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CMU's 2nd annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition concludes with the exciting championship round on April 7, from 5-6:30 pm in Rashid Auditorium, 4401 Hillman Center. Be there to hear some engaging presentations about ongoing research and vote for the People's Choice! The competition will be webcast live.
The contest features eleven doctoral candidates who have accepted the challenge to convey the significance of their research to a non-specialist audience in just 3 minutes. Support your friends and colleagues as they vie for top honors and significant prizes—$3000, $2000 and $1000 travel/research grants. The "People's Choice" winner receives a $500 travel/research grant.
Here are the 2015 3MT finalists and their topics:
- Milad Memarzadeh, Civil & Environmental Engineering: "Probabilistic learning and planning framework for optimal management of systems under uncertain environments"
- Michael Craig, Engineering & Public Policy: "Keeping the lights on: Power systems, water and climate change"
- Vincent DeGeorge, Materials Science & Engineering: "Tomorrow's electricity: Stadium or lawn seating?"
- Sam Ventura, Statistics: "Solving the identity crisis"
- George Lederman, Civil & Environmental Engineering: "Good vibrations: How to protect our infrastructure"
- Madhumitha Ramesh, Biological Sciences: "How do cells assemble the ribosome nanomachines?"
- Amit Datta, Electrical & Computer Engineering: "Transparency in online targeting"
- Annie Arnold, Chemistry: "Modified graphene: Biodegradable bone implants"
- Gus Xia, Machine Learning: "Music, mind and machine: Expressive collaborative music performance via machine learning"
- Lily Morse, Organizational Behavior & Theory: "Exposing fraud vulnerabilities in client-auditor relationships"
- Garrett Stack, English: "Damming the Romantics"