This calendar lists graduate thesis and dissertation events. Send all notices to the College of Graduate Studies at editor@ucf.edu

Monday, September 25, 2023

  • Dissertation Defense: A theoretical study of elementary processes in interstellar plasma

    Virtual

    Announcing the Final Examination of Josh FORER for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics. Interstellar plasma — interstellar clouds in particular — play an important role in determining the structure and evolution of galaxies. Understanding the time evolution of such plasmas requires knowledge of the chemical processes that drive their dynamics. Two processes are studied in this dissertation: …

    Graduate Thesis and Dissertation
  • Thesis Defense: Investigating Shallow Neural Networks for Orbit Propagation Deployed on Spaceflight-like Hardware

    Engineering 1: 288

    Announcing the Final Examination of Hunter Quebedeaux for the degree of Master of Science. Orbit propagation is the backbone of many problems in the space domain, such as uncertainty quantification, trajectory optimization, and guidance, navigation, and control of on orbit vehicles. Many of these techniques can rely on millions of orbit propagations, slowing computation, especially evident on low-powered satellite hardware. …

    Graduate Thesis and Dissertation