All events will take place on Wednesday October 9, 2024 in the DeLuca forum in the Discovery Building.
Remote participation: Anyone can watch the event on YouTube Live here.
Schedule
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00-5:00pm | Keynote: Christie Tirado | |
| 5:00-6:00pm | Lightning talks by Latinx members of the UW-Madison community | List of speakers below |
| 6:00-7:30pm | Networking with Latin music by DJ Papi (20-min dance lesson with Yoel Cortes-Peña at the beginning) |
List of speakers for lightning talks
| Speaker | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Jadiel Lopez Gonzalez | The role of phosphate salts in the activation of TS-1 catalyst | Chemical and Biological Engineering |
| Francisco Pelegri | Advanced reproduction and conservation | Genetics/Med Genetics |
| Yoel Rene Cortes-Pena | More Rapid and Robust Process Simulation through Phenomena-Oriented Decomposition | |
| Silvia Barcellos | Exploring the use of genetic data in the social sciences | Population Health Sciences and Public Affairs |
| Brenda Cansino Loeza | New Paradigms for Process Design: A lactic acid biomanufacturing case study | Chemical and Biological Engineering |
| Isabela Tuthill | Global Change and Disease Dynamics | Forest and Wildlife Ecology |
| Johnny Uelmen | Climate Change and Mosquito-borne Diseases | Population Health Sciences |
| Jaime Cordova | Understanding the diversity in the bacterial response to oxygen availability | Genetics |
| Marian Azeem-Angel | Developing community-informed flood management strategies | Nelson/Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Zack Sieb | Effective Acaricide use by PMPs to control ticks in backyards | Entomology |
| Alejandro Calle-Saldarriaga | Generative multi-fidelity modeling and downscaling via spatial autoregressive Gaussian processes | Statistics |
| Eithan Pozas Rodriguez | Exploring ecological dynamics of Cranberry Fruit Rot | Plant Pathology |
| Kimberlie Vera | The effects of severe drought on herbivore movement patterns, physiology, and survival in Etosha National Park, Namibia | Forest and Wildlife Ecology |
| Brayan Riascos | Gaining value from post-anaerobic digested manure fibers | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Virginia Lamas Meza | Activated carbon substrate for the remediation of aqueous systemic pesticides | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Susana Ferrer Orgaz | Discovering novel sources of resistance to soybean cyst nematode | Plant Pathology |
| Gursel Abbas | Chemical and Biological Engineering | |
| Francisco Mandujano Reyes | Spatiotemporal causal inference with mechanistic ecological models | Statistics |