4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "The Mirror Neuron System in Primates. Implications for Social Cognition and Behavior." Pier F. Ferrari, University of Parma, Italy. 1-S-5 Green.
9:30 AM. Science on Saturday Lecture. "Symmetry: From Human Perception to the Laws of Nature," Dr. Mario Livio, Senior Astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. More information here.
1:30 PM. Rutgers Perceptual Science Talk. "Computational Symmetry." Yanxi Liu, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers.
4:30 PM. Law and Public Affairs Seminar. "Introduction to the second edition of H.L.A. Hart's Punishment and Responsibility." John Gardner, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, Council of Humanities Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Princeton University. Kerstetter Room, 301 Marx.
1 PM. Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science Colloquium. "Bringing Pragmatics out of the Shadows." Ira Noveck, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, France. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers.
4:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Decentralized Detection with a Tree of Sensors." John Tsitsiklis, MIT. B205 EQuad.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience and Social Decision Making Discussion Group. "Integrating Sophisticated Choice Models with Basic Learning Processes to more Fully Account for Complex Choice Behavior." Jerome Busemeyer, Indiana University. 1-S-5 Green.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Feature-Based Attention in Human Visual Cortex." Geoffrey Boynton, Director, Psychology Neuroimaging Center, University of Washington at Seattle. 0-S-6 Green.
4:30 PM. Princeton Lecture in Religion and Cognition. "The Role of Maturationally Natural Cognition in Science and Religion." Robert N. McCauley, Emory University. 100 Jones.
4:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Stochastic Control of Heterogeneous Networks." Eytan Modiano, MIT. B205 EQuad.
4:30 PM. Rutgers New Brunswick Philosophy Seminar. "Reading the Book of Life: Contingency and Convergence in Macroevolution (A Reply to Beatty)." Russell Powell, Duke University. 128-129 Davison Hall, Douglas Campus, Rutgers, New Brunswick.
9:30 AM. History of Science/Philosophy Workshop, "Discovering Life." Program at http://hos.princeton.edu/hos/events/workshops/life/.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Specific Neuronal Types and Functional Cortical Circuits." Xiangmin Xu. 107 Schultz.
9:30 AM. Science on Saturday Lecture. "Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Animal Groups," Prof. Iain D. Couzin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. More information here.
9:30 AM. History of Science/Philosophy Workshop, "Discovering Life." Program at http://hos.princeton.edu/hos/events/workshops/life/.
1:40 PM. Rutgers Perceptual Science Talk. "Learning on Riemannian Manifolds for Interpretation of Visual Environments." Oncel Tuzel, Rutgers University, Computer Science & ECE Department. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus.
12:30 PM. Interdisciplinary Computational Lunchtime Seminar. "Visualization and Matching for Networks of People and Data." Tony Jebara, CS, Colunbia University. 302 Computer Science.
1 PM. RuCCS Colloquium. "Patterns of Learning, Memory, and Vocal Production in the Songbird Brain." David Vicario, Psychology, Rutgers. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "DeMISTifying the Brain: Dissecting the Function of Complex Neural Circuits." Alla Karpova. 107 Schultz.
Noon. Information technology lecture. "The Changing Face of Programming." Brian Kernighan. Multipurpose Room B, Frist.
4:30 PM. Philosophy Talk. TBA, Seth Yalcin, MIT. 2 Robertson.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience and Social Decision Making Discussion. "Scenting Emotion: Neuroimaging and Behavioral Studies of Chemosensory Communication in Humans." Denise Chen, Rice University. 1-S-5 Green.
4:30 PM. Rutgers Philosophy Colloquium. "Risk without Regret." Lara Buchak, Princeton University. 128-129 Davison Hall, Douglass Campus, Rutgers, New Brunswick.
ggCANCELED! 4:30 PM. Neuroscience Talk. "The Role of Thalamus in Cortical Function: Not Just a Simple Relay." Murray Sherman, Neurobiology, University of Chicago. 0-S-6 Green. CANCELED!
4:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Estimation for Color Engineering: Adaptive Neighborhoods and Regularized Local Linear Regression." Maya Gupta, University of Washington. B205 EQuad.
10 AM. Machine Learning Talk. "Functional Bregman Divergences, Bayesian Estimation, and Completely Lazy Classifiers." Maya Gupta, University of Washington. 204 Fine.
12:30 PM. Computer Engineering Seminar. "A Non-Linear Neural Classifier and Its Applications in Testing Analog/RF Circuits." Yiorgos Makris, Yale University. J401, EQuad.
3 PM. Rutgers Linguistics Colloquium. Grant McGuire. "The Role of Experience in the Use of Phonetic Cues." 108 Linguistics, 18 Seminary Place, New Brunswick.
4 p.m. Philosophy lecture. "Evidential Symmetry and Mushy Credence." Roger White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2 Robertson.
9:30 AM. Science on Saturday Lecture. "From Satellite Remote Sensing of the Earth to Non-Invasive Diagnostics of Skin Cancer," Prof. Knut Stamnes, Department of Physics & Engineering Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. More information here.
10 AM. Rutgers University Distinguished Lecture Series. "Behavioral Games on Networks." Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania. 101 CoRE, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.
12:30 PM. Integrative information, computer and application sciences lecture. "How Language Learning Explains Language Design." Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania. 302 Computer Science.
1:40 PM. Rutgers Perceptual Science Talk. "Investigating Internal Representations Through Spatiotemporal Motor Extrapolation." Jacqueline Fulvio, NYU. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus.
4:15 PM. Computer Science Colloquium. "The Algorithmic Lens: How the Computational Perspective Is Transforming the Sciences." Christos Papadimitriou, UC-Berkeley. 105 Computer Science.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience and Social Decision Making Discussion Group. "Neural Systems for Executive and Emotional Functions." Kevin LaBar, Duke University. 1-S-5 Green.
12:30 PM. EEB 522: Colloquium on the Biology of Populations. "Signal Evolution and Speciation in Suboscine Birds." Nathalie Seddon, Oxford University. 10 Guyot.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Overcoming Our Fears: Neural Mechanisms of Fear Extinction." Gregory Quirk, Department of Psychiatry, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. 0-S-6 Green.
4:30 PM. Program in Ethics and Public Affairs Seminar. "Abnormal Justice." Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research. Kerstetter Room, 301 Marx. Paper available here.
1 PM. Rutgers-Newark Psychology Colloquium. "*AESTHETIC SCIENCE: Understanding Preferences for Color and Spatial Composition." Stephen E. Palmer, Psychology and Cognitive Science University of California - Berkeley. 371 Smith, 101 Warren Steret, Newark.
Princeton Applied Math Conference. Location: Professor's Lounge (top floor) of Fine Hall.
1:00 PM. "An Elastic Rod with a Mind, or at Least a Muscle, of its Own: A Model for Anguilliform Swimming." Philip Holmes (MAE, PACM, Neuroscience).
1:40 PM. "A Nonlinearly Implicit Manifesto." David Keyes (App Phys & App Math - Columbia).
2:20 PM. "Direct Simulations of Compressible Turbulence." Pino Martin (MAE, PACM).
3:30 PM. "Impact of Dimensionality and Correlation Learning." Jianqing Fan (ORFE, PACM).
4:10 PM. "Numerical Relativity." Frans Pretorius (Physics, PACM, Sloan Fellow). 5:00 Closing Reception Organized by the Graduate Students in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
No Science on Saturday Program today.
Noon. RoLaP (Research on Language at Princeton) Meeting. "What Is Universal Grammar?" Discussion led by Edwin Williams and Adele Goldberg. 1-S-5 Green.
1 PM. RuCCS Colloquium. "The Different Kinds of Visual Recognition need Different Attentional Binding Strategies." John Tsotsos, Computer Science and Engineering, York University. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.
4:30 PM. Linguistic Talk. "Layered Derivations." Jan-Wouter Zwart, Linguistics and Dutch, University of Groningen. 027 East Pyne.
4:30 PM Machine learning seminar. "Metric and Kernel Learning." Inderjit Dhillon. E219 EQuad.
4:15 PM. Computer Science Colloquium. "WordNet: A Lexical Resource for Natural Language Processing." Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton. 105 Computer Science.
4:30 PM. Operations Research and Financial Engineering Seminar. "Stochastic Convex Optimization Using Mirror Averaging Algorithms." Philippe Rigollet, Georgia Institute of Technology. E219 EQuad.
4:30 PM. Rutgers Philosophy Colloquium. "Why Isn't Continence Enough for Practical Wisdom?" Ursula Coope, Oxford. 128-129 Davison Hall, Douglas Campus, Rutgers, New Brunswick.
4:30 PM. Political Philosophy Colloquium. Alex Zakaras. 127 Corwin. Read paper ahead of time.
4:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Communicating Delay-Sensitive and Bursty Information over an Outage Channel." Tara Javidi, University of California, San Diego. B205 EQuad.
Noon. Psychology Colloquium. "The Cultural Construction of Nature." Doug Medin, Northwestern University. 0-S-6 Green.
CANCELED! 1 PM. Rutgers Newark Psychology Colloquium. "Stress, Desire, and Compulsive Seeking of Hedonic Stimuli." Rajita Sinha, Yale. 371A Smith, Rutgers, Newark Campus. CANCELED!
4 p.m. Philosophy lecture. "The First Motive to Justice: Hume's 'Circle Argument' Squared." Don Garrett, NYU. 2 Robertson.
9:30 AM. Science on Saturday Lecture. "Getting Behavior Out of Fossils," Prof. Alan Walker, Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology & Biology, Penn State University, State College, PA. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. More information here.