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CACR Invited Lecture Series

Upcoming Lectures

 

April 3, 2009 [room and time TBA]

Speaker: Linda Collins (Penn State)

MU Host department:  Family Studies and Social Work.

Sponsors: CACR; School of Education, Health and Society.

 

Previous Lectures

 

"Gender, Materiality, and the Politics of Digital Text "

Speaker: Julia Flanders, Brown University

Time: noon-1:00pm, Tuesday, May 1, 2007.

Location: Room 337, Bachelor Hall.  (Bachelor Reading Room)

Light buffet:  immediately preceding the presentation.

MU Host department:  English.

Sponsors: CACR; Interactive Media Studies.


"Modeling Behavior, Learning, and Social Interactions in Dynamic Economic Contexts: An Agent-Based Computational Approach"

Speaker: Leigh Tesfatsion, Iowa State University

Time: 3:00-4:30pm, Friday, April 20, 2007.

Location: Room 205, Laws Hall.

Reception:  4:30pm in 220 Laws

MU Host department:  Economics.

Sponsor: CACR (via President's Academic Enrichment Award and Dolibois Award).

 

"Dancing with megaphones: understanding, measuring, and leveraging Consumer Generated Media (CGM)"
Speaker: Pete Blackshaw, Chief Marketing Officer, Nielsen Buzzmetrics
Time: 7p.m., Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Location: 001 Laws Hall.
MU Host departments: Marketing, Interactive Media Studies.
Sponsors: CACR (via President's Academic Enrichment Award and Dolibois Award), Interactive Media Studies, Dept of Marketing.

 

Topic:  Art in a CAVE virtual reality environment

Speaker: Margaret Dolinsky, School of Fine Arts, Indiana University

Time: 3p.m., October 21, 2006.

MU Host department:  Art.

Sponsors:  CACR (via President's Academic Enrichment Award), School of Fine Arts.

(View Dr. Dolinsky's work at http://dolinsky.fa.indiana.edu)

 

 

Current Focus Groups

  1. Mathematical Biology (Math/Bio)

    (Contact: Dr. Hank Stevens, Assistant Professor, Botany
    338 Pearson Hall, (513) 529-4206, HStevens@muohio.edu)

  2. High Performance Computing (HPC)

    (Contact: Dr. Steve Wright, Associate Professor, Mathematics & Statistics
    226 Bachelor Hall, (513) 529-5818, wrightse@muohio.edu)

  3. Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, and Systems Analysis (ORIESA)

    (Contact: Dr. Steve Wright, Associate Professor, Mathematics & Statistics
    226 Bachelor Hall, (513) 529-5818, wrightse@muohio.edu)


Related Research Groups at Miami University

Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics

Center for Environmental Toxicology and Statistics

Center for Nanotechnology

Statistical Consulting Center