Quantification of Behavior

Organized by Donald Pfaff and Alan Leshner
June 11-13, 2010
Washington, D.C.

Meeting Overview

This interdisciplinary colloquium will bring together a diverse group of researchers with the following objectives:   First, to prove the emergence of behavioral science from its status as a relatively ‘soft’ scholarly discipline to a field in which precision of data is high and methods of mathematical analyses, sophisticated.   Second, to give examples of the most interesting mathematical analyses currently in use.   And thirdly, to reveal the startling successes of quantitative approaches in analyzing human economic behavior.  

Talks will reveal the breathtaking scope of advances in the behavioral sciences during recent years. The program will include the most detailed calculations applied to the simplest behaviors; moving on to more complex behaviors and those of greatest medical importance; finishing up with the highest level of human cognitive behavior amenable to quantitative, mathematical approaches.  This meeting aims to verify and extend what physicist  Eugene Wigner called “the unnatural success of mathematics in describing the natural world”.

Program Agenda and Speaker List

Registration - Click here to register

Student / postdoctoral researcher     $150
Early Registration                               $300
Registration (after May 15)                $350

Registrations will be accepted online only when the registration fee is included and in the order in which they are received.  The registration fee includes some meals and a reception (see agenda).

Online registration accepts MasterCard and Visa only.  To arrange payment via University Department or company check, please contact sackler@nas.edu.

Lodging and Transportation
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Monaco at the discount rate of $226 (federal per diem rate) plus tax per night, single or double.  Your registration confirmation email will include a link enabling you to reserve a room in the discount block.  After April 15, we cannot guarantee that the discount rate or a room will be available.