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2019-12-212019-12-31

Complex Networks Winter Workshop 2019 (CNWW)

I was invited to be a lecturer and faculty mentor for the second annual Complex Networks Winter Workshop in Quebec City, Canada. CNWW (pronounced “canoe”) is a one-week crash course in transdisciplinary approaches to complex networks, bringing together biologists, social scientists, mathematicians, and more to learn about a variety of network methods and to conduct independent group projects, all while staying in the historic monastery in beautiful Quebec City.… [Read full details]

2019-11-082019-11-13

Invited talk: The Ohio State University

I visited OSU this week to give a seminar to the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology.

Thanks to Gerry Carter for inviting me out!

(Photo by Simon Ripperger)… [Read full details]

2019-10-312019-10-31

Invited talk: University of Nevada, Reno

I visited the University of Nevada, Reno to give a talk in their Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology 2019 Fall Colloquium series. I really enjoyed meeting everyone in the department and had a great visit!

I was also able to finally meet another of my co-authors – it’s weird that science these days can be done solely over email for some projects, without any kind of real or virtual face to face interaction.… [Read full details]

2019-09-202019-10-02

Seminar talk at U. Cincinnati Psych department

I gave the first talk of the new semester for Cognition | Action | Perception Speaker Series in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati.

I really enjoyed getting to know everyone affiliated with the CAP Center and got to tour some very cool research facilities (robots & VR!).… [Read full details]

2019-04-252019-04-29

Talk & working group at U. Tennessee

I was really excited to re-visit Knoxville this week. I hadn’t been back since finishing my postdoc at NIMBioS and moving to Santa Fe. I visited with the Psych and EEB departments, gave my first Psych department talk, and got a ton of science done in a working group with Todd Freeberg, Nina Fefferman, and David Buckley.… [Read full details]

2019-03-082019-04-12

Jan-Feb talks

This winter has been a little crazy: between mid Jan and mid Feb, I gave talks at 5 different universities. It was great to meet with so many people and see so many different departments.

But after that…. March is a no-getting-on-planes month for me!… [Read full details]

2018-11-092018-11-13

Dynamics of networks talk

I was invited to give a talk at a workshop “Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks” at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at the Ohio State University, organized by Ian Hamilton and Keith Warren. I presented my talk “Using dynamics of network interactions to infer social rules” remotely.… [Read full details]

2018-10-242018-11-01

Cultural Evolution conference

I attended the Cultural Evolution Society meeting in Tempe, Arizona and presenting a talk called “The evolution of socio-cultural conflict strategies”.

This talk focused on recent work with Dan Mønster and Simon DeDeo, which is available as a preprint on arXiv.… [Read full details]

2018-09-272018-10-18

Cultural Evolution CCS satellite meeting

I gave a talk called “Detecting the Basis of Sociocultural Complexity in Animals and Humans” in the satellite meeting “Evolution of Cultural Complexity”, which was part of the Complex Systems Society Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The talk was co-authored with Dan Mønster and Simon DeDeo.… [Read full details]

2018-09-24

Complex Systems conference in Greece

I gave a talk at the Conference on Complex Systems in Thessaloniki, Greece.

My talk was called “Signals of quality vs. individual recognition: A model of the tradeoffs in assessment strategies” co-authored with Eleanor Harris.… [Read full details]