Seminar Series
Each year, the Center hosts speakers from around the world to present their research, policy, and/or deployment efforts toward improving conditions in various developing regions.
Seminars currently scheduled for the 2007-08 academic year include:
- April 29, 2008: "The Troubles with Air Quality in Developing Communities" presented by Kurt Paterson, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University. For more details on this talk, click here.
- February 12, 2008: "Gender, Technology and Development: The AIR Project" presented by S. Revi Sterling, a doctoral candidate at the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder. For more details on this talk, click here.
- October 19, 2007: "The Role of Engineers in Poverty Reduction: Challenges and Opportunities" presented by Bernard Amadei, Professor, University of Colorado, Director, Engineering for Developing Communities Program, Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering (view the video; download the slides, pdf 6MB)
Seminars in the 2006-07 academic year included:
- February 20, 2007: "Engineers Without Borders-Princeton: Engineering Connections across the Globe" presented by Andrew Lapetina '07 & Katie Lewis-LaMonica '08 (view the video; download the slides, pdf 2.7MB)
- March 6, 2007: "Providing Internet Search for Low-Connectivity Regions" presented by Bill Thies, MIT (view the video; download the slides, pdf 1.6MB)
- May 1, 2007: "Management of Wetland Waters in Africa" presented by Wolfgang Kinzelbach, ETH in Zurich (view the video; download the slides, pdf 2.3MB)
Seminars in the 2005-06 academic year included:
- "Health Technologies for the Developing World" presented by Chris Elias, PATH
- "The Digital Study Hall: An E-learning System for Improving Basic Education in Third World Countries" presented by Randy Wang, Microsoft Research, India
- "Sámi Network Connectivity" presented by Avri Doria, Independent Consultant
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