Wednesday, October 2019
An American Dilemma for the 21st Century
The Social Science Research Council, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library, and Columbia University invite you to join us for a day-long conference: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 | 10:00am–7:30pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY 10037 Seventy-five years ago, Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal published the influential work, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. For Myrdal and his collaborators, the central dilemma was the…
Find out more »The Strategic Brain under Risk in Games and Lotteries with FMRI
The Cognition and Decision Seminar Series presents The Strategic Brain under Risk in Games and Lotteries with FMRI Rosemarie Nagel Universitat Pompeu Fabra While the neuroeconomics of individual decision making has been extensively studied, the neuroeconomics of strategic interaction remains relatively unexplored. I will begin by introducing three classic strategic situations, the Beauty Contest, Stag Hunt, and Entry games, to illustrate the general structure of simple strategic interaction situations, and some basic principles of game theory. The predictions of…
Find out more »Tuesday, November 2019
Leveraging Big Data to Manage Extreme Weather Risks?
Leveraging Big Data to Manage Extreme Weather Risks? is part of the ongoing CFM-PER Data Initiative. Find more information about the CFM-PER Columbia Data Initiative here. Extreme weather episodes such as Hurricane Sandy of 2012 and California Wildfires of 2018 led to significant human displacement and billions of dollars of economic damage spread across utility, real estate and other commercial sectors. Scientists predict that climate change will lead to more frequent and extreme weather risks. This evening panel is the first in…
Find out more »Tuesday, December 2019
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