Winter 2012
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Date and Time
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Speaker and Topic
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Seminar Location
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| Tuesday, Jan. 10 12:00-1:30 |
411 West Hall | |
| Tuesday, Jan. 17 12:00-1:30 |
Dragan Huterer Assistant Professor of Physics University of Michigan Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe Special talk on Physics Nobel Prize awarded to Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt |
411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Jan. 24 12:00-1:30 |
Bill Rand Assistant Professor University of Maryland Smith School of Business Authority, Trust and Influence: The Complex Network of Social Media |
411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Jan. 31 12:00-1:30 |
NO SEMINAR | 411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Feb. 7 12:00-1:30 |
Marcus Feldman Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University Learning and Cognition in Producers and Scroungers |
411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Feb. 14 12:00-1:30 |
NO SEMINAR | 411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Feb. 21 12:00-1:30 |
Erik Goodman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University Evolution in Action: Exploring Evolutionary Dynamics in both Biological and Computational Domanins |
411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Mar. 6 12:00-1:30 |
Tim Lewis Associate Professor University of California-Davis, Dept. of Mathematics Phase-Constancy in Chains of Half-Center Oscillators: The Neural Mechanisms Underlying Coordinated Locomotion |
411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Mar. 13 12:00-1:30 |
Russell Golman Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University Curiosity, Information Gaps, and the Utility of Knowledge |
411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Mar. 20 12:00-1:30 |
Siddharth Suri Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research, New York Cooperation in Static and Dynamic Networks |
411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Mar. 27 12:00-1:30 |
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla Director of the Center for Social Complexity George Mason University What would the first comprehensive textbook in Computational Social Science look like? A special exclusive preview for CSCS Michigan students" |
411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Apr. 3 12:00-1:30 |
Tim McKay Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics University of Michigan What can we learn from 48,579 physics students: Learning Analytics at Michigan |
411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Apr. 10 12:00-1:30 |
Jane Wang Cornell University |
411 West Hall |
Fall 2011
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Date and Time
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Speaker and Topic
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Seminar Location
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| Tuesday, Sept. 13 12:00-1:30 |
Cesar Hidalgo, Asst. Professor, MIT Media Laboratory Economic Complexity: The Driver of Economic Growth |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Sept. 20, 12:00-1:30 |
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Sandia National Laboratories HOT or NOT? Decentralized Strategic Optimization in Complex Systems |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Sept. 27 12:00-1:30 |
Baruch Meerson, Professor of Physics, Hebrew University Extinction of established populations: A physicist's view |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Oct. 4 12:00-1:30 |
Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Open source software as a complex network |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Oct. 11 12:00-1:30 |
Sinan Aral Assistant Professor, NYU Stern School of Business Content and Causality in Influence Networks |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Oct. 25 2:30-4:00 |
Taehun Lee Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering City College of New York High-order Method for Mesoscale Simulation of Liquid Drop Coalescence and Impact |
335 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Nov. 8 12:00-1:30 |
Marcel Filoche Director of Research, CNRS The complex geometry of the lung airway system: an optimal but fragile system? |
Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Nov. 15 12:00-1:30 |
Forrest Stonedahl Professor, Centre College Query-Based Model Exploration: Parameters and Paradigms |
Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall |
| Monday, Nov. 21 12:00-1:30 |
Atzumi Ohara Professor, Fukui University Information geometry of nonextensive statistical mechanics with Tsallis entropy (q-exponential family) |
Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Nov. 29 12:00-1:30 |
Tom Witten Dept. of Physics, University of Chicago Orienting colloidal objects by programmed sedimentation |
Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Dec. 6 12:00-1:30 |
CANCELLED |
Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Dec. 13 12:00-1:30 |
No Seminar | Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall |
Winter 2011
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Date and Time
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Speaker and Topic
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Seminar Location
|
| Tuesday, Jan. 11 12:00-1:30 |
340 West Hall | |
| Tuesday, Jan. 18 12:00-1:30 |
340 West Hall | |
| Tuesday, Jan. 25 12:00-1:30 |
Chris Adami, Keck Graduate Institute Evolution of Cooperation from Reliable Communication http://www.kgi.edu/x656.xml |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Feb. 1 12:00-1:30 |
340 West Hall | |
| Tuesday, Feb. 8 12:00-1:30 |
Katia Koelle, Duke University Rooting disease ecology in genetic data using viral phylogenies http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/katia.koelle |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Feb. 15 12:00-1:30 |
340 West Hall | |
| Tuesday, Feb. 22 12:00-1:30 |
Michael Gordon, UM Ross Business School | 340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Mar. 8 12:00-1:30 |
Matthew Salganik, Princeton University Title TBA http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/ |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Mar. 15 12:00-1:30 |
Brian Arbic, University of Michigan "On Two-dimensional Turbulence and Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies" Link |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Mar. 22 12:00-1:30 |
Robert M. Ziff, University of Michigan "Explosive Percolation" http://che.engin.umich.edu/people/ziff.html |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Mar. 29 12:00-1:30 |
Seminar Canceled | 340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Apr. 5 12:00-1:30 |
Seminar Canceled | 340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Apr. 12 12:00-1:30 |
Seminar Canceled | 340 West Hall |
Fall 2010
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Date and Time
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Speaker and Topic
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Seminar Location
|
| Tuesday, Sept. 14 12:00-1:30 |
David Rand, Harvard University Reward, Punishment and the Evolution of Cooperation Abstract http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~drand/ |
5670 Haven Hall |
| Tuesday, Sept. 21 12:00-1:30 |
Evelyn Sander, George Mason University Connecting Period Doubling Cascades to Chaos Abstract http://math.gmu.edu/~sander/EvelynSite/Home.html |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Sept. 28 12:00-1:30 |
Dan Lathrop, University of Maryland Quantum Turbulence Abstract http://complex.umd.edu/ |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Oct. 5 12:00-1:30 |
L. Mahadevan, Harvard University On Growth and Form: Geometry, Physics and Biology Abstract http://www.seas.harvard.edu/softmat/ |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Oct. 12 12:00-1:30 |
Dan McShea, Duke University Biology’s First Law Abstract http://www.biology.duke.edu/mcshealab/ |
340 West Hall |
| SPECIAL TIME Monday, Oct. 25 2:30-4:00 |
SPECIAL SEMINAR Joel Miller, Harvard University Edge compartmental infectious disease models Abstract |
SPECIAL ROOM 335 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Oct. 26 12:00-1:30 |
Eric Smith, Santa Fe Institute Opportunities in Quantitative Historical Linguistics and Lexical Semantics Abstract http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/D.%20Eric%20Smith |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Nov. 2 12:00-1:30 |
Damon Centola, MIT The Spread of Health Behaviors in Social Networks Abstract http://dcentola.scripts.mit.edu/ |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Nov. 9 12:00-1:30 |
Keith Julien, University of Colorado/Boulder Reduced Models for Astrophysical Accretion Disks Abstract http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/julien/ |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Nov. 16 12:00-1:30 |
Mark Dykman, Michigan State University Fragility, Scaling and Control of the Rates of Rare Events Abstract http://www.pa.msu.edu/~dykman/ |
340 West Hall |
| Tuesday, Dec. 7 12:00-1:30 |
Cosma Shalizi Homophily, Contagion and Confounding: Pick Any Three Abstract http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/ |
340 West Hall |
Winter 2010 Seminar Series, Previous Workshops and Conferences
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Date and Time
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Speaker and Topic
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Seminar Location
|
| Monday, January 11, 2010 12:00 |
“A Hydrodynamic Model of the Cellular Actin Cortex” Guillaume Salbreaux, Dept. of Physics, University of Michigan | 335 West Hall |
| Monday, February 1, 2010 12:00 |
"Oh Brother, Where art Thy Waves? Spatial Dynamics of Childhood Diseases" Andrew Conlon, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge |
335 West Hall |
| Monday, February 15, 2010 12:00 |
Pej Rohani, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan | 335 West Hall |
| Monday, February 22, 2010 12:00 |
Aaron King, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan | 335 West Hall |
| Monday, March 8, 2010 12:00 |
Ume Abbas, Cleveland Clinic Foundation | 335 West Hall |
| Monday, March 15, 2010 12:00 |
Scott Page, Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems |
335 West Hall |
| Monday, March 22, 2010 12:00 |
Ila Fiete, Center for Learning & Memory, University of Texas at Austin | 335 West Hall |
| Monday, March 29, 2010 12:00 |
Jun Zhang, Physics and Courant Institute, New York University | 335 West Hall |
| Monday, April 5, 2010 12:00 |
"Modeling Spatial Organization in Bacteria" Jeroen Van Zon, Physics & Biology, MIT |
335 West Hall |
| Monday, April 12, 2010 12:00 |
Thomas Otis, Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology, Brain Research Institute, UCLA |
335 West Hall |
| Monday, April 19, 2010 12:00 |
John Drake, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia |
335 West Hall |
