Profits from the Plate? Labor and Power in the U.S. Restaurant Industry
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Chair: Prof. Daniel Knudsen, (812-855-6303)
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 10:00 am
Sociology
Ekl, Emily
Authority and Expertise in Contemporary Professions: Examining Countervailing Powers in the Provision of Patient Care by Allied Health Professionals
Morrison Hall, Room 326
Chair: Prof. Bernice Pescosolido, (812-855-6213)
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 12:00 pm
English
Luczak, Benjamin
Arguing Health Care: Narrative, Topoi, and Symbols in United States Health Care Reform
Ballantine Hall 403
Chair: Prof. Robert Terrill, (812-360-6263)
Friday, August 15, 2025, 10:00 am
Mathematics
Cho, Myung Sin
K-theoretic Tate-Poitou duality at prime 2
Rawles Hall 127
Chair: Prof. Michael Mandell, (812-855-8524)
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 10:00 am
Higher Education
Hu, Tien-Ling
Fostering Student Success: A Multi-Article Dissertation on Access, Equity, and Quality in Undergraduate Research
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Chair: Prof. Victor Borden, (317-652-0402)
Friday, June 06, 2025, 10:00 am
Literacy, Culture and Language Education
Jeon, Jaeho
Chatbot-Assisted Dynamic Assessment for Critical L2 Reading: Toward a Teacher-AI Collaborative Model
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Chair: Prof. Serafin Coronel-Molina, (812-856-8232)
Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 11:00 am
Higher Education
Long, Aaminah
A Strategy but Not the Goal: Understanding Black, Underresourced Enrollees’ Perceptions of Degree Worth Through Acts of Fugitivity
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Chair: Prof. Thomas Nelson-Laird, (812-856-8366)
Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 12:00 pm
Counseling Psychology
Hawkins-White, Dionne
FROM MOTHER TO DAUGHTER: THE INFLUENCE OF MATERNAL SOCIALIZATION ON BLACK CARIBBEAN WOMEN’S ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
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Chair: Prof. James Brooks, (812-856-8206)
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 2:00 pm
Literacy, Culture and Language Education
Kwon, Suok
Configuring Knowledge Diaspora: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study with Korean Doctoral Students on Translingual Practices and Transnational Identities Construction at a U.S. University
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Chair: Prof. Serafin Coronel-Molina, (812-856-8232)
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, June 06, 2025, 2:00 pm
Informatics
Wu, Yuxing
Designing Everyday Family Technologies: Supporting Health and Wellbeing in Family-Food Interactions with Children
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Chair: Prof. Chia-Fang Chung / Prof. Elizabeth Kaziunas, (206-696-1912 / 610-297-1344)
Thursday, June 12, 2025, 12:00 pm
Computer Science / Linguistics
Kuznetsova, Anastasia
Data efficiency and model complexity reduction
for speech processing systems
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Chair: Prof. Minje Kim / Prof. Francis Tyers, (217-419-8372 / 812-351-0853)
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 9:00 am
Informatics
Miao, Lili
Developing National Science: A Systemic Analysis of Global Structures of Funding, Collaboration, and Production
Luddy AI Building Conference Room 2005
Chair: Prof. Yong-Yeol Ahn, (812-856-2920)
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 10:00 am
Computer Science
Wang, Chuhua
ENHANCING EGOCENTRIC VIEW TASKS: A STUDY ON VIDEO ANALYSIS AND ADVERSARIAL ROBUSTNESS
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Chair: Prof. David Crandall, (812-856-1115)
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 11:00 am
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Srivastava, Prateek
GMachine - An abstract machine for Graph Processing
Luddy Hall 4102
Chair: Prof. Martin Swany, (812-856-7795)
Thursday, June 19, 2025, 10:00 am
Computer Science
Hong, Yuhui
Machine Learning Advanced Small Molecular Identification and Analysis through Mass Spectrometry
Luddy Hall 4986
Chair: Prof. Haixu Tang, (812-856-1859)
Friday, June 20, 2025, 2:00 pm
Informatics
Panicker, Aswati
Technology-Mediated Food Interactions in Long-Distance Adult Family Relationships: Healthy Eating, Social Presence, Embodied Communication, and Digital Scaffolding
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Chair: Prof. Chia-Fang (Christina) Chung, (206-696-1912)
Thursday, July 10, 2025, 10:00 am
Informatics
Balladichanda, Rachith Aiyappa
Towards Empirically Validated Models of Cogno-Social Belief Dynamics
Luddy AI Building Conference Room 2005
Chair: Prof. Yong-Yeol Ahn, (812-856-2920)
SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, June 03, 2025, 10:00 am
Middle Eastern Languages and Culture / Anthropology
Nighswander, Tyler
Baboons and Behaviors: Inquiries about the Great Chain of Being and Primate Cognitive Science
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Chair: Prof. Tom Schoenemann / Prof. John Walbridge, (812-855-8800 / 812-855-8689)
Thursday, June 05, 2025, 3:00 pm
Central Eurasian Studies
Durmaz, Mustafa
A Kurmanji Kurdish Reference Grammar
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Chair: Prof. Oner Ozcelik, (812-219-3683)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, June 13, 2025, 1:00 pm
Public Affairs
Park, Wooserk
Essays on Equitable Urban Economics
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs room A225
Chair: Prof. Ashlyn Nelson, (812-855-5599)
Monday, June 16, 2025, 11:00 am
Public Affairs
Khurana, Shaun
Cross-Sector Dynamics of Administrative Burden
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, conference room A225
Chair: Prof. Amanda Rutherford, (812-856-0828)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Monday, June 23, 2025, 9:00 am
Health Behavior
Lee, Shin Hyung
Understanding Factors Associated With Opioid-Related Behaviors and Outcomes in U.S. Adults
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Chair: Prof. Dong-Chul Seo, (812-855-9379)
Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 1:00 pm
Health Behavior
Khan, Shahzarin
Sexual Pleasure Experiences of South Asian Women in the USA
School of Public Health, room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Eric Walsh-Buhi, (812-855-4867)
