All talks will be held in the Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room.
FALL QUARTER
Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 3 p.m. RSVP
Collective Animal Cognition: a Theoretical Framework
Speaker: Noam Miller, Experimental Psychology, Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University
Host: Aaron Blaisdell, Psychology and Brain Research Institute, UCLA
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 3 p.m. RSVP
How Would the Population of a Mega-city React to a Nuclear WMD Event?
Speaker: William Kennedy, Psychology and Computational Social Science, Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University
Host: Susanne Lohmann, Political Science and Public Policy, UCLA
Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 3 p.m. RSVP
How Can We Make Technology Solve Big Problems? A Discussion of Energy Systemes and Climate Change Migration
Speaker: Jessika Trancik, Associate Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Van Savage, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biomathematics, UCLA
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 3 p.m.
The Decline of Supreme Court Deference to the President
Speaker: Lee Epstein, Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Stuart Banner, Norman Abrams Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
WINTER QUARTER
Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 3 p.m.
Talk topic to be announced…
Speaker: Clive Wynne, Psychology, ASU
Host: Aaron Blaisdell, Psychology and Brain Research Institute, UCLA
Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 3 p.m. RSVP
Talk topic to be announced…
Speaker: Raphael Landovitz, Medicine, UCLA
Host: Mark Peterson, Public Policy, Political Science, and Law, UCLA
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 3 p.m. RSVP
Talk topic to be announced…
Speaker: Peter Turchin, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Anthropology, and Mathematics, UConn
Host: Aaron Blaisdell, Psychology and Brain Research Institute, UCLA
Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 3 p.m. RSVP
Talk topic to be announced…
Speaker: Louise Barrett, Psychology, Lethridge
Host: Dan Blumstein, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
SPRING QUARTER
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 3 p.m. RSVP
Talk topic to be announced…
Speaker: Krista Capps, Ecology, Georgia
Host: Van Savage, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biomathematics, UCLA
Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 3 p.m. RSVP
Talk topic to be announced…
Speaker: Edward Walker, Sociology, UCLA
Host: Susanne Lohmann, Political Science and Public Policy, UCLA
Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 3 p.m. RSVP
Talk topic to be announced…
Speaker: Noa Pinter-Wollman, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
Host: Dan Blumstein, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 3 p.m. RSVP
Talk topic to be announced…
Speaker: Ian Holloway, Social Welfare, UCLA
Host: Mark Peterson, Public Policy, Political Science, and Law, UCLA
