12:30 PM. Integrative information, computer and application sciences lecture. "The Future of High-Performance Computing." Thom Dunning, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. 121 Lewid.
4:15 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Optogenetics: Development and Application." Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University. 101 Icahn Lab.
Noon. Molecular Biology Seminar Series. "Immune Involvement in Autism and Schizophrenia: Etiology and Animal Models." Paul Patterson, Division of Biology, Caltech. 003 Lewis Thomas Lab.
4:15 PM. Computer Science Colloquia. "STAIR: The STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot Project." Andrew Ng, Stanford. 105 Computer Science.
3:30 PM. Neuroscience Talk. "Using Reinforcement Learning to Understand the Coordination of Perception, Cognition and Action." Patryk Laurent, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, CMU and U of Pittsburgh. 1N5 Green.
3:30 PM. Mechanical and aerospace engineering lecture. "Architectures, Abstractions, and Algorithms for Large Teams of Robots." Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania. 222 Bowen.
4:30 PM. Rutgers Philosophy Colloquium. "Reasons and Causes." Kieran Setiya, University of Pittsburgh. 128-129 Davison Hall, Douglass Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
1 PM. Newark Rutgers Psychology Colloquium. "Neural Mechanisms Underlying Pavlovian and Instrumental Incentive Learning." 371 Smith, Newark Campus, Rutgers University.
9:30 AM. Science on Saturday. "Left-Right Asymmetry in the Universe." Dilip K. Kondepudi, Chemistry, Wake Forest University. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, James Forrestal Campus. http://www.pppl.gov/SOS2009broch.pdf.
12:30 PM. Interdisciplinay Computational Lunchtime Seminar. "From Co-Occurrence to Correspondence." Ben Taskar, CIS, University Pennsylvania. 302 Computer Science.
1:30 PM. Rutgers Darwin Bicentennial Lecture. "Evolutionary Psychology and Darwin's Dream." Leda Cosmides, UCSB. Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room B. Map here: http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=44.
1 PM. RuCCS Colloquium. "The Architecture of Human Motivation: A Computational and Evolutionary-Functional Approach." Leda Cosmides, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, UC Santa Barbara. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.
4 PM. Computer Engineering Seminar. "Cryptographic Design and Implementation." Ray C.C. Cheung, Electrical Engineering, UCLA. B205 EQuad.
4:15 PM. Computer Science Colloquium. "Google and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension." Stuart Geman, Brown University. Small auditorium, Computer Science.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience and Social Decision Making. TBA. Bart Hoebel. 1-S-5 Green.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Talk. "Reading out a Correlated Population Code." Michael Berry. 0-S-6 Green.
4:30 PM. Moffett Public Lectures in Ethics. "Same-Sex Marriage: Beyond the Politics of Disgust." Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago. 101 McCormick Hall.
3 PM. Rutgers Linguistics Colloquium. TBA. Birgit Alber, University of Verona. 108 Linguistics, 18 Seminary Place, New Brunswick.
4 PM. Paper Tigers Talk. "Skepticism about Moral Expertise as a Puzzle for Moral Realism." Sarah McGrath. Tower Room, 1879 Hall.
9:30 AM. Science on Saturday. "Mapping the Universe." Michael Strauss, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, James Forrestal Campus. http://www.pppl.gov/SOS2009broch.pdf.
Noon. Rutgers Perceptual Science Talk. "A Linguistic Timing Model for Animations of American Sign Language." Matt Huenerfauth, Computer Science, CUNY. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.
12:30 PM. PICASso Talk. "Efficient Classification for Detection using IKSVMs and Extensions." Alexander C. Berg, Columbia University. 302 Computer Science.
10:30 AM. MI-Stat-Talk. "Linguistic Extensions to Topic Models." Jordan Bod-Graber, preFPO talk. 302 Computer Science.
4:30 PM. Machine Learning Statistics Talk. "Some Random Matrix Problems in High-Dimensional Statistics." Noureddine El Karoui, Statistics, UC-Berkeley. 004 Friend.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Spike-time Based Neuronal Learning." Haim Sompolinsky, Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, and Center for Brain Science, Harvard. 0-S-6 Green.
1 PM. Rutgers-Newark Psychology Colloquium. "Reduced Change Blindness with Responses that Afford Action." Bruce Bridgeman, UC-Santa Cruz. 371A Smith Hall, Rutgers, Newark.
4 PM. Philosophy Colloquium. "Practical Deliberation." Gavin Lawrence, UCLA. 2 Robertson.
9:30 AM. Science on Saturday. "Illusion and Reality: At the Boundary of Art and Science." Susana Martinez-Conde, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AR. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, James Forrestal Campus. http://www.pppl.gov/SOS2009broch.pdf.
Noon. Rutgers Perceptual Science Talk. "Keeping the Beat: Biomechanics and Brain in the Timing of Repeated Movements." Saul Sternberg, University of Pennsylvania. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers.
Noon. Rutgers Library and Information Science Talk. "Learning to Interpret Utterances from Dialogue History." Matthew Stone, Computer Science, Rutgers. 323 SCILS Bulding, College Avenue Campus, Rutgers, New Brunswick.
8:30 AM. All day. Engineering and Neuroscience Workshop. Presentations by David Tank, Naomi Leonard, Carlos Brody, David Blei, Ken Norman, Peter Ramadge, Yael Niv, Naveen Verma, Michael Berry, Ingrid Daubechies, and Michael Graziano. Convocation Room, Friend Center.
1 PM. RuCCS Colloquium. "Italian Deverbal Compounds: Morphology, Syntax or Either?" Roberto Zamparelli, University of Trento, Centro Interdipartimentale Mente e Cervello, Dipartimento di Scienze della Cognizione e della Formazione. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers.
4:30 PM. Linguistics Talk. "Domains of Quantifiction, Rigid Designation and Modality: The CAse for Multiple Models." Christopher Tancredi, Keio University. 027 East Pyne.
4:30 p.m. Russian and Eurasian studies/Davis Center for Historical Studies/Slavic languages and literatures lecture. "Ruling By Language: Stalin's Writings on Linguistics." Boris Groys, New York University. 219 Burr.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience and Social Decision-Making Discussion. "It's the Thought that Counts: fMRI studies of Theory of Mind." Rebecca Saxe, MIT. 1-S-5 Green.
10 AM. MI-Stat Final Public Oral. "Uncovering, Understanding, and Predicting Links." Jonathan Chang. 401 Computer Science.
4:30 PM. Rutgers Philosophy Colloquium. "Zombie's Redux." Katalin Balog, Yale University. Seminar Room, 128-129 Davison Hall, Douglass Campus. Rutgers, New Brunswick.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Binding Items and Contexts: How the brain builds episodic memories." Charan Ranganath, Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, UC Davis. 0-S-6 Green.
4:30 PM. Political Philosophy Colloquium. Bryan Garsten, Yale University. 127 Corwin.
4:30 p.m. Center for Information Techonology Policy lecture. "Expertise-Sharing Dynamics in Online Forums." Lada Adamic, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. 101 Sherrerd.
1 PM. Rutgers Newark Psychology Colloquium. "Cross Cultural Research on Perceptions of Domestic Violence." Janet Sigal, Farleigh Dickinson University. 371 Smith, Rutgers-Newark.
3 PM. Rutgers Linguistics Colloquium. "On the Give and Take between Language and Thought: Using Eye Movements to Study the Dynammics of Event Perception, Event Description, and Verb Learning." John Trueswell, University of Pennsylvania. 108 Linguistics, 18 Seminary Place, Rutgers, New Brunswick.