Three-Minute Thesis

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Congratulations to the 2024 winners of the OMSC's Three-Minute Thesis Competition!

1st place: Masoomeh Akbari - University of Ottawa - On the Generalized Honeymoon Oberwolfach Problem

2nd place: Arman Jahangiri - University of Calgary - Binary Classification of High Dimensional Data using Quadratic Discriminant Analysis

3rd place: Mico Luo - University of Ottawa - Group Testing in Digital Signatures

The 3MT Competition is a great opportunity to practice and develop your science communication skills! If you would like to participate, please indicate this when you fill out your registration form.

Cash prizes:

• 1st place: $150.00

• 2nd place: $100.00

• 3rd place: $50.00

Rules for participants:

• Each presentation must be a maximum of 3 minutes. Presenters exceeding 3 minutes will be disqualified. A timer will be provided.

• Presentations are considered to have commenced when a presenter initiates speech.

• Each presentation can have a maximum of 3 slides, including the title page.

• The slides must be static: they cannot contain any animations.

• The decision of the judging panel is final.

Judging Criteria: 

Each competitor’s presentation will be assessed according to the criteria listed below. Kindly note that each criteria is equally weighted. 

Comprehension

The presentation needs to:

• provide a background to the research question being addressed,

• clearly explain the significance and context of the research,

• clearly state the key results of the research, including conclusions and outcomes, and

• follow a clear and logical sequence.

Engagement

The presenter should aim to:

• make the audience want to know more,

• be careful not to generalize their research,

• convey enthusiasm for their research, and

• capture and maintain their audience’s attention.

Communication

• The thesis topic, key results, research significance and outcomes should be communicated in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. 

• The speaker should be careful to avoid scientific jargon.

• Terminology need to be explained and adequate background information to illustrate points should be provided. 

• The speaker needs to have sufficient vocal range while maintaining a steady pace.

• The presenter should spend adequate time on each element of their presentation, and avoid elaborating too long on one aspect. 

• The slides need to enhance the presentation: were they legible, concise and relevant?

This year's participants

Joy Liu (Dalhousie University): Can Statistics Protect Scallop Sustainability? (English)

Arman Jahangiri (University of Calgary): Binary Classification of High Dimensional Data using Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (English)

Prangya Parida (University of Ottawa): Group testing using cover-free families on hypergraphs (English)

Masoomeh Akbari (University of Ottawa): On the Generalized Honeymoon Oberwolfach Problem (English)

Mico Luo (University of Ottawa): Group Testing in Digital Signatures (English)

Joseph Gondek (Carleton University): Amenability for inverse semigroups (English)

Yuliya Nesterova (Carleton University): Negative Customer Queues Modelling Quantum Entropy (English)

Finlay David Rankin (Carleton University): Quantum automorphisms of commuting squares (English)

Panel of Judges

• Steven Desjardins - Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa

• François-Michel Boire - Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa

• Chuen-Ming Michael "Mike" Wong - Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa

Congratulations to our previous 3MT finalists!

2023

1st place: Runtian Zhou - Trent University - Mathematical Analysis in SIR Disease Model and its Threshold Quantity

2nd place: William Verreault - Université Laval - Nonlinear expansions in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces

3rd place: Yizhen Teng - University of Ottawa - Robust estimation and prediction in the presence of influential units in surveys

2022

1st place: Christopher Beeler - University of Ottawa - Dynamic programming with reinforcement learning for nautical navigation

2nd place: Jody Krahn - University of Ottawa - Weight trimming in survey data

3rd place: Xiao Yang - Carleton University - An optimizer for PDE & Davoud Abdi - University of Calgary - Siblings of Some Binary Relational Structures

2021

1st place: Benoît Corsini - McGill University - Local tree exploration

2nd place: Raja M. Milad - Dalhousie University - Harmonic analysis on Affine groups

3rd place: Sean Leizerovich - Ryerson University - Search on an ℓp Disc