JACOB MARSCHAK INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM ON MATHEMATICS IN THE BEHAVIOR SCIENCES AT UCLA

The Marschak Colloquium meets on alternate Fridays from 1-3pm at UCLA Anderson School of Management, Entrepreneurs Hall, 3rd Floor, Room C301, except as indicated. All are welcome to attend.

October 1: Benjamin Karney, Professor of Psychology, UCLA

Field/Subfield: Psychology/Social Psychology
Topic: "How Marriage Works and Why Marital Education (Usually) Fails"
Cosponsored by the UCLA Human Complex Systems Program and the UCLA Department of Psychology

Professor Karney's Presentation

October 15: Robert Jensen, Associate Professor of Public Policy, UCLA
Field/Subfield: Public Policy /Impact of Labor Market Conditions for Women and Girls
Topic: "Economics vs. Culture: Why Are Daughters Treated So Much Worse Than Sons in India?"
Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Public Policy

Professor Jensen's Presentation

Professor Jensen's Paper

October 29: Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Regent's Professor, UCLA and Senior Fellow, the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, former Foreign Minister of Thailand
Field/Subfield: Political Science/Diplomacy
Topic: "A Unique Look inside North Korea: The Personal Experience of the 39th Foreign Minister of Thailand".
Cosponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and the UCLA International Institute

Professor Suphamongkhon's Presentation

November 12: Eric R. Scerri, UCLA Department of Chemistry
Field/Subfield: Chemistry/History & Philosophy of Chemistry
Topic: "The Periodic Table, Its Story & Its Significance."
Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Chemistry

To be held in Room B-117 of the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

December 3: Roger Farmer, Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics, UCLA
Field/Subfield: Economics/Macroeconomics
Topic: "How the Economy Works: Confidence Crashes and Self Fulfilling Prophecies"
Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Economics

January 14: Ian Mitroff, University Professor at the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management, Alliant University, San Francisco and Senior Investigator in the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management and Adjunct Professor in the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley and Abraham Silvers, Former Professor of Statistics at the University of Texas School of Public Health and at the University of California, San Francisco
Field/Subfield: Business and Societal Issues/Crisis Management
Topic: "Dirty Rotten Strategies: How We Trick Ourselves and Others into Solving The Wrong Problems Precisely" [The title of their recent book]

January 28: David Goodstein, Emeritus Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Caltech
Field/Subfield: Physics and Science Policy /Scientific Fraud
Topic: "On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science"

February 11: Francisco Ayala, Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine.
Field/Subfield: Biology/Population and Evolutionary Genetics, including the Origin of Species
Topic: "Darwin's Revolution: from Natural Theology to Natural Selection"
Cosponsored by the UCLA Human Complex Systems Program, the UCLA Behavior, Evolution, and Culture (BEC) Group, and the UCLA Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

February 25: Schuyler Moore, Attorney at Law, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, Adjunct Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Management, UCLA
Field/Subfield: Law/Entertainment Law
Topic: "Film Economics"
Cosponsored by the Center for Managing Enterprises in Media, Entertainment, and Sports (MEMES) of the UCLA Anderson School of Management

March 11: Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Field/Subfield: Sociology/Cognition and Public Policy
Topic: "Purposive, Non-rational Action"
Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology

April 8: Jeffrey P. Brantingham, Associate Professor of Anthropology and VIce Chair, Department of Anthropology
Field/Subfield: Anthropology
Topic: "The Mathematical Ecology of Criminal Street Gangs"
Cosponsored by the UCLA Human Complex Systems Program

April 22: Michael Spivey, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, Merced
Field/Subfield: Cognitive Science/ Embodied Cognition
Topic: "The Continuity of Mind"

May 6: John Agnew, Professor of Geography, UCLA
Field/Subfield: Geography/
Topic: "Geographical Analysis of Electoral Politics"
Cosponsored by the UCLA Human Complex Systems Program

May 20: Martie G. Haselton, Associate Professor of Communication and Psychology, UCLA and Co-Editor in Chief, Evolution and Human Behavior
Field/Subfield: Psychology/Evolutionary Psychology, Communication
Topic: Can Men Detect Ovulation?
Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Psychology

June 3: THE 2010-2011 MARSCHAK MEMORIAL LECTURE
James Heckman, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate in Economics
Field/Subfield: Economics/Econometrics
Topic: "Marschak's Maxim"
Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Economics