CROSS-CLASSIFICATION BY FIELD AND AFFILIATION (FIELD/DATE, SPEAKER, AFFILIATION)
Anthropology/Sociology/Geography
February 3: Dwight Read, UCLA Departments of Anthropology, Statistics, and the UCLA Human Complex System program), "From Experiential-Based to Relational-Based Forms of Social Organization: A Major Transition in the Evolution of Homo sapiens."
November 18: Gabriel Rossman, UCLA Department of Sociology, "How the Oscars Structure Hollywood."
October 28: Laurence Smith, UCLA Department of Geography, "The New North: Four Forces Shaping our Northern Future."
Computer Science/Engineering/ Systems Analysis
February 17: Bran Ferren, Co-Chairman & CCO, Applied Minds, Glendale, "The Art and Science of the Imagination and How to Organize for Innovation."
Economics/Business/Management/Operations Research
January 20: Sridhar Tayur, Carnegie-Mellon Operations Research, "Some Contemporary Topics in Global Operations."
April 13: Aimee Drolet Rossi, UCLA Anderson School of Management, "Aging Consumers: Lessons in Moderation."
May 11: Matthew E. Kahn, UCLA Professor of Economics and Public Policy, "Adaptation to Climate Change."
May 18: THE MARSCHAK MEMORIAL LECTURE: Robert H. Frank, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, "The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good - A View from Behavioral Economics."
Mathematics/Statistics
March 2: Sheldon Smith, UCLA, Philosophy "The Miracle of Applied Mathematics: A Case Study in Mathematical Development Involving the Fractional Derivative."
Political Science
December 9: Daniel Treisman, UCLA Department of Political Science, "The Geography of Fear."
Psychology/Education
October 14: Harry McLaughlin, UCLA Department of Psychology, "Readability for Consenting Adults: Neurolinguistic Limits to Understanding."
Public Planning/Policy/Other
September 30: John Bragin, UCLA Human Complex Systems, Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Dynamics, "The Foundations of Agent-Based Simulation Modeling."
John Bragin's PowerPoint Presentation
"An Outline of Complex Systems Science: Goals, Scope and Methods"
"Agent-Based Computational Models and Generative Social Science"
"Remarks on the Foundations of Agent-Based Generative Social Science"
"Global Pattern Formation and Ethnic/Cultural Violence"
April 27: Brian D. Taylor, Professor of Urban Planning, Director, Ralph & Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, "Nature and/or Nurture? Analyzing the Determinants of Public Transit Use Across U.S. Urbanized Areas"