This
multidisciplinary colloquium is held every Friday
at 1:00 during each semester in 144 Wilkeson
Quadrangle, Ellicott
Complex, North Campus (unless stated otherwise).
Colloquium Series - Spring 2008
Fridays, 1:00 PM*, 144 Wilkeson Quad
(* unless as indicated)
|
Jan 25 |
Dr. Barry Smith, Dept of Philosophy,
"The Environment Ontology Project" |
|
Feb. 1 |
Seth Spielman and Justin Yates, IGERT Fellow, on their research |
|
Feb. 8 |
Dr. Sara Metcalf, Dept. of
Geography, "Ecological boundary-setting
in mental and geophysical models" |
|
Feb. 15 |
Speaker postponed |
|
Feb. 22 |
Dr. Toni Shenk, Ohio State
University and Visiting Research
Professor in the SUNY/Buffalo Geology
Dept. Remote Sensing Lab, on recent
research |
|
Feb. 29 |
IGERT Advisory Board Meeting |
|
March 7 |
Dr. Scott Branting, Director, The
CAMEL GIS Lab at The Oriental Institute,
University of Chicago, " Analyzing
Ancient Urban Centers: GIS-T and
Agent-Based Approaches" |
|
March 14 |
Spring Recess |
|
March 21 |
Dr. Michael Frachetti, Dept. of
Anthropology, Washington University, St.
Louis, "Simulated vegetation indexes and
their implications of high-resolution Paleo-landcover reconstruction in the
Eurasian Steppe zone" |
|
March 28 |
IGERT Fellows: Discussion of
multidisciplinary collaborative project |
|
April 5 |
Dr. Le Wang, Dept. of Geography,
"Urban Land Use Classification from
Contemporary Remote Sensing"
Co-sponsored by "The IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Society Western New
York Chapter" |
|
April 11 |
Presentation of upcoming AAG talks:
Christopher Brehme, IGERT Fellow, "A
Model of Spatial Interaction Between
Endangered Whales and Lobster Fishing
Gear"
Joseph Holler, IGERT Fellow, "Social
Networks and Community-Integrated GIS
for Water Resources Management"
Peter Kedron and Jeffrey Gower (IGERT
Fellow), "Political and Economic
Contexts of Biofuel Production: A Case
of Iowa's Ethanol Industry"
|
|
April 18 |
Session Cancelled for AAG Meetings |
|
April 25 |
Dr. Alexander Klippel, Pennsylvania
State University
(Co-sponsored by
Department of Geography) |
September
2007
| Sept
7 |
Le
Wang, Assistant Professor, Geography,
"Invasive Species spread modeling
using multi-resolution remote sensing
data" |
Sept
14 |
Douglas
Bolender, Institute of European and Mediterranean
Archaeology |
Sept
21 |
IGERT
Fellow research interests and discussion |
| Sept
28 |
Tina
Thurston, Dept. of Anthropology, Dept
of Anthropology,
" Making and breaking places: The
spatial dimensions of political and
social development in early Denmark"
|
October
2007
| Oct
5 |
Dr.
David Mark, NCGIA,
"Recent progress in ethnophysiography" |
| Oct
12 |
Dr.
Chu Ho Sam,
1:00 pm in Wilkeson 145H - joint presentation
with the Department of Geography |
| Oct
19 |
Presentations
by IGERT Fellows Heath
Robinson and Joe Holler |
| Oct
26 |
Dr.
James Jensen,
Civil and Environmental Engineering, "Drugs
and Bugs: Pharmaceuticals & Personal
Care Products in the Environment" |
November
2007
| Nov
2 |
Dr.
Michael Emch,
Department of Geography, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "
Spatial enviromental, and social network
analysis in vaccine trials"
|
| Nov
9 |
Dr. Changxu Wu,
Department of Industrial Engineering,
"Modeling Human Performance and Mental
Workload using Computational Methods" |
| Nov
16 |
Note:
Time & Location Change! 2:00-3:00
in 120 Clemens Hall
Dr. Risa Palm,
Provost & Vice-Chancellor for Academic
Affairs SUNY and Professor UB Geography
Department, "Culture Realms in
the United States: A Marketer's Approach"
|
| Nov 23 |
Thanksgiving Recess |
| Nov
30 |
Dr.
D. Scott Mackay,
Department of Geography, " Towards
a mechanistic framework for predicting
evapotranspiration in time and space" |
Spring
2008 Schedule to be announced in January
For
information regarding each semester, select the
semester of interest below. |
