C4'S VERY INFORMAL SEMINAR SERIES
The VIS is intended to be an informal forum in which to present new, conceptually and / or analytically challenging ideas. Goals include lots of free wheeling discussion and new collaborations. Scientists and scholars in the UW Madison community are welcome to attend. The VIS is not open to the public. Information about our public lectures can be found here.
Drinks at Steenbock's often follow the VIS. The seminar is generally held once a month on the second or third Friday.
Contact Jessica Flack (jcflack@wisc.edu) or Tim Taylor (ttaylor4@wisc.edu) for further information.
SCHEDULE 2013
(always being updated)
May info to come soon.
PAST SEMINARS
Friday, April 12, 2013, 3:30PM
David Krakauer, WID Director & Co-Director, Center for Complexity and Collective Computation
Topic: A demonstration of the extreme limitations of memory (this will be amusing).
Friday, March 15, 2013, 4:30PM
Richie Davidson, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and Laboratory of Affective Neuroscience, UW-Madison
Topic: Change your brain by transforming your mind
This informal talk will consider the possibility of producing functional and structural changes in the brain through mental practices such as meditation. The import of such alterations in brain function and structure for transforming behavior and experience will be discussed.
Friday, February 15, 2013, 3:30PM
Chris Ellison, Center for Complexity & Collective Computation
Topic: Fundamental unsolved issues in information theory
Friday, January 4, 2013, 3:30PM
Tim Rogers, Psychology
Topic: Why do people believe crazy things?
Thursday, December 13, 2012, 10AM
Seth Lloyd, Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory, MIT
Topic: The Energy-Information-Computation Triarchy
Friday, November 16, 330PM
Eddie Lee
Topic: Principles of Human Behavior: A Physics Perspective
Friday, October 26, 330PM
Bryan Daniels, C4, WID, UW Madison
Topic: Cage War: Ockham, Laplace, Google and the Nature of Science
September 21, 2012, 330PM
Rob Nowak, Optimization Group, WID, UW Madison
Topic: In Vivo Las Vegas: Experimental Design as a Multi-Arm Bandit Problem
SUMMER 2012
August 24 2012, 330PM
David Baum, Botany, UW Madison
Topic: Origin of Life
Juy 13 2012
Sushmita Roy, WID, UW Madison
Topic: Regulatory Causal Networks
330PM WID 3rd Floor Conference Room
June 15 2012
Pupa Gilbert, Physics, UW Madison & Berkeley
Topic: Mullusk Shells and Temperature
330PM WID 3rd Floor Conference Room
SPRING 2012
May 25 2012
Philip Poon, WID, UW Madison
Topic: Symmetry, Scale Separation, & Chaos
330PM WID 3rd Floor Conference Room
April 20 2012
Giulio Tononi, Psychiatry, UW Madison
Topic: Information Theory and Consciousness
330PM WID 3rd Floor Conference Room
March 16 2012
Laurence Lowe, WID, UW Madison
Topic: Organizing Data (to get the most out of your model)
330PM WID 3rd Floor Conference Room
February 22 2012
Jordan Ellenberg, Mathematics, UW Madison
Topic: Network Structure, Rules, and Behavior
330PM WID 3rd Floor Conference Room
January 20 2012
Ben Recht, WID, UW Madison
Topic: Compressed Sensing
330PM WID 3rd Floor Conference Room
