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 […]
Events
Alecia Carter Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution Université de Montpellier, France Why don’t baboons have culture? Location: Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building lower level
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 […]
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 […]