Calendar
Winter 2008-2009
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Mutual Fund Performance
Eugene F. Fama,
Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance,
The University of Chicago,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Big Books in Manuscript and Print
Ann Blair,
professor of history,
Harvard University,
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Learning from Multiple Measurements
Sam Roweis,
associate professor of computer science,
University of Toronto,
Monday, February 9th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems and Sloan-Swartz Seminar
Sensory-Motor Integration and Plasticity in Spatial Orientation
Gary Paige,
professor and chairman,
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy,
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Conversible Worlds: Competing Paradigms in the Eighteenth Century
Jon Mee,
University of Warwick,
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Memory Formation in the Hippocampal Formation: A Multi-region Analysis
James Knierim,
assistant professor of neurobiology,
University of Texas Medical School at Houston,
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Leibniz's History of the Earth
Claudine Cohen,
CNRS-University of Paris,
Andre Wakefield,
Pitzer College,
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar - CANCELED
Geoffrey Schoenbaum,
professor of anatomy and neurobiology,
University of Maryland School of Medicine,
Friday, February 27th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Pre-History of the Mechanical Philosophy
Daniel Garber,
professor of philosophy,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Dan Ariely,
professor of behavioral economics,
Duke University,
Friday, March 6th, 2009
4:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
From Professor to Crusader: Galileo Transformed by His Telescope
John L. Heilbron,
professor emeritus of history and vice chancellor emeritus, UC Berkeley,
honory fellow, Worcester College, Oxford,
Monday, March 9th, 2009
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Advancing the Legacy of William James: The Radically Empirical Study of the Mind
B. Allan Wallace,
president,
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies,
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Why Was the Industrial Revolution British?
Allen Robert,
professor of economic history,
Oxford University,
Friday, March 13th, 2009
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Representation and Modest Scepticism in Hume's Metaphysics of Space
Donald Ainsle,
professor of philosophy,
University of Toronto,
Monday, March 16th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Do We Perceive or Infer the Time When We Decided to Act?
William P. Banks,
professor of psychology,
California State Polytechnic University,
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Consumption, Social Capital, and the Industrious Revolution in Early Modern Germany
Sheilagh Ogilvie,
professor of economic history,
Cambridge University,
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neuronal Oscillations as Instruments of Sensory Selection
Charles Schroeder,
professor of psychiatry,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,