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FYI posts are brief announcements, reminders, updates, and shout-outs. They cover successes, happenings, and advances at the Graduate Center.
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Dissertation Defense: Jie Chu
Date: Friday, April 8, 2022
Time: 12-2 p.m.
Location: Room 4421
Thesis: Performance Modeling for Network Anomaly Detection and Sensor Networks
Zoom meeting details:
ID: 824 8360 6507
Passcode: 396351
Prof. Juliette Blevins Talks
- Prof. Juliette Blevins was a keynote speaker at the Workshop on Sound Change, held in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, in February 2022.
- She will also give an invited talk at Princeton on April 13, entitled "Riotous sound change in Borneo and beyond: Elusive explanations and linguistic motivations".
- Prof. Blevins will also be the invited speaker for the May 7 International Linguistics Association meeting in New York. Her talk is "Proto-Basque and the Single Sibilant Hypothesis: Evidence, reassessment, and implications."
Dissertation Defense: Pedro Soto
Date: Thursday, April 7, 2022
Time: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Thesis: Coded Distributed Function Computation
Zoom meeting details:
ID: 867 9281 7080
Passcode: 004281
Second Exam: Xuan Wang
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Time: 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Thesis: Literature Review: Context Understanding in Computer Vision
Zoom meeting details:
ID: 862 7679 3154
Passcode: 317403
Thesis Proposal: Candidate Pedro Soto
Date: Thursday, March 24, 2022
Time: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Thesis: Coded Distributed Function Computation
Zoom meeting details:
ID: 843 7434 0998
Passcode: 562456
Congratulations to Prof. Nancy Stern!
PI of a 5-yr $3 million National Professional Development (NPD) grant from the US Department of Education. The grant will prepare 4 cohorts of teachers and school leaders in New York City high schools to support the academic and socio-emotional needs of multilingual learners.
Additionally her forthcoming publication is in press:
Stern, Nancy. 2022. Reflexivity, Role Conflicts, and the Meaning of Self Pronouns. Manuscrito. DOI: 10.1590/0100-6045.2022.V45N1.NS
Congratulations to PhD candidate Carolina Fraga!
Carolina was awarded the Altman Dissertation Fellowship for 2022-2023!
Additionally, Carolina will present her paper titled, "Completive todo across Spanish dialects" at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 52), which will be held virtually at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on April 21-23.
PhD student, Stefanie Reed's co-authored publication is currently in press
Trott, S., Reed, S., Ferreira, V., & Bergen, B. In press. The role of prosody in disambiguating English indirect requests. Language & Speech, to appear.
Thesis Proposal: Candidate Soumik Dey
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2022
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Thesis: Grammar Competition Explored In Two Case Studies: Ns Stage And Old English
Zoom meeting details:
ID: 862 2256 1708
Passcode: 221157
Congratulations to Aidan Malanoski, PhD student!
Aidan's First Exam Paper was accepted for WCCFL, May 13-15, 2022, titled: Right node raising and Flexible Cyclic Linearization [Oral presentation]. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States (online).
Aidan's paper titled: Genre formation as enregisterment [Oral presentation], was accepted to the Chicago Linguistic Society 58, on April 22-24, 2022 at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL