RELATE - March 18, 2015 - Charlotte Research Institute
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RELATE - March 18, 2015 - Charlotte Research Institute
RESEARCH, EDUCATION, LECTURES ACCESSING THE TECHNICAL EDGE THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE CHARLOTTE RESEARCH INSTITUTE EVENTS Dissertation Defense Announcements iCONE Seminar Nanoscale Science Department of Accounting Department of Biological Sciences Department of Geography & Earth Sciences College of Computing and Informatics Academic Affairs North Carolina Research Campus Office of International Programs Charlotte Venture Challenge Finals UNC Charlotte Center City Science & Technology EXPO The William States Lee College of Engineering Infrastructure, Design, Environment, and Sustainability (IDEAS) Center To advertise your events in RELATE, email [email protected] Subscription information at the bottom of the newsletter “ITS Web Page12 3-9-15,” Wade Bruton March 18, 2015 Dissertation Defense Announcements "Determining the Efficiency of State-level RPS Policies in the U.S.: Examining the Impact of Federalized Energy and Environmental Policy on Electricity Quality" Candidate: Joseph Alleyn Cochran Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Peter M. Schwarz Committee: Dr. Roslyn Mickelson, Department of Sociology at UNC Charlotte Dr. Amanda (Manda) Adams, National Science Foundation Dr. Gloria Elliott, Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science at UNC Charlotte Defense Date: March 20, 2015 - 1:00pm Location: Friday 228 Degree Program Name: Public Policy “Preserving Differential Privacy in Complex Data Analysis” Candidate: Yue Wang Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Xintao Wu Committee: Dr. Xintao Wu, Department of Software and Information Systems at UNC Charlotte, Dr. Yong Ge, Department of Computer Science at UNC Charlotte, Dr. Zbigniew W. Ras, Department of Computer Science at UNC Charlotte, Dr. Shan Yan, Department of Biological Science at UNC Charlotte, Dr. Yuliang Zheng, Department of Software and Information Systems at UNC Charlotte Defense Date: March 23, 2015 - 2:00pm Location: College of Education Building 010 Degree Program Name: Ph.D. In Computing and Information Systems “Institutional Dynamics in Corporate Political Linkages: Evidence from China's Emerging Economy” Candidate: Jianhua Ge Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Wei Zhao Committee: Dr. Franz Kellermanns, Department of Management at UNC Charlotte; Dr. Yang Cao, Department of Sociology at UNC Charlotte; Dr. Tammy Beck, Department of Management at University of Nebraska–Lincoln; Dr. Yu Wang, Department of Computer Science at UNC Charlotte Defense Date: March 24, 2015 - 10:00am Location: Fretwell 480C Degree Program Name: Organizational Science “Displacement Scale Based on Speckles” Candidate: Mahsa Farsad Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Christopher Evans Committee: Dr. Christopher Evans, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, Dr. Gert Goch, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, Dr. Faramarz Farahi, Department of Physics and Optical Science, Dr. Angela Davies, Department of Physics and Optical Science, Dr. Mohammad Kazemi, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Defense Date: March 24, 2015 - 10:00am Location: Grigg 131 Degree Program Name: Ph.D. in Optical Science and Engineering “Selective Heating of Vascular Structures to Create Contrast in Medical Mid-IR Images” Candidate: Jason Case Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Susan Trammell Committee: Dr. Susan Trammell, Department of Physics and Optical Science, Dr. Glenn Boreman, Department of Physics and Optical Science, Dr. Nathaniel Fried, Department of Physics and Optical Science, Dr. M. Yasin Raja, Department of Physics and Optical Science, Dr. Russell Keanini, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, Dr. Didier Dréau, Department of Biological Sciences Defense Date: March 24, 2015 - 3:30pm Location: Grigg 132 Degree Program Name: Ph.D. in Optical Science and Engineering “The Way the Cookie Crumbles: Assessing the Resilience of Starter-Home Neighborhoods through the Great Recession.” Candidate: Melissa Anne Currie Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Janni Sorensen ,Geography and Earth Sciences Department Committee: Dr. Heather Smith, Dept. of Geography and Earth Sciences; Dr. Owen Furuseth, Associate Provost for Metropolitan Studies and Extended Academic Programs; and Dr. Jose Gamez, Architecture and Urban Design Defense Date: March 31, 2015 - 10:00am Location: McEniry 441 Degree Program Name: Geography PhD "Microspherical photonics: Giant Resonant Light Forces, Spectrally Resolved Optical Manipulation, and Coupled Modes of Microcavity Arrays" Candidate: Yangcheng Li Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Vasily N. Astratov, Department of Physics and Optical Science Defense date: Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 4:30pm, Grigg 132 Degree: PhD in Optical Science and Engineering iCONE Seminar Candidate Series “Manipulating Nanomagnets with Magnetic Fields, Electric Currents, and Light” Speaker: Dr. Randy Dumas, Researcher, Physics Department University of Gothenburg, Sweden Date: Thursday, March 19 at 9:30am, Open Discussion at 10:30am Location: Grigg, 132 In 2009 Randy Dumas earned his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Davis on the topic of reversal mechanisms in magnetic nanostructures. He was then awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Swedish Research Council (VR) and subsequently joined the University of Gothenburg and studied graded/tilted anisotropy thin films and spin torque oscillators. In 2012 he was awarded a VR Young Researcher grant for ~$730,000 allowing him to forge an independent research career in the fields of nanoscale magnetism and magnetodynamics. Nanoscale Science "Immunological Properties of Engineered Nanomaterials and Challenges in their Preclinical Characterization” Speaker: Dr. Marina Dobrovolskaia, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research Date: Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 3:30pm Location: Burson, 115 Department of Accounting “The Strategic Timing of Management Forecasts.” When: Friday, March 20, 2015 from 10:30am – 12:00pm Where: Friday Building, Room 212 Please feel free to join us as Dr. Doyle presents his working paper, “The Strategic Timing of Management Forecasts.” The paper is a co-authored work with Matthew Magilke of Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Doyle’s research interests include financial statement analysis, valuation, the predictability of accounting information, informational efficiency of capital markets, debt contracting, and earnings quality. He has published in top-tier research journals such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Review of Accounting Studies. If you are interested in meeting with Dr. Doyle during his visit or have further questions about the Accounting Research Series, please contact Dr. Keejae Hong ([email protected]) or Dr. Kristin Roland ([email protected]). Department of Biological Sciences "Do we need to understand microbial community assembly to predict ecosystem function?" Speaker: Diana Nemergut, Associate Professor, Duke University Department of Biology Date: March 20, 2015 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm Location: COED, 010 "Harnessing Natural Variation for Gene Discovery in Plant Specialized Metabolism" Speaker: Sirius Xu Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, NCSU Date: March 27, 2015 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm Location: COED, 010 For more Biological Sciences events, visit their website at http://goo.gl/vbkoeY Department of Geography & Earth Sciences Speaker Series Speaker: Date: Location: Cuizhen (Susan) Wang - University of South Carolina March 27, 2015 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm McEniry, 116 Speaker: Date: Location: Gregory Hancock, College of William and Mary April 17, 2015 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm McEniry, 116 College of Computing and Informatics 2015 College of Computing and Informatics Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker: Date: Location: Rick Stevens, Department of Computer Science The University of Chicago; and Associate Director of Computing, Environment and Life Sciences Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory April 10, 2015 - 3:00pm Woodward 106 Speaker: Date: Location: Oussama Khatib, Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University April 17, 2015 - 3:00pm Woodward 106 Speaker: Michael Dulin, Senior Scientist, Genomics & Molecular Epidemiology British Columbia Centre for Disease Control April 24, 2015 - 3:00 PM Woodward, 106 Date: Location: For more Computing and Informatics events, click here: http://cci.uncc.edu/calendar Academic Affairs Dismantling Racism Workshop UNC Charlotte invites you to participate in a powerful two-day anti-racist workshop. Dismantling Racism is a two-day workshop provided by Race Matters for Juvenile Justice & the Racial Equity Institute. Dismantling Racism builds the capacity of educators, health practitioners, judicial officers, elected officials, law enforcement officers, child welfare advocates, and other community leaders who are interested in understanding and eliminating racial inequities, disparities, and disproportionality across multiple systems including education, health, and justice. Dates: March 24-25, April 14-15, June 10-11, or July 15-16 9am – 5pm Light breakfast and lunch provided (2 day attendance mandatory) Location: Hope Haven Conference Center, 3815 N. Tryon St. Learn more: http://tinyurl.com/pw5gz5h If you are having problems accessing the Google Docs registration page from the link on the flyer, please follow these instructions. NOTE: This should only apply to individuals who are attempting to register from a non-UNC Charlotte computer. Sign in to: https://googleapps.uncc.edu using your UNC Charlotte username and password. You can then proceed to the url. Registration will close on Sunday, March 15th. Workshop registration fees paid for by the Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Grant. North Carolina Research Campus Science Café Sponsored by CASN, Charlotte Area Science Network “Collaboration for Science” “The Science of Sports” Charlotte Area Science Network’s Science Café includes networking and the presentation. For more information, contact Clare Faggart at [email protected]. Speaker: Patrick J. Moyer, Ph.D., Director of Athletics, Cannon School Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 5:00 - 6:00pm Location: UNC Charlotte Center City, 320 E. 9th Street Office of International Programs International Film Series: The campus community is invited to one or all of five films looking at health, the environment, and culture as part of a film series sponsored by International Studies and a grant from the Chancellor’s Diversity Fund. The Milagro Beanfield War Date: March 24, 2015 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Student Union Theater Contact: Office of International Programs at [email protected] About the film: In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs. But when Joe Mondragon illegally diverts water to irrigate his bean field, the local people support him because of their resentment of water use laws that favor the rich like Devine. When the Governor sends in ruthless troubleshooter Kyril Montana to settle things quickly before the lucrative development is cancelled, a small war threatens to erupt. Yesterday Date: Location: Contact: April 21, 2015 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm Student Union Theater Office of International Programs at [email protected] About the film: After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school. 10th Annual UNC Charlotte recognition of International Women's Day (IWD) Date: Location: Thursday, March 26, in room 340 of the Student Union from 3:30-5:00pm Student Union Join OIP as we celebrate the 10th Annual UNC Charlotte recognition of International Women's Day (IWD) on T hursday, March 26, in room 340 of the Student Union from 3:30-5:00pm. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the campus IWD celebration, the 2015 program will include a presentation from keynote speaker Sharon Reed, the Founder of Global Girls Project and a UN Women 2014 Global Community Champion for Women’s Economic Empowerment. IWD is recognized by the United Nations on March 8 and is celebrated in countries around the world. The goal of this celebration is to honor women’s achievements and inspire leadership and development related to women’s issues. UNC Charlotte’s annual recognition of IWD is co-sponsored by the Office of International Programs and the Multicultural Resource Center with partnership from various academic units. The event is open to all on campus. For more information, visit http://oip.uncc.edu/IWD or contact OIP at [email protected] or 704-687-7755. Phi Beta Delta’s Global Perspective Series "Education Considering Disability and Disadvantage/Inclusion: The Effects of the 2006 UN-Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities" Speaker: Dr. Kerstin Merz-Atalik, Ludwigsburg University of Education Date: Thursday, March 19, 2015 from 12:30pm-1:30pm Location: Atkins Library, Halton Reading Room After signing the UN-Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities in 2006, the German government and the 16 German Federal States are realizing that changing the separatistic school-system into an inclusive educational system is a significant challenge for almost all educational institutions. Currently, more than 5% of German school-aged children attend designated Special Schools which are divided into nine different schools with focus on the Special Needs and which separate pupils into three main tracks based on their academic outcomes after the 4th grade. Dr. Merz-Atalik’s presentation on these topics is part of the Global Perspective Series presented by the honor society for international scholars, Phi Beta Delta, in collaboration with the Office of International Programs and the College of Education. Charlotte Venture Challenge Finals The 2015 Southeast Venture Conference will take place at Le Méridien Charlotte, NC, 555 South McDowell Street, North Tower • Charlotte, NC 28204 | 704-372-9610 The dates are March 31st thru April 1st. You can see the agenda and other items of possible interest at http://seventure.org/agenda/. UNC Charlotte Center City “Using Digital Resources to Unlock Neighborhood History” Introducing Digital Charlotte: an event to celebrate and explore new digital library projects dedicated to preserving and sharing the history and culture of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. A Presentation by Tom Hanchett, Staff Historian at the Levine Museum of the New South. Lecture Hall Date: Location: March 30, 2015 at 6:30pm UNC Charlotte Center City Campus 320 E. 9th Street UNC Charlotte presents THE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Sunday, April 26 12 - 4pm / UNC Charlotte Union Plaza Join faculty, staff, and students as they present exhibits, discussions, and films in the weeks leading up to the main event. April 10 - 26th in various locations. Learn more at NCSCIENCEFESTIVAL.UNCC.EDU The William States Lee College of Engineering Senior Design Spring Expo Date: April 30, 2015 - 11:00am - 2:30pm Location: Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC) Open to the Public Infrastructure, Design, Environment, and Sustainability (IDEAS) Center BioEnergy Symposium The UNC Charlotte IDEAS Center is pleased to announce the fourth annual BioEnergy Symposium on May 14th, 2015. This year's symposium has a focus on Beneficial Byproducts of Bioenergy. If you have questions or need assistance please contact: Karyn Williamson-Coria at 704-687-1932 or by email at [email protected] For more information about the BioEnergy Symposium click here (http://ideas.uncc.edu/2015_BioEnergy_Symposium). To subscribe or unsubscribe to RELATE send an email to [email protected] RSS Feed: CRI.UNCC.EDU/NEWS/RSS 9210 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223 t/ 704-687-5690 CRI.UNCC.EDU