Wednesdays@NICO
Fall 2019 Speakers
Which Side Are You On: The Unpredictability of Partisan Alignments
Michael Macy - Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University
September 25, 2019
Network Structures of Collective Intelligence: The Contingent Benefits of Group Discussion
Joshua Becker - Postdoctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management and NICO
October 2, 2019
Through the Looking Glass of the Knowledge Production Process: Knowledge Exchange, Cognitive Similarity and Knowledge Production in Science
Karim R. Lakhani - Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
October 9, 2019
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in U.S. Electricity Generation
Steve Cicala - Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
October 16, 2019
Data-Driven Seismic Studies of Earth’s Deep Dynamics
Suzan van der Lee - Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University
October 23, 2019
Single-cell decision making during bacterial infection: lessons from innate immunity
Keara Lane - Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University
October 30, 2019
Measuring the Shape of Data with Topology
Lori Ziegelmeier - Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Macalester College
November 6, 2019
Development of Models to Predict the Broader Impact of Research
Hamed Alhoori - Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Northern Illinois University
November 20, 2019
Lightning Talks with Northwestern Fellows and Scholars!
December 4, 2019
Alex Mercanti - Ph.D. Candidate, Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics
Kyosuke Tanaka - Ph.D. Candidate, Media, Technolgy, and Society
Alexandria Volkening - NSF-Simons Fellow, NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology
Spring 2019 Speakers
Functional Networks and Hubs in the Human Brain
Caterina Gratton - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
April 3, 2019
Mathematical modeling of malaria transmission to inform policy
Jaline Gerardin - Assistant Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
April 10, 2019
Evolution of specialization and social cooperation in dynamic fluids
Dervis Can Vural - Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame
April 17, 2019
Puzzles in molecular electrolytes
Monica Olvera de la Cruz - Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
April 24, 2019
Complexity in evolutionary and molecular genetics
Erik Andersen - Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University
May 1, 2019
Echoes of Cognition in Pronunciation Variation
Matt Goldrick - Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University
May 8, 2019
** CANCELLED **
Saray Shai - Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Wesleyan University
May 15, 2019
Chaos in networks of coupled oscillators with multimodal natural frequency distributions
Lachlan Smith - Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics. The University of Sydney
May 29, 2019
Daniel J. Case - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Aymeric Punel - Ph.D Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Orsolya Vasarhelyi, Visiting Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Communication Studies
Winter 2019 Speakers
A, hopefully, thoughtful soapbox talk
Luis Amaral - Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Co-Director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University
January 16, 2019
A Tale of Two Statisticians: Methods and Applications
Lauren Balmert - Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
January 23, 2019
**POSTPONED** Puzzles in molecular electrolytes
Monica Olvera de la Cruz - Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
January 30, 2019
Deep Space Collaboration
Leslie DeChurch - Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
February 6, 2019
Using Artificial Intelligence to Discover New Materials
Chris Wolverton - Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
February 13, 2019
A cross-culturally equivalent measure of household water security
Sera Young - Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University
February 27, 2019
Yixue Wang - Ph.D. Student, Technology and Social Behavior
Frank van der Wouden - Post Doctoral Fellow, Kellogg and NICO
Igor Zakhlebin- Ph.D. student, Technology and Social Behavior