Economist to deliver Raben Lecture
The Raben Lecture will be given by Oliver Hart, the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University, on Monday, April 24.
Hart will speak 4:30-6 p.m. in the faculty lounge of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public.
A research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Hart is the author of "Firms, Contracts and Financial Structure," as well as numerous journal articles.
Hart's research focuses on contract theory, the theory of the firm and corporate finance.
He was previously a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985-1993) and at the London School of Economics (1981-1985).
Ann Wolbert Burgess will give the Yale School of Nursing's Sybil Bellos Lecture on Monday, April 24.
Burgess' talk, titled "Putting Trauma on the Radar Screen: Mapping Crime Victims and Their Offenders," will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale School of Nursing, 100 Church St. South. The talk is open to the public free of charge. To attend this event, R.S.V.P. to sydney.martin@yale.edu.
Burgess is an internationally recognized pioneer in the assessment and treatment of victims of trauma and abuse. She has received numerous honors including the Sigma Theta Tau International Audrey Hepburn Award, the American Nurses' Association Hildegard Peplau Award and the Sigma Theta Tau International Episteme Laureate Award. Her courtroom testimony has been described as "groundbreaking," and she has been called a "nursing pathfinder."
Her research with victims began when she co-founded, with Boston College sociologist Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, one of the first hospital-based crisis counseling programs at Boston City Hospital. She then worked with FBI Academy special agents to study serial offenders and the links between child abuse, juvenile delinquency and subsequent perpetration. Her work with Boston College nursing colleague Carol Hartman led to the study of young victims and the impact of trauma on their growth and development, their families and communities.
Her work continues in the study of elder abuse in nursing homes, cyberstalking and Internet sex crimes. She will be teaching courses in victimology, forensic science and crime and justice.
International Security Studies will host a lecture by Lieutenant General David W. Barno, former commander of the Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan, on Tuesday, April 25.
Titled "Counter-Insurgency in Afghanistan 2003-2005: One Fight in a Global Insurgency," Barno's lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in Rm. 208, in William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Barno commanded the Coalition forces, U.S. Central Command, Operation Enduring Freedom, from 2003 to 2005. He directed U.S. military forces in the war on terrorism. He was credited with shifting the approach in Afghanistan from a counter-terrorism strategy to a counter-insurgency strategy. This new strategy was responsible for enhancing the military effectiveness of the Coalition in the contested areas along the Pakistani border.
Barno represented the Coalition in tripartite talks with the Pakistani and Afghan governments, dealing with the difficult issues of terrorists and insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan.
He played a central role in enabling political progress in Afghanistan through the building of the Afghan National Army, the Coalition's support through security and logistics of the presidential election in 2004, and the collection of heavy weapons and disarming fighters of militias that existed in the aftermath of the toppling of the Taliban.
Widely honored design engineer James Dyson, chair and founder of Dyson,
On Thursday, Dyson will discuss "Taking Risks and Breaking Rules: The Art of Wrong Thinking" at 4 p.m. in Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect St. The talk, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Management, is free and open to the public. A reception will be held at 5 p.m. in the Davies Auditorium lobby.
A design charrette for Yale students will be held Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., in Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. Jamie Cameron, new product development engineering manager for Dyson (USA), will present engineering design tasks for the students to devise creative solutions.
In his lecture, Dyson will focus on both the business and engineering aspects of product development and his design philosophy: "Good design is about how something works, not just how it looks."
Dyson is popularly known for developing the "bagless" vacuum cleaner that is a market leader in the United States. Although Dyson is now widely recognized as a business and engineering design success, the success was a result of persistence in the face of prevailing business standards as well as good design.
In 1978, frustrated with traditional bag vacuum cleaner clogging and inefficiency, Dyson was determined to develop the technology for the first vacuum cleaner with constant suction. It took 15 years and over 5,000 prototypes before he launched his first no-loss-of-suction vacuum cleaner. In 1993, the patented Dual Cyclone™ technology shook up a stagnant 100-year-old vacuum cleaner market. Today, Dyson vacuum cleaners are available in 39 countries.
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