February 7, 2-3:30pm. Umphrey Lee 303. Alex Teytelboym from Harvard University will present his recent research on bilateral contracts. His interest lies in settings where economic agents are viewed as being part of a network (e.g. supply chains). He specifies a new notion of whether the links between economic agents constitute a “network equilibrium” and […]
Category: Events
Congratulations to SMU Department of English alum, NoViolet Bulawayo–recently shortlisted for the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature! READ MORE
Tower Center Forum Event – January 30. 6-8pm READ MORE
In 1935, Southern Methodist University, an all-white university with ties to the Dallas elite, declined to debate Wiley College, a historically black college made famous in The Great Debaters. Seventy-four years later, in 2009, SMU held up its end of the bargain and debated Wiley College. Since 2009, the schools’ debate teams have argued regularly over […]
EVENT: Friday, Feb 14. Probability samples assure external validity, or the ability to generalize from a sample to a population of interest. But are they necessary for internal validity? Dr. Stokes discusses the difference in these being investigated for the purpose of improving non-probability sample’s external validity, either at the sample selection or analysis stage. […]
Jan 31 at 3pm. in FOSC 152. READ MORE
Dr. Setha Low has been named as the 2014 George and Mary Foster Distinguished Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology. Her talk, scheduled for Monday, April 7, 2014 at 5:30pm in Dallas Hall’s McCord Auditorium, is titled “Spatializing Culture: The Emergence of Translocal Space from Transnational Flows of People, Culture and Capital.” READ MORE
The Southwest Review Editor-in-Chief Willard Spiegelman talks about its remarkable history on Jan. 22. READ MORE
Thursday, Jan 22. Dr. Dennis Simon, political science professor at Southern Methodist University, will lead a discussion: “Would Today’s Youth Get on the Bus?” READ MORE
Friday, January 17 CLICK HERE for the academic calendar.