City Events March 2012

• Mar

  1

  Thursday

  Tackling the ‘Big Data’ challenge – an interdisciplinary symposium

  4pm

  Seminars

  Public

  Tackling the challenges posed by “big data” – the growing amount of information that needs to be stored, searched, analysed and visualised in the digital age.

• Mar

  1

  Thursday

  Rioting in Greece: Responding to the economic crisis

  4pm

  Seminars

  Public

  Sociology Research Seminar Series

• Mar

  1

  Thursday

  The Ex Post Evaluation of Infrastructure Regulators: Lessons from Middle Income and Developing Countries

  5:30pm

  Seminars

  Public

  Part of the Economic Regulation and Competition Seminar Series.

• Mar

  2

  Friday

  From Microscopy to Ophthalmoscopy - new ideas for imaging the retina

  3pm

  Seminars

  Public; Staff; Students

• Mar

  7

  Wednesday

  World oil demand in the short and long run: A cross-country panel analysis

  5pm

  Seminars

  Public

• Mar

  8

  Thursday

  UK and International Regulatory Approaches to Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) – the theory and practice

  5:30pm

  Seminars

  Public

• Mar

  13

  Tuesday

  Evaluation of the Employment and Support Allowance

  1pm

  Seminars

  Public; Staff; Students; Academics

  Sara Dewson and Helen Stevens will present the key findings from a series of research reports by the Institute for Employment Studies published in 2010 and 2011.

• Mar

  14

  Wednesday

  Health Regulation 1

  5pm

  Seminars

  Public

• Mar

  14

  Wednesday

  Random and referral hiring: When social connections matter

  5pm

  Seminars

  Public

• Mar

  15

  Thursday

  Water Regulation

  5pm

  Seminars

  Public

• Mar

  16

  Friday

  Lunchtime Concert: Vasileios Rakitzis (Piano)

  1:10pm

  Concerts

  Public

  Includes works by Brahms and Schubert

• Mar

  20

  Tuesday

  City Lights: Stephane Ginsburgh, (Un Piano)

  7pm

  Concerts

  Public

  A journey from Liszt to Shlomowitz.

• Mar

  21

  Wednesday

  Lunchtime Concert: City Daf and Parvaz Ensembles

  1:10pm

  Concerts

  Public

  Concert of Iranian percussion music

• Mar

  21

  Wednesday

  The returns to medical R&D: the case of the UK and USA

  5pm

  Seminars

  Public

  Part of the Economics Research Seminars series

• Mar

  22

  Thursday

  Durkheim and global moral icons

  4pm

  Seminars

  Public

  Sociology Research Seminar Series

• Mar

  22

  Thursday

  Rail Regulation

  5:30pm

  Seminars

  Public

• Mar

  23

  Friday

  Lunchtime Concert: Ikuko Inoguchi (Piano)

  1:10pm

  Concerts

  Public

  includes works by Beethoven, Debussy and Messiaen.

• Mar

  28

  Wednesday

  Social structure and economic performance in microcredit groups

  5pm

  Seminars

  Public

• Mar

  28

  Wednesday

  Health Regulation 2

  5:30pm

  Seminars

  Public

• Mar

  28

  Wednesday

  Student Business Start-Up

  5:30pm

  Seminars

  Public; Staff; Students; Alumni; Academics

• Mar

  28

  Wednesday

  Investigating Multinational Corporations: where the facts are found, and the difficulties in presentation

  6pm

  Seminars

  Public; Staff; Students; Alumni; Prospective Postgraduates; Prospective Undergraduates

  With Gavin MacFadyen, Director of The Centre for Investigative Journalism

• Mar

  29

  Thursday

  The mobilisation of vulnerable groups. A comparison of social movements by irregular migrants, sex workers, and drug users in Europe

  4pm

  Seminars

  Public

  Sociology Research Seminar Series

• Mar

  29

  Thursday

  Environmental Regulation

  5:30pm

  Seminars

  Public

• Mar

  29

  Thursday

  City University Chamber Choir Concert

  7:30pm

  Concerts

  Public

  City University London's Chamber Choir perform Magnificat by Pergolesi and Haydn's 'Little Organ' Mass