Wednesdays@NICO
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems and data science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. This seminar series not only brings some of the top researchers in complex systems from around the country to NICO, but also stimulates interdisciplinary discussion and eventually collaborations. Please join us on Wednesdays at noon!
Fall 2018 Speakers
Emergent laws governing stochastic single-cell dynamics
Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
October 3, 2018
Echo Chambers and Post-Truth from a Complex Systems Perspective
Cristián Huepe, CHuepe Labs & Northwestern University
October 10, 2018
Responsible Social Computing
Jana Diesner, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences
October 17, 2018
The Principles of Collective Learning
César Hidalgo, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
October 24, 2018
Early Signals for the Wisdom of Crowds in Crowdfunding
Ágnes Horvát, Assistant Professor, School of Communications, Northwestern University
October 31, 2018
Gendered Labor Roles and Rewards in Science
Cassidy Rose Sugimoto, Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
November 7, 2018
The Role of Algorithmic Intermediaries in Shaping Attention to News Information
Nicholas Diakopoulos, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Northwestern University
November 14, 2018
The Social Structure of Police Misconduct
Andrew Papachristos, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
November 28, 2018
Spring 2018 Speakers
The Universal Link Between a Mentor’s Tacit Knowledge and a Protégé’s Scientific Success
Brian Uzzi, Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
April 4, 2018
Measuring and Predicting the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology - One Molecule at a Time
Brian Munsky, Assistant Professor. Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University
April 18, 2018
The Value of Niches for the Stabilization of Novelty: Combining Niche Construction and Hypercycles
Jon Atwell, Data Science Scholar, Northwestern University
April 25, 2018
What's a Bitcoin Worth? Valuation and Categorization in the Rise of Digital Currency
Lynette Shaw - Assistant Professor, Department of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
May 2, 2018
Making A Long Story Short: Eliciting Prior Information & Mapping Knowledge in Previously Published Research
Sarah Bouchat, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
May 9, 2018
Models of Diffusion-Coupled Oscillators in Cell Biology
Alexandra Jilkine, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied & Computational Math & Statistics, University of Notre Dame
May 16, 2018
Winter 2018 Speakers
Mind the Gap: a Cascade of Instabilities Created by Rotating Beads Near a Floor
Michelle Driscoll - Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
January 17, 2018
Lost and Found in Translation: the Universal Structure of Human Lexical Semantics
Hyejin Youn - Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
January 24, 2018
Language Style Similarity and Friendship Networks
Adam Kleinbaum - Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
January 31, 2018
Lifting the Curtain: Backstage Cognition, Frontstage Behavior, and the Interpersonal Transmission of Culture?
Sameer Srivastava - Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
February 7, 2018
What Politicians Believe About Public Opinion
Chris Skovron, Northwestern Data Science Scholar
February 14, 2018
Data-Driven Model Selection for Dynamic, Biological Systems
Niall Mangan - Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
February 21, 2018
Personalization of Social Sharing
Elena Zheleva, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
February 28, 2018
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