MIST Speaker Series
Spring 2020 - Weds 10:30-11:30AM, SSM 203 - contact russ.mcbride@ucmerced.edu
January 22 Tracey Osborne, UC Merced
January 29 Jeff Jenkins, UC Merced
February 5 Russ McBride, UC Merced. The lecture can be seen here.
February 12 Juan Meza, UC Merced/NSF
February 19 Hans Florine
February 26 Ajay Gopinathan, Physics, UC Merced
March 4 Christine Wolf, IBM Research, Almaden
March 11 Roger Aines, LLNL
March 18 Bard Tronvoll, Karlstad University
March 25 ** No Talk Scheduled - Spring Break **
April 1 Basak Kalkanci, Georgia Tech
April 8 Bill Schulze, University of Utah
April 15 Georg Theiner, Villanova
April 22 Deborah Tollefsen, University of Memphis
April 29 Bruce Tow, SRI, Synovation
May 6 Lyda Bigelow, University of Utah
Fall 2019 - Weds 10:30-11:30AM, SSM 203 - contact pmaglio@ucmerced.edu
August 28 Sarah Kurtz, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Merced
September 4 ** No Talk Scheduled **
September 11 LeRoy Westerling, Management of Complex Systems, UC Merced
September 18 Zulema Valdez, Sociology, UC Merced
September 25 James Ralph, Chief of Policy and Legal Affairs, California Public Utilities Commission
October 2 Gerardo Diaz, Mechanical Engineering, UC Merced
October 9 Steve Cousins, CEO, Savioke
October 16 ** No Talk Scheduled **
October 23 Tea Lempiälä, Management of Complex Systems, UC Merced
October 30 Spencer Castro, Dept of Psychology, University of Utah
November 6 Crystal Kolden, Department of Forest Rangeland and Fire Science, University of Idaho
November 13 Yang Quan Chen, Mechanical Engineering, UC Merced
November 20 Sergio Castellanos, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
December 4 John Abatzoglou, Department of Geography, University of Idaho
December 11 Anita Bhappu, Management of Complex Systems, UC Merced
2017-18
- Professor Lee Fleming, UC Berkeley, Coleman Fung Institute of Engineering Leadership and Haas School of Business — Mar. 13
- Ryan Angus, University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business — Feb. 20
- Professor Melanie Mitchell, Department of Computer Science, Portland State University & Santa Fe Institute — Feb. 6
- Professor Paul Maglio, Management of Complex Systems Department, UC Merced — Jan. 30
- Jeff Kaplan, UC Berkeley, Department of Philosophy — Jan. 22 2018
- Professor Randy Westgren, U. Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources — Dec. 12 2017
- Dr. Nathan Reigner, University of Vermont, Park Studies Lab — Nov. 28
- Dr. Ashley Goldhor-Wilcock, USDA Forest Service, Human Dimensions National Program Lead — Nov. 14
- Professor Zack Grossman, Florida State University, Department of Economics — Nov. 7
- Steve Shackleton, UC Merced Academic Coordinator and SNRI — Oct. 31
- Steven Key, Cofounder of inventRight — Oct. 19
- Professor Lisa Yeo, UC Merced — Sept. 19
- Jackie Milbrandt, Univ. St. Thomas, Minnesota — Sept. 5
2016-17
- Professor Christian Turner, University of Georgia — May 2
- Dr. Anton Howes, Brown University — April 18
- Professor Christoph Breidbach, University of Melbourne School of Computing and Information Systems — April 18
- Professor Todd Zenger, David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, Chair of the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship — April 11
- Dr. Elisabeth Pacherie, Senior researcher, French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) — March 21
- Director David Lamfrom, California Desert and Wildlife Programs — March 7
- Professor Brian Epstein, Tufts University — Feb. 28
- Chief of Resouce Management and Science Christy Brigham, Seqouia and Kings Canyon National Parks — Feb. 21
- Professor Alberto Feduzi, University of Technology Sydney — Feb. 14
- Professor Bernard Reginster, Brown Unviersity — Feb. 6 (special with MTS)
- Joshua Welsh, Planning and Management, Yosemite National Park — Jan. 24
Affiliated Seminars