UC MEXUS-CONACYT Doctoral Fellows Symposium
Friday, May 29, 2009
9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Location: UC Riverside, Pentland Hills Building, Room B-107/C-101
9:30-10:00
Registration
10:00-10:30
Welcome and Introduction
Exequiel Ezcurra, Director, UC MEXUS

Roberto Contreras Zárate, Director for Evaluation and Innovation
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)

10:30-12:00
Keynote Addresses
Introduction:
Exequiel Ezcurra, Director, UC MEXUS
Keynote Speakers:
Mexico of the Future: Challenges and Obstacles for Science and Technology
Judith Zubieta García
Secretary of Educational Innovation, Open University and Distance Learning System
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Rethinking Democracy and Accountability in Contemporary Mexico
John Ackerman
Researcher, Institute of Legal Research,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)


12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:30
Alumni Panel on Post-Graduate Employment
Introduction:
Susana Hidalgo, International Academic Programs Coordinator, UC MEXUS

Moderator:
Juan Carlos Loyola
Professor, Instituto Tecnológico de Saltillo
Microbiology, 2000 Cohort, UC Riverside

Panelists:
Veronica Aguilar Guerrero
Senior Process Engineer, Intel Corporation
Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, 2003 Cohort, UC Davis

Heriberto Avelino
Director, Speech Sciences and Phonetics Research Unit
Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Linguistics Department, 1998 Cohort, UC Los Angeles

Ivonne del Valle Wiarco
Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan
Spanish & Portuguese, 2001 Cohort, UC Berkeley

Luis Estrada Straffon
Political Advisor to the Minister of the Interior, Mexico
Political Science, 2000 Cohort, UC San Diego

Victor Ruiz Vera
Professor/Researcher, Colegio de Postgraduados-Campus San Luis Potosí
Environmental Sciences, 1999 Cohort, UC Riverside


2:30-2:45
Break
2:45-4:30
Building an International Research Career
Introduction:
Wendy DeBoer, Director of International Academic Programs, UC MEXUS

Moderator:
Guillermo Aguilar, Associate Professor, Engineering, UC Riverside

Panelists:
Santiago Camacho-López
Full-time Researcher, Department of Optics
Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE)

Roberto Castro
Professor and Coordinator of the Research Program “Society and Health”
Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Lourdes de León Pasquel
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)

Jesús Favela
Professor, Computer Science Department
Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE)

Jaime Ruiz García
Research Professor, Physics Institute
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí


4:30-5:30
Concluding Remarks
Introduction:
Exequiel Ezcurra, Director, UC MEXUS
Discussant:
Perspectives on Mexico’s Economic and Political Development
Irma Eréndira Sandoval
Researcher at the Institute of Social Research & Director of the Laboratory of Documentation and Analysis of Corruption and Transparency, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

5:30 -6:30
Reception

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