Upcoming Events
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5 Forces, 5 Trends, and 5 Skills Critical to GIS and Remote Sensing in the 2020s
Geoawareness, geoenablement, geotechnologies, citizen science, and storytelling are combining to bring the GIS community to a pivotal moment. How can these forces, along with 5 key trends in GIS, transform how our world moves through this decade? What are the 5 skills that are most needed as you plan your own pathway through this decade? Join Geographer Joseph Kerski for a lively discussion and demonstrations as we reflect on the progress the geotechnology community has made and the challenges that remain through 5 forces, 5 trends, and 5 skills.
50 years of Landsat: where are we now and where are we going?
This seminar is to introduce Landsat data and applications during past and future.
Dr. Christopher (Chris) Crawford is a Research Physical Scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Trauma and Healing in the Native Community - Dr. Darryl Tonemah
Darryl Tonemah (Kiowa/Comanche/Tuscarora) is the owner of the Tonemah Counseling Group, an organization dedicated to increasing wellness in Native communities. He also owns First Nations Telehealth Solutions, a company dedicated to increasing access to psychological and psychiatric care to Native communities via telemedicine. He has done extensive work providing training to hospitals, clinics, universities, corporations and schools throughout the U.S. and Canada on trauma and its relationship to behavior and health.
Remote sensing and modeling of water availability in Afghanistan from snow dominated highlands to arid lowlands
Remote sensing and modeling are powerful tools for monitoring water availability, which are helpful for food security assessment.
Dr. Md Shahriar Pervez is a research scientist (Hydrology) contractor at U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science center and an active team member of Famine Early Warning System Network.
Difference is Dialogue: Closing Equity Gap through healthcare
We want to welcome everyone to engage in a conversation that is important to our community. As a keynote speaker, Lanita White Shaverd , Pharm.D., will focus the conversation on closing the equity gap through healthcare. Our mission for the dialogue is to have people ask questions, share your thoughts, raise concerns, and learn from one another to strengthen our campus community.
Land Change Monitoring Assessment and Projection: Every Pixel Tells a Story
Monitoring land surface change contributes to understanding geographic and temporal patterns of change across large regions, provide input into a wide range of environmental modeling studies, clarify the drivers of change, and provide more timely information for land managers.
J. P. Hendrickson Faculty Scholar and Herbert Cheever Jr. Liberal Arts Lecture
Mark Freeland, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, American Indian Studies School of American and Global Studies, will deliver the lecture:
“An Indigenous Intervention: Method, Truth & the Power of Community”
Brought to you by Facebook Live via The Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center
THIS EVENT WILL BE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC VIRTUALLY
More Than What You See: Defining My Own Cultural Identity featuring Dyami Thomas
Dyami Thomas shares his experiences as an American Indian model, actor and suicide prevention specialist who empowers youth to use their culture to define their identity.
As an American Indian actor, model and suicide prevention specialist Dyami “Eagle” Thomas is also a member of the Klamath tribes in Oregon and descendant of the Leech Lake Anishinaabe in Minnesota.
Zoom link below.
Password for event: OMA2020
This event is for Campus Only - Faculty, Staff and Students are welcome to attend.
Perspectives of a Mujer Latina and Her Academic Journey: Dr. Mayra Olivares – Urueta
To conclude Hispanic Heritage Month, join us as we hear from Dr. Mayra Olivares-Urueta regarding her remarkable life as a Latina scholar, advocate and administrator.
Mayra Olivares-Urueta, Ph.D., serves as vice president for the student development services at Tarrant County College’s Northeast Campus in Texas. As an educational administrator her work is focused on community cultural wealth, funds of knowledge, and critical race theories.
The event will be held on Zoom.
Inspiring Social Change: LGBTQIA+ Legal Advocacy with Zaylore Stout
Zaylore Stout, legal attorney and author of “Our Gay History in Fifty States” shares his advocacy work on equity, justice and access.
As a receiver of many honors including but not limited to the Business of Pride Award through the Minneapolis/ St. Paul Business journal and the Lavender Magazine Community Award, Zaylore Stout is an author and also a legal attorney who handles employment law matters which include sexual harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination and wage and hour disputes.
This event is Campus Only - Students, Faculty and Staff are welcome to attend.
Should you have to get the COVID-19 vaccine? Ethics, Law and Mandatory Vaccination
Most of us hope that a safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19 will soon be developed. But many people disagree about how best to use public and private forms of power to promote vaccination. Should a person’s ability to travel, work or go to school depend on them being vaccinated against COVID-19 or demonstrating immunity to SARS-CoV-2? Even if COVID-19 vaccination or immunity testing were not legally mandated, should people who refuse COVID-19 vaccine face stigma or discrimination in their interpersonal or professional relationships?
UndocuALLY Training with Dr. Gérman Cadenas
Want to be an ally to our undocumented students attending SDSU? Join us for this training session led by Dr. Germán A. Cadenas!
Dr. Germán A. Cadenas joined the faculty at Lehigh University in 2018. He Identifies as a Latinx immigrant himself and is formerly undocumented. He has a background in policy advocacy and community organizing for immigrant rights, and regularly collaborates with local and national advocacy organizations.
Magician John Cassidy
John's show is not your typical comedy magic show! Its an original blend of clean comedy, fun magic and amazingly intricate balloon feats!
Difference is Dialogue Kick-Off Event: Closing Equity Gaps in Higher Education
This series offers a space where everyone is welcome to engage in conversations important to our community. The kick-off event will explore the topic involving closing equity gaps in higher education. The mission of the dialogues is to ask questions, share your thoughts, raise concerns and learn from one another to strengthen our campus community.
Kim Hunter Reed, Ph.D. is Louisiana’s Commissioner of Higher Education. She is the only female in the country currently serving as a state higher education leader who has led higher education in more than one state.
Noche de Comedia with Ian Lara
As one of the hottest rising comics in New York City, Ian Lara has been the host of the “Out of Tune” music app game show, he taped a set for “Comedy Central Stand up Featuring” which has garnered over 8 million views, he made an appearance on this season of “NBC’s Bring the Funny” and made his late-night debit on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
To continue the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, come enjoy a night of laughter and fun with this talented, funny and down-to-earth comedian!
Hispanic Heritage Month Kickoff Workshop: "I am Here: Affirmation as a form of Resistance"
Let’s kick off Hispanic Heritage Month, with a powerful workshop led by Gabriel Ramírez, that affirms the histories, cultures and contributions of our Hispanic/Latino students, faculty and staff!
Gabriel Ramirez is a writer, poet, playwright, educator and activist.
How to Influence My Block: A Discussion with Jahmal Cole
Come hear from this CEO and Founder of "My Block, My Hood, My City" Jahmal Cole as he discuses how he became a champion of social justice by building a more interconnected Chicago on the pillars of service and education.
As a CEO and Founder and a champion of social justice, Jahmal is the creator of an exposure-based education program for teens and a network of volunteer initiatives that serve Chicago communities year-round.
From Prison to Ph.D.: Jason Sole
Come hear from this inspiring author who transformed his life through hope, resiliency and second chances.
Jason has been a criminal justice educator for a decade (served as an assistant professor at two academic institutions) and is currently an adjunct professor at Hamline University. He is a national keynote speaker and trainer. In 2014, he published his memoir, From Prison to Ph.D.: A Memoir of Hope, Resilience, and Second Chances.
Next Generation Sequencing research applications in Animal, Plant, and Biosciences
The speaker will present DNA and RNA sequencing applications to the animal, plant and biosciences. Other speakers from SDSU will also present some of their research. The speaker is a Sequencing Specialist with Illumina, Inc.
A Woman’s Multifaceted Journey
Come learn about this remarkable Oglala Lakota woman whose journey encompasses childhood in the native reservations to a fruitful career with the United States Army!
Lisa White Face is a Military Reservist Army Captain (CPT) and on the civilian side she is a Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal.
Sponsored by: Multicultural Center, Latin American Student Association, and Gender and Sexualities Alliance.
Satellite-based evapotranspiration for crop water use mapping, drought monitoring, and basin water budget applications
Dr. Senay is a Research Physical Scientist with U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resource Observation and Science (EROS) center. His academic and research background is in agricultural engineering, hydrology and remote sensing.
Dr. Senay is currently involved in monitoring crop performance in Africa, Central America, South-East Asia and the US and developing new algorithms for computing evapotranspiration from remotely sensed data.
#VotingWhileBlack
Let’s talk about the journey of this businessman who used the political arena to affect change for his community. Hollies Winston is the Chair and CEO at Guaranteed America Inc.
Sponsored by: Multicultural Center and Black Student Alliance.
Diversity Academy Session 3: Under Pressure: Exploring the Mental Health of Today's College Students
Students on college campuses across the nation are experiencing heightened levels of depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. This session will engage participants on current trends of mental health in our student population and give applicable guidance on how to support students' mental health needs in any area of university life.
Presenter: Mary Beth Fishback, MSPAS, MPH
Executive Director, Brookings Behavioral Health & Wellness
Social Media Correlates to Mood & Anxiety Disorder: Research & Treatment implications
UPDATE - The 2 p.m. presentation will be held as scheduled. The 6 p.m. presentation is canceled due to weather.
This presentation will cover the mood and anxiety issues related to excessive social media use. This topic is an extension of the Common Read topic from Fall 2019.
Dr. Wallace Jackmon is a clinical social worker at Avera Health. He also holds Assistant Professor positions in both the School of Social Work and the School of Medicine at USD. He has expertise related to the effects of excessive social media usage.
One of These Things is Not Like the Others: Visual Statistics and Testing in Statistical Graphics
Susan got her PhD in statistics from Iowa State in 2015, then spent time in the private sector before
returning to academia in 2018. She is an assistant professor at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, with
research interests in statistical graphics and statistical forensics.Large-Window Techniques for Geospatial Raster Data
Anne Denton is Professor in the Computer Science Department at North Dakota State University (NDSU). She received her Ph.D. in Physics from the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, in 1996 and a M.S. in Computer Science from NDSU in 2003. Her research interests are in data mining of diverse scientific data sets that are too complex to be analyzed using classical statistics techniques. Currently, she is working with collaborators in soil science, agricultural engineering, hydrology, and atmospheric science on projects that involve the climate impacts on agriculture.
Asymptotically Distribution-Free Change-Point Detection for non-Euclidean and Multivariate Data
Dr. Lyanna Chu completed a PhD in Biostatistics at UC Davis in 2019. Beforehand, Dr. Chu studied at UCLA. Currently, Dr. Chu is interested in working on problems related to modern data types, specifically in the context of change-point detection.
Gaussian Mixture Modeling and Model-Based Clustering Under Measurement Inconsistency
Dr. Rong Zheng completed her Ph.D. degree at the University of Alabama in 2017. Her degree is in Applied Statistics, with concentration on data classification and model-based clustering, statistical quality control and nonparametric statistics. She also earned her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Henan University, China, in 2012. Her tenure-track faculty position with Western Illinois University (WIU) started in 2017.
The Development of Pairwise Sample Comparison Methods of Particle Micromorphometry of AL Powders for Nearest Neighbor Classifiers
Cami Fuglsby is a candidate in SDSU's Computational Science and Statistics Program.
Session 6: Nonparametric Methods for Data Science
An Approach to Initializing the EM Algorithm in Gaussian Mixtures with an Unknown Number of Components
Dr. Igor Melnykov is originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine. He moved to the United States in 1999 and earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from Bowling Green State University in 2005. He works in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Minnesota – Duluth and previously held positions at Colorado State University – Pueblo and Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. His research interests include cluster analysis, classification, multiple hypothesis testing, and asymptotic theory.
Session 4 on Advances in Probabilistic Modeling for Machine Learning
Imputing Data without Replication
Dr. Wu is a professor of Plant Science and Statistics at SDSU.
Session 11 on Statistical Methods
On Finite Mixture Modeling of Change-Point Processes
Dr. Yana Melnykov is a Senior Statistician in the Institute of Business Analytics and an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the ISM department at the University of Alabama. She worked on a project supported by Lockheed Martin Corporation. The corresponding paper titled "Studying contributions of variables to classification” was published in Statistics and Probability Letters. Dr. Melnykov’s research interests lie in the areas of change point inference and finite mixture modeling.
Session 4 on Advances in Probabilistic Modeling for Machine Learning
Stress-Strength Interference for the Multicomponent System Based on Progressively Type-II Censored Samples from Pareto distributions
Lauren Sauer is a graduate student at USD.
Session 11 on Statistical Methods
Semiparametric Imputation Using Conditional Gaussian Mixture Models
Dr. Danhyang Lee is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems, Statistics and Management Science at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Business. She received her Ph.D. degree in Statistics from Iowa State University in 2019. She has a broad research interest in applied statistics, including survey sampling and missing data analysis. Specifically, her current research deals with issues in multi-level modeling, missing data analysis, survey data integration, small area estimation, and Bayesian inference.
Bootstrap Control Chart for Pareto Percentiles
Ruth Burkhalter is a student at USD.
Session 11 on Statistical Methods
Machine learning and the evaluation of forensic evidence
Professor Alicia Carriquiry is a distinguished Professor and President's Chair in Statistics and Director of Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence at Iowa State University.
A Patient-Centered Approach to IT Enabled Diabetes Self-Management: The Case of Saudi Arabia
Hassan Alyami is an alumnus of DSU.
Session 14 on Healthcare
Diversity Academy Session 2: Ally Training
This session will focus on LGBTQIA+ awareness. Participants will develop skills to promote an inclusive and safe campus environment for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Presenter: Michael Grewe, Director of Campus Life
Augsburg University
Staying the Course: Lecture by Dick Beardsley
World renowned marathon runner Dick Beardsley will share his life challenges and inspiring stories, leaving the audience with perseverance and courage to face whatever comes their way.
Warrior Wellness
Major Christopher Mercado is a distinguished military graduate with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and Civic Leadership Studies and M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in 2016, where he studied Terrorism and Substate Violence. Chris co-founded a nonprofit organization that combats suicide within the military community.
17th Annual BSA Step Show
“Stepping” is a dance form which combines elements of military drills with contemporary Hip Hop. Students will be tearing up the stage with their awesome talent!
Ty Barnett will be serving as the Host/Comedian for the 17th Annual Step Show.
The role of the land surface in recent trends in the climate of the northern North American Great Plains: observations and high-resolution modeling
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series.
Shedding Light on Dark Matter using SuperCDMS Cryogenic Detectors
Dr. Sander is presenting his research at spring colloquium of Department of Physics, SDSU.
Dr. Joel Sander is an Associate Professor of Physics at University of South Dakota, Vermillion,SD.
Systems Microbiology: From Genomes to Ecosystems
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series.
MLK Remembrance Ceremony
This ceremony will honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and affirm those lives that contributed to our resilience in the face of oppression.
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center and Black Student Alliance.