{"id":6910,"date":"2025-06-18T20:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conas.sua.ac.tz\/mathematics\/?p=6910"},"modified":"2025-06-24T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:52:10","slug":"phd-public-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conas.sua.ac.tz\/mathematics\/phd-public-defense","title":{"rendered":"PhD PUBLIC DEFENSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\" data-start=\"256\" data-end=\"269\"><strong data-start=\"256\" data-end=\"269\">Dear All,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" data-start=\"271\" data-end=\"544\">Kindly be informed that on <strong>Thursday, 26th June 2025<\/strong>, starting at <strong data-start=\"344\" data-end=\"358\">09:00 a.m.<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"360\" data-end=\"380\">Ms. Damaris Felistus Mulwa,<\/strong> a PhD candidate in the <strong data-start=\"403\" data-end=\"460\">Department of Mathematics and Statistics<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"515\">College of Natural and Applied Sciences (CoNAS)<\/strong>, will defend her PhD thesis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" data-start=\"546\" data-end=\"783\"><strong data-start=\"546\" data-end=\"563\">Thesis Title: <\/strong><em>Predictive and Impact analysis of Rift Valley Fever: Machine learning and Intervention Time Series Approaches<\/em><br data-start=\"630\" data-end=\"633\" \/><strong data-start=\"633\" data-end=\"643\">Venue:<\/strong> Video Conference Room (SGLB-2), Solomon Mahlangu Campus, Morogoro<br data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"696\" \/>Please note that the viva-voce proceedings will be streamed live for selected invitees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" data-start=\"785\" data-end=\"892\">Furthermore, we are delighted to acknowledge the supervisors who have supported her throughout this significant academic journey:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" data-start=\"1084\" data-end=\"1192\"><strong data-start=\"1084\" data-end=\"1100\">Supervisors:<\/strong><br data-start=\"1100\" data-end=\"1103\" \/>\u2022 Dr. Nyerere Nkuba (SUA)<br data-start=\"1130\" data-end=\"1133\" \/>\u2022 Dr. Benard Bett (ILRI)<br data-start=\"1159\" data-end=\"1162\" \/>\u2022 Prof. Gerald Misinzo (SUA)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" data-start=\"1194\" data-end=\"1296\">Please join us in wishing <strong>Ms. Mulwa<\/strong> all the best in her academic journeys at SUA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" data-start=\"1194\" data-end=\"1296\">You are warmly Welcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" data-start=\"1298\" data-end=\"1391\">Best regards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear All, Kindly be informed that on Thursday, 26th June 2025, starting at 09:00 a.m., Ms. Damaris Felistus Mulwa, a PhD candidate in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.3 - 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