Professor Zoltan Acs delivered the keynote address, “On the Leading Edge of SME/Entrepreneurship Research—Issues and Global Trends,” at the Small and Medium Enterprise/Entrepreneurship Research Challenges in Egypt Workshop in Cairo. The April event was organized by the Ministry of Finance/Small and Medium Enterprise Policy Project and Economic Research Forum. Also in April, Acs discussed “Why Does Entrepreneurship Matter?” at the Entrepreneurship and Development Workshop sponsored by the World Bank in Washington, D.C.

David Buffaloe (current PhD student) will present his publication, "Defining Asymmetric Warfare," at the Countering Improvise Explosive Devices (IEDs) conference in Amsterdam, May 15–16. Buffaloe will provide an overview of the current operational environment in Iraq and Afghanistan. During the May 21–25 Tri-Service Radar Symposium in Orlando, Fla., Buffaloe will give an overview of the operational environment in Iraq and Afghanistan and discuss operations to counter improvised explosive devices.

Professor Kenneth Button gave a presentation, “Stability of Airline Markets,” at the 10th Hamburg Airport Conference in Hamburg, Germany, in February. Also in February, Button addressed “Distance and Competitiveness—Emerging Continental Network Barriers and Strategic Partners” to the Gateway and Corridor workshop in Winnipeg, Canada. In March, Button was the program organizer for the 48th Transportation Research Forum in Boston. He spoke on the topic, “‘Temporal-Fares-Offered Curve’ in Air Transportation.” In April, Button presented “The Effects of Air Transportation on the Movement of Labor” at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Also in April, Button presented an overview of current transportation problems in developing countries and the possible involvement for the World Bank in finding solutions when he spoke at a Washington, D.C., meeting where the World Bank launched a major report, “A Decade of Action in Transport.”

Button's participation at the World Bank meeting can be viewed on B-SPAN.

David Diamond, Juan Julio Gutierrez, Adriana Kocornik-Mina, and Chunpu Song (all current PhD students) are expected to present at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Technology, Management, and Policy Graduate Consortium hosted by the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, June 24–26. Diamond’s presentation is “Evaluating Public Policies for Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Evidence from State and Local Data,” Gutierrez’s is “Effect of Foreign Technology Diffusion on the Demand of Skilled Labor in Low and Medium Technology (LMT) Sectors,” Kocornik-Mina’s is “The Effects of Space and Time on Interstate Disparities in India,” and Song’s is “Public Infrastructure and Regional Productivity in China.” Professor David Hart plans to accompany the PhD students to the meeting.