This page provides an overview of the social science talks at the Santa Fe Institute. For a complete overview of seminars and workshops held at the Santa Fe Institute, please refer to the SFI Calendar.
Colloquia (Summer and Fall 2008)
May 15, Donald Saari (UC Irvine), "Complexity; As viewed from voting rules and multiscale analysis", 3:30 PM, Noyce.
June 12, Eva Tardos (Cornell University), "Games in networks: The price of anarchy, stability, and learning", 3:30 PM, Noyce.
August 1, Herbert Gintis (University of Massachusetts, CEU, SFI), "Bayesian rationality and social norms", 3:30 PM, Noyce.
August 21, Matthew Jackson (Stanford University), Homophily, Patterns of Segregation in Social Networks, Behavior and the Speed of Learning, 3:30 PM, Noyce.
October 10, Larry Blume (Cornell University), TBA, 3:30 PM, Noyce.
November 5, Adam Brandenburger (Stern School of Business, NYU), TBA, 3:30 PM, Noyce.
Seminars (Summer and Fall 2008)
The behavior seminar series, marked by (*) is funded by the behavioral sciences endowment of George Cowan, founding president of the Institute.July 7, Doyne Farmer (SFI), "Virtues and vices of equilibrium", 12:15 PM, Medium CR. (*)
July 10, Charles Efferson (SFI and University of Zurich), "Social foundations of shared delusions", 12:15 PM, Medium CR. (*)
July 18, Anna Dreber (Stockholm School of Economics and Harvard University), "Boys will be boys. DRD4 and risk preferences in young men", 12:15 PM, Medium CR (*).
July 22, Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert (Universidad Catolica de Chile), "Homo Economicus", 12:15 PM, Medium CR. (*)
July 23, Rajiv Sethi (Barnard College and Columbia University), "The geography of vice, 12:15 PM, Medium CR. (*)
July 28, Lorenz Goette (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston), "Incentives and Pro-Social Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Blood Donations", 3:30 PM, Noyce CR.
July 29, Jung-Kyoo Choi (Kyungpook National University), "The first property rights revolution", 12:15 PM, Noyce CR. (*)
August 1, Arthur Robson, (Simon Fraser University), Testing Theories of Sex against the Observation that Sex is Biparental", 12:15 PM, Noyce CR. (*)
August 4, Sigrid Suetens,, (Tilburg University), Cooperation and reputation building in social dilemmas, 3:30 PM, Medium CR.
August 7, Rob Axtell (George Mason Universitt), TBA, 3:30 PM, Noyce CR.
August 7, Paul Seabright (IDEI, Toulouse), Empire Building in Business and Politics, 3:30 PM, Noyce CR. (*)
August 8, Karthik Panchanathan (UCLA), Reputation, Reciprocity, and Large-Scale Cooperation, 12:15 PM. (*)
August 11, Willemien Kets (SFI), Inequality and Network Structure, 12:15 PM, Medium CR. (*)
August 20, Eric Smith (SFI), Opportunities in Computational Historical Linguistics, Medium CR (*).
October 15, Kobi Gal (Harvard University), TBA, Noyce CR (*).