4:15 PM. Computer Science Colloquium. "New Market Models and Algorithms." Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Tech. 105 Computer Science.
4:30 PM. Moffett Seminar in Ethics. "What Pushes Your Moral Buttons? Toward a Cognitive Solution to the Trolley Problem." Joshua Greene, Psychology, Harvard. 2 Robertson.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Presentation. "Transformations and correlations across a frontal-parietal network for planning." Bijan Pesaran, New York University. 107 Schultz.
Noon. Psychology Colloquium. "The Interactive Nature of Patriarchy and Arbitrary-set Hierarchy: The Dynamics of Sexism and Racism from An Evolutioary and Social Dominance Perspective." James Sidanius, Harvard University. 0-S-6 Green.
2 PM. East Asian Studies/History of Science Lecture. "Defining and Extending Boundaries of Confucian Learning: Chu Hsi on Scientific and Occult Subjects." Yung Kim, Seoul National University. 202 Jones.
4 PM. Philosophy Colloquium. "Free Will and the Romance of Necessity." Nomi Arpaly, Brown University. 1 Robertson.
1:30 PM. Rutgers Perceptual Science Talk. "Modeling believable human-computer interaction with an embodied conversational agent (ECA): face-to-face communication of uncertainty." Insuk Oh, Rutgers University, School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies and the Department of Computer Science. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers, New Brunswick.
4 PM. ISS and PACM Colloquium. "Vincent Van Gogh and Imitators in Greyscale: An Experiment in Cross-Disciplinary Stimulation." C. Richard Johnson, Jr., School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University. 214 Fine Hall.
Noon. Information technology seminar. "High Performance Computing: The Princeton Experience." Curt Hillegas. Multipurpose Room B, Frist.
12:30 p.m. Integrative information, computer and application sciences seminar. "Modeling Science: Topic Models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Text Databases." David Blei. 302 Computer Science.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience of Social Decision Making. "The Role of the Mirror Neuron System in Nonverbal Social Communication." Kimberly Montgomery, Psychology, Princeton. 1-S-5 Green.
Noon. RuCCS "What Is Cognitive Science?" Talk. "Linguistic Side Effects." (Ken) Chung-Chieh Shan, Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers-Newark.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "The Role of Network Syntaptic Activity Regulating Neuronal Gain and Neuronal Selectivity." Diego Contreras, Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. 107 Schultz.
4:30 PM. Program in Ethics and Public Affairs Seminar, Mathias Risse, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Philosophy, Harvard University, "Is There a Human Right to Free Movement? Immigration and Original Ownership of the Earth." Commentator: Elizabeth Harman, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University. Download Risse's paper.
1 PM. Rutgers-Newark Psychology Colloquium. "What Can Event-Related Potentials Tell Us about the Role of Hand Gesture in Word Comprehension and Learning?" Spencer Kelly. 371 Smith, Rutgers, Newark.
1:30 PM. IGERT and RuCCS Colloquium. "A Bayesian Approach to Shape." Jacob Feldman, Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers.
4 PM. Computer Engineering Seminar. "Recent Attacks on Hash Functions and Their Impact on Hash-Based Security Schemes." Yiqun Lisa Yin, Independent security consultant. 008 Friend.
4:30 PM. Moffett Seminar in Ethics. "The Moral Organ." Marc Hauser, Psychology, Harvard 1 Robertson.
1 PM. RuCCS Colloquium. "Number Sense and Quantifier Comprehension." Robin Clark, University of Pennsylvania. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.
4:30 p.m. Operations research and financial engineering lecture. "Two Optimization Problems Arising From Polling and Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes." Jonathan Eckstein, Rutgers University. E219 Engineering Quadrangle.
Noon. RuCCS Lecture on "What Is Cognitive Science?" "A Boolean Map Theory of Visual Attention." Liqiang Huang, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior, Princeton University. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers-New Brunswick.
4:30 PM. Rutgers-New Brunswick Philosophy Colloquium. "Promising, Conventionalism, and Intimate Relationships." Seana Shiffrin, UCLA. 128-129 Davison Hall, 26 Nichol Avenue, New Brunswick.
9:20 AM-5:30 PM. Madison Conference. "Autonomy, Authority, and Freedom: A 20th Anniversary Conference in Honor of Joseph Raz's Morality of Freedom." Participants include Joseph Raz, Jeremy Waldron, Dennis Patterson, Christopher Tollefsen, Alex Tuckness, Michael Steven Green, Elizabeth Harman, Robert P. George, Bradford P. Wilson, and Tamsin K. Shaw. Senate Chamber, Whig Hall
4 PM. Philosophy Colloquium. "Explanation and Unification: A Case Study from Real Algebraic Geometry." Paolo Mancosu, UC-Berkeley. 1 Robertson.
Princeton Midterm Break
1:30 PM. IGERT and RuCCS Talk. "Exaggerated Shading for Depicting Shape and Detail." Syzmon Rusinkiewicz, Computer Science, Princeton University. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers-New Brunswick.
7:30 PM. Rutgers-New Brunswick Psychology Department and RuCCS Lecture. "What's the Matter with Memory?" Elizabeth Loftus, UC-Irvine. Multipurpose Room, Rutgers Student Center.
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