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!
Spring 2019 Speakers
Functional Networks and Hubs in the Human Brain
Caterina Gratton - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
April 3, 2019
Mathematical modeling of malaria transmission to inform policy
Jaline Gerardin - Assistant Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
April 10, 2019
Evolution of specialization and social cooperation in dynamic fluids
Dervis Can Vural - Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame
April 17, 2019
Puzzles in molecular electrolytes
Monica Olvera de la Cruz - Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
April 24, 2019
Complexity in evolutionary and molecular genetics
Erik Andersen - Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University
May 1, 2019
Echoes of Cognition in Pronunciation Variation
Matt Goldrick - Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University
May 8, 2019
** CANCELLED **
Saray Shai - Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Wesleyan University
May 15, 2019
Chaos in networks of coupled oscillators with multimodal natural frequency distributions
Lachlan Smith - Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics. The University of Sydney
May 29, 2019
Daniel J. Case - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Aymeric Punel - Ph.D Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Orsolya Vasarhelyi, Visiting Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Communication Studies
Winter 2019 Speakers
A, hopefully, thoughtful soapbox talk
Luis Amaral - Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Co-Director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University
January 16, 2019
A Tale of Two Statisticians: Methods and Applications
Lauren Balmert - Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
January 23, 2019
**POSTPONED** Puzzles in molecular electrolytes
Monica Olvera de la Cruz - Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
January 30, 2019
Deep Space Collaboration
Leslie DeChurch - Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
February 6, 2019
Using Artificial Intelligence to Discover New Materials
Chris Wolverton - Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
February 13, 2019
A cross-culturally equivalent measure of household water security
Sera Young - Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University
February 27, 2019
Yixue Wang - Ph.D. Student, Technology and Social Behavior
Frank van der Wouden - Post Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg and NICO
Igor Zakhlebin- Ph.D. student, Technology and Social Behavior
Download a copy of our 2019 winter speaker series flyer.