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	2006-07: The 4-campus video-colloquium series Fall Quarter 2006 October 6 Friday 1:30-3:00 Jeff Brantingham, Archaeology, UCLA: "Foraging Behavior of Contemporary Criminals" ABM and math models: Car Thievery in LA as an Optimal Foraging Problem (streaming video) October 13 Friday 1:30-3:00 Jessica Flack, SFI: The Role of Robustness Mechanisms in the Evolution of Social Complexity (streaming video) October 27 Friday 1:30-3:00 James Fowler, Political Science, UCSD, "Supreme Court Networks of Precedents"(streaming video) November 3 Friday 1:30-3:00Ã‚Â Part of the Marschak Series at UCLA Colin F. Camerer, Economics, California Institute of Technology "Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 8 10:00-1:00 4-Campus Conference at UCI 10-11:00 Doug Wallace- MAMMAG "Molecular Anthropology: Application of Analysis of Mitochondrial Variation toward Understanding the Origins of Humans and Their Culture." (streaming video) 11:30-1:00 ~Natasa Przulj - Discovering the protein interaction networks of living cells, part 2 - the Interactome sequel to the Genome project (streaming video) This UCI complexity conference at UCI will focus on biological complexity and evolution, Meeting TBA in a larger room, video recorded. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Winter Quarter 2007 January 5 2007 Friday 1:30-3:00 Peter Gourevitch. political economy with an emphasis on international trade and economic globalization, trade disputes, and regulatory systems. .(streaming video) January 12 Friday 1:30-3:00 Cosma Shalizi (canceled) January 26 Friday 1:30-3:00 Jared Diamond, UCLA Geography and Physiology, UCLA Tentative title: "Variation in Human Cultural Practices" (streaming video) Tentative Abstract. February 9 Friday 1:30-3:00 Halbert White and Karim Chalak, Economics, UCSD, "A Unifed Framework for Defining and Identifying Causal Effects" (streaming video) February 23 Friday 1:30-3:00 Brian Arthur, SFI, "Technology and the Evolution of Complexity" (streaming video) Background paper: The Evolution of Technology within a Simple Computer Model March 9 Friday 1:30-3:00 Bai-lian Larry Li, UCR - Ecological Complexity and Sustainability (streaming video) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 23 10:00-1:00 4-Campus Conference at UCI Martin Doyle, UCR Political Science, "The state of clan politics in State building" (streaming video) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spring Quarter 2007 April 6 Friday 1:30-3:00 Robert Garfias UCI - Complexity in Expressive Forms (streaming video) April 13 2007 Friday 1:00-3:00 Marschak Colloquium Alan Fiske, Professor of Anthropology, UCLA (Cultural Anthropology/Social Psychological Anthropology) “The Four Fundamental Forms of Sociality: Theory, Formal Models, and Evidence April 20 Friday 1:30-3:00 Douglas R. White , UCI (Math. Behavioral Sciences) "Rethinking Social Complexity and Resilience: Australian hunters, Middle Eastern nomads, and Eurasian Urban Civilizations" (streaming video) May 4 Friday 1:30-3:00 Natalia L. Komarova (Mathematics), Kimberly A. Jameson (IMBS), Louis Narens (Cognitive Sciences) and Ragnar Steingrimsson (IMBS). UCI Color Evolution Laboratory. Ã‚Â Evolutionary Models of Color Categorization Based on Discrimination (video) Abstract May 11 Marschak Colloquium Video Seminar, Phillip Bonacich, Professor of Sociology, UCLA. "Power in Social Networks" May 18 Friday 1:30-3:00 Padhraic Smyth, UCI (Computer Science) "Automated Analysis of Relations between Words, Entities, Topics, and Documents using Statistical Topic Models" May 25 Friday 1:30-3:00 Carl Simon University of Michigan, Director,Center for the Study of Complex Systems "Complexity Research and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at Michigan" June 1 Friday 1:30-3:00 Michael Merrill."Archaeology and Galois lattices" ____________________________________________________________________________ June 9 2007 Saturday 9:45-4:00 Conference at UCLA Haines Hall 352 09:45a: Prologue: Dwight Read, Chair, UCLA Human Complex Systems. 10:00a: David Kronenfeld, UCR Anthropology (Bio) and Jerrold Kronenfeld, Kronenfeld Designs CritSim: An Agent-Based Model of Durkheimian Emergent Social Phenomena. . 11:15a: Juan Escobar, UCLA Physics "An Agent-Based, Thermodynamic Model of a Simple Economic System". . 12:15p: Buffet Lunch (provided by reservation and modest payment by June 6, see downloadable announcement above for details). 01:30p:Dwight Read, UCLA Anthropology and HCS. Francis Steen, UCLA Communications Studies and HCS. "Reducing Uncertainty in Costly Information Gathering: An Agent- Based Model of Vervet Monkey Warning Cries". 02:45p: Susanne Lohmann, UCLA Political Science and HCS. "Of Human Action, Not of Human Design: The Secret History of the University; or, The Emergence, Evolution, and Dissemination of the Perfect Form" 03:45p: Epilogue: Doug White, Chair, 4UC Videoconference Series.Convening Committee: John Bragin UCLA, Dwight Read UCLA, and Doug White UCI.