Tentative Schedule Spring 2001

   Mathematics and Cognition Seminar
(perpetually under development)

   Tuesdays 12:15 pm
GWC 604

Supported in part by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering

Note: 1)?represents wild guesses having been made with regards to dates, titles or speakers, 2) * represents an unusual date, time or location
 
 

Date Speaker Title
January 30
Tom Taylor
Department of Mathematics
"Hebbian Markov chains"Abstract
February 6
Prof. Mike McBeath
Department of Psychology
"Breakdowns in the Correspondence between Acoustic Frequency and Auditory Pitch"Abstract&recommended readings
                   13
Professor Kevin Dooley
Departments of Industrial Engineering and Management
"How the Social Sciences Use Chaos and Complexity Concepts" Abstract
                 20 Prof. Peter Killeen
Department of Psychology
"Subsumption Psychophysics I. Signal Detection as Information Transmission" Abstract
              27
Prof. Guy VanOrden
Dept. of Psychology
"Pink Noise, Power Laws, and Cognitive Performance "
Abstract
March        6
Prof. Darryl Morrell
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
"Bayesian Networks with Application to an Attentive Sensor Problem"Abstract
                  13
Spring Break
                  20
Prof. Leon Iasemidis, 
Dept of Bioengineering
"Prediction of epileptic seizures"
Abstract
        *Friday, March30
Dr. Eugene Izhikevich "Minimal Electrophysiological Models for Spiking and Bursting"
Abstract
April          3
Psych. 205
Prof. Eliot Hearst
Department of Psychology
The University of Arizona
"Imagery, memory, and expertise in blindfolded chess players: what every cognitive psychologist should know."Abstract
                10 Prof. Douglas Cochran
Department of Electrical Engineering, and DARPA
"The courtship of biology and mathematics at DARPA."
             17 TBA
                 24 TBA
May            1 TBA

Some related links

Mathematics Department Seminars Cognitive Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar