PhD Defences 2011

Rasmus Resen Amossen, 14 January 2011 at 1PM, AUD 2
Thesis: "Scalable Query Evaluation in Relational Databases"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Thore Husfeldt, IT University of Copenhagen
Research scientist Peter Boncz, CWI Netherlands
Associate professor Rolf Fagerberg, University of Southern Denmark

Anders Schack-Nielsen, 29 April at 1PM, AUD 2
Thesis: "Implementing Substructural Logical Frameworks"
Assessment committee:
Professor Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen
Professor Frank Phenning, Carnegie Mellon University
Professor Gilles Dowek, Ecole Polytechnique

Fiona B. Mulvey, 9 September 2011 at 1PM, 3A12/14
Thesis: "Levels of Processing and Eye Movements: A Stimulus Driven Approach" (contact phdsupport@itu.dk for a copy of the thesis)
Assessment committee:
Professor Andrew Duchowski, Clemson University - School of Computing
Associate professor Morten Overgaard, Aarhus University
Associate professor Dan Witzner Hansen, IT University of Copenhagen

Andrea Campagna, 27 October 2011 at 1PM, AUD 2
Thesis: "Sampling implicit sets: a new data mining technique"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Thore Husfeldt, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Associate professor Gerth Brodal, Aarhus University
Associate professor Piotr Indyk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Karen Boll, 11 November 2011 at 1PM, AUD 4
Thesis: "Taxing Assemblages. Laborious and Meticulous Achievements of Tax Compliance"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Brit Ross Winthereik, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Senior Researcher Fabian Muniesa, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole des Mines de Paris
Professor Rebecca Boden, University of Wales of Cardiff

Juan David Hincapié-Ramos, 29 November 2011 at 1PM, 2A12
Thesis: "Using Infrastructure Awareness to Support the Recruitment of Volunteer Computing Participants" (contact phdsupport@itu.dk for a copy of the thesis)
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Anker Helms, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman) Professor Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan
Professor Kasper Hornbæk, University of Copenhagen

Afsaneh Doryab, 7 December 2011 at 1PM, AUD 3
Thesis: "Context-Aware Information Adaption In Collaborative Settings" (contact phdsupport@itu.dk for a copy of the thesis)
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Thomas Pederson, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Paul Lukowics, University of Passau
Associate professor Ole Winther Mark, Technical University of Denmark

Henrik Skovsgaard, 13 December at 1PM, 2A12
Thesis: "Noise Challenges in Mone-modal Gaze Interaction"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Thomas Pederson, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Associate professor Scott MacKenzie, York University
Professor Kasper Hornbæk, University of Copenhagen