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Archive of Past Events

2010 Nobel Symposium

Skills vs. Luck

Winter 2011

Date and Time
Speaker and Topic
Seminar Location
Tuesday,
Jan. 11
12:00-1:30 		  340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Jan. 18
12:00-1:30 		  340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Jan. 25
12:00-1:30 		Chris Adami, Keck Graduate Institute
Evolution of Cooperation from Reliable Communication
Abstract
http://www.kgi.edu/x656.xml		 340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Feb. 1
12:00-1:30 		  340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Feb. 8
12:00-1:30 		Katia Koelle, Duke University
Rooting disease ecology in genetic data using viral phylogenies
Abstract
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/katia.koelle
 340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Feb. 15
12:00-1:30 		  340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Feb. 22
12:00-1:30 		Michael Gordon, UM Ross Business School 340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Mar. 8
12:00-1:30 		Matthew Salganik, Princeton University
Title TBA
Abstract:
http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/ 		340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Mar. 15
12:00-1:30 		Brian Arbic, University of Michigan
"On Two-dimensional Turbulence and Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies"
Abstract:
Link		 340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Mar. 22
12:00-1:30 		Robert M. Ziff, University of Michigan
"Explosive Percolation"
Abstract
http://che.engin.umich.edu/people/ziff.html		 340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Mar. 29
12:00-1:30 		Seminar Canceled 340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Apr. 5
12:00-1:30 		Seminar Canceled 340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Apr. 12
12:00-1:30 		Seminar Canceled 340 West Hall

Fall 2010

Date and Time
Speaker and Topic
Seminar Location
Tuesday,
Sept. 14
12:00-1:30		 David Rand, Harvard University
Reward, Punishment and the Evolution of Cooperation
Abstract
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~drand/ 		5670 Haven Hall
Tuesday,
Sept. 21
12:00-1:30 		Evelyn Sander, George Mason University
Connecting Period Doubling Cascades to Chaos
Abstract
http://math.gmu.edu/~sander/EvelynSite/Home.html 		340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Sept. 28
12:00-1:30 		Dan Lathrop, University of Maryland
Quantum Turbulence
Abstract
http://complex.umd.edu/ 		340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Oct. 5
12:00-1:30 		L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
On Growth and Form: Geometry, Physics and Biology
Abstract
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/softmat/ 		340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Oct. 12
12:00-1:30 		Dan McShea, Duke University
Biology’s First Law
Abstract
http://www.biology.duke.edu/mcshealab/ 		340 West Hall
SPECIAL TIME

Monday,
Oct. 25
2:30-4:00 		SPECIAL SEMINAR

Joel Miller, Harvard University
Edge compartmental infectious disease models
Abstract
 SPECIAL ROOM


335 West Hall
Tuesday,
Oct. 26
12:00-1:30 		Eric Smith, Santa Fe Institute
Opportunities in Quantitative Historical Linguistics and Lexical Semantics
Abstract
http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/D.%20Eric%20Smith		 340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Nov. 2
12:00-1:30 		Damon Centola, MIT
The Spread of Health Behaviors in Social Networks
Abstract
http://dcentola.scripts.mit.edu/ 		340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Nov. 9
12:00-1:30 		Keith Julien, University of Colorado/Boulder
Reduced Models for Astrophysical Accretion Disks
Abstract
http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/julien/ 		340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Nov. 16
12:00-1:30 		Mark Dykman, Michigan State University
Fragility, Scaling and Control of the Rates of Rare Events
Abstract
http://www.pa.msu.edu/~dykman/ 		340 West Hall
Tuesday,
Dec. 7
12:00-1:30 		Cosma Shalizi
Homophily, Contagion and Confounding: Pick Any Three
Abstract
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/ 		340 West Hall

Winter 2010 Seminar Series, Previous Workshops and Conferences

Date and Time
Speaker and Topic
Seminar Location
Monday,
January 11, 2010
12:00 		“A Hydrodynamic Model of the Cellular Actin Cortex” Guillaume Salbreaux, Dept. of Physics, University of Michigan 335 West Hall
Monday,
February 1, 2010
12:00 		"Oh Brother, Where art Thy Waves? Spatial Dynamics of Childhood Diseases"
Andrew Conlon, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge		 335 West Hall
Monday,
February 15, 2010
12:00		 Pej Rohani, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan 335 West Hall
Monday,
February 22, 2010
12:00		 Aaron King, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan 335 West Hall
Monday,
March 8, 2010
12:00		 Ume Abbas, Cleveland Clinic Foundation 335 West Hall
Monday,
March 15, 2010
12:00
Scott Page, Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems		 335 West Hall
Monday,
March 22, 2010
12:00		 Ila Fiete, Center for Learning & Memory, University of Texas at Austin 335 West Hall
Monday,
March 29, 2010
12:00		 Jun Zhang, Physics and Courant Institute, New York University 335 West Hall
Monday,
April 5, 2010
12:00		 "Modeling Spatial Organization in Bacteria"
Jeroen Van Zon, Physics & Biology, MIT		 335 West Hall
Monday,
April 12, 2010
12:00
Thomas Otis, Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology, Brain Research Institute, UCLA		 335 West Hall
Monday,
April 19, 2010
12:00		 John Drake, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
 335 West Hall