The Fields Institute is pleased to announce a series of public lectures on the topic of "mathematics and the social sciences". These lectures will be of interest to the university community as well as to individuals involved in public administration, economics, health policy, social and political science. The purpose of the series is both to inform the public of some of the ways quantitative methods are being used to design solutions to societal problems, and to encourage dialogue between mathematical and social scientists. The lecture series will be held annually. Lecturers are selected by a distinguished international committee consisting of both mathematicians and social scientisits. All lectures are open to the public and everyone is welcome.
	Spring 2016 Wolfgang Lutz Founding Director, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) / Director, World Population Program (IIASA) Modelling human capital formation as the basis for assessing the benefits of education: A global perspective
	November 3, 2014 Paul Milgrom Shirley R. and Leonard W. Ely, Jr. Professor in Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University Reallocating Radio Spectrum: A Hard Resource Allocation Problem
	March 21, 2013 --6 p.m. Douglas R. Hofstadter College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature, Indiana University The Ubiquity of Analogy in Mathematical Thought Location of Talk: HS 610, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street (map)
	May 3, 2012 Stephen Fienberg, Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science,Carnegie Mellon University Counting the People
	March 14, 2011 George Lakoff, Linguistics Dept, University of California Berkeley The Cognitive and Neural Basis of Mathematics
	April 15, 2010 Robert C. Merton, Harvard Business School \| Observations on the Science of Finance in the Practice of Finance: Past, Present, and Future
	March 31, 2009 Maya Bar-Hillel Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Bible Code: Riddle and Solution
	October 30, 2007 Jon Kleinberg, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University The Geography of Social and Information Networks
	Inaugural Lecture May 8, 2007 -- 6:00 p.m.Joel E. Cohen, Professor of Populations, Rockefeller and Columbia Universities, New York How Many People Can the Earth Support? And How Do You Know That?