S4 Summer GIS Institute Geographic Analysis Conference ("Geo-Con")

June 22nd, 2007, PSTC

9:00 - 9:15	Jorge Alves, Political Science
	"What Color is the State? Mapping State Capacity in Brazil?"
	[Abstract]

9:15 - 9:30	Heather Silber, Political Science
	"Correlating Neoliberalism and Education Outcomes in Latin America"
	[Abstract] [Map]

9:30 - 9:45	Thomas Devaney, History
	"Representing the Medieval Festivals of Jaén Spatially"
	[Abstract]

9:45 - 10:00	Elisabeta Minca, Sociology
	"Patterns of Romanian Emigration: Is There a Brain Drain?"
	[Abstract]
10:00 - 10:15	Roland Pongou, Economics
	"Cultural distance, physical distance, and HIV/AIDS in Ghana"
	[Abstract]

10:30 - 10:45	Dan Puskin, Economics
	"Spatial Distribution of Intermediate Health Service Providers"
	[Abstract]

10:45 - 11:00	Optat Tengia, Economics
	"Highlighting Global Disparity in Socioeconomic Deprivation (SED) using Infant Mortality"
	[Abstract]

11:00 - 11:15	Nathan Schiff, Economics
	"Density and Diversity"
	[Abstract]

11:15 - 11:30	Stylianos Michalopoulos, Economics
	"The Origins of Ethnolinguistic Diversity: Theory and Evidence"
	[Abstract]

11:30 - 11:45	Omer Ozak
	"Geographic Vulnerability, Trade and Cultural Diffusion"
	[Abstract]

12:30 - 12:45	Ying Pan,Economics
	"Immigration and Native Children's School Performance"
	[Abstract] [Map]

12:45 - 1:00	Laura Senier, Sociology
	"Public Schools and Contaminated Sites in Rhode Island"
	[Abstract]

1:00 - 1:15	Lynn Dansereau, Community Health
	"Educational Testing Outcomes in Rhode Island"
	[Abstract]

1:30 - 1:45	David Margolis, Education
	"Spatial Inquiry into teenage mothers in Providence"
	[Abstract]

1:45 - 2:00	Saskia Devries
	"Mapping Main Campus"
	[Abstract]

2:00 - 2:15	Patrick Vivier, Community Health (and Pediatrics)
	"Sociodemographic characteristics and childhood lead poisoning: An analysis of census block groups in Rhode Island"
	[Abstract]
2:15 - 2:30	Inku Sudebi, Sociology
	"Spatial distribution of health knowledge of adolescents in the Gilgel Gibe region of Ethiopia"
	[Abstract]