Noon. Molecular biology lecture. "Probing Neural Circuits With Genetic Mosaics." Liqun Luo, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 3 Thomas.
3 PM. COS 513 Talk. "Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering." Katherine Heller, Gatsby, Cambridge University. 402 Computer Science.
4:30 p.m. Philosophy/Council of the Humanities lecture. "Le Grand Imagier on Review." Second of three. George Wilson, University of Southern California. 201 Marx.
4:30 p.m. Philosophy/Council of the Humanities lecture. "Rape, Rupture and Rapport: On Pedro Almodovar's 'Talk To Her.'" Last of three. George Wilson, University of Southern California. McCosh 28.
Noon. Psychology lecture. "The Mirror Mechanism and Its Role in Social Cognition." Giacomo Rizzolatti, University of Parma, Italy. 0S6 Green.
1 - 5 PM. Early Modern Philosophy and Science Colloquium. "Remarks on the Pre-History of the Mechanical Philosophy," Daniel Garber; "Was Newton a Metaphysician," Catherine Wilson. Commentators, Karen Detlefson, Penn; Julie Klein, Villanova. Montgomery Auditorium, 19th and Vine, Free Library of Philadelphia.
4:25 PM. Machine Learning Talk. "Universal Kernel-Based Learning with Applications to Regular Languages." Aryeh Kontorovich, Weizmann Institute. 402 Computer Science.
4:30 PM. Linguistics Colloquium "Diagnosing ellipsis and ellipsis as a diagnostic: on the cross-linguistic syntax of sluicing." Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel. Location TBA.
4:30 p.m. East Asian studies lecture. "How Meaning Moves: Tan Sitong on Borrowing Across Cultures." Leigh Jenco, National University of Singapore. 202 Jones.
5 PM. Rutgers Philosophy Colloquium. "Subjectivism and Objectivism about Reasons." Derek Parfit, Oxford and Rutgers. Seminar Room 128-129 Davison Hall, Douglass Campus, Rutgers University.
4 PM. Machine Learning Talk. "Natural Language Model Domain Adaptation: A Doubly Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process Language Model." Frank Wood, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London. 402 Computer Science.
4:30 Electrical Engineering Talk. "Pulling Rank: Inference from Incomplete Data." Benjamin Recht, Caltech. B205 EQuad.
8 M. Hamilton Lecture. "Sense from Chaos: Phase Transitions in Neural Activity." Laurence Abbot, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. A101 McDonnell.
12:30 PM. Robotics Seminar. "UAV cooperative mapping and tracking." Salah Sukkarieh, Australian Centre for Field Robotics. J-223 EQuad.
3:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Computational Optical Imaging." David Brady, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University. B205 EQuad.
4:15 PM. Computer Science Distinguished Speaker. "Information-integration approaches to biological discovery in high-dimensional data." John Quackenbush, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University. 105 Computer Science.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience and Social Decision-Making Discussion. "The role of context and the predictive brain during real-world communication.". Jeremy Skipper, Weill Medical College, Cornell University. 1-S-5 Green.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Reasoning ability: Neural mechanisms, development, and training." Silvia Bunge, Psychology, UC-Berkeley. 0-S-6 Green.
1PM. Rutgers-Newark Psychology Colloquium. "Aging and Fluency Based Memory Illusions." Anjali Thapar, Bryn Mawr University. 371 Smith Hall, Rutgers-Newark.
Noon. Rutgers Perceptual Science (IGERT) Student Talks. "Binocular rivalry between a sharp image and a low-pass filtered version of itself: Low-pass dominance increases with eccentricity." Sunnia Chai, Rutgers University. "Tagged magnetic resonance imaging (tMRI) for cardiac motion tracking and classification." Rachel Sparks, Rutgers University. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.
1 PM. RuCCS Colloquium. "Mechanisms for Cooperative Decision Making." Mary Rigdon, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.
4:30 PM. Yahoo! Machine Learning Talk. "Consensus finding, exponential models, and infinite rankings." Marina Meila, University of Washington. 105 Computer Science.
4:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Fundamental Limits of Distributed Estimation and Multiuser Information-Theoretic Games." Mokshay Madiman, Department of Statistics, Yale University. B205 EQuad.
4:30 PM. Rutgers Philosophy Colloquium. "The Particularity and Phenomenology of Perceptual Experience." Susanna Schellenberg, Australian National University. Main Seminar Room, 128-129 Davidson Hall, Douglass Campus, Rutgers, New Brunswick.
4:30 PM. Political Philosophy Colloquium. Eric Nelson, Harvard University. 127 Corwin.
Noon. Psychology lecture. "What's New in the False Memory World." Elizabeth Loftus, Stanford University. 0S6 Green.
Noon. Rutgers Perceptual Science IGERT Student Talks. "Spectral Theory and Framework for Higher Order Matrices with Applications to Vision," Ediah Gnang, and "Reinforcement Learning for Adapting Performances in Conversational Agents," Paul Rigstad. IGERT and Computer Science. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers.
12:15 PM. Biophysics Seminar, "'Exact' correction of errors in neural integrators without external cues." Ila Fiete, University of Texas. Joseph Henry Room, Jadwin Hall..
4 PM. PACM Talk. "Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Networks." Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Corporationa. 214 Fine.
4:25 PM. MI-Stat Talk. "Efficiently Learning to Behave Efficiently." Michael Littman, Rutgers Laboratory for Real-Life Reinforcement Learning. 105 Computer Science.
8 p.m. Mathematics/Princeton University Press lecture. "Proof of the Free Will Theorem." Fifth of six. John Conway. A02 McDonnell.
1 PM. RuCCS Colloquium. "Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Explanation-Based Learning." Gerald DeJong, Department of Computer Science, University of Urbana-Champaign. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers.
4:30 PM. Linguistics Talk. "Tracing the memory-syntax interface." Matt Wagers, Psychology, NYU, and Linguistics, UC-Santa Cruz. 027 East Pyne.
4:30 PM. ML-Stat-Talk. "Least Squares Estimation and Variable Selection under Minimax Concave Penalty." Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University. 101 Sherrerd.
4:30 PM. NSDM. "What Is the Role of Emotions in the Moral Brain?" Jesse Prinz, CUNY Graduate Center. 1-S-5 Green.
8 PM. Evnin Lecture. "Of Neurons, Decisions, and Value." William Newsome, Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University. Reynolds Auditorium A02 McDonnell Hall.
4:30 PM. Rutgers Philosophy Lecture. "Knowing How and Knowing That." David Wiggins, Oxford University. 128-129 Davison Hall, Douglass Campus, Rutgers, New Brunswick.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Multielectrode array recording in prefrontal cortex: linking action to reward." Bill Newsome, Neurobiology, Stanford University. 0-S-6 Green.
4:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Efficient Sphere Decoding Techniques for MIMO Systems." John Thompson, University of Edinburgh. B205 EQuad.
4:30 PM. Computer Science Colloquium. "Don't Swallow the Snake Oil: Oscar Wilde, Method Acting, and Vulnerability Assessments." Dr. Johnston, Argonne National Laboratory. 101 Sherrerd.
4:30 PM. Ethics and Public Affairs Seminar. Andrea Sangiovanni, Kings College, London. 301 Marx.
Noon. Psychology lecture. "Thinking Is for Doing: Laboratory and Daily-Life Investigations of Mind Wandering, Executive Control and Human Error." Michael Kane, University of North Carolina-Greensboro. 0S6 Green.
3 PM. Rutgers Linguistic Colloquium. " Grammatical constraints or extragrammatical processing demands? What children's interpretations of ACD sentences might tell us about the locality of QR." Kristen Syrett, Cognitive Science, Rutgers.
4 PM. Philosophy Colloquium. "Experience and Perceptual Judgment." Anil Gupta, University of Pittsburgh. 28 McCosh.
11:15 AM. Institute for Advanced Study Computer Science/Descrite Math II. "Values and Patterns." Alon Orlitsky, Departments of ECE and CSE, UC-San Diego. S101, Institute for Advanced Study.
12:15 PM. Biophysics Seminar. "'Exact' correction of errors in neural integrators without external cues." Ila Fiete, University of Texas. Josephy Henry Room, Jadwin Hall.
5 PM. Rutgers Philosohy Colloquium. "Metaphysical Naturalism." Derek Parfit. Philosophy Seminar Room, 128-129 Davison Hall, Douglass Campus, Rutgers, New Brunswick.
8 p.m. Mathematics/Princeton University Press lecture. "The Theorem's Implications for Science and Philosophy." Last of six. John Conway. A02 McDonnell.
10:30 AM. Institute for Advanced Study Computer Science/Descrite Math II. "Values and Patterns (continued)." Alon Orlitsky, Departments of ECE and CSE, UC-San Diego. S101, Institute for Advanced Study.
4:30 PM. Philosophy and Humanities Council Lecture. "The Problem Of Suffering: Philosophy And Narrative." Eleonore Stump, St. Louis University. 101 McCormick.
8 p.m. University Public Lecture Series/Farnum lecture. "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music History." Alex Ross, The New Yorker. McCosh 10.
Noon. Rutgers Genetic Research Seminar. "LONG-TERM MEMORY STORAGE: MOLECULAR ANATOMY OF A TRANSPORT COMPLEX EN ROUTE TO SYNAPSES." Sathyanarayanan V. Puthanveettil, Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center. D406 Nelson Biology Labs, 605 Aallison Rd., Busch Campus, Rutgers.
4:30 PM. Philosophy and Humanities Council Lecture. "Narrative and the Knowledge of Persons." Eleonore Stump, St. Louis University. 101 McCormick.
Noon. Center For Human Values Seminar. "Intention, Permissibility, Terrorism, and War." Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University. 301 Marx.
4:30 PM. Philosophy and Humanities Council Lecture. "The Problem of Suffering and the Story of Job." Eleonore Stump, St. Louis University. 101 McCormick.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "The Cortical Circuits Underlying Somatosensation." Karel Svoboda, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 0-S-6 Green.