News / Events : Archive : Colloquia Series Fall 2008
The colloquia series welcomes speakers from across the campus and the world to discuss their research.
All colloquia are scheduled at 3:30pm in Storm Hall 337 most Fridays during the semester unless otherwise noted.
Evaluating Reaction Rates in Complex Multispecies Reactive Transport Problems.
Is it Really Possible?
September 5
Dr. Xavier Sanchez-Vila
Associate Professor of Hydrography Group
Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Fifty Years of Change on the US-Mexico Border
September 12
Dr. James Gerber
Professor of Economics
San Diego State University
The Tijuana River Basin: One Area, Two Stories
September 26
Dr. Lina Ojeda Revah
Assistant Professor of Geography
El Colegio de la Frontera, Tijuana, Mexico
Knowledge Networks and Learning:
A Regional Model with Numerical Simulations
The Getis Lecture
October 3
West Commons 220
Dr. Kingsley Haynes
Professor of Public Policy
George Mason University
Revisiting Multi-Disciplinary Problem Solving:
It's Not Where You Take Things From, It's Where You Take Them To
October 10
Dr. George Christakos
Professor of Geography
San Diego State University
What is Your Rational Basis?
On the Need of a Canon for Data-Based Plausible Inference in Risk Analysis
October 17
Dr. Alberto Solana
Professor of Mathematics
Inst. de Matemáticas y Fásica Fundamental, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Spatial Patterns and Cost Surfaces:
Untangling Trends in Species Conservation
October 24
Dr. Rebecca Lewison
Assistant Professor of Biology
San Diego State University
Don't Tread on Them:
The Population Genetics of Timber Rattlesnakes in Fragmented Landscapes
October 31
Dr. Rulon Clark
Assistant Professor of Biology
San Diego State University
New Research Directions of Internet GIS and Disaster Management
and Lessons Learned from the San Diego 2007 Wildfires
November 7
Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou
Associate Professor of Geography
San Diego State University
Diversity and Journalism:
Neoliberalism in the Newsroom
November 14
Dr. Minelle Mahtani
Assistant Professor of Geography
University of Toronto, Scarborough
Why Walls Won't Work:
The Future of the US-Mexico Borderlands
November 21
Dr. Michael Dear
Professor of Geography
University of Southern California
Some Geostatistical Approaches for Downscaling Spatial Data
December 5
Dr. Phaedon Kyriakidis
Associate Professor of Geography
University of California Santa Barbara