Schedule Fall 2004
   Mathematics and Cognition Seminar

   Tuesdays 12:00 pm
GWC 604

Supported in part by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering

"Whenever there is chaos,
it creates wonderful thinking."
- Septima Clark
About this seminar

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
September 7
 Tom Taylor
Department of Math. & Stats
 "Bayesian Parameter Identification and Validation in Dynamical Systems Modeling"
14 cancelled
21 cancelled
28
 Shade Shutters
SOLS and Center for Environmental Studies
 "The evolution of cooperation" Slides
October 5
Root Gorelick
 Social Insect Research Group, SOLS 		"Quantifying Social Interactions" Abstract
12
 John C. Crittenden
Richard Snell Presidential Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University
 "Sustainability Science: Research Opportunities and the Emergence of a New Metadiscipline" Abstract
Slides
 19*
LSE 232
 David Krakauer
Santa Fe Institute
 "The evolution of language"
Abstract
Paper1, Paper2, Paper3
26? Gayla Chandler
Department of Mathematics
 "Fractal Geometry in the Grand Canyon" Abstract
November 2
Peter Killeen
Department of Psychology
  "Decision Theory for Statistical Inference in the Sciences: Beyond the nil Null"
Abstract
9
 Ed MacKerrow
Los Alamos National Labs
 cancelled
16
 Greg Stone
Department of Psychology		  "Combining connectionist and sybolic properties in a single system -- adaptive organization of information at different scales" Abstract
23
 Dr. Brad Morantz
Viral Immunology Center, Georgia State University
 		"An overview of genetic algorithms"
Abstract
 30
 Junko Murakami and Tom Taylor
Dept of Math&Stats 		"Max Likelyhood and Least Mean Square Error Estimation of Hidden Markov Chain Parameters"
December 7
 Federico Sanabria
Department of Psychology
  "Solving the Puzzle of Reciprocal
Altruism"

Some related links


 Mathematics Department Seminars
Cognitive Systems and Behavior Seminar