October 5, 2012 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm Anderson C-Atrium / talk 1 - 3 pm Anderson C-301
Zoobiquity: Comparative Psychopathology and the Redemption of Evolutionary Psychology
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Professor of Medicine and Director of Imaging, UCLA
October 19, 2012 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm Anderson C-303 / talk 1 - 3 pm Anderson C-301
Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language
Seana Coulson, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
November 2, 2012 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 5931 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
Debunking Myths About Early China: Realizing the Benefits of Science-Humanities Consilience
Edward Slingerland, Professor of Asian Studies and Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition, University of British Columbia
November 16, 2012 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 3333 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
A Massive Scale Experiment in Social Influence and Voter Mobilization
James Fowler, Professor of Medical Genetics and Political Science, University of California, San Diego
November 30, 2012 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 3333 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
Diversity and the Wisdom of Crowds
Scott E. Page, Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
January 11, 2013 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 3333 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
Modeling Influenza Vaccination Behavior via Inductive Reasoning Games
Raffaelle Vardavas, Associate Mathematician, RAND Corporation and Pardee RAND Graduate School
January 25, 2013 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 3333 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
Modeling Insurgencies
Moshe Kress, Professor of Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School
February 8, 2013 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 3333 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
Mathematics, Models and Public Security: From Epidemics to the Deliberate Release of Biological Pathogens and the Spread of Fanatic Behaviors
Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Regents Professor, Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology, and Director of the Mathematical and Computational Modeling Sciences Center, Arizona State University
February 22, 2013 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 3333 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
Social Pain and Pleasure: The Social Neuroscience of Rejection and Connection
Naomi Eisenberger, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, UCLA
March 8, 2013 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 3333 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
The Tragedy of the Science-Communication Commons
Dan Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Yale Law School
April 5, 2013 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 3333 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
[Collective Animal Behavior]
Iain Couzin, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
April 19, 2013 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 3333 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
The Evolution of Crime: From Stalking to Murder
David Buss, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
May 3, 2013 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 3333 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
Digital Cultural Mapping: From Social Media Feeds to the Deep Time of Urban Pasts
Todd Presner, Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, and Chair of the Digital Humanities Program, UCLA
May 17, 2013 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 3333 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
Recent Advances in Agent-Based Modeling
Joshua Epstein, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
May 31, 2013 / lunch 11:45 am - 12:45 pm 3333 Public Affairs / talk 1-3 pm 2343 Public Affairs
[Mathematics of Crime]
Andrea Bertozzi, Professor of Mathematics and Director of Applied Mathematics, UCLA