*Lunch will be ready at 11:45 AM. **To ensure you have a space at the seminar, please RSVP by Nov. 3, 2016. Abstract: In this talk I will review our highly-acclaimed NSF-funded Hacker Web research, which develops advanced data, text and web mining techniques to explore the international underground hacker community. Selected research in identifying...
A talk by Sarah Tracy, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics Sarah Tracy is an historian of the recent past, and of the United States in the world. Her work draws on feminist science and technology studies (STS), food studies, post-colonial theory,...
January 23 @ 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Monday, January 23, 2017 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Royce Hall 306 In this talk, Alison Walker speaks about her journey from UCLA Ph.D. to Amazon.com and offers graduate students a fresh perspective on how to leverage scholarly skills outside the academy. Using examples from her time as graduate...
In this talk, Alison Walker speaks about her journey from UCLA Ph.D. to Amazon.com and offers graduate students a fresh perspective on how to leverage scholarly skills outside the academy. Using examples from her time as graduate student, job-seeker, postdoctoral researcher, and small business owner, Alison illustrates the challenges and opportunities for Ph.D.s as they...
In the spring of 2011, Americans joined theglobal call for social change as hundreds posted #OccupyWallStreet to social media and camped in public parks across the nation. Using the communication infrastructure of the Occupy Movement as my object of analysis, I show how protesters connected with one another, collaborated on national projects, and organized a...
Professors Rosa Tamborrino and Paolo Piumatti, our visiting scholars from the Politecnico di Torino, will outline the first steps in a new UCLA-Polito collaboration on 3D modeling. Participants will have a chance to see UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology's new Digital Archaeology Lab (DAL) and enjoy a glass of wine.
Diffusion in Social Networks: New Theory and Experiments --This seminar presented by the UCLA California Center for Population Research Speaker: Professor Damon Centola, Associate Professor of Communication & Director, Network Dynamics Group, University of Pennsylvania Date: February 22, 2017 Time: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Location: 4420 Public Affairs Building Abstract: The strength of...
Annual Armand Hammer Art History Lecture New digital tools are transforming the ways in which we do research and teach. Caroline Bruzelius (Anne Murnick Cogan Professor of Art and Art History) shares how at Duke University, the Wired! group has been experimenting with integrating technologies into traditional courses. They have also created a lab running...
Making, Curating, & Engaging Data Ngram search (Google) carried out on Feb 27, 2017 Event Details Making, Curating, and Engaging Data March 3, 2017, 4-5pm (PST) Room 111, the Information Studies (GSEIS) building. See map here. #ucladhsem How does scientific and scholarly data get made and how can we curate and make useful data? What does...
Please join us on March 15th from noon to 1:30 at Charles E. Young Research Library (Main Conference Room 11360) to hear Professor Jen Jack Gieseking give a talk entitled: A Queer NY: Dyked Geographies of Greenwich Village from 1983-2008 Following the talk there will be time for a Q/A and discussion period. Jen...
