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* Seminars & colloquia are geared for scientists but free & open to the interested public.
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Aug. 2, 2012

12:15 p.m.

The Higgs Boson and the LHC

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith (Director of Energy Research, Oxford University; President SESAME Council; Director General, CERN 1994-1998)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Geoffrey West

Aug. 30, 2012

3:30 p.m.

Ulam’s Demons

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

George Dyson (Author and Historian of Technology)

Purpose: Colloquium

SFI Host: Simon DeDeo

Sept. 11, 2012

3:30 p.m.

The Emergence of Complexity among Foraging Societies

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Herbert Maschner (Anthropology Research Professor; Director, Idaho Museum of Natural History; Director, Center for Archaeology, Materials, and Applied Spectroscopy)

Purpose: Colloquium

SFI Host: Jerry Sabloff

Sept. 26, 2012

3:30 p.m.

Algorithms, Equations, and Logic

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Martin Davis (Professor Emeritus, Courant-NYU; Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Cris Moore

Oct. 9, 2012

3:30 p.m.

Computability, Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, and an Inherent Limit on the Predictability of Evolution

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Troy Day (Professor and Canada Research Chair (TII), Mathematical Biology, Queens University)

Purpose: Colloquium

SFI Host: Jeremy Van Cleve

Oct. 16, 2012

3:30 p.m.

Structure, Geometry and Criticality in Empirical Brain Networks

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Eric Friedman (International Computer Science Institute and Computer Science, UC Berkeley)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Cris Moore

Nov. 19, 2012

3:30 p.m.

Individuals and the Mental: Extended Cognition, Collective Minds, and other Curiosities in the Fragile Sciences

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Rob Wilson (Project Director, Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada; Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Simon DeDeo

Nov. 27, 2012

3:30 p.m.

Zoobiquity: How Jaguar Breast Cancer, Dolphin Diabetes, and Flamingo Heart Attacks will Transform Human Medicine

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D. (Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA) and Kathryn Bowers (University of California, Los Angeles)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

Jan. 8, 2013

3:30 p.m.

Reconstructing the Wiring Diagrams of Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Paul Falkowski (Depts. of Geological Sciences & Marine & Coastal Science, Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Rogier Braakman

Feb. 5, 2013

3:30 p.m.

Diffusion of Microfinance

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Matthew O. Jackson (Department of Economics, Stanford University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Cris Moore

Feb. 21, 2013

3:30 p.m.

Earth's Energy Imbalance, Climate Change, and Implications for Young People

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

James Hansen (Columbia University Earth Institute)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

March 6, 2013

3:30 p.m.

A Solution Strategy for Hard Problems Inspired by the X-Ray Phase Problem

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Veit Elser (Cornell University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Cris Moore

March 12, 2013

3:30 p.m.

What Social Computing Means to Emergency Management

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Leysia Palen (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Evandro Ferrada

April 16, 2013

3:30 p.m.

The Triple Revolution: Groups to Social Networks, Personalized Internet, Mobile Access

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Barry Wellman (University of Toronto)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Clio Andris

April 23, 2013

3:30 p.m.

A Science of Cities

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Michael Batty (Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University of College London)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Luis Bettencourt

April 30, 2013

3:30 p.m.

Inferring the Past for Traits that Alter Speciation and Extinction

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Sarah "Sally" Otto (Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Evandro Ferrada

May 7, 2013

12:30 p.m.

Why Children are Better (or at Least More Open-Minded) Learners than Adults Are: Search, Temperature and the Origins of Human Cognition

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Geoffrey West

June 18, 2013

3:30 p.m.

Life in Earth's Deep Biosphere: From Bacterial Finches to Bactivorous Meiofauna

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Tullis Onstott (Princeton University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Rogier Braakman

July 23, 2013

3:30 p.m.

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Michael E. Smith (Arizona State University)

Purpose: Colloquium

SFI Host: Scott Ortman and Luis Bettencourt

Aug. 26, 2013

3:30 p.m.

Noyce Conference Room

Colloquium

Albert Goldbeter (University of Brussels)

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

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