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Culture Analytics Reunion Conference I

December 10 - 15, 2017

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Sunday, December 10, 2017
All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

1:30

Bus Departs UCLA/Faculty Center

4:30

Check in at Lake Arrowhead

6:30 - 8:00

Dinner

8:00 - 8:30

GWA2021 Long Program Graduation Ceremony (Iris)

8:30 - 9:00

Social Hour (Iris)

Monday, December 11, 2017
All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

8:00 - 9:00

Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

9:00 - 9:20

Katherine Kinnaird (Macalester College)

To Be Announced

10:20 - 10:40

Leon Gurevitch (Victoria University of Wellington)

To Be Announced

10:50 - 11:30

James Abello (Rutgers University New Brunswick/Piscataway)

Unexpected progress may result when "key questions" are revisited from a computational viewpoint

11:40 - 12:00

Peter Leonard (Yale University)

To Be Announced

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch (on your own)

2:00 - 2:40

Timothy Tangherlini (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Toward a generative model of the legend/rumor

2:50 - 3:10

Clarisse Bardiot (Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis)

Theatre analytics

3:20 - 4:00

Damon Crockett (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))

To Be Announced

6:30 - 8:00

Dinner

8:00 - 9:00

Joint Session (Iris): Programs Overview

9:00 - 10:00

Social Hour (Iris)

Tuesday, December 12, 2017
All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

8:00 - 9:00

Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

9:00 - 9:20

Sandra Alvaro Sanchez (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Data-driven images. The Globe and the Territories

9:30 - 10:10

Peter Broadwell (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Similarity Heatmaps as Research “Middleware” for Macroscopic Explorations of Text and Image Collections

10:20 - 10:40

Sunmoo Yoon (Columbia University)

Visualization of Topics from Twitter and Focus Groups as the Foundation for Insights about Dementia Caregiving

10:50 - 11:30

Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

Space project in Russian and American media: Politics, Business and Public Opinion

11:40 - 12:00

Marcus Owens (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

Cultural Analytics and the Media of Ecological Landscape Aesthetics

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch (on your own)

1:00 - 6:30

Afternoon Free

6:30 - 8:00

Dinner

8:00 - 9:00

Joint Session (Iris): Danny Perez, "Long-time atomistic simulations on massively-parallel computers"

9:00 - 10:00

Social Hour (Iris)

Wednesday, December 13, 2017
All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

8:00 - 9:00

Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

9:00 - 9:20

Vwani Roychowdhury (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

To Be Announced

9:30 - 9:50

Maja Gutman (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Seeing Dreams as Data: Mapping, Measuring and Modeling dream reports

10:20 - 10:40

Lindsay King (Yale University)

To Be Announced

10:50 - 11:30

Lev Manovich (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

AI, Aesthetics and Future of Culture

11:40 - 12:00

Mehrdad Yazdani (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))

To Be Announced

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch (on your own)

2:00 - 2:20

John Laudun (University of Louisiana - Lafayette)

Ten Years of Ted Talks

2:30 - 3:10

Tina Eliassi-Rad (Northeastern University)

To Be Announced

3:20 - 3:40

Feiyan Liu (Institute of Complexity Science and Big Data Technology, Guangxi University)

To Be Announced

3:50 - 4:10

Jianbo Gao (Guangxi University)

A framework for the calculus of the evolution of democracy and culture

4:20 - 4:40

Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh Houlasou (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

To Be Announced

6:30 - 8:00

Dinner

8:00 - 9:00

Joint Session (Iris): George Papanicolaou, "Random matrix theory in finance"

9:00 - 10:00

Social Hour (Iris)

Thursday, December 14, 2017
All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

8:00 - 9:00

Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

9:00 - 9:20

Pablo Suarez-Serrato (National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))

Social Automation: Twitter Bots and Human Rights

9:30 - 10:10

Maria D'Orsogna (California State University, Northridge (CSU Northridge))

Modelling radicalization: how small violent fringe sects develop into large indoctrinated societies

10:20 - 10:40

Dana Diminescu (Telecom ParisTech I3 CNRS)

Integration by data

10:50 - 11:30

Ana Jofre (SUNY)

Extraction and analysis of faces appearing in Time Magazine since 1923 to the present: what we've learned so far

11:40 - 12:00

Kathleen Brennan (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Digital Nonhuman Actors: Hashtags, Memes, and Bots in the work of Michel Serres and William Gibson

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch (on your own)

1:00 - 6:30

Afternoon Free

6:30 - 8:00

Dinner

8:00 - 9:00

Joint Session (Iris): Maria-Rita D’Orsogna

9:00 - 10:00

Social Hour (Iris)

Friday, December 15, 2017
All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

8:00 - 9:00

Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

9:00 - 9:20

Mila Oiva (University of Turku)

Travelling Global News, Texts and Concepts

9:30 - 10:10

Kristoffer Nielbo (Aarhus University)

The Dostoyevskian Trope: State Incongruence in 19th Century Textual Cultural Heritage

10:20 - 10:40

Melvin Wevers (Utrecht University)

To Be Announced

10:50 - 11:10

Vincent Berardi (Chapman University)

To Be Announced

11:20 - 12:00

Checkout

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch (on your own)

1:00

Bus Departs Lake Arrowhead (Ontario Airport/LAX/Marriott/UCLA)