PRESENTED BY THE CENTER FOR COMPLEXITY & COLLECTIVE COMPUTATION
These lectures are typically at 7PM on the second or third Wednesday of the month. They are held in the DeLuca Forum in the Town Center (ground floor) of the Discovery Building. For directions, take a look at this map. Please contact Maria Peot for further information (MPeot@discovery.wisc.edu). Scroll down for a list of lectures.
Generous support for the series has been provided by John Wiley, former Chancellor of UW Madison, and the John Templeton Foundation.
Public lecture video is archived here.
CALENDAR
Lectures run September through April. April's lecture has been cancelled due to speaker emergency. Please join us again in September! We have a great line-up planned.
2013-2014 LECTURES
Check back for updates.
2012-2013 LECTURES
Monday, October 1, 2012
Energy & Information in 21st Century Biology
Dr. Geoffrey West (SFI), Dr. David Krakauer (WID, C4), Dr. Jessica Flack (WID, C4), and Steve Paulson (WPR)
7PM DeLuca Forum in Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
For more information, see "Energy & Information" link in "Events" drop-down menu.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Programming the Internet
Graham Spencer, Google Ventures
7PM DeLuca Forum in Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Behavior
Iain Couzin, Princeton, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Collective Animal Behavior Group
7PM DeLuca Forum in Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
A Turing Test for Free Will
Seth Lloyd, MIT
7PM DeLuca Forum in Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
There is No Such Thing as Public Opinion: The Mathematics of Elections, Consensus and Slime Molds
Dr. Jordan Ellenberg
Discovery Fellow, WID & Mathematics Department, UW Madison
7PM DeLuca Forum in Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (Discovery Building)
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Consciousness Irreducible
Dr. Giulio Tononi
Psychiatry, UW Madison
7PM DeLuca Forum in Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (Discovery Building)
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The Origin of Life
Dr. Paul Davies
Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, ASU
7PM DeLuca Forum in Discovery Building (330 N. Orchard Street)
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The Mathematics of Style
Dan Rockmore, Dartmouth
CANCELLED
