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York Research Month

Open Doors to Research & Innovation: November 2009

Join us for for an exciting month of events to celebrate research excellence at York. Participate in the events below and find out how York's research touches every facet of human life, and how our researchers drive innovation in the world.


Schedule of Events:

Please check back as the events will be updated each week.

Tuesday, November 3
10am-3pm Research Exhibit: Walk through Vari Hall to see research exhibits each week. York's student research team will display the award-winning Mars Rover. Vari Hall Rotunda
TBA FES Research Tuesdays: Environmental Problems in South Kivu. Justin Podur, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University.
TBA
4-6pm YORKwrites: Celebrating York's Creators & Innovators.
Steacie Science & Engineering Library
Wednesday, November 4
4-6pm Awards & Honours: Dr. James Wu Research Internship for Undergraduate Science and Engineering Students (by invitation only)  
Thursday, November 5
7-9pm Autonomous Robots in the 21st Century: Michael Jenkin
Registration required. Contact Nisa Haniff at 416-736-5164 or nhaniff@yorku.ca.
320 Bethune College
Tuesday, November 10
10am-3pm Research Exhibit: Walk through Vari Hall to see research exhibits each week. York's student research team will display the award-winning Mars Rover. Vari Hall Rotunda
TBA FES Research Tuesdays: Gustavo Moran, MES Alumni and Apure State Government Advisor, Venezuela
Agro-ecological Zoning and Rural/Urban Planning in Venezuela
TBA
Tuesday, November 17
10am-3pm Research Exhibit: Walk through Vari Hall to see research exhibits each week. York's student research team will display the award-winning Mars Rover. Vari Hall Rotunda

9am-5pm

Faculty of Fine Arts Research Celebration -Interstices in Identity: Surfaces of Memory.

TEL 1009
TBA FES Research Tuesdays: Ravi De Costa, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University and Tom Clark, Victoria University, Melbourne:
Re-imagining Community: Non-Aboriginal Discourses of Reconciliation in Canada
TBA
Friday, November 20
2:30pm The Morris Katz Memorial Lecture in Environmental Research: Population Health Risk Assessment:
Theory and Practice.
Speaker: Daniel Krewski, Professor, Director, R. Samuel McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, Institute of Population Health.
Senate Chamber, N940 Ross Building
Monday, November 23
9am-12pm Research Computing: Find out what computing resources are available to you as a researcher. Short presentations on Orion's collaboration tools, HPC resources from SHARCNET and resources available from ABEL. Register now. Conference Room, York Research Tower (YRT)
Tuesday, November 24
10am-3pm Research Exhibit: Walk through Vari Hall to see research exhibits each week. York's student research team will display the award-winning Mars Rover. Vari Hall Rotunda
TBA FES Research Tuesdays: Jennifer Foster, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Paris' Petite Ceinture: The Ecological Politics of Habitat Creation and "Terrain Vague"
TBA
TBA Ceremony: President's Research Excellence Award (by invitation only). TBA
Thursday, November 26
6pm Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory (CURL) Launch:
Doors open at 6pm with Reception and Photo Exhibit by Jorge Uzon. Remarks 7pm
4850 Keele Street Computer Methods Building Suite 218

 

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