When:
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster St, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
NICO
(847) 491-2527
Group: Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Category: Academic
Lorien Jasny, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Davis
Bio
I am a computational social scientist focusing on questions of public involvement in environmental decision making. My research agenda focuses on two related themes – how the structure and dynamics of inter-organizational networks affect policy change, and how the structure and dynamics of belief networks affect behavioral change. Substantively, I study how people try to bring about societal change in response to political and environmental concerns. Methodologically, the need to grapple with these often complex phenomena requires the use and development of techniques for handling large, dynamic, and relational datasets.