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GSAS Reunions 2010
April 10, 2010
All events to take place at Faculty House
Program subject to change
To see a list of attendees by department, click here.
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| 9 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Faculty House |
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| 10 a.m. |
Morning session with the department
Faculty House
Anthropology | Economics | Mathematics
Political Science | Psychology | Sociology | Statistics
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| 10 a.m. |
Anthropology |
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"Quality Out of Conflict: Anthropology's Glory Days at Columbia."
Introduction:
Paula G. Rubel PhD ’63 Anthropology, Professor Emerita, Art History, Barnard College
Abe Rosman Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, Barnard College
Alumni Presentations:
Judith R. Shapiro PhD ’72 Anthropology; Professor Emerita, Anthropology, Barnard College on Robert Murphy
Myron L. Cohen CC’58, GSAS PhD ’67 Anthropology; Professor, Anthropology on Morton Fried
Brian Ferguson CC’74, GSAS MA ’76, MPhil ’80, PhD ’88 on Marvin Harris
Owen M. Lynch PhD ’66 Anthropology on Conrad Arensberg
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| 11:45 a.m. |
"Cultivating and Claiming Culture: Southern Mountain Music-Making and Heritage-Based Development."
Ryan D. Chaney MA ’01, MPhil ’04, PhD ’08 Anthropology; Lecturer in Discipline, Anthropology
"Viral Citizens: Contagion, Corporeality, and HIV/AIDS in Colonial Puerto Rico."
Adriana M. Garriga-López MPhil ’06 Anthropology
"Fabled Futures: Development, Gridiron Football, and Transnational Movements in American Samoa."
Lisa Uperesa MPhil ’06 Anthropology
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| 10 a.m. |
Economics
"Research Currents in Economics"
Professor Lena Edlund
Professor Navin Kartik
Professor Till von Wachter |
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| 11:30 a.m. |
Graduate Student Presentations:
"Air Pollution and Contemporaneous Health: Evidence from Airports."
Reed Walker MA ’09 Economics
"Does Special Education Benefit Non-Disabled Students?"
Mariesa A. Herrmann MA ’08, MPhil ’09 Economics
"Selection, Heterogeneity and the Gender Wage Gap."
Cecilia Machado MA ’07, MPhil ’08 Economics
"The Labor Supply Effects of Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle."
Johannes Schmieder MA ’06, MPhil ’07 Economics
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Mathematics
Introduction
Professor Igor Krichever, Department Chair
Professor Michael Thaddeus, Director of Graduate Studies
Graduate Student presentations:
"Conformal coordinates and discrete differential geometry."
Dmitry Zakharov MA ’06, MPhil ’08 Mathematics
"A recent history of low-dimensional topology."
Thomas D. Peters MA ’06, MPhil ’08 Mathematics
"Categorification of the Hecke algebra."
Benjamin S. Elias MA ’07, MPhil ’10 Mathematics
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Political Science
"Causes and Consequences of Social Movement Partisanship in the United States, 1970-2010."
Katherine Krimmel MA ’07, MPhil ’09 Political Science
"Cultures of Violence?: Explaining Variation in Non-State Groups' Choice of Coercive Tactics to Bring About Regime Change"
Adriana Lins de Albuquerque GS ’02, SIPA ’03, GSAS MA ’08, MPhil ’08 Political Science
"Laying a foundation for peace? Micro-effects of peacekeeping in Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia."
Cyrus Samii SIPA’04, GSAS MPhil ’08 Political Science
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| 11 a.m. |
Introduction by Professor Sharyn O’ Halloran
Alumni presentations:
"From Libya to Wall Street"
Michael Cornfeld MA ’73 Political Science
"Protest Easy Guns: Mobilizing a Social Movement"
Abigail Spangler MA ’92, MPhil ’93, PhD ’00 Political Science
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| 12 p.m. |
"Politics and Social Rights." A faculty discussion
Professor Kimberley Johnson CC’89, GSAS MA ’94, MPhil ’96, PhD ’98 Political Science: Civic Rights
Professor Justin Phillips: Gay Rights
Professor Dorian Warren: Worker's Rights
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| 10 a.m. |
Psychology
Professor Tory Higgins PhD ‘73, Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology and Professor of Business will introduce the session with brief remarks and a glimpse into, "Psychological research at Columbia: Past and present."
Graduate Student Presentations:
"The role of motivation in personality differences in animal behavior."
Becca Franks MA ’09 Psychology
"A shared neural circuitry for pain and negative emotion in the periaqueductal gray."
Jason Buhle MA ’10 Psychology
"Anxiety through the eye-of-the-beholder: Attention biases in personality disorders."
Christopher Crew
"Learning, memory, decision-making and the brain."
Juliet Davidow
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Sociology
Introduction by Professor Diane Vaughan
Graduate Student Presentations:
"In Vivo: Medical Apprenticeship and Storytelling."
Dr. Nancy Davenport MA ’04, MPhil ’06, PhD ’09 Sociology
"From Rats to Riches: Game Playing and the Construction of the Capitalist Self."
Daniel Fridman MA ’05, MPhil ’06 Sociology
"Black Boxes and Networks: A Structural Inquiry into Consensus Formation in Science."
Uri Shwed MA ’07, MPhil ’08 Sociology
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| 11:15 a.m |
Tour of Sociology Department in its new location. |
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Statistics
Professor David Madigan, Department Chair, will chair a session of current graduate students presenting their doctoral projects and introduce the session with a state-of-the-graduate program message.
Graduate Student Presentations:
"Decentralized Sequential Hypothesis Testing."
George Fellouris MA ’06, MPhil ’10 Statistics
"Too interconnected to fail: contagion and systemic risk in financial networks."
Amal Moussa MA ’07, MPhil ’10 Statistics
"Network inference using Aggregated Relational Data."
Tyler McCormick MA ’08 Statistics
"A Monte-Carlo method for processes with jumps in credit risk."
Johannes Ruf MA ’07, MPhil ’10 Statistics
"Nonparametric weighted log-rank tests for comparing multivariate distributions."
Xiaoru Wu MA ’07, MPhil ’09 Statistics
"A Bayesian self-controlled method for drug safety surveillance in large-scale longitudinal data."
Shawn Simpson MA ’07, MPhil ’10 Statistics
"Consistency in Multivariate Convex Regression."
Emilio Seijo MA ’08, MPhil ’10 Statistics
"Likelihood inference for discriminating between long-range dependence and change-point models."
Chun-yip Yau MA ’07, MPhil ’09 Statistics
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| 1 p.m. |
Lunch
Enjoy lunch with fellow alumni, faculty, and current students |
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| Afternoon General Sessions |
| 2 p.m. |
Welcome from Dean Henry C. Pinkham |
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| 2:15 p.m. |
Health Care discussion
Professor Robert Y. Shapiro, Department of Political Science Professor Lawrence D. Brown, Health Policy and Management Department, Mailman School of Public Health
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| 3:45 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
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| 4:30 p.m. |
"Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us"
Claude M. Steele
Provost of Columbia University, Professor of Psychology
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| 5:15 p.m. |
"The Great American University: Columbia as an Ideal Type"
Dr. Jonathan Cole CC ’64, GSAS PhD ’69 Sociology
John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and Provost Emeritus of the University and Dean Emeritus of Faculties
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| 6 p.m. |
Cocktail Reception
Faculty House, 4th floor Skyline level |
For more information about the program schedule, contact us at gsasalumni@columbia.edu or 877-854-ALUM.
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A Celebration of Professor Emeritus C. Lowell Harriss (1912-2009)