Title time at graduation

Published 20 March 07 04:29 PM | robyn.owens 

It's graduation season again and one of my tasks each year is to present the PhD graduands to the Chancellor for conferral of their degrees. In general, we have more PhDs graduating in the September round of graduations; nevertheless, eight of the current ten graduation ceremonies involve PhD graduates and my job is to read out their thesis titles and names.

Here are my two biggest challenges (in terms of staying cool and sounding as if I know what I'm talking about) for this season:

  1. A functional and structural investigation of the venoms of three Australian cubozoan jellyfish - Chironex fleckeri, Chiropsalmus sp. and Carybdea xaymacana
  2. A refined model for the magmatic, tectonometamorphic and hydrothermal evolution of Leonora District, Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. 
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# Edith said on August 21, 2007 5:17 AM:

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About robyn.owens

I started my academic life doing a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics at UWA before going to Oxford to complete an MSc and a DPhil, also in Mathematics. I then spent three years in Paris at l'Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, continuing research in mathematical analysis and going to lots of movies before returning to UWA to work as a research mathematician. I have lectured in Maths and Computer Science at UWA, as well as for short periods at Berkeley, The University of Canterbury in Christchurch, and Prince Songkla University in Thailand. My research has focussed on computer vision, including feature detection in images, 3D shape measurement, image understanding, and representation.