May 2007 Cognitive Science Events in Princeton

Wednesday May 2

4:30 PM. Neuroscience of Social Decision Making. Jennifer Mangels, Columbia University. 1-S-5 Green.

Thursday May 3

4:30 PM. Center for the Study of Democratic Politics Lecture. "Five Psychological Foundations of Intuitive Ethics, and Perhaps of Political Ideology." Jonathan Haidt, visiting University Center for Human Values, from Psychology, University of Virginia. 300 Wallace.

4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Natural Scene Categorization: attention, recognition and neural decoding." Fei-Fei Li, Computer Science. Green Hall 0-S-6.

Friday May 4

1 PM. Rutgers-Newark Psychology Collquium. "Social Cognition and Social Harm: Social-Cognitive Aspects of RElational Aggression among Adolescents." Sara Goldstein, Montclair State University. 371 Smith, Rutgers-Newark.

1PM - 9:15PM Rutgers Epistemology Conference. Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Brunswick.

3 PM. Neuroscience Talk. "Toward a more biologically plausible model of object recognition." Minjoon Kouh, MIT. 280 Icahn.

4:30 PM. DeCamp Bioethics Seminar. "Organ Procurement, Altruism, and Autonomy." Sarah McGrath, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Brandeis University. Robertson Hall, Bowl 1, 4:30pm-6pm.

Saturday May 5

10 AM - 6:30PM Rutgers Epistemology Conference. Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Brunswick.

Monday May 7

Noon. Neuroscience Seminar. "The Effects of Motivation on Behavior: A Normative Computational Approach." Yael Niv, Princeton University. 0-S-6 Green.

1:30 PM. Rutgers Perceptual Science Talk. "Embedded Profile Markov Models for Shape Analysis." Vladimir Pavlovic, Computer Science, Rutgers. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers.

4 p.m. Philosophy lecture. "Most Counterfactuals Are False." Alan Hájek, Australian National University. McCosh 28.

Tuesday May 8

12:30 PM. Computer Engineering Seminar. "Security Research at IBM: Overview and Directions." Pankaj Rohatgi and Pau-Chen Cheng, IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center. B205 EQuad.

4:30 PM. Neuroscience of Social Decision Making. "Inequity in nonhuman primates." Sarah Brosnan, Anthropology, Emory University. 1-S-5 Green.

Wednesday May 9

Noon. Neuroscience Seminar. Arthur Lander. UC-Irvine. 003 Lewis Thomas Lab.

Thursday May 10

12:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. Gregory Schwartz, Michael Fisher. 003 LTL.

4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Imaging the midbrain dopamine system." Kimberlee D'Ardenne, Chemistry, Princeton. 0-S-6 Green.

4:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Lessons Unlearned in Wireless." Rajiv Laroia, Qualcomm. B205 EQuad.

8 PM. Psychology/Jones Lecture Series, first of two. "Fight-or-Flight Versus Tend-and-Befriend: Do Men and Women Cope Differently With Stress?" Shelley Taylor, University of California-Los Angeles. 101 Friend.

Friday May 11

2 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Real-time feedback and other enhancements to fMRI using multi-voxel pattern analysis." Stephen LaConte, Emory/Georgia Tech Biomedical Imaging Technology Center. 0-S-9 Green.

2:15 PM. Philosophy Symposium for Paul Benacerraf. "Supertasks." John Earman, University of Pittsburgh. 101 McCormick.

4 PM. Psychology/Jones Lecture Series, last of two. "Why Do Psychosocial Resources Affect Health Across the Lifespan?" Shelley Taylor, University of California-Los Angeles. 0-S-6 Green.

4:15 PM. Philosophy Symposium for Paul Benacerraf. "Epistemic Relativism and Reasonable Disagreement." Alvin Goldman, Rutgers University. 101 McCormick.

Saturday May 12

10 AM. Philosophy Symposium for Paul Benacerraf. "Mathematical Truth." Philip Kitcher, Columbia University. 101 McCormick.

11:15 AM. Philosophy Symposium for Paul Benacerraf. "Mathematical Properties." Jamie Tappenden, University of Michigan. 101 McCormick.

2:30 PM. Philosophy Symposium for Paul Benacerraf. "What Following a Rule Could Not Be." Paul Boghossian, NYU. 101 McCormick.

3:45 PM. Philosophy Symposium for Paul Benacerraf. "Set Theory, Realism, Replacement, and Modality." Hilary Putnam, Harvard University. 101 McCormick.

Tuesday May 15

4:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Riemannian Geometry Based Methods for Optimization under Unitary Matrix Constraints." Visa Koivunen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. B205 EQuad.

Friday May 18

4 PM. Philosophy Colloquium. Ted Cohen, University of Chicago, Arthur Danto, Columbia University; and Alexander Nehamas. Discussion of Alexander Nehamas' new book, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art. Bowl 2 Robertson.

Monday May 21

1:30 PM. Rutgers Perceptual Science Series. "On the relationship between motor and perceptual behavior - A signal detection theory framework." Andrei Gorea, Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS and Paris Descartes University, Biomedicale des Saints Peres. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.

4:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Distributed Compression with Quadratic Distortion Constraints." Pramod Viswanath, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. J323 EQuad.