Wednesdays@NICO
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network 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 collaborations. Please join us on Wednesdays at 12 PM US Central in person in Chambers Hall or via Zoom.
We welcome speaker suggestions from the NICO community. Please use this form to nominate a Wednesdays@NICO speaker.
Winter 2024 Seminar Speakers
Sensitive Intervention Points for Accelerating the Post-Carbon Transition
Matthew Ives, Research Associate, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University
January 24, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Necessity and Strategy for Facilitating Idea Adoption in Science
Hao Peng, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University
January 31, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Lightning Talks with NU Scholars and Fellows!
February 7, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Speakers:
- Taekyun Kim - Postdoctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, and NICO
- Feihong Xu – PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, and the Amaral Lab
- Kumar Utkarsh – PhD Candidate, Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics, and the MMCS Lab
Identifying Models from Data: Traditional and Sparse-Selection Based Approaches
Niall Mangan, Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
February 14, 2024, 12:00pm Central
On the Right Track? Extracting Climate Change Mitigation Pathways from Patent Data
Frank Neffke, Team Leader, Complexity Science Hub Vienna
February 21, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Self-Presentation in Sociotechnical Life: How We Present Ourselves to Each Other in a World of Digital Platforms
Jeremy Birnholtz, Professor, School of Communication, Northwestern University
February 28, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Designing and Evaluating Human-AI Collaboration
Matt Groh, Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
March 6, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Nested Skills in Labor Ecosystems: A Hidden Dimension of Human Capital
Hyejin Youn, Associate Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
March 13, 2024, 12:00pm Central
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/97614034362
Passcode: NICO2024