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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Luis Amaral, Northwestern University "A, hopefully, thoughtful soapbox talk"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Luis Amaral, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Co-Director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University
Title:
A, hopefully, thoughtful soapbox talk
Abstract:
As a young scientist, I was mostly focused on my own field, my own research, and my own success. As I have aged, and took increasing responsibility for trainees and institutions, it has become more and more important to me to think about the state of the entire scientific enterprise. It has helped me that I have long had an interest in the history of science and in the stories of science.
Being fair, the science enterprise has never been as diverse, broad, rich, or exciting. Being idealistic, it is impossible to ignore the numerous ways in which science is still the province of white males, focused on topics decided by a small cohort, or pushed in the short term by concerns having little to do with search for truth.
As a way to make some of this issues concrete, I will describe some of my lab’s research on gender diversity in science and beyond. I will explain why this topic matters to me and why I find it a litmus test of the progress of the scientific enterprise.
Speaker Bio:
Professor Amaral, a native of Portugal, conducts and directs research that provides insight into the emergence, evolution, and stability of complex social and biological systems. His research aims to address some of the most pressing challenges facing human societies and the world’s ecosystems, including the mitigation of errors in healthcare settings, the characterization of the conditions fostering innovation and creativity, or the growth limits imposed by sustainability.
Recently, Amaral proposed the development of cartographic methods for the representation of complex biological networks. These methods will enable researchers to to glean the important information on a given system at the scale of interest to the researcher. These tools hold the promise to enable biomedical researcher to design or re-engineer biological systems for therapeutic purposes.
Professor Amaral has published over a 150 scientific peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals. Those papers have been cited in excess of 15 thousand times. His research has been featured in numerous media sources, both in the US and abroad. Professor Amaral has received a CAREER award from the National Institutes of Health, was named a Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research by the W. M. Keck Foundation, and has been selected as an Early Career Scientist by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Lauren Balmert, Northwestern University "A Tale of Two Statisticians: Methods and Applications"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Lauren Balmert, Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Title:
A Tale of Two Statisticians: Methods and Applications
Abstract:
Faculty and staff in the Biostatistics Collaboration Center (BCC) work with investigators in various aspects of their research projects, with involvement in study design, data analysis, and dissemination of findings. In the first part of my talk, I will discuss my role as a collaborative statistician in a medical department. In the second part of my talk, I will transition to my statistical methodology research interests by briefly introducing time-to-event data and existing methods of analysis. I will then describe the concept of lost lifespan, or life lost, a new summary measure for cumulative information inherent in time-to-event data. An estimation and inference procedure will be proposed, as well as an extension to a regression setting. The methodology will be illustrated with a breast cancer clinical trial application.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Balmert's is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine – Division of Biostatistics. Her research interests are primarily collaborative and include the application of biostatistics to a wide range of areas including urology, audiology, and pediatric medicine. She is currently the biostatistician on several ongoing clinical trials (PROPHY; Cerebral Autoregulation Monitoring; High Intensity Walking Intervention; Variability in Hearing Aid Outcomes). As the lead faculty statistician for the Biostatistics Research Core (BRC), she provides ongoing statistical support to Lurie Children’s investigators. Additionally, her methodological research focuses on nonparametric methods for time-to-event data analysis.
Live Stream:
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern University "TBA"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
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Speaker Bio:
Research in the Olvera de la Cruz group is centered around the development of models to describe the self-assembly of heterogeneous molecules including amphiphiles, copolymers, and synthetic and biological polyelectrolytes, as well as the segregation and interface adsorption in multicomponent complex fluids. Work by the group has resulted in a revised model of ionic-driven assembly: demonstrating the electrostatic spontaneous symmetry breaking of ionic fibers and membranes, and identifying its relevance to biological functions and to the design of functional materials. The group's investigations into soft and condensed matter physics have advanced scientific knowledge and opened new research fields of technological importance, including gel electrophoreses dynamics, self-organization of molecular electrolytes into bio-mimetic materials, self-assembly of heterogeneous molecules into complex nanostructures, interface adsorption and phase segregation dynamics and structure of multicomponent fluids.
Live Stream:
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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Data Science Nights - Jan 2019 Meeting TBA
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
6:30 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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JANUARY MEETING: Date TBA at 6:30pm in Chambers Hall, Evanston
DATA SCIENCE NIGHTS are monthly hack nights on popular data science topics, organized by Northwestern University graduate students and scholars. Each night will feature one hour of structured programming followed by a hacking night with data science project or learning groups of your choice.
Aspiring, beginning, and advanced data scientists are welcome!
Agenda:
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For more info: data-science-nights.org
Supporting Groups:
This event is supported by the Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems, and the Northwestern Data Science Initiative.
Time
Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Leslie DeChurch, Northwestern University "TBA"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Leslie DeChurch, Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
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Speaker Bio:
Leslie DeChurch’s research investigates teamwork and leadership in organizations. She is Professor of Communication Studies, and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. She is President and Chairperson of the Board of INGRoup, the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research.
Professor DeChurch leads the ATLAS lab: Advancing Teams, Leaders, and Systems. ATLAS explores the dynamics through which teams form, and how these dynamics affect their performance as teams, and their ability to work as larger organizational systems (multiteam systems). ATLAS conducts laboratory and online experiments, meta-analytic integrations, and field studies of teams and leaders to understand their core organizing processes. Such processes include: leadership networks, team cognition, team conflict and motivation, and team information sharing.
Live Stream:
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Chris Wolverton, Northwestern University "TBA"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Chris Wolverton, Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
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Abstract:
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Speaker Bio:
Chris Wolverton's research group is centered on computational materials science, and specifically first-principles quantum mechanical simulation tools. These computational tools have advanced to the point now where materials may be "synthesized virtually", with their properties predicted on a computer before ever being synthesized in a laboratory. These tools also open the field of "materials informatics" where we can use machine learning tools to explore materials datasets and discover new materials. In this work, his group is working towards a goal of being able to suggest new materials in the same way that Netflix and Amazon can recommend movies or books.
Live Stream:
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Sera Young, Northwestern University "TBA"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Sera Young, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University
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Speaker Bio:
The focus of Dr. Young’s work is on the reduction of maternal and child-undernutrition in the first 1000 days, especially in low-resource settings. Methodologically, she draws on her training in medical anthropology (MA, University of Amsterdam), international nutrition (PhD, Cornell) and HIV (Fellowship, University of California San Francisco) to take a biocultural approach to understanding how mothers in low-resource settings cope to preserve their health and that of their families.
Live Stream:
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)