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OSU Events: Lectures / Seminars

Monday, April 21, 2008

Mark-Recapture Models In Columbia River Salmon Research: Replicate 2
Ben Sandford. OSU Statistics Alumni, National Marine Fisheries Services (NOAA), Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Fish Ecology Division, Pasco Field Station
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Center for Humanities Lecture -- Capitalism and Its Discontents: Investigating Foodways in Rural Oregon
By Joan Gross, OSU Anthropology Dept.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
It’s a Bug’s Life: “Pollination” of the Choke Fungus in Grasses by Flies and of Red Clover by Native Bees
Presented by: Sujaya Rao
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Networking and Dining Etiquette
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  FULL
Global Warming and Science
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Milam Auditorium  |  Free
Global Warming and Science
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Milam Auditorium  |  Free

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Tory Hagen Lecture & Inauguration Ceremony for the Jamieson Chair in Healthspan Research
Linus Pauling Institute
11:00 am - 12:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Plant-insect interactions.
Jessica Green, Graduate student, Department of Horticulture, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

On the frontline: PPQ The gatekeeper to preventing entry of invasive species
Speakers: Gary Brown, Mark Hitchcox, Mitchell Nelson, USDA APHIS
11:30 am - 1:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall
Living Waters: Connection and Separation in Water, from Physical, Legal, Political, and Spiritual Perspectives
Distinguished Panel on Water Resources
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
New Therapies for Parkinson's disease
3:00 pm - 3:50 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
An introduced marine bopyrid isopod parasite, Orthione griffenis: The invasion faster than evolution?
Invasive Species Conservation Biology & Mgt
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Oregon water law, climate change and energy consumption
(Spring Hydrology Seminar Series, Water in the West)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
An introduced marine bopyrid Isopod parasite, Orthlone griffenls: The Invasion faster than evolutoin?
Speakers: John Chapman and Brett Dumbauld, OSU Fisheries & Wildlife
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
Spring Hydrology Seminar 2008
Water in the West
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Craft of Writing Series Presents: Literature in Translation
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Thursday, April 24, 2008

"Idaho National Laboratory: The Nation's Nuclear Laboratory"
Speaker: David Hill, Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology, INL
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Radiation Center
"Sensitivity Analysis of Key Parameters and Initial Conditions in Atmospheric Models."
Humberto Godinez, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Portland State University
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Strand Agriculture Hall
Environmental Justice Panel Discussion
Earth Week
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Environmental Justice Panel Discussion
Earth Week
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Coseismic and post seismic displacements from the 8 October 2005 Kashmir earthquake
Speaker: Rebecca Bendick, U. of Montana (Geology Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall

Friday, April 25, 2008

Chun Chiu Conference - Day 1
Buddhist Activism in Greater China and Beyond
12:00 pm - 4:45 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields: The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects
AREc Seminar presented by Wolfram Schlenker of Columbia University
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Ballard Extension Hall  |  Free
Backtesting Parametric Value-at-Risk With Estimation Risk
Juan Carlos Escanciano: Indiana University, Bloomington
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Bexell Hall  |  Free
Medicine, Writing, and Humanities
Literary Performance with Dr. C. Dale Young
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Medicine, Writing, and Humanities
Medicine and Writing Workshop led by Dr. Chris Adrian
9:00 am - 12:00 pm  |  Autzen House  |  Free - Advance registration required.
Chun Chiu Conference - Day 2
Buddhist Activism in Greater China and Beyond
9:30 am - 4:15 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Medicine, Writing, and Humanities
Reading by Chris Adrian
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free