Art of Research Graduate Symposium, March 26
Art of Research Graduate Symposium
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 12-3 PM
Location: Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium
Visit the Graduate Student Center page for a detailed listing of presenters and to register for the event: www.gsc.upenn.edu
Registration is FREE and open to all.
Share in the learning as Penn graduate students present the elegance and beauty of their research ideas!
-11 oral presentations and 1 poster
-Judging by Penn faculty with $500 award for top presentation and smaller prizes for runners-up!
-Food and drink provided
Schedule
12 PM - arrival and setup
12:15 - 1:15 - session 1
1:30 - 2:30 - session 2
2:45 - presentation of awards
Session 1 (12:15 – 1:15 PM)
Amitai Bin-Nun (Physics and Astronomy): “Extra dimensions: Fiction, Reality, and Mathematical Reality”
Rosella Cappella (Political Science): “Paying for War”
Vanessa Troiani (Neuroscience): “Through a Prism of Autism”
Karam Kang (Economics): “The Price of Power: Estimating the Effect of Lobbying on Energy Policies”
Kyle Gorman (Linguistics): “Words Fail Me: Some Language Gaps”
Andres Alejandro Plazas Malagon (Physics and Astronomy): “Gravity as the curvature of spacetime: Gravitational Lensing in the Universe”
Session 2 (1:30 – 2:30 PM)
Lite Nartey (Management): “External Stakeholder Engagement: Transforming Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from Principled Rhetoric to Theoretically Grounded Practice”
Scott Ordway (Music): “New Music for Sacred and Secular Spaces”
Meredith Reitz (Physics): “Self-organization and Evolution of a River Delta”
Kurt Mitman (Economics): “Credit, Housing, and Multidimensional Default”
Mike Baiocchi (Statistics): “Using Statistics to Save Adorable Babies”
Posters
Roger Turner (History and Sociology of Science) Comics and the TV Weather Report: Tracing the visual style of Contemporary Science’s most popular genre
Sponsored by: SASgov, GAPSA, Graduate Student Center, Biomedical Graduate Student Association, Graduate School of Education Student Government, Graduate Student Engineering Group, Nursing Doctoral Student Organization, Wharton Doctoral Programs
