Calendar
Spring 2006-2007
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Visualizing the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period
Volker Remmert,
University of Mainz,
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neural Coding of Natural Stimuli: Information at Sub-Millisecond Resolution
Ilya Nemenman,
Computational Biology Group,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Monday, April 9th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
I Can Name that Smell in 50 Voxels: Spatial Coding and Perceptual Decoding of Odor Quality in Human Olfactory Cortex
Jay Gottfried,
Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimers Disease Center, and departments of neurology and psychology,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Parietal-frontal Circuits for Decision Making
Richard Andersen,
James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience,
Caltech,
Friday, April 13th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
American Transportation Politics in the Twentieth Century
Mark H. Rose,
professor of history,
Florida Atlantic University,
Monday, April 16th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Solving Intermediate Vision by Nonlinear System Identification
Jack Gallant,
associate professor of psychology,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Watson, Crick, and the Mushroom Cloud
Soraya de Chadarevian,
department of history and the New Center for Society and Genetics,
UCLA,
Friday, April 20th, 2007
7:45pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Identification and Estimation of Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models without Additivity
Whitney Newey,
professor of econometrics,
MIT,
Friday, April 27th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Acknowledging the Unthinkable: Returning the Domestic Slave Trade to Its Central Role in the History of the United States
Steven Deyle,
associate professor of history,
University of Houston,
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Intervention and Causal Inference in Rats
Aaron Blaisdell,
assistant professor of psychology,
Brain Research Institute,
UCLA,
Monday, May 14th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Robert Hooke in the Round: Ingenious Scientist, Newton's Nemesis, and a Most Disastrous Clerk
Lisa Jardine,
professor of renaissance studies,
Queen Mary University, London,
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neural Engineering: A Neuronal Modeling Framework Based on Population Codes
Charles Anderson,
research professor of neurobiology,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Designing Neuronal circuits for Statistical Inference and Discrimination Tasks
Charles Anderson,
research professor of neurobiology,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Understanding without Explanation?
Peter Lipton,
department of history and philosophy of science,
University of Cambridge,