The Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavior Sciences at UCLA
The Marschak Colloquium meets on alternative Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m. in room C-301 in the UCLA Anderson School of Management complex.
The December 4th presentation of Albert Carnesale will be held in Freud Playhouse, and the February 12th Marschak Memorial Lecture of James G. March will be held in Korn Convocation Hall. All are welcome to attend.
The dates of the presentations are as follows. Please click on dates for a detailed description of the presentation.
| Fall 1998 | Winter 1999 | Spring 1999 |
| October 9 | January 15 | April 9 |
| October 23 | January 29 | April 23 |
| November 6 | February 12 | May 7 |
| November 20 | February 26 | May 21 |
| March 12 | June 4 |
Our calendar for 1998-99 year is as follows:
October 9:
Mark Burgin, Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
Field/Subfield: Mathematics, Logic, Philosophy/ Information and Behavioral Sciences
Topic: "Information and Human Behavior"
(Cosponsored by the Cognitive Science Group)
October 23:
Colin Camerer, Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics, California Institute of Technology
Field/Subfield: Economics and Business/ Corporate Strategy, Decision Sciences, and Experimental Economics
Topic: "Experience-Weighted Attraction Learning in Decisions and Games"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Economics and the Center for Comparative Political Economy )
November 6:
Robert Boyd, Professor of Anthropology, UCLA
Field/Subfield: Anthropology/Biological Anthropology
Topic: "Equilibrium Selection and Social Evolution"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Center for Comparative Political Economy)
November 20:
Marcus W. Feldman, Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Field/Subfield: Biology/Genetic and Cultural Evolution
Topic: "The Sex-Ratio Problem: Cultural Transmission and Demography with Special Reference to China"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution)
December 4: (to be held in Freud Playhouse)
Albert Carnesale, Chancellor; Professor of Policy Studies, School of Public Policy and Social Research; and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA
Field/Subfield: International Relations and National Security Policy/Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control, Proliferation
Topic: "Nuclear Proliferation: What's New? What's Not? What's Next?"
(Cosponsored by the Dean of the School of Public Policy and Social Research; the Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science; the Department of Policy Studies, School of Public Policy and Social Research; the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science; the Center for International Relations; the Center for Comparative Political Economy; and the UCLA Campus Events Commission.)
January 15:
R. Duncan Luce, Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Research Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine and Janos Aczel, Visiting the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science, University of California, Irvine and Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Waterloo (Canada)
Field/Subfield: Psychology/Cognitive Sciences, Measurement and Utility Theory
Topic: "Utility of Uncertain Alternatives and Functional Equations"
(Cosponsored by the Cognitive Science Group)
January 29:
Janos Aczel, Visiting the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science, University of California, Irvine and Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, Waterloo University, Waterloo Canada and R. Duncan Luce, Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Research Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine
Field/Subfield: Psychology/Cognitive Sciences, Measurement and Utility Theory
Topic: "Utility of Joint Receipt of Uncertain Alternatives and Functional Equations"
(Cosponsored by the Cognitive Science Group)
THE 1997-98 JACOB MARSCHAK MEMORIAL LECTURE
February 12: (to be held in Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson C-314)
James G. March, Professor Emeritus of Management, Higher Education, Political Science, and Sociology, Stanford University
Field/Subfield: Social Science/Decision Theory and Organization Theory
Topic: "Utilities and Identities: The Search for an Interpretation of Action"
(Cosponsored by the Anderson Graduate School of Management, the Center for Comparative Political Economy, the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and the Department of Political Science)
February 26:
Charles Marshall, Professor of Paleobiology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA, also affiliated with the Molecular Biology Institute and the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA
Field/Subfield: Molecular Paleobiology/ Evolutionary Biology, Developmental Biology, Molecular and Morphological Systematics, Quantitative Paleobiology
Topic: "Assessing the Rapidity of Mass Extinctions and Elucidating the Mechanisms of Evolutionary Innovation"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution)
March 12:
John R. Searle, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Field/Subfield: Philosophy/Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Action
Topic: "Rationality in Action"
(Cosponsored by the Cognitive Science Group and the Center for Comparitive Political Economy)
April 9:
Elisa Jayne Bienenstock, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Field/Subfield: Sociology/ Game Theory and Social Networks
Topic: "Strategic Decision Making and Structural Outcomes"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Sociology)
April 23:
Jack Hirshleifer, Professor of Economics, UCLA
Field/Subfield: Economics/ Price Theory, Conflict and Cooperation
Topic:"The Legal Battle: Application of Warfare Models to Litigation"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Center for Comparitive Political Economy and the School of Law)
May 7:
Mathew D. McCubbins, Professor of Political Science, University ofCalifornia, San Diego
Field/Subfield: Political Science/ Political Institutions, Congress, Positive Political Theory
Topic: "Constraining the State Budget Process: A Model of State Government Response to Voter Initiatives and Federal Mandates"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Center for Comparitive Political Economy)
Ronald L. Graham, Chief Scientist, AT&T Labs and Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair of Computer and Information Science, University of California, San Diego
Field/Subfield: Mathematics/ Discrete Mathematics, Computer Science
Topic:"Mathematics and Computers: Recent Successes and Insurmountable Challenges"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Computer Science)
May 28:
Robert C. Berwick, Professor of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field/Subfield: Computer Science and Brain and Cognitive Science/Computational Linguistics; Computational learning theory
Topic: "The New Turing Test"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Linguistics)
June 4:
Rob MacCoun, Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Field/Subfield: Public Policy and Social Psychology/ Individual and Group Decision Making, Criminal and Civil Jury Behavior, Formal and Informal Control of Risky Conduct
Topic: "Is Collective Decision Making More or Less Biased than Individual Decision Making"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Policy Studies, School of Public Policy and Social Research and the Center for Comparitive Political Economy)