9:00 am - 1:00 pm Thesis Defence: The Effectiveness of GNNs for Node Classification: The Significance of Side Information
1:30 pm - 5:30 pm Thesis Defence: The Role of Committed Minorities in Climate Change Action: Qualitative Insights from a Social-Climate Model
10:00 am - 2:00 pm Thesis Defence: Similarity Maximization and Shrinkage Approach in Kernel Metric Learning for Clustering Mixed-Type Data
10:00 am - 2:00 pm Thesis Defence: Impact of Fatty Acids on Low-Level Lead (Pb) Absorption and Cellular Stress
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm Thesis Defence: Life Cycle Assessment of Alternative Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems for Application in Poultry Houses
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Dissertation Defence: Aspects of Low Temperature Survival in Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium) in the Okanagan Valley
9:00 am - 1:00 pm Thesis Defence: A Two-Eyed Seeing approach to predicting the distribution of skwenkwínem (Claytonia lanceolata), a culturally significant plant
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Dissertation Defence: The Effect of Abiotic and Biotic Plant Stress on Phaeomoniella chlamdospora Abundance and Disease Development in Young Grapevines
8:30 am - 12:30 pm Thesis Defence: The Effect of the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Pro-domain Variants, Val66 and Met66, on Neuronal Activity
9:00 am - 1:00 pm Thesis Defence: Computing the conjugate of nonconvex bivariate piecewise linear-quadratic functions
10:00 am - 2:00 pm Thesis Defence: Discovery of novel enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of monoterpene indole alkaloids in Camptotheca acuminata
10:00 am - 2:00 pm Thesis Defence: Role of Innate Immunity in Promoting Microbiota-dependent Mucus Production in the Proximal Colon
10:00 am - 2:00 pm Thesis Defence: Discovery and structural investigation of evodiamine oxygenases from non-evodiamine-producing plants
9:00 am - 1:00 pm Thesis Defence—Exploring Code Clones in Software Development: A Study of PyTorch on GitHub and Stack Overflow
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Thesis Defence: Construction and linearization of fuel consumption model for mining roads
9:00 am - 1:00 pm Thesis Defence: Understanding the Perceptions and Challenges of Large Language Models through Social and Technical Lenses
10:00 am - 2:00 pm Thesis Defence: Advancing Intrinsic and Non-Intrinsic Bug Classifications with NLP, Machine Learning, and Few-Shot Prompt Engineering
10:00 am - 2:00 pm Thesis Defence: Low-valent Boron-Transition Metal Complexes Supported by a Bidentate Carbene-Phosphine Ligand
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm Thesis Defence: Evaluating The Environmental Performance of a Valorized Grocery Food Waste Product and its Potential Use as a Sustainable Feed Input for the Canadian Egg Industry