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DESCRIPTION:The focus of the seminar series is to call for experts related 
 to academia and research in the areas related to biomechanics\, variability
 \, motor disorders\, physical therapy\, and related studies.\n\n \n\nPresen
 tation Abstract\n\nBiomedical inference about cause and effect hinges on th
 e questionable premise that collected data is ergodic\, i.e.\, statistical 
 measures of variability remain consistent across individuals/time. For exam
 ple\, a population’s average running speed could increase over time\, but t
 his bears little resemblance to a single person’s running performance. Indi
 viduals often trade speed for accuracy\, but this correlation reverses at t
 he group level. Likewise\, the mean firing rates of neuronal clusters do no
 t reflect those of single neurons. Assuming ergodicity in causal analyses w
 hen it does not hold obscures genuine individual differences. At stake are 
 generalizable results from diverse samples intended to represent the popula
 tion. We hypothesize that non-ergodicity—the lack of consistency in statist
 ical measures of variability across individuals/time—plays a causal role in
  the reproducibility crisis across sciences. We propose using ergodic stati
 stics that encode non-ergodicity in data as a theoretically motivated way t
 o increase reproducibility in biomedical sciences.\n\n \n\nAbout Dr. Mangal
 am\n\nDr. Mangalam Directs the Multiscale Modeling Lab in the Department of
  Biomechanics at UNO. Research in Multiscale Modeling Lab is a unique culmi
 nation of biomechanics\, ecological psychology\, movement science\, physiol
 ogy\, and statistical biophysics. The lab focuses on human movement / physi
 ological fluctuations as a valuable indicator of health\, cognition\, and d
 isease. Methodologies include advanced instrumentation and cutting-edge mul
 tiscale analytical techniques to uncover the underlying “choreography” of f
 luctuations associated with complex behaviors and functions. This research 
 promises to identify and model the non-stationary\, far-from-equilibrium pr
 ocesses that underlie the creativity and emergence of biological and psycho
 logical behavior.
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LOCATION:Biomechanics Research Building\, 167
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SUMMARY:Biomechanics Seminar Series: Dr. Madhur Mangalam
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URL:https://events.unomaha.edu/event/biomechanics_seminar_series_dr_madhur_
 mangalam
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