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CSCS Seminar Series

Fall 2012 Schedule

Date and Time	Speaker and Topic	Seminar Location
Tuesday, Jan. 10 12:00-1:30		411 West Hall
Tuesday, Jan. 17 12:00-1:30	Dragan Huterer Assistant Professor of Physics University of Michigan Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe Special talk on Physics Nobel Prize awarded to Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt	411 West Hall
Tuesday, Jan. 24 12:00-1:30	Bill Rand Assistant Professor University of Maryland Smith School of Business Authority, Trust and Influence: The Complex Network of Social Media	411 West Hall
Tuesday, Jan. 31 12:00-1:30	NO SEMINAR	411 West Hall
Tuesday, Feb. 7 12:00-1:30	Marcus Feldman Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University Learning and Cognition in Producers and Scroungers	411 West Hall
Tuesday, Feb. 14 12:00-1:30	NO SEMINAR	411 West Hall
Tuesday, Feb. 21 12:00-1:30	Erik Goodman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University Evolution in Action: Exploring Evolutionary Dynamics in both Biological and COmputational Domanins	411 West Hall
Tuesday, Mar. 6 12:00-1:30	Tim Lewis Associate Professor University of California-Davis, Dept. of Mathematics Phase-Constancy in Chains of Half-Center Oscillators: The Neural Mechanisms Underlying Coordinated Locomotion	411 West Hall
Tuesday, Mar. 13 12:00-1:30	Russell Golman Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University Curiosity, Information Gaps, and the Utility of Knowledge	411 West Hall
Tuesday, Mar. 20 12:00-1:30	Siddharth Suri Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research, New York Cooperation in Static and Dynamic Networks	411 West Hall
Tuesday, Mar. 27 12:00-1:30	Claudio Cioffi-Revilla Director of the Center for Social Complexity George Mason University What would the first comprehensive textbook in Computational Social Science look like? A special exclusive preview for CSCS Michigan students"	411 West Hall
Tuesday, Apr. 3 12:00-1:30	Tim McKay Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics University of Michigan What can we learn from 48,579 physics students: Learning Analytics at Michigan	411 West Hall
Tuesday, Apr. 10 12:00-1:30	Jane Wang Cornell University	411 West Hall

Date and Time	Speaker and Topic	Seminar Location
Tuesday, Sept. 13 12:00-1:30	Cesar Hidalgo, Asst. Professor, MIT Media Laboratory Economic Complexity: The Driver of Economic Growth	340 West Hall
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 12:00-1:30	Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Sandia National Laboratories HOT or NOT? Decentralized Strategic Optimization in Complex Systems	340 West Hall
Tuesday, Sept. 27 12:00-1:30	Baruch Meerson, Professor of Physics, Hebrew University Extinction of established populations: A physicist's view	340 West Hall
Tuesday, Oct. 4 12:00-1:30	Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Open source software as a complex network	340 West Hall
Tuesday, Oct. 11 12:00-1:30	Sinan Aral Assistant Professor, NYU Stern School of Business Content and Causality in Influence Networks	340 West Hall
Tuesday, Oct. 25 2:30-4:00	Taehun Lee Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering City College of New York High-order Method for Mesoscale Simulation of Liquid Drop Coalescence and Impact	335 West Hall
Tuesday, Nov. 8 12:00-1:30	Marcel Filoche Director of Research, CNRS The complex geometry of the lung airway system: an optimal but fragile system?	Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall
Tuesday, Nov. 15 12:00-1:30	Forrest Stonedahl Professor, Centre College Query-Based Model Exploration: Parameters and Paradigms	Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall
Monday, Nov. 21 12:00-1:30	Atzumi Ohara Professor, Fukui University Information geometry of nonextensive statistical mechanics with Tsallis entropy (q-exponential family)	Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall
Tuesday, Nov. 29 12:00-1:30	Tom Witten Dept. of Physics, University of Chicago Orienting colloidal objects by programmed sedimentation	Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall
Tuesday, Dec. 6 12:00-1:30	CANCELLED	Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall
Tuesday, Dec. 13 12:00-1:30	No Seminar	Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall