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Shripad Tuljapurkar is Professor of Biology and the Dean & Virginia Morrison Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University. His research areas include stochastic dynamics
of human and natural populations; life history evolution, especially senescence; prehistoric societies; and probability forecasts including sex ratios, mortality, aging and fiscal balance. 
Tuljapurkar directs Stanford’s Center for Population Research and the demography program at Stanford’s Center for the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. He is a
member of the Center for the Demography and Economics of Aging at the University of California, Berkeley. He has led a panel on aging for the International Union for the Scientific
Study of Population and served on the Technical Advisory Panel to the US Social Security Administration. He received the 1996 Mindel Sheps Award from the Population Association
of America, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998.

Contact Dawn Ryan by Thursday, March 13, 2014 to set up a meeting before or after the presentation or to join Dr. Tuljapurkar for lunch.  Lunch will be held immediately following the colloquium at the University Club at The Inn @ Penn. 

Please reply to  (psc_staffcolloquium@mailman.ssc.upenn.edu)

For additional information about our Spring 2014 Colloquium series visit:

http://www.pop.upenn.edu/colloquium