LOCATION & TIMING:

Unless otherwise noted, we meet from 4pm-6pm every Monday at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St 2nd Floor, Cambridge MA 02138:
[Map here]


SCHEDULE FALL 2009:

9/14/2009   
Kobi Gal   
Harvard Computer Science   
Cooperative strategies in  uncertain domains

9/21/2009   
Felix Warneken   
Harvard Psychology   
The Roots of Human Altruism in Ontogeny and Phylogeny

9/28/2009   
Chris Oveis   
Harvard Psychology   
Power and Compassion: Signals, Intuitions, and Conflicts

10/5/2009   
Haoqi Zhang   
Harvard Computer Science    A General Approach to Environment Design

10/12/2009   
NO MEETING        

10/19/2009   
Sheen Levine   
Singapore Management University   
Why Do They Share? Mechanisms of Generalized Exchange (aka Pay it Forward)

10/26/2009   
Herb Gintis   
UMass Amherst Economics   
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests

11/2/2009   
NO MEETING

11/9/2009   
Simon Gachter  
University of Nottingham Economics   
Costly cooperation and punishment from a behavioral economics perspective
OFFSITE: This talk will happen at PED, 1 Brattle Sq 6th Floor in Harvard Sq
http://ped.fas.harvard.edu/location/walking.html

11/16/2009   
Sam Bowles   
Sante Fe Institute   
A cooperative species: evolutionary models and the Pleistocene human condition
OFFSITE: This talk will happen at PED, 1 Brattle Sq 6th Floor in Harvard Sq
http://ped.fas.harvard.edu/location/walking.html

11/23/2009   
Judith Donath   
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard
The economics of trust: Signaling theory applied to human Communication

11/30/2009   
Jesse Shapins & James Burns    
Harvard   
Mapping Main Street: Experiments in the New Genre of Collaborative Documentary Media

12/7/2009  
Thomas Pfeiffer   
Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics   
The reliability of scientific results