Events

Natalia Komarova Chancellor’s Professor University of California, Irvine   Mathematical methods in evolutionary dynamics   Evolutionary dynamics permeates life and life-like systems. Mathematical methods can be used to study evolutionary processes, such as selection, mutation, and drift, and to make sense of many phenomena in life sciences. Stochastic analysis is an emerging tool to understand […]

Julia Leonard MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania   How social evidence affects persistence in early childhood   Children’s persistence in the face of challenge is central to learning. But how do young children learn when and how to deploy effort? This talk explores how social evidence impacts children’s decisions about effort allocation. First, I […]

MindCORE & CURF Present: Growing Up in Science Have you ever wondered what your professor struggled with as a student? Or what challenges your advisor faced before getting their PhD? “Growing up in Science” is a conversation-style event series about becoming and being a scientist. Faculty share their stories with a focus on the unspoken challenges […]

ILST seminar: Andrea Ceolin

January 25, 2019
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Andrea Ceolin Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania   Functional Pressures on Sound Change   Recent attempts to address the ‘actuation problem’ (Weinrich et al. 1968) have focused on functional factors that might explain attested sound changes. While traditional views on sound change focus on perception errors (Ohala 1983), modern statistical approaches have suggested that […]