Wednesdays@NICO
Fall 2024 Seminar Speakers
Biological Coupled Oscillators in the Real World
Guy Amichay, Research Associate, Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
October 2, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Model Interpretability: from Illusions to Opportunities
Asma Ghandeharioun, Senior Research Scientist, People + AI Research Team, Google DeepMind
October 9, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Studying Textual Representations of Social Structures
Oscar Stuhler, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
October 16, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Neuroethology of Bat Communication and Social Behavior
Angeles Salles, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago
October 23, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Extraordinary Life of Microswimmers: How Does a Microorganism Swim and Navigate in Complex Environments
Xiang Cheng, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
October 30, 2024, 12:00pm Central
The Evolution of Authoritarian Propaganda in the Digital Age
Yingdan Lu, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
November 6, 2024, 12:00pm Central
The Value of Belief Data in Online Recommendation Systems
Guy Aridor, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
November 13, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Lightning Talks w/ Northwestern Scholars
November 20, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Speakers:
Albert Kabanda, PhD Candidate, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University
Neelam Modi, PhD Candidate, Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, Northwestern University
Maria Warns, PhD Candidate, Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
Spring 2024 Seminar Speakers
Organizational AI: How an Organization’s Structure and Leaders Influence the Development and Deployment of AI and How AI Impacts Organizational Efficiency and Effectiveness
Jarrett Spiro, Cognitive/Machine Learning Lead in Applied AI Research, Humana
April 10, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Disease Frames and their Consequences for Stigma, Advocacy, and Research Funds
Alina Arseniev-Koehler, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC San Diego in the Division of Biomedical Informatics, and Assistant Professor of Sociology, Purdue University
April 17, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Exploring the Emergence of Complex Dynamics in Network of Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) Oscillators
Simbarashe Nkomo, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Oxford College of Emory University
April 24, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Bridging Divides with Generative AI
Chris Bail, Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Public Policy, Duke University
May 1, 2024, 12:00pm Central
At the Interface: Physical Analogy with Interfacial Fluid Mechanics
Daniel Harris, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Brown University
May 8, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Abstract and Bio | Video available upon request
How Do Ecological Systems Become (re)Assembled?"
Serguei Saavedra, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
May 22, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Computing with a Pile of Sand: Understanding Amorphous Solids that “Count” Modulo N
Joseph Paulsen, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Syracuse University
May 29, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Abstract and Bio | Video available upon request
Winter 2024 Seminar Speakers
Sensitive Intervention Points for Accelerating the Post-Carbon Transition
Matthew Ives, Research Associate, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University
January 24, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Necessity and Strategy for Facilitating Idea Adoption in Science
Hao Peng, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University
January 31, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Lightning Talks with NU Scholars and Fellows!
February 7, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Speakers:
- Taekyun Kim - Postdoctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, and NICO
- Feihong Xu – PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, and the Amaral Lab
- Kumar Utkarsh – PhD Candidate, Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics, and the MMCS Lab
Identifying Models from Data: Traditional and Sparse-Selection Based Approaches
Niall Mangan, Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
February 14, 2024, 12:00pm Central
On the Right Track? Extracting Climate Change Mitigation Pathways from Patent Data
Frank Neffke, Team Leader, Complexity Science Hub Vienna
February 21, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Self-Presentation in Sociotechnical Life: How We Present Ourselves to Each Other in a World of Digital Platforms
Jeremy Birnholtz, Professor, School of Communication, Northwestern University
February 28, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Designing and Evaluating Human-AI Collaboration
Matt Groh, Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
March 6, 2024, 12:00pm Central
Nested Skills in Labor Ecosystems: A Hidden Dimension of Human Capital
Hyejin Youn, Associate Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
March 13, 2024, 12:00pm Central