Institute for
Mathematical Behavioral Sciences

COLLOQUIUM SERIES

FALL 2008 Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Social Science Plaza A 2112

 

• October 9
• MICHAEL ROSE
• Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCI
• “How a Dominant Eigenvalue and Two Differentials Revolutionized Aging Research”
• October 16
• SHELDON ROSS
• Industrial and Systems Engineering, USC
• "Measuring the Importance of Labor Market Networks"

• DAVID NEUMARK
• Department of Economics, UCI
• “Measuring the Importance of Labor Market Networks"

• November 6
• MICHAEL BIRNBAUM
• Department of Psychology. C.S.U.F.
• “Testing Among Classes of Decision Models by Evaluating Critical Properties”
• November 13
• W. GARRETT MITCHENER
• Department of  Mathematics, The College of Charleston
• “Using mathematical models to understand language change”
• November 20
• TOM SCHWARTZ
  
• Department of Political Science,  UCLA
• “Three Itty Bitty Oral Essays on Rational Choice”
• December 4
• Mark Steyvers
• Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
• “Combining unsupervised statistical topic models and human-defined knowledge databases”