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Fall 2012 Colloquium Series
4:00-5:00pm
Luce Conference Room - SSPA 2112
OCTOBER 11, 2012
DOUGLAS R. WHITE
Department of Anthropology, UCI
"Simulation, Networks, Comparative Data, and Evolution of Human
(Forager) Cooperation"
OCTOBER 25, 2012
ANTHONY McGANN
Department of Political Science, UCI
“Estimating the Position of the Median Voter: Item Response Theory and Dyad Ratio
Approaches”
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
IGOR KOPYLOV
Department of Economics, UCI
"Hard and Soft Commitments: Self-Control in the Presence of Self-Deception"
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
JENNIFER TRUEBLOOD
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
“Modeling Human Judgments with Quantum Probability Theory”
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
NAGEEB ALI
Department of Economics, UCSD
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
KIMBERLY A. JAMESON
Institute for MBS, UCI and
NATALIA KOMAROVA
Mathematics, UCI
DECEMBER 6, 2012
MIGUEL GARCIA-PEREZ
Dept. of Psychology
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
SPRING 2012 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Luce Conference Room - SSPA 2112
APRIL 5, 2012
Dan Cavagnaro
Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, CSUF
"Optimal Decision Stimuli for Risky Choice Experiments: An Adaptive Approach"
APRIL 12, 2012
Donald Hoffman
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
"Vision in light of evolution"
APRIL 19, 2012
Laura Fortunato
Santa Fe Institute
"The evolution of the human family"
APRIL 26, 2012
David Wolpert
SFI and Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Unawareness, Information Theory, and Applying Game Theory in the Real World"
MAY 3, 2012
Kent Johnson
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UCI
"Explicit Methods in Linguistic Theory Construction"
MAY 10, 2012
William H. Batchelder
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
"Cultural Consensus Theory: Latest Developments"
MAY 17, 2012
Jim Andreoni
Department of Economics, UCSD
Title to be announced
Winter 2012 Colloquium Series
4:00-5:00pm
Luce Conference Room - SSPA 2112
January 12, 2012
PEYTON YOUNG
Dept. of Economics, Johns Hopkins and University of Oxford
"Fast Convergence in Evolutionary Equilibrium Selection”
January 19, 2012
EROL AKCAY
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary biology, Princeton
February 2, 2012
JUKKA-PEKKA ONNELA
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard
"Exploring spreading processes in social networks and hospital-hospital transfer networks"
February 16, 2012
JEAN-CLAUDE FALMAGNE
Dept. of Cognitive Science
March 1, 2012
Joachim Vandekerckhove
Dept. of Cognitive Science, UCI
Fall 2011 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Luce Conference Room-SSPA 2112
October 6, 2011
MICHAEL D. LEE
Department of Cognitive Science, UCI
October 13, 2011
JOEL WATSON
Department of Economics, UCSD
"Contractual chains"
October 20, 2011
JEAN-PAUL CARVALHO
Department of Economics, UCI
October 27, 2011
JEFFREY KRICHMAR
Department of Cognitive Science, UCI
November 3, 2011
DUNCAN LUCE
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
November 10, 2011
JACK YELLOTT
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
November 17, 2011
TBA
Spring 2011 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
March 30, 2011 (12:00 Noon in SSPB 4206)
JUKKA-PEKKA ONNELA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School
"Harnessing network science to reveal our digital footprint"
April 7, 2011
JUN ZHANG
Department of Psychology, Univ. of Michigan
April 14, 2011
WILLEMIEN KETS
Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, UCI
"Inequality and Network Structure"
April 21, 2011
KEVIN ZOLLMAN
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
April 28, 2011
RAGNAR STEINGRIMSSON
Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, UCI
"Psychophysical Variations on the Theme of Commutativity"
May 5, 2011
MARK MACHINA
Department of Economics, UCSD
"Ambiguity Aversion with Three Outcomes or Many States"
May 12, 2011
MICHAEL BIRNBAUM
Department of Pschology, Cal State Fullerton
May 19, 2011
CARTER BUTTS
Department of Sociology, UCI
May 26, 2011
DAN McFARLAND
School of Education, Stanford
Winter 2011 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
January 6, 2011
CHARLES F. CHUBB
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
"Untangling the dimensions of perceptual sensitivity"
January 13, 2011
JEFFREY ROUDER
Department of Psychological Sciences, U. of Missouri
"The development of Bayes factor for psychological research"
January 20, 2011
KIMBERLY JAMESON
Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, UCI
January 27, 2011
JUN ZHUANG
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo
February 3, 2011
LOUIS NARENS
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
To be announced
February 10, 2011
MICHEL REGENWETTER
Psychology & Political Science, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
February 17, 2011
SIMON LEVIN
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton
"Prosociality in Theory and Practice"
February 24, 2011
GERARDO CHOWELL
Mathematical, Computational & Modeling Sciences Center, Arizona State
March 3, 2011
JEFF S. SHAMMA
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech
Fall 2010 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
October 7, 2010
IGOR KOPYLOV
Department of Economics, UCI
"Simple Axioms for Subjective Probability and Exponential Discounting"
October 14, 2010
DAVID PORTER
Economic Science Institute, Chapman University
October 21, 2010
LAWRENCE DeCARLO
Dept. of Human Dev., Teachers College, Columbia University
October 28, 2010
RICHARD CHECHILE
Department of Psychology, Tufts
November 4, 2010
ALI ABBAS
Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engin., University of Illinois
November 18, 2010
ROBERT POWELL
Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley
December 2, 2010
PEYTON YOUNG
Dept. of Economics, University of Oxford
Research Professor in Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Spring 2010 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A
April 8, 2010
JEFF BRANTINGHAM
Department of Anthropology, UCI
April 15, 2010
THORSTEN RITZ
Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCI
April 22, 2010
EUGENE GALANTER
Children's Progress, Inc. and Columbia University
April 29, 2010
DON HOFFMAN
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
May 6, 2010
CARTER BUTTS
Department of Sociology, UCI
"An Inferentially Tractable Behavioral Micro-foundation for Cross-sectional Network
Models"
May 13, 2010
MIKE D'ZMURA
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
"Intended Direction and Imagined Speech from EEG"
May 27, 2010
YEN-SHENG CHIANG
Department of Sociology, UCI
"Partner Selection and the Emergence of Fairness"
Winter 2010 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
January 7, 2010
PHILIP B. STARK
D epartment of Statistics, UC Berkeley
“Simple, Affordable, Risk-Limiting Election Audits”
January 14, 2010
SIMON LEVIN
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University .
“Intergenerational and intragenerational discounting: Lessons from evolutionary theory”
January 28, 2010
DAVID HIRSHLEIFER
Paul Merage School of Business, UCI
“ Self-Enhancing Transmission Bias and Active Investing ”
February 4, 2010
TED GROVES
Department of Economics, UCSD
"Decentralized Procedures for Video Multiplexing: Using economics to improve video
communication protocols”
February 11, 2010
WILLIAM H. BATCHELDER
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
“Multinomial Processing tree Models: Recent Formal Results and New Application Areas”
February 18, 2010
MAYUKO NAKAMARU
Dept. of Value and Decision Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
“Evolution of Cooperation in rotating indivisible goods game"
February 25, 2010
PAT LANGLEY
Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford
“tba”
March 4, 2010
MARK MACHINA
Department of Economics, UCSD
“tba”
March 11, 2010
HONGKAI ZHAO
Department of Mathematics, UCI
“tba”
Fall 2009 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
October 8, 2009
JEFFREY A. BARRETT
Logic & Philosophy of Science, UCI
October 15, 2009
I. R. GOODMAN and DONALD BAMBER
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center and Cognitive Sciences, UCI
October 22, 2009
BRIAN SKYRMS
Logic & Philosophy of Science, UCI
"Signaling Games and Networks: Dynamics and the Flow of Information"
October 29, 2009
MIKE McBRIDE
Department of Economics, UCI
"Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future"
November 5, 2009
GEORGE SPERLING
Department of Cognitive Science and Neurobiology & Hehavior, Institute of Mathematical
Behavioral Sciences, UCI
November 12, 2009
ANDREW NOYMER
Department of Sociology, UCI
November 19, 2009
REIN TAAGEPERA
Department of Political Science, UCI
Spring 2009 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
April 2, 2009
CHRISTOPHER P. CHAMBERS
Department of Economics, Div. of the Humanities & Social Sciences, CALTECH
“When does aggregation reduce uncertainty aversion?”
April 9, 2009
MICHAEL CHWE
Department of Political Science, UCLA
“A Robust and Optimal Anonymous Procedure for Condorcet's Model”
April 16, 2009
greg ASHBY
Department of Psychology, UC Santa Barbara
"A Neurocomputational Theory of Context Learning During Skill Acquisition ”
April 23, 2009
George Loewenstein
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon
“ Behavioral Economics and Conflicts of Interest ”
April 30, 2009
GIACOMO RONDINA
Department of Economics, UC San Diego
“ Design Limits and Dynamic Policy Analysis ”
May 7, 2009
PATRICK SUPPES
Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Stanford University
“ Neglect of Independence and Randomness in he Axioms of Probability ”
May 14, 2009
INDRIDI INDRIDASON
Department of Political Science, UC Riverside
“Proportional Representation, Majoritarian Legislatures & Coalitional Voting”
May 21, 2009
STEPHEN FIENBERG
Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon
University
“ From Here to Eternity:Developing Dynamic Network Models”
May 28, 2009
Rui de figueiredo
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Irvine
“Nonlinear "Behavioral" Filters for Simulation of Adaptation, Evolution, Learning,
Understanding, Discovery, and Invention in Human-Centered Systems”
Winter 2009 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
January 9, 2009
SIMON LEVIN
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton
“The challenge of sustainability and some implic;ations for mathematical behavioral
sciences”
January 22, 2009
A. KIMBALL ROMNEY
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI.
Color Coding in the Retina"
January 29, 2009
CHARLESS FOWLKES
Department of Computer Science, UCI
“ Ecological statiastics and figure-ground organization”
February 5, 2009
CRAIG TOVEY
Scghool of Industrial & Systems Engineering and College of Computing, Georgia Tech.
"A smallest tournament graph that cannot be the result of 2/3 majority voting”
February 12, 2009
MAREK KAMINSKI
Department of Political Science, UCI
“Generalized backward induction”
February 19, 2009
NORMAN SCHOFIELD
Department of Economics, Washington University
“Application of a theorem in stochastic models of elections"
February 26, 2009
DREW FUDENBERG
Department of Economics, Harvard
“Imitation, Evolution, and Cooperation”
March 4, 2009
SIMON HUTTEGGER
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
“Structural stability and signaling games”
March 12, 2009
ROBERT TRAGER
Department of Political Science, UCLA
“Diplomatic calculus in anarchy”
Fall 2008 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
October 9, 2008
MICHAEL ROSE
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCI
October 16, 2008
SHELDON ROSS
Industrial and Systems Engineering, USC
October 23, 2008
MARTIN EVERETT
The Vice Chancellor, University of East London
“Lets get negative: Social networks and negative data"
October 30, 2008
DAVID NEUMARK
Department of Economics, UCI
November 6, 2008
MICHAEL BIRNBAUM
Department of Psychology. C.S.U.F.
“Tba”
November 13, 2008
W. GARRETT MITCHENER
Department of Mathematics, The College of Charleston
November 20, 2008
TOM SCHWARTZ
Department of Political Science, UCLA
“Tba”
December 4, 2008
MARK STEYVERS
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
“The role of prior knowledge in reconstructive memory”
Spring 2008 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
April 3, 2008
JEAN-CLAUDE FALMAGNE,
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
“On the Feasible Forms of Permutable Scientific Laws”
April 10, 2008
BIRTE FORSTMANN and ERIC-JAN WAGENMAKERS
Dept. of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Mathematical Modeling and Functional Neuroimaging Show that the Striatum Facilitates
Decision-Making under Time Pressure”
April 17, 2008
MICHAEL Mc BRIDE,
Department of Economics, UCI
“Game Theory and Religious Markets”
April 24, 2008
DAVID EPPSTEIN
Department of Computer Science, UCI
“Principles of graph drawing”
May 1, 2008
BRUCE SPENCER
Department of Statistics. Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern
University
“On Statistical Estimation of Accuracy of Verdicts in Criminal Cases”
May 8, 2008
DUNCAN LUCE
Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Economics
“Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility for 2 of 3 Types of People”
May 15, 2008
DAVID LAIBSON
Department of Economics, Harvard University
“Instant Gratification”
May 22, 2008
DONALD HOFFMAN
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
“Quantum Cognitive Science”
June 5, 2008
LELAND WILKINSON
Adjunct Professor of Statistics, Northwestern University
“SYSTAT and UIC Department of Computer Science”
Winter 2008 Colloquium Series
Thursday, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
January 10, 2008
JONATHAN D. NELSON
Postdoctoral Research, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., UC San Diego
January 14, 2008
FRIEDERIKE MENGEL
Department of Economics, Universided de Alicante
January 17, 2008
LAURENT MATHEVET
Department of Economics, Caltech
January 22, 2008
THAYER MORRILL
Department of Economics, University of Maryland
January 31, 2008
DENNIS C. MUELLER
Department of Economics, University of Vienna
"Constitutional and Cosmopolitan Rights"
February 7, 2008
MICHAEL DEEM
Department of Bioengineering, Rice University
February 14, 2008
MICHAEL McBRIDE
Department of Economics, UCI
"tba"
February 21, 2008
GALINA VERESHCHAGINA
Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
"tba"
February 28, 2008
WILLIAM BRANCH
Department of Economics, UCI
March 6, 2008
PETER WAKKER
Econometric Institute, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Dept. of
Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
March 13, 2008
OPEN
"tba"
Fall 2007 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
August 28, 2007
GEORGE A. HAZELRIGG
Program Director for Manufacturing Machines and Equipment Division of Design, Manufacture
and Industrial Innovation
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
“Bringing Engineering Mathematics into the 20th Century”
October 4, 2007
START-OF-THE-YEAR PARTY
October 11, 2007
RECEPTION IN HONOR OF BRIAN SKYRMS
Department of Logic & Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine
October 18, 2007
IGOR KOPYLOV
Department of Economics, UC Irvine
“A Model of Guilt and Temptation”
October 25, 2007
BRANISLAV L. SLANTCHEV
Department of Political Sciences, University of CA, San Diego
“Feigning Weakness”
November 1, 2007
HAN BLEICHRODT
Department of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
“Reference-dependent utility with incomplete preferences”
November 8, 2007
VINCE CRAWFORD
Department of Economics, UC San Diego
“Modeling Behavior in Novel Strategic Situation via Level-K Thinking”
November 15, 2007
NOAH A. ROSENBERG
Department of Human Genetics, Bioinformatics Program, and the Life Sciences Institute,
University of Michigan
“A genomic analysis of population relationships and genetic diversity in Native Americans”
November 29, 2007
JERKER DENRELL
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
“Learning from adaptive samples: Implications for risk taking”
December 13, 2007
ERIK SNOWBERG
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
“Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?”
Spring 2007 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
April 5, 2007
JACK YELLOTT
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
“Correcting Spurious Resolution in Defocused Retinal Images”
April 12, 2007
ERIC-JAN WAGENMAKERS
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Current Developments in the Modeling of Response Times and Accuracy Using The Ratcliff
Diffusion Model”
April 19, 2007
no colloquium in lieu of CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY LECTURE, 4:00 p.m. SSL
100, MARY ROBINSON, PRESIDENT OF IRELAND 1990-1997.
April 26, 2007
ANDREW NOYMER
UCI Department of Sociology
“Mortality Selection: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic’s Role in the Decline of Tuberculosis
in the U.S.”
May 3, 2007
JAMES FOWLER
Department of Political Science, UC San Diego
“The Genetic Basic of Voter turnout”
May 10, 2007
Several IMBS members will be attending the Lauds & Laurels event honoring members
Duncan Luce and Ken Small, so there will be no IMBS colloquium
May 17, 2007
LOUIS NARENS
Department of Cognitive Science, UCI
“ Probabilistic Logics”
May 24, 2007
PIOTR SWISTAK
Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland
“Economics and Sociology (A game-theoretic proof that robust equilibria require social
institutions)”
May 31, 2007
BRANISLAV L. SLANTCHEV
Department of Political Science, UCSD
“Feigning Weakness”
Winter 2007 Colloquium Series
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Social Science Plaza A 2112
January 8, 2007
OLEG SMIRNOV
Political Science, University of Miami
“’Heroism’ in Warfare as a functionally Specific Form of Altruism”
January 11, 2007
MATT JONES
Psychology, Univ. of Texas at Austin
“Recency Effects as a Window to Generalization Separating Decisional and Perceptual
Sequential Effects in Category Learning”
January 16, 2007
EMEL FILIZ
Dept. of Economics, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
“Incorporating Unawareness into Contract Theory”
January 25, 2007
MICHAEL LEE
Asst. Prof. of Cognitive Science, UC Irvine
“Some New (Bayesian) Light Through Some Old (Cognitive Modeling) Windows”
January 30, 2007
JON EGUIA
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, CALTECH
“Voting Blocs, Coalitions and Parties”
February 1, 2007
JAMES HOLLAND JONES
Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford
“Interval estimates for epidemic thresholds in two-sex network models”
February 8, 2007
ERNESTO DAL BO
Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley
“Political Dynasties”
February 15, 2007
SIMON LEVIN
Director, Center for BioComplexity, Princeton University
“Current Challenges in the Theory of Infectious Diseases”
February 22, 2007
DAVID SCHMEIDLER
Department of Economics, Ohio State University
“How to be Bayesian if you must ”
March 1, 2007
JOEL LEVINE
Dept. of Mathematical Social Sciences, Dartmouth College
“The Misbehavior of Data: Basic Correlation and Regression Reconsidered by a Network
Analyst”
March 8, 2007
PRASANTA PATTANAIK
Department of Economics, UC Riverside
“Revealed Preference and Stochastic Demand Correspondence”
March 15, 2007
DONALD BAMBER
Scientist, Space & Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, Simulation and Human Systems
Technology
“Reasoning with Rules that Have Rare Exceptions: An Argumentation System with a Probabilistic
Semanties”
March 16, 2007
GEOFFROY de CLIPPEL
Department of Economics, Rice University
“Marginal Contributions and Externalities in the Value”