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Doctoral Oral Exams for Sept. 1-5

The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:

Hyemin Gu, Ph.D., Mathematics, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 10:10 a.m., LGRT 1685. Dissertation: "Robust Generative Flows via Wasserstein Proximal Regularizations Based on Gradient Flows and Mean Field Games." Markos Katsoulakis, chair.

Jonathan Flores, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Wednesday, Sept. 3, noon, Kellogg Room 118 ELab II. Dissertation: "Monitoring River Systems from Space: Insights from Mapping Headwaters, Modeling Discharge, and Detecting Dams." Colin J. Gleason, chair.

Thomas Vitalis, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Thursday, Sept. 4, 1 p.m., Kellogg Room 118 ELab II. Dissertation: "Auxetic Steel Architected Materials for High Confinement of Interpenetrating Reinforced Concrete Composites." Simos Gerasimidis, chair.

Mengxue Zhang, Ph.D., Computer Science, Friday, Sept. 5, 3 p.m., via Zoom. Dissertation: "AI-Driven Analysis, Scoring, and Generation for Open-Ended Mathematical Reasoning." Andrew Lan, chair.

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