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