Friday Noon Colloquium Series
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A
Conference Room - Room 470
Click here for directions
2009
Fall Semester
September 11
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Rafal Bogacz
Department of Computer Science
Bristol University
Optimal decision making in the cortico-basal-ganglia circuit
September 18
Darko Sarenac
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fractals as a Panacea of Spatial Reasoning?
September 25
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Aude Oliva
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department
MIT
A space-centered approach to scene recognition
October 2
Maryellen MacDonald
Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
University of Wisconsin - Madison
The PDC—Where Language Production, Comprehension, and Acquisition Meet
October 9
Randolf Menzel
Department of Neurobiology
Freie Universität Berlin
Watching a small but intelligent brain as it learns and remembers
October 16
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Misha Tsodkys
Department of Neurobiology
Weizmann Institute of Science
Synaptic theory of working memory
October 23
Danielle McNamara
Department of Psychology
University of Memphis
Working Toward a Writing Pal
October 30
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Stephen Grossberg
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Boston University
How Does a Brain Give Rise to a Mind? From Vision to Cognition
November 13
Nicholas Giudice
Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering
University of Maine
Multimodal processing of spatial information: The intersection of spatial cognition and Neurocognitive Engineering
November 20
Mark Johnson
Professor of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences and Computer Science
Brown University
Learning Rules with Adaptor Grammars
December 4
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Philip Kellman
Department of Psychology
UCLA
2010
Spring Semester
January 15
Tom Griffiths
Department of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
January 22
Diane Litman
Department of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
January 29
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Alinda Friedman
Department of Psychology
University of Alberta
February 5
Julia Hirschberg
Department of Computer Science
Columbia University
February 12
IRCS/SILC joint talk
David Kemmerer
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
February 19
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Liam Paninski
Department of Statistics
Columbia University
February 26
Liina Pylkkänen
Department of Linguistics
NYU
March 5
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Pascal Fries
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Radboud University Nijmegen
March 19
Larry Shapiro
Department of Philosophy
University of Wisconsin - Madison
March 26
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series
Michael Hasselmo
Department of Psychology
Boston University
April 9
TBA
April 16
12th Annual Pinkel Endowed Lecture
Patricia Kuhl
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
University of Washington
April 23
Mark Pitt
Department of Psychology
Ohio State University
Click here to see past Colloquium Series (archived thru 2001).