Scott MacMillan: Hope Over Fate

Scott MacMillan is making a stop at UPS on a tour celebrating the launch of his new book, Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty. He is also speaking at universities such as Harvard, Tulane, and UCLA.

This is an ASUPS sponsored event.

Thompson Hall Seminar: Mary Kuhner

Poached ivory is consolidated, packaged, and shipped from Africa to Asia by large transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). When such a shipment is intercepted, we want to know (a) where did the ivory come from, and (b) which shipments likely came from the same TCO? Microsatellite typing can localize many elephants, though some individuals are frustratingly difficult. Adding the assumption that individuals in a single seizure are clustered relative to the whole continent improves assignment, though with some risk of over-clustering.