SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Ph.D. RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Date: Thursday, October 28th, 2010
Time: 4.20-7.00 PM
Location: Jed D. Satow Conference Room; 5th Floor, Lerner Hall; Columbia University
Link to Detailed Symposium Program: [here]
The first annual Sustainable Development Ph.D. Research Symposium has been scheduled for Thursday, October 28th, 4.20-7.00 PM, in the Jed D. Satow Conference Room (5th Floor, Lerner Hall).
The purpose of the symposium is to showcase the pioneering research of the Ph.D. Program in Sustainable Development’s 5th and 6th year doctoral candidates to the wider Columbia University community and invited guests from the private sector, governments, and NGOs. It will be attended by: the Director of the Earth Institute, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs; the Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, Prof. John Coatsworth; the program’s Academic Directors, Prof. John Mutter and Prof. Wolfram Schlenker; and many of the program’s core faculty.
The symposium will consist of a series of short presentations, followed by short question and answer sessions and a general discussion. The topics of the presentations will cover many of the most pressing global sustainability issues, including the global economic losses to tropical cyclones, the future of India’s dwindling groundwater resources, drought and floods and poverty traps in rural Mexico, the effects of climate change on Indian agriculture and the connections between Malaria ecology and demography.
SCHEDULED SPEAKERS:
(1) Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy: A Quantile Regression Approach to Estimating Climate Change Impacts on Crop Yields. [Link to Chandra’s profile].
(2) Gordon McCord: Improving Empirical Estimation of Demographic Drivers: Fertility, Child Mortality & Malaria Ecology. [Link to Gordon’s profile].
(3) Anisa Khadem Nwachuku: The Materialism Paradigm: Neither Sustainable, nor Development. [Link to Anisa’s profile].
(4) Marta Vicarelli: Exogenous Income Shocks and Consumption Smoothing, Strategies Among Rural Households in Mexico. [Link to Marta’s profile].
(5) Jesse Anttila-Hughes: The Long Term Fertility Impacts of Natural Disasters. [Link to Jesse’s profile].
(6) Ram Fishman: How Low Will It Go? The Future of Groundwater Tables and Irrigation in India. [Link to Ram’s profile].
(7) Solomon Hsiang: Global Economic Losses to Tropical Cyclones. [Link to Solomon’s profile].
(8) Aly Sanoh: Municipal Taxes, Income, and Rainfall Uncertainty. [Link to Aly’s profile].
Presentations will be arranged into two panels of four speakers each. Student presentations within the panels will last 10 minutes. Each panel will be following by a 15 minute period for the audience to pose questions or make comments to the panel members. A detailed program for the symposium can be found here.
If you are interested in attending the symposium, please RSVP to Shivani Desai ([email protected]).
If you have questions, please feel free to contact the symposium organizers: Ram Fishman ([email protected]) or Geoff McCarney ([email protected]).
This event is organized by Columbia University’s Sustainable Development Doctoral Society (SDDS) with support from the Ph.D. Program in Sustainable Development.