Disputations
Public disputations are the culmination of doctoral candidates' yearlong research. The events consist of a trial lecture on a topic given by the committee, followed by the candidate's defense of their dissertation.
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Master Marieke van Otterdijk at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis How to Make Robots Intuitive Decision Makers? – Developing Intuitive Cognition for Robots by Studying Humans for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
Master Seyed Mojtaba Karbasi at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis ZRob; Exploring Rhythmic Patterns and Emergent Behaviour in Robotic Drumming for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
Master Dana Swarbrick at the Department of Musicology will defend her dissertation Being in Concert: Audience Emotion, Motion, and Social Connectedness for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Dongho Kwak at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Music for cells? Rhythmic mechanical stimulations of cell cultures for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Doctoral candidate Benedikte Wallace at the Department of Informatics will defend her dissertation AI-generated Dance and The Subjectivity Challenge for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
Cand. Psychol. Henrik Herrebr?den at the Department of Psychology will defend his dissertation Attention and Effort in Elite Athletes: A Case Against Automaticity for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Bj?rnar Ersland Sandvik at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Time Tinkering: On Grids, Waveforms, and Techniques of Machine Rhythm for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Connor Spiech is defending the thesis Predictive and Dynamic Mechanisms of Rhythm and Groove for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Julian Fuhrer at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Implicit Encoding of Seemingly Unstructured Auditory Stimuli for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Merve Ak?a at the Department of Musicology will defend her dissertation Attending to Sounds In the Blink of An Eye for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Kjell Andreas Oddekalv at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation What Makes the Shit Dope? The Techniques and Analysis of Rap Flows for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Qichao Lan at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation entitled Exploring Collaboration in Computer Music Systems for Live Coding for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master ?a?r? Erdem at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Controlling or Being Controlled? Exploring Embodiment, Agency and Artificial Intelligence in Interactive Music Performance for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Ulf A. S. Holbrook at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Objects and Structures: Aesthetical inquiry and artistic experimentation into the relationships between sound objects and spatial audio for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Guilherme Schmidt C?mara at the Department of musicology will defend his dissertation Timing Is Everything . . . Or Is It? Investigating Timing and Sound Interactions in the Performance of Groove-Based Microrhythm for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Maja Dyhre Foldal at the Department of Psychology will defend her dissertation: Perceiving temporal structure in auditory stimuli: The role of attention and prediction or the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Agata Zelechowska will defend her dissertation Irresistible Movement: The Role of Musical Sound, Individual Differences and Listening Context in Movement Responses to Music.
Tejaswinee Kelkar will defend her dissertation "Computational Analysis of Melodic Contour and Body Movement".