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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Hao Peng, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems "Necessity and Strategy for Facilitating Idea Adoption in Science"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Hao Peng, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University
Title:
Necessity and Strategy for Facilitating Idea Adoption in Science
Abstract:
Science begins with the creation but thrives on the adoption of innovative ideas. This adoption process is important in most areas of science including funding, publishing, and the media. In this talk, I show the necessity to purposefully devise policies to promote the adoption of novel ideas because (1) the complex interdisciplinary structure revealed by journal embeddings poses challenges to research evaluation, (2) peer reviewers at top biology journals disrecognize novel research despite strong editorial preference, and (3) retracted papers have received more attention on different types of online platforms including news media. In terms of strategy, I show that (4) promotional language can help to communicate the merits of innovative ideas in grant applications as promotional words robustly predict (i) probability of funding, (ii) degree of novelty, and (iii) future citation impact. These findings suggest that the scientific community can judiciously leverage promotional language to aid the reception of big ideas in science.
Speaker Bio:
Hao Peng is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management. He works with Brian Uzzi at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. His research is in computational social science, social networks, and innovation management. He studies the dissemination of innovation and workforce diversity in the innovation market. His research aims to understand how individuals and organizations, particularly those in the knowledge industry, can refine their human capital to accelerate discoveries and breakthroughs. Dr. Peng holds a PhD from University of Michigan School of Information and a BS in Information Management from Sun Yat-sen University in China.
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/91051755818
Passcode: NICO2024
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems and data science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Rosemary Braun, Northwestern University "The Scale of Life"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Rosemary Braun, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University
Title:
The Scale of Life
Abstract:
Living systems exhibit surprising and beautiful self-organization at all scales. At the atomic level, proteins self-assemble into macromolecular complexes. The function of these machines is orchestrated within the cell by regulatory networks, whose activity is in turn dictated by, and coordinated with, the cells environment. This coordination takes place across large spans of space and time: the size and lifetime of organisms as large as the blue whale. Populations and ecosystems of many organisms in turn exhibit remarkable emergent dynamics. Today, advances in single-cell assays enable us to probe the molecular state of every cell in a sample in high-dimensional detail. But is this the correct scale at which to probe living systems? What can we learn from this data, and how can we abstract from the microscopic details to macroscopic phenotypes? In this talk, I will discuss some of our recent work bridging the cell and tissue/organism scales, and discuss some challenges and opportunities for the future.
Speaker Bio:
Rosemary Braun is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences, Applied Mathematics [ESAM], and Physics at Northwestern University. A theoretical physicist by training, she earned her PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois, followed by a Masters in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute (NIH) before joining Northwestern as a faculty member. Today, she works at the intersection of statistics, mathematics, and biology to develop computational tools for analyzing high-dimensional data. In addition to her Northwestern affiliations, she is also Associate Director of the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, as well as external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute.
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/97015976754
Passcode: NICO25
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Data Science Nights - May 2025 with Reese Richardson, Northwestern University
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
5:30 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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MAY MEETING: Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 5:30pm (US Central)
LOCATION:
In person: Chambers Hall, Lower Level
600 Foster Steet, Evanston Campus
AGENDA:
5:30pm - Dinner and Information Session
6:00pm - Talk by Reese Richardson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Amaral Lab, Northwestern University
6:45pm - Q&A
DATA SCIENCE NIGHTS are monthly talks on data science techniques or applications, organized by Northwestern University graduate students and scholars. Aspiring, beginning, and advanced data scientists are welcome! For more information: http://bit.ly/nico-dsn
Time
Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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