October 2017
Stephanie Barral – Banking on Nature: The Market as a New Feature of Environmental Policies
Conservation banks, like carbon offsets, are a new form of economic exchange promoted and facilitated by governments as a means to achieve environmental sustainability for endangered species. The expansion of these banks reflects a new relationship between environmental sciences, markets, financial instruments and public regulations, but questions remain about their benefits and efficacy.
Find out more »Susan Lamb – Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Founding Father: Adolf Meyer
Join Professor Susan Lamb, author of Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry (Johns Hopkins, 2014), to rediscover psychiatry’s most misunderstood founding father.
Find out more »Michael J. Barany – Invidious Comparisons: International Politics, the Fields Medal, and the Past, Present, and Future of Mathematics, 1936-1966
First presented in 1936, the Fields Medal quickly became one of mathematicians' most prestigious, famous, and in some cases notorious prizes. Because its deliberations are confidential, we know very little about the early Fields Medals. This talk will analyze newly discovered letters from the 1950 and 1958 Fields Medal committees.
Find out more »CANCELLED Angela Yu – Computational Modeling of Human Face Processing
Dr. Angela Yu will discuss their recent work using a statistical framework (the Active Appearance Model, AMM) to model human face processing.
Find out more »Kristopher Hult – The Economics of Precision Medicine and Disparities in Health
754 Schermerhorn Extension 1200 Amsterdam Ave Speaker: Kristopher Hult, Economist at Charles River Associates and University of Chicago Precision medicine has the potential to have a significant impact on health by improving how doctors and patients select treatments, improving a patient's understanding of the risk of serious side effects, and creating new treatments. In this talk, Kristopher Hult discusses the economics of precision medicine and how its potential value compares to other forms of medical innovation. He also discusses who…
Find out more »Convergence: Asteroid Mining and the Privatization of Space
Convergence holds its second live show on Thursday, 10/12. This month, geologist Denton Ebel of the American Museum of Natural History and journalist Atossa Abrahamian will discuss: How are plans for asteroid mining already privatizing space?
Find out more »Imagine Science Film Festival at The New School
Imagine Science Film Festival (ISFF) was created in the hybridization of art and science and mixing subjects, genres, and even fact and fiction. Taking place at The New School from October 13 to 20, 2017.
Find out more »Pious Technologies and Secular Designs
From laboratories and corporate workspaces modeled on chapels to rocket engines and skyscrapers designed to “touch the face of God,” this workshop will present a series of case studies that invite historians of modernity to better see the gods in the buildings, spaces, cities, technologies, machines and bodies where religion had apparently ceased to operate. Conference will take place from Oct 13-14.
Find out more »Nathan A. Fox – The Effects of Adversity on Brain and Behavioral Development: Lessons from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project
Dr. Nathan A. Fox addresses in this talk is what happens to brain and behavior when a young child is deprived of key experiences during critical periods of brain development.
Find out more »Science+Art+Design Workshop-GMO: Creating Hybrids
We will discuss the theory, techniques, and ethics of genetic modification and examine how artists use man's manipulation of nature to create hybrid organisms and provocative artworks that urge us to consider practices and policies surrounding GMOs.
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