May 2008 Cognitive Science Events in Princeton

Thursday May 1

4:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Cognitive Radio Networks." Narayan Mandayam, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Rutgers University. B205 EQuad.

4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Modification of Cerebral Cortex by Experience." Mark Bear, Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT. 0-S-6 Green.

4:30PM. Rutgers Philosophy Colloquium. "Phenomenal Character and Consciousness." Austen Clark, University of Connecticut, Storrs. 128-129 Davison Hall, Douglass Campus, Rutgers.

Friday May 2

10 AM. Neuroscience Seminar. Ian Wickersham. 107 Schultz.

1 PM. Rutgers-Newark Psychology Colloquium. "Measuring Components of Spatial Bias in Near and Far Space." Anna Barrett, UMDNJ. 371 Smith Hall, Rutgers, Newark.

Monday May 5

10 AM. Neuroscience Seminar. "New Roles for MHC Class I Molecules in Brain Development and Plasticity." Lisa Boulanger, UCSD. 107 Schultz.

11 AM. 2nd Annual Rutgers Perceptual Science Forum. "Telling the Story of a Scene: From Humans to Computers." Fei-Fei Li, Princeton University. Followed by buffet lunch and poster session. Auditorium, CoRE Building, Rutgers Busch Campus.

Tuesday May 6

1 PM. RuCCS Colloquium. "Linking Semantics." David Beaver, Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.

Wednesday May 7

1 PM. Statistical Learning Talk. "Learning Structured Bayesian Networks: Combining Abstraction Hierarchies and Tree-Structured Conditional Probability Tables." Marie deJardins, University of Maryland. 302 Computer Science.

4:30 PM. Neuroscience of Social Decision Making. "The Social Neuroscience of Empathy: What do we know and what we do not know." Jean Decety, University of Chicago. 1-S-5 Green.

Thursday May 8

10 AM. Neuroscience Seminar. "A Neural Basis for Learned Vocal Communication." Jonathan Prather, Duke. 107 Schultz.

1:30 PM. Computer Science Talk. "Cognition and Statistical Natural Language Parsing." Sandiway Fong, University of Arizona. 302 Computer Science.

Friday May 9

10 AM. Neuroscience Seminar. TBA. Mala Murthy, Caltech. 107 Schultz.

Wednesday May 14

4 PM. Computer Science Colloquium. "Building a Strong Foundation for the Future Internet." Jennifer Rexford, Princeton. 105 Computer Science.

Thursday May 15

4:30 PM Neuroscience Seminar. "Rules, Concepts and Executive Brain Functions." Earl Miller, MIT. 0-S-6 Green.

4:30 PM. Philosophy Book Symposium: Anthony Appiah's Experiments in Ethics. Remarks by Edouard Machery, Philosophy and History of Science, University of Pittsburgh, and Jonathon Baron, Psychology, University of Pennsylvania. Place TBA.

Friday May 16

4:30 PM. Philosophy Symposium in honor of Bas van Fraassen. "Prolegomena to Any Future Physics-Based Metaphysics." Bradley Monton, University of Colorado, Boulder. Betts auditorium, Architecture School.

Saturday May 17

Philosophy Symposium in honor of Bas C. van Fraassen. Betts auditorium, Architecture School. Program.

Tuesday May 20

3 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Reverse Engineering the Brain: What Photons and Electrons Can Tell Us about Thought." Winfried Denk, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany. 003 Lewis Thomas Lab.

4:30 PM. Department of Philosophy and Humanities Council Lecture. "Essentialism and the Human Mind." (First of three.) Susan Gelman, Psychology, University of Michigan. 101 McCormick.

Wednesday May 21

4:30 PM. Neuroscience and Social Decision Making Discussion Group. "Multiple Decision Making Systems: Computational, Behavioral, and Neural Dissociations." Nathaniel Daw, NYU. 1-S-5 Green.

4:30 PM. Department of Philosophy and Humanities Council Lecture. "Language and Essentialism." (Second of three.) Susan Gelman, Psychology, University of Michigan. 101 McCormick.

Friday May 23

4:30 PM. Department of Philosophy and Humanities Council Lecture. "Authenticity and Its Origins." (Third of three.) Susan Gelman, Psychology, University of Michigan. 201 Marx. ** NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION **

Tuesday May 27

1:30 PM. Chemistry Lecture. "Evolutionary Algorithms for Molecular Design." Thomas Bäck, Leiden University, the Netherlands. 324 Frick.