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Mriganka Sur Lectures 2004-2008
• 2008
   
January 2 Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
   
January 7-9 Platinum Jubilee Celebration Lecture, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
   
January 11 National Brain Research Centre, Delhi, India
   
January 14-17 Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
   
February 4 Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: The Revolution in Mind/Brain Science, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
   
February 19 Program in Neuroscience Seminar Series, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
   
March 11 Meeting of the Royal Society, London, UK
   
March 30-April 2 Medical Research Council (MRC), Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford, UK
   
May 3-4 Sinneave Center meeting on Autism, Phoenix, AZ
   
May 20 University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
   
May 27-28 PILM Retreat, Cape Cod, MA, USA
   
June 2-3 MIBR Retreat, Newport, RI, USA
   
June 9-11 German-US Symposium on Computational Neuroscience, Munich, Germany
   
June 19-21 Second International Symposium on the Cognitive and Neuronal Bases of Language: Mechanisms of Learning, Brain Plasticity, and Critical Periods, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
   
June 23-27 Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium, Lake Tahoe, USA
   
July 9 Darwin Bicentennial Lecture, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India
   
July 14 Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
   
July 16 National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
   
July 24 Univ. Rene Descartes, Paris
   
August 28 Mid-Career Acceleration Program, MIT
   
September 8-10 FENS/IBRO School: Imaging Brain Function, Lausanne, Switzerland
   
September 22 Symposium in honor of Brenda Milner, McGill University, Montreal
   
September 24 WGBH, Boston
   
October 10-13 Rett World Congress, Paris
   
October 16-18 Symposium to Honor Professor Lamberto Maffei, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
   
October 26-28 Learning and Dynamics in Vision, Glion, Lake Geneva, Switzerland
   
October 29 EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
   
November 10-13 Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Silver Jubilee Anniversary Celebration, Mexico City, Mexico
   
November 15-19 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA
   
November 24-25 International Neural Network Society (INNS) New Directions in Neural Networks Symposia, Auckland, New Zealand
   
December 14 Indian Institute of Science Centenary Symposium, Bangalore, India
   
December 16 Foundation Day Lecture, National Brain Research Center, India
   
• 2007
   
January 4 National Brain Research Center, India
   
January 17 PILM Advisory Committee Meeting, MIT
   
January 18 Advisory Council, National Eye Institute, Washington DC
   
January 23 Keynote Lecture, Techvista 2007, Microsoft Research, Bangalore
   
February 22-25 Symposium, Institute for Neuroscience, Natal, Brazil
   
March 5-7 Neuroscience Research Program, La Jolla
   
March 13 Royal Society, London
   
March 14-15 Scientific Advisory Committee, Dept of Biotechnology, India
   
March 22 MIT Neuroscience meeting, MIT
   
March 27 Modern Optics and Spectroscopy seminar, MIT
   
April 23-24 Workshop on Information Processing in the Visual System, Ohio State Univ
   
May 2-3 BCS Visiting Committee, MIT
   
May 5 Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Hong Kong
   
May 9 Autism Consortium Scientific Advisory Board
   
May 30 - June 1 PILM Retreat, Cape Cod, MA
   
June 3 - 5 MIBR Retreat, Newport, RI
   
June 21 MIT Summer Research Program
   
July 30 Course on Learning and Memory, Cold Spring Harbor
   
August 30 Mid-Career Acceleration Program, MIT
   
September 19 Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
   
October 4 Brown University
   
October 12 Family Weekend, MIT
   
November 3 - 7 Special Lecture, SFN Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
   
December 3 Autism Consortium Retreat, Boston, MA
   
December 6 NLM Foundation, Boston, MA
   
December 13 Sigma Xi Lecture, NSRDEC
   
• 2006
   
January 9 Foundation Day Lecture, Biotechnology Society of India, New Delhi
   
January 10 National Brain Research Center, Delhi, India
   
January 18 University of Hong Kong
   
January 20        8th Annual "MIT in Japan" Symposium, Japan
   
January 25   Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
   
January 31 Keynote address, Satellite Symposium on Visual Sciences, "Seeing Connections", Australian Neuroscience Society, Sydney
   
January 31 Keynote address, Satellite Symposium on Developmental Neurobiology, Australian Neuroscience Society, Sydney
   
March 9 Euroconference Institute Pasteur, Paris France
   
March 14-15 Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting, Department of Biotechnology, India
   
March 19-23 Cajal Winter Conference, Huesca, Spain
   
March 29    UCSF, Department of Psychiatry, Symposium in Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco
   
April 3 National Academies Keck Initiatives Planning Meeting, Washington DC
   
April 19 Harvard Graduate School of Design, Annual International Advisory Board Meeting
   
April 21 Boston University School of Medicine
   
May 10 Presentation to Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
   
May 27 Brain Research Center, University of British Colombia, Vancouver
   
June 5-7 Picower Institute Retreat, Falmouth MA
   
June 8-9 Advisory Council, National Eye Institute, Washington DC
   
June 21-23 Institute of Cellular Physiology, Mexico City
   
June 27-29 Merck Summer Institute on Biology of Developmental Disorders, NJ
   
July 10 Simons Project Annual Meeting
   
July 12-14 Royal Society, London
   
July 17 University College London
   
September 12 Yale University Neuroscience Graduate Program
   
September 14-15 Advisory Council, National Eye Institute, Washington DC
   
September 26 Morehouse College, Atlanta
   
October 5 Schmidt Lecture, University of Rochester, Rochester NY
   
October 13 Family Weekend, MIT
   
October 14-18 Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Atlanta GA
   
November 2 Presidential Fellows Lecture, MIT
   
December 28 Postgraduate Institute for Medical Studies, Chandigarh, India
   
• 2005  
   
January 4-5 Symposium, National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
   
January 6-9 Workshop on Neural Information and Coding, Mangalore, India
   
January 10 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
   
February 16 Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University
   
February 18-19 Scientific Advisory Committee, Dept of Biotechnology, India
   
February 23-25 Neuroscience Program, UNC Chapel Hill
   
February 28 - March 1 National Eye Institute Advisory Council, Washington, D.C.
   
March 6-10 Symposium on The neural substrates of cognition, Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain
   
March 21 Vision Science Group, Universite de Montreal
   
April 4-6 Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, UC Irvine
   
April 7 Workshop on Visual Learning and Brain Plasticity, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
   
April 17-19 Conference on Neuroscience and Ethics, MIT
   
May 23-25 RIKEN Advisory Committee, Japan
   
June 6-8 Picower Center for Learning and Memory Retreat, Cape Cod MA
   
June 9 The Wellcome Trust, London, England
   
June 21-25 International Neuropsychology Symposium, Sardinia, Italy
   
June 30 - July 2 Dartmouth Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College , New Hampshire
   
July 25-26 Course on Biology of Memory: From Molecules to Mind, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
   
September 14-16 Symposium on Neuronal Differentiation in Cortical Development, Osaka University, Japan
   
September 22-23 National Eye Institute Advisory Council, NIH, Washington D.C.
   
September 24-28 Symposium  on Visual Plasticity, 37th Annual General Meeting of the EBBS, Trinity College , Dublin, Ireland
   
November 12-16 Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C.
   
• 2004  
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January 15

Vision Sciences Mini-Symposium, MIT

January 29

IAP Series, MIT, Cambridge, MA

February 6-7

Montreal Neurological Institute Retreat, Tremblant, Quebec

February 10

University of California-Los Angeles, CA

February 21

Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Intelligent Signal Processing and Robotics, Allahabad, India

February 22

Keynote Speaker, Pediatric Society of India, Allahabad, India

March 5-7

International Institute for Neuroscience of Natal, Brazil

March 11

Picower Plastic Lunch Seminar Series, MIT

March 25 University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

April 15

Sigma Xi Public Lecture, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

April 22

CNS-Courant Series, New York University

May 13

University of Maryland, Baltimore, MA

May 20-21

Plenary Lecture, International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University

June 7-9

PCLM Retreat, Maine

June 16

Brain Development and Disorders Project Colloquium, MIT

June 25

Neuroscience Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville

July 8-9

Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal

August 25-28 Brazilian Federation of the Societies for Experimental Biology, Sao Paulo

September 11-14

Symposium: Cortical Function- A View from the Thalamus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

October 4-6 Riken Conference and Retreat, Saitama, Japan
October 8 Stanford University, Stanford, CA

October 23-27

Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, CA

November 9-13

International Conference on Physiological Biophysics, Shanghai, China

   
November 18 Colloquium, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
   
December 19-22 ICON 2004, Hyderabad, India