Analysis and PDE Seminar

Title:  On a thermodynamically consisted Stefan problem with variable surface energy

Abstract:  Given a filtration of a simplicial complex we can construct a series of invariants called the persistent homology groups of the filtration. In this talk we will give a basic introduction to the theory of persistence and explain how these ideas can be used in data analysis.

 

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745 Patterson Office Tower
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Close the U.S. Military's School of the Americas: 2013 Tour

Simon Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer and documentary filmmaker working extensively throughout the United States and Mexico. He is also the co-instructor of the UK Geography Department’s study abroad program in Oaxaca, Mexico. Working on a diverse number of topics, Sedillo focuses largely on the expansion of neoliberal policies both in the US and Mexico.
 
Speaking at Kentucky on his Shut Down the School of the America’s 2013 Tour, Sedillo’s talk will focus on the use of militarism in the expansion of neoliberal policy into Mexico after 1994 and the institution of the North America Free Trade Agreement. Through a participatory discussion we will take a brief look at the history of the U.S Military’s role in an ongoing campaign against indigenous people
with a particular focus on the USA and Mexico. We will dig in deeper into an ongoing military strategy to criminalize indigenous land tenure and identity in order to secure political and economic interests in the region as seen in the state of Oaxaca.
 
Sponsored by the UK Department of Geography.
 
 

Simón Sedillo es un organizador de defensa de derechos comunitarios que está trabajando en la producción de un documentario sobre Estados Unidos y México. A parte de este proyecto, Sedillo es uno de los instructores del programa de intercambio en Oaxaca México, del Departamento de Geografía de UK. La mayor parte de sus trabajos se enfocan en la expansión de las políticas neoliberales en Estados Unidos y México.

La charla que ofrecerá en UK durante su tour de Shut Down the School of the America’s se enfocará en el rol de nociones militares presentes en la expansión de políticas neoliberales en México desde 1994, así como también en el Acuerdo de Mercado Libre en Norte América. Como parte de la charla, habrá una discusión que verá el rol que el Ejército Estadounidense ha tenido en la campaña en contra de los indígenas Mexicanos. Parte de la discusión tocará en el tema de estrategias utilizadas para criminalizar tierras indígenas como medio para obtener seguridad política y económica en el estado de Oaxaca.

Este evento es presentado por el Departamento de Geografía de UK.

 

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Location:
William T. Young Library, Alumni Gallery (1-65)

Matthew W. Wilson (University of Kentucky)

"New Lines"

Abstract: In the twenty years that have passed since the fabled Friday Harbor meetings of November 1993, where GIS practitioners and critical human geographers agreed to a cease-fire, the GIS & Society agenda has been reflected upon, pushed forward, and diffracted in few (but intellectually significant) arenas. Critical, participatory, public participation, and feminist GIS have given way more recently to qualitative GIS, GIS and non-representational theory, and the spatial digital humanities. Traveling at the margins of these efforts has been a kind of social history of mapping and GIS. And while GIScience has been conversant and compatible with many of these permutations in the GIS & Society agenda, a social history of mapping and GIS (as signaled most directly by John Pickles in 2004) has perhaps the least potential for tinkering with GIScience practice (see recent conversation between Agnieszka Leszczynski and Jeremy Crampton in 2009). Perhaps this disconnect is growing, as can be witnessed in the feverish emergence of a ‘big data’ analytics/representation perspective within the contemporary GISciences (alongside the growth of funding paths around cyberinfrastructure). What then is the relevance and role of a social history of GIS for GIScience practice? In this presentation, I sketch and reflect upon a diversity of efforts that address this question.

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Classroom Building Room 238
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