Oct. 26, Friday -- Eight leading experts on the economic and social impact of Indian gaming in the United States -- including the chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission -- will gather at a daylong forum sponsored by the UC Davis Center for State and Local Taxation at the Activities and Recreation Center Pavilion on campus.

Forum registration is $25 and must be submitted by Oct. 15. To download a registration form, go to: http://www.iga.ucdavis.edu/Research/CSLT/Conferences/indian-gaming-forum-2007/IndianGamingRegForm.pdf.

Philip Hogen, chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, will discuss the legal basis for Indian gaming.

Other speakers and topics:

• Richard Pomp, professor of law at the University of Connecticut Law School: Taxation of Indian casinos and those who do business with them
• Alan Meister, a manager with the Analysis Group, a national economic, financial and strategy consultant: Overview of the state of the Indian gaming industry
• Economist William Eadington, director of the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno: Present and future models of tribal gaming
• Katherine Spilde Contreras, managing director of the Center for California Native Nations at UC Riverside: Costs and benefits of Indian gaming in the U.S.
• Dean Gerstein, vice provost and director of research at Claremont Graduate University: Gambling behavior and its social and economic impacts on consumers
• Gary Anders, professor of economics at Arizona State University: Indian economic development through Indian gaming
• Terri Sexton, professor of economics at Sacramento State: Impact of Indian gaming on local public finance

For more information about the forum, please call Mary Davis at (530) 752-2042.