Professor and director of the Center for Regional Analysis Stephen Fuller, Mason Enterprise Center Managing Director Keith Segerson, and Community Business Partnership President Kathy Wheeler will participate in the Business Resource Summit hosted by the Southeast Fairfax Development Corporation November 17 in Alexandria, Virginia.

Professor Ramkishen Rajan will present "Banking and Financial Systems" as part of the National Responses session of the Workshop on Global Implications of the Financial Crisis on October 31 at Cornell University.

On October 23, Rajan will speak at the conference on Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets to be held in Washington, D.C., at the Brookings Institution and sponsored by the Asian Development Bank Institute.

On October 8, Rajan presented "Capital Flow and Capital Account Management in Asia" at the High-Level Expert Group Meeting on Responding to the Global Financial Crisis: Revisiting the Role of Monetary and Financial Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region. The meeting took place at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.

Professor Katrin B. Anacker presented "Caught in the Middle of the Inside Game/Outside Game? Evidence from Expert Interviews in Mature Suburbs in Ohio" at the October 2009 annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in Crystal City, Virginia. Anacker also presented a paper she wrote with John Gilderbloom, Joshua Ambrosius, and Matt Hanka, "Capturing Contemporary Housing Dynamics in Jefferson County, KY: The Difference Operationalization of the Dependent Variable Can Make." Anacker discussed the papers, "Integrating the Social and Ecological Implications of Current Approaches to Planning," written by Sarah Dooling and Elizabeth Mueller, and "Does Smart Growth Matter to Urban Cities? Evaluating the Impact of Smart Growth Elements on Property Values in Baltimore, MD," written by Lynette Boswell and Nichole Stewart, in the session Smart Growth, New Urbanism, and Equity.

On October 22, Anacker presented "Immigrating, Assimilating, Cashing In? Analyzing Property Values in Suburbs of Immigrant Gateways" at the international conference "The Diverse Suburb: History, Politics, and Prospects" in Hempstead, New York.

Zoltan Acs, University Professor and director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, delivered the keynote address, "Measuring the Conditions for Entrepreneurial Innovation for Industrialization: The Global Entrepreneurship Index" at the UNU-WIDER, UNU-MERIT, and UNIDO Workshop: Pathways to Industrialization in the 21st Century, New Challenges and Emerging Paradigms, held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, October 22–23.

On September 16, Acs delivered the keynote address "The Global Entrepreneurship Index: Attitudes, Activity, and Aspirations" at the ninth International Entrepreneurship Forum held in Istanbul, Turkey.

SPP PhD student Jill Rough presented "Women in the U.S. Military: Showing the Way or Blocking the Road?" on September 25 at the Women in Military Conference held at the Women in Military Service to America Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. The research for the presentation was conducted by Rough and SPP student Natasha Christensen, who is studying in the Peace Operations program. The conference was sponsored by the Women's Research and Education Institute and Alliance for National Defense.

Professor James P. Pfiffner presented "Command Responsibility and the U.S. Torture Policy" at the annual American Political Science Association Convention in Toronto on September 5.