北京大学社会研究中心与北京大学-密歇根大学学院.PDF

北京大学社会研究中心与 北京大学－密歇根大学学院 2017年暑期课程招生简章 2017年 4月 北京大学社会研究中心与北京大学－密歇根大学学院将于 2017 年 7 月在北京大学联 合举办为期一个月的第 11 届暑期强化课程。任课教师均为密大和北美高校的著名教授。 欢迎北大和国内高校、研究单位的教师、研究人员、硕、博研究生和高年级本科生申请本 期暑期课程。课程要求学员掌握基本的统计概念和知识,熟悉回归分析模型。具体课程和 任课教师介绍如下： 一、课程安排及介绍： 1、课程名称：Understanding Complexity 《对复杂系统的认识》 时间：2017年 7月 10日至 21日 课时：36学时 招生人数：70人 工作语言：英语 主讲教师：Scott E. Page教授和 Andrea Jones-Rooy教授 Scott E Page serves as Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan and as an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. His research focuses on complex systems and diversity in social systems. He is the author of three books and more than seventy-five research papers in economics, political science, sociology, psychology, philosophy, physics, public health, geography, computer science, and management. He has filmed two video series for The Great Courses, and his online course Model Thinking has attracted over three quarters of a million participants. A frequent public speaker to corporations and government agencies including NASA, Bloomberg, Google, Boeing, the IMF, Genentech, Gilead, the United States Federal Reserve, and Pimco, Scott has also been a featured speaker at The World Economic Forum – Davos and The Aspen Ideas Festival. In addition to his teaching, Scott has consulted with Yahoo! Ford, DARPA, Procter and Gamble, and AB InBev. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. In 2011, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Andrea Jones-Rooy, Ph.D., is a social scientist specializing in complexity. She is the author of one book and several research articles (along with Scott E. Page) on complex systems, and she also contributes articles to media outlets on international relations, foreign affairs, and uncertainty. She is a research consultant