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BCS Fall Colloquium Series
Fridays at 4:00 PM, Bldg 46-3002 Auditorium

Spring 2006
Speaker/Affiliation
Talk Title

February 8 (Wednesday)
Special BCS Seminar

Pawan Sinha, PhD
Associate Professor of Computational Science
Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT

"From Fragments to Objects: Mechanisms of Visual Integration"

February 10 Elly Nedivi, PhD
Fred and Carol Middleton Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT

"Diverse roles for activity-dependent genes in brain development and plasticity"
February 17

Simon Thorpe, PhD
Director of Research
French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
"Scene processing with a wave of spikes: Reverse engineering the visual system"

February 24

Elizabeth Grove, PhD
Professor, Dept. Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology University of Chicago

"Signaling centers in embryonic cortex: their function and fate"

March 3

 

Lee Osterhout, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Washington
"Correcting our vision of language with event-related brain potentials"

March 10 TBA

TBA

 

March 17 Bharathi Jagadeesh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
University of Washington School of Medicine

"'Tuning' in inferotemporal (IT) cortex and recognition of realistic images"

April 7 John Mikhail, JD/PhD
Associate Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center

"Moral cognition and theory of mind: A computational framework"
April 11 (Tuesday)
THE BIDWELL LECTURE
Peter Strick, PhD
Professor, Department of Neurobiology, and Co-director CNBC
University of Pittsburgh

"Building blocks for movement in the motor cortex"

April 14 Diego Contreras, MD, PhD
Asst Professor of Neuroscience
School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

"Input integration in primary somatosensory cortex"
April 21 Xiaoqin Wang, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience and Otolaryngology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

"Information processing in auditory cortex"
April 28

Xiao-Jing Wang, PhD
Professor of Biology and Neuroscience
Brandeis University

"Reverberatory cortical dynamics underlying decision making and selective attention"
May 5
THE HANS-LUKAS TEUBER LECTURE
Ranulfo Romo, MD, DSc
Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

"Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions"

         


Fall 2005 Archives

Spring 2005 Archives