Mathematics and Cognition Spring 2008

$Department of Mathematics and Statistics$

Mathematics and Cognition Seminar

Schedule Spring 2008 Mathematics and Cognition Seminar Tuesdays 12:15 pm PSA 206
	"Whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking." - Septima Clark	About this seminar Note the New Location! Maps ("X" marks the spot)
Note: 1)?represents wild guesses having been made with regards to dates, titles or speakers, 2) * represents an unusual date, time or location.
Date	Speaker	Title
January 15
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29	Steve Doig Knight Chair in Journalism Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication	"Journalism vs. Reality: Why News Reports Are Never True" Announcement
February 5	Abdul Ahmed III Fulton School of Engineering	"Complex Systems Robustness and The Role of Participatory Decision Making Processes" Announcement
12	No Seminar Today
19	Joel Gereboff, Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Christopher Duncan Deptartment of Religious Studies and School of Global Studies	"Social Identity" Abstract
26	Canceled
March 4	Gregory Wolbring? University of Calgary	"The mathematics of Beyond-Species-Typical Functioning"?
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18	David Wolpert Intellegent Systems Division NASA Ames Research Center	"It can be smart to be stupid" Abstract
20*	David Wolpert Intellegent Systems Division NASA Ames Research Center	"Recent developments on the physical limits of inference" Abstract
25	Bruce Rogers Department of Maths & Stats	"Consensus and Contention"Abstract
April 1
8	Daniel Rivera Department of Chemical Engineering	"Engineering Control Approaches for the Design and Analysis of Adaptive Behavioral Interventions" Abstract
15	Paolo Frasca Facolt� di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Dipartimento di Matematica Politecnico di Torino	"Average consensus by gossip algorithms with quantized communication" Abstract
22	A Panel Discussion with Dan Sarewitz, Jeremy Rowe, Douglas Sylvester and Rachel Levinson ASU	"The End of Privacy" Abstract Reading and Resources:Wall Street Journal March 10, Google Searches and Data Mining, Google Watch, Mill Ave. Camera, Seattle Times March 31, No Place to Hide, Intelius .
29	Tom Taylor Department of Mathematics and Statistics	"A probabilistic view of Dempster-Shafer theory and it's generalizations."
May 6	Jose Lobo School of Human Evolution and Social Change	"Valuating Scientific Research"

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