Colin F. Camerer is and Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics at Caltech. He is a behavioral economist with the goal of improving the economic analysis of decisions, games, and markets. He uses methods from psychology and neuroscience, including eye-tracking, lesion patients, EEG, fMRI, wearable sensors, machine learning, and animal behavior. His recent research has focused on visual salience and habits. Camerer received his BA in quantitative studies from Johns Hopkins University, and he holds an MBA in finance and a PhD in decision theory both from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. Camerer was president of the Society for Neuroeconomics from 2005 to 2006, president of the Economic Science Association from 2001 to 2003, and he has served on many editorial boards. He has been chair of the Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics Roundtable since 2007. He has one patent accepted on “Active Learning Decision Engines.” Camerer was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2013, and he received an honorary doctorate from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2019.
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Colin F. Camerer is and Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics at Caltech. He is a behavioral economist with the goal of improving the economic analysis of decisions, games, and markets. He uses methods from psychology and neuroscience, including ey...
Open this video on Santa Fe InstituteThe Beautiful Engineering of Us: From Neurons to Collective Minds
Thalia Wheatley, Dartmouth & SFI External Faculty For more than century, neuroscience has viewed intelligence as a property of individual brains. But brains did not evolve in isolation. Humans are an intensely social species whose minds are continuously sha...
Open this video on Santa Fe InstituteNavigating the Quantum Complexity of Matter
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, University of North Texas, SFI The space of possible materials is effectively infinite, and the rules governing it are quantum mechanical and therefore irreducible to simple intuition. Like a flock of birds whose collective behavi...
Open this video on Santa Fe InstituteThe Whole Ocean was Full of Lines, Points, Fields, Waves, Folds: Sharks, Vision, and Transit
Melissa McCarthy, Author In this talk, McCarthy takes us from royal graves at Ur, through nuclear photography, to deep-dive readings of Jaws as a book, film, ichthyology primer, cultural current, and model for literature. She proposes various techniques for...
Open this video on Santa Fe InstituteTrade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolutionary Innovation
Holly Moeller, University of California, Santa Barbara While biologists typically think of an organism's metabolism as hard-wired in its DNA, in reality a vast array of species gain access to additional forms of metabolism from other species. This acquired ...
Open this video on Santa Fe InstituteSieving Through Complexity: How Transient Dynamics Emerge from Finite Observer-Referenced Framework
Antoni Luque, University of Miami Natural systems from biogeochemical cycles to ecological networks to stellar evolution are transient. Their dynamics do not settle into asymptotic states but instead navigate multiple regimes over observable timescales. Yet...
Open this video on Santa Fe InstituteDisturbance and Recovery Dynamics in Complex Systems
John Harte, University of California, Berkeley, SFI How can we identify the cause of disturbance to a degrading ecosystem? How can we know if an abandoned clear-cut forest is on the path toward recovery of the original forest? If we dial back the perturbati...
Open this video on Santa Fe InstituteSleep as a Trojan Horse
(to find a unifying computational principle central to biological computation) Keith Hengen, Washington University in St. Louis The brains fundamental challenge is the equivalent of competing in a game show without knowing the topic, the format, the level o...
Open this video on Santa Fe InstituteMetacognitive Intelligence in Human-AI Teams
Aaron S. Benjamin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Groups of people make effective decisions in part because they have sophisticated means of exchanging metacognitive information when they work together. Metacognitive information can take the form o...
Open this video on Santa Fe InstituteCrossroads Democracy — A Panel Discussion
Jenna Bednar Sam Bowles Katrin Schmelz Hahrie Han Moderated by David Krakauer At the start of the 20th century, only about three percent of the world’s population was subject to democratic rule. By the year 2000, democracy had become the most common politic...
Open this video on Santa Fe InstituteBeyond Sustainability: Recovering and Defending Democracy (and perhaps liberalism)
Josiah Ober, Stanford University I propose an alternative formulation of the question addressed by the working group Is liberal democracy sustainable?, that will be meeting simultaneously with this seminar, by asking three related questions: (1) Is democrac...
Open this video on Santa Fe InstituteThe Development of Imagination
Andrew Shtulman, Occidental College In this talk, I will argue against the conventional wisdom that imagination is the special province of youth. The science of cognitive development shows that young children are wired to be imitators rather than innovators...
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