Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture (and reception): "Black Swans and Burstiness: Countering Myths about Terrorism" with Dr. Gary LaFree, RSVP NOW
Event: October 4, 4 PM
Dear Students,
I know you’re calendars are already marked, but please do RSVP now for Gary LaFree’s upcoming Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4 in Price George’s Room of Stamp Student Union. A reception will follow.
The event is free and open to the public (so invite your friends and loved ones) and a reception will follow, but an RSVP should be made to infostart@start.umd.edu.
As you know, Gary is presenting on “Black Swans and Burstiness: Countering Myths about Terrorism.” He’ll discuss how terrorism has two characteristics that make it very challenging from a public policy perspective—its black swan quality and its burstiness. Black swan incidents are those that fall outside the realm of regular expectations, have a high impact, and defy prediction. Good examples include the four coordinated terrorist attacks on the United States that took place on September 11, 2011. At the same time, terrorism tends to be bursty; highly concentrated in time and space.
His talk will put high profile attacks like 9/11 into a much broader context by showing how they differ from the thousands of other attacks that have taken place around the world since 1970. Thus, in stark contrast to the 9/11 attacks, we will learn that many terrorist attacks produce no fatalities, they frequently rely on common, low technology weapons, they do not involve a great deal of planning, and they are carried out by groups whose life expectancy is less than a year. At the same time, when terrorist organizations find methods that work they often use them employ them rapidly. Balancing the mundane everyday nature of terrorism with its occasional capacity for mass destruction is a unique policy challenge of the twenty-first century.
I hope to see you there.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Fishering
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Fed Event: CISSM Forum | September 27, 2012 | "186 Days and a Wake-Up: Reflections from a Recent Deployment to Afghanistan"
CISSM FORUM | September 27, 2012
"186 Days and a Wake-Up: Reflections from a Recent Deployment to Afghanistan"
Brett Marvin, Operations Research Analyst, Marine Corps Combat Development Command
Brett Marvin is an operations research analyst with the Current Operations Analysis Support Team of the Operations Analysis Division at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Virginia. A 2004 graduate of University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, he entered federal service as a Presidential Management Fellow and has spent the last eight years of his career developing and applying analytic methods to study irregular warfare, counterinsurgency, nation-state failure, force structure/sizing and urban operations. Mr. Marvin's efforts have supported decision-making by the U.S. Army, United States Marine Corps, Combatant Commanders, Joint Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USAID, and Operation Enduring Freedom's Regional Command - Southwest (OEF RC(SW)). Mr. Marvin recently returned from serving a six-month deployment with RC(SW) C-5 Assessments, Headquarters, Second Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan.
About the Forum
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
1203 Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD
The CISSM Forum is a weekly policy forum held on Thursdays, from 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm in room 1203 Van Munching Hall, College Park, Maryland. The CISSM Forum is open to the public (no RSVPs required) and is supported by the Yamamoto-Scheffelin Endowment for Policy Research. For further information about the CISSM Forum contact cissm@umd.edu.
"186 Days and a Wake-Up: Reflections from a Recent Deployment to Afghanistan"
Brett Marvin, Operations Research Analyst, Marine Corps Combat Development Command
Brett Marvin is an operations research analyst with the Current Operations Analysis Support Team of the Operations Analysis Division at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Virginia. A 2004 graduate of University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, he entered federal service as a Presidential Management Fellow and has spent the last eight years of his career developing and applying analytic methods to study irregular warfare, counterinsurgency, nation-state failure, force structure/sizing and urban operations. Mr. Marvin's efforts have supported decision-making by the U.S. Army, United States Marine Corps, Combatant Commanders, Joint Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USAID, and Operation Enduring Freedom's Regional Command - Southwest (OEF RC(SW)). Mr. Marvin recently returned from serving a six-month deployment with RC(SW) C-5 Assessments, Headquarters, Second Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan.
About the Forum
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
1203 Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD
The CISSM Forum is a weekly policy forum held on Thursdays, from 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm in room 1203 Van Munching Hall, College Park, Maryland. The CISSM Forum is open to the public (no RSVPs required) and is supported by the Yamamoto-Scheffelin Endowment for Policy Research. For further information about the CISSM Forum contact cissm@umd.edu.
Fed Event: TODAY!
TODAY 12:15-1:30 p.m. | The Tuesday Policy Forum will feature Stephen Rabin, chief speechwriter to Gov. Martin O'Malley, speaking on "Writing to Persuade: A Speechwriter's Perspective on Political Communication" in 1203 Van Munching Hall.
Fed Event: Department of Labor Child Labor and Forced Labor Report Launch
The Department of Labor's Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT), where I currently intern, has invited any interested public policy students to attend the big launch event of its Child and Forced Labor reports next Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.
This is a great opportunity to learn about government efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Department of Labor Secretary Solis will be joined by Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director For Development and Democracy, and Ian Solomon, U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank.
Below is a formal invitation and flyer. I hope some of you can make it! If you think you may attend, please RSVP at OCFT@dol.gov.
On behalf of U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, the the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Bureau of International Labor Affairs would like to invite you to our launch of three new child labor and forced labor reports, and a discussion of how these issues affect long-term poverty reduction. The event will also highlight a new tool for evaluating countries’ efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Secretary Solis will be joined by Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director For Development and Democracy, and Ian Solomon, U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in DOL’s César E. Chávez Auditorium.
The reports include the annual Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor pursuant to the Trade and Development Act of 2000, List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor pursuant to the Trafficking Victims Protection and Reauthorization Act of 2005, and the List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor purusant to the Executive Order 13126 of 1999 on the "Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor.”
Please RSVP by Monday, September 24 at 12:00 p.m. to OCFT@dol.gov. On the day of the event, guests are asked to arrive by 9:45 a.m. at the 3rd and C street entrance. For questions regarding the event, please e-mail OCFT@dol.gov For those of you unable to join us in person, the event will also be on live webcast at the following link: http://www.dol.gov/live/
Sincerely,
Marcia Eugenio
Director, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking
This is a great opportunity to learn about government efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Department of Labor Secretary Solis will be joined by Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director For Development and Democracy, and Ian Solomon, U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank.
Below is a formal invitation and flyer. I hope some of you can make it! If you think you may attend, please RSVP at OCFT@dol.gov.
On behalf of U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, the the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Bureau of International Labor Affairs would like to invite you to our launch of three new child labor and forced labor reports, and a discussion of how these issues affect long-term poverty reduction. The event will also highlight a new tool for evaluating countries’ efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Secretary Solis will be joined by Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director For Development and Democracy, and Ian Solomon, U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in DOL’s César E. Chávez Auditorium.
The reports include the annual Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor pursuant to the Trade and Development Act of 2000, List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor pursuant to the Trafficking Victims Protection and Reauthorization Act of 2005, and the List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor purusant to the Executive Order 13126 of 1999 on the "Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor.”
Please RSVP by Monday, September 24 at 12:00 p.m. to OCFT@dol.gov. On the day of the event, guests are asked to arrive by 9:45 a.m. at the 3rd and C street entrance. For questions regarding the event, please e-mail OCFT@dol.gov For those of you unable to join us in person, the event will also be on live webcast at the following link: http://www.dol.gov/live/
Sincerely,
Marcia Eugenio
Director, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking
Fed Event: 9/26 Nuclear Weapons & CTBT Discussion
The American Security Project will be hosting the following event this coming Wednesday at 12:30. The featured speaker is Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. We would be pleased if you are able to join us. The location is accessible by red or orange lines on metro.
http://americansecurityproject.org/events/2012/asp-event-status-and-prospects-for-the-comprehensive-test-ban-treaty/
http://americansecurityproject.org/events/2012/asp-event-status-and-prospects-for-the-comprehensive-test-ban-treaty/
Fed Event: October 10th
Impact Investing Panel
What: A Net Impact and Emerging Markets Association Event - There is a growing interest in impact investing and social entrepreneurship in our program and we wanted to create a panel to educate students on the space and the opportunities to work in this industry. Because this is such a diverse industry, we have panelists from IFC, Calvert, UBS and MicroVest in order to give different insights.
Participants:
Peter Tropper, Chief Investment Officer, IFC
Arun Sardana, Senior VP of Investments, UBS
David Kyle, Chief Operating Officer, Calvert Foundation
David Wedick, Business Development Manager, MicroVest
When: Wednesday, October 10th, 6pm-8pm
Where: Frank Auditorium, Van Munching Hall
Who: All UMD students, faculty and staff are welcome.
Attire: Business casual
Contact: Adam Coile, adam.coile@rhsmith.umd.edu
What: A Net Impact and Emerging Markets Association Event - There is a growing interest in impact investing and social entrepreneurship in our program and we wanted to create a panel to educate students on the space and the opportunities to work in this industry. Because this is such a diverse industry, we have panelists from IFC, Calvert, UBS and MicroVest in order to give different insights.
Participants:
Peter Tropper, Chief Investment Officer, IFC
Arun Sardana, Senior VP of Investments, UBS
David Kyle, Chief Operating Officer, Calvert Foundation
David Wedick, Business Development Manager, MicroVest
When: Wednesday, October 10th, 6pm-8pm
Where: Frank Auditorium, Van Munching Hall
Who: All UMD students, faculty and staff are welcome.
Attire: Business casual
Contact: Adam Coile, adam.coile@rhsmith.umd.edu
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Fed Event: Environmental Council Alumni Panel
The Enviro Council will be hosting an Alumni Panel on Monday, September 24th at 7pm.
There will be 3 MSPP Alumni who will be talking about their careers, and their experiences searching for jobs and internships:
Chris Ramig, PMF at EPA (working on biofuels issues)
Mark Smith, USDA (working on International food issues)
Jeremy Hanson, Chesapeake Research Consortium (working on water quality issues in the Chesapeake Bay)
We will be serving pizza, so please RSVP by Friday at 4pm - http://doodle.com/fhfnwfz3qydqeuds - so that we have enough for everyone!
Best,
Enviro Council
There will be 3 MSPP Alumni who will be talking about their careers, and their experiences searching for jobs and internships:
Chris Ramig, PMF at EPA (working on biofuels issues)
Mark Smith, USDA (working on International food issues)
Jeremy Hanson, Chesapeake Research Consortium (working on water quality issues in the Chesapeake Bay)
We will be serving pizza, so please RSVP by Friday at 4pm - http://doodle.com/fhfnwfz3qydqeuds - so that we have enough for everyone!
Best,
Enviro Council
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