The Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavior Sciences at UCLA
The Marschak Colloquium meets on alternative Fridays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Entrepreneur's Hall, room C-301 in the UCLA Anderson School of Management complex (unless otherwise indicated). The dates of the presentations are as follows. Please click on dates for a detailed description of the presentation.
Our calendar for 2001-2002 year is as follows:
The Memorial Lecture has ben scheduled for May 24 at Korn Convocation Hall, 1-3 p.m.
October 5:
Gary Cox, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Field/Subfield: Political Science/Legislative voting
Topic: "On Measuring Partisanship in Roll Call Voting: The U.S. House of Representatives, 1877-1999"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance)
October 19:
William T. Ziemba, Professor, Faculty of Commerce University of British Columbia
Field/Subfield: Business/ Operations Research
Topic: "Scenario-Based Stochastic Programming Thinking for Asset Liability Problems "
(Cosponsored by the Decisions, Operations, and Technology Management area of the Anderson School of Management, UCLA)
November 2:
Brian Skyrms, UCI Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Field/Subfield: Philosophy/Game Theory Applications in Philosophy
Topic:"From the Stag Hunt to the Dynamics of Social Network Formation"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance)
November 16:
Judea Pearl, Professor of Computer Science, UCLA
Field/Subfield: Artificial Intelligence/ Automated Reasoning
Topic: "The Assessment of Causal Quantities from Experimental and Non-experimental Data"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Computer Science and UCLA Cognitive Science Group)
December 7:
Seana Coulson, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
Field/Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience, Linguistics, Psychology/Pragmatic
Topic: "Reasoning and Rhetoric"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Psychology )
January 18:
S. James Press, Distinguished Professor of Statistics, University of California, Riverside
Field/Subfield: Statistics/Bayesian Statistics and Multivariate Analysis
Topic: "The Subjectivity of Scientists and the Bayesian Approach
(Cosponsored by the Center for Governance and the UCLA Department of Statistics)
February 1:
Donald Saari, Professor of Economics and Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
Field/Subfield: Economics and Mathematics
Topic: "New Results by Revisiting Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and Voting Paradoxes"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance)
February 15:
David Plane, Professor of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona and Coeditor, Journal of Regional
Field/Subfield: Geography/Population
Topic: "Demographic Differentiation of U.S. Metropolitan Populations"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Geography)
March 1:
Barry O'Neill, Professor of Political Science, UCLA
Field/Subfield: Political Science/International Relations and Game Theory
Topic: "Resolution of Conflict Involving Honor-Oriented Socities"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance, the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, and the UCLA Department of Political Science)
March 15:
Richard Roll, Japan Alumni Chair in International Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Field/Subfield: Financial Economics/Economic Development
Topic: "Why Many Developing Countries Just Aren't"
(Cosponsored by the Center for International Business Education and Research, Anderson School, UCLA)
April 12:
Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick
Field/Subfield: Sociology/Philosophy/Sociology of Knowledge/Social Epistemology
Topic: "What is living, dead, and undead in Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance and the Dean of Social Sciences, UCLA)
April 26:
Morris W. Hirsch, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Field/Subfield: Mathematics/Game Theory
Topic: "Extensions to n players of Smale's long-run solution to Prisoner's Dilemma"
May 10:
Marcus Feldman, Professor of Biology, Stanford University
Field/Subfield: Biology/Demography
Topic: "Sex, Marriage, and Inter-generational Transfers in Rural China"
(Cosponsored by the California Center for Population Research)
May 24:
**The 2001-2002 Marschak Memorial Lecture to be held in Korn Convocation Hall**
David Baltimore , President, California Institute of Technology and Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine
Field/Subfield: Biology/Molecular Biology
Topic: "Why All the Turmoil about Biology Today?"
(Cosponsored by by the the UCLA Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution and the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute)
June 7:
Alan Garfinkel, Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine (Cardiology) and Physiological Science
Field/Subfield: Physiology/Nonlinear Dynamics
Topic: "The Science of Chaos"