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Meet subject specialist librarians from various STEM disciplines, learn about Library research tools and resources and learn how the Library can support you throughout your journey at UCLA! Whether it's a question about Library locations, research assistance, student employment, Library events or anything else on your mind, we are here to answer your questions and help you navigate the upcoming year!

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Talk with staff and students and learn how the Library can support you throughout your journey at UCLA! Whether it's a question about Library locations, research assistance, student employment, Library events or anything else on your mind, we are here to answer your questions and help you navigate the upcoming year!

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Are you experienced with open source software or hardware, or just curious about open source? In partnership with UC’s new Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network, the UCLA OSPO is hosting a casual, in-person meetup on September 30. We'll provide a space where experienced and aspiring open source contributors can learn from one another through informal discussions and talks from guest speakers. This is a lunch-and-learn event, so bring your lunch and we’ll bring the cookies!

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Talk with staff and students and learn how the Library can support you throughout your journey at UCLA! Whether it's a question about research assistance, student employment, Library events or anything else on your mind, we are here to answer your questions and help you navigate the upcoming year!

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Meet subject specialist librarians from various STEM disciplines, learn about Library research tools and resources and learn how the Library can support you throughout your journey at UCLA! Whether it's a question about Library locations, research assistance, student employment, Library events or anything else on your mind, we are here to answer your questions and help you navigate the upcoming year!

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Presented by the UCLA Library and the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences Speaker: Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute and Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor, Northeastern University Epidemics are prototypical complex systems, driven by invisible pathogens spreading through interconnected networks of humans, transportation infrastructures and environments. Today, the convergence of computational power, AI and data-rich modeling is transforming how we understand and respond to outbreaks. From early situational awareness to scenario exploration and real-time forecasting, we are entering an era where we can finally turn complexity into foresight — and even harness it to stay one step ahead of emerging pathogens.

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Presented by the UCLA Library and the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences Speaker: Colin Allen, Distinguished Professor in the department of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara Drawing on interviews and other work that is being done for a book about the history and philosophy of "mathematical psychology,” Colin Allen will characterize mathematical psychologists as a self-identified community within psychology, united by their approach to mathematical modeling, mentoring lineages and institutional structures such as a journal, and societies on three continents organizing conferences and summer schools. Mathematical psychologists have recently been vocal about the need for psychology to move in a more mathematical direction, inspired partly by the so-called “replication crisis” which many of them believe is actually a “theory crisis.” In this talk, Allen will at the arguments of three prominent mathematical psychologists and argue that while mathematical psychology does not lack small “t” theories, it has been arguably less successful in formulating big “T" Theories that have the kind of scope, generality, and predictive power that led Wigner to write of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics. This talk is offered both in person and online. Light refreshments will be served.

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Presented by the UCLA Library and the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences Speaker: Robin Choudhury, professor of cardiovascular medicine, University of Oxford When Aristotle searched for the first signs of life, he lifted a flap in the shell of a fertilized chick egg and there he saw a beating heart – the self-evident originator of life. The beating heart has fascinated thinkers from Aristotle to Aquinas, Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes and Pascal. Across time and place, the story of our understanding of the heart has been richly decorated with images that illuminate the dance between art, religion, philosophy and ‘scientific’ thinking. It is a truly interdisciplinary organ. The secret of our fascination lies in its apparent sentience and automatic and responsive beat. The mystery of the self-beating heart was solved by Professor Denis Noble (as a graduate student in London in 1960). A demonstration of early biological computation, he solved the puzzle that had hung over the ages. And yet, even as the heart function is understood, it retains all its fascination as a cultural icon. This is the story of The Beating Heart. This talk is offered both in person and online. Light refreshments will be served.

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