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PHD Defenses

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic all Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 PhD Defenses will be Virtual.

Zoom Links will be provided on the calendar and through email.

PHD Defenses

Fall 2022 and Spring 2023

These meetings occur on different date, times and locations.

October 2022
October 19


2:00pm - 5:00pm

Zoom

Sean McMahon (Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech)

"Modeling Mechanical Dynamics in Chain-mediated Bacterial Sliding"

Advisor: Prof. Jing Chen

December 2022
December


Advisor:

January 2023
January


4:00pm - 5:00pm



Advisor:

January






Advisor:

PHD Defenses

Spring 2022

These meetings occur on different date, times and locations.

January 2022
February 2022
March 2022
March 23


10:00am - 12:00pm

300 Hahn Hall North

Yifei Wang (Physics, Virginia Tech)

Advisor: Prof. Vinh Nguyen

March 24


3:00pm - 5:00pm

304 Robeson Hall

Zach Stottler (Physics, Virginia Tech)

Advisor: Prof. Leo Piilonen

March 28


10:00am - 12:00pm

304 Robeson Hall

Bikun Li (Physics, Virginia Tech)

Advisor: Prof. Ed Barnes

May 2022
May 2


4:00pm - 5:00pm

304 Robeson Hall

Jason Czak (Physics, Virginia Tech)

Advisor: Prof. Michel Pleimling

May 2


11:00am-1:00pm

1060 Pamplin Hall

James Stidham (Physics, Virginia Tech)

Advisor: Prof. Michel Pleimling

PHD Defenses

Spring 2021

These meetings occur on different date, times and locations.

January 2021
February 2021
February 24

TBD
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Zoom Link
(poster)

Ruslan Mukhamadiarov (Physics, Virginia Tech)

"Controlling non-equilibrium dynamics in lattice gas models"

Advisor: Prof. Uwe Tauber

March 2021
March 4

TBD
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Zoom Link
(poster)

Riya Nandi (Physics, Virginia Tech)

"Critical dynamics in Heisenberg antiferromagnets and molecular motor-inspired exclusion processes".

Advisor: Prof. Uwe Tauber

PHD Defenses

Fall 2020

These meetings occur on different date, times and locations.

December 2020
December 9

Tuesday
3:00pm-5:00pm
Zoom Link
(poster)

Shannon Serrao (Physics, Virginia Tech)

"Stochastic effects on extinction and pattern formation in the three-species cyclic May-Leonard model"

Advisor: Prof. Uwe Tauber