Noon. Rutgers "What Is Cognitive Science?" Lecture. "A Pragmatic Solution to the Polysemy Paradox." Ingrid Lossium Falkum, University Coolege London. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers.
4:30 PM. Political Philosophy Colloquium. "Thucydides and the Bellicose Beginnings of Modern Political Theory." Kinch Hoekstra, UC-Berkeley. 127 Corwin.
4:30 PM. Rutgers Philosophy Colloquim. "Two Roles for Propositions: Cause for Divorce?" Mark Schroeder, Philosophy, USC. Seminar Room, 3 Seminary Place on College Avenue, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
12:30 PM. Psychology Colloquium. "Born to Be Good." Dacher Keltner, University of California, Berkeley. 0-S-6 Green.
3 PM. Rutgers Linguistics Colloquium. "Must ... Stay ... Strong." Anthony Gillies, Philosophy, Rutgers. 108 18 Seminary Place, Rutgers, New Brunswick.
11:30-2:30 Rutgers 2009 Cognitive Festival Presentations. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.
1 PM. Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) Colloquium. "Perception, Veridicality and Attention." Ned Block, Philosophy, NYU. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.
4:30 PM Computer Science Colloquium. "On the Internet Someone Knows You Are a Dog." Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs Research. 105 Computer Science.
Noon. RuCCS What is Cog Sci Lecture. "Moods and Humours." Noga Arikha. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.
4:30 PM. Computer Science Lecture. "Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age." Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger. 101 Sherrerd.
4:30 PM. Philosophy Paper Tigers Talk. "Is Knowledge Composite Or Prime?" Richard Chappell. Tower Room, 1879 Hall.
12:30 PM. Psychology Colloquium. "Three `Before Their Time': Neuroscientists Whose Ideas Were Ignored by Their Contemporaries." Charlie Gross. 0-S-6 Green.
1 PM. Rutgers-Newark Psycholgy Colloquium. "Can executive functions be rehabilitated? Evidence for plasticity in cognition, behavior and self-efficacy." Katy Mateer. 371A Smith, Rutgers-Newark.
Noon. Rutgers Perceptual Science Talk. "Color, Cones, and Bayesian Modeling: Understanding the Appearance of Small Spot Colors." David Brainard, Psychology, University of Pennsylvania. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers.
2 PM. ML-Stat Talk, PreFPO. "Capturing Spatial Structure of Response in Predicting fMRI Models." Melissa Carroll. 402 Computer Science.
4PM. ML-Stat Talk. "Harmonic Analysis and Geometries of Digital Data Bases." Raphy Coifman, Yale University. 214 Fine.
1 PM. RuCCS Colloquium. "The Structure of Navigation Memory in an Insect, the Honeybee." Randolf Menzel, Neurobiology, University of Berlin. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.
1:15 PM. Imagining Speaker. "Information-theoretic Analysis of fMRI Data." Chris Moore, graduate student in Ken Norman's Lab. 0-S-9 Green.
4:30 PM. Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminar. "Free Will and Neuroscience." Alfred R. Mele, Florida State University; Hakwan Lau, commentator. Bowl 2 Robertson.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience of Social Decision Making. "Interaction." Stephen Shepherd, Stanford University. 1-S-5 Green.
4:30 PM. Computer Science Colloquium. "Highway Dimension and Provably Efficient Shortest Path Algorithms." Andrew Goldberg, Microsoft Research. Small Auditorium, Computer Science.
4:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Active Learning, Distilled Sensing, or How to Close the Loop between Data Analysis and Acquisition." Rui Castro, Columbia University. B205 EQuad.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Talk. "Synapse Discrimination and Classification by Array Tomography: The Synaptome meets the Connectome." Stephen Smith, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University. Schultz 107.
4:30 PM. Program in Ethics and Public Affairs Seminar. "When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? Freedom of Expression and the Reasons for Rights." Corey Brettschneider, Brown University. 301 Marx Hall.
8 PM. Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture. "What Neurology Can Tell Us about Human Nature." V. S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, UC-San Diego and Adjunct Professor of Biology, Salk Institute. 50 McCosh.
12:30 PM. Psychology Colloquium. "Dishonesty." Daniel Ariely, MIT. 0-S-6 Green.
12:15 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "Self-Tuning and Criticality in Networks." Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University. Josheph Henry Room, Jadwin.
4:30 PM. Computer Science Colloquium. "Hidden Grammar: Advances in Data-Driven Models of Language." Mark Noah Smith, Carnegie Mellon University. 105 Computer Science.
4:30 PM. Political Philosophy Colloquium. "A Genealogy of the Modern State." Quentin Skinner, Harvard University. 219 Aaron Burr.
Noon. RuCCS "What is Cognitive Science?" Talk. "Accidental Cognitive Science, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cognition." Alan Daniel, Rutgers. 101 Psychology, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.
3:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "Bayesian Nonparametric Learning of Complex Dynamical Phenomena." Emily Fox, Duke University. B205 EQuad.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience of Social Decision Making. "The Human Side of Nature." Adam Waltz, Psychology, Harvard University. 1-S-5 Green.
4:30 PM. ISS Seminar. "High Dimensional Nonlinear Learning using Local Coordinate Coding." Tong Zhang, Rutgers. J323 EQuad.
4:30 PM. Neuroscience Seminar. "In Your Mind's Eye: Common Neural Substrates for Seeing and Remembering." Tom Albright, Vision Center Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies. 107 Schultz.
4:30 PM. East Asian Studies Lecture. "The Usual Meaning of Personal Expressions." Andre Wlodarczyk, Linguistics, Universite Paris Sorbonne - Paris IV and Charles de Gaulle University, Lille. 302 Frist.
4:30 PM. Rutgers Philosophy Colloquim. "Settling." Bob Goodin, ANU. Seminar Room, 3 Seminary Place on College Avenue, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
4:30 PM. Program in Ethics and Public Affairs Seminar. "Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom. Jacob Levy, McGill University. 301 Marx.
10 am. Alumni Association Lecture. "Trick or Treat? Behavioral and Neurochemical Evidence for Sugar Addiction." Bart Hoebel, Psychology. 120 Lewis Library.