With the Presidential election less than a month away, how much do the debates matter? Get expert opinion and critique from UCI political scientists at the first of three scheduled events in the 2012-13 Social Sciences Expert Speaker Series. Learn how audiences for debates are changing, what body language of each candidate reveals, and how foreign policy will factor into the overall election outcome on November 6.

"Picking our Next President: Decoding the Debates"
with UCI Political Scientists
Cecelia Lynch | Shawn Rosenberg | Marty Wattenberg

Moderated by Keith Topper, Political Science Associate Professor and Department Chair

Thursday, October 25, 2012
6:00 p.m. Reception
6:30-7:30 p.m. Panel Discussion and Q&A
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

Save the following dates for our next two lectures in this three-part series:

• February 21, 2013 @ 6:00 p.m. with Mike D'Zmura, cognitive scientist, on communication using brain waves
• April 25, 2013 @ 6:00 p.m. with Bill Maurer, anthropology and law professor and Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion director; Mark Moore, UCI alumnus '75 and principal, president and CEO of Aldrich Bonnefin & Moore, PLC; Mic Bowman, Intel Labs principal engineer; and other faculty and graduate students from the School of Social Sciences on the future of mobile money

This lecture series is free and open to the public. Parking is available for $10.00 per day, or $2.00 per hour in the Social Science Parking Structure on the corner of Campus Drive and Stanford. To RSVP or for further information, please contact Rosemarie Swatez, rswatez@uci.edu or 949-824-2511.