"Learning sums of ridge functions from minimal samples"
Sponsor(s):
Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), Bass Connections-Information, Society & Culture, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Mathematics, Pratt School of Engineering, and Statistical Science
Friday, September 04, 2015
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
MASSIMO FORNASIER, Technical University of Munich
Pavlov Meets the 21st Century: Fear Conditioning in 3-D Virtual Worlds
Sponsor(s):
Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS)
Friday, September 04, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Kevin Labar, Ph.D.
Bayesian variable selection and related issues
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, September 04, 2015
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Gonzalo Garcia-Donato, Univ. of Castilla - La Mancha
Curricular Creativity: Can Anthropology as Critical Practice Trump "the Department" as Institutional Fortress?
Sponsor(s):
Cultural Anthropology
Monday, September 07, 2015
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Richard Handler
METHODS WORKSHOP: Gareth James (E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California)
Sponsor(s):
Political Science
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
All Day
Gareth James (E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California)
Skin Disease Research Center Monthly Meeting
Sponsor(s):
Department of Dermatology
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
TBD
The Iran Nuclear Deal: What's at Stake?
Sponsor(s):
Sanford School of Public Policy, American Grand Strategy (AGS), Duke Islamic Studies Center, and Physics
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Nasser Hadian, Mark Emamian, Peter Feaver
Programmed somatic correction of disruptive germline DNA rearrangements in the unicellular eukaryote, Tetrahymena
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG)
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Eduardo Orias, UCSB
Plants of Distinction: Gorgeous Grasses
Sponsor(s):
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Mike Owens, curator of the Historic Gardens, Duke Gardens
Canoes, canned tuna and cocaine: challenges of fisheries policy and food security in West Africa
Sponsor(s):
Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
John Virdin, Director, Oceans & Coastal Policy Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Same Sex Marriage & the Authority of Tradition
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Neil Siegel
The New Digital Gatekeepers - From Facebook to Algorithmic Hiring
Sponsor(s):
Duke Science & Society Initiative
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dr. Zeynep Tufekci
Sophomore Convocation
Sponsor(s):
Sophomore Year Experience (SYE)
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Marc Anthony Neal & Dan Ariely
Fourth Annual Civic Engagement Distinguished Lecture
**CANCELED**
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
8:00 am
Lani Guinier
POSTPONED: ORA Scholarly Series: Ethical Issues & Publishing
Sponsor(s):
School of Nursing (SON)
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Marion E. Broome, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean of the School of Nursing; Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs, Duke University; and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs for Nursing, Duke University Health System
DTE: Lunch Edition w/ Sabian Hill, J.D. & M.A. in English '17
Sponsor(s):
Center for Multicultural Affairs
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Reading the Protocol from a Financial Perspective
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Tracy Kerby
Trajectories of Affective/Cognitive Changes and Oral Health in Older Adults
Sponsor(s):
School of Nursing (SON)
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Boston Foundation in the City of Ideas
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Paul S. Grogan, The Boston Foundation
The Iran Nuclear Agreement & American Diplomacy
Sponsor(s):
Slavic and Eurasian Studies and Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES)
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Ambassador Jack F. Matlock
Data Dialogue
Sponsor(s):
Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), Bass Connections-Information, Society & Culture, Mathematics, Pratt School of Engineering, and Statistical Science
Thursday, September 10, 2015
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Data Dialogue/to be announced
Developing Endoscopic Procedural Capacity in Globally Underserved Settings
Sponsor(s):
Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI)
Thursday, September 10, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Sharmila Anandasabapathy
Lunch Talk with David Grusky
Thursday, September 10, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell & Molecular Biology (CMB), and Cell Biology
Thursday, September 10, 2015
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Nels Elde, Ph.D.
DIBS Research Incubator Awards Showcase
Sponsor(s):
Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS)
Thursday, September 10, 2015
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Trends and Group Differences in the Association between Educational Attainment and U.S. Adult Mortality: Implications for Understanding Education's Causal Influence
Thursday, September 10, 2015
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Mark Hayward - University of Texas at Austin
Duke Fly Club- Nadia Singh (NC State)
Thursday, September 10, 2015
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Nadia Singh (NC State)
TCTHS and AGS Present: "ISIS: Terrorism at Home and Abroad" A Conversation with Jessica Stern
Sponsor(s):
American Grand Strategy (AGS), Political Science, Sanford School of Public Policy, and Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security
Thursday, September 10, 2015
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Jessica Stern
POLITICAL THEORY WORKSHOP: Heather Mac Donald (Manhattan Institute)
Thursday, September 10, 2015
6:30 pm
Heather Mac Donald (Manhattan Institute)
SciComm Fellows Program: Session 1
Sponsor(s):
Duke Science & Society Initiative
Friday, September 11, 2015
8:00 am - 1:30 pm
See description
Evolutionary Anthropology Talk Series (EATS)
Sponsor(s):
Evolutionary Anthropology
Friday, September 11, 2015
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Graduate Students
Conversations with Alumni: "So Why Should I Fund Your Startup?"
Sponsor(s):
Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Friday, September 11, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
See description
Linking Weather and Climate
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Earth & Ocean Sciences
Friday, September 11, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Yi Deng
The Pleasure of Producing Good Sentences
Sponsor(s):
Thompson Writing Program, Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature, and Forum for Scholars and Publics
Friday, September 11, 2015
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Aaron Sachs
A unification of mediation and interaction: a four-way decomposition
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, September 11, 2015
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Tyler VanderWeele, Harvard
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