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The Marschak Colloquium sponsors speakers whose research aligns with the following principles:
- Is interdisciplinary or discipline-based, but of interest to scientists and scholars from across the University
- Is broadly quantitative, as exemplified by mathematical modeling, systems theory, network analysis, experimental design, and big data
- Is integrative of quantitative measurement and ethnographic exploration
- Is grounded in the human sciences or has implications for societal action and public policy
Talks in the series are free and open to the UCLA community and general public
About the Founder
Jacob Marschak was born in Kiev, Russia in 1898. He was imprisoned by the Tsar for his revolutionary views and activities, but was later liberated and immigrated to Germany. Here he received a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg and held positions at a number of universities and economic research institutes in Germany. Prior to World War 2, Marschak fled to the UK and served as director of the Oxford Institute of Statistics.
In 1940, Marschak came to the US, where he was a professor of economics at the New School for Social Research, the University of Chicago and Yale. In 1960, he came to UCLA with a joint appointment as Professor in the School of Business Administration and the Department of Economics. Here Marschak founded the Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences, which attracted distinguished speakers in all fields of the behavioral sciences. This colloquium has been renamed after Marschak, and its ongoing activity will serve as a living memorial to him.
