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11/2/2009 11:00 AM Taming the complexity monster Holger H. Hoos The University of British Columbia 209 Computer Studies Building We live in interesting times - as individuals, as members of various communities and organizations, and as inhabitants of planet Earth, we face many challenges, ranging from climate change to resource...

11/2/2009 12:00 PM TBA EJ Chichilnisky The Salk Institute 269 Meliora ...

11/2/2009 3:00 PM The Brain’s Default Network: Implications for Consciousness Randy L. Buckner, PhD Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Center for Brain Science at Harvard University Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director at Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program Departmen G-9425 Med Center ...

11/4/2009 12:00 PM To name or not to name? That's not the question: how speakers use referring expressions to distinguish between shared and privileged knowledge Kristen Skovbroten BCS Graduate Student: Advisor- Michael Tanenhaus 269 Meliora The distinction between shared and privileged information is important during interactive conversation. How speakers formulate referring expressions is ideally guided by what they think their interloc...

11/5/2009 4:45 PM (A)telicity, (Im)perfectivity and aspectual verb classes Prof. Athini Sioupi Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 513 Lattimore The talk deals with three issues which underlie much research on aspect: (a) the question of (a)telicity. Krifka 1989, 1992, 1998, Dowty 1991, Tenny 1987, 1994, Verkuyl 1972, 1993, Kratzer 2004 argu...

11/6/2009 9:00 AM Role of Blood-Brain Barrier in Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's Disease Berislav V. Zlokovic, MD, PhD Dean's Professor, Director, Center for Neurodegenerative & Vascular Brain Disorders; Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Dementia Research, University of Rochester Medical Center K307 (3-6408) Med Center ...

11/9/2009 11:00 AM Digital Image Forensics Dr. Hany Farid Dartmouth College 209 Computer Studies Building Photography lost its innocence many years ago. Shortly after the first commercially available camera was introduced, photographs were being manipulated and altered. With the advent of high-resolution ...

11/9/2009 4:30 PM On the Limitations of Visually-Based Image Forensics Hany Farid Dartmouth College 269 Meliora In an attempt to quell rumors regarding the health of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il, the North Korean government released a series of photographs showing a healthy and active Kim Jong-Il. Shortly a...

11/11/2009 12:00 PM Towards a clinically-relevant (?) cognitive neuroscience of Autism Spectrum Disorders Alex Martin National Institutes of Health 269 Meliora During the past two decades functional brain imaging studies have greatly increased our understanding of the neural circuitry underpinning many aspects of cognition and mood. Recently, these techni...

11/11/2009 11:00 PM The Epigenetic Defect in Friedreich Ataxia Dr. Sanjay Bidichandani, MBBS, PhD Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Pediatrics, Assistant Dean for Preclinical Curriculum, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine 1-9624 Med Center ...

11/14/2009 2:00 PM THE ESM/UR/CORNELL MUSIC COGNITION SYMPOSIUM 2009-2010 Music and Memory Ciminelli Lounge Eastman School of Music Special Guests, Andrea R. Halpern (Bucknell University) and Roger Chaffin (University of Connecticut) - "You Must Remember This: Factors Affecting Musical Memory (or Not)" (Andrea R. Halpern)  ...

11/16/2009 12:00 PM TBA Josh Gold University of Pennsylvania 269 Meliora ...

11/18/2009 12:00 PM BCS Lunch Talk Ruben Moreno Bote BCS Postdoc 269 Meliora When an observer views a stimulus that allows two distinct interpretations, only one interpretation is perceived at any given time, and perception switches between the two in a stochastic manner. Well...

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