New York City / Tuesday Sep 29,2015
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Jon Caulkins: Considering Marijuana Legalization

NYU Urban Seminar

Vanderbilt Hall Room 208 40 Washington Square South

Thanks to Carnegie Mellon Professor Jon Caulkins, who gave a great presentation based on his paper "Options and Issues Regarding Marijuana Legalization."

To read a detailed summary of the event, click here.

Speakers

Jonathan Caulkins
H. Guyford Stever Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy / Carnegie Mellon University

Jon Caulkins has been on the Heinz School faculty since 1990, with leaves of absence to be co-director of RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center in Santa Monica (1994-1996), to found RAND’s Pittsburgh Office (1999-2001), and to teach at Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Doha, Qatar (2005-2011). At the Heinz School he was director of the Masters of Science in Public Policy and Management (MSPPM) program and served as interim Associate Dean for Faculty. He did his undergraduate work in engineering and computer science at Washington University in St. Louis. He earned masters degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics (Washington University, 1987) and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (MIT, 1989) and a Ph.D. in Operations Research (MIT, 1990).