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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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