All talks will be held in the Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room.
SPRING QUARTER
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 3 p.m. RSVP
Collective Behavior in Online Social Networks, Politicians, and Cows
Speaker: Mason Porter, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA
Host: Van Savage, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 3 p.m. RSVP
Spontaneous Collective Action: Peripheral Mobilization During the Arab Spring
Speaker: Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld, Professor, Public Policy, UCLA
Host: Edward Walker, Sociology, UCLA
WINTER QUARTER
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 3 p.m. RSVP
Nuclear Storage of Memory: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Speaker: David L. Glanzman, Integrative Biology and Physiology and Neurobiology, UCLA
Host: Francis Steen, Communications, UCLA
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 3 p.m.
Fact-checking and Fake News in Election 2016
Speaker: Brendan Nyhan, Political Science, Dartmouth College
Host: Mark Peterson, Public Policy, Political Science, and Law, UCLA
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 3 p.m.
Analyzing Animal Calls: Segmenting Calls Into Acoustic Units and Identifying Species Groups
Speaker: Marie Roch, Computer Science, San Diego State University
Host: Dan Blumstein, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
FALL QUARTER
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 3 p.m. RSVP
Quantifying You
Speaker: Jon Peterson, Games Historian
Host: Eddo Stern, Design | Media Arts, UCLA
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 3 p.m. RSVP
A Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences
Speaker: Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy, U.C. Riverside and Mara Garza, doctoral candidate in philosopy, U.C. Riverside
Host: Susanne Lohmann, Pollitical Science and Public Policy, UCLA
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 3 p.m. RSVP
The Science and Politics of How Nutrition Got it Wrong on Fat and Cholesterol
Speaker: Nina Teicholz, Investigative Journalist
Host: Aaron Blaisdell, Psychology and Brain Research Institute, UCLA
Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 3 p.m. RSVP
The Importance of Knowing What Goes With What: Reinterpreting the Evidence on Policy Attitude Stability in the Mass Public
Speaker: Gabriel Lenz, Associate Professor of Political Science, U.C. Berkeley
Host: Susanne Lohmann, Pollitical Science and Public Policy, UCLA