Workshops

Abstraction: IPAM workshop on mathematical models of social learning and culture

Key points:

• IPAM UCLA 2014 program bringing together mathematicians, physicists, and social/information/computer scientists
• Focus questions: how individual cognition and cognitive constraints shape social behavior dynamics
• Examines how network structure (including online communities) affects social learning and cultural evolution
• Investigates similarities and differences between cultural and genetic evolution
• Uses social media data and online experiments to study emergence and evolution of social norms

Connections: Ipam Ucla · Social Learning · Network Theory · Cultural Evolution

Source: http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/sl2014/#organizing