January 2006 Cognitive Science Events in Princeton

Tuesday January 10

4:30 PM. NSDM Talk. "Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Trait Inferences from Faces." Alex Todorov, Psychology. 1-S-5 Green.

Thursday January 12

4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Optimal information storage in noisy synapses ." Dimitri Chklovskii, Cold Spring Harbor. 107 Schultz.

Saturday January 14

9:30 AM. Science on Saturday Lecture for High School Students and All Others. "D is for Digital and Why it Matters." Prof. Brian Kernighan, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Forrestal Campus. (See link below.)

Tuesday January 24

4:30 PM. NSDM Talk. "Comparative Decision-Making: What Monkeys Can Tell Us About Human Social Cognition." Laurie Santos, Yale. 0-S-9 Green.

Wednesday January 25

4:15 p.m. Princeton plasma physics colloquium. "Petaflops, Seriously." David Keyes, Columbia University. Gottlieb Auditorium, PPPL, Forrestal.

4:30 PM ISS Seminar. "Information Theoretical Analysis of Biological Data." Noam Slonim, Princeton. J323 EQuad.

Thursday January 26

4:00 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Genetic Studies of Synapse Formation in Mutant and Fluorescent Mice." Joshua Sanes, Director, Center for Brain Science, Harvard. 107 Schultz.

Friday January 27

1 PM. Rutgers-Newark Philosophy Colloquium. "The Cortical Correlates of Self and Other Deception." 371A Smith Hall, Newark Campus.

3 PM Rutgers New Brunswick Linguistics Colloquium. Liliana Sanchez, Rutgers. 108 Linguistics Building, 18 Seminary Place, New Brunswick.

Saturday January 28

9:30 AM. Science on Saturday Lecture for High School Students and All Others. "How Will Tomorrow's Machines Be Engineered: Iventing Tools to Design Molecular Devices." Karl Sohlberg, Chemistry, Drexel University. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Forrestal Campus. (See link below.)