Speaker:

Luis Amaral, Erastus Otis Haven Professor, Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University

Title:

The World is on Fire. Is it Time to Follow the Science Yet?

Abstract:

TBA

Speaker Bio:

Luis Amaral, a native of Portugal, conducts and directs research that provides insight into the emergence, evolution, and stability of complex social and biological systems. Amaral received a K-25 Career award from NIGMS, was named to the 2006 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research by the W. M. Keck Foundation and appointed an Early Career Scientist by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2009 to 2015. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, and the Network Science Society.

Amaral has mentored 25+ graduate students and 20+ postdoctoral fellows. He has also held significant mentoring responsibilities for dozens of undergraduate and high-school students who completed internships in his lab. Amaral’s research has been published in leading scientific journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, PNAS, Nature Physics, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Machine Intelligence, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, PLOS Biology, and eLife. These results reported in the publications have been featured in numerous media sources, both in the US and abroad.

Location:

In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/94166965463

About the Speaker Series:

Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, networks, and artificial intelligence. 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.

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