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.
| Fall 2003 | Winter 2004 | Spring 2004 |
| October 3 | January 16 | April 16 |
| October 17 | January 30 | April 30 |
| October 31 | February 13 | May 14 |
| November 14 | February 27 | June 4 |
| December 5 | March 12 | June 11 |
October 3:
J. William Schopf , Professor of Paleobiology, UCLA Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics (Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life), and Molecular Biology Institute
Field/Subfield: Paeleobiology/Origin and Early Evolution of Life
Topic: "Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils: Solution to Darwin's Dilemma"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA/IGPP Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life)
October 17:
Jordan B. Peterson, Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto
Field/Subfield: Psychology/Mythology and Neuroscience
Topic: "Emotion as Response to Anomaly"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance and Metanexus Institute Local Societies Initiative on Awe-Inspiring Experiences, and the UCLA Department of Psychology)
October 31:
Dwight Read, Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Statistics, UCLA
Field/Subfield: Mathematical Modeling of Human Conceptual Systems/Evolution of Symbolic Systems
Topic: "Four Major Events in the Universe: The Big Bang, the Origin of Life, the Origin of Sexual Reproduction and the Origin of Symbolic Thought"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance and the UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, and the UCLA Department of Anthropology)
November 14:
Arthur De Vany, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Field/Subfield: Economics/Information and Institutions
Topic: "Hollywood Economics: How Extreme Uncertainty Shapes the Film Industry"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance and the UCLA Department of Economics)
December 5:
Herbert Gintis, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts and External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute
Field/Subfield: Behavioral Economics/Game Theory
Topic: "Recent Advances in the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance, the Metanexus Institute Local Societies Initiative on Awe-Inspiring Experiences, and the UCLA Department of Economics, and the UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture )
January 16:
Dominique M. Hanssens, Bud Knapp Professor of Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Field/Subfield: Management/Marketing
Topic: "Marketing Science: Building Brands and Growing Customer Equity"
(Cosponsored by the Department of Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management and the Marketing Studies Center, UCLA Anderson)
January 30:
Joel Schwartz, Associate Professor of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Field/Subfield: Public Health/Environmental Epidemiology
Topic: "If You Were the Data, What Would You Do? Bayesian Model Averaging and Particulate Air Pollution"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance)
February 13:
George P. Lakoff, Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Field/Subfield: Cognitive Linguistics/Cognitive Mathematics
Topic: "Where Mathematics Comes From: The Metaphorical Structure of Higher Mathematics"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Linguistics)
February 27:
David A. Patterson, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Field/Subfield: Computer Science/Computer Systems
Topic: "Designing Computers to Crash Quickly"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Computer Science Department )
March 12:
Keith Devlin, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
Field/Subfield: Mathematics/Applying Mathematics to Issues of Language and Information
Topic: "The End of the Information Age"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance and the UCLA Department of Mathematics)
April 16:
Russell Hardin, Professor of Politics, New York University
Field/Subfield: Political Science/Rational Choice and Collective Action
Topic: "The Epistemology of Culture"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Political Science)
April 30- The 2003-2004 Marschak Memorial Lecture:
Daniel Kahneman , Professor of Psychology, Princeton University and Nobel Laureate in Economics
Field/Subfield: Psychology/Behavior and Decision Making
Topic: "Towards A Science Of Well-Being"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance, the Metanexus Institute Local Societies Initiative on Awe-Inspiring Experiences, and the UCLA Department of Economics, and the UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, and the UCLA Department of Psychology, and the Anderson School interdisciplinary research group on Behavioral Decision Making (BDM))
May 14:
Rick Grannis, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Field/Subfield: Sociology/Social Network Analysis
Topic: "Sampling the Structure of Large-Scale, Interdependent Social Networks"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology)
June 4:
Mark Kleiman, Professor of Policy Studies, UCLA and Co-Director of the Marschak Colloquium
Field/Subfield: Public Policy/Policy Analysis
Topic: "Dukenfield's Law of Incentive Management"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Governance)
June 11:
Arthur Getis, Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation Chair of Geographical Studies, San Diego State University
Field/Subfield: Geography/Spatial Analysis
Topic: "What is Special about Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences?"
(Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Geography)