Michael Nachman Department of Biology UC Berkeley The Genomic Basis of Environmental Adaptation in House Mice A major goal in biology is to understand the genetic details of how organisms adapt to novel environments. I will discuss recent studies on the genetic basis of environmental adaptation in mice which have recently colonized North […]
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John McCoy Department of Marketing University of Pennsylvania Distilling more wisdom from a crowd In many situations, from economists predicting unemployment rates to chemists judging fuel safety, individuals have differing opinions or predictions. We consider the crowd-wisdom problem of aggregating the judgments of multiple individuals on a single question, when no outside information […]
Ron Baecker Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Bell Chair in Human-Computer Interaction University of Toronto *Please note special time: 12:00pm – 1:15pm
Betsy Sneller Annenberg School for Communication Georgetown University Acquisition of sociolinguistic variation Sociolinguistic variation exists in every natural language and exhibits orderly heterogeneity within (e.g. style) and across (e.g. identity) speakers. In order to fully acquire a language, a child must learn the language’s variation patterns. How children acquire probabilistic variation remains an […]
Christoph Weidemann Computational Memory Lab, University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychology, Swansea University Title TBA Click here for more information.