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Marcus Alexander

Microbiome Biology and Social Networks in the Developing World

Emily Hau
October 11, 2019

Marcus Alexander talks about the Microbiome Biology and Social Networks in the Developing World project on The MacMillan Report.  

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A phylogenetic tree of life, showing the relationship between species whose genomes had been sequenced as of 2006. Photo Source: Ivica Letunic: Iletunic. Retraced by Mariana Ruiz Villarreal: LadyofHats [Public domain]
Marcus Alexander works as a research scientist in the Human Nature Lab at the Yale Institute for Network Science. His research focuses on the genomics of social networks, the evolution of human cooperation, and large-scale field interventions that improve and extend human life.  

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Event time: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 12:00pm
Event Type: 
Weekly Seminar
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Ave, 3rd floor
New Haven, CT 06511

“Online Lipschitz Selection”

Speaker: SÉBASTIEN BUBECK
Microsoft Research, Redmond

Event time: 
Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 4:00pm
Event Type: 
Speakers, Conferneces & Workshops
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Ave, 3rd floor
New Haven, CT 06824

“Distributionally Robust Learning with Applications to Health Analytics”

Speaker: Yannis Paschalidis
Boston University
http://sites.bu.edu/paschalidis/ 

Event time: 
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 12:00pm
Event Type: 
Weekly Seminar
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Ave, 3rd Floor
New Haven, CT 06511

“Learning Robust Policies with Expert Guidance”

Speaker: Yang Cai
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Yale University

Event time: 
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 12:00pm
Event Type: 
Weekly Seminar
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Ave, 3rd Floor
New Haven, CT 06511

“Greedy Adapts to Sharpness”

Speaker: Alfredo Torrico
Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Tech

Event time: 
Monday, April 1, 2019 - 1:00pm
Event Type: 
Speakers, Conferneces & Workshops
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Ave, Room 335
New Haven, CT 06511

“Adversarial learning and a problem of denial-of-service defense in the Cloud”  

Speaker: George Kesidis
Pennsylvania State University

Event time: 
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 11:00am
Event Type: 
Speakers, Conferneces & Workshops
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Ave, Room 335
New Haven, CT 06511

“Quantifying reputation and success in art”

Speaker: Christoph Riedl
Assistant Professor for Information Systems and Network Science
D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University

Event time: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 12:00pm
Event Type: 
Weekly Seminar
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Ave, 3rd floor
New Haven, CT 06511

CS Talk

Speaker: Prof. Aleksander Madry, MIT

“Towards ML You Can Rely On”

Abstract: Machine learning has made tremendous progress over the last decade. In fact, many believe now that ML techniques are a “silver bullet”, capable of making progress on any real-world problem they are applied to.

But is that really so?

Event time: 
Monday, February 18, 2019 - 1:30pm
Event Type: 
Speakers, Conferneces & Workshops
Location: 
Luce 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511

fMRI Seminar Series

Individualized and state-specific human brain parcellation in multiple scales”

Speaker: Mehraveh Salehi

Event time: 
Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 10:00am
Event Type: 
Speakers, Conferneces & Workshops
Location: 
TAC N203 See map
300 Cedar Street, 2nd floor
New Haven, CT

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