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Colloquium - Current and Upcoming Events - Dec. 20, 2012

* SFI community lectures are free, open, & accessible to the public.
* Seminars & colloquia are geared for scientists but free & open to the interested public.
* All other SFI events are by invitation only.
* Note: We are unable to accommodate members of the public for SFI's limited lunch service; you're welcome to bring your own.

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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The Gods Must Be Crazy with Murray Gell-Mann Dec. 13, 2012 -

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