Thursday, 04 Apr 2013
Computer Science: Robert Stewart Distinguished Lecture
"Situation Awareness in Applications of Services and Cloud Computing," Alexander Zelikovsky, Stephen Yau, Arizona State University.
Forum: Are Corporations People?
Participants include MaryBeth Gardam, the Iowa Coordinator for MoveToAmend; Sonia Ashe, director of IPIRG, Iowa Public Interest Research Group; and Jorgen Rasmussen, Distinguished Political Science Professor Emeritus at Iowa State.
Pragmatic Optimism: How Behavioral Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty
Yale economist Dean Karlan is coauthor of More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy. His work demonstrates how small changes in development initiatives can drastically improve the well being of the poor. Karlan is a development economist who uses insights from behavioral and experimental economics in his work.