Wednesdays@NICO
Fall 2018 Speakers
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Emergent laws governing stochastic single-cell dynamics
Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
October 3, 2018
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Echo Chambers and Post-Truth from a Complex Systems Perspective
Cristián Huepe, CHuepe Labs & Northwestern University
October 10, 2018
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Responsible Social Computing
Jana Diesner, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences
October 17, 2018
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The Principles of Collective Learning
César Hidalgo, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
October 24, 2018
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Early Signals for the Wisdom of Crowds in Crowdfunding
Ágnes Horvát, Assistant Professor, School of Communications, Northwestern University
October 31, 2018
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Gendered Labor Roles and Rewards in Science
Cassidy Rose Sugimoto, Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
November 7, 2018
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The Role of Algorithmic Intermediaries in Shaping Attention to News Information
Nicholas Diakopoulos, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Northwestern University
November 14, 2018
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The Social Structure of Police Misconduct
Andrew Papachristos, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
November 28, 2018
Spring 2018 Speakers
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The Universal Link Between a Mentor’s Tacit Knowledge and a Protégé’s Scientific Success
Brian Uzzi, Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
April 4, 2018
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Measuring and Predicting the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology - One Molecule at a Time
Brian Munsky, Assistant Professor. Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University
April 18, 2018
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The Value of Niches for the Stabilization of Novelty: Combining Niche Construction and Hypercycles
Jon Atwell, Data Science Scholar, Northwestern University
April 25, 2018
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What's a Bitcoin Worth? Valuation and Categorization in the Rise of Digital Currency
Lynette Shaw - Assistant Professor, Department of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
May 2, 2018
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Making A Long Story Short: Eliciting Prior Information & Mapping Knowledge in Previously Published Research
Sarah Bouchat, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
May 9, 2018
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Models of Diffusion-Coupled Oscillators in Cell Biology
Alexandra Jilkine, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied & Computational Math & Statistics, University of Notre Dame
May 16, 2018
Winter 2018 Speakers
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Mind the Gap: a Cascade of Instabilities Created by Rotating Beads Near a Floor
Michelle Driscoll - Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
January 17, 2018
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Lost and Found in Translation: the Universal Structure of Human Lexical Semantics
Hyejin Youn - Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
January 24, 2018
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Language Style Similarity and Friendship Networks
Adam Kleinbaum - Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
January 31, 2018
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Lifting the Curtain: Backstage Cognition, Frontstage Behavior, and the Interpersonal Transmission of Culture?
Sameer Srivastava - Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
February 7, 2018
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What Politicians Believe About Public Opinion
Chris Skovron, Northwestern Data Science Scholar
February 14, 2018
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Data-Driven Model Selection for Dynamic, Biological Systems
Niall Mangan - Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
February 21, 2018
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Personalization of Social Sharing
Elena Zheleva, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
February 28, 2018