Minnesota Population Center Seminar Series

Spring 2008 MPC seminar series

schedule and presentation abstracts

Click here download a PDF document of the Spring 2008 MPC Seminar Series flier.
MPC Seminars are held in 50 Willey Hall on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota Minneapolis Campus.

Speaker Biographies

Monday
February 4, 2008
12:15 to 1:15 PM

Whats special about mining spatial datasets?

Shashi Shekhar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

Monday
February 18, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

Are we bowling alone? Findings from the American Time Use Survey.

Vincent Louis and Sarah Flood, Minnesota Population Center,
University of Minnesota

Friday
February 22, 1008
12:15-1:15 PM

Interrogating the implications of marriage and gendered power for fertility and sexual behavior.

Francis Dodoo
Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice, Penn State University

Monday
March 3, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

The internal learning system: Assessing impact while addressing participant learning needs.

Helzi Noponen
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Thursday
March 27, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

Luxembourg Income Study: A cross national comparative project to study welfare state outcomes.

Markus Jäntti
Luxembourg Income Study, Luxembourg

Monday
March 31, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

Country variation in sex differences in self-assessed health: Evidence from the Survey of Health and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).

Elsie Pamuk
The National Center for Health Statistics

Monday
April 14, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

Urban sprawl: Observations on urban form and environmental health.

Julian Marshall
Department of Civil Engineering,
University of Minnesota

Monday
April 28, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

Insights into the nature of aging from the Danish Longitudinal Survey.

Kaare Christensen
Professor of Epidemiology, Southern Denmark University and Director of the Danish Twin Registry

Monday
May 5, 2008
12:15-1:15 PM

Diversity and its discontents: Lessons from higher education.

Marta Tienda
Office of Population Research,
Princeton University

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