Thursday, 22 Mar 2012
Computer Science Distinguished Lecture
"What is Special About Mining Spatial and Spatio-temporal Datasets?" Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Governance and Planning: Locating the will and power to plan in the Americas
Enrique Silva, assistant professor of urban affairs and city planning at Boston University Metropolitan College, takes a governance-based approach to assess the political and institutional opportunities planners face in two distinct national political contexts: Chilean (neoliberal) centralism in boom times and Haitian hyper-fragmented institutionalism in times of disaster.
Seminar: NGS in Phylogenetics
Paul Hohenlohe, Departments of Biological Sciences and Statistics, University of Idaho, will lead a seminar on the use of next-generation sequencing technologies and their applications to population genomics and phylogenetics. A reception will follow.
Challenging the Status Quo for Native American Women
"Stories from a Career in Film, Finance and Philanthropy." Valerie Red-Horse, of Cherokee ancestry, is a filmmaker, entrepreneur and investment banker. She has raised or assisted in more than $2 billion in financings for American Indian Tribal Projects and founded two female Native American-owned investment banks on Wall Street. She is also the founder and owner of Red-Horse Native Productions. Women's Leadership Series