March 2016
Linda P. Fried – The Future of Epidemiology: An Epidemiology of Health
Speaker: Linda P. Fried, Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Open to the Columbia community.
Find out more »Community Brain Expo: A Celebration of Science and the Brain
Families, students, and teachers are invited to test, trick, and learn about their brain at the third annual Community Brain Expo. The Brain Expo, by Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute, features demonstrations by scientists and activities for all ages.
Find out more »Moran Levy – Trial and Error: How Anticancer Drugs Shaped Cancer Science
The Science, Technology, and Knowledge (SKAT) workshop is a forum for the seminar-style presentation and discussion of graduate student work in the sociology of expertise, the sociology of professions, actor-network approaches, medical sociology, science studies, etc. The workshop is hosted by Columbia Sociology but welcomes graduate students from all institutions and disciplines.
Find out more »Imag(in)ing Sex in the Brain
Feminist scholars from neuroscience, philosophy, and cultural & media studies discuss how sex/gender gets into brain images, and what we can (and can’t) get out of such images.
Find out more »Giorgio Coricelli – Strategizing and Attention in Games
Speaker: Giorgio Coricelli, Associate Professor of Economics and Psychology, University of Southern California I will present the results of two related experimental studies (work in collaboration with Luca Polonio) in which we used eye-tracking to measure the dynamic patterns of visual information acquisition in games. In a first study, participants played one-shot two-player normal-form games in which either, neither, or only one of the players had a dominant strategy. Our method allowed us to predict whether the decision process would lead…
Find out more »SUSTAINABUILD Design Challenge – Launch Event
This spring, New York City’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC) has partnered with the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning (GSAPP), and the Columbia Population Research Center to present the first annual SUSTAINABUILD Design Challenge. This challenge coincides with the launch of the DDC’s new ‘Design and Construction Excellence 2.0: Guiding Principles’. New York City’s Department of Design and Construction strives to promote and support healthy minds and bodies with…
Find out more »Jamie Pietruska – Weather Prophets, Frauds, and Counterfeiters from the Gilded Age to the New Era – NY HoS Series
This talk will draw together histories of science, capitalism, and culture to examine epistemological debates over weather prediction during a period when the first national weather service in the United States found itself in constant competition with a multitude of private commercial forecasters in a contest for professional scientific authority.
Find out more »Collective Dynamics: Consensus, the Emergence of Leaders and Social Hydrodynamics
On March 31 from 3:30-4:30 P.M., the Distinguished Colloquium Series in Interdisciplinary & Applied Mathematics will host an event with Professor Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland, College Park).
Find out more »Columbia University Science & Engineering Libraries Presents: A Book Talk with Prof. Stuart Firestein
Failure: Why Science Is So Successful delves into the origins of scientific research as a process that relies upon trial and error, one which inevitably results in a hefty dose of failure. In fact, scientists throughout history have relied on failure to guide their research, viewing mistakes as a necessary part of the process.
Find out more »April 2016
Luciana de Souza Leão and Gil Eyal – Experiments in the Wild: a Historical Perspective on the Rise of Randomized Controlled Trials in International Development
The Science, Technology, and Knowledge (SKAT) workshop is a forum for the seminar-style presentation and discussion of graduate student work in the sociology of expertise, the sociology of professions, actor-network approaches, medical sociology, science studies, etc. The workshop is hosted by Columbia Sociology but welcomes graduate students from all institutions and disciplines.
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