Education

Speaker Series

NICO Speaker Series

September 2006 – June 2007
Wednesdays, 12:00 – 1:00
Northwestern University
Chambers Hall
Evanston, IL

The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) hosts speakers from the complexity community both here at Northwestern and beyond. Below are a list of topics presented:

Limited Path Percolation in Complex Networks, Eduardo Lopez, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Industry Collaboration and Theory in Academic Science, James Evans, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Mass Opinion – Extraction, Classification, and Measurement, Bei Yu, Post Doc & Stefan Kaufmann, Asst. Professor, Managerial Economics & Decision Making Sciences
Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions: A non-invasive window into cochlear mechanics, Sumitrajit Dhar, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Evolutionary Dynamics and Equilibria in Finite Agent Populations, Sevan Ficici, Harvard University
Multi-hierarchical ABM Approaches to Biomedical Modeling, Gary An, Trauma & Critical Care, Feinberg School of Medicine
The Increasing Dominance of Teams in the Production of Knowledge, Stefan Wuchty, Post-Doctoral Fellow, NICO
Learning to Hear a Language: Perceptual Reorganization for Speech Sounds in Infancy, Jessica Maye, Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
The Criticality Hypothesis: How local cortical networks might optimize information processing, John Beggs, Department of Physics, Biocomplexity Institute, Indiana University
Hierarchies in Complex Systems: From Protein Families and Evolution to the Organization of Complex Networks, Marta Sales, Research Associate
Advancing the State of the Art in Agent-Based Modeling, William Rand, Post-Doctoral Fellow, NICO
True Interdisciplinarity: A Route to Foster Innovation and Creativity, Luis Amaral, Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering

Distinguished Speaker Series

Second-Hand Brokerage, Ronald S. Burt, Sociology and Strategy, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, Steven H. Strogatz, Applied Mathematics, Cornell University