Week of Events
Registration Open | CIRTL Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate Teaching Fall Course
We are excited to share that our fall 2026 offering for the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is available to your graduate and professional students, faculty, and/or postdoctoral scholars. Registration is now open for An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate Teaching. Completers of this weekly local learning community can earn a CIRTL Associate-level [...]
Monday, November 16, 2026
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Tuesday, November 17, 2026
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November 17, 2026 -Gavini Manchanayake Master’s Thesis Defense, Tuesday, November 17, 2026 @ 2:00 am Central Time
Gavini Manchanayake Master’s Thesis Defense, Tuesday, November 17, 2026 @ 2:00 am Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Ananda Amarasekara TITLE: UPGRADING LEVULINIC ACID THROUGH ACID CATALYZED CONDENSATIONS AND HALOGENATION ABSTRACT: Levulinic acid (LA) is a C5 keto-acid obtained from cellulose, and its ketone and carboxylic acid groups make it a useful starting point for renewable chemicals. Two acid mediated methods of upgrading LA are described in this thesis: condensation [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
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November 18, 2026 -Akanimo Ime Etokebe Dissertation Defense, Wednesday, November 18, 2026 @ 10:00 am Central Time
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November 18, 2026 -Andrew Appiah Darkwah Master’s Thesis Defense, Wednesday, November 18, 2026 @ 11:30 am Central Time
Akanimo Ime Etokebe Dissertation Defense, Wednesday, November 18, 2026 @ 10:00 am Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Suxia Cui TITLE: CNN-BASED IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING SPARSITY-AWARE OPTIMIZATION ABSTRACT: The deployment of convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image enhancement on resource-constrained FPGAs is challenged by high multiply-accumulate (MAC) density and memory access intensity, which raise latency and energy per inference. In complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-based programmable logic, dynamic power follows [...]
Andrew Appiah Darkwah Master’s Thesis Defense, Wednesday, November 18, 2026 @ 11:30 am Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Jennifer Quinlan TITLE: ASSESSMENT OF MICROBIAL QUALITY AND SAFETY OF WILD-CAUGHT SHRIMP AND FARM-RAISED SHRIMP ABSTRACT: Introduction: Shrimp consumption is on the rise in the US. This demand is met by imported, farm-raised shrimp, where antibiotics are commonly used for disease prevention, resulting in antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) in the final product. Purpose: [...]
Thursday, November 19, 2026
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Friday, November 20, 2026
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November 20, 2026 -Ehsanul Karim Master’s Thesis Defense, Friday, November 20, 2026 @ 9:30 am Central Time
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November 20, 2026 -Monijesu Fadamiro Master’s Thesis Defense, Friday, November 20, 2026 @ 11:00 am Central Time
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November 20, 2026 -Taoreed Akinola Dissertation Proposal Defense, Friday, November 20, 2026 @ 11:00 am Central Time
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November 20, 2026 -Christian Onyeke Dissertation Defense, Friday, November 20, 2026 @ 1:00 pm Central Time
Ehsanul Karim Master’s Thesis Defense, Friday, November 20, 2026 @ 9:30 am Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Lin Gong COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR: Dr. Lijun Qian TITLE: LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL-GENERATED MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING WARM STARTS FOR SECURITY-CONSTRAINED UNIT COMMITMENT ABSTRACT: Security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) is vital to steadfast power grid operations, but its mixed-integer structure and big number of contingency constraints make it computationally exacting to solve. Machine-learning methods have been [...]
Monijesu Fadamiro Master’s Thesis Defense, Friday, November 20, 2026 @ 11:00 am Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Jennifer Quinlan TITLE: EXAMINATION OF FOOD SAFETY AND MICROBIAL QUALITY IN LOW-INCOME RURAL VS. HIGH-INCOME SUBURBAN RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS ABSTRACT: Introduction: Previous research has shown that food quality and safety at the retail level can vary based on the size and resources available to food retailers, particularly in urban areas, however rural retail [...]
Taoreed Akinola Dissertation Proposal Defense, Friday, November 20, 2026 @ 11:00 am Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Xiangfang Li TITLE: ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR FUTURE WIRELESS SYSTEMS ABSTRACT: Future wireless communication systems face increasing challenging conditions, including spectrum scarcity, dynamic network environments, and growing wireless signal complexity. These conditions demand advanced computational methods capable of extracting meaningful information, capturing and handling complex relationships in wireless data, and supporting [...]
Christian Onyeke Dissertation Defense, Friday, November 20, 2026 @ 1:00 pm Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Xishuang Dong TITLE: INTERPRETABLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR KNOWLEDGE TRACING AND PERSONALIZED LEARNING ABSTRACT: Knowledge tracing (KT) models estimate learners’ evolving knowledge and predict subsequent responses from interaction histories. Their application to personalized learning requires interpretable predictions, reliable probabilities and explicit connections to instructional decisions. This dissertation presents four complementary studies addressing [...]
Saturday, November 21, 2026
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Sunday, November 22, 2026
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