Presentations

Neurodiversity and Care Work, at Care and the Recovery Economy: A Roundtable hosted by the Institute for Gender and the Economy, University of Toronto (Jan 26-7, Feb 2-3, 2022), Wednesday, February 2, 2022:
neurodiversity_and_care_m_gibson_feb_2022.pdf

This presentation contributed to conversations about the care economy and what research and policies we need in the pandemic/ recovery period. Some overall considerations of this brief talk focused on how to

i) complicate ideas of "care giver" and "care recipient",

ii) recognize the many forms of care work done by as well as with and for neurodiversity-identified/ neurodivergent people,

iii) identify systemic inadequacies as producing the need for care work such as advocacy and activism, and

iv) examine how restricted care policies (such as...

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VIDEO: Challenging practices in social services and education Friday, November 5, 2021:
neurodiversity_matters_presentation_nov_5_2021.pptx

Here is the YouTube link for a presentation by Neurodiversity Matters PI Meg Gibson, given online on November 5, 2021. You can find the slides attached.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjyTsEZtdLg 

Abstract

What is neurodiversity and why does it matter? This talk presents findings from a research project about how people are using the idea and language of neurodiversity. The team...

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Noncommutative resolutions of Coulomb branches Monday, October 25, 2021

video of the talk  slides for the talk

Given a 3d N=4 supersymmetric quantum field theory, there is an associated Coulomb branch, which is an important reflection of the A-twist of this theory. In the case of gauge theories, this Coulomb branch has a description due to Braverman-Finkelberg-Nakajima; I'll discuss how we can generalize this geometric description in order to construct non-commutative resolutions of Coulomb branches (giving a more...

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Multi-Dimensional Food Values: New Metrics Integrating Food, Water and Energy, at IPCC 2021; Belgium, Wednesday, July 7, 2021:
metricspaper_ipcc_jakoberi_uwaterloo_2021.pptx

This paper is a critical review exploring the utility of combining two frameworks for characterizing complex systems perspectives within an ecological framework. This review offers guidance for developing appropriate instruments for policy makers to overcome lock-ins that perpetuate industrial food systems.

This presentation offers an outline for new metrics to characterize the food-water-energy nexus that is not currently captured where success is measured primarily through yield per acre.

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