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May 2013

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18				1 Last Day of Field Education II in Social Work. Intersession, 12-week session, Summer Session fees are due. On The Verge: Debating the Future of University Teaching Final oral defense: Purnima Mallelwar (M.A.Sc.), "Effect of Linoleic Acid and Hydraulic Retention Time on Biological Sulphate Reduction in High Rate Anaerobic Reactor" 10:00am Final oral defense: Soheil Servati Beiragh (Ph.D.), "Hardware Acceleration of Text Display" 1:00pm	2 On The Verge: Debating the Future of University Teaching Final oral defense: Sandra DeVries Vreugdenhil (M.A.), "Hearing Injustice: Sen's Idea of Justice and the Role of Testimony at the SA TRC Legal Hearing" 10:00am Final oral defense: Mohammad Shamsur Rahman (M.Sc), "FAC-PIN: An Efficient and Fast Agglomerative Clustering Algorithm for Protein Interaction Networks to Predict Protein Complexes and Functional Modules" 10:00am Computer Science Master's Thesis Defense - Mohammad Shamsur Rahman 10:00am Reasoning Through Narratives and the Social Contexts of Evaluation 2:00pm Reasoning Through Narratives and the Social Contexts of Evaluation 2:00pm - 4:00pm Prof. Grace Y. Yi - University of Waterloo: Methods and Issues on Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Data 3:00pm Mapping Your Career in the Arts 4:00pm - 6:00pm	3 Final oral defense: Espanta Jalili (Ph.D.), "Spy1 regulation of the DNA damage response; checkpoint activation and cellular senescence" 9:30am Final oral defense: Jun Li (Ph.D.), "The Design and Manipulation of Bromate-Based Chemical Oscillators" 10:00am Computer Science Master's Thesis Defense - Gunjan Soni 10:30am - 12:30pm	4
19	5	6 Consolidation begins for the Faculty of Nursing, second year Collaborative B.Sc.N. students. (Course #11-63-278) Intersession, 12-week session terms begin. Final oral defense: Bryan Lucier (Ph.D.), "New Directions for Solid-State NMR of Insensitive Nuclei: Applications to Metal Nuclei in Inorganic Materials" 10:00am Final oral defense: Chen Liang (M.Sc.), "Model Selection in Negative Binomial Regression Model" 10:00am Final oral defense: Kelly-Ann Power (M.Ed.), "Professional Learning on Twitter: A Content Analysis of Professional Learning Conversations among Self-organized Groups of Educators" 10:00am Thesis Defence by Kelly Ann Power: PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ON TWITTER: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING CONVERSATIONS AMONG SELF-ORGANIZED GROUPS OF EDUCATORS 10:00am Final oral defense: Hassaan Yousafi (M.Sc.), "A Role-Based Access Control Schema for Materialized Views" 10:00am Computer Science Master's Thesis Defense - Hassaan Yousafi 10:00am - 12:00pm Final oral defense: Iyman Ahmed (M.A.), "Fundamentalist Influence in Egypt: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Ascendence to Power" 1:00pm Final oral defense: Xuan Le Nguyen (M.Ed.), "The Role of Parents in Maintaining Cultural Values in Vietnamese Immigrant Families in Windsor" 2:00pm	7 Final oral defense: Jillian Ciccone (M.H.K.), "Parent and Young Adolescent Perspectives of Family Meals and Meal Preparation and the Influence of the KINECT-ED Program" 10:00am Final oral defense: Corrine Keshen (M.Sc.), "Rats’ (Rattus norvegicus) encoding and retrieval of spatial and non-spatial environmental cues in a foraging task" 10:30am Final oral defense: Ritwick Gupta (M.Sc.), "Validated Agent-Based Model using Predictive Data Mining and Intervention Policy Testing Framework: A Case Study in Child Vehicle Safety" 1:00pm Computer Science Master's Thesis Defense - Ritwick Gupta 1:00pm - 3:00pm Free Drop-in Resume Clinic! 1:00pm - 3:00pm Women in Art Course Begins 1:30pm ARGUING OVER MATHEMATICS: MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE AND MALPRACTICE 2:00pm	8 Computer Science Master's Thesis Defense - Inderjeet Singh Dogra 10:00am Free Drop-in Resume Clinic! 10:00am - 12:00pm Final oral defense: Meghan Roney (M.H.K.), "Strength in Mentoring: Creating a Pilot Mentorship Program for Women in Sport and Recreation, Health and Wellness, and Media Literacy" 1:00pm Final oral defense: Bonnie Belczowski (M.Ed.), "Sociocultural Implications on the Learning of Youth with Concurrent Disorders. Factors that are Perceived as Necessary by Teachers, Administrators and Psychologists" 3:30pm Final oral defense: Andrew White (M.A.), "Callous-Unemotional Traits: A Potential Mediator of the Impulsivity-Antisocial Behaviour Relation" 9:30pm	9 Social Media and You 9:00am - 12:00pm Final oral defense: Dorota Lubanska (Ph.D.), "Novel regulation of the cell cycle during cell fate decisions in the central nervous system" 9:30am Final oral defense: Ronan San Juan (Ph.D.), "Self Assembled Monolayers (SAMs) of Dithiophosphinic Acids (DTPAs): Manipulating the Chemistry to Control SAM Properties" 10:00am Final oral defense: Alexandra Wiseman (M.H.K.), "Adolescents' Perspectives of Physical Education: A National and Local Focus" 1:00pm	10 Last day for late registration, change of course and full refund for Intersession courses. Massey High School Day 9:00am - 2:30pm Final oral defense: Jeff Eagleson (M.A.Sc.), "Head gasket finite element model correlation" 9:30am Final oral defense: Nick Rupert (M.H.K.), "Measuring the Effectiveness of Sponsorship at the Bell Sensplex" 10:00am	11 Science Rendezvous 10:00am - 4:00pm
20	12 Alumni afternoon with the WSO 2:30pm - 6:00pm	13 Final oral defense: Fatih Gurcag Sen (Ph.D.), "Atomistic Simulations to Micro-Mechanisms of Adhesion in Automotive Applications" 10:00am Computer Science Master's Thesis Defense - Ala Shaabana 2:00pm	14 Final oral defense: Michael DiRisio (M.F.A.), "Common Goods" 9:30am Final oral defense: Jason Boose (M.A.), "The Shift from Policies of Precaution to Policies of Effectiveness in Counterterrorism: Examples from the US and Canada" 10:00am Final oral defense: Ying Chen (Ph.D.), "Resource Allocation for Periodic Traffic Demands in WDM Networks" 10:00am Final oral defense: Syeda Fatima Ghousia (Ph.D.), "A Novel Globally Optimized Instantaneous Torque Ripple Minimization Method in Switched Reluctance Motors With Matrix Converter Drives" 10:00am Computer Science Doctoral Thesis Defense - Ying Chen 10:00am - 12:00pm Free Drop-in Resume Clinic! 1:00pm - 3:00pm	15 Final oral defense: Daniel MacDonald (M.A.Sc.), "Hardware JPEG Decompression" 9:00am Final oral defense: Nikolina Samardzic (Ph.D.), "Investigation Of In-Vehicle Speech Intelligibility Metrics For Normal Hearing And Hearing Impaired Listeners" 9:00am Establishing Successful Collaborations and Partnerships 9:00am - 12:00pm Free Drop-in Resume Clinic! 10:00am - 12:00pm Final oral defense: Jecy Kunju Kunju (M.H.K.), "The Effects of Attentional Focus on a Suprapostural Task in Hemiplegic Gait" 11:30am Speaker Luncheon 12:15pm CSC Meetings 2013 1:00pm - 3:00pm Final oral defense: Sara Kenno (Ph.D.), "Distributions of Welding-Induced Residual Stresses in Steel Plate Structures" 1:30pm	16 Campus Technology Day 8:00am - 5:00pm Final oral defense: Colin McAuslan (M.H.K.), "Physiological Responses to a Battling Rope High Intensity Interval Training Protocol" 10:00am Final oral defense: Mary Katherine Keown (M.A.), "Shooting genocide: Documentary photography and the 1994 Rwandan genocide. An exploration of political messaging, the visual representation of pain and memorialization" 10:30am May 16 Retirement Open House for Helga Dienesch 12:00pm - 2:00pm Final oral defense: Nada Abuzaid (M.A.), "Strategic Nonviolent Action for an End to Military Occupation: Reversing Power Asymmetries in the Israel-Palestine conflict" 2:00pm Final oral defense: Ahmed Cherry (M.Sc.), "Involvement of a Toxoplasma DEAD-box RNA Helicase in Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation" 2:00pm	17 Last day for oral defense of dissertations, theses and major papers for Spring Convocation. Last day for reversal of incidental fees for 6-week Intersession courses. Last day for registration, change of course and full-refund for 12-week session. Reclaiming Democracy and Social Justice: From the Arab Spring to Occupy to... Final oral defense: Han Wang (M.A.Sc.), "Evaluation Of Root Zone Heating In A Commercial Greenhouse" 8:30am Final oral defense: Jenny Cockburn (Ph.D.), "Tense Collaborations and Exchange Interrupted: Gendered Participation in Ecological Agriculture Projects in Post-Neoliberal Bolivia" 10:00am Computer Science Master's Thesis Defense - Hao Wang 10:00am - 12:00pm Final oral defense: Jonathan Hernandez Aguirre (M.A.Sc.), "A 5 Meter Range Non-Planar CMUT Array for Automotive Collision Avoidance" 11:00am Final oral defense: Kevyn Gammie (M.Sc.), "The evolution of iridescent plumage in the Galliformes: proximate mechanisms and ultimate functions" 1:00pm Final oral defense: Sabrina Zereen (M.A.Sc.), "An FPGA Based Controller For MEMs Tri-Mode FMCW Radar" 2:30pm	18 NOTHING BUILDS COMMUNITY BETTER THAN FOOD - A needed Implementation by Young Women: Together we Flourish 9:00am - 3:00pm
21	19	20 Victoria Day (statutory holiday). No classes.	21 Seminar Notice 11:00am A Comparison of Germany and Canadian Automotive Industry Competitiveness 11:00am - 1:00pm Final oral defense: Joseph O’Brien (M.A.), "Tattoos in Media Representations: an Examination of Subcultural or Figurational Characteristics" 1:00pm Free Drop-in Resume Clinic! 1:00pm - 3:00pm	22 Final oral defense: Goran Dabic (M.H.K.), "Exploring a Sports-Entertainment Arena’s Impact on Urban Tourism: A case study of the WFCU Centre" 9:30am Final oral defense: Eric Bushnell (Ph.D.), "Computational Insights into Redox and Metal Ion Biochemistry" 10:00am Free Drop-in Resume Clinic! 10:00am - 12:00pm Final oral defense: Jingyi Su (M.H.K.), "Promoting Baseball in China: Strategies MLB China has Employed to Popularize the Game and Raise the Level of Baseball" 11:00am Final oral defense: Michelle Peters (M.H.K.), "The Relationship between Self-Rated Athlete Leadership Characteristics, Self-Construal, and Team Cohesion" 2:00pm IEEE Seminar - EMC Demo 6:00pm Lean Manufacturing Seminar Series 6:00pm - 9:00pm	23 Building Cultural Awareness 9:00am - 12:00pm Final oral defense: Brittany Cooper (M.H.K.), "Training Terminology on Perceptions of Women who Engage in Muscle Strengthening Activities" 9:30am Workers' Rights in the Age of Precarity: Seeking Solutions 4:00pm	24 Major Paper Presentation: Samuel Essien 10:00am Final oral defense: Samuel Kwaku Essien (M.Sc.), "Performance of greenhouse –Geisser and Huynh-Fieldt tests in repeated measures design with high dimensional data" 10:00am Final oral defense: Sajib Kumer Sinha (M.Sc.), "Estimating Deep Web Properties by Random Walk" 10:00am Computer Science Master's Thesis Defense - Sajib Kumer Sinha 10:00am - 12:00pm Major Paper Presentation: Samuel Essien 11:00am Computer Science Doctoral Seminar - Yifeng Li 1:00pm - 2:30pm	25
22	26	27 4th Summer Institute on Argumentation Last day to deposit dissertations, theses and major papers for Spring Convocation (graduate degrees). Last day for completion of all requirements for graduate degrees under Phase I (100% tuition refund).	28 Living Well with Stress 9:00am - 10:00am Comprehensive Portfolio Defence by David Thompson: "Interprofessional Education and Complex Responsive Process Theory" 1:00pm Free Drop-in Resume Clinic! 1:00pm - 3:00pm	29 Free Drop-in Resume Clinic! 10:00am - 12:00pm	30	31 CEI (Centre for Engineering Innovation) Grand Opening Last day for partial tuition refund for Intersession courses. Last day for reversal of incidental fees for 12-week session courses. Last day to voluntarily withdraw from Intersession courses. SDS Exam Scheduling Deadline Grand Opening of the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation 10:00am