PhD Defences 2012

Naveen Bagalkot, 19 December 2012 at 1PM, 2A14
Thesis: "Embodied-self-monitoring: Embracing the emergent context for compliance in the design of pervasive self-monitoring technology"
Assessment committee:
Associate Professor Dag Svanæs, IT University of Copenhagen & Trondheim (Chairman)
Professor Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Vienna University of Technology
Professor Jonas Löwgren, Malmö University

Nina Taslaman, 26 November 2012 at 1PM
Thesis: "Exponential-Time Algorithms and Complexity of NP-Hard Graph Problems"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Rasmus Pagh, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Fedor V. Fomin, University of Bergen
Professor Markus Bläser, Saarland University

Dermot Cochran, 10 September 2012 at 1PM
Thesis: "Formal Specification and Analysis of Danish and Irish Ballot Counting Algorithms"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Carsten Schürmann, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Associate professor Dan Wallach, Rice University
Professor Michael Butler, University of Southampton

Paolo Burelli, 23 August 2012 at 1PM, AUD 1
Thesis: "Interactive Virtual Cinematography"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Julian Togelius, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor John Hallam, University of Southern Denmark
Professor James Lester, North Carolina State University

Lei Song, 21 June 2012 at 1PM, AUD 2
Thesis: "Probabilistic Models and Process Calculi for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University
Professor Roberto Segala, University of Verona

Dario Pacino, 20 June at 1 PM, AUD 2
Thesis: "Fast Generation of Container Vessel Stowage Plans - using mixed integer programming for optimal master planning and constraint based local search for slot planning"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Thore Husfeldt, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Professor Stefan Voss, University of Hamburg
Professor David Pisinger, Technical University of Denmark

Raghava Rao Mukkamala, 6 June 2012 at 1 PM, AUD 2
Thesis: "A Formel Model for Declarative Workflows - Dynamic Condition Response Graphs"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Andrzej Wasowski, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Dr. Hagen Völzer, IBM Research
Dr. Richard Hull, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Douglas Wilson, 15 May 2012 at 1 PM, AUD 4
Thesis: "Designing for the Pleasures of Disputation - or - How to make friends by trying to kick them!" (contact phdsupport@itu.dk for a copy of the thesis)
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Susana Tosca, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Associate professor Tracy Fullerton, University of Southern California
Associate professor Bart Simon, Concordia University

Emma Witkowski, 11 May 2012 at 1 PM, AUD 3
Thesis: "Inside the Huddle: The Phenomenology and Sociology of Team Play in Networked Computer Games"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Torill Mortensen, IT-University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Associate professor Fern Delamere, Concordia University
Dr. Henry Lowood, Stanford University

Hugo-Andrés López-Acosta, 3 May 2012 at 1 PM, 4A14
Thesis: "Visions of Communication Centered Programming"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Carsten Schürmann, IT-University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Associate professor Hans Hüttel, Aalborg University
Associate professor Nobuko Yashida, Imperial College London

Espen Højsgaard, 15 March 2012 at 9:30 AM, 4A16
Thesis: "Bigraphical Languages and their Simulation"
Assessment committee:
Associate professor Marco Carbone, IT University of Copenhagen (Chairman)
Associate professor Gianluig Zavattaro, University of Bologna
Associate professor Marino Miculan, University of Udine