Date: April 20 Event Location: Hughes-Trigg Student Center, Portico BCD Time:10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Join Refik Soyer of the Department of Decision Sciences at George Washington University as he discusses Bayesian Modeling of Multivariate Time Series of Counts. Sponsored by the DCII Operations Research and Statistics Towards Integrated Analytics Research Cluster. Light refreshments provided. […]
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Event Date: 04/26/2017 Location: Dallas Hall 306 Time: 6:00 p.m. Reception and 6:30 p.m. Panel True or False? Social media advances social justice activism. Come and hear attorneys, activists, and a media executive present their perspectives on the effects of social media on conversations about justice in Dallas. Presented by the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute and […]
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Originally Posted: April 12, 2017 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects 228 National and International Scholars, Artists, Philanthropists, and Business Leaders The 237th class of members includes philanthropist and singer-songwriter John Legend, award-winning actress Carol Burnett, chairman of the board of Xerox Corporation Ursula Burns, mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, […]
Event Date: April 25 Location: Theatre, Hughes-Trigg Student Center Time: 1-3 PM Join SMU panelists as they discuss their research on uses of mindfulness as a healing modality to cope with the ordinary and extraordinary challenges of contemporary life. Refreshments served. Link for more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events
The Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute will be sponsoring one Fellows Seminar during the academic year 2017-2018—Operations Research and Statistics: Toward Integrated Analytics. DCII Fellows Seminars are communities of inquiry that bring scholars from different disciplines and with varied interests and expertise together to explore a topic in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. We are now […]
The DCII offers a home for informal collaborative and interdisciplinary research clusters who wish to meet together at least twice during any given semester to discuss shared interests. These clusters should be open to faculty and graduate students from across the campus and should each have two faculty or grad student conveners responsible for the […]
Event Date: April 4 Location: Greer Garson Screening Room, Meadows School of the Arts Time: 5:00 p.m. Join Nathaniel Wolloch of the Minerva Humanities Center and Tel Aviv University as he lectures. Sponsored by the Looking at Animals/Thinking About Animals Research Cluster. For more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events
Event Date: April 10 Location: Hughes-Trigg Student Center, The Forum Time: 5:30 p.m. Reception, 6:00 p.m. Lecture We are drawn to the new, the unusual, the unexpected: what we could not predict on the basis of what came before. As vast archives of our cultural past and present go online, scientists can now break out of […]
Event Date: March 30, 2017 Location: Hughes-Trigg Student Center Theater Time: 7pm This event brings together African musicians and historians with SMU students and faculty. This public event of interspaced conversation and song will involve two Zimbabweans who have put mbira music on the world stage, Dr. Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited Band and Professor […]