Dissertation Defense: Saaransh Singhal, Physics
Interactions of an elastic boundary with an active fluid.
Location: Abelson-Bass-Yalem. Room: 333. Graduate Student Events Categories: Graduate Affairs Dissertation Events. Registration Information: Please contact the student's department for information about attending this defense.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Dissertation Defense: Rupam Saha, Physics
Programmable Assembly of Modular DNA Origami Building Blocks.
Location: Abelson-Bass-Yalem. Room: 229. Graduate Student Events Categories: Graduate Affairs Dissertation Events. Registration Information: Please contact the student's department for information about attending this defense.
Thursday, April 30, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM.
Graduate Writers' Workshop (Zoom)
This weekly virtual workspace is designed to provide graduate students with semi-structured time to tackle the tasks associated with long-term writing projects that tend to get interrupted by daily and weekly responsibilities. You can use the time specifically for writing, but you can also work on research, brainstorming, reviewing feedback, analyzing or organizing data, and other tasks related to your long-term writing projects.
The workspace is also a community-centered space where you can share goals, progress and struggles with other graduate students.
Each Graduate Writers Workspace is made up of two writing sessions. During the first and last ten minutes of each session, writers share (facilitated by our Writing Center staff member) their goals, progress, and challenges with other writers. Session A: 9 – 10:30 a.m. , Session B: 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. You can attend both or just one of the sessions, and there are optional midway breaks built into the structure of each session. If you are attending only…
Location: Online. Graduate Student Events Categories: Other Graduate Student Events. Registration/Access information: Join via Zoom.
Friday, May 1, 2026, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit calendar.library.brandeis.edu. Dissertation Defense: Yunrui Li, Computer Science
Learning Molecular Representations from Imperfect Experimental Data: Models, Datasets, and Benchmarking for Biochemical Systems.
Location: Volen. Room: 101. Graduate Student Events Categories: Graduate Affairs Dissertation Events. Registration Information: Please contact the student's department for information about attending this defense.
Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Graduate Writers' Workshop (Zoom)
This weekly virtual workspace is designed to provide graduate students with semi-structured time to tackle the tasks associated with long-term writing projects that tend to get interrupted by daily and weekly responsibilities. You can use the time specifically for writing, but you can also work on research, brainstorming, reviewing feedback, analyzing or organizing data, and other tasks related to your long-term writing projects.
The workspace is also a community-centered space where you can share goals, progress and struggles with other graduate students.
Each Graduate Writers Workspace is made up of two writing sessions. During the first and last ten minutes of each session, writers share (facilitated by our Writing Center staff member) their goals, progress, and challenges with other writers. Session A: 9 – 10:30 a.m. , Session B: 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. You can attend both or just one of the sessions, and there are optional midway breaks built into the structure of each session. If you are attending only…
Location: Online. Graduate Student Events Categories: Other Graduate Student Events. Registration/Access information: Join via Zoom.
Friday, May 8, 2026, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit calendar.library.brandeis.edu. Dissertation Defense: Teodora Markova, Neuroscience
Depressive Symptoms in Aging: Associations with Tau Accumulation and the Brainstem Serotonin System.
Location: Mandel Center for the Humanities. Room: G12. Graduate Student Events Categories: Graduate Affairs Dissertation Events. Registration Information: Please contact the student's department for information about attending this defense.
Monday, May 11, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Dissertation Defense: Logan Calderone, Biochemistry and Biophysics
The Janus-Faced Metal: Dual Roles for Iron as a Catalytic Metal in Hydrolases and Oxidases.
Location: Rosenstiel. Room: 118. Graduate Student Events Categories: Graduate Affairs Dissertation Events. Registration Information: Please contact the student's department for information about this defense.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Dissertation Defense: Xiaoying He, Mathematics
Dimensions of Boardman Strata of Lagrangian Maps.
Location: Goldsmith. Room: 226. Graduate Student Events Categories: Graduate Affairs Dissertation Events. Registration Information: Please contact the student's department for information about attending this defense.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.